Jeremy Corbyn’s Seismic Victory

[Onyango Oloo]

Excerpt:

Jeremy Corbyn’s win today marks a revolutionary, seismic change in British politics. But it is also so much more than that.

It’s not just the fact that he won, but that he won so decisivelyin the first round, with almost 60% of the vote, victorious in each of the three Labour Party ‘chapters’ – party members, affiliated supporters, and £3 registered supporters.

With so clear and strong a mandate from the Party, trades unions and cooperatives, and wider society including supposedly ‘disengaged’ young people, even his strongest detractors among Labour MPs have little choice but to go along with the euphoric tide that swept him to the leadership – no matter how little they share in that euphoria themselves.

And it is testament to Corbyn’s political integrity that his first act as Labour Leader and Leader of the Opposition was to take to the streets in today’s ‘Solidarity with Refugees’ march in London, which begins at Park Lane and ends, symbolically, at Downing Street.

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The ironies of history never fail to surprise. Measured by any criteria, Jeremy Corbyn is the most left-wing leader in the history of the Labour Party. He understands that those who do evil abroad are unlikely to do much good at home. He is the staunchest anti-imperialist Member of Parliament. A contrast with his political forebears proves this assertion. Keir Hardie’s socialism floundered on the battlefields of the First World War, with Arthur Henderson serving in Lloyd George’s war cabinet.

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[abdulmote]

With such a disisive win for left wing politics following the Greek political coup, I am inclined to think this is certainly a patern which demonstrates a widespread global desire for change that is about to gain unstoppable momentum.

One more repeat elsewhere and kaboom, the staunch capitalist defenders will be in for a shock of their lifetime.

Time will tell.

[wanyee]

I couldn't agree more...

"the rise of any society that might serve as a successful example of an alternative to the capitalist model."

[michael]

Was voter turnout high or low? He is a bit on the extreme side of things, could be just the gift the torys wanted for xmas. Extremists are never good for business and politics is business.

[OtishOtish]

Sept 22, 2015 21:32:05 GMT 3 abdulmote said:

With such a disisive win for left wing politics following the Greek political coup, I am inclined to think this is certainly a patern which demonstrates a widespread global desire for change that is about to gain unstoppable momentum.

One more repeat elsewhere and kaboom, the staunch capitalist defenders will be in for a shock of their lifetime.

Time will tell.

I have my doubts on that one. Socialism, communism, ... are all---morally, at least---inherently superior to Greedy Capitalism. But man/woman is, fundamentally, a greedy and violent animal.

Let's face it: We might not have seen the end on television, but the revolution is over, and the Capitalist Pigs won. Better to find a way to constrain them that to keep yearning for a lost paradise that never was. Also better to start doing for oneself that to keep f**king up while wailing about how the Foreign Capitalists are doing us in.