Fifteen thousand people marched in protest against the government's Israel policy as the party's conference began in Liverpool
  • eldavi@lemmy.ml
    34·
    6 days ago

    this and macron creating a conservative government despite leftists winning the most votes in france makes me wonder if a leftist victory is ever possible.

    • Alsephina@lemmy.mlEnglish
      313·
      6 days ago

      Not through liberal “democracies” no, where the entire point is to keep capitalists in power. Unionizing and organizing for a revolution has always been the only way.

      • leisesprecher@feddit.org
        32·
        6 days ago

        The much bigger problem is the apathy and stupidity of the average person.

        Every single person in Western countries has enough information to see through the bullshit of the political class and they have the power to vote them out. But they don’t. They don’t want to be bothered by actually taking responsibility, they just want someone else to blame. Jews, immigrants, gays, doesn’t matter.

        Many will argue with propaganda, but most of the propaganda is extremely blatant. You’ll only believe it, if you want to believe it. It may solidify resentments, but it won’t create them out of nowhere.

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
      37·
      6 days ago

      It’s literally pollicital correctness gone mad.

      Doesn’t matter. Talk about talk about war crimes and state enforced segregation.

  • Aceticon@lemmy.world
    12·
    6 days ago

    Zero surprise in seeing the hard Neoliberals of New Labour siding with ethno-Fascists and silencing criticism of it even from their own party members.

    For those who didn’t follow it, some years ago the Labour membership elected an actual Leftie to lead the Party - Jeremy Corbyn - overthrowing decades of total control of the party by the New Labour faction (who are hard Neoliberals, not Leftwing, and whose policies were at one point deemed by none other that Margaret Thatcher as “my greatest achievement”) and what followed was a massive slander campaign, mainly using accusations of anti-semitism anchored on statements from Israeli linked Jewish organisations, even at one point with New Labour faction politicians relentlessly keeping on the slander campaign during an election causing Labour to lose it, something they then claimed as being because Corbyn was “unelectable”, until they finally managed to bring down Corbyn and restore power to the New Labour faction who promptly went on a purge of the Labour part of any overltly Leftwing members.

    Fast-forward to present times and the Neoliberals who now control the Labour party have a huge debt to the Zionists, hence their support of their Genocide (and the recent “we’re blocking some arm sales” announcement only “blocked” 20 out of 300 kinds, and was clearly just the the usual theatre so typical in UK politics)

  • jimmy90@lemmy.world
    4·
    6 days ago

    UK Labour Party managers blocked the words “genocide” and “apartheid” in reference to Israel’s conduct against Palestinians from being used in brochures at a side event during its annual conference in Liverpool.