Proletarian Democracy has to raise its game. Our rival satirical publication "Workers Hammer" has an article announcing that the Sparts are giving "military" support to ISIS against the Syrian Kurds.
What?!?!?
Pretty much my reaction too.
"We have a military side with the reactionary ISIL when it engages in military conflict with the imperialists and their local forces on the ground, including the Iraqi Kurdish pesh merga, the Baghdad government, Shi'ite militias and the Syrian Kurds. We give no political support to any of these retrograde forces." p.4, Summer 2015 issue, quoting a Spart International Secretariat motion.
That is why we have called for military defense of the Islamic State (ISIS) reactionaries in Iraq and Syria against U.S. imperialism and its foot soldiers on the ground—including Kurdish and Iraqi Shi’ite militias
But ISIS is today under attack by U.S. imperialism, the main enemy of workers and the oppressed worldwide, and by Washington’s junior partner in Ottawa. Under such circumstances, Marxists have a military side with ISIS when it targets the imperialists and their on-the-ground lackeys including the Baghdad government, its Shi’ite militias and the Kurdish nationalist forces in Iraq and Syria.
In stark contrast to the bulk of the reformist left internationally, in the imperialists’ new war in Iraq and Syria, the International Communist League takes a military side with the forces of the Islamic State (ISIS) against the US-led coalition and its local adjuncts, based on the elementary Marxist understanding that it is the imperialists who are the main enemies of working people and the oppressed around the world.
Wankers. Repeatedly doing it too.
Time to start a campaign to "Send a Spart to Syria".
The same issue has a three page denunciation of "feminist date rape hysteria" in it.
The same issue has a three page denunciation of "feminist date rape hysteria" in it.
FfsThe same issue has a three page denunciation of "feminist date rape hysteria" in it.
There's a photoshop job for someone made of sterner stuff than me...jihadi John clutching his copy of Workers Hammer.
Urgh.
Seriously, these fucks probably deserve a slap by now.
We take a military side with ISIS when it targets the imperialists and forces acting as their proxies, including the Baghdad government and the Shi’ite militias as well as the Kurdish pesh merga forces in Northern Iraq and the Syrian Kurdish nationalists. This does not mean we give the slightest political support to the reactionary ISIS butchers.
lets have it right Frog, the sparts are utterly, utterly mental. If they had the whip hand they'd be doing a cambodia re enactmentWhat the fuck do the sparts hope to gain from this?
How do you take a military stand with someone without giving them any support? That makes absolutely no sense
I can just imagine it now.
ISIS guy: 'Welcome to Syria, i'll take you over to your new home, and then tomorrow you will have weapons and Shariah law training'
Spart: 'OK but before that you must answer the question why al-Baghdadi has never spoken upon the question of the North Korean deformed workers state and its right to nuclear weapons, and in our lastest Workers Hammer we strongly denounce this rightward turn and his failure to speak up on this most important issue to the workers' movement'
ISIS guy: 'Er...what??'
Spart: *gets out long pamphlet* On 3rd of June 1995 your leader wrote a letter to the local paper in which he criticised the bus workers for going on strike and making him late for work, do you have anything to say on this matter, his centrist and reformist leadership is putting ISIS outside the workers' movement although we still support you critically and without illusions against imperialist attack. Do you have anything more to say on that *reads long litany of ISIS's failures to maintain true trotskyism which the sparts have upheld since 1945'
ISIS guy's eyes grow wide
Spart: 'When was the last time Dabiq magazine mentioned Lenin.?????'
*ISIS run away and kurds march in shortly afterwards'