What chance of a Green-Left alliance?
JVL Introduction
Since the evisceration of the movement of the left in the Labour Party under Jeremy Corbyn, the cry has gone out from many disillusioned socialists across the UK – we need a new party and we need it now!
Inevitably there are numerous grouplets eager to rally the disaffected to their own banners; there are activists distrustful of electoral politics working on individual campaigns; a significant number of local groups are building alliances within their communities, some registering as parties, some not; there are even some comrades stubbornly hunkering down inside Labour. If, when and how a new party should be built are matters of fervent debate.
In this contribution Owen Jones, whose “We Deserve Better” project backed some Green and independent candidates in the July 4 general election, argues for a parliamentary alliance between those occupying “the vast expanse to the left of Starmerism”.
NWI
This article was originally published by The Guardian on Fri 6 Sep 2024. Read the original here.
Think the left is finished? Look to the Greens and Independent Alliance – and think again
In parliament, a coalition of leftwing MPs dissatisfied with Labour is building. It could become a real power.
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Politicians have no shame and honour these days, they rally for votes then they don’t serve the voters rather they serve the party, in that case they should just ask the party to just elect them in! And we know that is not possible. Electors have become so bitter with politics they abstain from voting, this is purely because they cannot see anyone representing them or care about them. Recent election turnout just proves that! The damage has been done by party politics, corruption and greed. This is why independent politicians are better as they are “for the people, by the people, of the people”.
My point, is that the “Greens” have always been on the “fringe” of the two-party, pro-establishment, pro-state, political oligarchy. With “the Left”, having prevaricated and naval-gazed when the time was “right”, especially those in the “Socialist” Campaign Group of “Labour” MP`s. Are the Greens really in a position to become a mass campaigning, civil-resistance focused, grass-roots driven movement? Are we to become the cuckoos in the Greens comfortable nest, hoping to transform it into a vehicle for radical socialist change? Are we facing the wrong direction, hoping for a replacement Labour Party, when we should be looking to challenge the leadership of the Trades Union Movement and building amongst the organised Labour Movement? Just a few thoughts.
Yes, I agree with Owen Jones. Given Labour’s huge majority and the long time before the next General Election, there may be many labour MP’s – faced with years as a back-bencher and who have kept their left-leaning tendencies well-hidden – who might join a Green-Left alliance.
“Are we to become the cuckoos in the Greens comfortable nest, hoping to transform it into a vehicle for radical socialist change?”
What a load of Trot nonsense. British Greens are awful – just look how they performed in Brighton, a place they’ve actually been in power. They were/are an anti-working class party, and in Germany, Im sure its the Greens that are pushing the whole ‘pro-Palestinian = antisemitism’ the hardest.
“Are we facing the wrong direction, hoping for a replacement Labour Party, when we should be looking to challenge the leadership of the Trades Union Movement and building amongst the organised Labour Movement?”
Yes, you lot have totally lost direction and are totally hopeless if you think a replacement to Labour is needed. Whats needed is a real socialist party, not a replacement of Labour which isn’t and never was socialist. The only thing you have right is bit about challenging the rotten trade union bureaucracy.
The Loveless Landslide means Red Tories are next for evisceration, the other cheek of the Uni party arse
Our Democracy has been totally corrupted, so the only answer is one Independent in every seat, working with the community from here to the next GE
The offer is simple, every vote counts and money is taken out of the equation, a Peoples assembly which works on consensus and over the long term
To bring moral hazard back into the public domain, any individual or group caught corrupting the process would face the harshest sanctions, the first case would be made an example of, it’s an old Magistrates trick, gets the word out and acts as a deterrence