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Justin Schlosberg Profile picture
@jrschlosberg
Sep 11, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Interesting analysis but the problem, in my humble view, is not that the party machinery is under the control of the 'dominant faction'. The problem is that the dominant faction IS the Labour Party...

labouroutlook.org/2020/09/11/cor…
The Corbyn project was a historical aberration. At least for the last 40 years, the left has only been tolerated so long as it was contained within the margins of the backbenches...
In spite of overwhelmingly powerful and hostile opposition within, without and throughout, Corbyn came within inches of Number 10, forcing an unprecedented number of government u-turns & climb downs, including a Tory 2019 manifesto that matched Labour's spending pledges in 2017..
If it couldn't happen then - at that moment - I find it impossible to imagine how @UKLabour could ever be an effective vehicle for genuine social democracy.

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Why the Corbyn left is sliding into political relevance and what can be done about it.. a long 🧵 Image
Prior to the July election, I was one of the co-founders of a new organisation called Collective - aiming to unite various groups and factions of the left and establish the first mass party of the working class in Britain outside of the Labour Party...we-are-collective.org
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One of the great untold stories of this election is that Labour's polling has dropped even more steeply than the Tories' since the campaigns got underway...1/ Image
The reason why this story has been ignored by everyone from the Guardian to the Murdoch press is because it calls into question the singular dominant narrative that the only alternative to the status quo is Farage and the far right... 2/
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20 years ago the US and UK governments launched an illegal war which claimed the lives of nearly a million innocent civilians. They did so on a pack of lies which served to cover up the oil profiteering and conspiracy leading up to the invasion..
Those lies were the culmination of a political culture that became closely associated with Tony Blair's New Labour government and the incestuous ties that were cemented with the Murdoch media empire...

theguardian.com/politics/blog/…
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Feb 15, 2023
Starmer's self congratulations on the handling of antisemitism within the Labour Party is built on one of the most comprehensive cover ups in modern British politics, and a litany of lies that makes Boris Johnson look like an oracle of truth telling...
the principle lie is that the previous leadership 'interfered' in order to undermine the proper handling of antisemitism complaints. As anyone with the slightest relationship to facts will know, that is not just a lie, it is an Orwellian inversion of the truth...
here's just one of countless examples where the Corbyn leadership was trying to get a hostile, right wing party bureaucracy to act on antisemitism complaints, disclosed long before the EHRC report or even Panorama's widely discredited episode on the topic..
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Nov 30, 2022
John Ware claims he declined to sue me because I have a "young family". I'd love to believe such an act of benevolence. But I wonder why, in that case, he has steadfastly refused to answer the sort of questions I've been putting to him for 2 years:

jewishnews.co.uk/opinion-denied…
In the above article Ware laments that his rebuttals have been 'ignored'. I have a similar frustration, beginning more or less when he refused to address my pre-publication questions for this article in 2020:

novaramedia.com/2020/07/22/bbc…
In particular, the article revealed that in spite of the BBC's repeated claims that it offered a 'full right of reply' to Labour, aspects of that reply - which spoke directly to key sequences in the programme - were ignored...
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Oct 18, 2022
Ware has now 'responded' to myself, @OborneTweets and others in the wake of @AJIunit's #LabourFiles

But in a 6K+ word article he again appears to sidestep the questions I've been trying to put to him and @BBCPanorama for 3+ years..

thearticle.com/rewriting-hist…
He repeats that an interview with @schneiderhome forms the basis of the ‘central allegation’ made against him. Yet, somewhat incredulously, again avoids any mention of the main thrust of that interview..

which is quite clearly concerned with the way in which his programme appeared to carefully select 2 phrases/10 words from an email by Seumas Milne that was querying Jewish Labour members being ‘more than occasionally’ the subject of disciplinary action over antisemitism...
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