It’s reds under the beds time! Or rather in the newly insurgent Green Party. According to today’s Mirror, “hard left activists” have flocked to the Greens. Natalie Bennett has been forced to deny that significant numbers of former Socialist Workers Party members have been signing up, though the paper notes “her own partner is an ex-SWP stalwart“. They omit to mention that his membership ceased well over 10 years ago. It also notes with shock that the Greens are now taking a leaf out of Syriza’s book – “the anti-austerity message seems more important to the party than its green roots these days – Ms Bennett barely mentions the environment once in our interview“. How dare the Greens not conform to the tree-eating, muesli-hugging stereotype! In all, if this was a red baiting attack then the party comes out of it rather well. Continue reading
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Reflections on “Red” Len’s victory
It is an interesting aside that ‘Red Scares’ seem to entering the media discourse with increasing frequency. Contrast, for example, the creation of ‘Red’ Ed Miliband with even the mainstream media dismissal of the infamous ‘Demon Eyes’ campaign against Tony Blair. Something has changed; and that something is the fact that the age-old capitalist problem, its own instability, has returned like Banquo’s ghost to haunt the feast. Fleet street and media moguls know this hence why the red bugaboo is invoked every time it catches even the slightest whiff of left-wing politics. Continue reading
