(29th June 2016, 20:50)Statto Wrote: a decent historical summary of the current Labour Party strife:>> "...There’s something else holding Corbyn in position too. For over two decades Labour’s genuinely socialist element have been derided and marginalised. They’re the red wrapper, the half-hearted singing of the Red Flag at conference. Nostalgia, dismissed with an airy wave and a cynical sneer. You only have to look the PLP’s assumption that the membership would return one of their ‘progressive’ candidates after two election defeats to recognise how impossible the idea of an actual socialist gaining hard power was to them...."
https://shinbonestar.org/2016/06/29/the-long-war/
Someone has tried writing this in a broader, more historical context.
It's not brilliantly written, and a difficult read, but does have a lot of background on this 'left'/'right' split, going back to the very origins of the Labour party
The ORIGINS of LABOUR’s CIVIL WAR
http://wstegcommonsense.blogspot.co.uk/2...ar-as.html
Yet from another perspective...
on the further left, the ICFI / world socialist movement made no bones about denouncing Corbyn's time as Labour leader (!)
Corbyn’s six months as UK Labour leader: A record of capitulation and betrayal
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/03/...s-m24.html
However, they have since rowed back from that position a bit, supporting "every effort made to defeat the right-wing coup plotters and their state-orchestrated conspiracy to shift the political system even further to the right"
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/06/...s-j28.html
...oh well
