Corbyn: United we stand, divided we fall.

The right-wing of the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) are currently conducting an exercise in blackmail and sabotage against Corbyn. From triggering a vote of no-confidence in the Party Leadership, to mass resignations expected throughout the next few days, the PLP is currently incredibly polarised, and, as a result, public confidence in the Labour Party is dwindling. The right-wing section of the PLP are the substantial reason why Corbyn can't do his job right - they're basically saying "we will continue to wreck the labour movement and betray the people we exist to serve until you elect a leader more acceptable to us".

I do think that a Corbyn-led party can win. I do think that Corbyn is the best person to lead the Labour Party.

Following the results of the EU Referendum, it is certainly a worrying time for the left. It is a time that will need Labour, as a socialist democratic party, to offer – and fight for – a serious alternative vision of a radically better, more equal, more tolerant society. A vision that can counter anti-migrant reaction and rhetoric, with convincing socialist solutions to the very real problems and struggles facing ordinary working class people (whatever their background).

I think that the only thing that can successfully and sustainably push back the right and the far right, and anti-migrant sentiment, is a firm, bold, radical left.

Ordinary working class people voted in millions for exit, and there is a widespread sense of discontent and anti-establishment frustration. Brexit was a vote against mainstream politics, against the unrelatable elite who rule (read: control and manipulate) the masses. Millions of people feel left behind and disempowered. And they are justified in their frustration. The political climate of the UK means that unemployment is up, wages are stagnating and falling, jobs are precarious, casualisation is rampant, rent is a rip-off, buying a house is off the cards for huge numbers, the welfare state is being reduced, and public services are stretched and even failing. They *have* been left behind. Thus Labour has a huge uphill battle to convince people that the source of their anger should be directed against capitalism itself, but this is a complete necessity. There are no quick and easy roads to this future.

Accordingly, a participatory process which involves humans from all classes and backgrounds, rather than just the elite whom have previously capitalised from misguided claims about social issues and human suffering, is necessary for the realisation of a competent system: a system of action and manners in which to indicate the possibility to create a more socially just and sustainable system which can have stable global relations, to challenge humanity’s myopic vision of what constitutes a just society.  Confronting the existing belief systems is a frightening concept to a society that has voluntarily conscripted itself to the dominant social paradigms of the state.  Yet it is precisely this confrontation which is necessary in seeking a true assessment and analysis of human social liberation, and the possibility of triumph by a Labour Party committed to tackling social issues in a manner which allows for greater integration, greater equity, and greater representation.

The success of the right has been in convincing many people that these social problems are down to migrants (and, secondarily, EU bureaucrats). This has been possible, in part, because of a gap on the left. The left ought to have been countering that these problems are down to a greedy, exploitative class of employers and landlords and to a pro-austerity, anti-worker government serving them, and offering convincing drastic solutions to drastic problems - massive investment in services, council-house-building, harsh rent controls, improved pay and working conditions, fewer cuts to vital public services, and so on, funded by taxing the people who can afford it, and by seizing the banks we bailed out into public hands. This all sounds dramatic, but given how bleak things are (and how much worse they are bound to get), Labour is only going to solve those problems with serious action - and people know it, they aren't going to vote for a half-hearted, weak programme that promises only to tiptoe around the edges of their problems; people won’t vote for a Party that seemingly prefers to engage in petty personal debates, rather engaging in serious debate to present their solutions. Labour lost in 2015 because it offered a half-hearted programme that didn't challenge the right's narrative and, in fact, half-indulged it. Consequently, this referendum on EU membership is a damning indictment of Labour's pandering to anti-immigration attitudes instead of tackling them. Every time they give an inch in pandering to the right - on immigration or whatever social issue is being raised for the public to engage with - they take a mile. That's exactly how we got into this situation in the first place - I don't think people would have voted for Brexit had Labour's past centrist leaderships not so abjectly neglected the tasks of the left.

A Labour Party which is now turning against their leadership, a Party which is, frankly, falling apart, is not what this country needs right now.  Now is the time for the Party to stand together, stronger and more united.  Blackmail, disloyalty, and resignations serve little more than to reinforce the narrative of Corbyn as a weak leader and to perpetuate support for the far-right.  Watching the Labour Party disintegrate at the same time as the Tories struggle with Cameron’s resignation and the necessity to find someone to step in as PM offers little more than widespread political chaos. Little is being proven other than the right-wingers’ opinions that the Labour Party has no relevance in politics today.  We shouldn’t let the Blairites use Brexit to oust Corbyn when it was the centre right and far right that has caused this problem.  Corbyn is the best chance we have to bring this corrupt, lying, obnoxious government down - to the PLP, don't put your petty squabbles before the needs of the country and the people who desperately need a left wing anti austerity alternative.

Labour, Corbyn, your country needs you. Don't squander your opportunity.

United we stand, divided we fall.