IN RESPONSE TO THE SO-CALLED COMMUNIST PARTY OF SO-CALLED BRITAIN’S STATEMENT, AND THE SO-CALLED COMMUNIST PARTY OF SO-CALLED GREAT BRITAIN, ALLEGEDLY MARXIST-LENINIST
Introduction
Following the so-called “CPGB-ML”’s ranting and raving nonsense, in late March 2023 the so-called communist party of so-called britain have also joined the clown show, and have stated that transgender people and our liberation is a threat to women’s rights and has no “material basis for struggle or being” in an alleged attempt to “help women” by doubling down on sex segregation and policing.
This statement included an attack on the Scottish Government’s recent attempt to reform the GRA. The idea of a so-called british organisation telling the Scottish people what and how their laws ought to be just reinforces how this is part of a systemic mindset of reaction, not just against trans people but against all oppressed people.
The so-called communist parties who organise under the fascist so-called british state use talking points and a saxon-centred ‘morality’ that betrays their real class loyalty to the fascist british state and its system of imperialism.
A Brief History of Anti-Queer Thought in Marxist Groups
By the way, there is an echo in the wave of anti-trans Imperial so-called communist organisations, in the way that during the AIDS crisis, many dedicated communists were isolated and disavowed, and stripped of solidarity because they were Queer, or fighting for Queer rights. This is a pill ever more bitter when the corpses of our dead are hauled up by the same organisations that did nothing to support us during our hour of need, to pretend as if these parties had always been a safe haven for Gay and Lesbian communists.
It’s a long story I have no time for but it echoes many mistakes of the past, where being gay was seen as the height of bourgeois decadence, a kind of lifestyle that was foreign to, and loathed by the *proper* working class.
From Stalin’s personal homophobia, to Trotskty saying it was a condition of modern ruling class opulence, over indulgence, and immorality, to Castro and Che in their time not ridding themselves of the machismo of pre-Revolutionary Cuba and their enforcement of anti-gay law (Castro should be noted for, later in his life, going on television and openly admitting he was wrong, and working to make actual material reparations. Let’s hope today’s western communists have a tenth of the decency and humbleness of that great man(!)).
The Anti-Trans Attack on Scottish National Liberation
In this Imperial attack on the Scottish bill that would reform the Gender Recognition process, they have chosen to state the danger to “women and girls” and conflate trans women with predatory men. This is in spite of the fact that the proposed bill in Scotland, in essentially making the process self-ID, is joining over twenty six nations around the world with a self-declared model for gender and no great wave of attacks on women and girls has followed. Every single study shows that transgender people are less likely, at every stage in their transition, to commit *any* criminal act. Let’s not dive into the Imperial so-called communist mindset on ‘crime’ and the lumpen-proletariat, as they are as reactionary in that field as they are against transgender people.
The current bill had seven years of debates, three conclusions, and was the most scrutinised bill in Scottish history, even more so than the bills which brought the independence referendum!
The side in opposition had seven years to bring forth evidence that showed that Self-ID would harm women and girls and was completely unable to do so.
The Scottish lumpen and proletariat back the reforms and they back Queer rights in general.
The so-called “cpb” state that Scotland has no power and salivate how an alleged ‘british’ socialist state would maintain this servile position of the nation. John Maclean wrote about this party and their reactionary mindsets:
“Since the British Empire is the greatest obstacle to communism, is it the business of every Communist to break it up at the earliest moment.That is our justification in urging a Communist Republic in Scotland.”
John Maclean rejected the so-called “cpb” for upholding the so-called british state
He rightfully foresaw that each Nation must have its own party in order to achieve socialism, overthrow the state, and libertate workers both North and South of the Tweed:
“We in Scotland must not let ourselves play second fiddle to any organisation with headquarters in London, no more than we would ask Dublin to bend to the will of London.”
When people like J K Rowling and other liberal bourgeois “great minds” (!) defend and praise the so-called communist party, and wield crude marxism gifted to them by the papers of said Imperial party, whose side are you really on?
The Imperial so-called communist parties and others in London have stated they will be on the side of the British Empire that interfered in the will of the Scottish people to pass their own law. They state they will be on the side of the British Empire when it comes to National Liberation in Scotland, Wales, Ireland, England, and in the other nations on these islands.
Colonial paternalism seeps into every word of this statement that so-called britishness is valid and that Scotland must learn its place is in a “liberated Britain”.
That means a London-centric, bureaucratic, England First, One Nation, Ultra-Nationalism. Any party or group that talks of a so-called “britain” or “great britain” and alledge themselves to be communist should look at themselves as promoting Imperialism and the myth of “britishness”
Transgender People and Feminism
A so-called communist party that is supporting the so-called british state’s attack on trans rights under the guise of “protecting woman” while not fighting by any actual feminist organsation, says it all.
The so-called “cpb” state:
“The implications of self-ID as the sole requirement for access to single-sex spaces and facilities are serious when it comes to safeguarding women and children from predatory and abusive behaviour by men who can simply declare themselves to be women.”
While talking vaguely about “single sex spaces” the so-called “cpb” offers no source or evidence to suggest transgender people are a threat to the safety of women and girls, meanwhile sexual abuse scandals rock the party and their creepy youth front the ‘young communist league’.It is a deflection in front of their own upholding of patriarchy and power, and to shut victims up. They are known to send threatening private messages when people recount what goes on at their events.
This is not feminism, it is not, not marxist feminism anyway. It is a white feminism if it has a name. The feminism of the saxon bourgeoise and labour aristocracy. Devoted to attacking threats to the nuclear family, relations of gender, reproduction and power in the household. The threat all Queer people pose.
The so-called “cpb” is a White organisation for saxon labour aristocrats and the children of the bourgeoisie to gain more from the loot of empire, with an Imperial social democratic mindset, not a communist one.
They have no analysis of real womans issues, the 2 child limit on welfare, the rape clase, the closing of shelters, and other issues woman face.
The quote below from the summary states that gender is an “ideology” and that it can be used to oppress women, but don’t go into what that means. Presumably “ideology” can be swopped here for “scary spooky thing” and it would have as much weight as a Marxist analysis. It’s full of dog whistles, going on to say in the conclusion that advocating for transgender rights would “alienate and put wedges between the working class and marginalised people”, give me a break! As if “the working class” are somehow all cisgender!
“The Communist Party is the only political party with a coherent political analysis of sex and gender. Gender as an ideological construct should not be confused or conflated with the material reality of biological sex. Gender is the vehicle through which misogyny is enacted and normalised. Gender identity ideology is well- suited to the needs of the capitalist class, focusing as it does on individuals as opposed to collective rights, enabling and supporting the super-exploitation of women.”
Transgender People Are Material Reality
The put down from these so-called “Marxists”, that trans people are an ideological aberration with no material or real basis, that we are somehow a construct of capitalist society, comes without any sources or reasoning. The science of who and what we are has been solid for at least 100 years. It’s also completely blind to the real base of the social, economic, political and cultural repression, oppression and violence that is misogyny. It is an anti materialist and historically illiterate understanding that Queer people or Women are an oppressed class as a secondary contradiction and that the primary is always class.
The superstructure keeps reproductive labour, gender norms, strict binary, and property relations within the family.
A great case of property relations being messed up by transgender people is the hidden case of Ewan Forbes.
This case was a trans man who in the 1930s got hormones, changed his birth certificate and got married. He was from the landed class and when his father, and brothers died he was in line as the last male in the family to inherit the estates.
His cousin at his brothers funeral challenged him as he was “not a *real* man” The case ended up involving the crown estates, the house of lords and the so-called uk government and would have an effect on succession and create a constitutional crisis.
The primogeniture system, a system of property, class and gender and family was under attack by the real threat of trans people changing their relations and heightening the contradictions within the capitalist family system.
His case and a trans woman’s case were used in 1970 to take away trans rights to protect property relations and relations of family, power and class within the so-called uk.
Therefore the British state sees trans people as valid people that need to be controlled if not eliminated as we bring up many contradictions of the power and class structure of the monarchy, property owning classes. This also is the reason for the messy place we are in with birth certificates to begin with as it was to roll back our rights when we interfered with the ideological workings of class privileges and priority.
How then, knowing this and other legal and economic horrors the so-called uk government can a “marxist” say gender (or rather, trans people, as is meant by that word in their statement) “has no material basis“ when this and other cases show the material reality of transness as in natural opposition to the nuclear family and the needs of capitalism inside and outside the home.
Conclusion: Using The Laws of A Fascist State
The Imperial so-called communist parties use legalism, citing the laws of the so-called british justice system. They take an anti trans and anti science stance in regards to gender and sex. They are trying to use the power of the state against an oppressed group in the early stages of a genocide in places like the so-called united states. They are on the side of the so-called british state on Queer issues and are willing to fight with fascists and with the state and others against us.
Groups and Parties like these are the enemy of trans and oppressed people and must be fought and countered and rejected.
Serve The People International was founded by Queer, Disabled, Lumpen-Proletariat. Many of us are openly trans in the face of fierce public attacks. We will continue to fight tirelessly for all oppressed people, and to continue the righteous science of Marxism-Leninism, as practised by the Panthers and by the Actual Socialist States against anti-material attacks from the Imperialists.
Long Live Scotland, Long Live The Pink, White, and Blue!
Workers and Lumpen Unite! Build Dual Power In Your Communities Now!
Written by Emily Obree
Edited and Amended by Ruadhán Ó Donnaile
Approved by Serve The People International
15/04/2023