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.
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.
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.