UK: From Workers’ Rights – All Other Rights Flow! (1.2.2025)

The fifteen countries that comprised the USSR allowed the 1917 Revolution to be betrayed twice in its history. Once was in 1956 – when the coward Khrushchev was allowed to usurp power and demonise Stalin – and the second time was in 1986 when the fifteen countries allowed the arch Trotskyite Gorbachev to seize power and destroy the USSR from within (a destructive act culminating in the 1991 collapse). As Stalin was by far the most effective working class leader – both Khrushchev and Gorbachev focused their anti-Soviet propaganda on destroying his reputation. Much more was at stake as the Soviet Union betrayed the entirety of humanity by dismantling the Revolution of Lenin and Stalin!

The problem is so bad that even gay groups side with the opinions of bourgeois reaction and attack the progressive record of the USSR. This is why I do not necessarily support “bourgeois” gay rights groups per se (although I do support gay people in general). This is because bourgeois gay people are class enemies who support predatory capitalism – my opposition is a matter of “class” – and not personal identity. On the other hand, I do support Revolutionary workers who might choose to identify as Socialists or Communists first and foremost – and who are also distinctive in their other self-perceptions (a small number of the original Bolsheviks are said to have been gay – with this being known to Lenin). The point is that fighting for bourgeois acceptance is not good enough – as it leaves all the injustices of capitalism in place.

It is through the overthrow of capitalism that all other Revolutionary change will come. Just being bourgeois and gay is not good enough! Single issues just seek accommodation with the status quo. This is not good enough as capitalist exploitation remains in place. Gay people should be Socialist Revolutionaries first – and this is the only acceptable dialectical position. This is not anti-gay – but rather pro-worker. Every injustice suffered because of the dominance of predatory capitalism will be overcome and abolished when the working class seizes the means of production. Until then it is working class solidarity that will win the day and not elaborate single issues that place the individual above the collective!