The Black Wall Will Fall

So far, 13,000 people have signed a petition demanding the reinstatement of Rebecca Long-Bailey. But why are they bothering? Who cares about the Labour Party?

No one from the Government has denied what was until yesterday afternoon the undisputed fact of the Israeli State's teaching of tactics such as throat-kneeling, as well as the finer points of racial profiling and of how to make miserable the lives of political dissidents, to those who policed the territories of the American Democratic Party and of the British Labour Party.

Ah, yes, the American Democratic Party. That is about to give its Presidential nomination to Strom Thurmond's eulogist, the author of mass incarceration, the restorer of the federal death penalty, and the man who opposed bussing because he did not want his children to grow up in "a racial jungle". Labour is back under the control of those who cannot see a country full of brown people and not want to bomb it. The Democrats never stopped being under such control.

The Red Wall made itself matter by turning itself into a string of key swing seats. The Black Wall can do the same. Starmer lost Labour the Red Wall over Brexit, and he has already subjected the Black Wall to his inaction over the shocking report into the party's staff, to his failure to oppose a premature lifting of the lockdown, to his clod-hopping intervention over Kashmir, to the victimisation of black women MPs, and now to this.

By contrast, the Conservative Party has never adopted the IHRA Definition. Priti Patel has adopted the Windrush Lessons Learned Review's recommendations in full. The statues of slave traders are coming down, when they never did under Labour. And Grenfell Tower is already in a highly marginal Conservative seat, with all the latent power that that entails. Watch out for that one.

The Government still adheres to the UN line on Kashmir. It is certain to condemn the impending Israeli annexation of the Jordan Valley while Starmer um-ed and ah-ed, if he did not sack or expel anyone who dared to voice any criticism.

Nor has the Government joined the Liberal Establishment gaslighting over Israel and the teaching of things like neck-kneeling. Whenever the Liberal Establishment wants to silence uppity people of colour, then it says that we are "anti-Semitic". I'm looking at you, Oliver Kamm. And at you, Amnesty International. And at you, Keir Starmer.

The Black Wall will fall. And the Red Wall needs to recover its long history of solidarity with liberation struggles from the anti-slavery movement onwards.

For example, the removal of the Leader of Durham County Council from his seat next year is now central to the Palestinian struggle. As the Israeli State's teaching of neck-kneeling to the murderers of George Floyd illustrates, the Palestinian struggle is central to the anti-racist and anti-imperialist struggle throughout the world.

And the anti-racist and anti-imperialist struggle is central to the struggle for economic equality and for international peace. Therefore, it is now central to the struggle for economic equality and for international peace that the Leader of Durham County Council be removed from his seat next year. Some of us know just the man to do it.

Meanwhile, it is of enormous potential benefit to BAME people that the Budget of March 2020 has ended the era that began with the Budget of 1976. The Centre is the think tank for this new era. It already has plenty going on.