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Shallow, brief and very stupid
The refusal to face up to the disastrous divisions caused by Brexit stems from referendum cretinism. Clive Dean of Labour Party Marxists reports on the May 9 meeting of LLA supporters
Another ‘all-supporters meeting’ of the Labour Left Alliance was held last weekend. This was billed to last just two hours, and the agenda was restricted to three items: analysis of the local election results, attempts to coordinate the Labour left, and the forthcoming trade union elections.
At the start of the meeting the chair, comrade Daniel Platts, remarked how it was unfortunate that no motions had been submitted. However, in my view this actually highlights the lack of any formal place in the LLA’s constitution for ‘all-supporters meetings’. This means they can only be a talking shop - they are unable to formulate LLA policy, and are being used as a substitute for meetings of local left Labour groups, many of which have ceased to function. This time the