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01 Cover 24/02/2020 22:06 Page 1 CHARTIST for Democratic Socialism #303 March/April 2020 £2 Mr Toad’S Playbook #303 working_01 cover 24/02/2020 22:06 Page 1 CHARTIST For democratic socialism #303 March/April 2020 £2 Mr Toad’s playbook Clive Lewis MP DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION Don Flynn NEW WORKING CLASS Jake Woodier GREEN NEW DEAL Alice Arkwright MIGRANT CLAMPDOWN Peter Kenyon BREXIT SURRENDER Andrew Coates Jon Lansman LABOUR LEADERSHIP Plus Book reviews and regulars ISSN - 0968 7866 ISSUE 03 www.chartist.org.uk #303 working_01 cover 24/02/2020 22:06 Page 2 Contributions and letters deadline for Editorial Policy CHARTIST #304 The editorial policy of CHARTIST is to promote debate amongst people active in 10 April 2020 radical politics about the contemporary Chartist welcomes articles of 800 or 1500 words, and relevance of democratic socialism across letters in electronic format only to: [email protected] the spectrum of politics, economics, science, philosophy, art, interpersonal Receive Chartist’s online newsletter: send your email address to [email protected] relations – in short, the whole realm of social life. Chartist Advert Rates: Our concern is with both democracy and socialism. The history of the last century Inside Full page £200; 1/2 page £125; 1/4 page £75; 1/8 page £40; 1/16 page £25; small box 5x2cm £15 single has made it abundantly clear that the sheet insert £50 mass of the population of the advanced We are also interested in advert swaps with other publications. To place an advert, please email: capitalist countries will have no interest [email protected] in any form of socialism which is not thoroughly democratic in its principles, its practices, its morality and its ideals. Yet the consequences of this deep attach - ment to democracy – one of the greatest advances of our epoch – are seldom reflected in the discussion and debates Editorial Board Contacts amongst active socialists. CHARTIST is not a party publication. It CHARTIST is published six times a year Published by Chartist Publications brings together people who are interested by the Chartist Collective. This issue was PO Box 52751 London EC2P 2XF in socialism, some of whom are active the produced by an Editorial Board consisting tel: 0845 456 4977 Labour Party and the trade union move - of Duncan Bowie (Reviews), Andrew ment. It is concerned to deepen and Coates, Peter Chalk, Patricia d’Ardenne, Printed by People For Print Ltd, Unit 10, Riverside Park, extend a dialogue with all other socialists Mike Davis (Editor), Nigel Doggett, Don Sheaf Gardens, Sheffield S2 4BB – Tel 0114 272 0915. and with activists from other movements Flynn, Roger Gillham, Hassan Hoque, Email: [email protected] involved in the struggle to find democrat - Peter Kenyon, Dave Lister, Patrick ic alternatives to the oppression, exploita - Mulcahy, Sheila Osmanovic, Marina Website: www.chartist.org.uk tion and injustices of capitalism and Prentoulis, Robbie Scott, Steve Carver Email: [email protected] class society (Website Editor), Mary Southcott, John Twitter: @Chartist48 Sunderland. Signed articles do not necessarily represent the views of Newsletter online: to join, email the EB Production: Ferdousur Rehman [email protected] Printer ad #303 working_01 cover 24/02/2020 22:06 Page 3 CONTENTS FEATURES BEYOND THE FRAGMENTS 8 Don Flynn on rebuilding the working class EU PHASE ONE SURRENDER 10 Prepare for stream of hatred says Peter Kenyon DIVIDEND BONANZA 11 Prem Sikka on widening income divide AUSTERITY CON Dennis Leach exposes Johnson’s economic Greening the economy to combat 12 prospectus warming - Page 13 Cover by Martin Rowson GREEN NEW DEAL Jake Woodier say GND is way for climate & 13 economy CHARTIST DEMOCRATIC REVOLUTION FOR DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM Clive Lewis MP lays out his charter for Number 303 March/April 2020 14 change REGULARS SCOTTISH LABOUR DOLDRUMS Can Labour recover in Scotland asks Gerry Hassan OUR HISTORY 89 16 4 Tony Benn’s Arguments for Socialism SINN FEIN TOPS IRISH POLL EDITORIAL Jerry Fitzpatrick on what election victory 5 Johnson uses Trump playbook 17 means POINTS & CROSSINGS 6 Paul Salveson on crumbling red wall LIMITS OF DEVOLUTION Duncan Bowie on promise and pitfalls of GREENWATCH 18 localising power 7 Dave Toke on Offshore Wind Sinn Fein tops Irish poll – Page 17 LABOUR LEADERSHIP 1 YOUTH VIEW 22 Alice Arkwright on asylum clampdown Jon Lansman roots for Rebecca Long- 19 Bailey FILM REVIEW 24 Patrick Mulcahy on Misbehaviour LABOUR LEADERSHIP 2 Andrew Coates finds Keir Starmer the BOOK REVIEWS 25 Glyn Ford on fighting fascists; Duncan stronger candidate 20 Bowie on Peterloo, Armenia and privatisation; Sarah Hughes on South PATIENTS NOT PASSPORTS Sudan; Bryn Jones on Finance Capital; James Skinner and Aedin O’Cuill on Docs not Andrew Coates on Livio Maitan; Steve Cops Cushion on a Peruvian revolutionary; 21 Don Flynn on immigration CONSTITUTION THREAT WESTMINSTER VIEW 23 Trevor Fisher on battle of 2020 32 Cat Smith on Tory northern rail mess Subscribe to CHARTIST : £18 ordinary subscription Tory refugee clampdown – Page 22 £35 supporter subscription (6 issues) Visit www.chartist.org.uk/subscribe for details . March/April 2020 CHARTIST 3 #303 working_01 cover 24/02/2020 22:06 Page 4 OUR HISTORY OUR HISTORY - 89 TONY BENN ARGUMENTS FOR SOCIALISM (1979) ony Benn, previously known as Anthony Arguments for Socialism, was published in 1979 just after Wedgwood Benn, was a Minister in Wilson’s 1964- Labour went into opposition with the election of Margaret 70 and 1974-7 governments and Callaghan’s 1977- Thatcher as prime minister. It was a composition of previous 9 government. He was at various times speeches, essays and articles edited by Chris Mullin. A second Postmaster General, Minister for Technology, volume was published in 1981 as Arguments for Democracy. TMinister for Industry, and Minister for Energy. He was the “Democratic Socialism. This is very much a home-grown son of William Wedgwood Benn, Attlee’s Secretary of State for British product which has been slowly fashioned over the cen - India; his grandfather, John Benn had been a Liberal MP, turies….. The Labour Party comprises within its ranks repre - having been leader of the London County Council. Tony Benn sentatives of a wide range of opinions. We have been wise was first elected to parlia - enough not to seek to impose ment in 1950, succeeding a common socialist dogma on Stafford Cripps in Bristol anyone. Indeed, our social - East. He first came to public ism grew out of experience attention in 1960 when he and was not handed down had to fight a legal battle to from above, or received from avoid being disbarred from outside. The British Labour parliament on inheriting his Movement was born out of father’s peerage, a precedent the chapels of dissenters and which was followed in 1963 the struggles of factory work - when Lord Home was able to ers who campaigned for renounce his peerage to trade union rights, then for become Prime Minister. In the parliamentary vote, then 1965, he published a book on organised themselves to The Regeneration of Britain, nominate candidates in a supporting Wilson’s vision of separate Labour Party and a New Britain supported by finally adopted an explicitly ‘the white heat of technology’. socialist approach, based on Benn’s experience in gov - a full commitment to a demo - ernment moved him to the cratic system, and personal left. Interested in the history freedom.” of ethical socialism, having “We too accept that any been sympathetic to the society requires discipline, wartime Common Wealth though the discipline of the party in his youth, Benn market place and the disci - became interested in a more pline imposed by the top peo - libertarian socialist approach, ple are both equally supporting the syndicalist unattractive. We believe that Institute for Workers Control the self-discipline of full and the Upper Clyde democratic control offers our Shipbuilders workers cooper - best hope for the future, and ative of 1975 and advocating is the only real answer to industrial democracy. He inflation, because it confers opposed EEC membership on real responsibility.” the grounds that in involved a “The Labour Party has loss of sovereignty. Benn worked on the basis that the became seen as the leader of investment gap must be the left-wing of the party in filled by public investment, opposition, standing unsuc - with proper public account - cessfully against Denis ability and public ownership, Healey for the deputy leader - and that only public expendi - ship in 1981. In 1988, he ture can convert human stood unsuccessfully against needs into economic Neil Kinnock for the party leadership. He continued to cam - demands able to command resources and help restore full paign for democratic reform, supporting a series of Socialist employment. Indeed, we believe that the nation can earn its Society conferences in his new constituency of Chesterfield in living efficiently and profitably only if there is a new balance 1984, when his previous constituency had been abolished. He of wealth and power in favour of working people. And to avoid sat in parliament until 2001. He opposed the invasion of Iraq corporatism creeping in as a by-product of these public initia - and served as president of the Stop the War coalition from tives we have been working for a wider and deeper account - 2001 until his death. He was a regular speaker at anti-war ability of power through greater democratic control by events and at historical commemorations such as Tolpuddle Parliament and of finance and industry and of the institutions and the Levellers day at Burford. of the Labour Party itself….The next decade will see a growth Benn published nine volumes of diaries, detailing his politi - of democratic socialism against the ideas of monetarism and cal career in government and opposition. He died in 2014.
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