Labour's Permanent Reformation
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin .... No. 1433 .... June 16, 2017
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Labour's Permanent Reformation
Benjamin Selwyn
The 2017 British general election has generated the beginnings of a qualitative-change in the relationship between the Labour Party, much of British society, and parliament. That transformation can be understood as the emergence of a permanent reformation.
Labour's much better-than expected support raises the distinct possibility of its victory in the next election. Against all the odds -- the polls, the hostile right-wing press, expectations within the Labour Party itself -- Jeremy Corbyn led the party through a brilliantly coordinated campaign, presided over the biggest swing to Labour since the earth-shaking 1945 general election, and placed socialist ideas firmly back on the political agenda.
The significance of the Labour surge is not, primarily, a question of a shift... in the balance of political power in parliament. It is much more profound than that. Labour's campaign let the proverbial genie of class politics out of the bottle.
