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Not only that but from his Wikipedia entry:
“Starmer married Victoria Alexander in 2007. She was previously a solicitor but now works in NHS occupational health. The couple’s son and daughter are being brought up in the Jewish faith of their mother and the family attend Shabbat dinners.”
Thought I would check up on who Sir Trevor Chinn was and this came up in his Wikipedia entry:
”Throughout his life he has also devoted himself to the Jewish community in Britain and supporting Israel in a number of roles, for example: chairman and President of the Joint Israel Appeal, the leading organisation in Britain supporting Israel’s humanitarian needs; board member of The Jewish Community Centre for London, President of Norwood from 1996 to 2006; one of the founders of the Jewish Association for Business Ethics (and now Vice-President). Sir Trevor currently sits on the Executive Committee of the Jewish Leadership Council and the Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM)”.
I am not a Chomsky fan but I think they are being unfair by interviewing him. He is no longer his old self and is talking nonsenses. It sort of sad.
Don’t worry. It’s not going to happen. This is fantasy politics. Trump will be removed, if that’s what you want, if enough people vote for his main opponent, as seems to be what is happening with millions of people having already voted for this.
And I don’t believe that the leaders of the Republican Party have been plotting a fascist coup for the past four years. They are more likely to having been plotting how to dump Trump as his antics have cost them business support and may lose them control of the Senate.
More on how and why the far left, this time the Maoists and Stalinists, are saying Vote for Biden:
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/aug/3/revolutionary-communist-party-leader-backs-biden/
A word of caution. The Washington Times is owned by the Moonies and is supporting Trump. They obviously want to say that Biden is being supported by the “Cahmunnists”. That explains why they’ve published this but that doesn’t mean that what they report is untrue.
“Michael Albert of Parecon presents the Biden lesser evil argument, which now seems to coalescing around the case that fighting for reforms will be easier under Biden than Trump.”
Just read his article. The trouble with his argument is that it could apply not just to this election but to any election as you could always argue that you’ve got a better chance to get reforms under one candidate than under the other. It might lead to some counter-instinctive advice e.g. in England to vote Tory as the unions tend to pull their punches when there’s a Labour government !
There is an article in the Fall 2020 of the WSP of the US journal the World Socialist, expressing a member’s personal view, that even though Biden is the lesser evil (the author writes that he “clearly” is) that is not necessarily a reason for voting for him (because he will fail to reform capitalism as he promises and that this will lead to a backlash against reformism and a revival of the greater evil). It’s an argument. He ends the article:
“As for the choice between not voting, casting an invalid ballot, and tactical voting for Biden in order to oust Trump, let our fellow workers think things through and decide for themselves. They can manage without our advice. ”
Of course this will happen anyway whatever we say. Actually, the indications are that workers have begun to vote to kick Trump out and that this is likely to happen.
Yes outrageous. Whatever else he is Corbyn is not anti-Semitic. His “crime” was to be pro-Palestine. While MPs call for an enquiry into Russian influence in British politics, they let Israel, with the aid of their supporters in Britain, get away with a coup the Russian intelligence services would love to be able to do.
I think it may be the moment to wind up this thread. It’s a losing battle. The Zionists have been able to get it accepted that anti-Zionism is a form of anti-semitism and it’s difficult to see that changing.
We have more important linguistic battles to fight as over the meaning of the word socialism. That’s one we mustn’t lose.
When we have stood in parliamentary elections we get inundated with emails from their members to our candidate in support of some well-meaning reform. We don’t mind at all since it gives us hundreds of people to reply to putting our case, drawing attention to our website, etc.
Apparently this is why they call themselves 38 degrees:
”38 Degrees takes its name from the angle at which snowflakes come together to form an avalanche.”
We too are trying to start an avalanche even if we are far from being “snowflakes.”
Or maybe the socialist revolution will be more like a snowball than an avalanche, getting bigger and bigger as it rolls along. Who knows?
Ok I concede but the more you learn about the American political system the more and more undemocratic it is revealed to be.
”Faithless electors”, what next !
I bet you didn’t know this either. I didn’t till a couple of hours ago. Not all members of the Electoral College are mandated to vote for the candidate who comes first in their state. Seven didn’t last time, in 2016, including one who voted for Bernie Sanders:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_electors_in_the_2016_United_States_presidential_election
Yes, interesting. What seems to have been voted for is the election of a Constituent Assembly to draw up a new constitution to put to a referendum. They will probably come up with something more democratic (politically) but might include a list of grandiose but unenforceable “rights”.
Today’s Times says referring to the present constitution;
”Critics say that the constitution prioritises profit over individual rights. The fundamental right to housing, for example, is not enshrined.”
No such “right” exists under capitalism not can exist (except on paper). And even if the new constitution doesn’t prioritise profits the capitalist economy will of course.
Now they have started to intimidate critics:
What’s wrong with them? Either they are nasty anti-democrats or they like shooting themselves in the foot.
Did somebody say “red fascism”?
Apparently the future Labour Prime Minister, Sir Keith Starmer, really was a Trot in his youth. I thought it was just a rumour but it seems not:
http://another-green-world.blogspot.com/2020/04/when-keir-starmer-was-marxist.html?m=1 u i
In July 1874 Marx and his wife took a holiday in Ventnor on the Isle of Wight. Apparently there was a local election on there as Marx wrote to Engels ( who was on holiday in Ramsgate) on 15 July:
”Religion seems to thrive here among the NATIVES, but apart from that they are practical people. ‘VOTE FOR STANLEY, THE RICH MAN’, we found on posters all over the district.”
He could almost have been talking about the USA today.
