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but instead he was smeared and the party showed its true colours by jumping at the opportunity to oust him

Now then, I voted for Corbyn for leader twice. But his statement after the report in to antisemitism came out was of his own doing. He was asked to remove a single sentence - about it being overblown by fake reports, even though was exclusively regarding substantiated instances - and refused to.

We really need to stop with this faux persecution narrative. Policywise he was great, but at literally everything else he failed, and often by his own actions.

It’s going to be very interesting to see what happens here, but let’s not get ahead of ourselves, registering for a mailing list isn’t joining a party.

Cowards.

Edit: oh and a reminder that, while it’s not perfect, the Coop Bank does still exist.

That literally isn’t what this protects though.

Great news.

This is great, glad it’s finally happened.

Over the years there’s been a load of places in Newcastle that have been there for years, some new flats get built, and some dickhead complains to the council and won’t let it drop until the place is shut down.

Anyone can agree to spend money, the real question is does OpenAI have 30bn a year to spend.

Me thinks not.

Well yeah, no shit, it isn’t like you can build an entire domestic industry in 12 months (outside of a world war anyway).

Sure, I don’t disagree with that.

What I’m saying is you’ve structured this like an instruction manual, but have the steps in the wrong order.

In my experience with local organising (I’m a trustee of the local foodbank) doing the actions in the order you’ve laid out would cause the vast majority to disengage immediately, and I live in an area with higher than average unionisation and left wing tendencies.

You know that for a general strike to be successful it has to be massive - 10s of millions of workers - and in effect for a very long time. For that to be possible, people need to be secure in their housing, their access to food, and to heat. If any of those fail, the strike fails.

For those to be a success, parallel power structures - mutual aid, etc - need to already be in place.

So, if you want to structure this as a 3 step instruction manual, my recommendation is that it’s

• Create local security for food and housing
• Join One Big Union
• Strike until you win

If the intent is to get people started down a good path, then it should focus on first steps, which is community organising.

The people who are already open to unions are already in them. Because of 50 years of neo-liberal shite people do not understand class consciousness and view themselves simply as isolated, powerless, consumers.

You can break that view of themselves through community efforts - like gardens, allotments, etc - because they demonstrate their own abilities to themselves, and how working together benefits us all.

And then, you can start pushing for more official efforts and organisation.

“How to win” is not “Just Do The Thing”.

Building community and local organising is a pre-requisite to any sort of collective action. The idea that that somehow comes after a general strike is mad.

All resistance starts between people who know each other. Talking to your neighbours, helping each other out, sharing tools and skills, etc, are all required before you can be all “join the one big union and go on perpetual strike”.

If you, as a person, cannot organise a community garden, you cannot organise a general strike.

But what about Michael Green?

How woke of them.

Isn’t he the one who beat the shit out of his ex?

Gang of Four One

Aaaand it appears to be dead already.

Cos they’re mad.

If anyone actually believes the greens are meaningfully left wing then I have a bridge co-operative you can join.

They’re just crusties who had a wash.

I mean, there’s a whole bunch of reasons, but I don’t think it’s simply stupidity.

Some people didn’t learn the critical thinking skills you have, some may well have “lost their job to an immigrant” (and not realise that it was actually their boss that fired them because they can exploit someone more vulnerable than them). Some are scared of change, some are suspicious of “outsiders” and haven’t actually met any, and when they do realise everyone is just people.

And some are just dirty fucking racists, and they are absolutely stupid.

Presuming you’re asking in good faith…

Because working class - read: poor and routinely fucked over - people have been repeatedly lied to that the reason they must remaining living in poverty and dying young is because of people receiving £49.18 per week.

Not the bosses, landlords, or billionaires, to whom 49 quid is a cheap lunch.

Does anyone else find a bit odd to phrase basic labour rights as ‘perks’?