Roger Silverman It won’t surprise many of us to learn that the recent Labour Party conference was nothing remotely like the press and media reports. For them, it was a disaster: rival factions were tearing the party to pieces over Brexit and anti-semitism, and Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership was finished. This was not the conference I attended, as delegate from my constituency party. The first … [Read more...]
The Labour Left Alliance
A new democratic and genuine grassroots alliance of the Left in the UK Labour Party launched this summer. The Labour Left Alliance is a network of national and local left groups and individuals, who recognise the vacuum within the Left in the Labour Party and who want to organise democratically and transparently in order to: Support Corbyn (and by extension, his supporters) against attacks by … [Read more...]
Labour and Britain’s Crisis
Beneath the immediate crisis over whether, when and how Britain is to leave the European Union lies a deeper trend: the chronic decline and death agony of British capitalism. Where once it was the “workshop of the world”, today it is losing its last remnants of productive industry, most of them by now assembly plants owned by Japanese, Indian and other foreign companies. Where once it ruled “an … [Read more...]
ZIONISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM
The following is the transcript of a talk given to a meeting of Newham Momentum on 12th June 2018 A New Weapon Against the Left Anti-semitism is an age-old phenomenon, and once again it is in the air – but this time as a weapon of slander against the left, by the Tories, the billionaire media, the BBC, the Guardian, and above all the Blairite faction now dislodged from the Labour leadership but … [Read more...]