‘It was a Scam – A Dirty Fucking Scam’, the ‘Anti-Semitism’ Smear Campaign Was a Genocidal Scam

 Brilliant Song by Glenn Jenkins Sums Up the Zionist Campaign that Corbyn Fell For – ‘Appeasing us was his mistake’ – Let’s Hope That At Last He Now Realises It

It was a scam - a dirty fucking scam - the Labour Antisemitism Smear Campaign by Glenn Jenkins

Two nights ago I first received a copy of a brilliant new song summing up the ‘anti-Semitism’ witch-hunt in the Labour Party. About three different people sent it to me almost at the same time.

My first instinct was search the Internet and see who had composed it but it was nowhere to be found. The song had just materialised. Finally Chris Williamson let me into the secret and then Glenn himself contacted me.

Chris Williamson - the only MP who stood up to the Zionists

I decided to put a graphic on it and turn it into an mp4 before Sarah Wilkinson improved on my amateur efforts.

A lot of people were, at first, taken in by the scam. I remember even in Momentum, the group set up to support Corbyn, people said when I was suspended that there was no smoke without fire. But of course that is not true. Any chemist can tell you that you can have plenty of smoke without fire and so it proved.

The people in the Labour Party who were alleging ‘anti-Semitism’ were the biggest racists of all, starting with Margaret Hodge and Louise Ellman (the MP for North Tel Aviv – a jibe which was used as an excuse to expel me in February 2018).

Labour Fiends of Israel

I am proud to be the first Jewish person to be expelled from the Labour Party as part of this scam but not the last Jewish person by any means. All those who were expelled had one thing in common.  We were anti-racists and that meant anti-Zionists.

Richard Medhurst & Natalie Strecker - victims of the anti-terrorist cops

As we have seen, Keir Starmer, who is a political dead-man walking, promised to root out ‘anti-Semitism’ from the Labour Party whereas in fact what he rooted out was any commitment to socialist and anti-racist values.

Starmer paying homage to his funders

The song highlights Jackie Walker, Ken Livingstone, Chris Williamson, Marc Wadsworth and myself but there were many others who also fell victim, like Anne Mitchell in Hove for doing nothing more than posting anti-Israel/Zionist comments.

Corbyn the Appeaser

Corbyn unfortunately fell for it and despite a letter last year from Chris, Jackie, Anne, Asa Winstanley and myself, shows no signs of understanding the nature of the scam. He still stands by the contrived and malicious EHRC Report compiled by the racist barrister and commissioner Alisdair Henderson.

Let us hope, for the sake of Your Party, that Corbyn comes down from his pedestal and admits that he got it wrong.  That the anti-Semitism scam which resulted in the expulsion of so many members had but one real target and that was him.

Enjoy this song and I hope Glenn releases it as it’s a sure fire Xmas no. 1!

Below are the lyrics.

When they came for Tony Greenstein, with a trumped up charge that he

was a raging antisemite, it was clear for all to see,

That the charge was fucking ludicrous, a dirty low down smear

Of a Jewish anti racist, who’s been standing firm for years

 

The Zionist MPs turned out for Ruth Smeeth at Marc Wadsworth's Hearing

Then the genocidal telescope, turned on to Jackie Walker

They spied and they lied and they tried to hide with a secret tape recorder

Jackie's trumped up charges, just like Tony’s were twisted to deceive

By Labour Fiends of Israel, what a tangled web they weave

Ken Livingstone - Betrayed by Corbyn was a Zionist Scalp

 

Chorus: “It was a scam, a scam, a dirty fucking scam, and everyone now sees it clear as day, the Zionists and mammonists, they pulled their bag of dirty tricks, but now the mask has slipped and fell away”

 

The Zionist hounds were confident now, their tails were in the air

With two Corbyn supporters lynched, they moved it up a gear

Red Ken was in the periscope, Chris Williamson in their sights

Then they opened up the gatling guns and shot with all their might

Jackie Walker - Stabbed in the Back by Jon Lansman

 

Marc Wadsworth on the radar now, they were really on a roll

Taking anti racist warrior scalps, as a message to the proles

“There’s none of you we can’t defame, no scalp we cannot take

And soon we’ll come for Corbyn. Appeasing us was his mistake

 

Chorus: “It was a scam, a scam, a dirty fucking scam, and everyone now sees it clear as day, the Zionists and mammonists, they pulled their bag of dirty tricks, but now the mask has slipped and fell away”

 

“It was a scam, a scam, a dirty fucking scam, and everyone now sees it clear as day, the Zionists and mammonists, they pulled their bag of dirty tricks, but now the mask has slipped and fell away”

 Tony Greenstein

Open Letter to Jeremy Corbyn from Jackie Walker & Tony Greenstein – Why We Don’t Support You Becoming Leader of Your Party

Corbyn Still Doesn’t Understand that There was NO ‘Anti-Semitism’ Problem in the Labour Party & that the EHRC Report was a Put Up Job

This Open Letter Can Be Downloaded Here

Corbyn's Car Crash Interview on BBC's London Politics Program 2 November 2025

Jackie Walker and Tony Greenstein were the first Jewish members of the Labour Party to be expelled as part of the ‘anti-Semitism’ smear campaign.

Jackie’s offence was to have talked, in a private conversation about the Jewish role in the slave trade, an undoubted fact.

My offence was to use ‘Zio’ as shorthand for ‘Zionist’. That was seen as anti-Semitic, the assumption being that Zionists are all Jews, itself an anti-Semitic assumption.

Corbyn's Full Interview on London Politics Show 2 November 25

My other offence was to call the racist Zionist MP for Liverpool Riverside, Louise Ellman, the MP for Tel Aviv South. The constituency eventually forced her to quit. I asked my expulsion hearing whether it had been racist to call the John Carlisle, the Tory MP for Luton, the MP for Bloemfontein West on account of his support for Apartheid in South Africa but I never got a response!

John Carlisle - the MP for Luton & Bloemfontein West

This is how it’s done - Clare Short Interview w/ Newsnight on Labours Antisemitism Scam w/ its Stupidest MP Siobhan McDonagh

It was therefore with something approaching horror that I listened to Jeremy Corbyn’s interview with the London Politics Programme on Sunday November 2 when he was challenged by Samantha Simmonds about the anti-Semitism smear campaign in the Labour Party.

Instead of responding robustly and saying that there wasn’t an anti-Semitism problem, that anti-Semitism was weaponised then and now by those who defend or deny the Genocide in Gaza, Corbyn demonstrated that you can’t teach an old dog new tricks.

It was beyond pathetic. It shows that although Corbyn has many talents and his honesty is beyond question he isn’t a political fighter. He is also proof that without having some theoretical background to your socialist politics you become in the end a political weathervane.

Bob Dylan - I Threw It All Away (

Let’s be honest Corbyn’s leadership of the Labour Party between 2015 and 2019 was nothing short of disastrous. Having won a fantastic victory at the 2017 General Election, the largest swing to Labour since 1945 he threw it all away as Bob Dylan once put it.

Corbyn allowed the ‘anti-Semitism’ smears to go unchallenged. He never fought back against his enemies in the Jewish Labour Movement which as Asa Winstanley showed had only been refounded to remove him. Asa was suspended as a result of his journalism and Corbyn didn’t lift a finger to help him. He was even denied credentials at the 2019 Labour Party conference.

Corbyn begged the JLM to stay in the Party (not that they were really thinking of leaving) for which they rewarded him with a vote of no confidence.

Corbyn himself proposed to expel people without a hearing

When Jennie Formby replaced the hated Crooked Iain McNicol as General Secretary the number of expulsions increased and Corbyn took pride in this. He even introduced a fast track expulsion mechanism. Now there were no hearings.

It was supposed to be only for ‘egregious’ cases but this too was a lie. It was used for everyone. My friend and comrade Anne Mitchell, an avowed socialist, anti-racist and the then Secretary of Brighton and Hove Palestine Solidarity Campaign fell victim. Her crime? Having posted criticism of Israel and Zionism. This was the horror show that Corbyn presided over. See Richard Kuper’s post on JVL ‘A Grave Miscarriage of Justice: the case of Anne Mitchell’.

The man who had been Secretary of Labour Against the Witchhunt in the 1980s now became the architect of a mass expulsion campaign. Corbyn thought the Zionists would pat him on the back for this but of course they didn’t. They hadn’t forgotten that he had once championed the Palestinian cause. On becoming Leader in 2015 he had tried to woo Labour Friends of Israel. Indeed he hardly mentioned Palestine in his first two years as Leader.

Instead of being satisfied with the increased rate of expulsions, the Zionists used the increased number of expulsions as proof that there was a problem with anti-Semitism. As I once said in a public meeting in Brighton and Hove with his strongest supporter, Chris Williamson MP, who he also betrayed, there were undoubtedly some paedophiles in the Labour Party but did that mean there was a paedophile problem?

Tony Greenstein & Anti Semitism in Labour - Labour in Exile Meeting circa March 2021-1

Yes there were undoubtedly a few anti-Semites in the Labour Party. So what? Far fewer than in a Tory Party whose leader, Boris Johnson, had written a book 72 Virgins full of anti-Semitic tropes.

Instead Corbyn’s response during the BBC interview was that of Tom Watson, an avid supporter of Apartheid Israel:  ‘One anti-Semite is one too many.’ Utterly facile and trite remark. Parties aren’t there to purify their membership. A mass party will contain all sorts of people, including racists. A serious socialist party will seek to educate and win over people to anti-racism not expel them unless they are dedicated fascists.

Tony Greenstein & Anti Semitism in Labour - Labour in Exile Meeting circa March 2021-2

If Your Party is serious about destroying Nigel Farage’s Reform Party then it will admit all sorts of people with racist nonsense in their heads. What is it to do? Expel them as soon as they join? One thing is for sure, we are not going to have a party like the Labour Party which has genocidal racists like Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy and David Lammy at its head.

The EHRC Inquiry Into Henderson Never Reported

And then Corbyn was tackled about the EHRC Report on ‘Anti-Semitism’ in the Labour Party and it got worse. Instead of saying the EHRC was a put up job by the Establishment he accepted its conclusions at face value. He said nothing about the Commissioner who wrote the Report, Alisdair Henderson, who was a racist, homophobic, anti-trans, far-right, Christian bigot who ‘liked’ or retweeted social media posts criticising Black Lives Matters protesters.

The EHRC itself was institutionally racist but Corbyn didn't think to challenge them

Corbyn simply accepted the EHRC Report without criticism in the interview. He just had minor quibbles about how much he had done to tackle the non-existent anti-Semitism. This was truly pathetic.

Alasdair Henderson, who led the EHRC inquiry into Labour party antisemitism liked a tweet decrying “offence-taking zealots” who accused fascist philosopher Roger Scruton of antisemitism, Islamophobia and homophobia, and one by Douglas Murray, who once called for Muslim immigration to Europe to be banned.

It's amazing to me that Tory ministers still flounder and flub when some media moron incants the magic words "misogynist" and "homophobe", as if those are empirical statements about reality, not highly ideological propaganda terms.

— NPRG (@CptHastings1916) September 3, 2020

Murray is the author of The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam. Murray argued that Europe “is committing suicide” by allowing non-European immigration into its borders and losing its “faith in its beliefs”. In other words he is a supporter of the anti-Semitic White Replacement Theory which holds that Jews are masterminding this immigration!

Douglas Murray

Murray, an Associate Director of the Islamophobic Henry Jackson Society, is an Islamophobe par excellence. In a February 2006 speech to the Dutch Parliament, Murray said

conditions for Muslims in Europe must be made harder across the board: Europe must look like a less attractive proposition.

and that "All immigration into Europe from Muslim countries must stop.” This did not stop Suella Braverman as Home Secretary endorsing Murray.

Under Cameron the Conservative Party frontbench severed formal relations with Murray and his Centre for Social Cohesion. Today the Tory Party welcomes anyone who is a racist. That’s what comes from having a Coconut like Kemi Badenoch as leader.

Tom Watson's  Concerns About Antisemitism Didn't Extend to Other Forms of Racism - He Defended Phil Woolas Attempt to Harness a White Racist Vote

🧵The EHRC is wholly captured by conservatives. Commissioner Alasdair Henderson ran for Parliament in the resurrected Whig party. He also liked a tweet saying 'homophobe' and ‘misogynist’ were 'highly ideological propaganda terms'. And he led the Labour antisemitism inquiry. 1/11

— Steven Methven (@StevenJMethven) February 2, 2022

On 3 September 2020, Henderson liked a tweet which read:

“It’s amazing to me that Tory ministers still flounder and flub when some media moron incants the magic words ‘misogynist’ and ‘homophobe’, as if those are empirical statements about reality, not highly ideological propaganda terms.”

On 1 July, he retweeted a comment which said:

All the anti-fascists in Europe protesting against America, an actually free country, are too cowardly to do the same for Hong Kong, which is virtually a dictatorship now.

But then the EHRC was a repository for racists and bigots. Henderson was in his element. The Guardian revealed that David Goodhart and Jessica Butcher were going to be appointed to the EHRC board by Liz Truss, the laughable equalities minister. Goodhart had previously praised the government’s “hostile environment” policy which had seen hundreds of Black people with a right to be in this country deported while Butcher urged women who have been discriminated against at work not to “go cry to someone” but to “take the onus to circumvent the situation”.

See EHRC board member under scrutiny over social media use. What makes this worse is that Corbyn himself had previously accused the EHRC of being “part of the government machine”.

And what of the EHRC Report itself?  Well it wasn’t worth the paper it was written on. It was flawed from the start. It was shallow beyond belief. It found no anti-Semitism and conjured up political statements opposing the fake anti-Semitism smear campaign as anti-Semitic in themselves. It was the equivalent of a 3 card trick.

The EHRC report stated that: “The Labour party failed to investigate antisemitism complaints based on likes, retweets and shares on social media.” Yet if Corbyn had bothered to read the EHRC Report (& remember what he had read) he would have learnt that the two cases of ‘anti-Semitism’ that amounted to anti-Semitic conduct involved Rossendale councillor, Pam Bromley, who had posted on Facebook:

‘Had Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party pulled up the drawbridge and nipped the bogus AS [antisemitism] accusations in the bud in the first place we would not be where we are now and the fifth column in the LP [Labour Party] would not have managed to get such a foothold ... the Lobby has miscalculated ... The witch hunt has created brand new fightback networks ... The Lobby will then melt back into its own cesspit.’

This isn’t harassment it is political speech.  Bromley was arguing that the ‘anti-Semitism problem’ in the Labour Party was nothing of the sort. What was Henderson’s finding?

Suggesting that complaints of antisemitism are fake or smears. Labour Party agents [Bromley and Livingstone] denied antisemitism in the Party and made comments dismissing complaints as ‘smears’ and ‘fake’. This conduct may target Jewish members as deliberately making up anti-Semitism complaints to undermine the Labour Party, and ignores legitimate and genuine complaints of antisemitism in the Party. These comments went beyond simply describing the agents’ own personal experience of antisemitism in the Party.

But there were many Jews who opposed the anti-Semitism smear campaign. That's why Jewish Voice for Labour was set up. The anti-Semitism smear campaign was driven by non-Jewish groups like Labour Against Anti-Semitism who were led by two non-Jews Euan Philips and Emma Picken. To disguise the fact that he wasn’t Jewish Philips took to calling himself David Gordstein, a Jewish sounding name as the Al Jazeera documentary series The Labour Files revealed .

This was the racism that the 'antisemitism' smear campaign aimed to defend

Philipps is not Jewish, and the name "Gordstein" was used in thousands of complaints submitted to the party. This was done to make the complaints appear as if they were coming from a Jew. The whole anti-Semitic scam was the product of non-Jewish racists which another non-Jewish racist Alisdair Henderson endorsed.

This flawed EHRC Report went on to say that Ken Livngstone, who was on Labour’s National Executive Committee at the time,

made reference to social media posts made by Naz Shah MP. Naz Shah’s posts included a graphic suggesting that Israel should be relocated to the United States, with the comment ‘problem solved’, and a post in which she appeared to liken Israeli policies to those of Hitler.

Can anyone say today that Israel’s behaviour in Gaza is not similar to that of the Nazis? There is nothing anti-Semitic about this at all. The EHRC Report said that Livingstone

‘sought to minimise their offensive nature. In his denial, Ken Livingstone alleged that scrutiny of Naz Shah’s conduct was part of a smear campaign by ‘the Israel lobby’ to stigmatise critics of Israel as antisemitic, and was intended to undermine and disrupt the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn MP.’

And this was anti-Semitic harassment. Of course it was nothing of the kind. It was political speech yet Corbyn didn’t have the bottle or the intelligence to see that this was an attack on free speech. Corbyn had been so tamed by the Zionist lobby at this time that he was prone to saying that denial of ‘anti-Semitism’ was anti-Semitic in itself.

Another example of ‘anti-Semitism’ was when, in April 2019, Pam Bromley posted on Facebook: ‘Looks like fake accusations of AS [antisemitism] to undermine Labour just aren’t working, so let’s have Chris Williamson reinstated’. And on 15 December 2019, she posted on Facebook about Jeremy Corbyn:

‘My major criticism of him – his failure to repel the fake accusations of antisemitism in the LP [Labour Party] – may not be repeated as the accusations may probably now magically disappear, now capitalism has got what it wanted’.

Henderson pompously concluded that:

‘we were satisfied that the antisemitic conduct had the effect of contributing to violating the dignity of a member or prospective member, or contributing to creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for them.’

But the racist Henderson could not point to which Jewish members had been offended which is what you have to do in an employment discrimination case. This was bogus law by a racist barrister. Yet Corbyn did not get it. After all he had appointed Keir Starmer to the Shadow Cabinet without the slightest due diligence and when he retired as Labour leader he nominated Tom Watson to the Lords!

This racist meme about male Muslims appeared in a report from the Campaign Against Antisemitism - one of two groups which referred the Labour Party to the EHRC for 'antisemitism'

Defenders of Zionism (and Corbyn still hasn’t come out clearly and said that he opposes this racist and genocidal ideology) have repeatedly accused opponents of Israel’s genocide of anti-Semitism. It is Netanyahu’s only defence to the charge of being a war criminal.

I despair of Corbyn’s inability to think on his feet, his submissiveness and refusal to condemn Zionism. What is clear is that in the event of the ‘anti-Semitism’ card being deployed again he will flounder. Under no circumstances should Jeremy Corbyn be leader of Your Party.

Instead my proposal is that Corbyn become the Honorary President of Your Party which will enable him to traverse the country speaking but that Zarah Sultana and Andrew Feinstein are the co-leaders.

People rightly admire and love Corbyn for sticking it out this long, for his honesty and support for the oppressed. However we have to face it, Jeremy Corbyn is not a leader.

Below are the relevant sections of the malevolent EHRC Report that Corbyn failed to criticise.

Tony Greenstein

The relevant sections of the EHRC Report

As Labour & Tory Become Indistinguishable The New Party of Corbyn & Sultana Could See the Rebirth of the Left

 There Must Be No Repeat of Labour Under Corbyn 2015-19 The Appeasement of the Zionists & the Influence of Advisors like James Schneider Needs to be Curbed

Why Labour Lost | Interview With James Schneider

When Zarah Sultana announced her resignation from Labour and her joint leadership with Corbyn of a new party, Corbyn was forced to put an end to months of dithering and delay. However he was reported to be ‘so unhappy’ that ‘he only responded publicly two days later - his team described the timing of the announcement as "unfortunate".’

The Party has no name apart from Your Party. The Left Party, if only as an interim name is far more suitable! Either way it can't have no name.

Even though Starmer has retracted this rich, racist white 'feminist' has doubled down

The ‘Labour’ Government under Starmer has been worse than was feared. Attacks on claimants, repressive legislation and a speech by Starmer reminiscent of Enoch Powell’s 1968 Rivers of Blood speech with its reference to an ‘island of strangers’. Although Starmer ‘regretted’ it subsequently Yvette Cooper defended it.

Let us not forget the lies the Zionists and the genocidaires told last time around - they will do the same and more next time

There is a burning need for a mass party of the left. Having Corbyn and Sultana as joint leaders is sensible. However there can be no repeat of what happened from 2015-19 when Corbyn appeased and did the bidding of the Jewish Labour Movement despite the fact that the JLM was refounded with the intention of being rid of him. Its claim to be concerned with anti-Semitism was a lie and should have been called out by Corbyn who had much personal experience of being called anti-Semitic over the years.

Instead the JLM were allowed to pick their targets for expulsion. As we now know from their support for the genocide in Gaza, its sole concern is with defending Zionism and the Israeli State.

This extract from p.306 from the Labour Leaked Report shows how Corbyn and his office (LOTO -  Leader Of The Opposition) tried hard to appease the racists and the Zionists who had targeted their enemies carefully

Although it can be argued that Corbyn was ambushed by the Zionists when he was Labour leader by the false ‘anti-Semitism’ smears, he handled it appallingly. Corbyn threw his allies to the wolves in a vain attempt to appease his accusers.

Much of this was due to the advice of his closest advisors such as Seamus Milne and James Schneider. Their main strategy seemed to be to apologise and move on instead of stand and fight. Milne has disappeared to a well deserved obscurity but Schneider is very much alive and kicking. He cannot be allowed to wreak havoc a second time. As his interview above with Novara Media showed, six months after Starmer became leader, on why Labour lost the election he didn’t have a clue as to the nature of the attack on Corbyn.

Schneider didn’t once mention the false anti-Semitism smears that dominated Corbyn’s time in office. The concerted attacks of the Zionist press and the media in general that led to the EHRC case, which then led to Corbyn losing the Whip, went unmentioned. Nor did he mention it in July 2025 in an interview for New Left Review. Indeed the genocide in Gaza was only mentioned in passing. Anti-Zionism is not Schneider's strong point.

Schneider’s advice to Corbyn and the leadership of the new party needs to be treated with a hefty dose of salt given his record from 2015-2019. He needs to play a minor role rather than being seen as an oracle of wisdom. He still does not understand why Zionism is important to Britain’s imperial establishment. Schneider also complained about Zarah Sultana’s announcement of the new party with her resignation:

 Unfortunately, the party has already been launched even though it does not exist. We have been deprived of a carefully planned launch, but we can live with that.

Corbyn’s advisers cannot be allowed to dominate the new party because they will repeat their old errors. Nearly a year ago a letter  was sent (see below) to Corbyn asking him to reassess his period as leader in respect of the false anti-Semitism narrative that had been weaponised by the Labour Right and the bourgeois press, not least the Guardian.

The letter was signed by Chris Williamson, the MP that Corbyn threw overboard, Jackie Walker, the Black Jewish Vice Chair of Momentum before she was stabbed in the back by Jon Lansman and expelled; Asa Winstanley from Electronic Intifada who was suspended and then forced out of Labour and Anne Mitchell, former Chair of Brighton and Hove PSC, who was also expelled for ‘anti-Semitism’ along with myself as the first Jewish person to be expelled. 

We were all anti-Zionists not anti-Semites but Corbyn and his office threw red meat to the Zionists not realising that in the words of Rudyard Kipling, 'if once you have paid him the Dane-geld, You never get rid of the Dane.'  Substitute 'Zionist' for 'Dane' and you get the message. When you pay a blackmailer, the demands only increase, as they did from 2015-2019.

Corbyn did not to reply to our letter. There has been no reassessment of what happened either by him or his advisors, Schneider included. The consequence of the failure by Corbyn and his advisors to confront the false anti-Semitism smears was the accession of  Starmer to the leadership on a promise of rooting out ‘anti-Semitism’.

Today you cannot put a piece of paper between Starmer and Badenoch. That is why voters are turning to Reform. Our task is to take on the racist scapegoating of the right which Starmer has enabled with his attacks on the working class and poor and offer an alternative. 

James Schneider - Corbyn's closest advisor - but has he learnt anything from last time around?

Neo-liberalism has for the past 30 years seen a transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich. Capital has reigned supreme. It was the poor who paid for the banking crisis of 2008-9. It is not migrants who closed the mines, docks and shipyards but the free market. This is the message that we have to get across and point to things like Farage's support for an insurance system for the NHS that is modelled on what happens in the US.

Starmer, who described himself as a ‘Zionist without qualification’, has lived up to our worst fears. He has openly supported a genocide and the use of food as a weapon of war. Even now, despite his protestations he is arming the killers of children. However none of this should have been a surprise. A little due diligence would have outed this snake. When I was expelled the first person to welcome that was Starmer with a one word response 'good'. 

In February 2020, two months before the leadership election in April, I wrote, that ‘Keir Starmer is the candidate that the Deep State & the British Establishment want you to vote for’. It was patently obvious that Starmer was not going to stick to his 10 Pledges. I love the 4th Pledge about introducing a Prevention of Military Intervention Act and putting human rights at the centre of Britain's foreign policy! Yet many of Schneider's mates in Momentum actually supported Starmer.

No one lies quite like Starmer but the thing is, he is an unconvincing liar. He comes across as synthetic which is why people, even in his own constituency, have never warmed to him. Yet Corbyn, Schneider and the rest of his advisers tolerated this cuckoo in the nest.  Five minutes googling would have turned up his police state record as Director of Public Prosecutions.

Not just over Brexit but in his support of the false anti-Semitism smears and his vendetta against Julian Assange. Yet he was not removed and there is no reason to believe that any of Corbyn’s advisers gave serious thought to it. Schneider in particular has a lot to answer for.

My purpose in raising these issues is not to pour over the entrails of what went wrong last time but to learn from our mistakes. Having Karie Murphy and James Schneider as the key advisors to the leader of the new party is a recipe for disaster. Neither are anti-Zionists. Corbyn himself shows very few signs of learning anything from the genocide in Gaza. He is still a two statist whereas it is obvious that Israel is a genocidal state that has got to go the way of the South African Apartheid state.

The left in Britain has a history of failure.  We cannot repeat the mistakes of the past. The new party should welcome debate and different currents and factions. However it cannot have parties like the SWP operating within it with the sole purpose of recruiting to their own party. You cannot serve two masters.

The SWP and similar groups on the far-left have been failed projects. There are reasons for this, not least their failure to accept that the working class in Britain, atomised as it is after the Thatcher counter-revolution, is not an agent for revolution in Britain today. There is no organised proletariat. The Unions are far weaker today than they ever were.

Likewise with the Workers’ Party. Their recent showing in the Runcorn by-election of 0.5%, where they campaigned on ‘Stop the Boats’ and ‘Tough on Immigration’ means that although individual members are welcome in a new party George Galloway can’t be whilst he continues to think he can present a ‘left’ populist version of Farage’s Reform Party.  George is not someone to take advice and despite his many talents, not least as an orator, he is not a strategic thinker. His support for Brexit was another disastrous mistake.

One of our key tasks will be to break the trade unions from the Labour Party and Labourism. We have to convince their members that the link with Labour serves only the interests of the trade union bureaucracy. It is not in the interests of their members.

But we also have to be honest. If it wasn’t possible in the early part of the last century to form a revolutionary working class party or indeed in the 70s and 80s it’s certainly not possible now. That does not mean that the new party becomes simply a parliamentary party.

It has to be a party of the oppressed, the working class and those who are at the sharp end of capitalism and imperialism. It has to be a party of protest and direct action as well as operating in parliament. It also has to understand that the capitalist state is an entrenched and repressive political and social formation that is inherently undemocratic. But to pose revolutionary slogans and programs at this stage will simply confine the left to the margins.

The new party will have to face the issue of the Green Party, which is not a left-wing, still less a socialist party. The Green Party want to green capitalism not replace it. It is not a grassroots activist party and its main strategy is taking over the existing state without any serious plan to change it. It supports NATO and it supports Zionism whilst decrying what it is doing. It has adopted the IHRA like the rest of the political parties. In Germany Die Grunen was, along with the neo-Nazi AfD, the most pro-Zionist of all parties. Its former Foreign Secretary, Annalena Baerbock is a war criminal.

Yanis Varoufakis: Block Baerbock from the UN General Assembly

Many people are under illusions about the Green Party. In Brighton where they controlled the Council twice they were a disaster and not at all progressive. They not only gave no support to the Palestinians but they even voted alongside the Tories and Labour to support the IHRA fake definition of anti-Semitism, as they do nationally.

Owen Jones has suggested an electoral pact not to compete against each other. Tactically this may be worth thinking about with a First Past the Post electoral system, but it comes with the danger of sowing illusions in the Green Party. Regardless PR is a priority to prevent a repeat of a situation where someone like Starmer can obtain 63% of the seats with 34% of the vote. The lowest ever by a winning party.

The new party will not be a revolutionary party but a mixture of social democrats, activists, Marxists and those in between. A left reformist party intent on rolling back the authoritarian state that Starmer and Yvette Cooper are intent on bringing about with their proscription of Palestine Action and their introduction of a new Crime & Policing Bill banning  protests outside places of worship.

The old distinction between revolutionary socialists and reformists is to a large extent irrelevant in a situation which is not revolutionary and unlikely to be so. Our task is to reverse the drift to the right not establish the dictatorship of the proletariat. The pendulum has swung to the right in society and we have to swing it back again. There are a number of measures that can be taken.

The savage attacks on benefit claimants, the disabled in particular coupled with the massive increase in ‘Defence’ i.e. War expenditure and the continued privatisation of the NHS marks Starmer Labour as no different from the previous Tory government.

Reform is campaigning on putting all the blame on migrants and boat people. It is essential to point the finger at those responsible. The billionaire class, the banks and multinationals and a system whereby the rich are made richer, all of which is symbolised by a parasitic Royal Family. Reform are vulnerable on economic questions and a new party is in an ideal position to challenge them.

There must be a program of democratising the state. The Police, with their attacks on Palestine demonstrations have proved that whatever powers they are given they will abuse. They are accountable to no one and believe themselves qualified to decide what is and is not anti-Semitism. Their adoption of the fake IHRA definition of anti-Semitism demonstrates that they are happy to use British Jews as a pretext for preventing the right to protest.

The Police implement certain laws and not others. The International Criminal Court Act 2001 remains a dead letter. The Fox Hunting Act 2004 has never been enforced yet an obscure clause, Section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000 has seen dozens of activists arrested. Today’s Police are Orwell’s Thought Police.

The capitalist state is not neutral and never has been which is why Labour’s love affair with the Police was so disgusting. Their job should be preventing crime not policing dissent. Rape for example has been all but decriminalised. That means bringing the police under democratic control whilst resisting funding their desire for more repressive equipment.

A new party has to have a minimum programme. Nationalisation with little if any compensation of rail and the utilities. A state bank. An end to private involvement in the NHS and public control of the NHS.  A massive cut in so-called defence spending. An end to Trident and the British military role in foreign wars. A repeal of all the Tory and now Labour anti-protest and anti-trade union legislation. The BBC should be freed from the Zionist lobby and the warmongers.

We should also follow most of Europe and the United States in decriminalising possession of cannabis and growing for one’s own use. There should be massive investment in public transport alongside an end to the use of fossil fuels.

Internationally we should call for the decolonisation and de-Zionisation of Israel. An end to trade with Apartheid Israel. Two states is a neo-colonial solution whose time has gone and Corbyn needs to wake up to the fact that a Jewish state is a racist state which should go the way of South Africa.  

This should be coupled with a withdrawal from NATO which is an alliance of warmongers. NATO has been responsible for the war in Ukraine. Without NATO expansion up to Russian borders there would have been no war. Without American and European funding and involvement in the 2014 coup against a democratically elected President of Ukraine the war would not have started against the Russian speaking eastern region of the Donbas led by Ukraine’s neo-Nazi Azov regiment which in turn led to the Russian invasion.

The democratisation of the British state needs to be high on the list. The House of Lords should be abolished with its replacement by a second chamber elected in the regions by PR. A referendum should be held on getting rid of the monarchy and Britain becoming a republic and joining modernity. The abolition of the feudal ‘royal family’ with their absurd honours system, palaces and massive land holdings is long overdue.

The new party is polling up to 15%, level with Starmer Labour. Amongst the young, 18-29 it is 33%, ahead of both Labour and Reform. This is a brilliant place to start but it will only increase if the party begins organising as soon as possible from the bottom up. Meetings should be held in every constituency to form an organisation. The Party should be rooted in the localities.

There is a need for transparency which isn’t evident at the moment. I’ve had two mailings from ‘Your party’ whoever that is.  We need to know who is actually running the show. It is not good enough to wait until November. Who is calling the shots now. Putting in place a democratic regional structure should be a priority. Calling a conference to be called at the end of year which without local participation means it is likely to be more of a rally.

If the new Left Party is disciplined and doesn’t fall into the habit of fighting each other then it could do what the French left under Melechon did  in France which was to outpoll and prevent the fascist Front Nationale winning the parliamentary elections.

But we must also draw lessons from the French experience where Socialist Party elected representatives then abandoned ship. Anyone elected or standing for the Left Party must be held accountable and recallable. We should get away from the idea of professional politicians who see politics as a career.

But above all we should be prepared for the counter attack. When the party is established and seen to be credible that is the time when the BBC, Daily Mail, Express and Guardian will revive the ‘anti-Semitism’ smears, terrorism scares, patriotism and much else. In addition to accusing us of bankrupting the country by proposing that the billionaires should pay some tax for a change.

There must be no repeat of 2015-2019 where Corbyn’s first reaction was to apologise and then appease his critics. The way to defang our enemies is to go on the attack not concede to their arguments.

Tony Greenstein