What is being witnessed during the last two months, following Jeremy
Corbyn's massive election victory as the Labour Party Leader, has not been seen
in living memory. In this very short period of time, all the basic aspects of
Britain's imperialist political system are being questioned or challenged for
the first time in 50 years in a systematic and ground-breaking manner -
a. Validity of the monarchy.
b. Hypocritical patriotism associated with war remembrance rituals.
c. Imperialist foreign policy of aggressive wars in the name of
self-defence against 'Islamic' terrorism.
d. Ruling class attacks of austerity against common people.
e. Naked exposure of the mainstream media:
'Liberal' Guardian, Independent, Telegraph and Spectator are now all bed
fellows.
f. Limitations of parliamentary systen
(demonstrated in a constructive manner).
g. The extreme reactionary nature of Labour's parliamentary wing, which has
in recent times refined Labour's reactionary ideology and politics, is nakedly
exposed.
h. The Labour Party general membership, with
its massive new recruits, is bringing the Party to its original social
democratic position.
AND, ABOVE ALL, AN ARMY GENERAL HAS TALKED
ABOUT ORGANISING A MUTINY!!
All these in just two months!!!
Are we witnessing the beginnings of a second democratic revolution in
England? The first democratic revolution of 1642-51 abolished feudalism and
instituted capitalism in England. Is the second democratic revolution, three and
a half centuries later and still within the capitalist system, directed against
the "so-called
free market system that has delivered grotesque inequality, stagnating living
standards for the many… calamitous foreign wars without end … and a political
stitch-up which leaves the vast majority of people shut out of power or
influence (Corbyn)"? How is it going to
affect the future of Scotland and Wales?
So far, the movement is limited within the
four corners of the parliamentary system. It has not yet reached massively the
extra-parliamentary horizons. In the long
run it remains as unpredictable as its origins! And that is dangerous. The
fundamental weakness of the situation lies in the absence of a revolutionary
communist force in the country capable of intervening in the new movement that
is being born inside and outside of the Labour Party, in order to bring the hegemony of the working class into
it.
Would the situation give rebirth to the revolutionary communist movement in
England, Scotland and Wales?
Kumar Sarkar
4 December, 2015,
London.
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