Don Quixotes travels

  There has been a lot of chatter on the WhatsApp group(49 members) about the future direction of YP. On FB, here we have 228 followers and I wondered what your feelings are around the leadership and what kind of politics you want for YP.     For transparency, I’ve reposted the ‘minimum political programme’ agreed upon at the ‘world transformed assembly’ in Manchester recently. 300 people from seven different ‘Socialist’ groupings voted for this programme to be adopted by YP branches.  Within this document there is explicit opposition to the ‘so-called’ leadership of ‘Corbyn or Sultana’ stating that ‘they are not up to the task’.  “These groups have agreed they will work together to fight around the founding conference of Your Party on this principled basis.” Often the word ‘fight for’ is used by these, essentially party’s within a Party. Fighting and opposing the Parliamentary representatives is a recurrent theme. This is because most of these ‘groupings’ are ‘...

The attack on the Manchester synagogue was a horrific antisemitic atrocity, targeting innocent Jewish worshippers. Hatred of Jews for being Jews or blaming all Jews for the crimes of Israel, is vile racism. The criminal who perpetrated it, is responsible for his own reprehensible actions. My condolences for all those affected. Manchester suffered the Arena bombing and refused to be divided, we will do the same again and maintain community cohesion between multi-faiths and ethnic groups.       Of course there is no contradiction in my being a pro-palestine activist, opposing the Israeli genocide, the apartheid colonial racism inherent in zionism and my condemnation of this dreadful act. Thats because, as many Jews worldwide shout loudly; -Judaism is NOT zionism’, zionism is NOT Judaism!    This is why we work so hard to counter the Zionist narrative that Israel acts on behalf of global Jewry. On every Pro-Palestine peace protest are the ‘Jewish bloc’, anti-zionis...