• albigu
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    94 months ago

    An actual leftist British political party? Idk man, sounds antisemitic to me.

    Who wants to bet on whether Corbyn will join? Idealistic and conciliatory as he was, at least Gaza was one of the good wedge issues he never seemed to back away from. He also got a lot of flak for his “Stop the War Coalition” thing for ending Ukraine’s War.

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      94 months ago

      I read recently that Ukraine currently stands to lose more ground from a Ceasefire Agreement now than if Zelenskyy would’ve just agreed to Russia’s terms from the beginning lmfao Enormous L for Ukraine

    • @Munrock@lemmygrad.ml
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      The Worker’s Party has been around for a while now and Corbyn hasn’t joined. I think Corbyn is done with party participation at this point. He’s too near the end of his career and he’s pretty much guaranteed to win his Islington seat for as long as he wants it, so party membership offers nothing that would be worth compromising his individual convictions in favour of party policy for.

      But Corbyn and Galloway have been speaking up for Palestine before the current farce of Western Left decided it was fashionable. Before most of the Western left was even born. Galloway got ousted from Labour for opposing the war in Iraq and he’s since been constantly smeared and demonized the same way Corbyn has.

      The prevailing attitudes toward Galloway and Corbyn don’t surprise me at all. Modern Western leftists constantly deride and dismiss both of them for having ideas and mentality of the kind you expect from people who were born in the 40s and 50s. But when either of them travel to South Africa or South America or the Middle East, actual leftists and retired resistance fighters are there greeting them as comrades.

      edit: Galloway’s podcast is significantly more popular in the Global South than it is in the West