Latest Labour Party jitters

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Looks like some in the Labour leadership are starting to get cold feet on the run upp to the 2015 General Election in the UK. In todays Guardian newspaper Andy Burnham the shadow health secretary argues that they need to shout out louder what their policies are and how they differ from the ConDems. Seems to me that most workers in the UK know that there is going to be no difference between Miliband and Cameron which is why there could be record abstentions.

Whoever wins the workers are going to have to struggle and have a political programmme that seeks to overthrow capitalism and replace it with genuine Communism. The lead up to 2015 needs to see the development of genuine working class struggles and not simply anti austerity struggles.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

agreed. what scares me is that there is a shift towards the right amongst ordinary people as opposed to a shift towards the left.

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Not certain that there is a general shift to the right by workers I think that the situation is more complicated. In certain areas such as Immigration there may be a rightward shift but I thiink that with a bit of perserverance workers can be won to a pro immigration stance. In other areas workers are angry with the austerity cuts but feel that there is no alternative. This can give rise to a sense of stoicism rather than being won to a position that defends the cuts from a rightward position.

The current is to be able to intervene is whatever struggles there are with a clear alternative Socialism/Communism to the crisis ridden Capitalism and not to bow to either spontaneity or to a form of common sense which is pro capitalist.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

well immigration is the key issue in the rightward shift, but also, pay attention to the rise in ukip, especially amongst disillusioned workers.

as there is no alternative, which is objectively true at the moment, many people are seeing ukip as some kind of radical alternative to the main parties.