As for other parties in the UK like CPB and CPGB-ML, the former is revisionist and advocates for labour whilst the latter is more principled but transphobic. So uhh yeah. It’s not going great.
Most of my beef is with the YCL, but they are the youth wing of the CPB so I view them as an entity sharing beliefs as well as problems. I personally had a dispute with their Facebook admin (of both CPB and YCL) who was also the head of their London branch of the YCL, and while that’s all anecdotal, she pointed out that the BRS contains a passage whose wording is, as the kids of today would say, sus. In the context of talking about transgender people, it also states the need to ‘protect the rights of women and girls’. Its understanding of sex and gender is also pretty lacklustre.
That doesn’t even go on to the poor handling of a sexual assault case they had as well as the gloating YCL members displayed when RFB went defunct. Even the Trotskyists I know were upset to hear that RFB fell apart.
I’ve also heard from one person that it suffers from transphobic elements. And even then, it wouldn’t reduce the fact that they still continue to adopt ‘Britain’s Road to Socialism’ since the days of CPGB (not to be confused with CPGB-ML), which focused on supporting the Labour party. They still continue to adopt this path, and they won’t get rid of it. Also note that CPB doesn’t support Scottish independence.
I’ve heard quite the opposite, especially in recent years, but I could be wrong as they don’t really take a lead in, well, anything involving trans issues and trans liberation.
I find that absolutely palpable. It’s hard not to notice. From what I can tell (although I have heard the opposite about how it is internally improving in this regard), they prefer to avoid such topics altogether for the most part.
I suppose since they’re in SolidNet, it wouldn’t do for me to criticize them on this front. But even so, I feel that it’s noteworthy the lack of decisive stance on such matters regarding trans rights and liberation. I’ll just end it there for now.
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As for other parties in the UK like CPB and CPGB-ML, the former is revisionist and advocates for labour whilst the latter is more principled but transphobic. So uhh yeah. It’s not going great.
Sounds rough. Hope things get better in the UK. Anything progress being made?
From what I see so far, no, not really. The only real thing is the YCL (part of CPB) gaining more members than the actual CPB themselves.
CPB also suffers from prominent transphobic elements.
That’s so bad. I would’ve joined CPB even if its revisionist because I wanna do praxis.
Most of my beef is with the YCL, but they are the youth wing of the CPB so I view them as an entity sharing beliefs as well as problems. I personally had a dispute with their Facebook admin (of both CPB and YCL) who was also the head of their London branch of the YCL, and while that’s all anecdotal, she pointed out that the BRS contains a passage whose wording is, as the kids of today would say, sus. In the context of talking about transgender people, it also states the need to ‘protect the rights of women and girls’. Its understanding of sex and gender is also pretty lacklustre.
That doesn’t even go on to the poor handling of a sexual assault case they had as well as the gloating YCL members displayed when RFB went defunct. Even the Trotskyists I know were upset to hear that RFB fell apart.
CPB isn’t bad and has improved in recent years, imho.
But of course, I’m not British so maybe I’m wrong.
I’ve also heard from one person that it suffers from transphobic elements. And even then, it wouldn’t reduce the fact that they still continue to adopt ‘Britain’s Road to Socialism’ since the days of CPGB (not to be confused with CPGB-ML), which focused on supporting the Labour party. They still continue to adopt this path, and they won’t get rid of it. Also note that CPB doesn’t support Scottish independence.
I’ve heard quite the opposite, especially in recent years, but I could be wrong as they don’t really take a lead in, well, anything involving trans issues and trans liberation.
I find that absolutely palpable. It’s hard not to notice. From what I can tell (although I have heard the opposite about how it is internally improving in this regard), they prefer to avoid such topics altogether for the most part.
I suppose since they’re in SolidNet, it wouldn’t do for me to criticize them on this front. But even so, I feel that it’s noteworthy the lack of decisive stance on such matters regarding trans rights and liberation. I’ll just end it there for now.
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