Feeding the Hungry in Rhyl and Prestatyn

Activists hit Rhyl and Prestatyn with backpacks of sandwiches and bottled water.  We went into the centre of each town to help out the poor and hungry.  The results were disheartening, although not unexpected.

Deliberately approaching individuals who were sat on the street asking for money, we were told repeatedly 'thank you, but no thank you', when we offered food instead of money.  The majority of those asking for money were asking in order to get drugs or alcohol, not because of hunger.  This is  tragedy for Rhyl and Prestatyn, and for much of the country.

However, it was not all bad.  We met some very decent people who have fallen on hard times through no fault of their own.  It was worth venturing out to take the time to talk to these people, who are usually simply ignored, or at best tossed a few coins.  Human contact is generally not something which people care to share with those who are in trouble.

We came away with most of the food we took with us, but we were not expecting a massive uptake.  We decided it would be best to take a limited amount of food, and then pop to the shop to make more sandwiches in the event of running out.

It was a day of mixed results, but still something which we should do more of.  If any activists would like to carry on this task in your area (or areas of your choosing), please report in with accounts of how you get on (and pictures if possible!)

We are working for a better country.  Practical aid, such as feeding the hungry, is work we must undertake.  We must not become despondent when faced with people who don't want help, other than cash to continue a destructive lifestyle (which we will NOT give them).  There are genuinely needy people out there.  Well done to those who took the time to go on the streets in a very spur of the moment activity.  These activities do make a difference.

Socialist Quotes for Sunday Reflection pt 32

They quickly forgot that Karl Marx already condemned the unfair competition that immigrant workers represented for the autochthonous proletariat: according to him, immigration was “the reserve army of capital.” In the 1950s, the Communist Party, denouncing contraception and abortion as “bourgeois vices” at the same time, didn’t reason any differently: internationalism and cosmopolitanism were not synonyms in their eyes. Jean-Claude Michéa repeats it today: globalization is nothing other than the planetary extension of a speculative and deterritorialized capitalism of which peoples are paying the price. Don't forget, either, the stances of André Gérin, former communist mayor of Vénissieux (“Immigration is not an opportunity for France.”) or the stances of the communist union leader Jacques Nikonoff, former president of ATTAC (“We must stop immigration and organize repatriation on a voluntary basis”), nor, of course, the letter addressed by Georges Marchais to the rector of the Paris mosque in 1981, an era where the FN was still only a groupuscule: “The crisis point has been reached. I'll make it clear: we must stop clandestine and official immigration.”

A key figure in this regard: according to an IFOP poll last January, 51% of Mélenchon voters find that the immigration rate in France is too high, against only 31% among Emmanuel Macron's voters. One in two! Actually, it's not a secret for anyone that La France insoumise has two entirely different electorates. That's what explains the decreasingly muted war being waged in its ranks by the libertarian progressives of the Danièle Obono or Clémentine Autain type, and the advocates of a real left wing populism.

Alain de Benoist

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Friedrich Engels, excerpt from "On Authority." 1874.

"Had the autonomists contented themselves with saying that the social organization of the future would allow authority only within the bounds which the conditions of production make inevitable, one could have come to terms with them. But they are blind to all facts that make authority necessary and they passionately fight the word.

"Why do the anti-authoritarians not confine themselves to crying out against political authority, the state? All socialists are agreed that the state, and with it political authority, will disappear as a result of the coming social revolution, that is, that public functions will lose their political character and become mere administrative functions of watching over social interests. But the anti-authoritarians demand that the political state be abolished at one stroke, even before the social relations that gave both to it have been destroyed. They demand that the first act of the social revolution shall be the abolition of authority.

"Have these gentlemen ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is; it is an act whereby one part of the population imposes its will upon the other part by means of rifles, bayonets and cannon, all of which are highly authoritarian means. And the victorious party must maintain its rule by means of the terror which its arms inspire in the reactionaries. Would the Paris Commune have lasted more than a day if it had not used the authority of the armed people against the bourgeoisie? Cannot we, on the contrary, blame it for having made too little use of that authority? Therefore, one of two things: either that anti-authoritarians down't know what they are talking about, in which case they are creating nothing but confusion. Or they do know, and in that case they are betraying the cause of the proletariat. In either case they serve only reaction."

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“Liberalism, then, drives the attempt to displace the heterosexual norm....liberalism defines people as simply property-owners, narcissistic self-owners, choosers and consumers.

Liberalism...denies the importance of relationships. Thereby it encourages the undoing of community, locality and beauty – and also marriage and the family.

And there is, naturally, money to be made out of all this. Husbands, wives, children and adolescents (this last an invention of the market) are more effective and exploitable consumers when they are isolated.

Fluctuating identities and fluid preferences, including as to sexual orientation, consume still more, more often and more variously in terms of products and services.” - John Milbank

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Europe as far as Vladivostok: The Minimum Size

The nation-state, if it wants to be independent, is obliged to have adequate military means. The possession of this means depends on demography, autarky for raw materials, and the industrial power of the state. Between Iceland and Vladivostok we can unite 800 million people (enough to balance the 1.2 billion Chinese) and also we find with Siberian oil, all that is necessary to satisfy our energy and strategic needs.

I affirm that, from the economic point of view, Siberia is the most necessary province for the viability of the European Empire.

A great union between Western Europe, highly industrialized and at the forefront of technology, and Siberian Europe, full of nearly inexhaustible energy resources, will permit the creation of a very powerful republican Empire, with which everyone will find an accord.

- Jean Thiriart

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18th of August, 1941

Dear Fritz, dear Liesel, dear Boys! […] It is not Russianism that will bring about the destruction of the earth but Americanism, not just the English but all of Europe has fallen prey to it as it represents modernity in its monstrosity.

—Martin Heidegger

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Immigration: Making the Working Class Third Class Citizens

Report an immigration crime

Contact the Home Office if you think someone is living or working in the UK illegally, or is employing someone who isn’t allowed to work in the UK.

In an emergency, dial 999 and ask for the police.

Start nowon the Home Office website

Before you start

You don’t have to give your name and address.

Any information will be treated as confidential.

Other ways to report a crime

You can call any of the following numbers to report a crime anonymously.

Immigration Enforcement hotline
0300 123 7000

Crimestoppers
www.crimestoppers-uk.org
0800 555111

Fraud hotline
0800 788 887
8am to 8pm, 7 days a week

The Anti-Terrorist hotline
www.met.police.uk
0800 789 321

Immigration: Why do so many people want to come to the UK?

People are entering the UK by every method (legal and illegal) possible, because they know that they can get a better life here than they can at home. What does a better life mean?  A Better Life for the new-comers, is one where they don't have to work, or if they do, they get preferential treatment by employers, getting the best jobs, with the best conditions and the best pay - whilst we are left to rot in jobs which do not pay a living wage, offer no job satisfaction, and are frankly not worth doing.  Added to this, the system is rigged so that whilst we have to jump through hoops to get on the housing list, so-called refugees get the best housing by automatically scoring the top points by virtue of having entered the country illegally!

The ridiculous and racist system in the UK enshrines legal protection for the people with sick fantasies (such as torturing animals or being 'trans'), and such people are quickly placed in power over the Working Class in the administrative, judicial and executive arms of the puppet government which serves as a front to divert attention from the real power of Global Finance Capitalism.  We are becoming third class citizens, behind the Bourgeois Ruling Class and their  imported immigrants.  The myth of the Better life needs to be exposed - the Better Life does not come out of thin air - it is stolen from us.  The Better Life they gain is at the expense of the Working Class population, and this has to stop.


The Push and Pull factors of migration

There is genuine suffering in the countries from which people are coming.  The bulk of this suffering comes as a result of outside interference.  Financial Exploitation, War, the Global Capitalist System, Religious Extremism (fomented by and used to advance the agenda of the Globalisers), have all resulted in the ordinary people suffering.  All these factors must be combated in order to stop people fleeing their homelands - the Better Life has to be made available in the places from which the immigrants come.  If they had decent lives at home, they wouldn't feel the need to escape to steal what we have (or rather, what we used to have until we allowed our countries to be ruled by our enemies).

The suffering of the immigrants is not the only factor behind the invasion.  Many of them are not suffering at home at all - they come to Europe to live an easy life as pampered ethnic and religious groups, who know that they can indulge in their sick lifestyles with no fear of punishment.  Child rapists, Thieves, Slavers, Pimps, Heroin/Crack dealers and all manner of organised criminals are swarming in, under the cover of claiming to be 'asylum seekers' - the corrupt regime in Westminster is letting in vast numbers of people who face punishment at home for being vile and despicable scum who really do deserve to be punished for their actions.  Alongside the economic parasites who have no problem in destroying our countries by stealing what belongs to the Working Class population, we have vermin who in a sane world would be thrown into prison to rot, or even executed for their sick behaviour.  These enemies of humanity who have made life in their own countries unbearable, are now carrying on in the same way over here and making our countries into dangerous places to live.

How can we stop mass immigration? 

The only way to stop the invasion of Europe is to stop exploiting the nations outside the EU and UK, stop all wars of aggression for global finance, and to stop encouraging religious extremists, terrorists and other criminals from gaining power at the expense of the ordinary people.  The only way to do this is to wrestle power from the corrupt Westminster regime and to re-take our country, with Comrades across the EU doing the same in their countries.  As long as our countries are controlled by the servants of Global Finance Capitalism, we will be unable to control our borders and stop hostile elements invading our homes.

We must demand that our military forces are brought home, so that the attacks on the outside nations stop, and that our armed forces are turned from agents of the Financial Establishment, into forces for the Defence of the People.  In addition, we must demand that every single invader who has arrived in Europe, be immediately deported.  If these people know that they will not be allowed to stay amongst us (assuming they get through a militarised Mediterranean and past an active military border defence force), they will not bother to make the attempt to come here.

We need to stop the push factor which makes life unbearable for the immigrants and stop the pull factor which makes life preferable for them here.  Our country is our home, not a doss-house for all who want to come here, and we live here as citizens, not as maids, nannies and butlers for people who feel entitled t be waited on hand-and-foot as a reward for breaking in.  We wouldn't tolerate people setting up camps inside our living rooms, nor must we tolerate them doing the same in our cities.  A Socialist British Isles would be a friend of all Socialist nations, not an exploiter, not a military or economic despot.  A sensible compassionate British Isles, free from the liberal extremist enemy would seek the improvement of the lives of all peoples in their own homelands.  As long as we are not masters of our own home, the bourgeois parasites will continue to use the invaders to destroy us.  SMPBI will not cave in to liberal blackmail. We will make our country safe, and help others to do the same - and this starts with sealing the borders shut.

No To Sex Self-ID. Stop the GRA Reform Now

From the Government website:

Reform of the Gender Recognition Act
Closes 19 Oct 2018

Opened 3 Jul 2018

Contact
0300 200 3343

gra.consultation@geo.gov.uk

Overview
This consultation seeks your views on how best to reform the process of changing one’s legal gender. The consultation focuses on the Gender Recognition Act 2004. We are not proposing any amendments to the Equality Act 2010.

This consultation does not consider the question of whether trans people exist, whether they have the right to legally change their gender, or whether it is right for a person of any age to identify with another gender, or with no gender. Trans and non-binary people are members of our society and should be treated with respect. Trans people already have the right to legally change their gender, and there is no suggestion of this right being removed. This consultation simply asks how best Government might make the existing process under the Gender Recognition Act a better service for those trans and non-binary people who wish to use it.

To make the process of filling in the online consultation easier, we recommend first downloading and reading the full consultation document (PDF), before starting the online survey.

Having started the online survey questions, you can save your answers and come back to it later.

You don't have to answer all of the questions. You can choose the ones that apply to you, or are important for you. Leave answers to the questions you don't want to respond to open.

Download the consultation document HERE (English version).
Download the consultation document HERE (Welsh version).

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The Reform to the GRA puts Women in danger.  It is profoundly Homophobic, treating homosexuals as people in the 'wrong' body, who need to have surgery to align their bodies to their minds so they can have faux heterosexual relationships with people who are the same sex as them, only without surgery!

The Reform to the GRA puts children in danger.  It encourages parents, doctors, schools to go along with an ideology which leads to surgery and permanent damage, for what is in most cases a passing fad.

SMPBI says, No to Sex Self-ID.  Unfortunately, there is no option to scrap GRA altogether and end the trans madness. - this will take a revolution to achieve.  But in the meantime, to protect our nation (impressionable children, women, homosexuals, mentally disturbed individuals caught up in the mania (especially those with autism), indeed everyone), complete the GRA form and say NO to this madness.  The consultation ends in a week.  Get busy!

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From Manfridayuk.org:

The following pictures were taken on September 30th, when British women stood up and demanded that they were heard.

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From Lily Maynard's excellent site:

Transwomen are Men

by Lily Maynard

The media circus is full of high-profile men claiming to be women. Most of them didn’t ‘transition’ until mid-adulthood and there’s a very good reason for this. Parents twenty years ago realised that childhood, the teenage years – and even the early twenties – are times of tumultuous change for growing humans.

Puberty was unpleasant for most of us; hellish for some of us, but often these men have an idealised fantasy version of the elusive girlhood they feel they were denied: a ‘Victorious‘ style time of pillow fights, bubblegum and girlish confidences.

‘The Gender Speaker’ a late-transitioning man who works in Transgender Awareness Training, has this to say:

  “I had missed out on the teenage years, getting all dressed up for a night out, wearing strappy tops and mini skirts.” He seems to imagine that being a teenage girl is just one long femininity-performing trip to the disco. The reality? A friend of middle-child told me three days ago that she’d started wearing a big fluffy fleece jacket belonging to her father because, “I’m sick of men staring at my tits”.  She is twelve years old.

In addition to convincing themselves that all the problems they’ve faced in life could have been avoided if only they had been born female, these men also like to consider themselves experts on both ‘sides of the fence’, hence Arundel’s blogpost ‘How Women can be More Successful in a Male World’;  Munroe Bergdorf’s:  “Women are getting feminism wrong”  and Juno Dawson’s tagline for his 2017 book ‘The Gender Games’ – The problem with men and women… from someone who has been both.”

Think about it carefully for a moment. Is it really likely that there is no history of child transition- back in the ancient literary archives of the last century and beyond- because young people ‘didn’t have the words’? Were men all inarticulate idiots back in the days of Chaucer, Milton, Shakespeare, Dickens, Whitman and Tolkein? Were Sappho, Benn, Shelley, Brontë, Dickinson and Woolf unable to ‘find the words’ they needed to articulate their experiences? There is a rich and profound history of writing by same-sex attracted people throughout history, but the culture of transgenderism is new and is perpetuated almost entirely by men.

Despite decades of male privilege these men suddenly demand to be addressed as and viewed as women, while in the next breath claiming, ‘I’m still the same person inside’ or ‘I was always a woman”.  However they protest to the contrary, it seems that their view of womanhood is a vague, elusive feeling that manifests itself through red lipstick, gently waved hair and tits.  This is such bullshit that it is hardly a surprise that many women are offended by the claim. Woman is not a costume, it is a biological fact and to say so is not ‘defining women by their vaginas’. Woman is not something you can ‘identify’ in and out of, it is a physical state of being.

When did it become an act of hatred to state the obvious?

Let’s be really clear here, I don’t care what these men choose to wear, how they style their hair and who they do or don’t fuck. They should be safe in public spaces; they should have the same rights to housing, jobs and earned respect as anyone else. They should feel safe. Nobody deserves to be threatened, hit, or assaulted for the clothing they wear or their sexual preferences. I’m all for diversity and breaking the bonds of social convention. Men can wear make up, of course they can! Bloody good for them! It just doesn’t make them women. This current trend isn’t about ‘gender bending’, and it certainly isn’t about challenging the boundaries of gender or breaking down stereotypes.

I’ll say it again and again and again; for no matter how often I say it I’m accused of speaking with hatred – I do not hate men for thinking they can become women. I am angered by their audacity and yes, part of me pities their confusion but this is not about hating men, it is about hating a harmful ideology.  I hate the idea that women are expected to accept that ‘woman’ is some sort of inner girly feeling that can be appropriated by a man who believes that growing his hair, wearing a blouse, taking hormones and- sometimes- undergoing surgery, means that he somehow understands a collective experience of womanhood and has the right to speak on behalf of women.  It does not. No man has that right and no man who cares about women would try to claim that right.

It’s intensely conservative and individualistic. Woman as a concept rather than the messy reality of life. Self transformation rather than tackling narrow confines of sexist stereotyping of both sexes’.    

                                                                                     Dr Mary Chadwick

So now we’re going to look at a few high-profile men who claim to be women. I’m not going to say anything ‘hateful’ about them, because- let me say it one more time- I don’t actually hate them or wish them harm. I’m just going to state a few facts.  I’m taking a deep breath here and reminding you that the Junos and Indias and Shons of this world are not women. They are men. They were raised as men and they grew up as (gay) men. All three of them worked in media before transition and are no strangers to male privilege.

DAWSON

In 2013 James Dawson published ‘Being a Boy‘.  The Amazon blurb claims: ‘former PSHCE teacher James Dawson expertly guides boys through puberty’.  In 2013, Dawson was a bit of a gay role model.  Of his novel ‘Cruel Summer’ he said “Why wouldn’t straight people want to read about a devious, sexy young chap?” In 2014 he published ‘This Book is Gay‘ and became a School Role Model for the charity Stonewall. In 2015 he announced he was going to transition, telling the Independent ‘I just want to be one of the girls’. By 2017 he had reinvented himself as Juno and was claiming”A lot of gay men are gay men as a consolation prize, because they couldn’t be women.’

Dawson’s ability for doublethink is apparent in that he can see no irony in saying of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, “I can’t imagine that she’s dying to hear my views on growing up as a black person because it’s something I have no experience of.”

WILLOUGBY

Jonathan Willoughby was in his mid-40s- divorced and the father of a teenage boy- when he disappeared from the world of broadcasting and returned several years later as India.

Infamously, he tried to force a kiss on singer/songwriter Ginuwine in a 2018 episode of Celebrity Big Brother and accused Ginuwine of transphobia when he wouldn’t kiss him back. When women in the ‘Big Brother’ house angered him, he declared loudly- in an unfortunate choice of words-  “I am a woman! Let that penetrate!” His goalpost for womanhood seems to be undergoing surgery, telling Pink News in 2017,  “Unless you are transitioning, stay out of the ladies. Pulling on a frock as and when the mood takes doesn’t cut it. You don’t have a God-given right to go into female-only spaces.” The irony of this seems to be lost on Willoughby, who appears to make the rules up as he goes along, while being photographed in the Ladies’ toilets.

FAYE

In 2014, aged 26, Sean Faye was writing articles for the Guardian about being a man who wore make up.  In 2015 he claimed ‘I’m not a man, I never was’. A year later he wrote an article for the BBC on International Women’s Day in which he saw no irony in speaking of a world in where ‘femininity is still in flight from male definition, ridicule and violence’.

“Trans women live under the same system of patriarchy as other women,” writes Shon in the Guardian: in an article where he demands access to women’s  refuges and domestic violence centres ‘because I now exist as a woman’. Faye seems to genuinely believe that woman is a costume. He once told a woman on Twitter, ‘I’m a woman because I say I am, you’ve lost… enjoy your erasure”.

You may have conveniently forgotten about your 27 years of male privilege, but Shon baby, it still shows.

This list could go on. And on, and on. Don’t get me started on Riley J ‘I could start a fire with all that straw,‘ Dennis and even Lily ‘TERF TERF TERF‘ Madigan. The fact that some of these men are too young and disturbed for me to feel comfortable writing about them in depth doesn’t lessen the harm they are doing to women with their entitled appropriation.

These men are representing women. The last decade has seen an explosion in men who claim to be women and the internet is bursting with men who believe that it is quite reasonable to demand that they are referred to as women and that women who disagree with them should STFU. This is not progressive; it is nothing new. This is what men have always done to women. Shut up, TERF.

So, if I might disagree with Bergadof for a moment when he claims that,“What makes a woman ‘a woman’ has no definitive answer, nor does it need one”, I think we really do need to ask a few questions.

So what IS a woman?  How do we define ‘woman’?

Is it that she grows young inside her (but some women never have kids!) and feeds them with her breasts (but some women can’t lactate!)?

Is it her womb (but some women have had a hysterectomy!) or her breasts (but some women have lost breasts to cancer!) or her chromosomes (but some women are intersex!) or her menses (but some women never menstruate!)?

Is it her penis? No. Stop right there. Let’s get this perfectly clear. Women do not have penises. None of them.  Ever. We have a word for people who were born with penises. That word is men.

” But these days it’s really complicated to define ‘woman’.”

But wait, no it isn’t actually. It isn’t at all. We all know what a woman is. A woman is an adult human female. We all came out of one. And no, that’s not to say that women who are sterile, or have had a mastectomy, or a hysterectomy are not women: of course it isn’t. NOBODY HAS EVER SAID THAT.

Pay attention class. Are you ready for a blackboard meme? Good. Magdalen Behrns introduced me to this wonderful, spectacularly succinct phrase. The fact that this phrase is fast becoming controversial sums up the absurdity of the current state of gender politics.

There is no such thing as a woman with a penis, whether she is a lesbian or not, (I discuss intersex in my article‘What makes somebody ‘real’ trans part 2′, so I won’t digress here) but this argument is especially trying for lesbians because obviously, quote Jessie: “Euw… penises.”

So, why should we say men are women when they tell us they are?  Well, basically it seems to come down to being ‘nice’.   It’s kinder not to remind them that they aren’t really women. We know they’re confused, bless them, so most of us go along with it – because it’s ‘mean’ not to and we have been trained to put the needs of men and boys before our own since we were little girls.

And there’s one more thing we need to get clear. Right now. This is not harmless. This is not just ‘being nice’ to a few confused and vulnerable individuals, it’s far, far bigger than that. This is about your rights. And if you’re a bloke reading this, this is about your mother’s rights, your sisters’, your friends’, your daughters’… this is about Women’s Rights. Yes. THIS IS A WOMEN’S RIGHTS ISSUE! Why? Because this:

Reproduced in Comradeship: CPBML Newsletter No. 75

No. 75  9 October 2018

CPBML Newsletter No. 75  9 October 2018

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