A tweet from the ever publicity seeking Kerry-Anne Mendoza promised us that on Sunday at e 11 AM or thereabouts her website would be publishing an earth shattering exclusive about the behaviour of "Right-Wing MPs and members" inside the Labour Party. Of course it turned out to be a damp squib.
The opening sentence that The Canary was one of three alternative news sites was enough to pour cold water on anything that followed. If there is one thing that The Canary isn't it's a "news site". It doesn't print news The Canary publishes propaganda. It's no more a news site that this blog is.
Before the internet The Canary would probably have been a more rancid version of Red Pepper, a non-aligned left magazine. No more a newspaper than Socialist Worker or indeed the Morning Star which was also promoting the subject of the article which was basically defending the disgraced anti-
The left having lost their figurehead in the "Dear Leader" Jeremy Corbyn who has returned to to his political non-entity status on the back benches are looking for new causes. Mendoza herself is not actually a member of the Labour Party but seeks to influence and organise the extra parliamentary left alongside fellow miscreant like Tony Greenstein and Jackie Walker.
Williamson has now decided that following his former constituents overwhelming rejection of him and his politics during the General Election coming bottom of the poll with a derisory 635 votes or just 1.35% that Parliamentary Politics are no longer the way forward.
Unsurprisingly he tells readers of the Communist Party's mouthpiece the Morning Star that "we would do better to focus our energies on developing extra-parliamentary activities" and should learn lessons from groups like the Black Panthers. The irony of seeking an audience through a Stalinist newspaper that does not actually believe in any form of democracy simply the supremacy of the party is lost on him and probably his remaining supporters.
The left is lost with Momentum running a slowly declining campaign to retain control with at least two other competing groups using the same name Forward Momentum and Internationalist Momentum. Then there's the Labour Left left Alliance and a myriad of tiny groups competing for hegemony amongst the flotsam that was Corbynism.
Meanwhile George Galloway's new Workers Party set up in conjunction with the help of the pro-North Korean Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) flounders with barely an audience even amongst the fallen ranks of Corbyn's disciples.
The far-left is gradually reverting to type squabbling and navel gazing but the struggle to rebuild social democracy remains difficult as the comrades fight a rear guard action as Labour attempts to become an electable political party once more.
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