Proletarian TV | 14 September 2026
Chris Williamson, deputy leader of the Workers Party, speaks at the inaugural meeting of the Antifascist international on 5th September 2026.
Labour is a party of the warmongers, he says. He gives his opinion that it used to be a party where there were peace activists and socialists, but not any more. Even the so called “Socialist campaign group” of Labour Party MPs are rabid supporters of war with Ukraine.
John McDonnell is on record calling for more arms to Ukraine, and stating that arming the fascist Zelensky regime is “the path to peace”! [what difference, then between the “left” labourites and the most rabid neoconservatives like trump, biden, clinton and blair?]
Chris gives his opinion that “austerity is a choice”, and recited the modern monetary theory that Britain had a sovereign currency so can simply print as much money as is needed to give people whatever they want.
[MMT says essentially that: Money is not real. The government issues bonds. This is welfare for the rich. They put their money there as a cast iron savings guarantee.
…but why does capitalism need poverty of the masses? What happens to the bond value if money is printed and circulated without any relation to actual goods produced? What is the relationship between the “first” and “third” world nations? Where does value of a commodity arise? What is wealth? Can one eat money? all of these are questions that MMT does not address, but Marx’s capital does, we note]
Chris ends by noting that speakers have drawn attention to the repressive nature of the [capitalist] state. Chris says that what we want, however, is to take control of the levers of the state, make the laws and use it as a force for good.
[This implies that the capitalist class will surrender their dictatorship at the ballot box. Again, this is not the conception of Marx or Lenin, who realise that the capitalist “democracy” is a dictatorship, that rests upon force in the last analysis, with a good deal of misinformation, propaganda and lies thrown in, as well as on the wealth of the caitalist class. Marx and Engels and Lenin contend that the bourgeois state must be smashed, as it will not answer to the needs of the workers. In its place the workers will have to build a new state. A state of the armed and organised working class themselves. The accomplishment of this task is the historic mission of the working class, and the purpose of the working class revolution. We invite all our comrades to think about this fundamental socialist teaching.
Pdf: https://www.marxists.org/archive/leni...
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Chris invites the audience to join the anti-conscription league. A body that [quite rightly] undermines the will and ability of the [British monopoly capitalist] state to drive to war 👏👏
Join the ANTIFASCIST INTERNATIONAL: https://antifascistinternational.uk
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