tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post1588720620946623733..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Labour's Right Wing OpportunismPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-20248378540137369852021-04-22T13:58:11.148+01:002021-04-22T13:58:11.148+01:00Labour's collapse into reactionary nationalism...Labour's collapse into reactionary nationalism was quickly followed by its further collapse into reactionary parochialism with its position over the European Super League. The only good thing that might come out of that is that as Labour and the Tories opportunism led them to talk about football companies being controlled by supporters rather than shareholders, the obvious follow up question is "so are you then going to also introduce control of all companies by their workers/consumers rather than shareholders, and if not why not?"<br /><br />Of course, the opportunist argument was ridiculous in this respect, because big supporter owned clubs in Europe such as Barcelona and Real Madrid were in the forefront of proposing the Super league because they know it is the only way they can get the revenues from the media to offset the control and influence of individual billionaire owners. The delay in moving to a European Football League, will now simply result in those billionaires having greater control - because the proposals for supporter owned and controlled clubs will disappear like steam - and the continued demise of clubs that do not have billionaire backers will accelerate.<br /><br />But, it is simply symptomatic of the fact that politics has sunk into a reactionary separatist mire of which Brexit, the NIP, Trump et al are simply symptoms. It is the biggest political crisis facing the working class and socialism. The first priority is to stand against it, and all its manifestations. To move forward, we have to first extricate ourselves from that swamp, to avoid drowning in its shit, and be able to breathe clean air once more.<br /><br />In the elections, it is necessary to back candidates that oppose that reactionary separatist shift. Marxists obviously back Labour as the Workers Party, but not uncritically. It is after all a bourgeois Workers Party, and its descent into this reactionary nationalism and parochialism is an indication of it. Socialists should fight to turn Labour away from its current reactionary nationalist and parochialist positions, and support those candidates that are pro-EU, and ready to commit the party to re-joining the EU at the earliest opportunity.<br /><br />As it is, Labour is likely to be hammered in the coming elections because there is no reason for ordinary progressive Labour voters to vote for Labour candidates standing on opportunist and reactionary platforms. Worse, still most Labour election material being pushed through doors, like Keir Starmer, avoids any mention of politics at all!!! It is all parochial non-political garbage about how the candidate has supported local litter picking campaigns and the like, much of the nature of the Liberals of old. So, to be honest, you can see why many progressive voters will vote Green on the basis of their better position on Europe, however much Marxists might argue for them to vote Labour.Boffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08157650969929097569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-61025489526969395392021-04-22T01:19:21.365+01:002021-04-22T01:19:21.365+01:00John Healey’s almost instinctive dive to the dark ...John Healey’s almost instinctive dive to the dark side in a bid to embrace mindless populism has - thank be - failed. A quick trawl of the press this morning reveals a total lack of interest in his reactions, even going unmentioned in the Express and the Mail. I just wonder also how he saw this as linked to the welfare of veterans ? After all, how arguing for letting the government dodge holding anyone to account possibly guilty of war crimes is good for veterans baffles me. It doesn’t cure housing or employment problems or help cope with PTSD does it ?David Walshnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-54474338536209865192021-04-22T01:08:39.646+01:002021-04-22T01:08:39.646+01:00Count Binface used to be called Lord Buckethead un...Count Binface used to be called Lord Buckethead until he lost an intellectual property case. In the polls for Mayor of London, he is statistically tied with Laurence Fox, and he is very slightly ahead of Fox on the raw numbers. Each of them is on one per cent, the same as Reform UK is polling for the Hartlepool by-election. The electoral bloc of anti-lockdown statue fetishists does not exist.<br /><br />In 2019, when he stood against Boris Johnson, then one of Count Binface's joke policies was simply Jeremy Corbyn's universal free broadband policy. Well, Johnson himself gave a commitment to that in answer to a Conservative MP yesterday. In answer to a Labour MP, a right-wing enforcer of many decades' standing, Johnson also committed the Government to a Buy British policy straight out of the Shadow Chancellorship of Peter Shore. Or the successive General Election manifestos of Arthur Scargill's Socialist Labour Party. Or the Twitter feed of George Galloway. Who's laughing now?David Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06839882674758833524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-54281506385150013692021-04-22T00:26:22.504+01:002021-04-22T00:26:22.504+01:00Labour may be looking at a breakthrough in Scotlan...Labour may be looking at a breakthrough in Scotland where there is a real opportunity to come a very poor second rather than a really pathetic third.uglyfatblokehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12089620039011167403noreply@blogger.com