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4 Mar, 4 tweets, 1 min read
2 years ago today I was fuming as I heard the Blairite Labour MP, Siobhain McDonagh, agree with John Humphreys on Radio 4, that "to be anti-capitalist you have to be antisemitic". She was doing her best to undermine Jeremy Corbyn at the time instead of attacking the Tories. 1/4
How stupid must she feels today, knowing that she helped usher in our most murderous Tory Government ever, which is now trying to salvage itself by borrowing some economic policies from Corbyn's 2017 manifesto! Starmer, meanwhile, opposes Tory plans to raise Corporation Tax. 2/4
Here are some beautiful Yiddish anti-capitalist words by Sh. Ansky in 1902 to honour the Jewish Workers' Bund: "Mir shvern tsu himl a blutiker has.
tsum merder un royber fun arbeter klas,
der keyser, di hersher, di kapitalistn,
mir shvern zey alemen farnikhtn, farvistn" 3/4
They translate as: "We swear to heaven a bloody hatred to those who murder and rob the working class – the Tsar, the rulers, the capitalists, we swear that they will all be devastated and destroyed." Not by Blairites who themselves use antisemitic stereotypes they won't. 4/4

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