Not much left of the left
So many rival projects and not a serious idea amongst the lot of them. A week ahead of the Liverpool conference, Carla Roberts looks at what little remains of the once mighty Corbyn movement
Source: weeklyworker.co.uk
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Support Lloyd and Moloney in PCS!
Having killed the national campaign for cost of living pay awards backdated to 2022, the Left Unity (LU) faction leadership in the civil service union PCS is now presiding over below-inflation civil service pay awards for 2023. Yet they are keeping up the pretence that they have merely “paused” the campaign. It is a tactic they hope will help them win the elections for General Secretary (GS) and Assistant General Secretary (AGS) later this year: facing both ways to win the support of members who wanted the campaign to continue and members who did not want to strike.
Source: workersliberty.org
PCS: nominate Lloyd and Moloney!
Many firebrands who have no political foundations drift or accelerate to the right as they get older or get power. Such is the case with Mark Serwotka, general secretary of the PCS civil service union. When young, he genuinely was a militant, leading strikes. He was an inspiring speaker and a good organiser. That said, he never had a solid political foundation in Marxism or even social democracy or any other form of organised socialist thought.
Source: workersliberty.org