Let's talk about the real British Left, then.
Starting here:
wiki: SWP (emphasis added) wrote:The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a far-left party in Britain. Founded as the Socialist Review Group by supporters of Tony Cliff in 1950, it became the International Socialists in 1962 and the SWP in 1977.[1] The party considers itself to be Trotskyist, and Cliff and his followers criticized the former USSR, and its satellites, calling them "state capitalist", rather than socialist countries.
Over the decades, the SWP has used a number of 'fronts', such as the Anti-Nazi League in the late 1970s[2] and from 2001, the Stop the War Coalition. It also formed an alliance with George Galloway and Respect; this alignment's eventual dissolution in 2007 caused an internal crisis in the SWP. A more serious internal issue emerged publicly at the beginning of 2013 as allegations of rape and sexual assault had made against a (now former)[3] leading member of the party,[4] The SWP's handling of these accusations against an individual known as 'Comrade Delta' led to a significant decline in the party's membership.[5]
On the international level, the SWP is part of the International Socialist Tendency.
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Following the perceived success of the 13 August mobilisation in Lewisham, the SWP launched the Anti Nazi League in the Autumn of 1977 with a series of celebrity-endorsed adverts published in the press. Although it was portrayed as a broad initiative supported by the SWP along with wide swathes of the Labour Left and figures from popular culture (singers, musicians, actors etc.), the ANL was seen by many on the left as a self-serving unilateral SWP initiative to seize the leadership of the Anti-Racist Movement and was regarded with suspicion by many Anti-Racist/Anti-Fascist activists.
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By 1982 the SWP was refocused completely to a propagandist approach, with geographical branches as the main unit of the party, a focus on Marxist theory and an abandonment of perspective of building a rank and file movement. The rank and file organisations were wound down as was the women's organisation Women's Voice and the paper for ethnic minorities Flame. The closure of Women's Voice in 1982, reputedly because it tried to inject feminist thinking into SWP theoretical practice rather than gaining women members for the party,[35] was a bitterly disputed action made by the leadership,[36] a sharp debate taking place between those who believed the result would be to ignore the specificities of women's oppression, and those who believed that feminist theories were in danger of losing contact with the united interests of men and women workers.
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In 1997, despite being highly opposed to Tony Blair's policies, they called for a vote for the Labour Party, with the belief that there would rapidly be a crisis of expectations in Labour which would lead New Labour voters to question their allegiances and open up opportunities and space for organisation and activity to the left of Labour that are traditionally occupied by Labour when it is in opposition.
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In the aftermath of 9/11 the SWP approached other groups, such as the Muslim Association of Britain and the Communist Party of Britain.[45] and with them launched the Stop the War Coalition, although the SWP, "old hands" at controlling popular fronts according to the comedian and activist Mark Thomas,[46] was the dominant organisation,[47] The Coalition's aims were to oppose to the invasion of Afghanistan and subsequently Iraq and to campaign against attacks on Muslims.
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The SWP described the Iraqi insurgency as a "resistance" movement against military occupation[50] and endorsed George Galloway's support of Hezbollah, who they described as "the resistance".[51][52] In addition, the Muslim Association of Britain was accused of being a conservative Islamist body[53][54] sharing only anti-western sentiments with groups like the SWP and Respect.[55] Former Socialist Alliance and Stop the War activist and press officer Anna Chen saw Lindsey German's identification of left-wing "shibboleths" (gay rights),[49][56] which were considered to hinder the new alliance, as the party's equivalent of Labour's revision of 'Clause IV'.[57]
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In October 2009, the SWP's then National Secretary Martin Smith was charged with assaulting a police officer at the Unite Against Fascism (UAF) demonstration against BNP leader Nick Griffin's appearance on the BBC's Question Time programme. Smith was found guilty of the assault at South Western Magistrates' Court, London, on 7 September 2010. He was sentenced to a 12-month community order, with 80 hours' unpaid work, and was fined £450 pending an appeal.[77] (Smith was arrested again in July 2012 at a UAF demonstration against the EDL in Bristol.)[78][third-party source needed]Following a UAF demonstration against the English Defence League (EDL) in Bolton on 20 March 2010, SWP Central Committee member Weyman Bennett was charged with conspiracy to incite violent disorder but the charge was dropped in November 2010.[79][80]
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So, you can see how they've retreated into the laps of the Islamists. The UAF connection actually takes them to Bangladesh:
wiki: Azad Ali wrote:Azad Ali is a British Islamist who is a spokesman for the fundamentalist Islamic Forum of Europe (IFE). He was founding chair of the Muslim Safety Forum, and is Vice-Chair of Unite Against Fascism (UAF). He has also been employed as an IT worker and civil servant for the Treasury.
Muslim Safety Forum
Ali was founding-chairman of the Muslim Safety Forum from 2006.[1] While in that post, he became a "key member" of the Metropolitan Police's 'Communities Together Strategic Group', chaired by Deputy Assistant Commissioner Rose Fitzpatrick, which met fortnightly to "oversee and review community reassurance and engagement measures" involving the Muslim community. Ali was also a member of the Kratos Review Group, to examine the Met's response to suicide bombings.[2]
Ali left the post of chairman in 2008, then resigned entirely from MSF in 2009 after publicity over his extremist comments. In July 2010, he was reinstated as MSF’s chairman.[1]
Links to al-Qaeda
Ali has stated that he has attended talks with Abu Qatada of al-Qaeda.[3] In a 2008 IFE blog, Ali called al-Qaeda's Anwar Al-Awlaki "one of my favourite scholars and speakers".[4] Ali has denied that the 2008 Mumbai attacks were terrorism.[5]
Comments on British soldiers
In 2009, Ali was suspended as a civil servant in the Treasury after he praised Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, Osama bin Laden's key mentor, and wrote approvingly on his blog of Azzam's son saying that as a Muslim he is religiously obliged to kill British soldiers in Iraq.[2] In the blog he also criticised the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband after the minister had condemned the Palestinian Muslim militant organisation Hamas for encouraging attacks on Israeli civilians.[6] The exposé was by The Mail on Sunday, whom Ali unsuccessfully sued in 2010.[7][2] Later that year, the Labour Party were accused by the opposition Conservatives of appearing with Ali to gain Muslim votes, after two Labour ministers, Harriet Harman and Ed Miliband, spoke at a campaign event with Ali. He used his speech to praise the Muslim militant groups Hamas and Hezbollah.[7]
Dispatches exposé
When a documentary on the Islamic Forum of Europe was made by the Channel 4 programme Dispatches in 2010, an undercover reporter filmed Ali saying "Democracy, if it means at the expense of not implementing the sharia, of course no one agrees with that."[1][8] Ali later attacked the undercover reporter on the IFE's official radio station, saying: "We've got a picture of you and a lot more than you thought we had. We've tracked you down to different places. And if people are gonna turn what I've just said into a threat, that's their fault, innit?"[1] Andrew Gilligan, who produced the documentary, has labelled Ali as an "Islamic fascist".[9]
Let's look at the Islamic Forum of Europe, which that same man participates in:
wiki: Islamic Forum of Europe wrote:IFE was founded in 1988 as a British Bangladeshi professional group, by Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin among others.[4] Its first president was Dr Muhammad Abdul Bari who later became chairman of the East London Mosque,[5] succeeded by Musleh Faradhi as President since 2005.[6]
It was reportedly founded by former members of the Jamaat-e-Islami-affiliated group Dawatul Islam, with whom it came into conflict over management of the East London Mosque "throughout the late 1980s"[7] resulting in "two High Court injunctions" in 1990 in "response to violence" at the mosque.[8] Dawat'ul Islam is now based at another mosque, Jamiatul Ummah Bigland Street.[2]
The group has been described as part of a movement of Bangladeshi immigrants in London away from secular left politics towards Islamist politics.[9]
IFE is also reported as the group which runs the East London Mosque, which is located close to its offices.[10][11] IFE and the mosque have hosted many famous scholars and religious leaders including Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, Saud Al-Shuraim, Salah Al Budair and Allama Delwar Hossain Sayeedi. [12] [13]
For those of you who somehow don't know the significance of this, one only needs to make one hop to find out what that connection is:
wiki: Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami wrote:Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami (Bengali: বাংলাদেশ জামায়াতে ইসলামী), previously known as Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh, and Jamaat for short,[1] is the largest[2] Islamist political party in Bangladesh.[3][4] On 1 August 2013 the Bangladesh Supreme Court declared the registration of the Jamaat-e-Islami illegal ruling that the party is unfit to contest national polls.[5][6][7][8]
In 1971, the predecessor of the party Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan took a stance against the independence of Bangladesh and opposed the break-up of Pakistan. It collaborated with the Pakistani Army in its operations against Bengali nationalists and pro-liberation intellectuals. Many of its leaders and activists participated in paramilitary forces[9] that were implicated in war crimes, such as mass murder, especially of Hindus, rape and forced conversions of Hindus to Islam.[10][11][12][13] Jamaat-e-Islami members led the formation of the Shanti Committee, and the Razakar and Al-Badr paramilitary forces.[9][14][15]
Upon the independence of Bangladesh in 1971, the new [left-nationalist] government banned Jamaat-e-Islami from political participation and its leaders went into exile in Pakistan. Following the assassination of the first president and the military coup that brought Maj. Gen. Ziaur Rahman to power in Bangladesh in 1975, the ban on the Jamaat was lifted and the new party Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh was formed. Its leaders were allowed to return. The Jamaat agenda is the creation of an "Islamic state" with the Shariat legal system, and outlawing "un-Islamic" practices and laws.
This is why the British Left has no credibility.
The British left is
with:
- Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh's ragtag Islamist remnants in exile
- Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan's ragtag Islamist remnants in exile
And the British left is
against:
- Bangladeshi left-nationalists
- Communist Party of India (Marxist)*
- Communist Party of Bangladesh
You all should be able to understand how in the UK which is full of people from South Asia, that choice is fucking retarded. The British left is standing
with Islamists and
against actual South Asian leftists.
It's also 500x times more retarded in Leicester city, given that the Communist Party of India (Marxist) actually contests elections here under the name "Party for Peace and Socialism", it's a pretty decent party overall and it has Indian trade union backing,
but the British left entirely ignores this party, which is why it gets only 0.2% of the votes. I guess the CPI(M) is ignored by the left because it is non-Muslim and you don't get bonus tolerance points when you vote for non-Muslims.
So long as you keep licking the feet of Muslims and ignoring everyone else in the UK, you will
never have 'a credible left'.
The fact that CPI(M) had to set up a front group in the UK to show Britons how to be secular leftists, 7000 miles away, shows just how bad the British left is.
So when you see me laughing at the British left all the time,
this is why. It's because the British left actually fucking sucks, and all they care about is loving Muslims, cuddling Muslims, and appeasing Muslims, even the ones that are designated as Islamist war criminals.
*NB: The CPI(M) sent people to find and kill Jamaat-e-Islami members as well as fight against the Pakistani army, back in the day.