Faction fights and leadership battles on the left can have the most dramatic of consequences. Read Victor Serge’s Midnight in the Century if you are not sure.
Sometimes they seem more melodramatic and quirky than dramatic. The story goes that Roger Protz was dismissed as Editor of Socialist Worker in the early 1970s after a ‘special meeting of the Editorial Board’. Roger may have a different recollection.
Jeremy Corbyn has spoken to the Guardian, who may not be exactly a disinterested player, about the leadership coup against him in the context of current efforts to dislodge Keir Starmer from 10 Downing St.
Typically Jeremy adds an unusual angle, noting that when the attempted (and failed) coup broke on a Sunday he was to be found on his East Finchley allotment and took notes of the rebels in a very specific context
Throughout Sunday, Corbyn took calls and letters from party colleagues telling them that they were leaving his shadow team. There were an unprecedented 21 resignations. “I was sort of ticking them off,” said Corbyn with a dry laugh. “Some were blunt and rude, some pleasant. In the afternoon, I went to the allotment. I got a few resignations in the allotment. I wrote them down and made notes at home: so I could call them the potato rebel, the beetroot rebel. It was a very, very intense period.”
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