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Fair enough. Ok there will be nostalgics in the Russian army for the old USSR. But I still don’t believe that they restored that statute of Lenin or even that it was restored at all. The Ukrainian side also has an interest in cultivating the idea that the Russian government wants to recreate the USSR.
This looks like another piece of fake news. Why would Russian troops bother to restore a statute of Lenin? Don’t those behind this know that “communism” (state capitalism) ended in Russia 30 years ago?
We have discovered a hustings to which we have not been invited:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lambeth-community-hustings-tickets-307494082077
The claim that is only for “major parties” is refuted by fact that the Women’s Equality Party which, like us, is only contesting one ward (as it happens, one bordering on ours), has been invited and given a link to their website.
We don’t suppose many, if any, will attend their online event but it’s a question of principle. So we wrote asking for an invitation, to which we got the following reply:
“Thanks for getting in touch. As we already have five confirmed candidates taking part we will need to put Danny on a holding list for the panel. Lambeth Labour are still to reply; we need to hold a spot for them in case they do want to take part, and any more than six on the panel will be unworkable.
Leave it with us and we’ll come back to you if a space opens up.
Thank you
Ben”Naturally, this is unacceptable and we have replied insisting on being invited.
We shall certainly be leafletting their day of action of Saturday 23rd even though it coincides with Conference (but Windrush Square isnt all that far from Clapham High Street).
That article, in view of other reports, is not unbelievable. One criticism of it would be that it describes the pro-Russian politicians and parties as “leftwing” whereas they are Russian nationalists.
As in all wars, atrocities are being committed by both sides but we are being asked to back one of them. What is particularly hypocritical is that the side we are told that we should back is claimed to be fighting for democracy, the rule of law and all that. But they are just Ukrainian nationalists out to defend the existence and territorial integrity of the Ukrainian capitalist state.
Meanwhile, that we are standing in Tunbridge Wells gets a mention in the local media:
Someone who has a real stake in the outcome of the war — Ukraine’s richest oligarch. He wants his steelworks (plural) back:
Four members distributed a further 1400 this afternoon which means that most of the streets in the ward have now been leafletted. The few remaining can be done next week or later.
More signs of some other political activity this time such as a window poster saying saying “Keep Calm and Vote for Any Party but Labour”. Also the manifesto of the Labour candidates for the neighbouring Brixton Acre ward.
Imposs1904 will be pleased that it is not only Red Fightback that it concerned with toilet matters. Lambeth Labour is too. Their candidates pledge that “we’ll tackle fly tipping, public urination and litter through long term solutions.” Unfortunately this won’t help Imposs1904 as they propose to deal with this not by providing more public toilets but by “increasing police presence”.
It used to be called transportation. The scheme is not going to work anyway. If there really were opportunities for jobs in Rwanda people would be moving there from nearer countries. The most likely outcome is that the Rwandan authorities will take the money and, after a year or so, run to somewhere like Switzerland or the Cayman Islands leaving the transported Kurds and Afghans destitute. It’s so predictable.
Just saw this. The Greens’ view on how to support NATO’s proxy war against Russia, even if it’s a pain they want to impose on us anyway:
“Germans are being urged to turn down their heating by a degree and use the train or bike over Easter to help reduce their dependence on Russian gas and oil.
‘It’s easy on the wallet and annoys Putin,’ says Economics Minister Robert Habeck, who’s also joint leader of the Greens, one of three parties running Germany.”So it’s guns before butter as well as a rise in the price of butter. I don’t think that workers in Germany — and elsewhere — are going to like the pain their rulers want to impose on them to support Ukraine in the Ukraino-Russian War.
Russell Brand is doing his show at the Brixton Academy on Monday 30 May. Doors open at 17.00. Anyone here up for leafletting the event?
Robbo has drawn attention on our Facebook page to this case. Here is how it is reported from both sides but the fact that he has been arrested and faces trial is not disputed:
Both sides are trying to stamp out opposition to the war in their states.
The Ukrainian secret service, the SBU, will also be a descendant of the KGB. According to the Wikipedia entry on the Security Service of Ukraine (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_Service_of_Ukraine):
“According to reports of UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, the SBU personnel is accountable for multiple cases of human rights abuses including enforced disappearings, sexual violence, and torture.
In 2016, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reported that the SBU operates secret detention facilities where civilians are held incommunicado being subjected to improper treatment and torture.”And we are being asked to take sides between these two authoritarian regimes.
Yes, you are right. Most people don’t bother to vote in local elections. 40 percent is a good turn out. I suppose they know from experience that it doesn’t matter for their daily life who controls the council. Local councillors are in fact little more than elected civil servants charged with spending national money locally and with a bit of discretion on some matters.
Even so, they still provide us with a chance to get a word in edgeways for those who do take an interest to hear. And our QR experiment will tell us something.
A further 800 or so leaflets were distributed yesterday in two of the four polling districts. The only other sign of any political activity was one of the LibDem candidates for the neighbouring Clapham Common and Abbeville ward seen on the border between that ward and Clapham East. We gave him a leaflet and took one of his (usual stuff, based on a misleading comparison, about it being a two-horse race, in this case between them and Labour, a bold claim in an area which last time elected the only Tory councillors in Lambeth).
Only one more polling district to cover. Which we will do tomorrow. After that, we will have to distribute the leaflets left over in neighbouring ward, for the QR code.
We have been here before. In 2014 after the publication of his book Revolution. The Open Letter below caused a bit of a controversy in the Party with some mebers dismissing him as a poseur. I don’t think he is, though he certainly had been in the past.
