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Organise the teams to apply the Peoples Agenda

Marie Lynam
9th June 2010 at 08:49
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Copy of my letter to John McDonnell, from Marie Lynam
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Hello John,

I learn that you have withdrawn your candidature for Party Leader.

I think on the whole, it is a quite correct move. There is no need to bang one’s head against brick walls. There are plenty of useful other things to do, eh?

Parliament does not decide the major orientations of the country, as proven by the dictatorship of the rating agencies. This has always been so, it is just more obvious now.

It begs the question of how, in a society that pretends to have no classes, the bourgeois class never fails to represent itself through parliament. Hence through the parliamentary LP.

The liberation of the Labour Party (in its Socialist sense) passes through overcoming our traditional respect, subservience and even reverence for the instruments of bourgeois power. People are no longer in awe of the GP, the Priest, the Minister, the Teacher. Without advocating disrespect for these people as individuals, I say it is jolly good thing. It shows that people no longer accept the power of the few as a matter of course. Perhaps there is a such a thing as the infancy, the puberty, the adolescence and the maturity of societies.

This society will not bend its back to those in power because they have the power. Instead, they ask: ‘When did it happen that the servants of the people became their bosses?’. I answer to this: Not in the Russian Revolution or later with Stalin! It happened in capitalism, because capitalism took this feature over from feudalism - and it goes back to the origins of private property itself.

We are overcoming, apparently slowly, 10,000 years of private property. In historical terms, humanity is doing this in leaps and bounds. The French Revolution, the Paris Commune, 1905 in Russia, 1917, the Chinese Revolution, the Cuban, the May 1968 in France ... And closer to us ... the resistence of millions (at extremely great costs) in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine… Plenty of reasons for you, the LRC and all of us, to keep our heads high.

You are right when you say that the struggle goes on. You will still be able to use Parliament and your increased electoral support as means to make your voice heard. There are 10 MPs at least prepared to support you, and this is a great defeat for capitalism that wanted you to have none at all.

There is something to gain from leaving the spot to Diana.

She now has a golden opportunity to demonstrate that being Black and a Woman are not the only qualifyiers, if ever they were. 

But it is a lovely opportunity for her, particularly if the NEC takes the obvious step of lowering the threshold, to get her on the list. If they do, it will be great. If they don’t, history - like the river - will find another way to flow.

Forward to the construction of the national teams (Ireland, Scotland and Wales included) to fight for the Peoples Agenda.

I am sending an email along these lines to Jeremy Corbyn.

Marie Lynam, for the Posadists in Britain - (GMB, Camden Trades Council and LRC in an individual capacity)

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