It has long been an open secret that there was a thriving neo-Nazi subculture in sections of the Armed Forces, and perhaps especially in sections of the Army. The anti-Corbyn utterances of the top brass need to be seen in that context.
Jeremy Corbyn opposed the coup of that kind in Ukraine, as did the newspaper for which the writes, the Morning Star, whose Editor the BBC is being criticised for having had on to discuss Venezuela this afternoon. But, like Corbyn, it was right about Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Like Corbyn, it opposed the Nazi coup in Ukraine. When it says that this is a classic CIA Rightist coup in Latin America, and it sure as hell looks like one, then it deserves to be listened to.
Spontaneous uprisings of the poor are not capable of staging helicopter grenade attacks on the Supreme Court. And the point is very rarely made that the reason the Opposition did so badly in the elections to the Constituent Assembly was that it boycotted them, while it seems determined to ensure that next year's elections do not go ahead. One does have to wonder why.
It would be interesting, even now, to see someone like Graham Jones invited to locate Venezuela on a map. He and others are using this issue in order to make an almost entirely uncontested, but in fact a highly contestable, point against Corbyn. Their hero managed to be the Prime Minister of a P5 country for 10 years while thinking that the language of Brazil was Spanish. Corbyn, by contrast, speaks fluent Spanish and has a highly sophisticated knowledge of Latin America, as have several of his closest allies, notably Chris Williamson.
Staggering though it is that it is once again necessary to have anti-Nazi credentials, such is now the case. Real such credentials extend all the way back to the Yugoslav Wars, extend to Ukraine, extend to Venezuela, and extend to having opposed successive treaties that subjected us to the legislative will of assorted Austrian Brownshirts, Arrow Cross nostalgists, and the like, now including a member of the German NDP. Jeremy Corbyn and the Morning Star have those credentials. Their detractors do not.
Spontaneous uprisings of the poor are not capable of staging helicopter grenade attacks on the Supreme Court. And the point is very rarely made that the reason the Opposition did so badly in the elections to the Constituent Assembly was that it boycotted them, while it seems determined to ensure that next year's elections do not go ahead. One does have to wonder why.
It would be interesting, even now, to see someone like Graham Jones invited to locate Venezuela on a map. He and others are using this issue in order to make an almost entirely uncontested, but in fact a highly contestable, point against Corbyn. Their hero managed to be the Prime Minister of a P5 country for 10 years while thinking that the language of Brazil was Spanish. Corbyn, by contrast, speaks fluent Spanish and has a highly sophisticated knowledge of Latin America, as have several of his closest allies, notably Chris Williamson.
Staggering though it is that it is once again necessary to have anti-Nazi credentials, such is now the case. Real such credentials extend all the way back to the Yugoslav Wars, extend to Ukraine, extend to Venezuela, and extend to having opposed successive treaties that subjected us to the legislative will of assorted Austrian Brownshirts, Arrow Cross nostalgists, and the like, now including a member of the German NDP. Jeremy Corbyn and the Morning Star have those credentials. Their detractors do not.
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