Trumka embodied the reactionary instincts of a corrupt and privileged labor bureaucracy, steeped in anti-communism and nationalism, that long ago separated the unions from any connection to the defense of workers.
Students, young people and workers participated in a lively discussion on the homicidal policies being pursued by capitalist governments in the pandemic, and the need for a socialist alternative, oriented to the emerging struggles of the working class.
Last Sunday the Sozialistische Gleichheitspartei (SGP), the German section of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI), broadcast its initial election rally in advance of the German federal elections on September 26.
What is more remarkable than Loach’s expulsion by the right is the feeble response of the Labour “left” something Starmer evidently counted on in expelling so well-liked a figure.