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on 9th May 2010 at 07:55, Robert Naether said:

Who would be the leader, who would you have to run this left party, Cruddas do not make me laugh, Nia Griffiths who joined the LRC when the people around me got rid of Labours AM, and then almost go rid of the labour council.

To many people have run to the LRC to get elected, the fact is except for John here a few others we have nobody able to run this party it sold out years ago.

You can tell if a person is left by the voting patterns

on 9th May 2010 at 09:53, Alasdair Cresswell said:

Labour needs the big debate if it is to stand a chance of re-establishing itself as a party of the left. Such a debate could only come in the form of a fully drawn out leadership debate, not as is being suggested at the moment, a rushed affair over the fear of a Tory snap election, something which could financially cripple the Labour party.

on 13th May 2010 at 21:47, Steve Brown said:

Sometimes people forget, or don’t realise, that the Labour Party isn’t a just bunch of activists or a group of career seeking politicians, not even the conscience of an active and well read, well meaning group of socialists and left wingers.  The LP is like the political skin on the body of the working class.  It arises and takes form from it, reflecting the state of the body and the phase through which it is passing based on the relationship it has with the mass of workers or, the body.  When the body is under attack or is poisoned and is unable to defend itself it becomes weak and feeble, the skin becomes bruised and pallid, and the body brings to bare anything it can to fend off the assailant.  In the case of the LP in the 90’s, the working class was willing to accept New Labour in order to rid itself of the Tories, not realising that it had relinquished it’s own strength even further to the Blair/Brown clique and the fee market agenda!  What we are witnessing now is a further and deeper attack via this new coalition of capitalist Dr. Mengele’s which in effect is more of the same medicine it was getting in the past.  The difference now is that the LP is in opposition and has the chance to fall back and re-group, to identify a clearer enemy on the outside, examine what has gone wrong within its ranks and where there is a chance, if it is grasped, to re-introduce the much needed Red Bull of socialism and adrenalin of militancy; to begin to bring the body back to life!  At this moment the real struggle, for anyone who is serious about changing society, is the fight for a socialist leadership.  Above all else the question of the Labour leadership is crucial! Without a fighting, socialist leadership then the body will take longer to repair!  In the coming period however, the mass of workers will be forced to fight this government.  The Milliband’s and the Balls’ed and the right wing in the unions will be found wanting and couldn’t possibly live up to the demands of the workers and the growing fight back.  This will render the battle for a socialist leadership to be a more protracted affair!  However, as we speak, thousands are flooding back into the party and thousands more will join under the onslaught of the surgeons knife (back to the skin analogy again).  This will revitalise the party (oxygen), bringing in new layers (dermis) refreshing the ranks and raising the levels of political debate (blood supply).  Anyone who fails to appreciate this process is doomed to wander the metaphysical wilderness in pursuit of a distant utopia. 

The call must go out now….........

The immediate creation of a youth section - a Young Socialists!
For socialist policies!
For a socialist leadership! 
For defence of our class and defence of our public services! 
Labour to power on a socialist program!

The struggle for socialism is the process whereby the body of the working class heals itself, throws off the fetters of New Labour and sheds the old tired skin of class compromise, defeat and despair.  There are great times ahead comrades, but we must all play our parts in advancing the cause of socialism by fighting for a socialist candidate for the leadership of our party! 

All comrades to the stomach pumps!
Lets vomit out New Labour!

on 18th May 2010 at 07:35, Robert Naether said:

We have but sadly Cameron now looks more left then labour. Miliband look to be heading the stakes for Leader he says new labour is dead, what he means is new labour will rise with me, hence I cannot come back to labour while brown even sits on the back benches.