The strike is illuminating the massive divisions in Labour over something as basic as defending jobs, conditions and services. The party’s right is willing to take extreme measures to force through cuts, confident that the majority of the centre will acquiesce and shut up, waiting for all the fuss to die down.
Labour is still the home of hundreds of thousands of dedicated socialists and we must keep it that way. Together we have incredible power, but only if we get organised.
The authors of the letter called on the Labour leadership candidates to defend our right to free speech to expose Israel’s horrendous treatment of Palestinians.
It has long been a problem across large swathes of the Labour left that they only focus of what’s going on in constituency parties and ignore the issue of the affiliated unions. That’s been one of the distinctive aspects of the LRC and now of Don’t Leave Organise.
However much we regret Starmer’s election, and we certainly do, we also need to remember that he won on the basis of claiming at least part of Corbyn’s mantle.
“Keir Starmer says very little in terms of concrete policy in a more eloquent style than anyone I’ve come across. So eloquent that you don’t realise at the time, but only later do you realise that you cannot remember anything he said.”
This was not only a devastating defeat for the left and progressive forces, but a huge victory for English nationalism.
Phil Hearse argues that the Blairite Right and Lexit Left are drawing all the wrong conclusions from the general election.
