True, these party's may quibble over this and that, but when it boils down to it they always support the status quo even when it's clearly against the best interest of the majority of people.
There are many examples of this in history. WW1 was the worst, the Iraq war came a close second. It's indicative today when with a flick of a switch the ruling classes have gone from being Sinophiles who eulogised trade with China to placing sanctions on it. Pray, tell me how will this help the average person? Please don't tell me this issue is about human rights. When did the UK state ever care about human rights? Need I mention Saudia Arabia, Iraq, Libya, apartheid South Africa, Ireland, the list is endless.
The reason Jeremy Corbyn was treated so harshly by the state apparatus, the MSM, and their agents of influence, was because they feared he might upset the applecart and gain enough support to tear up the rule book which ensures the status quo.
Once Starmer became LP leader the status quo became normalised again and increasingly the left of the party were marginalized. All talk of anti-Semitism within the Labour party disappeared as if by magic from the MSM.
Starmer's refusal over the last year to face Johnson and his government down, despite its record of U-turns and failed systems to combat Covid-19 has allowed Boris Johnson to set the agenda over and again.
Yet still comrades cling to the LP, despite Starmer using the LP left as a doormat to wipe his feet on. For Christ sake today he is even trading under the same slogan as Johnson, Build Back Better. He is a man who all but sat on his hands whilst approximately 55,500 thousand people died of Covid-19, and refused in its first draft to oppose draconian legislation which curtailed our human rights. He is a creature of the state, a ruling class toady, a member of a privileged class who benefits from the status quo, just as he was when he was head of the Crown Prosecution Service.
There are many examples of this in history. WW1 was the worst, the Iraq war came a close second. It's indicative today when with a flick of a switch the ruling classes have gone from being Sinophiles who eulogised trade with China to placing sanctions on it. Pray, tell me how will this help the average person? Please don't tell me this issue is about human rights. When did the UK state ever care about human rights? Need I mention Saudia Arabia, Iraq, Libya, apartheid South Africa, Ireland, the list is endless.
The reason Jeremy Corbyn was treated so harshly by the state apparatus, the MSM, and their agents of influence, was because they feared he might upset the applecart and gain enough support to tear up the rule book which ensures the status quo.
Once Starmer became LP leader the status quo became normalised again and increasingly the left of the party were marginalized. All talk of anti-Semitism within the Labour party disappeared as if by magic from the MSM.
Starmer's refusal over the last year to face Johnson and his government down, despite its record of U-turns and failed systems to combat Covid-19 has allowed Boris Johnson to set the agenda over and again.
Yet still comrades cling to the LP, despite Starmer using the LP left as a doormat to wipe his feet on. For Christ sake today he is even trading under the same slogan as Johnson, Build Back Better. He is a man who all but sat on his hands whilst approximately 55,500 thousand people died of Covid-19, and refused in its first draft to oppose draconian legislation which curtailed our human rights. He is a creature of the state, a ruling class toady, a member of a privileged class who benefits from the status quo, just as he was when he was head of the Crown Prosecution Service.
You cannot reform a party which is led by a knight of the realm, an agent of influence of the ruling classes. Only a new party will give self respect, Sadly at the moment there is little sign the Corbyn leadership is going down this road.
It's heartbreaking, as one of the biggest achievement of the Corbyn years was how Corbynism united the left, something which had never happened before. Now the left is hanging by a thin vine, beginning to atomise out in different directions.
⏩ Mick Hall is a veteran Left Wing activist and trade unionist.
The "people" delivered their verdict on Corbynism with Labour's biggest electoral defeat since 1935.
ReplyDeleteFor the Left or Centre-Left to achieve anything, it has to win power either at the national or regional level. Jo Biden is showing the way with transformative fiscal stimulation programmes, infrastructural and Green New Deal policies and proper strategies to tackle Covid-19.
His foreign policy has not been too bad either with the the removal of the global gag ban on abortion and restoration of aid to the Palestinians.
Mick - I noticed elsewhere you were referring to suggestions that Starmer might be finished if Labour as anticipated lose the Hartlepool by election to the Tories. Hasn't happened since 59 and now it seems likely on the Great Redeemer's watch. Are they seriously going to try and blame Corbyn on that as well? Nicos Poulantzas would speak about how power is moved from one institution to the next to ensure that the popular classes never actually attain it while having its representatives transform themselves into what power wants them to be in order to access what they think it is. I see the much the same with SF in Ireland.
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