Thread by @CPBritain

JEREMY CORBYN’S suspension from @UKLabour is a declaration of war by the leadership against all socialists.

It throws down the gauntlet to the entire left to rally in defence of the leader who brought socialism back as a major force in British politics.
morningstaronline.co.uk/article/e/jere…

As a lawyer, @Keir_Starmer is well aware that this is a travesty of justice more akin to the proceedings of a witch hunt than any semblance of due process.

He does not care, because the decision to suspend his predecessor is not motivated by Corbyn’s response to the EHRC’s report. It rests on the calculation that the new leadership is now strong enough to expunge the left’s influence from the party altogether.

A key factor in that calculation is undoubtedly that Labour’s internal democracy has been largely suspended since March’s lockdown, with branches unable to properly meet and heavily policed in what they are and are not allowed to do.

And the right’s trump card is that a likely reaction by many left-wing members – to quit the party in disgust – does not bother them. Establishment politicians do not approve of mass politics.

A smaller @UKLabour funded by millionaire donors, competing with the Tories for the job of most competent manager of the status quo every 5 years would suit their purposes far better than an unruly mass membership organisation packed with activists who want to change the world.

Even so, socialist members will be sick of exhortations to “stay and fight,” especially given the necessity of paying membership fees to an organisation that seeks to silence their voices and defame the few MPs who represent their views.

We must stand by the most anti-racist leader the Labour Party has ever had, Jeremy Corbyn, and comrades who are the victims of an appalling smear campaign and insist that Labour and trade union figures do so too.

It is absurd to suggest this indicates tolerance for anti-semitism, which Corbyn has always condemned and fought.

The EHRC report itself notes problems of racism in other parties, contains useful recommendations for changing procedures and acknowledges ...

... the importance of previous investigations, such as the much-maligned Shami Chakrabarti report.

But the report’s pros and cons pale beside the political use to which it is being put — the destruction of the Labour left in order to return the party to uncritical support of British imperialism and the capitalist system at a time of profound social and economic crisis.

Everyone opposed to that outcome must stand with @jeremycorbyn morningstaronline.co.uk/article/e/jere…