The CPGB bolsters illusions in bourgeois so-called democracy. The Weekly Worker pushes the absurd and reactionary view that the British ruling class has somehow become anti-racist. The CPGB claims that the British bourgeois state is not in itself racist, and that Blair and co are sincere in their official anti-racism. Anyone who claims this kind of propaganda is not racist needs their head examined. But the CPGB is still for some reason determined to show that neither the British state nor capitalism is inherently racist.
Capitalism promotes inequality and social injustice on a global scale.
The development of the global capitalist system relied heavily on the slave trade, which could not be maintained without a racist ideology to justify the treatment of black slaves. The CPGB claims to be open and democratic , but for me a correct programme and political clarity are worth a lot more than the all-inclusiveness of a swamp. To flood the platform with Dick Emery-lookalike clergy and an assortment of radical glitterati may go some way towards gaining press publicity in the pages of The Guardian , but does not make for serious working class politics, aimed at undermining any potential base that groupuscules such as the NF seek to develop. I have no doubt that such vicars and liberals may genuinely find fascism and racism distasteful and I have no problem with their attendance at such mobilisations. However, such prominence given to these people led to messages of the quality of the police are here to defend us and blunted our own, working class, anti-fascism.