The Socialist 9 August 2016

Stand firm for socialism

#KeepCorbyn: stand firm for socialism

Liverpool: Corbyn slams "politics of the elite"

Wallasey Labour meet in resistance to the Blairites

Mood for unity but not with right-wing Labour infiltrators

Thousands attend Corbyn rally in Cornwall

Bristol: Jeremy Corbyn wins support from young people

Hull: Jeremy Corbyn rally the biggest for 20 years

Jeremy Corbyn attracts 1,000 in York

Fresh bank crash looms

No to new grammars

Fight to defend HIV drug victory

UK wage drop as bad as Greece

Privatised medical record chaos

Them & Us

Grunwick strike 40 years on - lessons of an epic battle

Fawley strike defeats 'race to bottom' exploitation of migrant workers

Low paid cleaners declare victory after 58 days on strike

Samworth Brothers step up bullying and intimidation of workers

Communication Workers Union backs Jeremy Corbyn

HMY Radford shopfitters strike against penny-pinching company

South Wales NUM supports Jeremy Corbyn

Paul Reilly for RMT EC

2011 riots: An outpouring of anger at the system

Axe the Housing Act: 'We can't pay, we'll organise and we'll stay'

Great reception in Hackney for Chicago 'Black Lives Matter' socialist

South London #BlackLivesMatter protest marches on Downing Street

Leeds Pride 2016: Pride must be political!

Sanctioned - a victim of government callousness

Food waste - the logic of capitalism

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Wallasey Corbyn supporters meet in open resistance to the Blairites

Jeremy Corbyn, photo Paul Mattsson (Click to enlarge)

Hugh Caffrey

Hundreds of local Jeremy Corbyn supporters met on 2nd August to oppose the suspension of Wallasey Constituency Labour Party (CLP) on the Wirral, Merseyside. Wirral Socialist Party welcomed and attended the meeting, which should be the start of a mass fightback to deselect Angela Eagle MP and the other Blairites.

Eagle had been invited to address the meeting or send a representative to do so. Instead she chose to attack the meeting in the media in advance, labelling the holding of a meeting as "bullying and intimidation". The likes of Eagle aren't interested in the 'unity' of Labour or in reaching an agreement with the membership, but in defeating the Corbyn surge and driving out left activists.

The great majority of Corbyn supporters understand this and don't want compromises or retreats that will embolden the Red Tories, but a resolute struggle to defeat them and their cuts. A Socialist Party member calling for the deselection of all Blairite politicians, including cuts-making councillors, received strong applause.

800 people have joined or rejoined Labour in Wallasey to support Corbyn, doubling the membership of the constituency. Yet on the basis of barefaced lies by a handful of rightwingers, local Labour has been banned from meeting indefinitely! As we explained in the Socialist Party leaflet:

The suspension of the CLP and the vicious campaign of lies against Corbyn supporters confirms our warnings: a truce cannot be reached with the Blairites, a mass struggle is necessary [for] anti-austerity, socialist policies; Labour must be refounded as a democratic mass party.

Wallasey CLP vice-chair Paul Davies rightly told the meeting: "They can stop Labour Party meetings but they can't stop us having meetings".

The local trade union bodies that called the meeting are to be commended for taking such a well-attended initiative. Wirral Socialist Party is now calling on the trade union movement in the borough to organise ward and constituency level public meetings across the Wirral to take forward the struggle against the Blairites and their policies.

This version of this article was first posted on the Socialist Party website on 5 August 2016 and may vary slightly from the version subsequently printed in The Socialist.

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