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Raz O'Connor

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Marxist Musing and Musings. Member of the Socialist Party (www.socialistparty.org.uk), always speaking in a personal capacity only

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06.08.2025 14:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Despite the best intentions"?

Their intentions were made perfectly clear before the election by the way they purged the Left, abandoned all of Starmer's pledges from his leadership election & went on TV to defend an ongoing genocide

The status quo of a failed system had them hooked from the start

06.08.2025 06:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

This is good

05.08.2025 15:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Interesting

05.08.2025 15:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Great point

05.08.2025 15:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Now follow up meetings are happening for members of each separate union. The Socialist Party is also organising public meetings in many cities to make these arguments. Look on our website for more details.

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05.08.2025 13:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

...party policy collectively.
On Monday 21st July a thousand trade unionists from over 30 unions took place in an online meeting with Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, organised by Dave Nellist of the Socialist Party, to argue for the unions to be the basis of the new party, under a federal structure

05.08.2025 13:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

โ€œOne Member One Voteโ€ as Zarah Sultana suggested in her recent interview with Novara Media, but rather on a federal basis, as Jeremy Corbyn said in his recent interview with Owen Jones. Different democratic organisations of the working class, including unions, must federate together and decide...

05.08.2025 13:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

... to participate in forming the policy of a new mass workers party via their democratic union structures, they would likely vote for that new party anyway, since they will feel it belongs to them even if they never actually join it. This is why the new party mustn't be organised on the basis of...

05.08.2025 13:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

...vote for Jeremy Corbyn back then. Millions did not vote for anyone, and millions of others voted for either Nigel Farageโ€™s parties, or for the Tories, due to Brexit.
In many union branches, including my own, there are people sympathetic to Nigel Farage. But if they felt they had a fair chance...

05.08.2025 13:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Is Corbyn's party really going to be a party of the working class? TikTok video by Raz O'Connor

Would you vote for a political party led by Jeremy Corbyn?
If you voted for Labour under his leadership in the elections of 2017 or 2019, then you may say โ€œyesโ€. But there were still millions of working class people who did not...

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05.08.2025 13:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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