Liverpool: Democratic accountability a crime?

Liverpool: Democratic accountability a crime?

A letter sent to the Liverpool Echo by Tony Mulhearn, Liverpool Socialist Party and former president of Liverpool District Labour Party

A ‘dossier’ has been submitted to the media by a right-wing clique which claims, in the words of Ms Ellman [MP for Liverpool Riverside], that “the Momentum group have been working to subvert not only the local Labour Party but also to undermine the admirable work of Labour-led Liverpool City Council, who have been doing an outstanding job in the face of savage Tory cuts” (Liverpool Echo 15.9.16)

This would be laughable if it wasn’t so menacing. In her world mayor Joe Anderson’s slashing of £330,000 from social provision is ‘admirable’ and stabbing Jeremy Corbyn in the back is not undermining Labour’s chance of defeating the Tories. Her colleagues have led Labour to two general election defeats!

The influx into Riverside Labour Party and other constituencies of thousands of energetic socialist supporters is not a ‘plot’. It represents a transparent, proud and noble objective to build the Labour Party into a socialist party fighting to represent working class people and not a vehicle to provide an MP with a job for life irrespective of their anti-working class, anti-democratic behaviour.

The hysterical claims by these subverters of the socialist aims of Labour should be met by mass meetings of ALL Jeremy Corbyn supporters to reject their policies and reaffirm support for him and the anti-austerity, anti-Tory policies that he stands for.