As another Labour leadership contest begins, Alan Woods – editor of In Defence of Marxism – discusses the rapidly changing political situation in Britain, which finds its most acute expression in the civil war that has opened up within the Labour Party.
As another Labour leadership contest begins, Alan Woods – editor of In Defence of Marxism – discusses the rapidly changing political situation in Britain, which finds its most acute expression in the civil war that has opened up within the Labour Party.
On the one side are the Blairite careerists of the Parliamentary Labour Party who are intent on removing the democratically elected leader; on the other side are Corbyn and the hundreds of thousands of workers and youth who support him.
The struggle between these two forces is now plain to see – a battle for the future of the Labour Party and of British society.