We need a Labour government to undo decades of centrist choas

'Centrists' who say that the left is just as 'extreme' as the right, and thus in some way comparable with fascism, are in denial about what 'centrism' has done to the world, and about the fact that it is 'centrist' neoliberalism that has and is fueling that fascism. Left 'extremism' (i.e. common sense socialism), is the only way it will be defeated.

So-called 'centrism', with its oil wars, its NHS privatization, its mass exploitation of workers, its ecocide for profit, it’s extreme inequality, it's mass redistribution of wealth and power from the many to the few, and it's literal direct support for fascism around the world, is, along with the Farages and Trumps, extremely extreme! The overt far-right that is now on the rise in the west, is just us reaping what has been sown.

The only reason we have an ounce of decency in society is because of collective socialist resistance to capitalism. But this decency has gradually been eroded. Neoliberalism, beginning under Thatcher/Reagan, with its insistance that we focus on the individual rather than on the collective and the communal, destroyed our ability to resist capital; we increasingly became disconnected, mindless money makers/consumers; too distracted and overworked to resist the system being imposed from above.

This enabled capital to run riot; resulting in the wars, the ecocide, the exploitation, the inequality...

We desperately need to undo decades of neoliberalism and regain democratic, collective control over society, away from the unaccountable corporations and billionaires; from the exploiters. It is our only hope for addressing all the above - and for addressing the capitalism-fuelled environmental crisis.

We need a sensible mixed economy, with key industries nationalized, a focus on redistributing power in corporations, the encouragement of cooperatives, and a truly representative, uncorrupt government putting people and planet before profit; a progressive social democracy really. This is what the Labour manifesto calls for.

And of most imminent importance in my opinion - we need to stop the imperialist, for-profit foreign policy (100,000 dead in Yemen so far), and begin making amends for the historical and present day crimes of the British state.