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
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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
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