Leeds Uni Climate Change Meeting

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"Before that we had a discussion on climate change, which was opened up by Elaine Graham-Leigh, a former Green Party member and now on the national council of Respect... Not so SWP comrades, many of whom mocked the very idea that the climate is always in the process of change. Apparently it was apathetic to insist that this was the case. Closer consideration of the issue was obviously out of the question. Adopting a thinking approach is not for the SWP rank and file. Their role is to pass the right motions and show the necessary enthusiasm for the latest get-rich scheme to come from their central committee.

"Most of the SWP contributions on this issue amounted to little more than repetition of what they had been told to say. They showed a distinct unwillingness to think as materialists. They could only be against capitalism, could only focus on how to build the opposition. What they were for and why was far more vague and uncertain. Our contributions, which stressed the theoretical importance of Marx’s writings on ecology, brought bewildered looks and confusion - with longstanding SWP member and Respect secretary Mike Simons chiming in that “we need idealism” in our struggle against climate change."

 http://www.cpgb.org.uk/worker/600/respect%20hackney.htm

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