Thread by @josephattard02

Jeremy Corbyn denied whip by NEC vote of 23-14 with 1 abstention.

A predictable, yet scandalous result.

This *should* provoke outrage & a concerted campaign from Momentum, SCG etc.

But then, that *should* have been their response to Corbyn's suspension in the first place.

Rather than despairing at this result, which we all saw coming, those who passed through the school of the Corbyn period should absorb the lessons: the good and the bad.

Above all: you cannot accommodate, reason or unite with the agents of capitalism in the labour movement.

The right are winning because they are ruthless in their goal, and they have the establishment behind them.

Corbyn and the left should have been equally intransigent: launching a civil war against the right, democratically empowering the grassroots to boot them out.

Instead, they equivocated, and ultimately ended up undermining the inspiring movement that had the establishment shaking in its shoes. The reason the Blairites are hellbent on destroying every last vestige of the Corbyn movement is the establishment *still* fears its legacy.

We are entering into a period of profound instability: economic, political and social crisis. Neither the Tories nor a pro-capitalist Labour Party will be able to provide solutions to the inherent dislocation of the capitalist system itself.

The working class will be forced to defend itself. There will be new eruptions. We need to be ready.

Don't despair: organise!

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