Labour’s left wing is trying a new strategy to gain influence

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Leftists are turning to Saul Alinsky’s tactics to exert public pressure on Keir Starmer through protests, community projects and political education

, whose “Rules for Radicals” inspired community activists in 1970s America, is not normally a name to conjure with in Britain. But his reputation is enjoying a revival among Labour leftists. Deprived of power by Sir Keir Starmer, the party’s new leader, they think Alinsky’s tactics offer a way to regain some clout.

The left has a lot of support among party members, but although it is “still numerically strong…institutionally it is quite weak”, says Aaron Bastani, co-founder of Novara Media, a socialist news site. In the parliamentary party, the Socialist Campaign group, with 34 out of Labour’s 202who has thrown in their lot with the leader, “who think that people like me will never be quite pure enough.

Socialists know they are beat. “I don’t think just ‘stay and fight’ is a particularly appealing slogan for much of the left of the party,” says James Schneider, a Momentum co-founder and Corbyn strategist. “It’s like, ‘stay and fight and, for a while, likely lose’ because the left is not going to be in the ascendancy. So we need to offer more.”

 

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Really, Saul Alinsky? You have a paywall so I don't know the rest of the context but do large groups or influential people really use these 'tactics' this reads like a fox news headline ;/?

Saul Alinsky... is not normally a name to conjure with in Britain. In fact, the only people who talk about Saul Alinsky in America are Republicans.

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