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Sadly there aren't many posts from comrades to the list recently. I am inclined to answer the question in the heading in the affirmative. My own native land - Ulster, Northern Ireland, the 'wee black hole' as we used to call it is wracked with violence on all sides. Brexit - the vote to leave the EU has acted as a catalyst to bring all sorts of creatures out into the light. Apparently the American ambassador has been making inquiries about the safety of the Fascist leader -Robinson - while he is in prison. His followers openly taunt & chase the police in the streets of London. The right wing of the British Labour Party, known oddly enough as the Centrists, are still conspiring to bring down the Leftist Leader Corbyn. Why? One may as well ask the old Stalinists who sided with Yeltsin against Gorbachev, why they did it, or the scorpion on the frog. Richard Seymour has talked about a deep crisis in the Tory core that Brexit has activated. the Business community does not want Brexit but are unwilling or unable to bring the Tory Party to heel. The Patty itself seems to be in the grip of those who fantasize about the days of imperial glory. Only the Labour Party seems to have a coherent program which could loosely be described as Keynesian - some redistribution plus government investment. Hardly radical but in these the dog days of neoliberalism, to talk once more of public ownership etc is anathema to all those who traded on the neoliberal/Thatcerhite notion that There Is No Alternative. I will try some guesses now. I think May will face a challenge. She will probably hold it off. I think the right wing Blairites will split from Corbyn to try and form a new party with the pro-EU "moderates" in the Tory Party and the Liberal Democrats. I cannot think of any other way they can stop a Corbyn landslide. The timing of such a move is crucial. Some of the rightists including the Labour Party Deputy Leader, Tom Watson, have talked of forming a government of national unity with the Tories. But that move came out of panic, I think, at the sight of the resignations on Monday and the consequent fear of a Tory collapse. Next week when May fronts up to parliament with her Brexit plan is crucial. The right of the Labour Party want to vote with her to prevent an election, but the intervention of their leader Lord Mandelson condemning May's plan for Brexit as unworkable. has certainly muddied the waters. Will May be defeated? Her fate is in the hands of the Hard Brexiters and the Labour Party Blairites. It is very much a question "Watch this space"/ comradely Gary _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
