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4 July 2024

Whatever You Do Don’t Vote For Starmer – Vote Socialist Independent or Failing That the Green or Workers Party

Whatever the Results We Have to Build a Socialist Alternative not Resort to Racist Dog Whistles Like Galloway

Four and a half years ago, I wrote an eve of poll blog after campaigning for Chris Williamson in Derby North Labour’s Election Campaign - Expect the Worst – Hope for the Best. I summed up

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 previous elections I had little difficulty in predicting the outcome. In 2015 I wrote a blog Miliband’s Labour Seeks the Safety of Consensus Politics in which I said:

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

On April 20, when May had a 21% lead in the polls I wrote in Labour Can Win if Corbyn is Bold – the Key Issue is Poverty and the Transfer of Wealth that:

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.


On June 3 in General Election - Is Labour on the threshold of victory? I foresaw a hung parliament, or even a Labour victory, was possible.

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.


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.


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.

Andrew Feinstein in Starmer’s constituency, Leanne Mohamad against Wes Streeting, Pamela Fitzpatrick in Harrow West, Sam Gorst in Liverpool Garston, Faiza Shaheen in Chingford and Wood Green and our own wonderful Tanushka Mara in Hove amongst many others I haven’t named.

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.

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’ COVID  cronies and privatisation.


Below is a list of independent candidates and I would also add Samar Ammar in Birmingham Bromsgrove, see here. There are also others including Craig Murray in Blackburn, Chris Williamson in Derby North and Jody McIntyre in Birmingham Yardley. See Pink Floyd star flying in to back Workers Party's Craig Murray.

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.

Let’s hope for a  better tomorrow.

Tony Greenstein

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24 August 2020

Like a Mafia Boss, Starmer Paid Hush Money to Labour’s Crooked Staff in order to Prevent an Investigation into the Leaked Dossier


DEFIANCE NOT COMPLIANCE
Starmer’s Glove Puppet David Evans Must be Prevented from Destroying Free Speech and Democracy in Labour
 
As I predicted when he was elected, Starmer would be no ‘centrist’ contrary to what Lansman and his fellow Momentum traitors had assured us. When Starmer emerged alongside Coronavirus, I wrote
‘If anyone had any doubts about who and what (Sir) Keir Starmer represents, his Shadow Cabinet appointments today should lay them to rest.  Starmer represents a return of the Blairite Right.’
Starmer is not only on the hard-Right but he has done a better job than Tony Blair in purging the Shadow Cabinet. Blair included members of the left such as Frank Dobson (his predecessor in his Holborn & St Pancras seat) and Michael Meacher in the Shadow Cabinet. That was partly because MPs in those days elected the Shadow Cabinet. He also had John Prescott, who proved one of Corbyn’s few consistent supporters as his Deputy Leader.
My recent letter in the Morning Star
Starmer has appointed the worst right-wingers to the Shadow Cabinet, like Rachel Reeves and Jess Phillips whilst sacking Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lloyd Russell-Moyle at the earliest opportunity at the behest of the Zionist Board of Deputies. This despite both signing up to the ‘anti-Semitism’ allegations and the Board’s 10 pledges.
On the 13 August David Evans, Labour’s General Secretary, sent an email to local parties. A mafia boss could not have worded it better. Evan’s instructions, if local Labour Parties accept them, mean the end of what limited democracy remains in the Labour Party.
Starmer has paid £3/4m of members' money in order to protect Labour's traitorous former staff
Below is the full text of David Evans email 
FAO: CLP secretaries & chairs
As CLPs and branches are now able to meet online, I wanted to take this opportunity to update you on a few pertinent issues. This will ensure that the business your local Party is conducting is appropriate, minimises any challenge to its decisions and does not leave the Party – locally and nationally – or its officers open to potential legal liabilities. Apologies for the length of this email, but I hope you will agree it covers some very important issues....
Panorama settlement
The Labour Party recently agreed a settlement with seven former members of staff who appeared on an edition of the BBC’s Panorama programme, as well as with the journalist who hosted that programme. Those settlements included an unreserved apology and a withdrawal of the allegations previously made by the Party about those individuals. The withdrawal and apology are binding on the Party and any motions which seek to undermine or contradict them will create a risk of further legal proceedings for both the national party and local parties. As such, motions relating to these settlements and the circumstances behind them are not competent business for discussion by local parties.
CLP officers have an important responsibility to ensure that they and other members conduct themselves in a respectful and comradely manner. We therefore take this opportunity to reiterate to local Labour Parties and officers that they should be aware of the potential liabilities to them should the allegations that have now been withdrawn by the national Party be repeated.
Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report
On Monday 13 July 2020 the Party announced that it had received the EHRC’s draft report into allegations of antisemitism in the Labour Party. This draft report has been provided to the Party by the EHRC on a confidential basis as part of its investigation.
When we are able to provide more information about the EHRC’s report we will do so. Until that time speculation as to the contents of the report is not helpful. It is therefore not competent business for CLPs to discuss.
IHRA definition of antisemitism
We are aware that some CLPs and branches have had motions tabled to “repudiate” the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. The IHRA definition of antisemitism and its examples was properly adopted by the Labour Party in September 2018. CLPs and branches have no powers to overturn this decision. Furthermore, such motions undermine the Labour Party’s ability to tackle racism. Any such motions are therefore not competent business for CLPs or branches.
As per the previous General Secretary’s instruction, any discussion about ongoing disciplinary cases remains prohibited.
Thousands of members of the Labour Party (reputed to be between 100,000 and 200,000)  are resigning in disgust at the direction of Sir Starmer and his cronies. This is understandable but if people simply leave they will simply be lost to the socialist movement.
Unfortunately the Left in the Labour Party is divided. The recent stitch up for elections to the National Executive Committee in the Centre Left Grassroots Alliance, saw the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy and Momentum Forward veto the candidacy of Jo Bird, a Jewish anti-Zionist who has twice been suspended from the Party.
Jo was the obvious choice of someone to confront Starmer and his Zionist friends. Instead the CLPD, which sat on the fence throughout the fake ‘anti-Semitism’ smear campaign was not even able to stand by its own member, Peter Willsman, who was suspended after being caught in a sting by Tuvia Tenenbom, a far-Right Israeli agent and disgusting racist whose talk The story of the suffering Palestinian is bull shit suggests that on the basis of receiving a gold business card that all Palestinians are affluent and prosperous.

The CLPD itself has participated in the witchhunt, notably when Russell Cartwright, the CLPD’s Treasurer, who was on the National Constitutional Committee, voted to expel Jackie Walker.
The Labour Representation Committee has been little better. It left the Labour Left Alliance shortly after last year’s Labour Party conference and has gone along with the machinations of the CLPD. Equally unfortunate Jewish Voices for Labour instead of refusing to accept the veto on Jo went along with it even though the new STV method of electing NEC representatives all but guaranteed Jo’s election. In so doing they have simply confirmed their irrelevance to what is happening in the Labour Party.
Meanwhile the LRC and JVL’s Don’t Leave Organise seems to have fallen into a deep sleep.
A good example of how not to respond to the election of Starmer and the destruction of democracy in the Labour Party is the resignation of 10 elected officers of the Harwich and North Essex Labour Party. In their letter they write:
We embraced the broad church and respected a range of views. It is said that all good things must come to an end and we all now feel that with the direction being taken by the leadership towards a more neo-liberal stance it is right that the CLP executive baton should be handed over to those that share the direction of the leadership.
This is just so pathetic in its fatalism. They say ‘all good things must come to an end’ as if the triumph of the Right was inevitable. If the individuals concerned believe that the direction taken under Starmer is the wrong one then the obvious thing to do is to stay and fight and link up with those similarly inclined.
That is what politics is about. The one thing the Right didn’t do was accept Corbyn as leader. The representatives of capitalism and imperialism inside the Labour Party did what Hugh Gaitskell once promised, to ‘fight, fight and fight again’.

Unfortunately most of Corbyn’s supporters were not steeped in the working class and labour movement tradition of struggle. To them politics was as much a fashion statement as something born out of necessity. Like those in Harwich and North Essex they had neither the stamina nor the political commitment to oppose the Right. That is partly why the Zionists’ fake ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign, which was never about racism, met with such little opposition and such political confusion.
If Starmer’s neo-liberals have captured the leadership of the Labour Party then they should be opposed root and branch. Just as Starmer’s free market friends fought Corbyn to the bitter end, so the left in the Labour Party should do the same. To simply hand over the reins of power to one’s political enemies – and Starmer is as much our enemy as the Tories – demonstrates a lack of any serious political commitment to socialism.
Gagged - what Starmer wants to do to the rest of us
Yes Labour Party should be a broad church, however even the broadest church draws the line at the admission of atheists.  Starmer, Reeves and Phillips aren’t socialists but supporters of capitalism inside Labour. They are our class enemies.  Look what Starmer has done already:
·        Adopted the Board of Deputies 10 pledges which now openly use ‘anti-Semitism’ as a cudgel to beat the Left.
·        Sacked Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lloyd Russell-Moyle for offending Israel’s supporters and Zionists.
·        Torn up Labour’s policy on supporting Kashmiri independence.
·        Failed to oppose Boris Johnson’s ‘herd immunity’ strategy initially. 
·        Said nothing about the increased privatisation of the NHS at a time when it was existing outsourcing which caused the shortage of PPE initially leading to the death of hundreds if not thousands.
·        Failed to condemn the Tory freeze on public sector wages and the nurses in particular
·        Demanded the opening of schools regardless of the risk of a new wave of COVID-19. In this he has ignored the teaching unions.
·        In the ‘national interest’ Starmer has refused to oppose or take advantage of the Tories catastrophic handling of Coronavirus. Instead he has engaged in ‘constructive opposition’, including saying nothing about the decanting of elderly patients with COVID-19 back into care homes causing thousands of deaths.
·        Failed to  oppose the Tories hostility to migrants from France who have no legal way of gaining asylum in Britain. Instead he criticised them for their ‘incompetence’. Presumably they should have been more efficient in turning the boats away.
There is a burning need for all the groups on the Left to come together – the Labour Left Alliance, the CLPD, LRC and Momentum Forward but it must be on the basis of a very clear opposition to any continuation of the Zionists’ ‘anti-Semitism’ witchhunt. It is about time the Left called out the racism of Sir Starmer and the Labour Right. Above all it is necessary for the Left to understand why Corbyn went down to such a massive defeat.
We are now facing a massive witchhunt of the Left up and down the country.  People who were cleared of false allegations of ‘anti-Semitism’ are now being resuspended. The latest suspensions are Liverpool Councillor Sam Gorst and ex-miner John Dunn. (see the LLA Resolution here).
Starmer has paid off the very staff who according to the Leaked Report spent over 3 years campaigning against Corbyn and Labour. Unfortunately Corbyn was too stupid to realise that the ‘anti-Semitism’ campaign was not about anti-Semitism but him.
If Starmer had behaved like this when Director of Public Prosecutions and tried to buy off witnesses, he would have been arrested for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.
Labour’s staff were ably supported by Lansman who devised the theory of unconscious anti-Semitism to justify the ‘anti-Semitism’ witch-hunt whilst ignoring the very conscious racism of Windrush and Grenfell. Now that the Lansmanites have been defeated it remains to be seen if Forward Momentum is going to mobilise against the rightward direction of the party. Unfortunately the involvement of the Zionist AWL in them is not encouraging.
Starmer, via his glove puppet, the arch-Blairite David Evans has made it quite clear that he wants to destroy freedom of speech in the Party. His chosen instrument is the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
The IHRA definition’ of anti-Semitism was adopted after a massive Zionist and press campaign in September 208 in the vain hope that it would bring an end to the false anti-Semitism charges. Instead it massively increased the campaign because it allowed the Right to label all opposition to Israel and Zionism as ‘anti-Semitism’. It has been a weapon in the hands of the Labour Right fashioned by Lansman. 
According to Evans it was ‘properly adopted’ and ‘CLPs and branches have no powers to overturn this decision.’ What Evans is saying is that the Labour Party has no right to change its policy except when its leadership agrees. Evans even had the audacity to suggest that motions opposing the IHRA ‘undermine the Labour Party’s ability to tackle racism.’
This is the phrase that is used in virtually every suspension letter contains. It is difficult to understand how the abolition of the IHRA, whose sole purpose is to define opposition to the world’s most racist state as ‘anti-Semitic’, can undermine the Labour Party’s ability to tackle racism.
For one thing the Labour Party does nothing to oppose racism. Only last week Starmer failed to attack the Tories for using terms like ‘invasion’ to describe the desperate plight of the refugees crossing the English Channel.  Instead this stuffed ruling class dummy attacked the ‘incompetence’ of the Tories.  Presumably they weren’t deporting the refugees back quickly enough.
As Skwawkbox said, the IHRA doesn’t even describe itself as a definition as 500+ words is patently not a definition.  It is a ‘non-legally binding’ definition that governments, including anti-Semitic governments have adopted.
Evan’s warning not to discuss the fraudulent settlement with Sam Matthews and his fellow criminals should be ignored and defied.  It is clear that Labour’s legal advice was that the corrupt staff under Sam Matthews would lose.  Starmer however  was desperate to bury the Leaked Report. He had set up the Ford Inquiry under pressure, stuffing it with right-wing figures like the anti-Corbyn Baroness Wilcox.
The Leaked Report revealed at least something of the plotting and planning of Labour’s staff against the Corbyn leadership and the membership of the Labour Party. The refusal of the head of the Governance and Legal Unit Sam Matthews to take action against the few actual holocaust deniers like Christopher Crookes, until over 200 members of Labour International signed a petition demanding his expulsion, gave the lie to claims Matthews was prevented in tackling anti-Semitism by Corbyn. His sole goal was to witchhunt the Left not the very few genuine anti-Semites.
Corbyn and his Office pressurised the Compliance Unit to increase the expulsions in order to begin the process of rebuilding trust with the Zionists
To his shame Corbyn and his aides, in particular Laura Murray, actually pressurised the same right-wing staff to expel, Jackie Walker, Marc Wadsworth, Ken Livingstone and myself. We are told on p.306 of the Report that:
Jeremy Corbyn himself and members of his staff team requested to GLU that particular antisemitism cases be dealt with. In 2017 LOTO staff chased for action on high-profile antisemitism cases Ken Livingstone, Tony Greenstein, Jackie Walker and Marc Wadsworth, stressing that these cases were of great concern to Jewish stakeholders and that resolving them was essential to “rebuilding trust between the Labour Party and the Jewish community”..
I have written to Corbyn asking whether he thinks ‘trust’ was re-established when we were expelled of forced out of the party and if not why not? So far he hasn’t replied which is not surprising since Corbyn clearly didn’t have a clue what was happening or why apologising and expelling more people wasn’t the best way of tackling the state inspired campaign to remove him.
What happened was that the witchhunters, after expelling us four, then moved on to new targets like Chris Williamson and Peter Willsman. The more people they expelled the more people the Zionists demanded be expelled. And the more people that were expelled by his Torquemada Formby the more it proved that the Zionists were ‘right’.
When I complained to BBC Panorama about the programme, ‘Is Labour Anti-Semitic?’ and why it did not include those who argued that the whole campaign was fake from beginning to end their response was that even Corbyn accepted that anti-Semitism was a problem in the Labour Party.
The Left needs to take on board the fact that the Right now hold all the levers of power, both in the bureaucracy and on the NEC. The trade unions, with the exception of Unite and some smaller unions, are going along with whatever Starmer demands.  UNISON, which is in the process of electing a new General Secretary to replace the corrupt Dave Prentis, will hopefully break from its uncritical support of Starmer.
However socialists in the Labour Party need to be actively working with and organising with the increasing number of expelled or resigned members outside the Labour Party.
One thing is for certain and that is that Starmer is not going to achieve a Labour majority at the next election. New Labour lost Scotland and it has also lost large parts of the Midlands and North – not because of Brexit – but for historic reasons which I will explain at an opportune moment.
For the moment the Left – from the CLPD and LRC to JVL, Momentum Forward and the LLA, need to devise a strategy of war against Starmer and his cronies. Starmer has proved that he is unfit to lead the Party given his dismal performance over COVID-19. He is a wooden placeman who should be put out to grass.
John Dunn confronting the representative of Big Pharma, Owen Smith
The contrast between the useless gesture of the North Essex officers and John Dunn, one of the original Clay Cross councillors and an ex-Miner at Orgreave, could not be greater. ‘Come and get me you bastards’ was his reaction to being told that he was being investigated again. In 2016 he was suspended for confronting Owen Smith, who was then challenging Corbyn, over his attempt to exploit the sacrifices of the miners at Orgreave for his campaign. Dunn was cleared and the bastards in Southside are now investigating him again.

I also urge people to support the Justice for All Labour Party Members crowdfunding appeal. SS Starmer has torn up all the rules of natural justice. This so-called human rights lawyer’s idea of justice is to present a list of allegations and then ask you to prove your innocence with a 14 day cut-off period.  You are then disciplined by people unknown acting in response to allegations made by anonymous people. It is the democracy of the Stasi.
Even bourgeois courts understand the concept of natural justice better than the scum who are today running the Labour Party. That was why, in December 2017, when I was given 4 weeks from a hospital bed to respond to their thick bundle, despite having been suspended for nearly 2 years I sought and obtained an injunction at the High Court.
In Liverpool meanwhile socialist Councillor Sam Gorst has been suspended on the usual fake allegations as Starmer’s Labour Party seeks to destroy that which was built in the last 4 years. All these actions are taking place under the fast-track procedures which we were assured at the last Labour Party conference would only be used in ‘egregious’ cases.  And who proposed the fast-track procedures which meant no hearing, no trial?
Corbyn and fellow fool Jennie Formby introduced the fast-track procedures. They thought if they sped up the expulsions they could appease the Zionists.  Come December and the Zionist movement, Chief Rabbi Mirvis included, waged a war on Corbyn. I have written to Corbyn asking him to explain his treachery but a fool rarely answers back.
But it is Corbyn’s followers, those who kept apologising for his inadequacies and who refused to tell him to his face that they don’t stop chasing you until you stop running, who are equally responsible.  Instead people like Seamus Milne, Owen Jones, Jon Lansman and even the Jewish Socialists Group’s David Rosenberg ran with the ‘anti-Semitism’ nonsense. They all accepted the Right’s narrative.
Let me leave the last word to my friend Mark Elf of the blog Jewssanfrontieres. He too was suspended and sent the standard letter asking him to prove that he was innocent. Instead he resigned.
Many thought that Corbyn was appeasing the supporters of racist war criminals because he was too nice. He wasn't too nice. He was downright nasty and to his friends too. He wasn't too nice, he was too Labour. Then there was mural gate. A garish arguably but by no means unambiguously antisemitic mural. Even David Toube of Harry's Place, no slouch when it comes to false allegations of antisemitism, didn't think the image antisemitic when he saw it in real life though he changed his mind when he heard the artist's explanation of it. Corbyn didn't even say he like it. He just asked why it was being removed. He might not even have seen it. And guess what? Yup, Corbyn apologised again. And again. And again.
Although the consensus among left groups in the Labour Party is on continuing to work inside, it may well be that that will prove impossible in the long term. Because if one thing is clear it is that the Right are determined never to permit the reoccurrence of another left-wing leader. Their problem is that there will be no repeat of the Blair era either. Like their counterparts in Europe, right-wing social democracy has had its day.
Tony Greenstein

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