So what is the ‘Stop The War’ strategy for protecting Ukraine?
PS Whenever I see Corbyn these days I just think ‘George Galloway’.
Substantively I don't think it's much different to NATO policy: talk, avoid escalation. Just minus the bullshit chest thumping. And plus, it has to be said, some weird, crude anti-imperialism that fetishises historical Russian anti-fascism in Ukraine.
There is definitely a Stalinist element in STW, it can't be denied. But that's political organisations for you, none of them are pure, and STW have basically always been on the right side when it comes to international conflict, the Labour leadership (and British government) the wrong side. LOL at the idea we have to give NATO a pass on its many murderous escapades because they're not as bad as the other guys, but STW have to be driven from public life because of a few tankies on the steering committee.
The main point here is that the Labour leadership are using this very dangerous and volatile situation to pursue a purely domestic agenda. It's reckless, cynical, and not even popular: the audience for this drek is a few liberal pundits rather than the electorate, who are not at all pro-war. And
as Solomon Hughes points out, they're doing it using the far right language of virtue signalling and treachery, not one week after everyone had decided that using right wing smears and conspiracy theories against your political enemies was actually bad now, completely beyond the pale.
The faction currently in charge of Labour are genuinely very pro-war, much more so than any of the Tories, as far as I can tell. They're pretty flexible, ideologically-speaking, on most things, but they really do love war. It's something to bear in mind when tallying up the Are Labour As Bad as the Tories score sheet. On this, probably worse.
