Galloway victorious, Steve Hall: The Death Of The Left, why we must begin from the beginning again

George Galloway wins Rochdale by election. Steve Hall, member of Workers Party, and joint author of 'Death of the Left: Why we must begin from the beginning again', joins Tony and Martin.

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History of the deindustrialization of the UK. Win of George Galloway. Rise and fall of left popularism. Why Corbyn didn't work. Labour investing ideals. Post modernism, neo liberalism and the left.  The Shakespearean tragedy of Jeremy Corbyn: Destroyed by appeasing his enemies - Neil Clark RT Sat, 14 Dec 2019 - The Jeremy Corbyn project has ended in tears with an utterly demoralising general election defeat for Labour, but it could - and should - have been very different if only Corbyn had trusted his own instincts. There is a distinctly Shakespearean air to the political demise of UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, which took place, appropriately enough, on Friday the 13th of December 2019 (or you could say 15 March would have been even more appropriate). "There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and miseries," the great bard wrote in Julius Caesar. Jeremy Corbyn was never in a stronger position than on the morning of the day after the general election of June 2017. Against all the odds and punditocracy predictions, he had taken Labour to the brink of a stunning victory. The 40 percent of the vote Labour attained in that election represented the biggest increase in the share of the popular vote the party had achieved in over 70 years. But fatally, Corbyn didn't take the tide at the flood. He should have used the moment to move swiftly and decisively against his 'centrist' enemies in the party who had done so much to undermine him. Instead, he held out an olive branch to them. They repaid his magnanimity by plotting the downfall which came to a head so spectacularly this week. Phase One of the plan was to get Labour to sign up to an electorally suicidal shift on Brexit. Labour did so well in 2017 largely because it gave a clear manifesto commitment to respect the result of the 2016 referendum. But great pressure was exerted on Corbyn to agree to a change in policy and pledge Labour to support a second referendum. Years earlier, Corbyn had, quite rightly, attacked the EU for making the Irish vote again after they had rejected the Lisbon Treaty. But asking Labour Leavers to vote again on whether to leave the EU is precisely what Corbyn was doing in the 2019 general election. It's true that others were constructing his political coffin, but it's also true that Corbyn handed them the nails.

The Death of the Left: Why We Must Begin from the Beginning Again Paperback – 15 Nov. 2022 by Simon Winlow and Steve Hall (2022) - The left is dead. Its ailments cannot be cured. The only way to resurrect what was once valuable in leftist politics is to declare the left dead and begin from the beginning again. Winlow and Hall identify the root causes of its maladies, describe how new cultural obsessions displaced core unifying principles and explore the yawning chasm that now separates the left from the working class. Drawing upon a wealth of historical evidence to structure their story of entryism, corruption, fragmentation and decline, they close the book by outlining how a new reincarnation of the left can win in the 21st century. Simon Winlow is Professor of Criminology at Northumbria University. Steve Hall is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at Teesside University.George Galloway acceptance speech. Chris Williamson, Sky TV, during count. Simon Winlow and Steve Hall, co-authors of The Death of the Left: Why We Must Begin from the Beginning Again, speak to Richard Kemp about the book and whether there is any hope for the political Left. They discuss the Left’s current focus on culture instead of economics, the surface level nature of diversity policies in organisations, and what the Left needs to do in order to thrive again.

3,000 - 4,000 Welsh farmers protest in Cardiff Bay - speeches. Patrizia Opulenza poem about George Galloway win.  Thousands of farmers protest outside Welsh Parliament Protesters are objecting to proposals by the Welsh Government to require more land to be set aside for environmental schemes. Three thousand people descended on the Welsh Parliament in protest at a proposed overhaul of farming subsidies they say threaten their industry. Protesters, who had travelled from across the country to attend the event, cheered, waved Welsh flags and held placards in Welsh and English reading: “No Farmers, No Food”. They are objecting to proposals by the Welsh Labour Government to require more land to be set aside for environmental schemes. A series of protests have already taken place across Wales but the event in Cardiff Bay on Wednesday was the largest by far, attended by 3-4,000 farmers