Some thoughts about the next steps for the left in the UK
Nah, forget ārecapturingā the ex-Labour party. Itās a zombie. Itās like the toy boats which come by my mooring every Summer: doomed; the expensive indulgence of a class of still grossly over-prosperous bourgeoisie who still havenāt grasped that the post WW2 prosperity that propelled them out of the short-commons working class is now going away again - permanently - and they will be back on plebeian short-commons again themselves soon. What time, they will need a genuinely socialist mass-movement to defend them from the gangsters. One which must be constructed anew.
Start with the grass-roots, organising from there upwards. Hint: Gallowayās MOATS hit over a million viewers worldwide this week. As usual, George has spotted an effective way, opened up by the new comms technologies, to bypass the establishment legacy formations and to speak directly to anyone interested. On the back of this wide exposure, heās also helping to build the Workers Party of Britain, also growing nicely.
Itās a promising line of attack, and one that can open a considerably wider vista even than George is describing at the moment. Heās getting old and crusty, and his blind-spots are a problem - though he is offering to have Richard Gage of AE9/11Truth on his new midweek broadcast slot. So, still open at least to rational arguments with accompanying massive fact-heaps, and to admitting that his original estimate might have been wrong. (It was, of course; completely uninformed denialist of the false flag truth, the silly sod!)
This inventive approach, opened up by the new comms, offers huge possibilities, as people notice that their prosperity is slipping away, seemingly irreversibly, and begin to search around for explantations which make sense; and for lines of counter-attack which also make sense.
Notice too that - unlike Craig Murray, who is having his blog blanket-censored by the Silly Valley gangster capitalist rackets, by shadow-banning, traffic down 90% since he began doing his heroic covering of the Assange kangaroo trial - George is on Sputnik, via RT, and so out of the reach of the illicit censors of the Anglozionist empire. Craig, of course, has an irrational antipathy to things Russian. Blind spots, eh? What are they like! 
Haha, great comment there, RG. On the whole I do agree with you that trying to pull the LP away from the neoliberal apparatchiks seems futile. I watched an interesting discussion by Roger Hallam, where he talks about the dynamics of revolution. His point is that when a revolutionary moment arrives, none of the big players survive. Itās the fringe actors, who represent the most radical change that win out. The authentic voices who clearly say āall this bull has to goā. Not the piecemeal tinkerers who want a slightly different PPI contract.
Obviously Rogerās belief is that the pressure of upcoming climate (and letās add pandemic too) upheaval, and economic ruin, will inexorably move the public closer to the realm of revolution. His hope was that a group like XR, might be well prepared to swoop in from the fringe to be the agent of change when the time comesā¦
I donāt know about XR (and Iād wager Hallam might have changed his mind about them) but Iām pretty sure that the vision for the new aināt coming from the Labour Partyā¦
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Yep. Stories like this just convince me that youāre totally right old friendā¦
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