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Greening Newcastle Kick out The… Greening Newcastle Welcome to issue 10 of the magazine of Newcastle Green Party, May 2011 brown” (i.e. Nazi brownshirts). Of course this divided anti-Nazi forces, opening the door to Hitler who promptly destroyed Kick out both groups and, later, many more once he had power. He had promised a racial war and he kept his promise. Yet, those big historical turning points notwithstanding, the fact of the matter is that, more normally, it is a choice between Tweedledum and Tweedledee. Even that example of the Nazi the… take-over of Germany is not straightforward. After all, many he 2010 General Election brought back the issue of back then, including the Social Democrats, saw former World whether to support some lesser evil in terms of calls to War One general Paul von Hindenburg as the lesser evil against Tvote one way or another to keep out the more undesir- Adolf Hitler in the 1932 Presidential campaign. Hindenburg duly able contestant. For many members of the broad anti-war and won… and then made Hitler Chancellor. social justice movement, that enemy was the Conservative Par- In America, it was the ‘lesser evils’ who most escalated the Vi- ty. Now, the “Nasty Party” is back in power, thanks to support etnam War (Lyndon Johnson) and most weakened controls over from Nick Clegg and the leadership of the Liberal Democrats. the banking and finance sector (Bill Clinton), the latter action Doubtless calls will be made that, in future local elections and being the most direct contributory cause of the 2008 financial eventually the next General Election we should all rally behind crisis. Indeed in the case of Barack Obama, there has been much Labour to get rid of the greater evil of the ConDem Coalition. more continuity than change (see the archives at http://www. Such a call will probably be couched, given the rather dismal re- counterpunch.org/ for a long list). Painful though it is to note, cord of the Blair and Brown governments, in terms of “Vote La- the greenest American President to date was … Richard Nixon bour Without Illusions” (or, in a different version, notably voiced (during his time in office, the most important environmental by Polly Toynbee in the Guardian, “whilst wearing a nose peg”). legislation was passed even if he left something to be desired in Coalition with the Tories will probably badly dent the appeal a rather large number of other respects!) of the Liberal Democrats to left-of-centre voters once govern- Indeed Lesser Evilism often means more evil than less. Thus ment cutbacks begin to bite. That will enable Labour to pitch the Labour Party routinely takes for granted the votes of genu- itself as the true agent of (progressive) change. ine socialists and ‘progressive’ campaigners in specific fields like Indeed, now that Gordon Brown has gone and with some poverty relief on the grounds that the Tories will make things of the old lags, ‘Brownite’ or ‘Blairite’, no longer in influential worse. But Labour then makes concessions but only in the op- positions, there will be claims that Labour has changed its spots: posite direction, placating big business, rewarding the already as David Miliband put it, “Next Labour”, not “New Labour”. A super-rich, flirting with Jingoism, ‘cracking down’ on welfare sister argument claims that ‘Blairism’ was some sort of alien claimants and so forth. parasite in the body politic of Labour; its removal will turn this Indeed ‘Lesser Evils” like the American Democrats and Brit- People’s Party back into a party that actually serves the said ain’s New Labour did things that the Republicans and Conserva- People. tives would not have dared to do for fear of a backlash. In Brit- Labour loyalists further argue that the best way forward is ain, it included further privatisation at home, including far more to be ‘realistic’ and rally behind their party, instead of wasting PFI rackets, and abroad more military aggression. The largesse political energies on what they deride as ‘no-hopers’ like the given out by Gordon Brown to the banks, plus the paucity of Greens. Indeed, Labour claimed that it had gained some 12,000 strings attached to this gift, arguably exceeded what the banker’s new members over the week following the formation of the Cameron-Clegg coalition. [It may be assumed that most are lapsed members returning to the fold, though there may well Newcastle be fresh elements too]. To some extent, such developments re- flect a naïve view that there was once a ‘golden age’ of Labour- Green Party ism, now waiting has to be reborn. The welfare reforms of the 1945 Labour government under Clement Atlee, are often cited branch meeting as proof. Crunch point All welcome! There are indeed moments in history when it is time to bury the hatchet and fight together against some Great Evil. The classic instance remains early 1930s Germany. There, the big 19.00, Wednesday, June Ist, German Communist Party refused to work with the reformist British Legion Club Social Democrats against the Nazis. Indeed it called the for- (just down from the Lonsdale pub) mer “social fascists” and, at one point, the latter “working peo- ple’s comrades”. To be fair the Social Democrats used mirror Metro: West Jesmond arguments, its leader Herman Müller claiming that “red equals 1 friends in the Tory Party would have dared do if they had been in power. Such policies usually disillusion previous supporters, Newcastle with the result that, at the next election, what was the Greater Evil gets back into power. Meanwhile potential opposition to it is dissipated. Green Party Identical Twins? The above argument does not claim that there is no difference endorses between the major three parties in modern Britain. Clearly there are significant policy differences as well as different un- derlying sentiments and instincts. Rather the case is bring made David Cameron! that, on the essentials, there is a basic unanimity. On some things Labour is closer to the Liberals but at other times it is nearer to the Conservatives, not least nuclear rearmament. Labour is arguably the most authoritarian and restrictive of civil liberties “Too many of your richest of all three. These differences can indeed be significant for certain groups. people are getting away The ‘Sure Start’ programme was arguably the best achievement in New Labour’s otherwise rotten track record. For all its fail- without paying much tax at ings, the establishment of a national minimum wage also helped many in real need. Yet Labour’s tolerance and indeed encour- agement of general inequality, coupled to the specific measures all – and that’s not fair” like the virtual abandonment of social housing provision, hit the poorer parts of the community badly. In the thirteen years of David Cameron (April 5th, 2011) power, it is remarkable just how little Labour did regarding so- Unfortunately he was only talking about Pakistan, not Britain. cial justice or durable economic regeneration. Yet redress of the grievances of particular social segments, tunately there are some detailed critiques that spell it out [See legitimate or otherwise, are less significant than the big issue of http://www.newleftreview.org/?page=article&view=2830 and our times, the ecological crisis. Just because many people fail to http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n18/ross-mckibbin/will-we-notice- see its significance, deny its existence or just look away does not when-the-tories-have-won, with all of the latter’s articles in the mean that the ‘sustainability crunch’ is any the less real or ur- London Review of Books well worth a read] gent. Climate change, peak oil and all the other gathering storm Whatever the failings of the Blair-Brown years, many still feel clouds will make the financial crisis look like a storm in a teacup. that Labour once was a true progressive party, created by and First things have to be put first or else all other goals, no matter for ordinary people (many would say ‘working class’, though that how worthy, are doomed, poverty alleviation included. Indeed term begs many definitional problems then and now, ones be- the poor will usually be hit the hardest as the ecocrisis intensi- yond the scope of this article). What can be said for certain is fies as well as have the least chance of mitigating its effects. that its connection to any variant of socialism is tenuous and Yet the Labour, Liberal and Conservative Parties will not – many of the reforms it introduced were neither innovatory nor cannot – make the necessary response. They are all deeply wed- radical. Again there are some excellent histories that document ded to the dominant social order, they will sacrifice more and that truth, one of the best, Parliamentary Socialism, ironically by more chunks of ‘Mother Earth’ to keep the system going. Indeed, Ralph Miliband, father of the latest Labour leader. in such a situation, the allegedly Lesser Evils will, as defenders Many Labour supporters will concede that they were dis- of industrialised consumerism, act at critical moments like the appointed by Labour’s performance when last in power. Older financial downturn exactly like the Greater Evils. ones may remember the disappointments caused by the gov- From the perspective of the great issues that are the core ernments of Callaghan and, before him, Wilson (on the latter, raison d’être of the Greens – the need to live more lightly, ‘bak- see Paul Foot’s The Politics of Harold Wilson). Yet they glow with ing’ a smaller economic cake and sharing it more much fairly pride about Labour’s achievements under Clement Atlee after – there is little difference between any of the ‘grey’ parties.
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