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Grade 1
Grade One | YMOH Curriculum
General Overview:
Targheeb's Young Momins' Online Homeschool (YMOH) program is designed to provide thorough and appropriate instruction to all, Pre kindergarten through first and seventh grade students. Using the best of both the British National Curriculum and American Common Core Standards. YMOH curriculum is a robust standard–based curriculum designed to align with the most current international and national learning standards. It is also uniquely adopted to meet the core Islamic values.
The YMOH curriculum provides Islamic Studies, Arabic Studies and Quran, equal status and are considered compulsory. Science and Social Studies have also been introduced as cross curricular subjects to develop essential knowledge, skills and practices.
The program equips students with skills, knowledge, abilities, and understanding that are required in each level. The program also critically reviews student's performance through a number of assessment tools including weekly homework assignments, monthly tests, projects, and assessments.
English Language
The goal of YMOH literacy program is to incorporate our inquiry–based philosophy to create independent, critical, and ardent life–long readers and writers. To achieve this, the program is based on a balanced–literacy approach in which writing, reading, speaking, and listening enables students to develop needed skills and understandings that will serve them in all academic areas.
While Grade One English Language lessons are structured in a way to teach students vocabulary, spelling, reading, listening, pronunciation and speaking, students are expected to listen, speak and write for information and understanding. As listeners and readers, they will collect data, facts and ideas; discover relationships, concepts, and generalizations.
In support of best practices, we dedicate extended periods of time for reading and writing instruction. Therefore, students will use oral and written language reinforcements that follow the accepted conventions of the English language to acquire, interpret, apply and transmit information.
Areas of study include;
Phonics: A student's level of phonological awareness at the end of grade is one of the strongest predictors of future reading success, in later grades. The grade one reading program features a review of all the short vowels, beginning and ending consonants, thus helping students learn the proper pronunciation of words, consonant digraphs, short and long vowel sounds, soft and hard alphabet sounds, rhyming words, and unusual word sounds.
Spelling: YMOH spelling program is designed to teach spelling rules and most frequently used words –high frequency and sight words. While such strategies as visual memory, sound–letter relationships, and meanings are used in the instruction, writing and/or composition activities are a major part of each spelling lesson. Students will learn to spell appropriate words including blending words with correct usage of consonants, long and short vowels, as well as beginning and ending letters.
Vocabulary: Based on a weekly schedule with a range of practice formats, YMOH vocabulary combines phonics and reading skills to help students build their vocabulary. Its flexibility allows for adding words students need to work on and to tailor the writing assignments for individual use. Students will sharpen their vocabulary skills in order to better understand and apply what they learned in writing practice.
Language Arts: This affords students brilliant opportunities to experience the power of language by dealing with a range of texts and with the full range of contexts and purposes associated with the use of language. For instance, they will be given lessons on such area of grammar as ABC order, capitalization and punctuation, parts of speech, plurals, antonyms, synonyms, syllables, contractions, basic rules of word usage and base words. It will also allow them to learn the basic sentence and statements structures, asking and telling sentences and their structures.
Grammar and Mechanics: This will cover nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and simple sentence structures such as complete sentences, opposites, capital letters, punctuation marks (viz period, comma, exclamation mark and question mark); reading symbols with numbers; and others appropriate to their level.
Reading: The reading section of this curriculum focuses mainly on providing students with great opportunities to read various types of text through variety of reading material online, in order to improve literal and higher–level comprehension. They will be encouraged to read independent texts on a regular basis in order to increase fluency in reading, build their word bank and benefit from punctuation cues to understand meaning and provide expression.
While it will increase students' repertoire of techniques and strategies they can use before, during, and after reading to comprehend and extend their understandings of texts, the section is planned to develop students' metacognitive capacity to identify and achieve goals for improving their reading and to respond to texts in an increasingly thoughtful and sophisticated manner. It will also develop students' awareness of the different kinds of written and visual text, the characteristics that distinguish them, and the impact of the stylistic effects used.
Reading Strategies: First grade reading strategies will include retell, make, revise, confirm, predictions, visualize, ask and answer questions, self–monitor, summarize, connect to prior knowledge, text to text connections, and self–question.
Writing: While children gain insights that help them as writers in learning to read, learning to write is also integral to their reading. However, writing is more than an aid to learning to read, it is one of the essential goals of this curriculum. It helps develop students' ability to construct basic sentences and creative writing skills such as descriptive writing using nouns and adverbs, use of appropriate vocabulary, reading and grammar skills. They will also reflect on a range of ideas from resources used in class on how to communicate effectively through writing.
YMOH mathematics program aims to incorporate unrivaled inquiry–based philosophy to breed independent learners who are not only problem solvers, but confident risk–takers. We understand that educational excellence is only achieved when content is sequenced, applicable to students' interests and needs, and applied to solving real problems.
We also know that the study of mathematics plays an integral role in the promotion of universal language, along with problem solving and reasoning skills that contribute to the growth of abstract, logical, and critical thinking. These factors form the basis of the engaging and rigorous mathematics program offered at YMOH. This program will equip Grade One students with the skills of problem solving, reasoning and explaining, reflecting, as well as selecting appropriate tools and strategies.
Areas of study include;
Number and Operations: Students will learn to represent and order whole numbers of up to 50; establish the conservation of number; represent money amounts to 20¢; compose and decompose numbers of up to 20; establish a one–to–one correspondence when counting the elements in a set; count by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's; add and subtract numbers up to 20.
Measurement: This helps hone students measuring skills through non–standard units; telling time to the nearest half–hour; developing a sense of area; comparing objects using measurable attributes; comparing objects using non–standard units; investigating the relationship between the size of a unit and the number of units needed to measure the length of an object.
Geometry and Spatial Sense: This focuses mainly on sorting and classifying two shapes and three dimensional shapes by attributes; recognizing symmetry; relating shapes to other shapes, designs, and figures; as well as describing location using positional language.
Patterning and Algebra: This helps develop students' creative skills through creating and extending repeating patterns involving one attribute; introducing the concept of equality using only concrete materials.
Data Analysis: Students will learn sorting (pattern), ordering, classifying, basic skills of compiling data, producing charts and reading and creating graphs.
Financial Literacy: Under financial literacy, Grade One students will learn basics of economics such as scarcity or limited resources, kinds of resources, goods and services, professions, needs and wants; role of money and money cycle; exchange of money for goods (barter system) and Islamic trade during the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him); where money comes from, how families earn an income, how to save, spend share and importance of Sadaqa and Zakaat in Islam.
Math Vocabulary: Students will also learn math vocabulary for each unit
Children have an inherent curiosity within themselves about the things around them in nature. Taking advantage of this curiosity, students, from foundation to second grade, will be taught the science inquiry skills and science as a human endeavor strand. They will learn that observations can be organized to reveal patterns that can be used to make predictions about phenomena while gaining knowledge about a variety of living things including humans from an Islamic point of view. They will learn to value counting as a means of comparing observations, and are introduced to ways of organizing their observations.
With respect to this, Grade One students will be able to infer simple cause–and–effect relationships from their experiences and observations, and even start to link phenomena and events with observable effects. They will be able to observe changes whether small or large, that can happen slowly or quickly. Students will learn about the origin of creation, and will link their understanding of science to Deen (religion), signs of the Creator and His creation. They will learn to research on topics covered through recommended resources while exploring the properties of familiar objects and phenomena, identifying similarities and differences.
Earth and Space Science: Students will study about the universe, earth, the sun, the moon, night and day, weather and seasons. Using the skills, processes, and attitudes of science, they will develop an understanding of the processes, forces, and dynamic life–supporting qualities of the earth.
Life Science (Health and Fitness): Students will learn about the human body, five senses, growth and development. They also study about the diversity, continuity, interactions, and balance amongst organisms and their environments including life processes of plant and animals, parts of plants and what living things need for survival and their life cycles and environment. They will extend their understanding of the living world and their place within it through the skills, processes, and attitudes of science.
Environmental Science: With respect to health and fitness, students will learn about environments for living things, places to live, causes of pollution, preserving natural resources and understand the concepts of the 3 Rs (Reduce, Recycle and Reuse), what it means to go green and periodically undertake projects at home. Through the skills, processes, and attitudes of science, they will build a foundation for their understanding of their surrounding environment.
Social Studies
Grade Two students will be introduced to where Muslims live around the world. They will learn to read the Map of the Word, its oceans, continents and physical features of Muslim countries. They will also learn, place, location, environment, movement, and historical and geographical regions, and be able to identify where they live, and where other Muslims countries are located on the map.
Students will learn about the three major Islamic cities, Mekkah, Madinah and Jerusalem. Reflect on their background (Surah at Tin) and build awareness of the cities background and religious significance.
Students will learn about Muslim communities living around the world, their heritage and culture, food, language and other aspects of daily life. This exploration will also enable them to discover the diversity and commonalities that link Muslim communities.
Project activities will include writing a timeline, analyze how past and present are connected, compare and contrast and differentiate how things change over time and design and create a model of their own Muslim city.
Islamic Studies
Grade Two students will learn courses comprising of the eight units: Fiqh, Aqeedah,, Seerah, Sahaba Series, Tafsir, Character Education (Tahtheeb Al-Nafs), Hadith, and Qur'an with Tajweed.
Areas of study include:
Aqeedah (Tawheed): Students will learn about the Three Fundamental Principles, The Five Pillars of Islam and The Six Pillars of Iman (faith). The Three Ranks of Deen (Islam, Iman and Ihsan)
Fiqh: Students will begin the year with a review of the Grade One Fiqh portion covering Taharah, Wudhu, Istinjaa and Istijmar, Tayyammum, Salah, supplication (Dua) Istafaah, Tashahud, and other supplications in Salah.
Seerah: Students will review seerah from Grade One and embark on advance literature appropriate to Grade Two . Seerah will cover the birth and life of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) during his early Mekkan period, and the companions who recorded the Qur'an (Al Quraa).
From the life of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) they will learn about:
- The birth of the Prophet (story of the Year of the Elephant)
- The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) as a Shepherd
- The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him): the Truthful and the Trustworthy)
- The Revelation
- The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) and his household
- The Year of Grief
- Al-Isra' and Al-Mi'raj
- The First Migration to Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
Sahabah Series: In this series, students will learn about the Companions of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) who were also the early converts to Islam viz Baraa' Abu Bishr r.a, Bilal Ibn Rabah r.a, Khabbab Ibn Al-Aratt r.a., Khadijah bint Khuwaylid r.a, Mus'ab ibn 'Umayr r.a., Salman Al Farisi r.a., Suhayb a r. and Rumi r.a.
Tafsir: Students will continue to learn the importance of understanding the meaning/interpretation of short Surahs in Juz Amma.
Character Education (Tahtheeb Al-Nafs): Tahtheeb Al-Nafs is integrated into the entire program. Students will learn about the Sunnah of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) starting with Ikhlas (good intentions), saying Bismillah, praising Allah and memorizing a list of supplications each year.
Hadith: Students will learn about the meanings and benefits of a selected number of hadeeth translated in English from authentic and reliable Arabic sources, (Sahih). They will also briefly learn about the biographies of the narrators of the ahadith and benefit from lessons derived from them.
Explanation and benefits:
1. Brotherhood and the love of God: Narrated Anas ibn Malik (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "None of you will have faith till he wishes for his (Muslim) brother what he likes for himself." [Bukhari and Muslim (p. 26, No. 13, Sahih Muslim p. 50, No. 45]
2. Mercy: Narrated Jarir bin 'Abdullah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) said, "Allah will not be merciful to those who are not merciful to mankind." [Sahih Bukhari, Volume 9, Book 93, Number 473]
3. Good Character (Akhlaq Hasana): Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Amr (may Allah be pleased with him) the Prophet (peace and blessing be upon him) never used bad language neither a 'Fahish' nor a 'Mutafahish.' He used to say, 'The best amongst you are those who have the best manners and characters.' [Sahih Bukhari, Virtues and Merits of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him) and his Companions, Volume 4, Book 56, Number 759]
4. Co-operation: Narrated Abu Musa (May Allah be pleased with him) reported The Prophet (peace and blessing be upon him) said, "The relationship of the believer with another believer is like (the bricks of) a building, each strengthens the other.'' He (peace and blessings be upon him) illustrated this by interlacing the fingers of both his hands [Al-Bukhari and Muslim].
Quran with Tajweed
Students will continue Al Qaida Al Nooraniya (Part II) and will learn the letters of al ghunnah, types of iqlaab, rules of meen sakinah, idghaam, and its sub categories idghaam shafawi, ikhfaa shafawi and idhaar shawawi. In Grade Two, following rules of Tajweed will be covered from Al Qaida Nooraniya.
Lessons 7 – 9 Alif, waaw and yaa Sageerah (madd sageerah) and and leen letters
Lessons 16 – 17/last lesson: Sukun with madd, idghaam and revision
Lesson 3 huruf al muqatta'a
Laf Dul Jalalah. (uttering the word of The Magnificent)
Memorisation portion: Juz Amma
Students will also review and memorize Juz Amma while applying Tajweed rules to new chapters/ Surahs. .
Arabic Studies
Grade Two students will have summarized the Loghati workbooks to meet our students ability to cope with the level of the native speaker. and continue to work with the. The lessons will covering seven units comprising of Arabic reading, writing and grammar as a first language.
The first semester topics will cover: 'My Relative',' My Friends and my Neighbors' and 'I Love My Country' The second term covers lessons on "transportation and Communication and 'Love of Work" -
Spelling and Vocabulary: The lessons include a variety of vocabulary words based on reading comprehension and discussions covering each chapter and the use of phrases and expressions such as ليت \ إنَّ \ إلاَّ . and others. Each lesson will consist of a list of important vocabulary to be studies bu the student in other that he or she may build his vocabulary and spelling.
Grammar Mechanics: Students will learn the Arabic tenses ( past, present and imperative), demonstrative pronouns (dual and plural), colors, feminine and masculine nouns, verbs and how to conjugate them using I, you (m) and you (f), he, she and we. synonyms, opposites and use punctuation marks.
They will also learn how to ask questions and answer questions using appropriate vocabulary and Arabic expressions.
Reading: The students will read and comprehend the Arabic text through a spelling and vocabulary bank for each reading lesson. They will learn to identify Arabic texts, then revise, analyze and observe the different articulation between long and short Arabic vowels ا و and ي, use of ال alif laam in nouns (definite) sun and moon letters, the use of \ ـه \ ـة, (ha and taa Marbutha), the difference between ( همزة الوصل والقطع ), difference between ي\ى and Hamza(t) ( همزة الوصل والقطع والاسم الممدود ). Students will also be reading short poems, ahadith and Quranic verses relevant to the subject or theme.
Students will be given access to the YMOH Reading Room to access Arabic reading books appropriate to their age/grade.
Listening: Students will watch videos related to the lesson to develop their listening skills. The videos will contain short stories and nasheeds related to the topics in the book.
Speaking: The 'Loghati' books are richly illustrated with visuals that help students describe and communicate their thoughts and feelings. In the class students will be encouraged to use new words and expressions in their day-to-day conversations.
Writing: Students will be given ample homework exercises and they will be required to develop their handwriting skills and gradually develop the ability to identify answers to their reading comprehension and other activities from the reading passage and write their answers even with a one word answer.


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Last night I was in need of a little Shopping Therapy, so I splurged and bought the brand-new Tree Carving digi collection from Little Musings. I love how it comes ready-to-color as well as pre-colored. Handy! I used the letters as its own image for the backing paper. Just for the sheer thrill of it, I used the "braid" texturing plate on the backing papers.
I'm also entering this card into the Let's see some Love challenge at Spoonfull of Sugar Challenges, which I haven't participated in some time (although I always enjoy looking at their DT projects!).
Digi stamp set: Tree Carving by Little Musings
Cut file: Heart and Roses Border by PaperFaces Designs
Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge #90
Spoonfull of Sugar Challenge 138: Let's see some love
Supplies: K&Company Valentine's Designer double-sided paper pack, Hammermill and Recollections cardstocks, HP printer & ink, Copic Ciao markers, MS detail scissors ZipDry glue, CraftSmart ink, Cricut Expression, SCAL, silicon stamps by Alys Paterson for Quick Cards, Fiskars papercutter and texturing plate & tool, Recollections border punch, Post-it Notes (see tutorial at There She Goes)
Friday, February 11, 2011
3 comments:
- Little Musings said...
awwwwwww - I love it :) Cute idea with the backing paper too :)
- February 11, 2011
- Lovely Linda said...
Hello Christina - this is such a cute digi and an adorable card! you have used perefct colours! This is a great take on this week sketch! It is great having you play along with the Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge - we love to see you and your fabulous creations! {{{hugs}}}
Linda MMSC Design Team
- February 11, 2011
- marsha said...
Christina, what a cute card and how clever you are with the backing Paper! Thanks so much for joining us for this week's Midnight Madness Sketch Challenge and we hope you will come back and play again next week!
- February 12, 2011
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Join us for a photowalk though the amazing Detroit Institute of Arts.
There is the Van Gogh on loan
And of course:
Motor CIty Muse; Detroit Photographs, Then and Now
"For more than 70 years, photographers have found inspiration for their work from the people, city streets, and automobile culture of Detroit. This exhibition includes select photographers who, through their personal vision and photographic skill, have captured subjects, past and present, specific to Detroit, its changing landscape, architecture and auto industry. Included are more than 100 photographs by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Dave Jordano, Karin Jobst, Detroiters Nicola Kuperus, Russ Marshall and Bill Rauhauser, along with select members of the Detroit School of Automotive Photography. This exhibition has been organized by the Detroit Institute of Arts."
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0 · March 10, 2013
Best bring your very steady hand and select the fastest lens you have, the art exhibits in general are not lit with any amount of overwhelming light so capturing quality images with no flash is certainly a challenge. As the rules state, to picture of special exhibits, which I am sure Van Gogh would be on that list. I have also taken my camera (D800 /[masked]) there many times without issue, I would be looking at using a prime lens so you can utilize a larger aperture.
1 · February 20, 2013
Thanks for checking into it. I had heard that they just don't like people slogging bags of camera stuff around. So I think you just pick a lens and go with it.....unless they have instituted the "all photos must be taken with the lens caps ON" rule. Looking forward to seeing all again.
1 · February 19, 2013
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As part of my job running the Fab Lab, I've come to learn a lot about CNC machines and CNC milling.
I've recently moved into a small apartment, and (thankfully!) I don't have much space. That means I don't really have room for a dining table. I spent some time eating on the couch with a plate in my lap, but this got old. Besides, how are you supposed to have someone over for dinner if you don't have an eating area where you can face each other?
While doing some shopping, I discovered the Kotatsu. I fell in love with the concept. First, it's Japanese, and I LOVE the Japanese aesthetic. It's a sitting table, with a heater and blanket. The idea is, you sit at the table, and cover your legs with the blanket, where it's warm and toasty inside.
I live in Florida and don't really need a heated table, but loved the idea.
So, I designed my table and cut it on the CNC mill in the lab. It took me 10 hours total to model the table, which included figuring out exactly how high I wanted it off the ground, and how big it should be. I wanted something big enough to be functional, but my space is tiny, remember? Once I had my design, the table took about 2 hours to cut and assemble, and 4 hours to finish with polyurethane.
I've had my table for about 3 months, and love it. I designed it with a single, central leg, which means that there are no corner table legs to block human legs. But, it does get tippy -- I've almost dumped it while getting a bit too into my dinner.


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Eric J. Bruns, Ph.D.
Director, University of Washington Wraparound Evaluation and Research Team; Co-Director, National Wraparound Initiative; Co-Director, Washington State Children's Mental Health Evidence Based Practice Institute; Associate Director, UW School Mental Health Assessment, Research, and Training (SMART) Center.
Dr. Bruns's research and other professional activities focus on public child-serving systems, and how to maximize their positive effects on youth with behavioral health needs and their families. Toward this end, Dr. Bruns focuses on areas with the greatest potential for significant public health impact. Two primary examples include research-based "wraparound" care coordination models for the 5% of youths with the most serious and complex needs (that account for 50% of all children's behavioral health resources) and school mental health services (which account for 80% of all children's mental health treatment encounters). He has also conducted research on specialty courts for children involved in the child welfare system due to parental substance abuse, family and youth peer to peer support services, and state-level strategies to delivering behavioral health care, including research-based practices.
Dr. Bruns directs the National Wraparound Initiative, a national organization that conducts research and disseminates information to promote high quality and consistent wraparound care coordination, and the Wraparound Evaluation and Research Team, which develops and supports use of fidelity measures for the wraparound process. He is also the UW lead for the Technical Assistance Network for Children's Behavioral Health (TA Network), a new national technical assistance center for States and communities funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, SAMHSA. He is the Principal Investigator for an Institute for Education Sciences (IES)-funded grant to develop and pilot test a brief, evidence-based school mental health intervention. Finally, he is the UW lead on Washington State's Statewide System of Care Expansion grant and statewide rollout of wraparound care coordination. He served as Editor of the journal Report on Emotional and Behavioral Disorders in Youth and is Associate Editor of the Journal of Child and Family Studies. He has served as Principal Investigator for four NIMH-funded studies in children's mental health and authored over 60 refereed journal articles and book chapters.
- National Wraparound Initiative (NWI)
- National Wraparound Implementation Center (NWIC)
- Wraparound Evaluation and Research Team (WERT)
- Development and Testing of a Brief Intervention for School Clinicians (BRISC) (Institute for Education Sciences grant)
- School Mental Health Assessment, Research, and Training (SMART) Center
- Evaluation of federal Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility Waiver Demonstration project
- National Technical Assistance Network for Children's Mental Health
- University of Washington Children's Mental Health Evidence Based Practice Institute
- Evaluating fidelity to the wraparound service model for youth: Application of item response theory to the wraparound fidelity index.
- Family Voice with Informed Choice: Coordinating Wraparound with Research-Based Treatment for Children and Adolescents
- National trends in implementing wraparound: Results from the state wraparound survey.
- National trends in implementing wraparound: Results from the state wraparound survey.
- Psychometric, Reliability, and Validity of a Wraparound Team Observation Measure.
- Taking evidence-based practices to school: Using expert opinion to develop a brief, evidence-informed school-based mental health intervention.


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Finding the shop--CHINOISERIE--can be quite a challenge; tucked quietly between Hank's Oyster Bar and Alexandria Cupcakes (on King Street in Old Towne Alexandria, VA) very little reveals its location, and only the introduction by a fellow design-addict made me aware of its existence. Once stepping beyond the door, one feels like you've discovered an untold secret, a mecca of sorts devoted to the pursuit of design and aesthetics, and a celebration of the decorative arts. Quite tiny, yet filled with a tightly edited array of modern jewelry, Italian and European glass art, Scandinavian pottery and dinner-ware, Middle-Kingdom vases, Heath ceramics, mid-century furniture and lighting, vintage art-books (on graphic design and architecture), limited edition greeting cards, clothing from obscure West Coast designers, and oversized abstract paintings, Peter Zi's point of view is quite apparent. The mix is informed, defined, and shows an affinity for clarity in both objects and presentation. The mood invites repose, and soft music (and ambient lighting) made me relive days of traipsing (and chilling) in tiny shops located in then questionable parts of London and Amsterdam.
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To start off the new Fascirian Space Force or WW; scientists and aviation designers designed a new craft that was to be used for both air combat and strafing runs. They soon created the Heinkel 270. As soon as the trials of the prototype were underway; they proved that the craft was a superb air and starfighter, as well as an extremely fast bomber.
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Hi there I have just started 4 months work experience as part of my college curriculum, the company I am working with are having a problem with their security camera system not communicating to there security provider. To be precise the cameras are transmitting to them but not the alarms.
The error I am getting is that unable to connect to smtp server. Now tje outgoing smtp server address I was given by the company and security company ends with 220.127.116.11:29 , I thought only port 25 or 587 were used not 29.
I have followed this guide https://support.sonicwall.com/kb/sw7712, changing everything to fit in with smtp server and public address etc but still no joy.
I am shooting in the dark with this as I have never touched on any of this with my IT Course.
Can give extra information if needed, just not sure what is needed.
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Apr 11, 2017 at 4:26 UTC
Why not just use your own SMTP sever and email account to send the alerts to? Maybe I am missing something, but if all they need to do is send out an email alert to an email address, it shouldn't matter which email account you use, set it up with your info.
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You're in college for work experience and they have you working with a Sonicwall? Wow - they must really trust you.
You need to check out the POP/SMTP settings for that provider as some do it differently. Some specify port 587, while some others will say 25.
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So this is an outbound connection, but I'd really be tempted to relay this via a ocal box so you can log the traffic easier. These cameras get compromised easily and your better iff at least lnowing whats going out rather than waiting till ylur're lart of a botnet of somesort


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Alleged Rapist Claims His Penis Is Not Big Enough For Sexual Assault
Defense attorneys often get creative, trying any argument to help their clients avoid going to jail.
In the case of Jacques Rouschop, who has been accused in Ottawa, Canada, of sexually assaulting two women, one lawyer is getting really inventive. His attorney made the case that the man's hernia "makes it too painful to have sex from behind, his stomach is too large, and his penis is way, way too small." She then sent around naked pictures of Rouscoup for the jury to consider. How is this real life?
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Rouschop is accused of assaulting two sex workers, both of whom testified in horrifying detail about their alleged rapes. Police also suspect him in the murder of a woman named Amy Paul, who was killed in 2013. Rouscoup and his lawyers call his indictment for rape a "witch hunt."
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The domination of internet in the world, the blurring territories while bringing the world closer than ever has led to the advent of studying abroad. Better opportunities await students, more exposure and lot of learning will give them a chance to build a promising future. However many students due to lack of education fund earlier saw their dreams shatter. Their lack of ability to become as competitive with those having infinite resources at their disposal, but today times has changed. Universities in Germany are giving opportunities to everyone who academically deserves to seek the chance to study in their prestigious institutions and become global citizens. With the dominance of internet, information is spreading at a faster pace today.
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The New Theatre On Main will present its summer musical "Annie" July 7-30, and tickets are going fast.
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Tickets are selling quickly, and two shows — July 14 and 21 — have already sold out. Chicorel and Barnes recommend purchasing your tickets in advance as there is no guarantee there will be any seats left if you plan to purchase them at the door.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post115561698159632990..comments2017-08-20T12:33:51.992-06:00Comments on Kalyn's Kitchen®: Gazpacho Recipe with Red and Yellow Tomatoes (and Cooking with Friends)Kalyn Dennyhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-24499914893483461852009-11-01T14:17:54.951-07:002009-11-01T14:17:54.951-07:00Kate, thanks, I didn't realize that but just m...Kate, thanks, I didn't realize that but just made a note of it in the recipe.Kalynhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-54559001942600570882009-11-01T13:58:03.677-07:002009-11-01T13:58:03.677-07:00This looks delicious! I've been missing Gazpac...This looks delicious! I've been missing Gazpacho ever since I visited Spain last summer.

I do have one modification, though: This recipe is listed under "vegetarian recipes." I would make a note that Worchestershire sauce contains anchovies, so vegetarians will have to buy a vegetarian version.

This blog is beautiful, and I can't wait to try the email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-48414682526462804772008-07-06T14:31:00.000-06:002008-07-06T14:31:00.000-06:00I can't wait to give your recipe a try. i make gaz...I can't wait to give your recipe a try. i make gazpacho weekly in the hot summer months and it always helps to have a few recipes to switch things up a bit.
try one of my other favorites at http://www.foodista.com
ENJOY!GrowItGreenhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-57111033838084476402007-09-12T18:03:00.000-06:002007-09-12T18:03:00.000-06:00Wonderful Gazpacho, I can't believe I took so long...Wonderful Gazpacho, I can't believe I took so long to post a comment!! I have found my new breakfast "vacation" from eggs!! Thanks so email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1156118335346353422006-08-20T17:58:00.000-06:002006-08-20T17:58:00.000-06:00Thank you so much for posting this recipe! I've b...Thank you so much for posting this recipe! I've been looking for ways to use up our overabundance of tomatoes, when I really don't like them very much. This, however, turns out to be one of those ways that I like tomatoes.

I've linked back to this recipe from my blog.Yshahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1155850164835251892006-08-17T15:29:00.000-06:002006-08-17T15:29:00.000-06:00I like the cooking with friends idea--very cozy.I like the cooking with friends idea--very cozy.lucettehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1155791040018491962006-08-16T23:04:00.000-06:002006-08-16T23:04:00.000-06:00Kalyn,Your gazpacho looks and sounds divine. I've...Kalyn,
Your gazpacho looks and sounds divine. I've been buying loads of organic tomatoes lately so I think I'll try your recipe. it's definitely going in my del.icio.us cookbook!christinehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1155771683834855622006-08-16T17:41:00.000-06:002006-08-16T17:41:00.000-06:00Now this channeling stuff is getting eerie. I jus...Now this channeling stuff is getting eerie. I just barely sent Elise an e-mail to congratulate her for her blog being mentioned on Time's list of 50 best web sites (that's Time magazine folks, way to go Elise) and while I'm writing it she leaves me that comment. We've all synchronized our thoughts over the gazpacho I guess.Kalynhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1155771231241911562006-08-16T17:33:00.000-06:002006-08-16T17:33:00.000-06:00Hi Kalyn, what a nice surprise to return to my co...Hi Kalyn, what a nice surprise to return to my computer to see my favorite bloggers stirring up gazpacho! I love this recipe. Can't believe you've been growing tomatoes for this long without ever having made gazpacho. Isn't it terrific? I wish I could just pop on over and have a bowl of yours. Cheers, Elise. :-)Elisehttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1155769887809486282006-08-16T17:11:00.000-06:002006-08-16T17:11:00.000-06:00Tanna, it's a mystery to me for sure, now that I'v...Tanna, it's a mystery to me for sure, now that I've made it.

Genie, thanks to you and Elise for the inspiration.

Kevin, you're right!

Ruth, just make some and eat it all yourself.

Nic, I thought your smoother version looked fabulous too.Kalynhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1155766703291591892006-08-16T16:18:00.000-06:002006-08-16T16:18:00.000-06:00Great photos, Kalyn. I tend to go for the really ...Great photos, Kalyn. I tend to go for the really smooth gazpacho, myself, but your presentation is head and shoulders above mine!Nichttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1155761057523261162006-08-16T14:44:00.000-06:002006-08-16T14:44:00.000-06:00I love gazpacho and your's looks particularly deli...I love gazpacho and your's looks particularly delicious. Too bad I can't get my Honey to eat it.

Thanks for letting me live vicariously though.Ruthhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1155742471162562792006-08-16T09:34:00.000-06:002006-08-16T09:34:00.000-06:00Kalyn,Gazpacho is one of the best reasons on Earth...Kalyn,
Gazpacho is one of the best reasons on Earth for tomatoes (not that they need an excuse).Kevinhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1155737330607080082006-08-16T08:08:00.000-06:002006-08-16T08:08:00.000-06:00Kalyn, your version looks fabulous! I'm so glad yo...Kalyn, your version looks fabulous! I'm so glad you're enjoying your creation -- gazpacho's definitely one of my favorite summer treats.

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The Inadvertent GardenerGeniehttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1155732174341647302006-08-16T06:42:00.000-06:002006-08-16T06:42:00.000-06:00Why more people don't make this everyother day whi...Why more people don't make this everyother day while tomatoes and veggies are so good maybe one of the great mysteries of life. Yes, when there are no other mouths to feed - I'll eat this for breakfast lunch and dinner.Tannahttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1155731449300953162006-08-16T06:30:00.000-06:002006-08-16T06:30:00.000-06:00Hi Alanna,Getting a good photo of this with a clea...Hi Alanna,
Getting a good photo of this with a clear bowl was a challenge, considering my limited skill with the new camera. But I have Elise to thank for steering me towards the camera too. I can't rave enough about how much I loved the Gazpacho. No idea why I never made it sooner, since I always liked it in restaurants. I see we were channeling each other with our comments too, since I barely left a comment on your blog when this one popped up here.Kalynhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-12411922.post-1155731231102392632006-08-16T06:27:00.000-06:002006-08-16T06:27:00.000-06:00For breakfast?! Me too!! Your photos are terrific,...For breakfast?! Me too!! Your photos are terrific, the clear bowl is gorgeous for presentation! And it's so cool that you loved the gazpacho so much!! Thanks for "channeling", I love the impromptu-ness.Alannahttps://email@example.com


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One of the most important discoveries of molecular biology was that some
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Some of those who support Corbyn's Labour do so with the idea that "it's the least worst option" but many more actually believe that Labour can reform capitalism in favour of those who create the wealth that is enjoyed by a minority. This article is mainly directed at their distortions.
The Impact of Corbyn
The capitalist media expressed astonishment at the rise of a left-leaning Labour Party which appeals more to the young than anything since Blairism when it first appeared. In reality, the Corbynite phenomenon is not hard to understand. After decades where wages as a share of national income have continuously fallen and after almost a decade of austerity in which the rich have got richer, it is not surprising that many workers voted for a party which promised to "tax the rich". The young in particular, who face a miserable future, rushed to support Corbyn, both within the Labour Party and among the electorate in general (where 1.7 million under 25s registered for the first time). Some of those who support Corbyn's Labour do so with the idea that "it's the least worst option" but many more actually believe that Labour can reform capitalism in favour of those who create the wealth that is enjoyed by a minority. However behind all these are those who claim to be "socialists" and "revolutionaries" but who in their cynical manoeuvres belie both terms. This article is mainly directed at their distortions.
In the last few months the CWO has intervened in this debate, distributing material explaining the case for revolutionary abstention and urging, with those who were ready to discuss the fact, that Corbynism is a dead-end and part of the ruling class order. We have carried articles on our web site and in our publications1 and intervened on social media. We also distributed copies of our broadsheet "Aurora" on picket lines and University campuses as well as in our customary venues.
Some of the less politicised people we met argued in line with the standard bourgeois argument about democratic rights and duties. Others echoed the desperate hope that somehow electing a Labour Government would provide some relief from the cuts, crap prospects in work, cuts in benefits and crumbling welfare services. For many of those who we met the latter was a "straw they were clutching" in response to a lifetime of attacks seeing our class unable to sustain any adequate resistance. We did not agree and put counter-arguments but we're able to understand the desperation as the crisis appears to grind forward remorselessly and all the scattered "direct action" resistance to it has no focal point around which to rally.
Counterfeit Communists
On the other hand, there was an inexcusable flood of phoney arguments from the leftists and even a few anarcho-Corbynists who we encountered. On more than one occasion these supporters of the "democratic illusion" (some more recent converts than others) defended themselves by explaining that voting only took 10 or 15 minutes. On that basis, voting was at worst only a minor aberration on a par with dropping a chocolate wrapper or breaking wind in a crowded lift. Of course such a facile defence dodged around the issues that centres on the leftists ongoing nurturing of false and corrosive ideas over many months or even years rather than a few minutes of delinquent behaviour.
At the core of all the arguments of the "organised" Corbynists was the desire to support key falsehoods. These regularly included nonsense about the Labour Party being a "Workers Party", nationalisation or state intervention being a step towards socialism and the ability of well-meaning MPs to be the vital agents of change. Overall, the whole panoply of justification for a reformist view of the world was expounded in the finest traditions of Second Internationalism2.
As the ruling class's crisis has deepened the lack of any readily available economic solution has, at least since 2015, become dramatically evident in the political "superstructure". Obvious examples of the bourgeois political machine not producing intended results include the near clean sweep by the Scottish Nationalists in the 2015 General Election, the 2016 referendum vote for Brexit which was not the preferred choice for the majority of the ruling class and the 2017 General Election which failed to deliver a "strong or stable" government of the right or left3
Of course, the left of the political establishment was not immune from the series of unintended consequences. The changes to the internal voting practices in the Labour Party opened the way for Jeremy Corbyn to become the leader despite opposition from the majority of Labour M.Ps.
That last unforeseen quirk in the politics of the parties which present as options for being safe governments for capitalism resulted in further ripples. In Britain, for many decades, the various splinters that emerged from Stalinism and Trotskyism4 had seen their influence gradually decline. In Corbyn's unexpected rise they saw their chance.
The re-emergence of Left Labourism as a significant sector in British politics breathed life into the spectrum of counterfeit Communists all vying to implement the politics of the past like the United Front and "transitional method". Those approaches were spawned in the degenerating Communist International after the defeat of the revolutionary wave in the early 1920s. By the 3rd Comintern Congress in 1921 the revolutionary essence was increasingly being replaced by adaptations to the capitalist order. Those are the politics which symbiotically unite the epigones of the revolutionary wave with the re-emergent left Labourism and its layers of new, often younger, activists.
The spreading of confusion by the Left
Unlike the Jehovah's Witnesses who have been busy predicting imminent Armageddon for their whole history, the leftists see in Corbynism the living fulfilment of decades of leftist prophecies. Starting from Lenin's confused and confusing description of the Labour Party as a "bourgeois workers party", many generations of leftists have aimed for a left-leaning Labour Party as the key to a "British Road to Socialism" 5 (BRS).
Despite Labour's defeat, the outcome of the General Election in June has given the Corbynite movement an extended lease of life. The beloved leader has to deliver nothing better than well-meaning words while all the ills of the system can be left at the door of the Tory Party or the Prime Minister. Hyping up a demand for another run of the General Election pantomime in the next 12 months 6 , Momentum and the other camp-followers will bang the electoral drum to their heart's content. Their case will also thrive in a battle against "the enemy within" as the majority of Labour MPs remain open to the charge of not being true followers of "the beloved leader".
In the previous section we referred to the British Road to Socialism, the name of the pre-1991 Communist Party of Great Britain's Programme. The position of the 2017 successors in the CPB and their "Morning Star" is encapsulated on their web-site. At the end of June their site still displayed their election propaganda, summed up by a a poster-like front page entitled "Unity!". Half of the page is taken up with a picture of Corbyn and the words, "Labour to Win". Towards the bottom CPB call their supporters to "Vote Labour everywhere for a left-led government."
Before dealing with more fundamental arguments, we can comment on the grotesque illusions about a left-led government. Even if the most far-fetched leftist fantasies had been realised and 326 Labour MPs had been elected then the CPB propagandists knew full well that this would have been a Parliamentary Labour Party indistinguishable from the previous version. The political backbone amongst the riders on the gravy train would actually have been the same factions who had tried to remove Corbyn and forced him to face re-election by party members in 2015.
An outcome requiring a lesser leap of faith, but still more than the Labour Party could actually deliver, would have been a minority Labour Government supported by the Liberal Democrats and/or the Scottish and Welsh Nationalists. Such a prospect would have the leftists salivating as every disappointment would then have been blamed on the other parties restricting Corbyn's ability to perform miracles.
Even if a "left-led Government" had been a feasible electoral outcome it is our duty, as revolutionary Marxists, to explain why we would not campaign for such a development.
At this point we have to reassert the basics that the cheerleaders for Corbyn have long since stopped presenting. The Stalinists, Trotskyists and even certain self-styled Anarchists abandoned the need to spread such basic analysis, as they tried to encourage those who would listen that voting Labour is the path to a better future. Before the end of June a gathering called by the "Psychedelic Bolsheviks" in Sheffield heard its young supporters proclaim the need for a further push for more "young people and workers" to be drawn into the next Parliamentary exercise.
That endemic Leftist opportunism illustrates precisely why the organisations that operate as part of the left wing of capitalism have long been lost as potential parts of the proletarian revolutionary movement. If capitalism is to be overthrown – the only road to a sustainable human future – then the essential first step is the proletariat taking control of society via its own organisation and activity. That model will be based on mass involvement via assemblies and organisations such as Workers Councils ("Soviets" in Russian).
The politics of left reformism/Corbynism are separated from that perspective by at least two vast gulfs. Firstly assemblies and structures based on open participation with all representatives being accountable and recallable is totally different from bourgeois electoral structures. In the latter atomised individuals vote in their secret ballots for institutions all of which are designed to help the bosses' system of power and control to keep running.
Secondly, the critical process by which the working class achieves our potential as "the gravediggers of capitalism" depends on the maturation of our class consciousness from "a class in itself" to "a class for itself". That process crucially depends on the material reality of class struggle and the uneven manner by which sections of the class reflect on the process, absorb lessons and develop analysis 7 It is crystal clear that the leftists who encourage false beliefs in the nature of the bourgeois state and the usefulness of reformist strategies serve to block and divert the necessary steps towards clarity.
In the next section we will look at how these rogues advocate electoral reformism even where their inner circles still have a grasp of certain fundamentals. With a profound contempt for those they can persuade, such charlatans play with "transitional" politics where the few are entitled to understand but their followers are encouraged to remain ignorant and be loyal voters – the identical role allocated by the bourgeoisie to the whole of the working class.
The transitional method – Trotskyist doublethink
"Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them." When Orwell wrote "1984" there is a suggestion that he was apparently influenced by the political positions adopted by Max Shachtman and what was to develop into a strand of critical Trotskyism that become known as "the third camp". It is ironic that one of the most blatant exercises in "Corbynism" doublethink has been carried out by a Trotskyist trend that also has sympathies for the third camp8.
On the one hand, the initiates and inner circle may still maintain a Marxist analysis of the Labour Party. For example it is still possible to find the following on the "Workers Liberty" web site.
The Leninist position is that the Labour Party, judged in its role and function, and despite its origins and special connection with the trade unions, is a capitalist, a bourgeois workers' party. Judged politically it is not a workers' party with deformations, inadequacies (its 'inadequacies' amount to a qualitative difference), but a bourgeois party with the special function of containing the workers - actually it is a special section of the bourgeois state political organisation. The Labour Party is the main instrument of capitalist control of the workers; the organisation formed out of an upsurge of the workers, but an upsurge in which the workers were defeated ideologically and thus in every other field, is now the means of integrating the drives and aspirations of the workers with the capitalist state machine. It is not a passive reflection but an active canaliser of the class - against itself, against the proletariat's own interest. (From "What we are and what we must become" – still described as a "founding document" of the ancestral organisation of the AWL).
The description above was written in 1966. Perhaps the AWL leading lights believe that during the last 50 years the Labour Party ceased to be "the means of integrating the drives and aspirations of the workers with the capitalist state machine". If so, then they could choose to explain a) the process and b) what is the class nature of the Labour Party. However, that's their business not ours.
What is absolutely clear is that the AWL has been very active in the Corbynite movement and in the factional struggles within Momentum. Indeed there were weeks and months when at least one of their activists regularly appeared on national TV. Never did any of them take the opportunity to explain the analysis written in the epistles of the founding parents. Why not? Simply because they were only focussed on attracting new layers who would help build, join and vote for the Labour Party.
The doublethink is as clear as it is sickening. While the "cognoscenti" may understand the world, they deliberately and consciously avoid explaining the nature of reformism and parliamentarianism to their followers. Only the organisation, or perhaps its core, are allowed to understand while the Corbyn cult followers are treated as gullible vote fodder left in a state of abject confusion and false hopes – a situation which will inevitably lead to disillusion and the belief that people who call themselves Marxists deal in nothing but lies and illusion.
Lest all the other 57 varieties feel left out, the AWL is of course only one of many playing the same game. Peter Taaffe, long standing guru of the Socialist Party of England and Wales (once know by the name of its journal as "The Militant Tendency") was also granted his 15 minutes of fame to argue that the Labour Party should review its decision from the early 1920s and allow his party to affiliate. The representative of the Workers Revolutionary Party, Frank Sweeney, appeared on BBC's Daily Politics to explain that the problem was that Corbyn would not be able to implement his (Corbyn's) programme. The fact that there was a large grain of truth in that was clearly by accident rather than design in that Mr Sweeney's recommended solution was to vote for the WRP in the 5 constituencies where they had candidates.
For others, half-forgotten folk memories of when their political grandparents played in the Labour Party were awoken. The plethora of factions within and around Momentum is evidence of this common method of swimming with the stream of bourgeois ideology and maximising the practice of opportunism.
Parliament is not the state
There is another seriously harmful dimension to the leftists' encouragement of participation in elections, whether in favour of Labour or their own groups or coalitions.
The pretence that the election of more well-intentioned politicians could actually replace the capitalist system is part of the mystification circulated by, and on behalf, of the ruling class. They are fully aware that elected representation up to and including the "Executive" (Prime Minister and her/his Cabinet) is only the window-dressing. The state in modern society actually exists to maintain the domination of the ruling class.
Beyond, the layers of elected representatives lies the real power vested in entities such as the civil service, the armed forces, the police and the secret and semi-secret state and not least the controllers of the majority of the national capital.. These are replicated beyond the national boundaries in the kaleidoscope of transnational institutions including the United Nations, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organisation, military alliances such as NATO and, of course, the European Union and other regional trade organisations such as NAFTA.
That whole range of state institutions would still exist and exercise overwhelming power even if the UK population were allowed to elect 650 Corbyn clones.
The leftist organisations, in their inner circles, very probably, understand that full well. Similarly they understand that the state functions exist to maintain the control over every aspect of our lives that flows from the means of production being owned by firms, trusts, companies and conglomerates and in some cases by states themselves.
The pretence that electing MPs can counter those interests is a cruel deception. In most cases it only serves to help strengthen the grip of bourgeois ideology. In other cases such as Chile in the 1970s it meant death, imprisonment and torture for those working class people who had been persuaded that there was a "Parliamentary Road to Socialism".
Leftist illusions or the difficult path to the overthrow of capitalism
It does not surprise us that layers of "radical" young people including some workers have been dragged into the Left Labourist swamp. The fact that the capitalist system has offered the vast majority nothing substantially positive for decade after decade is the background to that desperation. During that time the working-class has not displayed a fraction of our potential to struggle to defend ourselves and then to overthrow this rotten system. Consequently, Corbynism/Momentum has appeared, offering bogus promises based on the leftist recipe book for maintaining capitalism in an imaginary "fairer" style. Without a visible alternative based on working-class self-organisation and struggle, Corbynite Labour has been able to strike a chord. That explanation is clear and as Marxists we fully understand secular belief in salvation. This pie in the sky hope is just another expression of "the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world" (Marx, from the introduction to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right).
We recognise that revolutionaries have a duty to engage with those fooled by the false promises of reformism, of either the left or right varieties. However we will not condone, let alone join with, those corruptors of youth who encourage belief in illusions and build false expectations that will end in disillusion and confusion. Being "where the class is at" for the leftists involves sowing and encouraging illusions and encouraging falsehoods and confusions that cannot advance awareness of the need and possibility of the working-class taking power. That revolutionary reconstitution of society is the only viable path to put an end to a system that is very evidently breeding war, misery, famine and ecological destruction across the entire planet.
Internationally Corbynism has other parallels which clearly demonstrate where support for a parliamentary left party gets you. In Greece the financial implosion brought a supposedly very left new party (Syriza) to power in opposition to austerity imposed by the IMF and EU. The result is that Syriza has "managed" the introduction of the very policies they were elected to oppose. This has been, and remains, the function of the capitalist and reformist left everywhere.
The logic of the leftists decayed political method in Britain is seen where they line up against each other in favour of a capitalist UK in or out of a capitalist European Union or in favour of Scottish Independence or the existing state structure in Great Britain. Their politics of "lesser evilism" do not end there – while wars and massacres spread across the world the left chooses which side to cheer on. The same applies when we look at the historic atrocities in the Balkans such as the Kosovan separation from Serbia, or the current sufferings caused by the struggle between Ukraine against Russia and its supporters, or even the Kurdish nationalist YPG military campaign now openly part of a US-backed coalition. Wherever decaying capitalism generates conflict and misery the leftists cannot resist choosing sides while the working class suffer.
The cause of the working class only suffers when it's false friends helps lock their followers into capitalist structures and ideology such as the Labour Party and the reformist falsehoods that are peddled. Of course, it is easy for those dressed in pseudo-Marxist shreds to foster illusions in reformism or, as is their current practice, to join the Labour Party and increase the confusion of those who are finding conditions unbearable.
Genuine Communists will not be part of those exercises in deceit. Corbyn is not a new alternative but just a return to the same old programme of the past. For the present, we will continue to explain that there is no quick fix to capitalist exploitation and austerity. On the contrary, the road to a better future lies through the working class rediscovering its confidence and combativity. This can only be achieved when workers on the ground actively shape and expand their own resistance to the thousand and one attacks which amount to a historical reversal and decline in living standards as the crisis of capitalism grinds on, whichever party is in Westminster. This is qualitatively different from the headless chicken activism for activism's sake or the short-term perspective of "getting the Tories out". There is a way for would-be revolutionary militants to help build up workers' resistance to capitalism. It lies, not in promoting a particular character or faction inside any of the established parties, but in helping to promote the long term movement of resistance to capitalism and ultimately a political organisation of the world working class. The CWO and our comrades in ICT are organised to maintain and spread that theory and practice. We invite all those who share our understanding to discuss with us in the struggle towards a truly human, classless and stateless future.
June 23 2017
- 1. See leftcom.org, leftcom.org, leftcom.org, leftcom.org, leftcom.org, leftcom.org, leftcom.org, leftcom.org.
- 2. The Second International drew together erstwhile Socialist Parties from its foundation in 1889 until its political collapse in 1914 when the deep-seated abandonment of a revolutionary Marxist understanding led to its large majority supporting their national bourgeoisie in the First World War. Parties such as the Labour Party, SPD in Germany and PS in France continue to stand in that counter-revolutionary tradition.
- 3. In fact a most obvious short-term effect of the loss of a few seats by the Tories is that the Government may have to work out how to transfer some millions of pounds to Northern Ireland "infrastructure projects" i.e. In the direction of the Democratic Unionists and other politicians and their "business associates". Since this article was drafted it became clear that the number involved would be at least a million pounds.
- 4. Examples of Stalinist or Trotskyist organisations in Britain that have not hitched up to the Corbynite bandwagon are few and far between. Two that have "bucked the trend" are the Revolutionary Communist Group and the Socialist Equality Party. The former prefer to devote their cheerleading to the state capitalist regimes in Cuba and Venezuela. The latter has in 2017 given up its previous habit of legitimising electoral illusions by standing its own candidates as part of its own interpretation of the Trotskyist Transitional Programme.
- 5. The name of the programme adopted in 1952 – issued the previous year - by the Communist Party of Great Britain, the supporters of the state capitalist Soviet Union. It has hardly changed since despite many rewrites.
- 6. The Byzantine nature of the democratic smokescreen means that the Tories would gain party political advantage – albeit slightly less since the 2017 results - by not calling the next General Election until the constituency boundaries have been redrawn to their advantage. This is scheduled to take place in 2019.
- 7. For exploration of this see our publication "Class Consciousness and Revolutionary Organiasation"
- 8. See "The Lost Marxism of Critical Trotskyism" in Internationalist Communist 17. Still available £4, including postage, from our addresses.
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Good article. The original footnote No3 added that ''...this would be at least a billion pounds.'' !
Thanks Mike. You are right and we don't know how it got changed.
I've read quite a few articles like this which are aimed at leftist supporters of Corbyn and other nominally left-wing politicians. However maybe it would be more productive to focus on communicating our anti-State Communist perspective to the less overtly politicised Corbyn supporters, who only support him out of shear desperation for any feasible alternative to the present status-quo. In my experience social activists who are into supporting democratic politics are usually fairly dogmatic and well entrenched in their views and it can be fairly difficult to change their minds, on the other hand many of the young Corbyn supporters may be less invested in their beliefs and the fact that they're so enthused by Corbyn demonstrates that, at the very least, they are open to socialist and anti-capitalist ideas. I'm talking of working class youth obviously, he can keep the university students.
I've read quite a few articles like this which are aimed at leftist supporters of Corbyn and other nominally left-wing politicians. However maybe it would be more productive to focus on communicating our anti-State Communist perspective to the less overtly politicised Corbyn supporters, who only support him out of shear desperation for any feasible alternative to the present status-quo.
Yes I'm not sure this is the most productive approach either.
There's a spectrum of Corbyn supporters, and I'm not sure which set this speaks to:
- some people have latched on to Corbyn because they think it's a potential platform for their own political or media careers, exposing that opportunism/careerism is one thing but people won't abandon that unless the project itself dies.
- some people think Labour under Corbyn represents a genuine least-worst alternative that could actually win an election. I think it's actually fine to think this, I just don't think it should be the basis of anyone's activity/efforts.
The latter group includes both some informed anarchists/communists, but also what I'd call 'default social democrats' - in that they've not been massively exposed to anarchist/communist ideas, but have 'left' principles that Corbyn matches closer than what else is on offer politically.
The trouble is that those of us who have little or no time for Corbyn and Corbynism tend to get frustrated with the careerists (in the same way they in turn get distracted with centrist 'melts and slugs') and the distracted communists and anarchists - because in the first case they're building profiles based on getting people's hopes up for something that historically has extremely limited scope, and in the latter we know they should know better but they're letting people off easy.
I think any criticism of Corbyn has to be backed by historical examples of where social democracy has been anti-worker (colonialism abroad, strike-breaking and anti-immigrant legislation at home), or posit some concrete alternatives, or at least specific anti-working class policies he supports (stricter immigration controls, more police) otherwise for the latter group that's most weakly attached to Corbyn in the first place, it makes it too easy for the entrenched supporters to build an ultra-left strawman.