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Faiza Shaheen, who was the Labour PPC for Chingford & Woodford Green before she was politically ambushed by the Labour leadership for social media activity, has resigned from the Labour Party. No news yet if she’s standing as an independent:
I thought this was interesting clip of Michael Crick talking about the vindictiveness of the Labour Right over the selection of parliamentary candidates. No doubt this past week of Starmer own goals will be (temporarily) forgotten come July 5th but I think it does point to a deeper poison within the current Labour leadership. This kind of political-gangsterism will be par for the course for the Labour Government, and once they run out of Labour Lefts to punch down on, they’ll quickly turn on each other.
During the discussion period of Keith Scholey’s talk on the SPGB and the Spanish Civil War last Friday, I mentioned an article from 1937 on the conflict which appeared in the New York journal, The International Review. The people involved with the IR were the same people who, amongst other things, first translated Martov’s The State and the Socialist Revolution into English and published the pamphlet Bolshevism by Rudolf Sprenger.
The article is well worth a read if you’re interested in the period and the complexities of the situation on the ground. Though there is definitely an overlap of sorts with our position in places in the article, it is the case that ‘Roberto’ was probably writing from a Council Communist position:
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2006/09/spain-turns.html
All Good Men by Trevor Griffiths from 1974.
By all accounts, Griffiths was heavily influenced by Ralph Miliband’s Parliamentary Socialism:
A wee bit of WSM history from 1973.
‘Socialist jailed in Sweden – “Times” uninterested’ (1973)
https://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2015/01/socialist-jailed-in-sweden-times.html
Excellent series.
Also check out Griffiths’ ‘All Good Men’, a standalone Play For Today which is on YouTube, which touches upon similar themes relating to the Labour Party but is more about historical betrayal.
The artists formerly known as Socialist Appeal – and now rebranded, relaunched and regurgitated as the Revolutionary Communist Party – have also replied to Mr Gove:
The former Millies response to Gove:
“. . . a very senior member of the Militant Tendency (who is now a successful playwriter)”
I have to ask . . . who is he?
Fascinating interview from 2002:
22 years ago. no need for additional words. whatever your position on the Israel/Palestinian conflict, please listen. https://t.co/zd5OOIITd0
— Olivier Blanchard (@ojblanchard1) May 12, 2024
This is rather wild. The WPB really are channeling the spirit of the old CPGB of Harry Pollute and Palme Duff:
In honor of Victory in Europe Day, @WorkersPartyGB activists, members and Candidates gathered by the statue of Friedrich Engels to celebrate the allied triumph over Fascism and the contribution that Socialists made to achieve this. We Salute you! pic.twitter.com/rqFkpmfEzt
— Greater Manchester Workers Party (@WPBManchester) May 8, 2024
