Organise for Livingstone!
Break free from Millbank mafia
With the politics of New Labour increasingly exposed, the coming year must be a time for the left to build the fight, and organise a systematic challenge to the politics of Blairism, wherever they can be found.
In this context the London mayoral battle has become a touchstone for many Labour activists across the country.
Labour’s leaders are still conducting their own gloomy post-mortem on the disastrous electoral consequences of stitching up the electoral college for the Welsh Assembly leadership, and imposing Alun Michael as Tony’s chosen one.
But even as they do so, Millbank droids are lining up yet another shambolic and highly visible attempt to foist an unpopular candidate on an unwilling membership and public.
A successful challenge to this new gerrymandering exercise could begin to stop the rot, and help regain control of the trade union and labour movement.
Let’s organise to get Ken selected and elected: let’s make it a militant millennium and a Happy New Year for the left!