by Asa Winstanley
Part 1
The Labour Party suffered a devastating defeat on Thursday.
Jeremy Corbyn immediately announced he would not lead the party into another election.
With this defeat, the UK – and the world – have lost perhaps the best opportunity in a generation to send a resounding message through the ballot box against neoliberal austerity and endless war.
But Labour’s worst performance since 1983 carries an important lesson for the grassroots left-wing campaign in the United States to elect Bernie Sanders as president: You must defeat false anti-Semitism smears at all costs.
Do not indulge, entertain or appease them.
Jeremy Corbyn immediately announced he would not lead the party into another election.
With this defeat, the UK – and the world – have lost perhaps the best opportunity in a generation to send a resounding message through the ballot box against neoliberal austerity and endless war.
But Labour’s worst performance since 1983 carries an important lesson for the grassroots left-wing campaign in the United States to elect Bernie Sanders as president: You must defeat false anti-Semitism smears at all costs.
Do not indulge, entertain or appease them.
The main issue that dominated the UK’s election campaign was the European Union.
Brexit-supporting working class seats in the North punished Labour for endorsing a second referendum. The party was blamed for blocking the result of the 2016 vote, which endorsed leaving the EU.
But aside from Brexit, the only other issue that dominated was “Labour anti-Semitism.”
Brexit-supporting working class seats in the North punished Labour for endorsing a second referendum. The party was blamed for blocking the result of the 2016 vote, which endorsed leaving the EU.
But aside from Brexit, the only other issue that dominated was “Labour anti-Semitism.”
As I have reported for more than four years, Corbyn’s new Labour Party has been subjected to an unprecedented smear campaign.
Yes, of course, in a mass movement of half a million people, there will inevitably be a few with reactionary views.
But the idea that Corbyn’s Labour Party had any unique problem with anti-Semitism was always a deliberate smear campaign. There is simply no evidence for this.
It was a lie manufactured to smash the left and the Palestine solidarity movement.
Yes, of course, in a mass movement of half a million people, there will inevitably be a few with reactionary views.
But the idea that Corbyn’s Labour Party had any unique problem with anti-Semitism was always a deliberate smear campaign. There is simply no evidence for this.
It was a lie manufactured to smash the left and the Palestine solidarity movement.
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