370 Heard Journalists & Palestine solidarity activists who Have
Been Arrested for Taking Action Against Elbit & Supporting the Victims of
Israel's Genocide
Not a Headline You Would See in the 'liberal' Guardian
Stop Silencing Palestine
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At the same
time as the International Criminal Court has, at last, issued arrest warrants
for Israel’s war criminals, Netanyahu and Gallant, the British Police are doing
their best to attack Palestine solidarity activists and clamp down on free
speech on Palestine.
The Government's senior law officers - two Zionists and a Quisling - (r to l) Solicitor General, Justice Minister & Attorney General
All with
the complicity of Keir Starmer and Richard Hermer, the Zionist Attorney General
and his deputy, arch Zionist and former Vice President of the Jewish Labour
Movement, Sarah Sackman, who have authorised the Police’s attack on Palestine activists
The Police
have consciously targeted journalists who are not part of the mainstream
prostitute media, stealing their equipment and imposing bail conditions aimed
at preventing them working.
The mass
media – from the right-wing Daily Mail to
the ‘liberal’ Guardian Independent have kept quiet about this attack on basic
democratic rights. Despite being invited to send a speaker, Liberty (the former NCCL) chose not to
respond. It seems attacks on Palestine activists doesn’t fit with their
definition of civil liberties. The Overton Window is getting narrower and
narrower.
Natalie Strecker - Jersey Palestine Activist
The meeting
tonight, which was chaired by Asim Quereshi from Cage, started off with a recorded message
from Natalie Strecker, a peace activist from Jersey in the Channel Islands.
Natalie was unable to speak directly to the meeting because of the stringent
bail conditions imposed. Her local paper, the Jersey
Post, puts the ‘liberal’ media to shame with its forthright defence of
free speech.
Andrew Feinstein - former ANC MP
Andrew
Feinstein, the former ANC MP, was the first speaker who drew the parallels
between the fight against apartheid in South Africa and today’s fight against
apartheid Israel.
Sarah Wilkinson
Andrew
pointed out that the use of the term ‘terrorist’ is nothing new. The ANC and its
leader, Nelson Mandela, were also branded as terrorists by Thatcher and Reagan.
Andrew told us how Thatcher had told the South Africa authorities that it would
be best to murder Mandela in prison rather than allow him his freedom.
Asa Winstanley
There were
a whole range of speakers tonight.Asa
Winstanley from Electronic Intifada whose home was raided and equipment stolen.
Sarah Wilkinson, whose home was trashed and who was effectively kidnapped by
the anti-terrorist police. At one time she feared she was going to be killed.Richard Medhurst, a journalist based in The
Netherlands was the last to speak about his experiences.
Clare Rogers
Clare
Rogers spoke from the Filton 10, a group of Palestine Actionists who put out of
operation an Elbit research and development factory in Bristol which
manufactured equipment like the Quad Copters that have killed so many children.
The 10 who took part were kept in solitary confinement for a week, as if they
were terrorists but despite that are being charged with non-terrorist offences.
Huda Ammori from Palestine Action
Huda spoke
from Palestine Action and Les Levidow spoke from the Campaign Against
Criminalising Communities.
370 people
attended the webinar and over 600 registered for it.
I hope you
enjoy it!Let’s begin the fightback
against those who make criminals of those who oppose genocide and the Police
who support those profiting from the deaths of thousands of children.
The Question is Whether Or Not We Can Unite to Defeat Britain’s Macron &
Learn From the French Left How to Defeat ‘Centrist’ Warmongers
This coming
Friday at 6.30 the Socialist Labour Network has invited a range of different
speakers to give their views on the election that has just gone by and the
prospects, as they see them for the Left during the Starmer government.
Never
before has a government been elected with a huge majority to almost universal public
indifference if not hostility. The voting
turnout, 59.8%, speaks for itself. The second lowest since
the war. This says everything about the decay of bourgeois democracy. Anyone
who remembers the 1964
election of Harold Wilson’s government with a nail biting majority
of 4, after 13 long years of Tory government, cannot help but notice the
difference.
1964
was a time of the Beatles and optimism. Change was in the air. It was no mere
slogan. With Starmer Change is a PR slogan
signifying nothing more than a change in the Board of Directors of UK Ltd. It
is the kind of change that Big Brother would have approved of in 1984.
In
1966
Wilson achieved a majority of 98. The Labour government abolished capital
punishment, outlawed racial discrimination, introduced equal pay for women, homosexual
law reform as a result of the Wolfenden
Report and the 1967
Abortion Act.
Unlike
Starmer’s toadying to the USA, Wilson refused the request from US President
Lyndon Johnson for British soldiers to fight in Vietnam. In a curious reversal
of US policy, which up till then had been to eliminate British influence in the
Middle East, the Americans argued against Dennis Healey’s decision to retreat
from East of Suez. See The Fall and Rise of Britain’s ‘East of Suez’ Basing
Strategy
In
1951, 1955, 1959, 1970, 1979, 1992 and 2017 (under Corbyn!) Labour had a higher
% of the vote but didn’t win the election. Under Corbyn in 2017 Labour won 40%
compared to Starmer’s 33.8% and yet it won 150 fewer seats.
Starmer
Labour went out of its way to dampen expectations. His main selling point was
that he would be no different from the Tories. Whatever else you can say about
Blair people were excited by his victory. Starmer by way of contrast is a
personality free zone. A man entirely devoid of charm or charisma. He is the
personification of the Coercive State. He is the face of corporate capital.
Nowhere
was this more evident than in his own constituency Holborn and St Pancras. In
2017,
under Corbyn, Starmer received 41,343 votes, (70.1%). In
2019
he gained 36,641 votes (64.5%). In 2024 his vote
halved to 18,884 (48.9%).
Socialist Independent Andrew Feinstein came from nowhere to pick up 7,312 votes
(18.9%). Starmer repels even his own constituents.
Putting
it another way, in 2024 Labour received 600,000
fewer votes than in the ‘disaster’ of 2019. Whichever way you look at it,
Starmer’s Labour Party did not receive a vote of confidence.
Starmer’s
support for genocide in Gaza has cost it dearly. Four right-wing
Labour MPs lost their seats
to candidates opposing Starmer's support for Israel's Nazi behaviour.
Despite
predictions from the pollsters, Jeremy Corbyn sailed home winning
by over 7,200 votes.Even the BBC found it hard
to find critical voices in his constituency. George Galloway unfortunately lost
his seat in Rochdale but by less than 1,500 votes.
If you are wondering who UK's new PM @Keir_Starmer is, wait no further.
The
Green Party had their best
ever general election performance and gained 3 seats
compared to their previous one, including a 10,000 vote victory over obnoxious
war monger Thangam Debbonaire in Bristol West. However as I
have previously
warned, the Green Party is not a left-wing party although
they make radical noises. They support staying in NATO and want to green
capitalism.
The
other highlight of the night was the defeat
of Jonathan Ashworth, shadow Paymaster General. Ashworth
lost his Leicester South seat by nearly 1,000 votes to Shockat Adam, who said: “This is for Gaza.”
Craig Murray - stabbed in the back by Muslim communalists
In Blackburn, the constituency once held by Barbara
Castle and Jack Straw, Labour’s Kate Hollern lost by 132 votes to Adnan
Hussain. Craig Murray for the Workers Party got over 7,000 votes too.
Ayoub Khan - the new independent MP for Birmingham Perry Barr
In Dewsbury and Batley, Labour’s Heather Iqbal, lost by nearly 7,000 votes to Iqbal
Mohamed. In Birmingham Perry Barr the corrupt former Labour MP and Henry
Jackson Society member Khalid Mahmood lost to Ayoub Khan causing the Jewish
Chronicle’s DavidRose to froth at the mouth over his having questioned Israel’s fictitious
rape narrative and stories of beheaded babies.
Really ugly scenes during @jessphillips‘ acceptance speech. Absolutely appalling; men shouting down a woman when she’s legitimately won an election is disgraceful and a bad look for our democracy. pic.twitter.com/2aO7TbPqRG
— Ferhanasṭīn 🍉 (find them @ferhankhan.bsky.social) (@QueerhanKhan) July 5, 2024
In Birmingham Hodge Hill, former cabinet minister Liam Byrne
won by 1,566 votes over James Giles, the Worker’s Party candidate. In Birmingham Yardley Jess Phillips won by 693 votes
against the Workers’ Party Jody McIntyre.
In Birmingham Ladywood Labour’s Shabana Mahmood defeated Akhmed Yakoob of the Workers’ Party by 3,421. In
2019 Mahmood won by 28,582 votes. Mahmood was the shadow justice
secretary before the election. Birmingham Ladywood is another area with a high
proportion of Muslim voters.
This produced a backlash by far-right ex-Jewish Chronicle Editor Stephen
Pollard who described
them as “the rise of sectarian voting”, while
Telegraph columnist Sam Ashworth-Hayes condemned their victories as: “Total, utter failures of integration.”
It is a bit rich of Pollard to call Muslim voters ‘sectarian’ given the
campaign he waged amongst Jewish voters not to vote Labour under Corbyn!
In Bethnal Green and Bow, where many were also angered by Starmer’s talk
about deporting Bangladeshi people, Labour’s Rushanara Ali won by less than 1700 votes against independent Ajmal Masroor .
This election saw a determined challenge to Starmer and his most loyal
sycophants by two main groups. One was by the Workers Party which fielded 150 candidates and which aimed to build itself
through its opposition to genocide in Gaza, aiming at the Muslim vote.
The other was a determined campaign by left and Muslim campaigners that
saw Ashworth defeated and Wes Streeting very nearly defeated by Leanne Mohamad in Ilford North. Just
500 votes separated them.If the Green
Party hadn’t stood, Streeting might now be out in the cold.
The example of the French where a united left campaign has squashed the fascist National
Renewal’s hopes of winning control of the government, should be a lesson to us.
A united left in Britain could also do this but this means burying the
tradition of sectarianism which means that one’s differences over who said what
in 1917 are more important than today’s struggles.
There is a very useful compilation of all of the left’s candidates that
has been compiled by the very public sociologist blog. It includes all the left groups that
stood. I have compiled a table of how many candidates each group stood and
their average results.
The list is effectively divided into two: on the one hand the socialist
and Muslim independents did relatively well.The Workers Party candidates also did well but not on the scale of the
above.
On the other a kaleidoscope of left sects did very badly, making no
impression. It is to be hoped that some of the latter might eventually realise that
standing candidates who receive only a fraction of 1% achieves nothing other
than a lost deposit.
1.The Socialist Independents
There were 65 candidates and in total they gained just under a quarter of
a million votes with an average of 8.9%. This is clearly a promising start.
They included Corbyn. People were primarily campaigning over one issue,
Gaza. It included Muslims and the thousands of socialist exiles from the Labour
Party that was.
What distinguished many of the campaigns was a wide community
involvement. I can only speak from personal experience in Hove where British
Palestinian, Tanushka Marah, was elected at an all-Brighton
meeting of 150 people. The campaign came primarily out of the wider Palestine
solidarity campaign in Brighton & Hove against genocide in Gaza.
Socialists, feminists and environmental campaigners participated in an
energetic campaign. We chose Hove because the current Labour MP, Peter ‘Killer’ Kyle, is an ardent supporter of genocide
in Gaza and Vice-Chair of Labour Friends of Israel.
Hove is not a naturally left constituency. When I came to Brighton 50
years ago it was one of the safest Tory seats in the country. All three
Brighton & Hove seats were Tory. Brighton Pavilion was represented by
Monday Club MP Sir Julian ‘gunboats’ Amery. Kemptown’s MP was Andrew Bowden,
who finally got caught up in a corruption scandal and was ousted in 1997. Only
Kemptown had ever been Labour, during the Wilson era when it was won in 1964 by
Dennis Hobden by 7 votes.
Hove was won in the Blair landslide of 1997. Before this year left
candidates usually got derisory votes, usually under 500.So the achievement by Tanuksha of 3,048 votes (5.9%)
marked a real triumph. She also saved her deposit.
Overall 27 of the 65 independent candidates got over 5% and thereby saved
their deposits. The total vote for the independents was nearly a quarter of a
million
The Workers Party is very much the creation of George Galloway whose
profile has never been far from the limelight. When George won a by-election in Rochdale in February and slimy Sunak slithered out of 10 Downing Street to condemn the election result (one wonders
whether he or Paul Mason had considering making it a criminal offence to vote
for George) his reputation was established nationally.
Soon after George announced an intention by the WP to contest 500 seats
but that proved too difficult and the final tally was 152. The 152 candidates
gained a total of 210, 000 votes with an average of 3.48%. Although some
candidates did well, a lot got derisory votes. 26 WP candidates (17.1%) saved
their deposit compared to 41.5% of the Independents.
It obviously makes sense for the Independents and the Workers’ Party to
join forces in future elections but there are formidable political obstacles to
this. The targeting by Galloway of migrants and refugees as a threat to British
workers’ standard of living, pay and conditions is unacceptable.
Galloway fails to recognise why it is that the boat people crossing the
Channel are scapegoated despite being a fraction of overall migration. Our
rulers only rule because they are able to divide and rule, setting one section
of the poor against another. Galloway plays into this and thinks he’s being
smart by being seen to be tough on law and order and refugees.
‘Patriotic socialism’ has a long and inglorious history.
It resulted in social democratic parties supporting their own ruling classes in
World War I. It has been tried, not least by Henry Hyndman of the Socialist Federation, who was an anti-Semite and a
supporter of imperialism and the Boers. It has always been a disaster.
Patriotism is how the ruling class fools the working class into supporting
their imperialist ventures and dying in their wars.
People Before Profit stood 3 candidates in one of
Britain’s remaining colonies, Northern Ireland. They gained an average of 2,80l
votes and 7.1%, saving two of their deposits.
4.The
Left Sects
One must not forget the 84 candidates that a variety of the left sects
stood. Without fail they gained derisory votes and lost their deposits. One
wonders what is the point of such an exercise in futility but to some like
Arthur Scargill’s Socialist Labour Party what matters is keeping the flag
flying. Scargill has spent nearly 40 years since the Miner’s Strike trashing
his own political reputation.It is
rather sad.
The main group is the Trade union
and Socialist Coalition[TUSC]. At one time it was sponsored by
the RMT under Bob Crowe but since then it has distanced itself from it. TUSC
was the creation of the Socialist Party.
TUSC stood 40 candidates and without exception they did abysmally. Not
one of them saved their deposit or gained over 1000 votes. The highest vote was
by Dave Nellist, the former Coventry MP, who secured 2.2% in Coventry East. They
secured an average of 0.79%.
Given the success of the socialist independents it’s time that TUSC
called it a day and threw its lot in with other socialists. It is clear that
their project has failed.
The Communist Party of Britain, which prints the Morning Star, stood 14 candidates. They
did even worse than TUSC.They secured
an average of 0.46% which is less than 1 in 200. My advice to them is to join with
other socialists, ditch your resident ZionistMary Davis and stop plugging the two-state
apartheid solution for Palestine.
Scargill’sSocialist Labour Party
was formed after Labour ditched Clause 4. It stood 12 candidates who got an
average of 0.7%. Scargill once turned up at a party AGM with more votes in his
back pocket than the rest of the delegates put together, representing the
previously unknown Lancashire Miners Welfare Organisation! The SLP today is the
living dead and is unlikely to survive Arthur’s passing.
The grandly titled Workers Revolutionary Party stood 5 candidates obtaining an average of 0.52%. The WRP
has been around a long time and it was led by Gerry Healey before he was expelled for raping women comrades. This did
not stop Corin Redgrave extolling his ‘achievements’ and proclaiming that “If this is the work of a rapist, let’s recruit more rapists.”
Other left fragment which stood candidates included the Alliance for Green Socialism (in 2005 I was a candidate for them!)
which stood 2 candidates who gained an average of 0.3%.
There is Communist Future, of which I know nothing, which stood one candidate who
obtained 0.3%.
Communist Leaguestood 2 candidates who obtained an average of 0.4%. It
is one of the splinters of the old International Marxist Group and supports the
American Socialist Workers Party, which is no longer on the left,
supporting as it does Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Socialist Equality Partyis anotherTrotskyist sect, an offspring of the WRP, led by David North. It
publishes the World Socialist Web Site which often has well informed
articles. It also stood 2 candidates, obtaining an average of 0.3%, one of whom
stood against Starmer, thus splitting the socialist opposition, or rather they
would have done if Tom Scripps had obtained more than 0.2%!
TheSocialist Party of Great Britainwas founded in 1904. They are the
Jehovah Witnesses of the left. They stood 2 candidates obtaining an average of
0.25%.
The newly inaugurated Transformalso stood 2 candidates obtaining an average of 0.75%.
Clearly they haven’t transformed anything.
One would hope that all these groups would either disappear or join with
other socialists but I suspect life would have no meaning for them if they were
to make an acquaintance with reality.
How then will Labour fare in the election? This is
probably the most difficult election to call. I fear a Tory majority but there
may well be a hung parliament though if the Lib Dems continue to slide in the
polls that may be less likely. What is clear is that there is no surge to
Labour. I cannot see a Labour victory or an increase in the present number of
seats. By failing to see that the British Establishment would do all they
could, in conjunction with the United States and Israel, to ensure that an
anti-imperialist would not become Prime Minister the Left has to face the
future with a Labour Party minus Jeremy Corbyn.
In last week’s Brighton Independent I had an article which suggested that Miliband was
determined to lose. Of course he’d like to win but he refuses to break
from the consensus behind austerity.... Labour is going to face a wipe-out
in its Scottish bastion because they are perceived as the ‘red Tories’. ...
My prediction? The Tories will be the
largest party. Labour plus the SNP should be within spitting distance of
the magical 324 need for an overall majority. Hopefully the Lib-Dems, the
most disgusting and unprincipled party of all will suffer heavy losses.
UKIP is unlikely to gain more than 2-3 seats and the Greens will keep their one
seat. Who forms a government? Miliband might unless he proves
particularly stupid.’
Like most people I was taken by surprise by
Cameron’s narrow majority.
In 2017 contrary to all those who believed that Labour’s
election campaign would be a rerun of 1983 under Michael Foot, I foresaw that
the Tory campaign under ‘strong and
stable’ Theresa May would crash, which it did.
Sir Kid Starver was the first person to welcome my expulsion. the first Jewish person, from the Labour Party in February 2016
It was Harold Wilson who said
that a week is a long time in politics. Seven weeks is a political
eternity. Theresa May has taken a gamble that her 21% lead will
hold. It is a gamble that she may yet come to regret.
There is only one direction that
her lead can go and that is down. Once her lead falls then a snowball
effect can take over. What is essential is that Labour marks out the key
areas on which it is going to base its appeal. The danger is that Corbyn
is going to continue with his ‘strategy’ of appeasing the Right and appealing
to all good men and women. If so that will be a recipe for disaster.
No election is guaranteed to be
without its surprises. Theresa May is a cautious conservative. She
is literally the product of her background, a conservative vicar’s
daughter. Reactionary, parochial and small-minded, she is a bigot for all
seasons. What doesn’t help is that she is both wooden and
unoriginal. The danger is that Corbyn tries to emulate her.
I do not have a crystal ball. My initial predictions, that there
would or could be a hung parliament was based on my assessment of the
situation. This is still quite possible as the Tories are widely detested
for their attacks on the working poor, people on benefits and the
continuous privatisation of the NHS. They are seen as the party of a
vicious class rule, which is what austerity is about.
That does not, however, mean that the Tories will necessarily be
defeated. People do not vote in line with their class interests.
The whole purpose of the patriotic card, used by a succession of ruling class
scoundrels from Pitt to May, is to blind people to their real interests.
It is saying that British workers and the poor have more in common with the
rich and the ruling class than they do with each other. The Tory press of
course is doing its best to foster illusions in Strong and Stable.
David Lammy Meeting his Constituents
Labour could still become the largest party but I also
sense a vigorous fightback by the Right. It seems that one part of the
prediction I made will not come true. The Lib-Dems are not going to gain
enough seats to prop up another Tory coalition At the moment they are
tipped to win just one extra seat. By ruling out any form of pact with
Labour under Corbyn, the Lib-Dems have guaranteed their own irrelevance.
We could be in for a period of political instability
such as we have not known for 40 years. This is one of the hardest
elections to call. A Tory government is still possible if it cobbles
together a coalition of the Lib-Dems & the Ulster Unionists-DUP. Even
a majority Tory government cannot be ruled out.
What then will be the result tomorrow? Again I
have to confess that predicting the results of any election is not easy. It is
clear that Starmer’s rebranded Tory Party will win the election, although I
have a feeling that the majority will not be as large as predicted.
Tanushka Mara, Socialist Independent Hove
What is clear is that this has been the dullest
election in decades with no real differences between Tory and Starmer Labour. I
expect the turnout to be down.
The Lib Dems should pick up disaffected Tories
though I doubt that it will be above 50 as has been predicted.
I also expect the Green Party to keep Brighton Pavilion
and possible gain one or two more. We are told the Reform party will win up to
5 seats. That is possible though I hope not. Farage certainly annoyed the
imperialists with his perfectly reasonable explanation that NATO and the United
States provoked Russia into invading.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
in 1962 was provoked by the US placing nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey which were then matched by Soviet nuclear missiles
in Cuba. So it is
obvious why Russia didn’t want a nuclear alliance on their borders. Farage was savaged, called a Putin lover etc.
so that may have an effect on their election chances.
Picket of 'Killer' Kyle MP for Hove
My concerns are different. Which of the
bourgeois and pro-capitalist parties comes out on top is to all intents and
purposes irrelevant. Whether it is Sunak or Starmer who becomes Prime Minister,
racism, imperialism, poverty, exploitation and war will continue. They are
Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Starmer has been ruthless in purging the Labour
Party of socialists and left-wingers. Would that Jeremy Corbyn had had half as
much bottle he wouldn’t have been fighting as an independent today.
Will Corbyn win in Islington North?He should do but the polls say otherwise. Let
us hope so. However Corbyn has mishandled the withdrawal of the Labour Whip
like everything else. When it was clear he would not have the Whip reinstated
he should have resigned from the Labour Party and stood in a by–election for
the seat. As it is he has an uphill fight. I wish him well against his corrupt
opponent
Why I’m against mass immigration
I
also hope that George Galloway holds Rochdale but I fear he won’t. I hope he
wins because of genocide in Gaza not because I agree with him on much else. His
attempt to compete with Farage and the Tories on immigration is despicable. I have come in for some criticism from my
comrades for supporting him but in my view genocide in Palestine outweighs
virtually any other consideration, witness Sunak’s ill-judged attack on him
when he won the by-election.
A message I sent to George Galloway today
Galloway’s
comments in the video above are a disgrace. Immigration doesn’t lower wage
levels nor does it prevent people getting doctors’ appointments or children
getting places in schools. This is racist scapegoatism at its worst.
What
prevents people getting GP appointments is the lack of doctors we train plus
the reduction in what we pay them. Funding
for GP practices has been slashed by £350 million in real terms since 2019,
House of Commons Library research shows.
It was 6.9% lower in 2022/23 compared to 2018/19, once inflation is taken into
account. The average funding per patient was £165 in 2022/23, a real terms cut
of £12 per patient over the past four years. In other words nothing to do with
immigrants.
I'm standing to be Derby South's next MP.
Help me land a blow against the genocidaires, the warmongers, and the privatising rip-off merchants who are backed by Labour and the Tories. The @WorkersPartyGB is the resistance to the political status quo. pic.twitter.com/Wnq8gGyeQt
The
same is true of nurses, whose bursaries the Tories stole in order to enrich
their cronies. The NHS has been defunded, part privatised and the money transferred
to military expenditure. Indeed but for overseas
doctors and nurses the NHS would be in a worse state than it already is.
The
same reactionary arguments were used when Jewish refugees came to Britain in
the 19 and 20 centuries. The answer to low wages was trade union organisation
not immigration controls. Three times in the 1880s the TUC called for ‘anti-alienist’
immigration controls because they preferred not to fight. Jewish workers
however formed their own trade unions and launched strike after strike – including
two mass tailors strikes in 1889
and 1912
alongside dockers strikes in the same years. That is how wages are raised.
I understand Labour HQ has instructed most London CLPs to stop canvassing tonight, to shut up shop, told not to operate committee rooms or have a get out the vote on election day. Utterly bizarre and dictatorial stuff. A sign of what they will be in government.
— Pamela Fitzpatrick (@pamelafitz4HW) July 1, 2024
However
much you control immigration it won’t affect the export of capital, which is
why it is such a bankrupt argument. Unless members of the Workers Party reign
Galloway in it is destined to become a pariah on the left.
‘Patriotism’ and immigration controls sit
uneasily with socialism. Patriotism means the working class doffing their cap
to their rulers and dying in their wars. National socialism is a contradiction
in terms.
In
this video Galloway is compared, quite rightly to Farage, Jenrick and
Braverman. This appeal to racism with all the dog whistles about fighting age
men and 3 star hostels and ‘illegal migrants’ rather than refugees suggests
that Galloway inhabits a very dark place.
A Side Of George Galloway You Have Never Seen?
“We have
already, and its only February, 65,000 people unchartered, undocumented,
unvetted. We have no idea who they are, we know most of them are men, and most of them are fighting
age men at that, who are now being put up in three star hotels sometimes a
little better even than that at the expense of the public potentially for ever
more when our forces cannot interdict a single one of the boats bringing illegal
migrants or Refugee claimants for asylum - we can’t know which until their
cases are heard and their cases have a backlog of hundreds of thousands.”
However
there is a brighter side to this election and that is the number of
anti-racist, socialist candidates.
I
was initially despondent about their chances but having taken note of the
vibrancy of the campaigns I am hopeful that they will garner a very sizeable
vote even if they don’t win. From these campaigns we have the opportunity to
rebuild the left but if Galloway continues as he is and the Workers Party doesn’t
reject this scapegoating, racist appeal to the most backward section of the working
class then Galloway will play no part in rebuilding the left.
— Andrew Feinstein for Holborn & St Pancras (@andrewfeinstein) June 26, 2024
I
hope that Chris Williamson, who is standing in Derby North, as Deputy Leader of the WP, will make his own
position clear on the question of our opposition to demonising asylum seekers, racist
dog whistling and attempting to blame our social ills on migrants rather than
the tax dodging rich, the Tories’ COVIDcronies and privatisation.
Updated: Closing Blackburn Rally With Roger Waters - Yesterday was unforgettable. We have campaigned with open hearts and honed minds, against the slough of corruption which is politics under modern capitalism.
There
are also 40 TUSC candidates
standing, which is the Socialist Party’s electoral front, including ex-MP Dave
Nellist, who I support. The full list can be found here.
A
full list of Workers Party candidates is here but I
wouldn’t endorse all of them, eg. I support Sammar Amar in Bromsgrove not Aheesha
Zahir who has also made anti-refugee remarks. I support critically the WP candidates, in so far as its Manifesto
doesn’t include the racist nonsense that Galloway has been spouting about
refugees.
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