The left-wing rogues' gallery

[IndianaGreen]

No one should be surprised that Tony Blair made the list.

The left-wing rogues' gallery

Tuesday 04 August 2009

Neil Clark

It's a sad truth that some of the biggest enemies of progressive socialist causes have not been those on the right but those who claim to be on the left.

All over the world, some of the most reactionary anti-working-class policies have been carried out by governments which go under a "socialist" or "social democratic" label.

In eastern Europe for instance, nominally leftist governments have presided over mass privatisation and cutbacks in health and welfare provision since the fall of communism 20 years ago.

And in Britain, new Labour has sided with global capital against the interests of ordinary working people as well as supporting illegal imperialist wars of aggression in the Balkans and the Middle East.

New Labour claims to be a left-of-centre party but, as Labour veteran Tony Benn recently stated, in fact it is to the right of the positions taken by old-style "one-nation" Tory figures such as Winston Churchill and Harold Macmillan.

http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/features/the_left_wing_rogues_gallery

[bemildred]

1. Fake leftists are the political equivalent of FBI plants.

By their works shall ye know them.

[Laelth]

2. k&r for the Honourable Tony Benn.

His observation is too true. The current people's party in the United States is center-right, at best.

:dem:

-Laelth