George Pennefather
Thu, 9 Mar 2000 11:10:57 -0800
Three cheers for Hugh. What would we all do without him. Hugh: It's not a static question. It's a question of a movement being built around Livingstone's candidacy that might well be able to use a few fundamental democratic, anti-bourgeois slogans to gather behind it all the popular disaffection and hatred for New Labour's neo-liberal Tory policies that exists in London. Warm regards George Pennefather Be free to check out our Communist Think-Tank web site at http://homepage.eircom.net/~beprepared/ Be free to subscribe to our Communist Think-Tank mailing community by simply placing subscribe in the body of the message at the following address: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hugh: It's not a static question. It's a question of a movement being built around Livingstone's candidacy that might well be able to use a few fundamental democratic, anti-bourgeois slogans to gather behind it all the popular disaffection and hatred for New Labour's neo-liberal Tory policies that exists in London. The outcome in terms of votes cast and local government measures will be less interesting than the shift produced in the balance of forces between a radicalizing mass movement and all the various shades of manipulative self-seekers in the Labour party machine and Livingstone's immediate entourage. Anyone seriously interested in building a solid revolutionary working-class party and solid revolutionary working-class movements will want to get stuck in here. Anyone not seeing this as a heaven-sent opportunity will earn themselves the title of armchair pedants at worst or sponsors of individual anarchistic heroics at best. It's also obvious from the red-baiting that's getting started now, and the horror felt by Livingstone himself at being taken seriously when he pays lip-service to socialism, that the intervention of revolutionary Marxists in this campaign will not be easy. In other words, a real and exciting challenge lies ahead. Cheers, Hugh --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- --- from list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---