#EricLevy has passed on at the age of 94. A Maoist communist, supporter of black liberation, former member of Black Unity & Freedom Party. We met him March 2020, he knew #ClaudiaJones personally and talks about her support for Mao here. #Vietnam#Korea#Mao#Stalin#Kruschev
Here #EricLecy continues to talk about his former comrade #ClaudiaJones and her comradeship with #PaulRobeson, Eric explains the meaning of the ‘African spiritual’ songs of Paul Robeson and Robeson’s attitude towards the USSR.
#EricLevy continues to talk about #PaulRobeson here, emphasising the importance of his songs and encouraging young people to listen carefully to the meaning of his songs. He explains after the Second World War there was a the turn to repression of McCarthyism.
Here #EricLevy is explains that #ClaudiaJones rightly criticised him for believing in unity (with ussr and China etc) without correct principles. That #ClaudiaJones said one cannot leave out the Vietnamese struggle from this so-called unity.
#EricLevy here talks about the importance of #RobertFWilliams and was v happy we had heard of him, he explains a little about Williams, his Negroes with Guns book, his political life from Black resistance in the usa to his global travels and reach.
#EricLevy here explains that he wrote about the importance of Mao’s #RedBook for the paper of the Black Unity & Freedom Party (of which he was a member) and argues that white workers are often racist but they must be convinced out of that by black revolutionaries.
A few more comments: Eric Levy is a Jewish Hungarian heritage comrade. At this meeting in March 2020 he expressed his displeasure that a new leadership of the BUFP felt he couldn’t remain a member as he was white, but he wasn’t totally hostile to the new leadership either.
We have known and seen Eric Levy for decades around the Marxist Leninist / Maoist circles in London. At the meeting in March 2020 he expressed sadness that he was bullied and marginalised by the leadership of the ‘cpgbml’ of which he was a member.
We also discussed his support for Julian assange, he was taken aback when we explained Assange is a reactionary, a racist and a global “alt-right” figure. #EricLevy was open minded to this but we don’t know how much he looked into this.
It’s very ugly and wrong that the batshit crazy political community around supporters of Assange are manipulating #EricLevy and narrowing his life to that cesspit of a community.
In the meeting w #EricLevy he seemed somewhat lonely in life, and was anxious about the rising covid pandemic esp due to his elderly age. He really appreciated we took him out for a meal, we don’t think anyone did that for him for a very very long time. A very very sweet human.
#EricLevy conducted a seminar for our participants of our Claudia Jones Research Project, conducting the seminar in the cafe of the Black Cultural Archives in Brixton.
#EricLevy also spoke on a platform of a very successful Malcolm X Movement grassroots event in east Oxford, we have pictures and video footage of him there which we are trying to retrieve and share publicly. A local report of the event here: oxfordmail.co.uk/news/13791382.…
We just found this and we are shocked that utter scum attached to Assange would literally continue to manipulate #EricLevy to their trash politics even on his death bed. These people deserve a total slapping! We are v sorry Eric that you have been treated like this!
#EricLevy was totally selfless. He went to Iraq at the time of the imperialist invasion in early 2003 and he was willing to die in solidarity with the Iraqi people under usa / uk bombing.
Here is the event poster for the very successful grassroots Claudia Jones event that the Malcolm X Movement delivered in East Oxford, you can see #EricLevy billed to speak.
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🇵🇸🧵 What is a mass uprising and why are we calling for it? We are calling for mass uprisings in direct solidarity with the Palestinian people esp in Gaza, and in support of their and our common resistance against white supremacy colonialism.
We are calling for mass uprisings for Gaza & Palestine as we understand the attack on Gaza is an attack on all oppressed people under the growing exploitation & oppression of global racist capitalism/colonialism.
We understand that if we do not push back and defeat the escalations of global racist violence such as is being delivered onto Palestinians then other oppressed peoples will be next.
#thread 🧵 The British Monarchy’s neo-colonial control over the Arab world: as promised we delve into the the realm of foreign policy where revolutionary overthrow of Britain’s colonial proxies is a real and ever-present danger.
Following the taxonomy deployed by legendary Ghanaian revolutionary, Kwame Nkrumah, the Arab states can be divided into 2 camps: those which are under the effective control of the former colonial powers and their allies (which he termed ‘neocolonial’), and those which are not.
State such as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait, and the UAE, all of them creations of the British empire and to this day still controlled by the ruling families handpicked by Britain at the height of empire.
Thread! 🧵 The real role of the Queen/UK Monarchy: The death of Elizabeth Windsor has prompted an establishment-led frenzy of monarchism across Britain, with wall-to-wall sycophantic TV and radio coverage..
standard view of Brit monarchy is that they’re symbolic figureheads lacking real power; mere ornaments adorning the Brit system. truth is that queen n family were & are crucial pillars in the maintenance of class power of the British colonial state, both domestically & globally.
the Sovereign still has a significant place in the Brit political system. The govt is still known as ‘her majesty’s government,’ there to govern on her behalf. It is she who appoints the PM, not just in the UK, but in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and twelve other countries.
Police have shot-dead a young black man Chris Kaba AKA Madix from the Drill crew 67. Kaba was forcible stopped in a vehicle and then shot dead last night in Streatham, Lambeth, South Ldn. Condolences and solidarity to his friends and family.
Many thanks to The Watch for making the video from which the above clip is taken.
The mum of Mr Kaba's fiancée, Kim Alleyne, said that her daughter is due to have the couple's baby in November and they were due to marry in early January.
“He was just super kind, I want everyone to know that. He was gentle, he was extremely funny,"
Lenin (1916) on political violence: “We have always stood for the use of violence in the mass struggle and in connection with it. Secondly, we linked the struggle against terrorism with many years of propaganda, started long before December 1905, for an armed uprising..”
“We have regarded the armed uprising not only as the best means by which the proletariat can retaliate to the government’s policy, but also as the inevitable result of the development of the class struggle for socialism and democracy…” (Lenin)
“Thirdly, we have not confined ourselves to accepting violence in principle and to propaganda for armed uprising. For example, four years before the revolution we supported the use of violence by the masses against their oppressors, particularly in street demonstrations.” - Lenin
“English proletariat is actually becoming more and more bourgeois, so that this most bourgeois of all nations is apparently aiming ultimately at the possession of a bourgeois aristocracy and a bourgeois proletariat alongside the bourgeoisie.” - Engels, October, 1858
“…those very worst English trade unions which allow themselves to be led by men sold to, or at least paid by, the bourgeoisie.” Engels, Aug 1881 letter to Marx.
“what the Eng workers think about colonial policy. Well, exactly the same as they think about politics in general. There is no workers’ party here, only Conservatives & Liberal-Radicals, and the workers gaily share the feast of Eng’s monopoly of the world market n the colonies.”