Which way forward following the election…

by New Worker correspondent

That was the question posed at a seminar in London on Sunday. The 30th anniversary of the  start of the dialogue between the NCP and the RCPB (ML) was appropriately marked by the opening of a discussion that both parties believe needs to be taken throughout the labour movement. NCP leader Andy Brooks, who chaired the meeting at the NCP Centre, welcomed everyone to the seminar at the Sid French library or by video link and the discussion was opened by Michael Chant, the RCPB (ML) leader. 
Michael reviewed the work of both parties over the years and presented views on the tasks and vantage point of the communists at this significant time in history. Other comrades. including supporters of the Consistent Democrats platform and the British Posadists, also spoke on the Tasks of the Communists in the Light of the July 2024 General Election – to look at the meaning of Labour’s immense but essentially hollow victory in July, Jeremy Corbyn’s new Independent bloc in Parliament and the predictable failure of the revisionists and the conventional social-democratic left at the polls. We discussed the mass support for the Palestinians on the street as well as the upsurge of racist violence and the mass anti-fascist response that followed and the need for a renewed fight-back against Starmer-style austerity that must be led by the rank-and-file in the trade unions and the mass movements of the labour movement. Finally it was agreed to broaden the discussion by publishing the contributions in both parties’ journals and to hold other meetings and seminars in the very near future.