Posts Tagged ‘Richard Seymour’
Ten Year’s Hard Labour is the most important account yet of the defeat of the Corbyn Project
Chris Williamson describes how the Labour Right, with the complicity of Momentum, allowed the fake ‘Anti-Semitism’ narrative to destroy the Left Ten Year’s Hard Labour – Chris Williamson, Lola Books, 2022, pp. 394 There is a tendency amongst many on the left to engage in an uncritical adulation of Jeremy Corbyn now that we see how awful…
Read MoreHow Leftist Intellectuals Take Fright when Zionism Wages a War on ‘anti-Semitism’
Richard Seymour and Labour’s Antisemitism Affair –straddling both sides of the fence Jacobin is not a site that most people on the left in Britain will be familiar with. It is however a major left-wing journal in the United States. I once contributed Rewriting the Holocaust for Jacobin, in the wake of Netanyahu’s speech to the…
Read MoreJeremy Corbyn Must Follow Ted Heath’s example – He sacked Enoch Powell and Sarah Champion must be sacked
You Can’t Have A Racist in the Shadow Cabinet Update – Victory as Champion Goes Within 12 hours of my posting this blog Sarah Champion had resigned as Shadow Womens and Equalities Spokesperson. It just shows the power of this blog! When Enoch Powell gave his ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech in 1968, Ted Heath instantly sacked…
Read MoreLeft Unity Conference
A banner headline which didn’t match the strap lines Another Missed Opportunity as feminists and reformists link-up Left Unity is the brainchild and founding father, the distinguished socialist film maker Ken Loach who has produced more radical and socialist films that I can remember. Ken Loach – Left Unity’s guiding light According to its own…
Read MoreThe Self-Destruction of the Socialist Workers Party – Now is the Time for a New Left Party
Sexual Harassment & Alleged Rape Were the Symptoms Lack of Democracy was the Cause Martin Smith on the look-out for teenage SWP members? On Sunday March 10th an Emergency Meeting of the SWP voted to endorse the Central Committee’s [CC] handling of the allegations of rape and sexual harassment against Martin Smith ‘Comrade Delta’, as…
Read MoreSWP Central Committee – Rabbits Caught in the Headlights
Gilad Atzmon Rides to the ‘Rescue’ of Martin Smith and the SWP leadership Tony Greenstein Comrade Delta aka Martin Smith at the centre of allegations of rape and sexual harassment I have already posted on the crisis in the SWP, Britain’s largest far-left group. SWP Crisis Over Cover-up of Rape & Sexual Harassment Allegations against…
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