There’s been a brilliant article recently published in Standpoint magazine and which I was alerted to by a post on the Samizdata blog. The article, which goes into great details about the penetration by avowed Communists into the Labour Party, makes for sobering and well worth while reading. This article by Giles Udy should be required reading by anyone who believes in Parliamentary democracy and who opposes Marxist revolutionary thinking.

Mr Udy’s article reads in part like an epitaph for what the Labour Party once was, which was a party based more on the social conscience of Methodism rather than the works of Marx. It is also a dire warning of what could come to pass should a Corbyn-led Labour Party ever come to power.

The article goes into great detail about how Labour now has avowed Communists and Marxists in the party and not just on the periphery of local branches, but at the centre of Labour. The Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell has publicly said that he is a Marxist, Andrew Murray, a former member of the Communist Party is a Corbyn advisor and Seamus Milne, a man nostalgic for the old Soviet Union, is Corbyn’s Communications Director. McDonnell has been videoed celebrating the 2007 financial crisis as on opportunity to be exploited by the Left, Murray seems to have seamlessly moved from the Communists to Labour and Milne is a man whom Politico magazine described as ‘being as close to an unreconstructed Stalinist as you can get in 21st century Britain’.

It is scary in the extreme to think that these dangerous and destructive Lefties, people who are not merely social democrats or soft socialists but outright Communists, are so close to governing the UK. In Mr Udy’s article the author outlines the attempts that have been made in the past by Communists and Trotskyites to enter and to influence the party and how such attempts were thwarted by the likes of former Labour leader Neil, now Lord, Kinnock.

One particularly troubling passage in Mr Udy’s article is his examination of the book ‘A British road to socialism’ which Mr Udy claims was heavily influenced by Andrew Murray. Reading this particular passage sent a shiver down my spine at the thought of the damage that will be done to this nation and its peoples by an election of a Corbyn government. It should, I hope, concentrate the minds of those Britons, especially Brexiteers who foolishly believe that we should give Corbyn a chance, let him screw up and then vote in a revitalised and Brexit focused patriotic Tory party. If ‘A British Road to Socialism’ is to be taken as a blueprint for a Corbyn government then such a scenario of a one term Corbyn government followed by a half decent Tory one would not be on the cards. It is more likely that a Corbyn government would wreck the country beyond recognition and maybe even destroy Parliamentary democracy itself. Revolutionaries, especially Marxist ones, and Labour is now full of such people, rarely easily give up power via the ballot box. A Corbyn government may destroy so much of Britain that it may be impossible to rebuild that which Corbyn and his cronies have destroyed.

Mr Udy said:

In April 2018, John McDonnell, a self-confessed follower of both Trotsky and Lenin, tried to calm fears in the City of London by assuring them that there was no hard-left “shadow manifesto”, no radical agenda that it was keeping secret until a Corbyn government took office. It is not known if McDonnell does have his own “shadow manifesto” but Labour’s ally, the CPB, certainly does — Britain’s Road to Socialism. Andrew Murray is believed to have had a hand in writing its 2011 edition (from which all quotes in this article are taken) while he was still a leading member of the CPB.

Britain’s Road to Socialism presents, in its own words, “an analysis of capitalism and imperialism in its current form”, explains how a “revolutionary transformation” might be achieved and “what a socialist and communist society in Britain might look like”. Capitalism, it declares, has taken “the planet and its peoples towards the edge of the abyss” and “must be overthrown”. Only “state power in the hands of the working class can save humanity”.

Stage two would follow the election of a left-wing government to Downing Street and would entail widespread nationalisation “in all major sectors” of industry and commerce. The list of targets is long and includes the financial sector, gas, electricity, water, oil, railways, buses, road haulage and air travel, construction, engineering, armaments, land and property, shipping and chemicals. Landed estates, luxury tourist establishments and “second homes” would also be brought under “public ownership”. Prospects for financial recompense for wealthy stock and property owners don’t look good. Compensation, if paid, would be “primarily to pension funds and small investors and on the basis of proven need”.

I’m old enough to remember the nationalised industries. Old enough to remember piss poor cars designed by committees with one eye on political considerations and built in factories that were all but completely controlled by union leaders such as the late Red Robbo and others. I can recall Britain’s telephone system where ‘party lines’ that were shared with neighbours due to bad infrastructure were all too common and how some people faced waits of months in order to have a landline installed in their home. I remember schools with avowed Communist teachers who threw the syllabus out of the window in favour of Communist dogma and East German propaganda magazines being used as teaching materials. Whatever the faults of Britain’s capitalist system of today, and it does have faults, it is considerably better than what Labour and the far Left trade unions gave Britain in the past. I’ve no wish to see a socialist system that failed dismally across the world and often had a large body count associated with such failure, implemented in Britain today.

When Corbyn was elected leader of the Labour Party I had great hopes that he would destroy the party by making it unelectable thereby paving the way for proper reform. I hoped that a period of unelectability and public derision, would purge it of both the worst of the suave and forked-tongued Blairites and also the hard-line Communists-in-disguse that Lord Kinnock didn’t completely rid the party of and make the party a proper party for Britain’s working classes. Sadly I was wrong. Corbyn has brought on board the worst of the worst when it comes to the authoritarian and sometimes violent Left and has boosted the power of the Islamic communal vote and the vile Jew-hatred that this constituency subscribes to.

The domination of the Labour Party by Corbyn and his far Left cronies has turned what was once a half decent party and the representative of the British working classes in Parliament into a threat not only to Britain’s safety and security but to the whole idea of Parliamentary democracy itself. Reading Mr Udy’s article is a frightening experience as it shows that it could only take one major political crisis or an economic problem to make Corbyn’s Labour look like it is a viable alternative to the Tories and get elected in what may end up as the last proper election Britain ever has. This is because it is likely that Corbyn’s Labour will gerrymander the electoral system, reduce the abilities of the Tories to fight a fair election or open Britain’s doors to millions of Labour supporting migrants. This article has made me reconsider whether I and others should take the risk of voting for UKIP or some other Right or Centre Right party, as voting for such parties could rob the Tories of potential votes. A reduced Tory vote could thereby allow Corbyn’s Labour to form a Government and embark on their mission to destroy in a few years a country that has taken many lifetimes to build. Corbyn and his ilk have destroyed the old and mostly decent Labour Party and he will do the same to the nation. Corbyn and those like him must be resisted and more importantly kept out of government.