UNDER STARMER, THE LABOUR PARTY ONLY HAS A REVERSE GEAR.
February 9, 2024 2 Comments
A few days after I wrote this article the Labour Party withdrew support for its candidate in Rochdale and on Monday evening instructed local members not to campaign for him. This was due to comments this Starmerite fellow had made over the conduct of Israel during the Hamas incursion on the 7th of October. The lack of a Labour candidate is likely to lead to Galloway being elected which is disturbing the establishment and undermining Starmer. Of course ructions in the Labour Party will be muted because it is after all an electoral party whose single aim is to get elected, and nothing must get in the way of this. But clearly the high water mark for Labour has passed and from now on it is all downhill.
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You say, Labour’s “new masters”? Are you kidding! The Labour Party has always been the party of imperialism since its inception! Under pressure from the working class, it had a brief stint at pretending to be the party of socialism from 1945 to 1975 but that was an aberration. Perhaps now those on the left will wise up but I’m not holding my breath for that to happen.
You are absolutely right. Since Bernstein’s time the labour bureaucracy saw their parties not as the political means to emancipate the working class but as the vehicles for their own careers which suited the capitalist class but not the working class. By new I meant the reversion from the Corbyn McDonald era when the party was more membership driven.