Comments on: We can’t wish a new left party into existence

By: antoni

antoni — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 08:59:43 +0000

Dear friends, as a comrand from Greece I would like to make a short note. It is interesting and inspiringfull that you are taking accound the syriza experience. But syriza now, as always, was constantly focusing on hard debates upon issues of internal democracy vs bureaucrasy and substitution. Sorry this is the real life!if you will stay to wait when a mass party like syriza will appear to start discussing democratically among you of course this an option

By: Nick Long

Nick Long — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:56:06 +0000

Michael Calderbank I think had understimated the reception Ken Loach’s call for a new left party has made. I have been involved in all the left party exercises of the last 10+ years and this latest move appears to be the most promising. Thousands have supported the call in only a few days. Secondly, the largest ultra left sects appear to be have been taken off guard and are not leading the call, thankfully, or this will be the kiss of death. The SWP seem preoccupied with attempting to stauch the flood of members hemoraging their organisation. The SP struggling to build their stalled coalition, especally after Eastleigh. All the signs look promising.

By: John Richmond

John Richmond — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 23:51:18 +0000

I am in English speaking Canada but I can certainly relate to this debate. We need a broad based, inclusive, progressive movement-based politics like the MAS in Bolivia or Quebec Solidaire. It would take a few years to build such an alternative but it could be done. Too many people no longer believe in our existing political parties for the status quo to continue indefinitely. The questions is only: do we seize the day or not? Let’s reach out today and get started. Everywhere!

By: ian

ian — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:56:09 +0000

I wonder how many parties there are on the left currently-from trots to leninist to mao to infinity and beyond, endless splitting, fracturing, breaking and forming of grandiose little sects proclaiming they are the true bearers of the historical mantel, condemning all others as whatever;liquidationist, sectarian, revisionist: how does a poor person choose in such desperate times as these, with so many paranoid projections and so much distorted thinking abounding-so a new party-do we really need a new party-can’t we come up with something less exclusive, something less elitist, something potentially less devisive and just plain crazy than the legacy of the left in this country in the twentieth century?

By: Robboh

Robboh — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:38:29 +0000

Its simple, the left at the moment is only interested in talking to its own members in its own language. It has no interest in reaching out to the wider public and their concerns. All we have is the usual suspects talking about Lenin on their catwalks, or trying to outdo each other with their “politicking”. While they squabble the cuts agenda goes on. Its a joke.

By: Rupert Ferguson

Rupert Ferguson — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:45:04 +0000

This is just the sort of garbage I would expect from a Parliamentary Labour Party hired lackey. When Tony Blair hijacked the Labour Party on behalf of the same vested interests who had financed the Tories under Thatcher many of those who refused to go along with it were frozen out. Calderbank’s problem is he will never be even half the man, never mind the intellect that Ken Loach is, and that is why any alternative to Ken Loach that is put forward by Calderbank cuts no ice with those who can recognize the truth for what it is! Those of us Scots with Jacobite Highland ancestry know only too well what it is like to be bought and sold for English gold and hireling traitors wages! Now the English Working Class are being taught the same savage lesson by the same vested interests that enslaved us more than two centuries ago! Spicing up the Left enough for all of you? I hope so!

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