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*Thailand: Shall Socialists Defend the Government Against the Military Coup?* */Reply to a Neo-Bordigist Polemic of the “Liaison Committee of Communists” /* /By Michael Pröbsting, Revolutionary Communist International Tendency (RCIT), 24.5.2014, www.thecommunists.net/ The “Liaison Committee of Communists” (LCC) has published a polemic against the RCIT’s statement on the recent military coup d’état in Thailand. (1) Their criticism is an illustrative example of ultra-left confusion which completely ignores the importance of democratic struggles. In fact, the LCC’s critique is a remake of the sterile accusations of the Italian ultra-left communist, Amadeo Bordiga, against the Bolshevik method as developed and defended by Lenin and Trotsky. In our statement – as well as in other documents on Thailand – we have elaborated the necessity for socialists in Thailand to mobilize against the military coup d’état and to call for joint actions with the Red Shirt movement. We have stated that, in the actual confrontation between the government and the military putschists, socialists have to defend the former against the latter. While socialists should work towards a united front with the workers and poor peasants who have repeatedly shown their support for the ruling Pheu Thai Party, they should not give any political support to this party. We have called for the formation of a revolutionary workers party which will aim to break the workers and poor peasants away from the Pheu Thai Party and win them for a revolutionary socialist perspective. Read more at http://www.thecommunists.net/worldwide/asia/thailand-coup-reply/
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