In an interview with Jacobin, Jeremy Corbyn talks about the need to rebuild the trade unions, internationalism, and why socialists can’t afford to be on the defensive.
oh yeah for sure, he totally should have insta-purged all centrists from the party on day one though in hindsight. the media would have gone wild but it would have faded and then he wouldn't have been constantly undermined from within his own party and might have stood more of a chance.
There's reasonable evidence to suggest that GCHQ and British Military Intelligence were involved in the campaigns against him.
Not to say that he didn't make his own share of mistakes obviously, but yeah, every ghoul in the country was definitely laser focussed on wrecking him in a way that is sometimes difficult to put into words.
he did as well as he did electoraly as far as votes and youth support goes due to a great working class friendly agenda. In his nonexistent compromising handling of inner party neoliberal reaction he didnt do "well"
In Mick Lynch we are seeing what a person who is slightly less naive and slightly more willing to go to battle with the media can do.
We're currently building around union leaders using the same tactics we built Corbyn with and it appears to be paying off. I think if we push a bunch of non-politicians into the limelight and give them the Corbyn treatment we could have a whole suite of popular figures that the media will have a hard time knocking down. They can't smear ALL of them simultaneously, it took 6 years of the entire media attacking just to get their smear to affect Corbyn.
The main task right now seems to be to establish more democracy in the unions. More democracy in the orgs empowers the socialists because the people agree with everything we say. Starmer completely dismantled democracy in the Labour party because there is no way to keep us out of leadership otherwise. We can do the same thing in all of the unions.
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good guy for sure but yeah if you get outwitted and betrayed by the likes of fucking kier starmer you're doing something wrong.
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oh yeah for sure, he totally should have insta-purged all centrists from the party on day one though in hindsight. the media would have gone wild but it would have faded and then he wouldn't have been constantly undermined from within his own party and might have stood more of a chance.
the british media establishment, the tories and all their mates (see house of lords) and half his own party fought against him
it's astounding he did as well as he did
There's reasonable evidence to suggest that GCHQ and British Military Intelligence were involved in the campaigns against him.
Not to say that he didn't make his own share of mistakes obviously, but yeah, every ghoul in the country was definitely laser focussed on wrecking him in a way that is sometimes difficult to put into words.
he did as well as he did electoraly as far as votes and youth support goes due to a great working class friendly agenda. In his nonexistent compromising handling of inner party neoliberal reaction he didnt do "well"
yeah :deeper-sadness:
In Mick Lynch we are seeing what a person who is slightly less naive and slightly more willing to go to battle with the media can do.
We're currently building around union leaders using the same tactics we built Corbyn with and it appears to be paying off. I think if we push a bunch of non-politicians into the limelight and give them the Corbyn treatment we could have a whole suite of popular figures that the media will have a hard time knocking down. They can't smear ALL of them simultaneously, it took 6 years of the entire media attacking just to get their smear to affect Corbyn.
The main task right now seems to be to establish more democracy in the unions. More democracy in the orgs empowers the socialists because the people agree with everything we say. Starmer completely dismantled democracy in the Labour party because there is no way to keep us out of leadership otherwise. We can do the same thing in all of the unions.