The working class don’t shag flags — they stitch them, march behind them, and hang them out in solidarity.
When the Left abandons cultural identity, the Right doesn’t just fill the void…they weaponise it.
For too long, the British Left has been wilfully blind to a political truth as stark as the morning light: when we abandon our nation’s cultural identity, the reactionary right weaponises it against us. While we’re tangled in abstract theories, debating the finer points of some obscure academic text, the hard right is out there, shamelessly wrapping themselves in the Union Jack and declaring themselves the sole guardians of British identity.
This isn’t just a problem; it’s a profound, self-inflicted wound. This wholesale rejection of national identity isn’t revolutionary, it’s political suicide.
It hands the forces of reaction a free, unchallenged monopoly on patriotism. More catastrophically, it alienates millions of working people across our towns and cities, for whom love of country and the bitter struggle for class liberation are not contradictory ideals, but profoundly intertwined causes.
This isn’t ideological purity; it’s a strategic betrayal, plain and simple, and it’s high time we dragged it into the harsh glare of reality.
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