Torturer, Jack Straw, has been interviewed by Sky News. Here we have another ‘centrist’ war criminal rewriting history, saying Corbyn was ‘driving Labour into a brick wall’.
The actual reality:
Corbyn’s Labour, in 2017, achieved huge gains, reviving the party following decline under Blair’s neoliberalism.
This was achieved despite constant undermining from the likes of Jack Straw in the PLP. (Labour would have won the election with ease, had those extremists united behind an agenda that sought to make the UK about as ‘radical’ as Finland).
Then Labour did horrendously in 2019, largely thanks to:
- Brexit polarisation, fuelled by the Blairite’s demand for a second referendum
- An incredibly vicious propaganda campaign against Corbyn
Monday, 13 July 2020
The far-right beats the centrists in Poland
The far-right have beaten the centrists in Poland.
Will centrists ever learn? They have no solutions to anything - in fact, it’s their neoliberal policies that directly fuels the anger which leaves people vulnerable to manipulation by the right.
They give the far-right an opportunity to offer false, and extremely dangerous, solutions.
We need left radicalism to defeat these neo-fascist movements, but it seems the centrists will never allow that.
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What will the EU and western 'human rights activists' be doing about this? Will Poland's increasing homophobia get the same level of condemnation, (and sanctions), as Russia's? Of course not! Because what matters most is that Poland remains part of the western capitalist empire. Human rights are just there to be weaponized when appropriate, to advance that empire.
Will centrists ever learn? They have no solutions to anything - in fact, it’s their neoliberal policies that directly fuels the anger which leaves people vulnerable to manipulation by the right.
They give the far-right an opportunity to offer false, and extremely dangerous, solutions.
We need left radicalism to defeat these neo-fascist movements, but it seems the centrists will never allow that.
.....
What will the EU and western 'human rights activists' be doing about this? Will Poland's increasing homophobia get the same level of condemnation, (and sanctions), as Russia's? Of course not! Because what matters most is that Poland remains part of the western capitalist empire. Human rights are just there to be weaponized when appropriate, to advance that empire.
Sunday, 12 July 2020
Western 'civilization' has destroyed the earth. We need to learn from those who're yet to be 'civilized'.
What's 'civilized' about western civilization? We've almost destroyed the planet, with our system and its need for perpetual plunder and growth.
We need to learn from indigenous people around the world, who’ve so far managed to avoid western/capitalist colonization, and who still manage to live in harmony with nature.
Read here and here.
Also read this book.
And watch these two brilliant documentaries, about the indigenous Kogi people in Columbia, who've managed to survive despite European colonization. They invited a BBC film crew in, to document them for the first time, because they wanted to let us know that we non-indiginous colonizers - 'the younger brothers' - are destroying the earth.
Some quotes from them:
"Stop digging in the earth and stealing the gold... I don't know when the world will end, but their looting will destroy it. They've taken so much. They've taken the guardians, the sun, the stars; the world will go black... If no one was doing our work, the rain wouldn't fall from the sky. It would get hotter and hotter. The trees wouldn't grow and the crops wouldn't grow."
"The earth is weak and diseased. The animals die. The trees dry up, become ill. Many new illnesses will appear; there will be no cure or medicine for them, and the reason is that the younger brother is violating fundamental principles continually and totally; drilling, mining, extracting petrol, minerals; stripping away the world. This is destroying all order and damaging the world. BBC, tell the younger brother - open your eyes!".
“We had many things. Younger brother took it all. So now we sorrow. We are weak. We can see the earth is decaying. It is losing its strength because of your greed.”
"Younger brother must listen and stop causing damage, or nature herself will finish us off".
We need to learn from indigenous people around the world, who’ve so far managed to avoid western/capitalist colonization, and who still manage to live in harmony with nature.
Read here and here.
Also read this book.
And watch these two brilliant documentaries, about the indigenous Kogi people in Columbia, who've managed to survive despite European colonization. They invited a BBC film crew in, to document them for the first time, because they wanted to let us know that we non-indiginous colonizers - 'the younger brothers' - are destroying the earth.
Some quotes from them:
"Stop digging in the earth and stealing the gold... I don't know when the world will end, but their looting will destroy it. They've taken so much. They've taken the guardians, the sun, the stars; the world will go black... If no one was doing our work, the rain wouldn't fall from the sky. It would get hotter and hotter. The trees wouldn't grow and the crops wouldn't grow."
"The earth is weak and diseased. The animals die. The trees dry up, become ill. Many new illnesses will appear; there will be no cure or medicine for them, and the reason is that the younger brother is violating fundamental principles continually and totally; drilling, mining, extracting petrol, minerals; stripping away the world. This is destroying all order and damaging the world. BBC, tell the younger brother - open your eyes!".
“We had many things. Younger brother took it all. So now we sorrow. We are weak. We can see the earth is decaying. It is losing its strength because of your greed.”
"Younger brother must listen and stop causing damage, or nature herself will finish us off".
Thursday, 9 July 2020
Message to socialist Labour members/supporters who backed the People's Vote
By refusing to acknowledge that Labour’s second referendum policy is what led to such a disastrous election result, you’re helping to enable the Blairite narrative that we lost due to leftist policies. You're helping to push the party back to the right.
You were misled by the Blairite-led PV campaign. The stats made clear that disrespecting the referendum result would be electorally suicidal, but arrogant, Corbyn-hating centrists ignored this, and manipulated much of the left into believing a second referendum would lead to election success. Perhaps due to delusion, perhaps due to them wanting rid of Corbyn, who knows.
And now, by not acknowledging the above, and by voting for and supporting Keir Starmer, you are continuing to let them use you. You’ve played into their hands at every step. Wake up. Don’t let them destroy what we achieved these last 5 years. (Maybe too late).
You were misled by the Blairite-led PV campaign. The stats made clear that disrespecting the referendum result would be electorally suicidal, but arrogant, Corbyn-hating centrists ignored this, and manipulated much of the left into believing a second referendum would lead to election success. Perhaps due to delusion, perhaps due to them wanting rid of Corbyn, who knows.
And now, by not acknowledging the above, and by voting for and supporting Keir Starmer, you are continuing to let them use you. You’ve played into their hands at every step. Wake up. Don’t let them destroy what we achieved these last 5 years. (Maybe too late).
'Free Press' lol!
Former Tory Chancellor, George Osbourne steps down as editor of one of London's leading newspapers.
...to be replaced by David Cameron’s sister-in-law!
But the BBC doesn’t seem to think that particularly noteworthy. That the elite class control our ‘free press’, is just the norm.
Just imagine the tone of this article if this was Russia, Putin stepped down, and then his right-hand man, followed by his sister-in-law, took charge of one of Moscow’s leading newspapers.
Western exceptionalism is disgusting.
...to be replaced by David Cameron’s sister-in-law!
But the BBC doesn’t seem to think that particularly noteworthy. That the elite class control our ‘free press’, is just the norm.
Just imagine the tone of this article if this was Russia, Putin stepped down, and then his right-hand man, followed by his sister-in-law, took charge of one of Moscow’s leading newspapers.
Western exceptionalism is disgusting.
Sunday, 5 July 2020
Monument to Tony Blair?! Wtf
Labour Shadow Foreign Secretary, Lisa Nandy, has suggested we build a monument to Tony Blair, for his work on environmentalism.
This is the blood-drenched, corrupt warmonger who literally helped destroy an entire region of the planet; not to mention his support for ecocidal free trade deals.
What. The Fuck.
And how is it not a sackable offense to call for a monument to someone who helped kill one million brown people in an illegal oil war? I thought Keir Starmer wanted to rid the party of racism?
What a sick farce everything is under capitalism. Instead of calling for war criminals to be prosecuted, we have an ‘opposition’ party that wants to celebrate them.
The current protest movements need to focus on the present, not just the past, because nothing really changed. We’re still ruled by racist imperialists, no different to those whose statues are currently being torn down by Black Lives Matter activists.
This is the blood-drenched, corrupt warmonger who literally helped destroy an entire region of the planet; not to mention his support for ecocidal free trade deals.
What. The Fuck.
And how is it not a sackable offense to call for a monument to someone who helped kill one million brown people in an illegal oil war? I thought Keir Starmer wanted to rid the party of racism?
What a sick farce everything is under capitalism. Instead of calling for war criminals to be prosecuted, we have an ‘opposition’ party that wants to celebrate them.
The current protest movements need to focus on the present, not just the past, because nothing really changed. We’re still ruled by racist imperialists, no different to those whose statues are currently being torn down by Black Lives Matter activists.
Saturday, 4 July 2020
'Human Rights' Organizations
Watch this.
Stick 'human rights' on your organization, then get taken seriously by western media and governments - even when the organization is blatantly just a vehicle for advancing the interests of big business.
We really have to do ourselves what the media rarely does – check sources! When something is being reported, look up what NGO/think tank the info is coming from and check who is running and funding it.
The BBC and others cite, and invites representatives on, from various think tanks all the time, as though they’re just impartial sources of information, despite often being run by former US politicians, and funded by weapons manufacturers and big oil.
Stick 'human rights' on your organization, then get taken seriously by western media and governments - even when the organization is blatantly just a vehicle for advancing the interests of big business.
We really have to do ourselves what the media rarely does – check sources! When something is being reported, look up what NGO/think tank the info is coming from and check who is running and funding it.
The BBC and others cite, and invites representatives on, from various think tanks all the time, as though they’re just impartial sources of information, despite often being run by former US politicians, and funded by weapons manufacturers and big oil.
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