Gerry Healy discovers World Jewish Conspiracy

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Newsline has continued its ridiculous campaign of bluff and bluster against the BBC Money Programme's allegation that it receives er against the BBC Money Programme's allegation that it receive

Libyan subsidies. But still - litigious though it is - it has not go Libyan subsidies. But still - litigious though it is - it has not got But the only possible ration- treatment of the Palestinian Many - solicited - letters from members and supporters hav riser' to This April 9, 1983 been printed. The campaign continues against Socialist Organise linked with the BBC according to the well-tried Stalinist technique of the 'amalgam'. Example from a piece by long-standing member Alex McLarty: "Trade unionists! Members of the labou e Zionist movement! Be warned! Depending on its substance a small dose of poison can do a lot of harm. What is the substance of Matgam na and 'Socialist Organiser"? We know enough now. Time may te even more". Much of the denunciation of Socialist Organiser is onnection extremely shrill and hysterical, lynch mob stuff.

It is also extremely sad. People write expressing their faith in the charlatans who put out Newsline. Letter after letter testifies to real sacrifices and devotion. People who couldn't possibly know the secrets of the autocratic and conspiratorial leaders of the organisation write to testify from their own experience of struggling to raise money for the paper that it could have no financial link with Libya. Playwright Tom Kempinski writes in ringing tones, "We are not bought" - rhetorie that rings pathetic As false has have always been the hopes and wishes of the many fine revolutionaries who have devoted themselves to We reproduce the editorial in which they responded round to suing the BBC. raiind to mine tha nor and false in the circumstances.

Healy's 'machine for maiming militants':

comment last week.

NEWSLINE's editorial uses the code word 'Zionists' , but in fact it is talking about a conspiracy of Jews which runs, they say, from 'the centre' of Mrs Thatcher's Cabinet to the commanding heights of the BBC, all the way through to... Socialist Organiser. If a Jew becomes "the youngest-ever chairman" of the BBC, what else can it be but a 'Zionist' conspiracy?

Pre World War 2 anti-semites explained communism and finance capital alike as different aspects of a single World Jewish Conspiracy. So now do these petro-dollar anti-Zionists of Newsline depict 'the centre' of Thatcher's government and Socialist _ Organiser as secretly linked and bonded - despite ocean-wide class and political differences - by a hidden network of 'Zionists' 'Zionism' here is not a political reference meaning those who support the right of Israel, or a modified Israel, to exist. That would include the overwhelming majority of the people of Britain.

There are Zionists and Zionists: there are Zionists and Jews. It is the latter who are the conspirators. Even an 'antiZionist Jew. this racist logic says, will have ineradicable loyalties and allegiances more basic than politics: some people are congenital 'Zionists' SO is opposed to Zionism? It supports the national rights of the Palestinians? SO advocates a secular democratic state in Palestine within which Jewish and Arab Palestinians could live as equals? Though rejecting with contempt the 'socialism' of the 'Green Book' , it would support Libya against an imperialist invasion?

Forgery That's just a front. Don't the communists pretend to denounce the 'finance capitalists' and the 'finance capitalists' make war on communism so as to fool those on both sides who don't know there is an International Jewish Conspiracy?

Thus Gerry Healy in his dotage seems to have rediscovered the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' - that forgery of the Okhrana, the Tsarist political police, which became a warrant for genocide against the Jews of Europe. Newsline in effect defines Jews as 'agents of Zionist imperialism' - which must be the very heart of imperialism if, as they say, its controlling tentacles reach secretly right into 'the centre' of Mrs Thatcher's Cabinet. The Jews, it would seem, are now the international janissaries of imperialism How can the mutant remnants of what was once the most serious revolutionary organisation in Britain have come to this?

For the last nine or ten years, the WRP, has seen the world, and especially the international Trotskyist movement, mainly in terms of police "conspiracies' and the operations of 'agents' and counter-agents.

Vast amounts of newsprint, time and money have been given over to the search for the 'conspirators' and 'agents' who are the root of all evil in the world, and whose subterranean combats and manoeuvres seem in the WRP's eyes to have replaced the struggle of classes as the locomotive of history.

Add to this paranoid obsession Mr Healy's present 'cupboard love' politics which put Zionism and anti-Zionism at the centre of world politics - because, to judge by all the circumstantial evidence, Libyan gold. is at the centre of the WRP's survival - and the scenario more or less writes itself. The inbuilt logic of such 'politics' takes over and takes off.

It easily becomes a matter of Jews - 'Zionists' - against all the rest.

The racist logic breaks through in their account of the Money Programme's 'witchhunt' . Why is this the work of 'Zionists'? Because a Jew is appointed chairman of thę BBC? Because only 'Zionists' are concerned with the Middle East? Because the Jewish Chronicle showed interest in an exposé of people it must regard as at least potential pogromists. Of course, if the Jewish Chronicle was tipped off in advance, that is proof positive that 'Zionists' were in control!

Or it is that all 'witch-hunters' are Zionists? PAGE 8 The News Line Saturday April 9, 1983

PAGE 8 The News Line Saturday April 9, 1983

From 'Socialist A POWERFUL Zionist connectio runs from the so-called left of th Labour Party right into the centre o Street. There is no difficulty what ever in proving this.

Top of the list, we have the most recent appointment of Mr stuart Young, a director of the 'Jewish Chronicle', as youngest-ever chairman of the BBC, having been a governor only since 1981. He is the brother of Mr David Young, another Thatcher appointee who is chairmission. man of the Manpower Services ComThis is the key organisation which the Tories are transforming into a 'corporatist front', behind which they seek to mobilise jobless youth from Tabour body to break trade union wages, safety procedures and working conditions ... Thatcher has rolled out these appointments with magisterial arrogance while the Labour Party and TUC chiefs have accepted them without a minn protest'. (News Line, Mareh 2: over a murinur , 1983).

The Tories know they can rely totall upon Zionist imperialism to prc duce the most hated reactionaries in order to transform the situatio anti-Semitic pogrom against all the Jews in general.

Zionism made it possible for a number of rich Jews to leave Nazi Germany with the agreement of the Fuhrer Zionists. The Tories know too they have a powerful anti-Semitic trump card up their sleeves, to replay once again as the most reactionary manifestation of racialism, which is antiSemitism. "rom the licity which the 'Jewish Chronicle' gave the BBC 2 'Money Programme' on March 20, the reactionary Zionist link was clear for all to see. But it Street channels right into the White House and President Reagan.

The latest Reagan military provocaraises in its sharpest form the central political question. Do Trotskyists defend the Libyan regime of a matter of principle, or do they No: it is that a view of the world in which the Palestinian question is the central pivot of the imperialist and the 'anti- the struggle of twn hacir ramno 500-- uva ruino, imperialist', decrees that within the imperialist countries, 'Zionists' , linked by ineradicable ties to the arch-imperialism - Zionist imperialism - are the main enemy, everywhere.

Faced with an earlier leftwing flirtation with anti-Semitism dressed up as anti-capitalism, Frederick Engels said that: "anti-semitism is the socialism of idiots" • WRP-style anti-Zionism is the anti-imperialism of idiots. And it is indistinguishable from anti-semitism.

All Jews other than certain religious anti-Zionists and some revolutionary socialists do support Israel - that is, they are Zionists.

They are a people scattered through all segments of society. Seek 'evidence' that there may be a conspiratorial network of Jews, and you will find it - red Jews and Rothschilds, members of Mrs Thatcher's (or Ronald Reagan's) cabinet and writers af , er' I The the Pa:

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denounce it as 'the reactionary Islamic government of Libya' and seek a tion of "Socialist Organiser', claim- ism and Gaddati? This is the posiParty. ing to speak for 'lefts' in the Labour!

The same organ supported the Zionistsponsored 'Money Programme' on March 20. They wrote: 'We ('Socialist;

tell us about the WRP's probable!

links with Libya. The fact that the (Our emphasis). less likely to be true.' (April 7, 1983)| Here is unqualified support for the ¡ chairman of the BBC, who is also a • director of British Caledonian AirTrade Group for Israel. 'Socialist hand-picked Zionists as an outright bang in the middle of Thatcher's supporter of their policies of witch-hunting the WRP and the Newc Timor our principled stand against | Libyan masses under their leader Muammar Gaddafi. * The question of the hour, we repeat, Reagan and Thatcher administrations and their hatred of the Palestinians and Libyans alike. n the background of the 'Socialist Organiser' one can detect a poweralso shared by Reagan and Thatchsupport for the 'Money Program- er. This is the substance of their me' and their lying affirmation that Gaddafi finances the WRP with a million subsidy', claimed by he faceless person on the BBC*2 rogramme. is is a lie from start to finish. lecause the WRP unhesitatingly upports the Libyan and Palestiian people and its leadership gainst the nuclear war plans of eagan, Thatcher and the Zionists their campaign to destroy all tional liberation movements_in e Middle East. 'Socialist Organis• Zionist connection between ese so-called 'lefts' in the Labour wetween rty right through to Thatcher and luaDour agan's White House is there for to see in its unprincipled nakedfor SO. These 'links' are the raw material from which theories about 'Zionist - conspiracy' can HOSPITAL!

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easily be spun. easily be spun.

But the only possible 'rational! common denominator on which to base such a 'theory' is 'race' (whatever that may be).

The leaders of the WRP are people whose history must make them ashamed in some part of their minds about what they have become. So, cheaply, they warn that Mrs Thatcher, who now (they say) has Zionist conspirators at 'the centre' of her government, may engage in anti semitic agitation. But they can't even disavow anti-semitism without linking the Zionists to Hitler, saying that Hitler consciously and deliberately made forcible conversions to Zionism.

Morally outraged by Israel -and rightly outraged - the more emotional or 'third worldist' left in Britain has sometimes tried to brand all Zionists, that is, the vast majority of Jews, as racists, and (especially during the ultraleft heyday of the early "70s) proposed to treat them accordingly. The slogan 'drive the Zionists out of the labour movement' has been raised - it can only mean: drive the Jews out of the labour movement.

Hysterical There is simply no way that this sort • ot anti-Zionism avoid shading over - despite the best 'anti-racist' intentions - into anti-semitism.

Even if it were true that Jews who support Israel are racists, the evil consequences of 'left wing' anti-semitism would far outweigh any help it would give the oppressed Palestinians. But in fact it is hysterical and stupid to think that all Jews who support Israel are racists.

Most of them have the haziest notion of the history of JewishArab relations in Palestine. They do have an understandably vivid awareness that six million Jews were murdered in mid 20th century Europe. Naturally they give instinctive support to Israel and are inclined to believe its official spokesmen.

Yet the recent outcry against the Begin government by millions of non-Israeli (Zionist) Jews and the vast demonstrations within Israel itself when the facts about Israel's treatment of Lebanon were made known, and it became impossible to shut out knowledge of Israeli complicity in the massacres, prove how far millions of Zionists are from being conscious racists. Most of them can be got to understand that the treatment of the Palestinian Arabs by the Palestinian Jews is Arahs hu the Palactinion Tamera in a betrayal of the best traditions of the Jewish people.

But idiotic attempts to treat them all as part of a 'Zionist conspiracy' can only convince the Jews that in parallel to what they see as the Arab threat to wipe out the Jews of Palestine, those in Britain who talk of justice for the Palestinian Arabs are a crowd of loony future pogromists. And that won't help the Palestinian Arabs either.

. Zionist plot The state of the left on this question is indicated by the fact that Ken Livingstone, in the same issue of Newsline, Chattily adds his support to the idea that the Money Programme exposé on the WRP was a Zionist plot.

He hadn't then read the antisemitic editorial printed on the same page. What does he think of the editorial? Does he think we should just shrug and accept anti-semitism as a feature of the far left?

Perhaps what the Ayatollah Healy has discovered in his political dotage is not the 'Protocols of the Elders of Zion' but the last will and testament of Joseph Stalin, who during his last years infected much of the Stalinist and quasi-Stalinist left with his own ingrained anti-semitism. At the time of his death in 1953 Stalin had set the stage for a purge trial of five 'Jewish doctors' from the Kremlin's own hospital, accused of plots, poisonings, etc.

It was to have been the signal for a final act in the vast anti-Jewish campaign, legitimised as 'anti-Zionism' ', which had raged in most of Eastern Europe and the USSR since 1948 - which, for example, was a prominent feature of purge trials like that of Rudolf Slansky in Czechoslovakia in 1952. The trial of the doctors would have been the signal for the mass deportation of the USSR's Jews - and possibly for their annihilation.

Stalin's successors cancelled the trial, but anti-semitism remains rampant in the Stalinist states.

When the WRP (then SLL) went Maoist for a year back in 1967, Mr Banda, now the WRP's General Secretary, wrote that they would 'march' even under ain he is tar Stalin. Once again he is 'marching' under the portrait of Stalin.

He won't write about it, but he is also uncomfortably close to marching under the portrait of Adolf Hitler.

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