COCKROACH! #8 A EZINE FOR POOR AND WORKING CLASS PEOPLE. WE HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE BUT OUR CHAINS. It is time that the poor and working class people have a voice on the Internet. Contributions can be sent to Subscribtions are free at How often this zine will appear depends on you! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Read the book! Ha Ha Ha McNamara,Vietnam-My Bellybutton is my Cristalball. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Banned from the "Unity" list at Jefferson Village For being a "Trotskyist" and a "philthy lumpen" background, who today lives with his "pigs and donkeys" in exile-where he ran away during the Vietnam War. According to the ex-vice viseur of the "Unity" list at Jefferson village! Boycott the "Unity" List at Jefferson Village! If you can,t do that then fight against exclusions and expulsions. Support those who are banned or expelled! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Moscow Trials and "Unity" list victims. 2, Exchange With Australian Left-Link List 3. Sweden:Trade Union Bureacy Capitulates! 4. Cadets, Mensheviks and (Brownshirts?) 5. More Communists expelled from "Unity" List! -------------------------------------------------------- Moscow Trials and "Unity" list victims. Plant writes; > >And all the iron-hard orthodox trotskyist cadre leapt to the >defence of the victims of the Moscow trials. NOT. They were >concentrating on the REAL enemy, the Left Unity List - those >bureaucrats, those stalinists, those vile betrayers of working >class democracy, those dinner-jacketed fabians, (who in >Malecki's immortal words should go fuck themselves) in >comparison to whom they consider Stalin the lesser evil. First let say that i am sending a copy of this to the people who appealed to me to apoligise to you because you were and "honest" person. They unfortunately were wrong on that point. You are falsifying history Mr. Plant. The "immortal" words were Plant,go fuck yourself. That is singulus and not plural by the way. Naturally, saying that i do "NOT" defend the victims of the Moscow trials is also and obvious lie. In fact i have a fairly good record on that too. But naturally you are trying to paint yourself and your friends who are using the same tactics has Stalin in order to exclude people from the "Unity" list as the poor souls who have been victimized by the horrible "iron-hard Trotskyists". Naturally i have never said that the people on the "unity" list has committed crimes comparable to Stalin and his henchmen have committed YET. By the way it was the "Unity" list that allowed Richard B. the accused Stalinist on to the list while banning the "hard-orthodox Trotskyist" Malecki from the lists inception thus blocking with the defenders of Stalin against Malecki and breaking the list rules on banning "Stalinists" which they are responsible for in the first place. *Actions* my friends speak louder then words. But all in all comparing orthodox Trotskyism to Stalinism which is the bottom line of your cute little letter and the fact that you are in fact defending exclusionism of people who have committed no crime other then to publically stand for a political line while at the same time trying to paint up those who are carrying out these exclusionist policies as the poor victims that heroically are guarding the door from these horrible "hard-orthodox Trotskyists makes you part of the problem Mr. Plant. And naturally this makes you something on the order of a closet-Stalinist who will ban people because of their political views from being on the "Unity" List. If you were honest you would say that the invitation to the "Unity" List should put up a new sign replacing the no Stalinist sign with No Stalinist or hard-orthodox Trotskyists allowed! But naturally this is impossible because some of the moderaters are in the Mandelite USec organisation that claim they are Trotskyists. It truely is a strange world when exclusions and now we have to add to the list expulsions and the making up of new rules which say anybody who raises the issue of Malecki will be expelled from the "Unity" list, that the people responsible for these actions are painted up as the poor victims! In fact your style Mr. Plant makes me want to once again say something very personal (singulus) to you. Plant, go Fuck yourself you lying little sleezeball. By the way Louis tought me that one! Warm Regards Bob Malecki ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Exchange With Australian Left-Link List Dear Robert, Thank you for your recent contribution to Leftlink concerning Holbrooke's vist to Sweden. I forwarded your contribution to the Leftlink Advisory Panel to get their opinion on whether or not it should be posted to the list and we have decided that it should not be published. Our reasons for this decision are as follows: 1. The charter for the list - set out in the Welcome message - states that "Leftlink is not intended to be an ongoing discussion group". While we recognise that a fine line exists between discussion and the dissemination of information, in this particular case - because your contribution is not promoting a specific campaign or action and is not authorised by an organisation - we feel that it fits more into the category of personal opinion than information provision. If we publish your contribution then others on the list would expect that we should publish their thoughts and opinions on their particular topics of interest and so the number of messages posted to the list would dramatically increase. This might be appropriate in forums such as aus.politics, the Jefferson village Marxism list, alt.politics.radical-left etc but it is not appropriate for Leftlink. (It might help to know that you are not the only person on the list to have a contribution rejected for this reason.) 2. Your signature tag concerning your banning from one of the lists at Jefferson Village might be considered by some to be offensive and/or inflammatory. We would prefer that you not use Leftlink to fight your battles with another list. In future it might perhaps be useful if you checked your contributions to the list for spelling and grammatical errors as too many errors tends to diminish the authority of your message. Thanks again for your contribution to the list and for continuing to support Leftlink. Yours sincerely, Marg Hutton Leftlink moderator Dear Marge, I read your letter with considerable interest. Naturally the Australian Left Link has the right to decide what is activity and what should be published on left link. However, i disagree with your understanding of activities and the information there of. Why? Well, for example the Internet is certainly quite a large and interesting place where activity and meetings are going on all the time. And the activities related to Sweden certainly should be very interesting to the Subscribers of left link. What with the policies in Australia and the historical trafditions of Social Democracy in your country as others i would find it exceptionally stupid not to exchange that information. These activities are a concern for all activists Internationally. Naturally i can accept your thoughts about my grammar. However some of us have not been quite as fortunate as others in getting educations. Education is class biased and this is directed at poor and working class people like myself. Finally, as the list appears to have a policy of allowing certain activities to be published on your list and for various different reasons you appear to uphold a policy which is basically anti Internationalist and partiallly biased against certain political trends such as people like myself that openly declare that they are communists, Trotskyists and revolutionary internationalists despite the poor grammar and working class background I feel that my withdrawal from the Left Link would be appropriate. As the moderater i am sure you can arrange my departure. Futhermore I am afraid i can not reccommend your list in a positive sense. Thus i would honestly have to to say that the Australian left list did publish certain things like my appeal and and article on Bougainville, written by and organisation which i do not belong to but has roots in Australia, that in the final analisis the Australian Left list has a tendency to be orientated to activism in one country and to a certain extent a bit anti-communist. However, I do not recommend that the list should be boycotted nor subscribed too. For some people this list obviously serves a purpose. For Honesty i shall put this letter and yours in to a coming issue of Cockroach and will send it to the Usnet as information about just one activity which the Australian Left List is involved in. The title will be "Exchange With Australian Left-Link List".. Warm Regards Bob Malecki -------------------------------------------------------- Sweden:Trade Union Bureacy Capitulates! After the recent attacks on the Trade Union Movement by the Social Democratic Party and its Bougeois allie the Center Party in pushing through laws that would erase the principle "Last in, first out" and extending the employment on prove from 6 to 12 months, thus making permanent for the bosses the policy of a temporary labor force, the National Trade Union Congress which is in session has completely capitulated to this attack on some of the very fundementals of trade unionism. Although numerous voices at the congress raised their voices for a immediate split with the Social Democracy in order to build a new party the trade union bureaucracy in speech by speech came up to the podium in order to put down these militant voices who correctly raise the slogan "Break with the Social Democracy and its Bourgeois partners". These labor leader traitors of the Trade Union Movement who defend a policy of capitulation to the party and its anti worker and anti trade union policies in coalition with its bougeois partners in the Center Party must be roundly condemned and removed from positions of responsibility in the trade union movement. They must be replaced with workers and trade union activists who correctly say break with the Bourgeois Center party and revoke the impending anti-trade union laws. However, replacing these trade union bureaucrats whose loyalty to the Social Democracy and its anti-worker and anti-trade union policies comes before its fighting in the interests of the working class is not enough. Nor is a program calling just for going back to the good all times of the welfare state. The dismantling of the welfare state in Sweden must be seen in the light of recent International events and especially the disintegration of the former Soviet Union after years of counter-revolutionary and bureaucratic mismanagement of the Stalinist regimes. This is the ultimate reason that Social Democracy is marching into the arms of the bougeoisie both in Sweden as elsewhere Internationally. There is no need for reformist parties to place themselves any longer between the gains of the Great October Revolution led by the Bolshevik party. Because the Stalinists have through their politics destroyed this great historic state which for the first time in history the working class seized power and expropriated the ruling class by setting up the dictatorship of the proletariat under the leadership of the Bolshevik party led by great revolutionaries like Lenin and Trotsky. The Reformist parties of the Second International have made a decisive turn away from its historic working class base towards the middleclass and bougeoisie! By deserting the working class the reformist parties of the Second International open the way for the building of new workers parties. Parties that will not follow the program of class collaboration, parties that will not follow in the footsteps of the counter-revolutionary Stalinists, but Trotskyist parties based on the great historical struggles of the Bolshevik party and the Left Oppsition which led to the building of the Fourth International. It is only in this way that the working class Internationally can find a way forward. That is by reforging the Communist International based on the documents and history of the Left Opposition and the founding documents of the FI and especially the Transitional Program. However the way forward is not easy and is filled with obstacles. The Trotskyists groupings have made grave mistakes especially in the post 2nd world war period. Because of the long domination of both reformist and Stalinists parties many of the groups claiming to stand for revolutionary politics have in fact capitulated to both reformism and Stalinism. Thus liquidating the politics and program of the Fourth International that Trotsky represented. However all roads are bumby! But this is the only bumby road which can lead the proletariat to victory both in Sweden as elsewhere Internationally. Today the main task is on the one hand defensive in fighting against the attacks of the reformists and the bourgeoisie against the trade unions and working class. And on the other hand. out of the ashes of both Social Democracy and Stalinism, but also all of those Trotskyist grouping who have liquidated revolutionary politics, a new revolutionary International must be forged. This International must prepare the cadre and leadership for the International Proletariat that is reeling under the blows of Social Democratic and Stalinist treachery and the high sounding voices of the International bourgeoisie who are trying to take back all of the Social reforms that have there start with the victory of the October revolution! The cadre that will turn this confusion and reeling towards and organisized movement to counter the great blows suffered in the last few years and from the defensive struggle over to the offensive in a desperate struggle for power and the crushing of bougeois rule and their lackies forever. Forward to a reborn Trotskyist International. Robert Malecki -------------------------------------------------------- Cadets, Mensheviks and (Brownshirts?) >At 1:42 PM 9/9/96, Louis N Proyect wrote: > >>Louis: Somebody sent me the following private mail that I would like to >>share with the list. >> >>---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>Lou, >> >>Why not "marxism-malecki"? Subscribers to this list, moderated by >>Robert "the Swedish meatball" Malecki, receive at least 25 reminders >>daily that the history of Marxism has culminated in the writings of >>"Hey, Yeah: My Bellybutton is a Bottomless Pit" (the title of his >>memoir, if memory serves), the heart-rending story of an American >>expatriate's continuing efforts to avoid correct spelling, basic >>punctuation, and other elements of imperialist brainwashing. Contributors >>to the list would be encouraged to post 15-20 times a day. > >Sign me up! Since none of the papers I read have a "Today's Chuckle" >feature, I'm forced to rely on Malecki for daily laffs. > >Doug Notice this pairs *real* views against a person from a very poor and workingclass background who tried to do what he good during the Vietnam War. Ahh Louis proyect and Doug Henwood (one member of the "Unity" list and one ex-member of the "Unity" List) on the campaign trail again i see. In America their is the term "The twin parties of capitalism" naturally meaning the dems and the pubs. Perhaps we need a label for our pair of intellectual clowns who have taken upon themselves to destroy the Malecki's of the list. How about "Cadet and Menshevik" a bit classical however passing in that they allie themselves against the Proletarian wing of the list. As liberals and Mensheviks always have acted historically. However, this might be far too much of a political label as the pair are degenerating quickly towards brownshirt slanders, racist implications, and basically hate of Bolshevik Leninists, but also poor and working class people. It reminds me of the "July days" in a sense. Although back then the cadets and Mensheviks allied themselves with the monarchists and czarist generals. However this would be a complete over estimation of this pair. I guess the lesson here is that unless the Bolsheviks Internationally take the lead in the future, the facists will recruit scum like Kenwood and Proyect because history has taught us that the middle class in its desperation will turn to the brownshirts in order to solve the crisis. Perhaps now while the "unity" list is reforming their invitation on banning "Stalinists" and others from the list they can add another paragraph. Hysterical petty bougeois liberals and Mensheviks allowed here to spew philth on poor and working class people. Or even better join "Unity" potential brownshirt recruitment possibilities perhaps? Or am i being to sharp against this pair of jokers and their racist, anti-poor, and anti-working class incinuations? With Bolshevik Greetings to the List. Bob Malecki ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------- More Communists expelled from "Unity" List! Well, once again the "Unity" list has taken to expulsions in order to get rid of any kind of left critisism's of the present line led by Per M. Two more persons that stand for "Trotskyist" trends have been expelled,Hugh R. and PO. Naturally one of the reasons for the new expulsions was to stop the leaks of posts to those who have been banned from the very beginning of the "Unity" List. However, Communists and Trotskyists will hardly be silenced by these bureaucratic purges in the best of Stalinist style. By the way the cat is out of the bag! Now in a number of posts some people have made the fruedian slip of calling the "Unity" list --the "Solidarity" list. Which in a certain sense is quite true. The Mandelite Usec organisation fear one thing above all and that is the presence of any kind of "authodox" Trotskyists or in fact anybody who critisizes them from the left. As the Usec is leaping and reeling to the right to find unity with what ever that is moving be it the Greens, reformists or centrists organisations they are doing everything possible to gag those who see this clear path that they have been treading down since the end of the seventies. Naturally before the seventies they were pretty horrible also. However then they were tailing various gurrella and liberation movements. Finally the latest rounds of expulsions have hardly stopped Communists and Trotskyists from participation in the discussion as of yet. You will naturally have to purge the list of everybody who is not on the central committee of Solidarity or the spoon at Jefferson Village in order to do that. Nor have you stopped the leaks that Per M. in his latest round of purges thought would put and end to the left opposition on the list. Perhaps Per M. the dictator of the "Solidarity" oobs! "Unity" List should start demnding loyalty oaths to those who sign. How about; I swear on signing up not to mention the words "Malecki, Hugh R., Po, Ben b. and stalinists or orthodox Trotskyist" on pain of immediate expulsion. This also means being loyal to the moderater of the "Solidarity" oobs "Unity" list and the perspectives of regroupment amongst the greens, reformist and centrists. All others will not allowed through the door. This includes vulgar poor and working class people who do not support the table manners of the new left and dare to critize us without even having a high school education. Naturally this oath must be signed and sent via snail mail to Per M. and the spoon at Jefferson village. Warm Regards Bob Malecki ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- Read the book! Ha Ha Ha McNamara,Vietnam-My Bellybutton is my Cristalball. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- Banned from the "Unity" list at Jefferson Village For being a "Trotskyist" and a "philthy lumpen" background, who today lives with his "pigs and donkeys" in exile-where he ran away during the Vietnam War. According to the ex-vice viseur of the "Unity" list at Jefferson village! Boycott the "Unity" List at Jefferson Village! If you can't do that then fight against exclusions and expulsions.