paul o'connell soas
Prior to this he was a Reader in Law at the University of Leicester, where he worked from 2009-2013, and a Lecturer in Law at the National University of Ireland in Galway from 2005-2008. This, unfortunately, proved too little, too late.The shift in Labour’s position was brought about by a concerted campaign led by the worst remnants of the Blair years (Mandelson, Campbell, Blair, Watson and co.), with the support of most in the media and the wider political class. In this election, having capitulated to the demands of reactionary liberalism and committed itself to a second referendum, Labour could not consistently present itself as a party of insurgent change and transformation, while playing the part of restoring the The election result leaves us facing up to five more years of Tory rule, and we can be under no illusions that in this time they will go on the attack against workers’ rights, migrants, public services and the environment.
Indeed, the battle of interpretation over the result will be a determining factor in the ongoing internal fights within the labour movement, the strategy and tactics moving forward for the radical left and for the lessons drawn by the wider working class.One interpretation which is already being pushed by the liberal left is that Labour (read Corbyn) were too slow to articulate the politics of Remain. Indeed, partway through the election campaign it’s clear the Labour leadership recognised that this issue was hurting the campaign and pivoted to Leave voting constituencies in the North and Midlands, while keeping arch-Remainers like Emily Thornberry and Keir Starmer out of the media spotlight. But when they voted for Brexit, the established reacted immediately with efforts to delegitimate and overturn the result.In the 2017 General Election, Labour promised to respect the Brexit vote, and fight for the best possible Brexit – married to its radical manifesto, this allowed Labour to present itself as a genuine insurgent force. As Radical as Our Time Requires: Labour, the Left and Brexit To be at the forefront of the battle for an alternative future, Labour cannot be side-tracked into campaigning to restore the status quo ante. The Tory Party may now, at least, deliver on the UK formally leaving the EU (this won’t be “Brexit sorted”, as Brexit is a complex process and not a formal event), and that opens the space for the socialist left to re-focus all our efforts on fighting to fundamentally transform and shape post-Brexit Britain. As such, it has been possible to dismiss Brexit as a mere racist endeavour, to imagine that the vote to leave could be dismissed, and the mob who voted for it could be won around with the promise of what’s better for them – this is the politics of arrogant Fabianism, and is not the basis for building a radical alternative.At the General Election in 2017, a Corbyn-led Labour Party secured the biggest increase in the party’s vote since World War II by accepting the result of the referendum and connecting the ruptural energy of the Brexit vote to a manifesto that promised radical change for working class communities. Given that we have likely already entered the early stages of the next recession, the austerity and inhumanity of the last decade of Tory-Lib Dem rule will be redoubled and the working class will, as ever, be at the sharp end of this class warfare. This stems from the fact that while the Corbyn moment reflected a reinvigoration of loosely socialist ideas, it was not grounded in working class communities and workplaces. He is currently working on a project which critically interrogates the relationship between globalisation and human rights. Year: 2013 Dr Paul OConnell is a Reader in Law at SOAS, the University of London. To do this we must refocus on the central principles of socialism.
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