Comment of RCPB(ML) on
the Brixton Slavery Matter
Various media
have asked us to comment on the Brixton "slavery" affair. As the
media might have established by now, Aravindan Balakrishnan was expelled from
an organisation which preceded our own in 1974, at a time when it carried a
large amount of work against state-organised racist and fascist violence and in
defence of minority rights and the right of the Irish people to
self-determination.
You can see with
the current revelations in the police investigation that the organisation which
expelled him must have had good reason – first and foremost, opposition
to his penchant for cultism.
For the rest, any
media attempts to connect his rotten activities with Marxism-Leninism for
purposes of presenting Marxism-Leninism as cultism and extremism are pure
disinformation and sensationalism. Such attempts in no way assist to show what
Marxism-Leninism is and we do not think they deserve an answer.
Working people
are facing serious problems today as a result of the neo-liberal anti-social
offensive and all its attendant injustices and ills. Turning a wretched episode
in the lives of some miserable people into a salacious investigation is surely
a new low even for the British media.
We have no
further comment on this matter.
November 26,
2013