You have to understand the British elite's war on left ideologies as reactions, not action: BLM triggers the "war on woke"; the huge Gaza/Al-Aqsa demos trigger this new attack on the concept of #WhitePrivilege ... soon there'll be a full-blown attempt to ban #CRT ... 1/...
2/ ... but the action/reaction cycle is international, with the Murdoch empire as the vector. If Fox is banging on about #CRT thousands of times a month, but the UK Times and Sky are not, things feel out of joint...
3/ So the whole Anglosphere, from Sydney to Belfast, has to jump to the rhythm of the GOP right, which in turn is the willing host of fascist groups and ideologies...
4/ It's true that working class kids, who are predominantly white, have been let down - no, that's too weak - in some cases socially destroyed, by an education system geared to mental "discipline and punish" routines...
5/ If there's an "industry" in promoting the rights and achievements of ethnic minority pupils that's because of a basic social need. I was a Section 11 teacher in the 1990s; I worked for the state helping migrant kids to read...
6/ By the same token there is a healthcare industry, there is a dentistry industry, there is a policing industry. It's just another fascist-feeding insult cooked up by Tory racists to denigrate the efforts of migrant children and those trying to give them an equal start...
7/ The Tories have seen the mobilising power of the anti-CRT movement, stirred up by Fox. Despite ladling time and attention to the Gammon Channel, it's not working here: they need angry white parents at the school gates...
8/ ... The point of the labour movement's anti-racist stance is that it begins from the understanding: racism is structural; white privilege exists - any workplace rep can tell you that - we know who gets targeted, who doesn't get promoted...
9/ ... and it wasn't CRT that invented the "wages of whiteness", nor identified it with the history of colonialism/slavery - it was working-class black Marxists in the 20th century...
10/ The Tory report says to elderly white racists: "if your kids are trapped in a dead end job, on low pay, in a town that's experienced social death - don't blame the hedge funds, the landowners, the corrupt politicians - blame the kid with brown skin and their teachers..."
11/ Each of these attacks tests the moral fibre of the labour movement: are we prepared to stand up for the things we believe in; for basic concepts like equality and universal human rights; for class solidarity?
12/ I don't want to hear from politicians who can't state: Britain is structurally racist, its society is systemically racist because it was founded on slavery and colonialism, and the same system keeps poor white children "in their place" - so we stand together...
13/ I above all don't want to hear from any Labour MP who thinks anti-racism is a "secondary issue to our core communities". The core communities of socialism are the communities who don't like the results of capitalism and are fighting it...
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