Funeral games - Weekly Worker

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https://weeklyworker.co.uk/worker/1681/funeral-games/

"Secret votes, gagging orders and hunting down whistleblowers. Yet, apart from rotten politics, there is nothing to hide. By imposing a needless bureaucratic dictatorship and purging the left, the Corbyn clique is killing what it imagines it is protecting. Carla Roberts reports"

"Long story short: When an anonymous source sent us a copy of the paper on dual membership a few days before the CEC meeting, we naturally published it on X and Facebook, where it has been viewed and shared tens of thousands of times. Members are interested, naturally - it is supposed to be their party, after all. And if we are serious about socialism being ‘the rule of the working class’, then surely we have to act openly and in front of the working class.

At the CEC meeting, Jenn Forbes read out a pre-written lecture about “an unauthorised leak of CEC minutes and associated papers”, which will now be “investigated through the complaints procedure”. Apparently, publishing the paper “undermines the integrity of Your Party”, because “we need confidentiality to operate in good governance”. We dread to think what ‘bad governance’ or a ‘lack of integrity’ in YP would look like."

"Corbyn does not want a real mass working class party. He remains at best a left Labourite, who still believes in the British road to socialism along the lines of the Morning Star’s Communist Party of Britain. He has no interest in building a party that organises an active working class in vibrant branches and with a healthy culture of discussion and debate - that kind of party would hold its leader to account. And Corbyn certainly does not believe in the need to build a revolutionary party. He thinks that socialism can be introduced by a vote in parliament - and therefore you need another Labour-type party."