Steve McKenzie
Official reports put yesterday's far right demonstration at 110,000, and the anti racist counter demonstration at 5,000.
We know police figures are always distorted but there can be no doubt Tommy Robinsons march was huge and the anti racists were massivly outnumbered. What does that reflect.
It is an appalling moment in British political history, but the stark reality is that the rise of the far right in Britain is continuing unabated.
So far, despite the very brave and committed efforts of the anti racists in
organising and participating in marches and counter demonstrations against them, they are becoming completely ineffective.
The sad truth is that the far right is not faced with any real political opposition, or competent alternative organisation.
Something needs to dramatically change.
ELECTORAL GAINS OF THE FAR RIGHT
Nigel Farage's Reform party received 4 million votes at the last general election, today it has an ever widening lead in the the opinion polls. Next May it is set to make more massive gains in the local elections.
THE FLAG CAMPAIGN
Britain Firsts divisive but popular and ever growing flag campaign appears to go from strength to strength. If councils do nothing to remove the flags from lamposts, the intimidation continues. If they do take them down they are depicted as woke, unpatriotic and the flags are replaced anyway and the right get a boost, as what appears to be acts of defiance by insurgents are welcomed by those being won over by the right.
All of this indicates that at the moment the right are without doubt in the ascendancy and on their way to power.
LABOURS FAILURES
There is also no doubt that this process has been facilitated and enhanced by the incoherance, ineptitude and betrayals of the reformist left. Not to mention some of the incredible blunders of the Labour Party in recent years.
From the adoption of support for a second referendum on Brexit in the run up to the 2019 election, up to the outrageous attacks on the elderly and disabled, and working class people in general in the first year of the current Labour government.
However the abject failure of the Labour Party and the incompetence of the reformist left are just part of the reason for the rise of the far right.
The root cause of the problem, which is an international and not just a British phenomenon, is the crisis of capitalism and therefore the organic inability of democratic and reformist parties throughout the world to implement any meaningful reforms that benefit working people.
The reality is that these democratic and social democratic parties have attempted to manage capitalism, and as a result have only delivered counter reforms, which have driven down living standards for workers worldwide.
As a result it is fair to say that there hasn't been a time in living memory in Britain
when the far right have been so strong, and it looks as if things are going to get worse.
Who and what is going to stop them? Certainly not the Labour Party, whether it is led by Starmer or another one of the establishment's bought and paid for sycophants.
What about the Jeremy Corbyn/Zara Sultana party and the biggest mailing list in British political history.
There is obviously potential for an effective fightback, but the lack of a political lead, or any coherent and effective organisation to date doesn't bode well.
(That is not a comment directed at those who have worked tremendously hard at a local level to get something going).
A strong political lead and effective organisation is desperately needed at every level if 'Your Party' is ever going to achieve anything.
BASIC ISSUES
It is clearly the cost of living crisis, the lack of affordable housing, the desperate situation in the NHS, low paid insecure employment and the appaling state of local services that are meant to be provided by councils that are the root cause of the problem.
These basic domestic issues alone, that Labour has failed so miserably on, has paved the way for the far right.
That is before we look at the collapse of Labour support among traditional supporters as a result of the horrendous military backing that has been given to the Zionists in the ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza and the West Bank.
Reform will walk to power in many council's next May unless the left leadership gets its act together and offers a serious alternative.
No more dawdling the national leadership of 'Your Party' must act.
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