Grande-Bretagne : les élections locales partielles du 7 mai
Pour compléter le tableau du sursaut par la gauche radicale, donnons des nouvelles de Corbyn. (Jean-Luc Mélenchon, 7 juillet 2025)

Le jeudi 7 mai, des élections locales ont eu lieu au Royaume-Uni qui
https://groupemarxiste.info/2026/05/18/grande-bretagne-les-elections-locales-partielles-du-7-mai/
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Ken Loach on Your Party failure.

Ken Loach joined the faction fight.

2021: ‘We need to move fast’: Ken Loach on Starmer, socialism and building a new left – interview. Counterfire.

“What do you think are the lessons of the Corbyn experience?

Corbyn and the handful of socialists around him were elected because the right made a mistake. To give the impression of having a broad democratic election some of them backed Corbyn to get him on the ballot paper. And then, to everyone’s surprise, the members voted overwhelmingly for him.

This worried the Labour right. But his near-victory in the 2017 general election really rattled the establishment and they had to move very seriously to stop him. That is when they started to use the claims of antisemitism to attack him. They painted Corbyn as a racist which was  shameful. They had the support of the media and the wider establishment but it is important to recognise that most of the work was done by the Labour right. Jewish socialists spoke of the ‘weaponising’ of antisemitism to undermine Corbyn’s leadership, and that view is widely accepted now.

The media used confusion around the issue of Europe against the left. The European situation was difficult for us. The EU is a free market organisation, which is very much attached to neoliberalism, but it has a kind of social democratic veneer. The referendum was a choice between staying within that effectively neoliberal union or leaving and going into partnership with a very right-wing USA or fighting for a left-wing independent position which was unlikely to succeed. This was never a matter of principle, it was a tactical question, but the Labour leadership was not clear and Starmer, who led on Europe, embodied that confusion. I think the call for a second referendum was a serious mistake. I changed my position on this as I …..

My overall conclusions are twofold. The first, easy to say in hindsight, is that the Corbyn leadership should have been more assertive from the start. It should have called on the many left-wing Jewish party members to speak on the issue of antisemitism. They spoke with authority, had spent their lives understanding and fighting antisemitism and were very clear the campaign was exaggerated and a political attack.  More generally we should have taken control of the party machine more decisively so that it reflected the views of the many who had elected Corbyn.

Secondly, the whole experience raises the question of whether the left can ever use the Labour party as a vehicle for radical change. It is important to understand that the Labour rights are not just people with different but benign ideas, they are the agents of the ruling class within the labour movement.  They will organise ruthlessly against any challenge to their dominance.

They will adopt some policies that improve the lives of the working class but they absolutely will not allow any real threat to the status quo. At times they will support the nationalisation of services that are crucial to sustaining the economy but are failing or in danger of collapse. But they won’t impinge on the core interests of capital.

The Labour right has always been the biggest obstacle to lasting progress. They act to divert the energy and the desire for change into channels that are safe for those in power. They are part of the establishment, and they will work with other elements of the state to pursue their shared objectives. This is what happened to Corbyn and this is how they would deal with any similar project. We have to prepare for that.

l dissipate and people become demoralised. There are some strong left unions and others, around Paul Holmes in UNISON for example and some in UNITE. There is the Black Lives Matter campaign, the anti-war movement, there is some excellent campaigning over housing, against austerity and so on in communities up and down the country. The Palestine solidarity movement mobilised considerable numbers earlier this year and has become a symbol of the demand for human rights internationally. These are all important and inspiring campaigns and they need to be sustained and developed.

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At the same time, it is crucial people recognise that you can’t just fight on a single issue. There are limitations to what you can achieve if you see things in isolation. There is a common denominator with all these issues and that is the nature of the economic system. Questions of racism, workers’ rights, housing, insecurity in all its forms, they are connected and they spring from and are generated by the economic system, which is defended ruthlessly by those who benefit. Privatisation and outsourcing lead to the gig economy which in turn leads to insecure jobs and poverty pay. Wars are fought for corporate influence and economic dominance. This is fundamental. We have to challenge the free market and the power of big business.”

https://bsky.app/profile/theguardian.com/post/3mlzp5jjdki25

‘They lost a historic opportunity’: Ken Loach laments Your Party infighting Guardian

Film-maker and longtime Corbyn ally says ‘poor behaviour’ squandered chance to unite the left in fight against far right

Nadia Khomami in CannesSun 17 May 2026 07.00 BSTShare

Ken Loach has accused Your Party of squandering an opportunity to unite the left in the fight against the far right after the upstart socialist movement founded by the former Labour figures Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana became mired in infighting.

“There was great hope when Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana joined forces; 800,000 people expressed interest – that’s three times the size of a political party,” he said. “But I’m afraid some of the behaviours were very poor and they lost a historic opportunity.”

The British film director and longtime Corbyn ally spoke to the Guardian before an official Cannes film festival screening of Land and Freedom – 31 years after the Spanish civil war drama first premiered on the Croisette.

The film follows a British communist who travels to Spain expecting a united anti-fascist struggle, only to encounter bitter ideological divisions between competing leftwing factions – tensions Loach believes remain deeply relevant today.

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"Keir Starmer took #Labour over, initially promising to keep to Corbyn’s policies, but quickly ditching most along with the community organising programmes, as he shifted Labour firmly to the right."

"With Labour slumping in the polls and haemorrhaging support, pressure mounted for a new left party. That culminated in the founding of #YourParty."

#UKPol

https://www.opendemocracy.net/keir-starmer-labour-leadership-challenge-jeremy-corbyn-your-party-grassroots-community-organising/

Politics from politicians' point of view is just game theory or something.

They all adopt similar policies because they know those policies are 'popular' -- that is, they will yield the highest vote share.

Then the #media amplify these policies to sell those ideas to even more people.

That's why other parties have adopted #Reform policies, with Reform coming out on top for being the genuine article.

Their brand of bullshit has become normalised by the media and their two tribute acts #Labour and the #Tories.

The #GreenParty hasn't done as well as I expected them to. I'm betting the Green vote share has increased, but with FPTP this hasn't delivered many more council seats.

We seriously need a left opposition. It looks like the Greens might not be the answer, but let's face it, #YourParty won't be making a dent in the next general election. Maybe if they had got their shit together sooner they might have, but not now. Not without some major political campaigning.

Just in time for #UK #Election Day

Which political parties support public ownership?

A matrix comparing each party’s stance on issues that affect most people every week (even every day)

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