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Wednesday 4 April 2012

Where is the British Left in this list? AGS, CPB and SP

Britain???, Cyprus AKEL, Czech Republic KSCM, Denmark RG-A and SF, Iceland LG-M, Ireland Sinn Féin, France PCF, Germany Die Linke, Greece KKE and Synaspismos, Moldova PCRM, Netherlands SP, Norway SV, Portugal PCP, Russia KPRF and Rodina, Spain IU, Turkey BDP and YAGIZAY, Ukraine KPU, Estonia EER Finland VAS, Italy PRC, Netherlands Groen Links, Sweden V, San Marino SU.

7 comments:

  1. Not a good week for the neo-liberal/neo-conservative political parties, George Galloway's victory in Bradford West isn’t just something that Ed Miliband and the Labour Party didn’t see coming it’s a wakeup call to the broad left parties that people are willing to vote for a genuine left alternative if it’s articulated by someone who has their respect and trust. There are people in the deprived areas of Britain that understand that new/blue-labourism offers nothing different to the Tory/Liberal coalition and a continuation of Thatcherite/Blairite neo-liberal/neo-conservative project. The Communist Party, Socialist Party and Alliance for Green Socialism should be able to provide a Left Front comparable to the Front de Gauche in France if they had George Galloway as their Jean-Luc Mélenchon maybe.

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  2. George Galloway on his own can be a voice for the disaffected and hopefully will fight hard for the people of Bradford West, but on his own he cannot achieve much more than make a noise on the back benches and get some media coverage and the bourgeois capitalist press and TV will be out to marginalize his impact. This is where the broad left need leaders and a party/parties to provide the organization such as we can see in France, let’s hope this is the wakeup call that the CPB, SP and AGS needed to get their act together. I don’t know where Galloway stands on the issue of the European and Scandinavian left parties of the EL and GUE/NGL, it would be a good move if he was in contact with Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Pierre Laurent and Gabi Zimmer.

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  3. Let’s hope Galloway can control his ego, when he says that Respect are now the party of old labour asking for UK wide support, I suspect not. If Ed Miliband is replaced by Yvette Cooper its all the more important that the CPB, SP and AGS get their act together weather this is with Rob Griffiths, Peter Taaffe, Mike Davies as the figure head or George Galloway of Respect. But they need to take lessons from Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Pierre Laurent, Jean-Pierre Brard and Christian Picquet of the Front de Gauche on how to build a viable Left Front as part of a European and Scandinavian fightback against neo-liberal economics and the neo-conservative state/super-state.

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  4. Looking across the channel to France the left are fighting back against the neo-liberal/neo-conservative right. If the Labour Party is now permanently the second choice party of neo-liberal economics and the neo-conservative state in Britain then we need an equivalent Left Front from the Alliance for Green Socialism, Communist Party of Britain and the Socialist Party and affiliate to the European and Scandinavian Left group to represent the working classes that will challenge the neo-liberal economy and neo-conservative government/governance which follow the dictates of the Washington consensus via the IMF, WTO, World Bank, EU, ECB and the nation state.

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  5. If the British Left parties unite with the European and Scandinavian Left parties this can be a real political challenge to the diktats and governance of international finance capital, multinational corporations and the capitalist state/super-state otherwise we will watch the Tories, Liberals and Labour dismantling the social-democratic compromise between capital and labour that was the democratic consensus formed in the mid-20th century until the working classes in Britain face the same health care, education and welfare that is typical for workers in the USA.

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  6. If the Washington consensus that started with the theories of Hayek and Friedman in the 1970’s and in practice with Reagan and Thatcher in the 1980’s in the USA and Britain are enforced on the workers of Europe through the Single European Act of 1995 and the Lisbon Treaty of 2007 and now the new treaty that Merkel and Sarkozy have instigated then they too will face the kind of health care, education and welfare that is typical for workers in the USA and Britain thanks to the Thatcherite/Blairite neo-liberal and neo-conservative polices which have accelerated and become even more draconian and authoritarian under the Tory/Liberal coalition government.

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  7. The question is therefore how do we build a new-historic bloc for a socialist alternative to the post 1979 settlement. Like Jean Luc Mélenchon I would argue there isn’t any prospect of a return to welfare capitalism and the Keynesian economic and political settlement or the ‘‘thirty golden years’’ as economists have called the period between 1945-1975. Therefore it’s not just a case of defending the concrete gains made by social-democracy and welfare capitalism, what is needed is a radical strategy for a socialist programme. This is why Jean-Luc Mélenchon, Pierre Laurent and the Front de gauche have shown the way forward.

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