It's been a while since I last blogged with the exception of a cross post supporting a campaign by the Council of Ex-Muslims in Britain. With the continuing lock-down and the need for me to rest (my health remains fragile) I have been concentrating on simply enjoying life reading, cooking and for the first time in ages binge watching TV box sets. If you haven't seen Preacher (based on the comic of the same name) try it. Preacher is one of the best shows I have ever seen.
Meanwhile of course politics has seemingly gone mad. The most obvious event over the recent period was the storming of the Capitol by supporters of the now thoroughly discredited President Trump. I may be no fan of Biden either but the man won the election and the sight of the world's strongest democracy under attack was shocking.
In this country Corbyn's mad brother Piers in alliance with every deranged conspiracy theorist he can find has been mobilising against Covid restrictions because it's all fake in his opinion. The sight of such people outside St Thomas's hospital chanting when nurses and doctors are working hard to save people's lives is an affront to humanity.
Elsewhere in the world troubles and oppression continue. A Conservative Party pressure group on human rights has workerd with Free Tibet to produce a report on the situation under Chinese rule, As those of you who are regular readers of my social media account know this is an issue I have promoted for years and remain frustrated that the so-called left ignores.
Free Tibet demonstrations are avoided even by the hardiest of paper sellers and the issue rarely mentioned though the Stalinist Morning Star continues to support China's occupation. Most of the left ignores. Unless a foreign issue involves Jews Zionists, Palestinians or some kind of so-called imperialist intervention they just don't care.
Even when the so-called left does get involved there can be problems. The Anti-Apartheid Movement was plagued by the activities of the "City of London Anti-Apartheid Group" infamous for the arrest of one Jeremy Corbyn on their non-stop 24 hour picket. This organisation was a front for the Revolutionary Communist Group. The RCG have resurfaced from time to time to make nuisance of themselves.
When councils particularly in big cities were debating the adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliances' definition of antisemitism the RCG were denouncing it from the galleries. Their anti-imperialism descended into racism long ago. Now they have hijacked the UK page of the Free West Papua movement while nobody was looking.
I have spent much time opposing the extremists that plague our trade unions, our political parties and other movements. The need to continue that fightback despite the lock-down is essential and though I remain outside the Labour Party itself (being only a member of the affiliated Jewish Labour Movement) it is my intention to contribute whatever I can (however limited) to the building of a modern social democratic party out of the mess that Labour became under Corbyn.
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