If anyone still had any illusions that the Labour Party was a socialist
organisation able to bring about real change then the Labour Party conference inlate September in Liverpool should have finally convinced them that this was notthe case. ---- The conference began not with the singing of The Red Flag but withthe national anthem God Save the King. This is the first time in Labour Partyhistory that this has happened. Keir Starmer went on to sing the praises of theQueen who, according to him, had created a personal relationship with peoplebased on service and devotion to our country'. There was a minute's silence forthe Queen, with no heckling voices of dissent to be heard in a totally silent hall.The conference was a tightly choreographed event, designed to stifle opposition,and much like a national conference of Democrats and Republicans in the U.S.A.The so called left within Labour has been thoroughly routed and Starmer and co.are busy repositioning Labour as a party of the centre. This suits the bossclass's fears about the Truss government being unable to tackle the presenteconomic situation and resulting widespread civil disorder. When the flames ofsocial unrest start rising high, then the big red (blue surely? Ed.) fire engineof Labour is always ready to douse them. To many elements in the ruling class aLabour administration is preferably to an inept Truss government facingincreasing workplace unrest and general discontent.The big business and corporate sponsors have also returned, after being scaredoff during the Corbyn period, with Amazon paying for the reception on the openingnight of conference. In fact this year saw the biggest turnout of big businesscompanies since 2010. These included Wrightbus, owned by Jo Wright, who donatesto the Tories. Other companies to be seen were Sainsbury's, Google, Lloyd'sBanking, Labour and energy firm E.ON.A reception sponsored by Bloomberg, on Monday night of the conference, sawStarmer, Rachel Reeves, (shadow chancellor) Jonathon Reynolds (shadow businesssecretary) and David Lammy (shadow foreign secretary), speaking to more than 600big business leaders.These capitalist outfits are sensing that Labour will soon be back in power andthey intend to influence it as much as possible. For their part, Starmer and theLabour leadership have been actively encouraging connections to big business overthe past year, appearing at breakfasts, dinners and other events with businessleaders.Meanwhile the Momentum group, which continues to peddle the illusion that Labourcan be won to socialism, pleaded at their rally on Saturday September 24th forpeople to stay inside Labour. Left MPs and trade union leaders got up one afterthe other to push the idea that Labour can be won to backing strikes and can beturned in a radical direction. Chief among these was John McDonnell, a mainarchitect of the Corbynist phenomenon that was quickly crushed and extinguished.Another MP, Dawn Butler, begged people to stay within Labour.At the conference the Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner said that: "The Toriesare not on the side of the working people in Britain today". The thing is,Angela, neither is the Labour Party.https://www.anarchistcommunism.org/2022/09/30/labour-true-blue/_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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