New International 13: Our Politics Start with the World

By: Jack Barnes and Steve Clark

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Synopsis: “Electrification is an elementary precondition if modern industry and cultural life are to develop, and class-conscious workers fight for it to be extended to all the world’s six billion people. This fight is a prime example of how proletarian politics, our politics, start with the world.” Quote from Jack Barnes. Jack Barnes is the National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party. Earth at night is a stark measure of the economic and cultural inequalities between imperialist and semicolonial countries and among classes within almost every country—disparities produced, reproduced, and accentuated by the workings of capitalism. For vanguard workers to build parties able to lead a successful revolutionary struggle for power in our own countries, says Jack Barnes in the lead article, our activity must be guided by a strategy to close this gap. “We are part of an international class that has no homeland. That’s not a slogan. That’s not a moral imperative. It is a recognition of the class reality of economic, social, and political life in the imperialist epoch.”