Comments on: A new party of the left comes one step closer

By: Will Podmore

Will Podmore — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:13:49 +0000

Sorry guys, yet another doomed attempt to recreate ‘the Labour Party on socialist principles’, yet another broad church.
Have you learned nothing from the failures of the Mensheviks, of all the social-democratic parties, the New Lefts (1 and 2) etc?
Without a Marxist-Leninist party, rooted in the working class, the working class is doomed to perpetual feeble opposition.

By: Salman Shaheen

Salman Shaheen — Wed, 29 May 2013 14:29:18 +0000

Jaynel62, I hope so too. There’s certainly some cross-over with some of the people involved. I suspect Owen Jones will be backing Labour. And while I hope Left Unity will work with the Labour Left on campaigns against the cuts, LU is aiming to provide a left-wing alternative to Labour, which has been fairly weak in its Parliamentary opposition to austerity.

By: Jaynel62

Jaynel62 — Wed, 29 May 2013 07:18:54 +0000

Intrigued to read this in the same weekly round up as the interview with Owen Jones re The People’s Assembly; I only hope the two groups work closely together otherwise this will split the left even further?

By: Michael Daniels

Michael Daniels — Thu, 23 May 2013 15:47:32 +0000

You wouldn’t know how many years I’ve waited for something like this! All my life, even as a teenager, I’ve been a supporter, though never a member, of the Labour Party for for years have been disappointed by it’s lack of a left wing agenda, principles and strategy. Let’s hope this really takes off.

By: Robert the cripple

Robert the cripple — Wed, 22 May 2013 22:03:28 +0000

I would like to see another Party to get in and be a force, because right now the Tory Labour, Labour Tory one is in power one is in opposition has seen New Labour and now Newer Labour sit back and work with the Tories and the Tory swing voters.

Miliband is a very very poor leader and I cannot for the life of me see him do much for the people except I suspect ask Blair to come back

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 17 May 2013 20:46:44 +0000

Seems good but I give it a month before the SWP or AWP the try to take it over, in which case I look forward to buying copies of the Socialist Worker of them.

If it does survive attempted I hope it does well, sets up a branch or nine in Ireland.

Also Multi-tendency would be nice, might stop the “I’m not working with you’re lot,” arguments that have destroyed every left wing movement of the last 80 years.