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Labour Goes for New Public Vote & Workers’ Liberty SolFor siociadl ownershaip of the branks aind intdustry y No 497 26 February 2019 50p/£1 Labour goes for new public vote All out on 23 March See page 12 After the Umunna split Sean Matgamna writes an open letter to Jeremy Corbyn, page 9; Editorial on the Umunna split and after, page 5 See pages 5 & 9 LABOUR: New school climate protest 15 March Alan Simpson discusses what we can BOn MondayA 25 FebruaryC the LabouKr Party leade rshipR came out E• By reMdoubling the callA for a speciaIl conNference in wh! ich the learn from the 15 February school walk- for a new public vote on Brexit. Labour Party sorts itself out. outs Shadow Brexit minister Keir Starmer and shadow foreign secretary On Monday 25th “a Labour spokesman”, presumably from the Emily Thornberry have said they would vote Remain in that refer - Leader’s Office, was telling Reuters that “a referendum giving a See page 7 endum. choice between May’s deal and Remain would not be acceptable”. This is a great victory for the anti-Brexit left. We should clinch it: The Skwawkbox blog, known as an unofficial feed from the • By mobilising on the streets to add pressure on Parliament. Leader’s Office, branded the story that Labour was backing a second Labour should sponsor a big bloc on the 23 March “People’s Vote” Brexit referendum as “‘mainstream’ fake news”. Labour for a demonstration. Labour for a Socialist Europe, the anti-Brexit left Labour members have to guard against backsliding, and against group in Labour, has already started organising for that. the referendum call being reduced to a “designed-to-fail” parliamen - Socialist Europe • By making it clear that Labour will vote Remain in that new pub - tary gesture. lic vote. Brexit is in crisis. We can stop it. National conference 9 March 11.30am-5.30pm Camden School for Girls, London, NW5 2DB. Call a Special Labour Conference! labourforasocialisteurope.org 2 NEWS More online at www.workersliberty.org Solidarity in other formats To be sent an e-reader version of Solidarity, email awl@work - ersliberty.org. This may be helpful for dyslexic readers. E-readers en - able you to choose the font, type size, and line-spacing you prefer, in a completely uncluttered lay - Hatton’s no- glory days out. We now have volunteers to By Gerry Bates Hatton, once so influential, was produce an audio version of the disqualified as a councillor and dis - paper, at least experimentally. Derek Hatton used to be famous. credited politically. He and other Links to the audio version on In the mid-1980s he was the Militant councillors were expelled SoundCloud will be on chief figure in Liverpool’s Labour from the Labour Party, and scarcely www.workersliberty.org/audio. council, embattled against the tried to oppose the expulsion ex - Please give feedback so that Tories. cept through the courts. we can find out whether these Formally deputy leader of the Hatton had always presented efforts are worthwhile, and, if council, he was able to be the main himself as a wide boy, a chancer, they are, improve them. public figure because he was pro - with more of posturing and ma - moted by the Militant group (fore - chine politics about him than so - runner of the Socialist Party), cialist reasoning. Militant, having which then had decisive influence allowed Hatton to disgrace them, in the Liverpool labour movement. now saw him move away. His record was shameful. After a He became a media figure, a series of show mobilisations, the radio talk-show host. In 2008 he Liverpool council dialled down told the Daily Telegraph (3 October): Netanyahu woos far right “I’m now involved in property in their campaign. At a crucial point Cyprus... It’s hard to put an exact By Willie Sneyd his ten-year term of office. gaining ground. in the miners’ strike, the council left Netanyahu has been under in - The main rival to Netanyahu is the miners in the lurch. Hatton did figure on my annual income be - cause it goes up and down. It’s cer - Israeli prime minister Benyamin vestigation on multiple charges of the newly formed Blue and White a deal with the Tories to postpone corruption since 2016. In December party, differing mainly by being its financial crisis to the next year. tainly in the comfortable six figure Netanyahu has persuaded two bracket though... far-right racist parties to merge 2018 Israel’s State Prosecutor rec - more secularist. Shamelessly, Hatton recounted ommended he be brought to court. It has said that if it wins the 4 later how a Tory MP had told him “My days in politics were a very in returning for offering them long time ago and I lost interest in government posts if he wins the As yet the Attorney General in Ne - April election, it will make no fresh exactly what the game was. “We tanyahu’s administration is block - start. It will seek a coalition with had to tell Patrick [Jenkin, the Tory it after I was expelled from the city Israeli general election due on 4 council... I moved on”. April. ing that, but that protection will Netanyahu’s party Likud, on the government minister] to give you disappear if Netanyahu loses the assumption that Netanyahu him - the money. At this stage we want Now aged 71, he has been read - One of the two parties is Jewish mitted to the Labour Party and Power, a scarcely-concealed contin - election. self will then be out of the game. Scargill [the miners’ union leader]. Netanyahu draws strength from Blue and White stresses that He’s our priority. But we’ll come then quickly suspended when uation of the Kahane movement someone found a loose-mouthed which has been banned in Israel the big shift to the right in Israeli whatever the parliamentary arith - for you later”. politics since the more-or-less com - metic, the party will not combine And the Tories did. After the antisemitic tweet by him from 2012. since 1988 as terrorist and racist. Whether Labour members It advocates expelling Palestini - plete breakdown over 2001-7 of with Israel’s Arab parties to form a miners were defeated in early 1985, talks for peace with the Palestini - government or to block Netanyahu Liverpool retreated. Notoriously it should be suspended for one-off ca - ans and Israeli Arabs who refuse to sual social media effusions is ques - swear “loyalty”, and an expanded ans. from forming his own coalition. issued redundancy notices to all its According to Dahlia in +972 Israel’s shift to the right mirrors workers, as a supposed “tactical tionable. Jewish state taking in the whole Whether Hatton’s readmission magazine, about 45% of Scheindlin - the rise of the once-marginal manoeuvre”. It borrowed money West Bank. will bring any benefit to the voters self-define as right wing, Hamas in Palestinian politics. from Swiss banks at high interest Netanyahu’s move is designed to Labour Party is no question at roughly one-quarter as centrists, Elements for new politics which rates and yet made cuts. get the far right into the Knesset all: it won’t. (parliament) by bringing the and 20% as left wing. could win a democratic two-states merged group above the 3.25% Among Jewish voters, about 55% settlement between Israel and the threshold for gaining seats which say they are right wing and only Palestinians exist in movements neither of the two separate parties 15% left. like Standing Together in Israel, but could reach. In the first decades of Israel, the as yet are electorally marginal. A crisis: but who will fix it? The growth of those elements It has brought condemnation Israeli Labour Party dominated politics and led every government. depends on the bringing-closer even from the American Israel Pub - ests”, and specific political barriers. Now it is a demoralised rump. of a settlement allowing justice lic Affairs Committee, a US lobby The report favourably quotes En - The slightly-left social demo - for the Palestinians, and vice group which has previously gone gels: cratic Meretz survives, but is not versa. along with Netanyahu throughout “In relation to nature, as to soci - By Mike Zubrowski ety, the present mode of production is predominantly concerned only The Institute for Public Policy about the first, tangible success; Research (IPPR), a broadly and then surprise is expressed that Essex J Soc ban blocked “Blairite” think-tank, has pub - the more remote effects of actions lished a report, This is a crisis directed to this end turn out to be By Simon Nelson societies requiring a ballot majority or religious identity.” (bit.ly/ippr-c). of quite a different, mainly even of is unusual and wrong. On top of Dr Maaruf Ali, an Essex aca - It considers not just global warm - quite an opposite, character” ( Di - More than 200 students at Essex that, sections of the left have a his - demic who has now been sus - ing, but other severe and rapid en - alectics of Nature ). University voted against the for - tory of an “anti-Zionist” politics pended, vocally opposed the vironmental changes. Climate However, the report has no talk mation of a Jewish Society. It’s which refused to allow Jewish stu - establishment of the JSoc. He has change will affect poorer and more of overthrowing capitalism, and the first organised attempt to dent societies to form unless they previously shared antisemitic and oppressed people most, on a na - not much in the way of detailed stop or ban a Jewish Society on explicitly opposed Israel.
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