There are some similarities
between what is happening in the British Labor Party and the Bernie Sanders
Campaign in the US. Of course there are differences between Bernie and Corbyn.
Still I am posting this article for all to read. Maybe we started something in
the US. -Otto
By the end of the campaign for the leadership of the Labour
Party, it was no surprise, even for his most stubborn and malevolent critics,
that Jeremy Corbyn would win the election. But the scale of his victory, 59.5%
in the first round, was a resounding shock. Despite the dire warnings of a
string of Labour Party pro-imperialist grandees, 49.6% of party members
supported Corbyn, as did 83.8% of registered supporters and 57.6% of affiliated
union voters. The Blairite and openly ruling class candidate Liz Kendall was
utterly trounced, obtaining a miserable 4.5% of the vote. Together, the other
two establishment, pro-austerity candidates, Yvette Cooper and the one-time
favourite to win, Andy Burnham, shared 36%.
The reactions were immediate. Within hours, the Conservative
Party was presenting Corbyn’s politics as a threat to national security. The
ruling class was outraged. Eleven shadow front bench members resigned, refusing
to work with Corbyn. Their passing will not be mourned: among their number were
Liz Kendall, Yvette Cooper, the openly reactionary shadow Works and Pensions
Secretary Rachel Reeves, shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt and shadow
business secretary Chuku Umunna, who had been a leadership candidate for 24
hours before passing the Blairite baton to Kendall. Good riddance to them. Most
Labour MPs, an unprincipled bunch of frauds and self-serving careerists intent
only on feathering their nests, were horrified at Corbyn’s success. 178 of them
abstained in a parliamentary vote on the vicious benefit cuts announced in the
July budget – they have only contempt for the plight of the poorest sections of
the working class, despising them as scroungers and shirkers.
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