Did the mafia kill Tom Henehan?
— ICFI (1953) (@1953Icfi) June 16, 2024
The assassination of Tom Henehan is not "ancient history", or a topic reserved for niche historians... In fact, only a rejuvenated Trotskyist movement will be able to disclose the truth behind Toms murder. https://t.co/1fo00T4X2X
— ICFI (1953) (@1953Icfi) June 18, 2024
Preface:
We recently made contact with a small group of Chinese Trotskyists who have asked us to republish the following informal essay which highlights some of the material difficulties in Mainland China for the working class and the necessity of socialist revolution. We hope that this humble beginning is the portend of a wider collaboration between the Trotskyists of Asia and the West, aiding the fight for a revolutionary program using the latent potential of social media and the proliferation of online translation programs.
The comrades revealed that they previously tried to collaborate with the ICFI to fight for Trotskyism in China but were met with disappointment:
"From my personal perspective, our theories are completely consistent. Judging from my interactions with the International Committee during these times, the fact is that the International Committee does not care about our actions."
"He defined the struggle of us, Chinese Trotskyists, to defend Marxism against Pabloism as a crazy adventure..."
"From this perspective, the possibility of the establishment of a proletarian party in China has actually been reduced."
Letter:
I. Brief background introduction
On May 20, my family encountered an unexpected change from the outside world: the community staff in my hometown asked my family to move from a rental house with heating to my hometown on the grounds that it was "inconvenient to monitor" - otherwise, my family's minimum living allowance would be revoked.
In order for readers to understand the situation, let me briefly explain the situation of my family: my father suffered from cerebral infarction, and my mother had problems with her lumbar spine due to diabetes due to the burden of family expenses; and my sister suffered from spina bifida and was diagnosed with depression due to the incoordination of her spiritual world. She had a low level of education and had difficulty finding a job; I myself was still studying in college - it can be said that my family could not lose the minimum living allowance, just like the Abrahamic religions could not lose Jerusalem.
Even in such a difficult situation for my family, the community staff still had to achieve their goal by giving a completely impossible choice - to change the cage and drive my family away from the position of minimum living allowance, so that they could let the residents who could please them get this reward.
——Even though my old house is dark and damp, and cannot be repaired due to property rights issues, they still turn a deaf ear to it.
II. The necessity of revolution
This kind of thing is by no means an exception in the mainland. The patronage network formed by bureaucracy has blocked all ways for the proletariat to fight for their own rights, and we can only accept social pressure and constantly suppress our inner desire for a better life.
The purpose of the bureaucrats doing this is to show off their power: this is particularly evident among grassroots bureaucrats. To make a popular analogy, the class monitor will take charge of the class when the head teacher is not there. At this time, he is likely to use his power for personal gain to satisfy his own interests; it is this pleasure of manipulating other people's lives and the need to obtain patronage networks that drive them to govern in this way. This is fundamentally due to the worship of power under the authoritarian system. It takes a lot of space to explain this phenomenon, so the author will not show off his writing skills here; in short, the relative lack of revolutionary enthusiasm of the proletariat in mainland China, the concealment and deliberate deception of true socialism by the bureaucrats, etc., are the fundamental reasons for this phenomenon.
The author has been engaged in writing Trotskyist articles in the mainland before. He was born into the proletariat, so he understands that only under the true revolutionary thought and through the vanguard party to achieve unity with the world proletariat can we fight for a better life for us (emphasis added), so that our children and grandchildren will no longer be tortured by the exploitation and alienation mechanism of capitalism, and can realize their own value in real labor; only in this way can the world not fall into the barbarism that will inevitably lead to the capitalist world war and protect human civilization.
This article is just an essay; it is just a summary of the author's position on the articles he wrote in the past, and it is not a very formal commentary or other genres of articles;
But in short, I hope this article can let you see that the revolutionary voice of the mainland Trotskyists has never been abandoned.
For more writings by the Chinese Trotskyists, please visit:
https://chinesetrotskyism.substack.com/
https://x.com/TrotskyismChina
