Questions for the SP

The world is in turmoil and the workers movement is disoriented. Now more than ever political clarity is crucial. Here are a few basic but fundamental questions that revolutionaries must answer today:

1. Why are so many workers attracted to the far rightrather than the left?

2. Why is the Palestinian movement at an impasse?

3. Is China a workers’ state or a capitalist state?

4. Was the strike wave a victory?

5. Why did TUSC do so poorly in the last elections?

How does the Socialist Party answer these questions?

Here is how we answer:

Spart answers

1. The right is gaining ground because the left is seen as part of the status quo. This is because Corbyn and the trade union leaders continuously betray the interests of workers in the illusory hope of appeasing the liberal establishment.

   Read more: “How London liberals fuel the far right”

2. The Palestinian movement in Britain can only progress if it stands in opposition to the Labour government, but its leaders either support Starmer or refuse to break with those who do.

   Read more: “Why Can’t Anyone Stop Netanyahu?”

3. Since the 1949 revolution China has been a deformed workers’ state. There is no such thing as a hybrid state, because “the state is an organ of the rule of a definite class which cannot be reconciled with its antipode” (Lenin).

   Read more: “The Class Nature of China”

4. The strike wave was defeated. Workers are in a worse position than they were two years ago. This is because the union tops—Mick Lynch, Dave Ward, Sharon Graham and Co—refused to organise a showdown with the government…and socialists refused to build an opposition to them.

   Read more: “Strike wave faces defeat — How to rebuild union power”

5. TUSC didn’t fight to win. It did not wage a struggle to break the trade unions away from Labour but instead placed its hopes in left Labourites and trade union bureaucrats…who wanted a Starmer government.

   Read more: “Election result: bad for workers”