In addition to the BNP and UKIP, there is going to be another anti-EU party standing at the European Elections on the 4th June. It is going under the name "No2EU - Yes to Democracy".

However, no-one should be fooled by this snappy title. This organisation is a hard left circus of unreconstructed communists, oafish and overweight Union leaders, and the usual unruly mob of disaffected misfits.

Furthermore, it is not a proper political party.

It has only, on its own admission, been got up to stand at the European Election in order to give "the working class" an alternative to the BNP.

It will disband after the election!

Led by the obese Bob Crow and his partner-in-fat Brian Denny of the RMT Union (Rail, Maritime and Transport) it is worth just spending a couple of moments examining this joke grouping which so far consists of "the Communist Party of Britain", "the Socialist Party", "the Indian Workers Association (Hindustani Mazdoor Sabha)" and "Solidarity - Scotland's Socialist Movement".

We wouldn't normally waste space drawing attention to these clowns, but it's necessary because some people might look at the name and be fooled, not realising for whom they are voting.

The USELESS IDEOLOGY of MARXIST INTERNATIONALISTS
Basically, the aim of all hard left movements is to claim to fight for "workers rights" on an international basis rather than a national basis.

Anything that tries to mobilise at the national level, or even the local level will be condemned as either "racist" or "nationalistic" or "divisive".

Certainly, one must always be conscious of the wider global picture, but that doesn't change the fact that we effect things in the here and now through engaging with national politics -- which sometimes means having interests opposite to people in other countries, or if you prefer, to other sections of the "international working class".

To deny national political action because it is "setting the workers of the world against each other" means that you will never have any useful solution because to try to seek equity on the international level is usually impossible, or irrelevant to the point at hand.

It reminds me of a poster I saw at University claiming that the solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict was "working class solidarity between Jews and Muslims".

The idea that the Jews and the Muslims in that disputed territory could unite on the basis of their shared "working class" status, is just so absurd -- and so beside the point and so historically, religiously, culturally, ethnically and militarily ignorant of the facts of the real world, that it sums up for me the utter fantasyland in which the hard left attempt to live and breathe.

It can't be denied that we can often find the best economic solution by attempting to put both the international and national picture into the frame and find the best perspective.

However, international Marxists will never find a sensible balance of both. Their internationalism will always win out. They are hard-wired internationalists. They will always be fixated on the Internationale.

International Marxists have never been able satisfactorily to engage with "the national question" and they will never do so. They literally cannot! For them, it is either/or, not both.

This means they will always be Useless Internationalists, perpetually unable to engage with "the nation" and its best interests.

That is too bad for them, but it would be very bad for us if they succeeded in fooling any genuine people to vote for them at this election.

The hard left will always try to whisk us away into a fantasy world where we are unable to have any meaningful effect on our immediate lives.

It is like saying -- we shouldn't be cutting the grass in our own garden because there are gardens in China where the grass needs to be cut.

Groups like "No2EU" really do want to stop us cutting our own grass.

They want to stop us looking after our own backyards, for the sake of some greater global garden where the grass is always overgrown.