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How the left is being manipulated into colluding in its own character assassination
Cook, Jonathan
http://dissidentvoice.org/2021/01/how-the-left-is-being-manipulated-into-colluding-in-its-own-character-assassination/Date Written: 2021-01-08 Year Published: 2021 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX24319 This is the left's dilemma. We struggle to win the argument in a corporate media environment that not only denies us a hearing but also promotes the voices of those like Freedland trying to destroy us from the centre and those supposedly on the left like George Monbiot and Owen Jones who are too often destroying us from within. We need to find ways to turn the tables on the war criminals who have been gaslighting us in demanding that Assange, who exposed their crimes, is the one who needs to be locked up. We need to make clear that it is those who are so ready to smear anti-racists as antisemites – as Corbyn’s successor, Sir Keir Starmer, has done to swaths of Labour party members – who are the real racists. And we need to unmask as war hawks those who accuse the anti-war left of serving as apologists for dictators when we try to stop western states conducting more illegal, resource-grab wars with such devastating results for local populations. We must get much more sophisticated in our thinking and our strategies. There is no time to lose. Subject Headings |