The ‘Corbyn Project’ is promising. But can it deliver on its goals?
After much buzz on social media, Jeremy Corbyn’s Peace and Justice Project finally launched on Sunday 17 January. And while everyone involved managed to ‘talk the talk’ – will they, and it, be able to ‘walk the walk’? Overall, the launch left me concerned – but the project itself leaves me more hopeful.
Brilliant and superb…
Let’s start with the project itself. There is a lot of good content on the website. For example, its approach to Rupert Murdoch, the other billionaire media barons and the BBC is absolutely brilliant. Its website says:
We will commission research, support grassroots actions and campaign to bring about a media system that is fit for the 21st Century, one that nourishes rather than distorts democratic debate; one that supports rather than constrains journalistic freedom; and, above all, one that speaks truth to power and gives voice to the voiceless.
All this is sorely needed. What also stands out is the collective language. Everything is “we”, “us” and so on. This is refreshing in terms of a big organisation – although the public needs to know who the “we” in terms of the project actually is, moving forward. The International Justice area is superb – and completely in line with Corbyn’s own values. Also, the idea of community networking for immediate action is strong and potentially needed. The website says:
We are organising solidarity in communities across the UK as the impact of austerity, the pandemic, and the new recession bites. We are asking Peace and Justice Project supporters to link up locally and address this economic emergency together.
But sadly, I didn’t feel all these positives were necessarily represented on 17 January.
But… middle class?
I watched the launch live and in full. My first, gut reaction? Middle-class lefties telling the rest of us what’s wrong with society and what we need to do about it – but only under their supervision, of course. It didn’t help that a member of the unelected, ‘£300 a day for just turning up’ House of Lords was chairing the meeting. Not exactly grassroots, was it? No disrespect to all involved, but this ‘top-down’ theme continued with every speaker. I began to wonder just where the working class voices actually were – apart from at home, watching on their devices.
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Support us and go ad-freeHaving said that, each speaker spoke with passion. And most of them talked sense: from former ANC MP Ronnie Kasrils’ furious speech on US imperialism and Israel’s apartheid policies, to Yanis Varoufakis’ brilliant summing up of the state of what was capitalism. Corbyn was his usual humble yet pointed self. Labour MP Zarah Sultana is clearly a leader of the party in waiting. And Noam Chomsky showed that he’s still got it, even after all these years. Meanwhile, Len McCluskey put the cat among the pigeons – calling for Keir Starmer to give Corbyn the party whip back. My chronically ill, disabled partner and I were also really pleased to see that the countless deaf and disabled people, who’ve been asking for BSL interpretation as standard, had been heard by the project. Because interpreters were present throughout.
Insipid?
I also got a feeling of insipidness. The cries of “for the many”, “hope” and so on ring somewhat hollow after we’ve heard little else for the past few years – and while life is still such a struggle for so many people.
To this end, and what McCluskey also did, was sum up several of the major challenges facing the Peace and Justice Project. Firstly, McCluskey’s barbed comment about Corbyn and the whip. McCluskey clearly thinks Corbyn needs to be back in the party. It also wasn’t lost on me that there were references, notably from Corbyn, about how much of the Peace and Justice Project’s thinking came from the Labour manifestos he helped devise.
The ‘Labour Problem’
Labour as a movement for democratic socialism is dead for at least a generation. It’s over. Gone. Done. If the past five-or-so years have shown us anything, it is that the party machinery and those operating it will never allow something vaguely socialist to take charge long-term. This is unless the membership elects a socialist leader with the mindset of Keir Starmer; that is – someone who’ll purge the party of centrists. So, for the time being the Peace and Justice Project having anything directly to do with the party has to be a non-starter.
The Peace and Justice Project basing much of its thinking on Labour manifestos under Corbyn is also worrying. Bear in mind, these policies failed to inspire people in the lowest socioeconomic statuses at the 2019 election. But moreover, the previous 2017 manifesto didn’t exactly do that either.
It’s not the manifestos that were directly at fault. As I previously wrote, the poorest voters have been moving away from Labour since the Tony Blair years. Even at the 2017 general election, the Tories’ increased their vote share of the lowest socioeconomic statuses more than Labour did. And by 2019, more poor people voted Tory than Labour.
Both the 2017 and 2019 manifestos failed to win over the poorest voters sufficiently to give Labour victories. So, basing the project on policies that working class people didn’t fully buy into seems odd. But this is where McCluskey comes back in. Because understanding why the poorest people rejected Labour’s manifestos in terms of voting for them, will be crucial for the Peace and Justice Project.
Unseating the corporate media
As he said:
The issue of media bias has always been something that we have to tackle and deal with. And it’s become more and more difficult as more of the mainstream media of course are anti-socialist, even those liberal newspapers who are not in the back pockets of the Tories, even they can always be relied upon to come and throw cold water on any group who are fighting back and challenging the establishment.
I’m sure I don’t need to explain to you how the establishment corporate media has forever and a day manipulated the working classes. If you’re reading The Canary, you’re probably acutely aware of it already. but if you’re not, then watch Chomksy school the BBC‘s Andrew Marr:
What of course drives the media to protect its own interests and those of the powerful, is corporate capitalism. It played no small part in convincing poorer communities not to vote for Labour. And what they use to keep poor people unconsciously subservient, is aspiration.
Aspiration
As I previously wrote for The Canary:
‘Aspiration’, the key driver of the system that serves as the carrot on the end of the stick the 1% dangle, is embedded in our lives. From Thatcher’s Right to Buy scheme, via the perpetual new versions of the iPhone, we’re all encouraged to want more; aim for higher, and we’re told we damn well deserve it too…
For some, aspiration can manifest – from foreign holidays, to owning your own home and having a new car. But for many… it remains elusive. So eventually, you’re left wondering why your aspirations are constantly crushed by a system that paradoxically tells you aspiration is good and achievable. It was this, in part, which drove Brexit. The poorest people know the system doesn’t work for them. They also know that the system is under strain – they see it in their everyday lives. A change, no matter what it was, seemed good.
Overall, Labour has never properly managed to counter this capitalist sermon. For most of the past 40 years, it’s played into it. Corbyn’s somewhat radical agenda was different. But clearly it didn’t seep through to the poorest people in the UK. And so, we’re in the almighty mess we’re in now.
This corporate capitalist aspiration also nullifies the kind of aspiration we should be aiming for: equality, security and, of course, ‘justice’ and ‘peace’ But with that false aspiration also comes hopelessness.
Hopelessness
My friend and working class academic Lisa McKenzie summed it up well. She tweeted that:
Do you know what kills working class people? Hopelessness. And hope is used as a weapon in the #ClassWar everything about working class lives is built around managing and insulating that weapon of mass destruction – hopelessness.
This is important to understand – and the project needs to.
When daily life is a constant struggle, when your world revolves around battling the system, when you’re worrying about money 24/7, when unreachable ‘aspiration’ is rammed down your throat at every turn and when you’re acutely aware no-one is coming to save you except yourself and hopefully the people closest to you – then your main fight becomes not giving up. You get so consumed with just surviving that politics and philosophical thinking are just background noise. Middle-class groups parachuting middle-class people in, telling you they’re “for the many” and that they come bearing gifts of ‘hope’ won’t cut it.
So, for me, the Peace and Justice Project’s launch left me with concerns: the references to the now-broken Labour Party and the clear lack of understanding of the communities it aims to support being the main ones. If it’s going to learn from the mistakes of Labour’s election defeats, then it needs to listen quickly to the communities it claims to want to support.
But, putting aside the live event and some of the insipidness of what was said – the project could have the tools, and the thinking, to start to change things.
Showing potential
The main area of this is the networking that could emerge. Corbyn said during the launch:
We’re asking our supporters… to link up locally and address this economic emergency together. That may involve working with foodbanks, mutual aid groups, social organisations, trade unions… to support communities in this difficult period; whilst campaigning for a more decent and just economy… In the coming days we’ll put you in touch with other supporters in your area, with concrete actions you can take together to help people get through this difficult… time.
Now, as I said above, what the poorest communities don’t need is middle-class people parachuting in to sort them out. We need to organise ourselves, bottom up – as I believe that’s the only way things will change. So, why do I think that the top-down Peace and Justice Project should be involved in organising communities? Because with the best will in the world, it’s needed.
Accepting reality
As I also said above, those of us who are at the bottom of society’s socioeconomic pecking order are just surviving day in, day out. And with the best class conscious will in the world, let’s be real: most of us don’t have the financial means or time to do community organising. Take my estate as a prime example, one of the poorest in England – in the top 5% of over 32,000 postcode areas for child poverty, top 4% for older people poverty and top 10% for overall income poverty. All of us struggle, including my family. Me, a fairly well-known journalist, and my partner, a fairly well-known disability rights activist. We don’t have the time to organise in our own community the way we would like to – and that’s coming from a family supercharged with politics day in, day out.
So, there needs to be an acceptance that we need some support. If the project can deliver that – then maybe that’s how it needs to be.
Bringing us together
Back to Chomsky, and during his interview with Marr he also made a very good point about why he used to give talks up and down the US:
One of my main purposes… is to bring… people together, people in that area, who are working on the same things and don’t know of each other’s existence, because the resources are so scattered, and the means of communication are so marginal, there… isn’t much they can do about it.
During the first lockdown, I saw a woman in one of the blocks of flats on my estate dropping leaflets through her neighbour’s doors. She was effectively offering mutual aid: extending a personal offer of help but also asking others to join in. I don’t know this person. I don’t know what flat she lives in. But she’s a 30 second walk away from me. Yet I’d have to hang around all day outside the block of flats in the hope of getting in touch with her.
So maybe, the networking the project is trying to create could be a good thing for communities like mine. But I would like to know how the project is going to get around the issue of time and financial poverty for the people who might want to organise in these communities.
For example, I’d love to see organised food mutual aid in my community: serving hot meals every day which anyone can help themselves to. But it’d need a group of us cooking, in our rather small social housing kitchens. We’d need equipment. Then we’d need financial and practical support with the time it would take to do this, whilst leaving the decision making to those in the community. And we’d need the food, as well. If the Peace and Justice Project can address these and other issues – then we can talk.
Treading carefully
So, for me the project is a mixed bag with quite a lot of positives to take away.
But to deny that I have concerns would be the kind of sycophancy we see the establishment corporate media do daily, with their chums in the corporate capitalist world. I am genuinely concerned that the project is going to be yet another top-down vehicle for middle class people whose hearts are in the right place. There’s no denying that everyone at the launch cares about the world, is egalitarian in their approach and wants better lives for everyone on the planet. But when that manifests as people in positions of socioeconomic comfort helping and supporting those of us at the bottom – it is on their explicit terms. The launch did nothing to persuade me otherwise.
However, the structures the project is putting in place could allow it to break that mould. If Corbyn and his organisation gives us the tools, hands-off, to let us organise ourselves – then he and it could be onto something. I truly hope it does, and I’ve already signed up. And I wait with anticipation for the hallowed phrase “for the many” to finally manifest as the collective cry for bottom-up action it should be.
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My main concern is that there is no intention of this becoming another poltical party.
The labour right assume that those of us on the left will vote for them anyway as even the right of the labour party are preferable to another tory gov’t.
We need an alternative to labour that isn’t the naive greens.
I’ve felt for a long time that Corbyn’s main weakness is his loyalty to labour.
At present he is the only person who could galvinise enough people to get a new party off the ground.
I also think it is a waste of energy to fight with the right over the labour party, let them have it and stand on the wishy washy centrism that no one in the country wants, without the energy and vision of the left labour is a hollow vessel.
It was this wishy washy centrism that lost labour so much support after stimulating so much hope in ’97.
The positive is that they want to build links to community groups which recognises that so much of working class action is around the community as much as the workplace – a body that broadens out from the unions is a good thing – I’m not anti union but I think that it is too narrow a base for a real working class movement to take off from.
I watched the launch and found it interesting and I really hope something comes of this. It’s new and that might be why I’m cautious in my support because as far as I know this approach has not been tried before.
I agree with you Lucy. It’s time for a new left of centre party, supported by individuals NOT by multi-millionaires, doing what millionaires demand of it.
Corbyn would be great as a figurehead, but as you insinuate, he is too forgiving of those who worked against him, so we need someone who will give “centrists” short shrift.
Your reference to 1997is also accurate. In the run up to the election, Blair SOUNDED quite left wing, with left-wing intentions, and the electorate loved it. It came as a shock to many of us when he turned right almost immediately afterwards, and linked up with the awful George W Bush. But for the LibDems – by then putting forward policies and ideas to the left of Blair via Charlie Kennedy – Blair would have been a one-term PM. It was Kennedy’s Lib-Dems taking away Tory seats and Tory votes that kept Blair in power, NOT the love of Blair’s policies.
So, for purely practical reasons, those folk to the left of centre need a proper left-of-centre party. And they need it now, whilst the Corbyn years are still fresh in the memory. Let Starmer have the now-rotten husk of the Labour Party. He is welcome to it. I left the Labour Party early in Blair’s first government. I could never quite bring myself to rejoin even when Corbyn was leader because of the Blairites. It never felt to me as if the party had been wrested from their intense grip, and now it is back in that grip, with unknown, unnamed multi-millionaires in the background dictating policy as we see. With them there it is NEVER going to be a party of the poor, or the workers, or even the middle. Blair is in the shadows still, just like his acolytes. It’s gone.
Let’s party – a NEW Party. One that looks to the future, not to one that tries to reclaim power for a few apostles of Blair.
I found you confusing me, Steve..
“the party machinery and those operating it will never allow something vaguely socialist to take charge long-term. This is unless the membership elects a socialist leader with the mindset of Keir Starmer; that is – someone who’ll purge the party of centrists. ”
Eh?
democratic socialism will only succeed in the UK, when it works out HOW to bring together a broad church.. including
Think we’ll have to see what larger numbers of working class ppl (and others) think? Is Len McC ‘middle class’? Much as I dislike the concept of the Lords, shouldn’t we judge Christine Blower on her past excellent work for teachers/the NUT?
I found all the speakers truly inspiring. To me, that’s what we need more than anything at this moment in time. Inspiration. There was more inspiration in a couple of hours than Starmer has given us over the whole of the year. Whatever class I am, I am a member of the voting public. For me, the bottom line is that I would not vote Labour in the event of a GE tomorrow. If Peace and Justice were to become a political party, I would vote for that.
I totally get what you’re saying Steve, and had similar thoughts, however we can not expect of the project to deliver miracles, like praying or meditating to cure depression/anxiety, it is not going to happen.
We have to all drop our shit, we are too quick on the “Block Button” of life, too Middle Class, too Right Wing, etc. If we are not open to discuss what makes us uncomfortable, angry, etc in a Peaceful manner we will only widen the divide. What we should focus on is being the “better wo/man” not to tolerate the unacceptable but to learn how to confront it in a peaceful and open minded way!
The Corbyn Project is not a Party, it is a VOICE, a beacon of light, a flexible and unified way for us to approach our Brothers and Sisters on the other side of the Neoliberal Divide, our common enemy!
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The Corbyn Project is to guide us and keep us on track with what is important to the people. Our downfall of 2015 to 2020 was the lack of an organised plan, we did not have a means of staying focused as a united people, we reacted, we reacted to whatever happened as and when it happened ended up “Sweating too much of the Small Stuff” even allowing Neoliberalism to split our Unity time and time again. That is what this project will aim to be a beacon to focus the masses on the stuff that we can change here and now, and in a Peaceful manner, but it will require our doing, it’s not going to get done without us, The People, Left/Right, beyond our differences we are both in the same kind of shit, Neoliberalism!
“Bridges not Walls”
I agree with much of this article but I take exception to the way ‘middle class lefties’ are referred to. There is nothing wrong with so-called middle class lefties, in fact they should be celebrated because they could quite possibly be personally financially better-off under the Conservatives but are left-wing and socialist due to ideals and principles, and the aim to do what is preferable for the country as a whole – for the many. When canvassing for Labour in the 2019 election it was incredibly sad to come across so many voters who were suffering from austerity policies but were determined to vote Conservative mainly due to the Corbyn bashing in the Sun, Mail, etc., when you knew they’d be so much better off if Corbyn and a Labour government was elected.
I wish we could get away from the class system. I was born into a Tory ‘middle class’ family but became a Socialist in my late teens and have stayed that way. I’ve been dependent on social security payments and struggling financially with a young family in the past, I haven’t always had it easy. Can’t we assume that people are mostly working class if they need to work for a living, unless they are landed gentry or similar? Corbyn is what you would call middle class but he has done a massive amount for socialism and we can never forget Tony Benn.
The thing we need to be weary of is the Neolabour Neoliberal “Socialist Lefties”! The Guardian/Sun in Lambskin Brigade, The Starmerists, Blairites, Thatcherite Neoliberals they serve the same ELITES as the Conservative they only use a different dividing rhetoric, like Biden and Starmer which makes them far more dangerous than the Trumps and Johnsons of this world, with them what you see/hear is what you get, Disgusting, Racist, Misogynist, etc, with the Blairs, Obamas, Bidens and Starmers, well we’ve all seen their capabilities, and all dressed up with a few ‘Socialist MP baubles’ dangling on the outside and a few “Socialist” keywords! While the masses are blindly being stripped of their Human Rights, Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Reporting, etc, etc!
People shout Johnson must go to replace him with who!? Gove, Patel, Williamson, Raab, Mogg!?
OR EVEN WORSE Starmer, Reeves, Pollard, etc, etc!!?
Our energy must be spent on communicating through the Peace and Justice Project, highlighting that we are wasting our time worshipping the Brand ‘Labour’, it is a total waste of time at 95% Neolabour PLP vs 5% UK Labour Party PLP! We need Unions to disaffiliate and find a totally independent Democratic Socialist Party, of course we will adopt the Hardiest UK Labour MOVEMENT, that belongs to us The PEOPLE Not a Party! As Neoliberals they are a Polar opposite Party to the UK Labour Party and are not able to adopt the UK Labour MOVEMENT as their they oppose everything it stands for! Sure they use the rhetoric, but you don’t have to look far to see them oppose it of vote against it! Anyway we only have 4 years to get our arses onto gear, win Public Trust and organise 650 Constituencies! There really is no time to faff, we must bring this to the forefront of the conversation.
HateHate,
Its funny how two people can look at the same thing and see polar opposite visions. You think “The Corbyn Project is not a Party, it is a VOICE, a beacon of light”. I think Jeremy Corbyn and his Peace and Justice Project is the fantasy of a delusional old man that finds it impossible to leave the stage with a bit of dignity.
Dont get me wrong we up here in central belt Scotland love parody. And there is no better parody than a north London socialist telling the working classes,
“In the coming days we’ll put you in touch with other supporters in your area, with concrete actions you can take together to help people get through this difficult… time.
Hallelujah, The Savior Cometh.
We are all entitled to our own opinion, I will stand by mine. I have not heard or read much delusion from Jeremy (not talking about the MSM trash by deluded fools), not in his policies as Leader, nor in his personal Projects,
I won’t try to convince you or argue about it, done plenty enough of that 2015 to 2020! You’re not going anywhere and neither will the Project with or without Jeremy, a bit like the MSM created “Corbynism” delusion. He only holds ‘it’ as much as the people who heard and understood what he was talking about and with the same or similar convictions, Ironically it turns out to have been exactly right, especially for the Suffering Working Class, C’est La Vie, we continue to suffer, who knows maybe another 41 years of TORY Hell!
“Hallelujah, The Savior Cometh.”: WOW!?
I am even older than this “delusion old man” so I know that Corbyn is the best thing to happen in politics in my lifetime. Being even older than Corbyn I have been able to observe for at least fifty years just how appalling and corrupt the British media is! But even my cynicism was shocked at the vitriol with which Corbyn was treated by the British press. Those who are taken in by the nonsensical lies perpetrated by MSM must be truly delusional. Corbyn is hated by those politicians who pretend to believe in democracy because Corbyn is that rare breed, a genuine democrat who insists on the definition of democracy “government for the ALL the people” Does “piper” have a problem with this concept?
As for the “working class” this has become a meaningless phrase. Who are the “working class”? Are we not all working class? Those of us who are paid for what we do are working class even rock stars, actors, professors or doctors are working class because they earn their money even if they are highly paid they are still paid! So the words “working class” are merely a remnant of outdated snobbery.
And finally I am old enough to know that the Corbyn phenomenon is unheard of in Britain. Never before, nor never again will I see thousands and thousands of people cramming the streets just to hear a politician speak but the people did this for Jeremy!! Maybe they were not “delusional” enough to believe “The Sun”?
!!!!!BRAVO!!!!!
Thank You, for a GREAT Post, Pearls of Wisdom!
My sentiments exactly! We are ALL ONE THING! The PEOPLE, there are the ELITES until we rewrite History with all it’s REAL facts, warts and all, and until we find a new kind of Just and Equal Economy, be that Open Source or whatever. There are the Dividers, Bought, Paid for and Owned by the ELITES and then we have the very rare gems like Jeremy Corbyn who apparently is deluded, weak, spineless, etc, etc, etc, however he is Powerful enough to Telepathically control Millions of People, Powerful enough to have the entire MSM after him, Powerful enough to have the USA, Israel and UK governments haunting him and EVEN POWERFUL ENOUGH TO GIVE A Guardian Journo A HEART ATTACK! Kinda confusing that the “Weakest Politician Ever” is the Most Powerful Politician British Politics has seen in a great many years! So called “Corbynism” will be studied in Politics for many generations to come!
So we have a Jeremy wanting to unite the People and a Neoliberal Establishment running a wide dividing river between the so called Classes, so called Left/Right, Leave/Remain, etc, etc, and The People decide to jump on either Bandwagon of MSM hype with a few of The PEOPLE, Rich, Poor, Black, White, Leave, Remain, staying off the bandwagons keeping an eye on what REALLY matters, The NHS, Human Rights, Equality, Justice, etc, we with Jeremy are desperately trying to keep people of the Joy Ride Bandwagons and keep them focused on the REAL STUFF! It seems you can put the REAL STUFF in their faces and they will still only see with their Mail, Sun, Guardian (Sun in Lambskin) MSM Sheeple Minds. We need to get people out of this MSM/Social Media Hypnosis until it can be properly regulated!
“Its funny how two people can look at the same thing and see polar opposite visions.” That’s life McPiper. It seems your vision/interpretation sees a delusional old English man who lives in London – nuff said as far as your concerned. Idealism’s ok as long as it’s yours…
Like most others, I take exception at the term, “Middle class lefties”. The defining factor is socialist, so let’s get away from the divisive class labels and divisions of the present system and concentrate on a common platform.
In many ways the article answers its own objections. eg ” I began to wonder just where the working class voices actually were” – “And with the best class conscious will in the world, let’s be real: most of us don’t have the financial means or time to do community organising.” & “You get so consumed with just surviving that politics and philosophical thinking are just background noise.” etc.
eg2 “The Peace and Justice Project basing much of its thinking on Labour manifestos under Corbyn is also worrying. Bear in mind, these policies failed to inspire people in the lowest socio-economic statuses at the 2019 election. But moreover, the previous 2017 manifesto didn’t exactly do that either.” -” the poorest voters have been moving away from Labour since the Tony Blair years” (for another view see https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/08/has-labour-lost-the-north published in August 2019!) & “So eventually, you’re left wondering why your aspirations are constantly crushed by a system that paradoxically tells you aspiration is good and achievable. It was this, in part, which drove Brexit.” (Note 50 of the seats lost by Labour in 2019 voted for Brexit. The key architect of Labour’s disastrous second referendum policy in 2019 was the current leader) & “The poorest people know the system doesn’t work for them. They also know that the system is under strain – they see it in their everyday lives. A change, no matter what it was, seemed good.”
The failure of Labour to win power was a major disappointment. It came so close in 2017 and, in my view, without the fifth columnists briefing the press off the record and working against the leadership it would probably have won a majority. The policies were, by and large, popular and I believe still are. They are worth pursuing and if you don’t adopt something along those lines what do you adopt? – I see no suggestions above.
Hear! Hear!
To think it is the Corbyn Policies that failed to inspire people especially in the lowest socio-economic statuses at the 2019 election, boggles my mind. I wonder if there was one single policy that benefited the Rich over the poor!? This is the work of Farage’s Pied Piper George Galloway, at play! No matter how rich/poor, educated/uneducated you are if you could jump on either Remain or Brexit Bandwagon, clang two empty tin cans together, shout and scream louder than Jeremy Corbyn you were part of one of two ‘tribes’ that cost us GE2019! NOTHING to do with Socio Economics!
In fact was there even ONE Single Policy that did not wholly benefit those suffering the worst in our society!?
We could do with a PJP Wiki from the outset, a reference place for Facts and Ideas, moderated and edited via the Project, not like Wikipedia open to all sorts of false info!
A Boycott of MSM, until it becomes properly regulated and with huge fines and legal action, if honest and uncorrupted legal teams are still a thing in existence!
So much more, but that would be a good starting point.
Stand Strong Comrade, THE PEOPLE shall Govern!
I’d say any real ideas coming from the political realm is dead for years to come. Aspirations for a democarcy are alive, and thriving regardless of whether one is poor, middle class, or rich. A basic idea of how humanity thrives is what Cobryn has, and he’s genuine in his presentation.
The consequences of the lies told in the politics is plain for anyone to see. Hungry kids, economic recession, misery in the spirit and the failure of hope to excite any longer.
Corbyn is doing what he intended on doing either in politics of out, and maybe they will develope rules for the MSM brutal lies. Basically they shouldn’t have access to the publics domain.
Project for Peace, and Justice will do a lot and will visalize more than what ever could of happened in the official political realm.
Its a dead donkey and making people feel like fools with its rudeness.