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"So many leftists have abandoned the party, and it's now under complete control of zionists again. I don't believe we could get another Corbyn on that platform."

Our ally Salma Yaqoob is still in Labour. In fact I will take this opportunity to provisionally repost here the thread from the old forum that we had for her:

OLD CONTENT

www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/calls-for-labour-to-expel-candidate-salma-yaqoob-who-shared-article-on-rothschild-bankers-1.490670

The Board of Deputies has urged Labour to “immediately” expel one of its prospective candidates for the West Midlands mayoralty, after she was found to have repeated comments about “Rothschild bankers” and described Israelis as “European colonisers”.

Salma Yaqoob, a founder and former leader of the far-left Respect Party, was allowed to join Labour four months ago, despite running a notorious campaign in the 2017 general election against a Labour MP, Naz Shah.
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Ms Yaqoob is vying to be the party's candidate in the West Midlands despite new members of Labour usually having to wait for two years before being allowed to stand.

She has received support from a number of high-profile Labour activists, including Jon Lansman, the head of Momentum, and Owen Jones, the Guardian journliast and activist.

Other prominent Labour figures, including Naz Shah herself, have spoken out against Ms Yaqoob’s candidacy.

In a video released by the Bradford West MP, she described how how the campaign Ms Yaqoob ran against her two years ago had driven her “to feel suicidal”.

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www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7617909/Jeremy-Corbyn-fresh-anti-Semitism-storm-defending-controversial-hard-Left-Labour-candidate.html

Jeremy Corbyn was at the centre of a fresh anti-Semitism storm last night after defending a controversial hard-Left Labour candidate who his own MPs want expelled from the party.
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Last night, this newspaper confronted the Labour leader after unearthing a video of Mr Corbyn describing Yaqoob as a 'hero' and 'a fantastic activist' in 2013. But rather than distance himself from the growing row, Mr Corbyn's team defended his comments and heaped fresh praise on her.

Mr Corbyn's spokesman said: 'Of course Jeremy praised Salma Yaqoob in 2013 for her years of work on anti-war and anti-austerity campaigns. Those campaigns have been vindicated.'

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www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rebecca-long-bailey-refuses-to-back-salma-yaqoob-momentums-choice-for-west-midlands-mayor-8pfkgkf92

Rebecca Long Bailey has moved to distance herself from a controversial Corbynite candidate being lined up by the left to become Labour’s first mayor of the West Midlands.

The shadow business secretary and Labour leadership candidate yesterday received the backing of the powerful Unite union that helped propel Jeremy Corbyn to power five years ago.

Amid further signs of division in her campaign, Ms Long Bailey declined to endorse Salma Yaqoob as the party’s candidate in the May election.

The failure to back Ms Yaqoob is a significant snub as she is being backed by the Corbynite grassroots group Momentum as well as Unite, both of which are also backing Ms Long Bailey.

www.jewishpress.com/news/global/uk/most-labour-candidates-race-to-demonstrate-pro-jewish-bonafides/2020/01/30/

Yaqoob has faced repeated allegations of being anti-Semitic for saying that Zionists “abused the memory of the Holocaust to bolster support for today’s Israeli state and its racist and murderous policies.”

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https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/battle-for-labours-soul-entrist-liam-byrne-leftist-salma-yaqoob-west-midlands-mayor-1386154

Labour faces a battle for the soul of the party on Thursday as members choose its nominee to be the next Mayor of the West Midlands in a forerunner of the leadership election.

A Blair-era minister is up against a left-wing firebrand who has previously stood against Labour because she believed the party was too moderate.

If Liam Byrne wins the nomination, it could be a sign party members are keen on a more centrist direction - a boost for Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy's hopes of becoming leader later this year.

But if Salma Yaqoob, who is backed by big unions and the Momentum campaign group, is successful it will suggest that activists want to double down on Jeremy Corbyn's radical agenda, which would be good news for Rebecca Long-Bailey.

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https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/labour-left-winger-accuses-starmer-of-capitulation-to-unaffiliated-lobbies-1.499497

Labour left-winger Salma Yaqoob has accused her party of “capitulation to unaffiliated lobbies of extreme right wing governments” - and claimed she and two MPs were criticised after taking part in a Zoom conference with people expelled from the Labour Party over antisemitism because they had dared to ‘”stand for Palestinian rights.”

In an extraordinary outburst on social media, Ms Yaqoob, who was beaten by Liam Byrne in the contest to be the party’s West Midlands mayoral candidate, also claimed organisations such as the “Board of Deputies and the Campaign Against Antisemitism have not hidden their goal of obliterating ‘Corbynism’.”

In an attack on current Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, she said: “Seeking to win the approval of such hostile groups instead of calling them out is naive at best and a huge political misjudgement at worst. We have lost so much as a result.”

In a Twitter thread, the former Respect Party parliamentary candidate wrote: “I understand the dismay of Labour members at the clear sabotage, bullying and racism revealed in the Labour leaks report.”

She added: “But don’t give the Right what they want by giving up. It’s time to fight back.

“We should be on the front foot. In the wider movement as well as inside the Party. And we must refuse to internalise the frame & censorship they have tried to impose on us.”
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“We are not the first targets. And if Left continues prioritising ‘optics’ over solidarity politics, we will not be the last.”

END OF OLD CONTENT

Perhaps you should contact her and find out if she is still waiting for a chance to recapture Labour. If so, then you may wish to consider helping her. If not, then you may be able to at least hear what her next plans are and help her with those instead. Or it may turn out that she can point you towards someone else who could use your help.

"The Green party is completely hopeless."

Now if any is the time to place hope in it given the increasing success of Greens elsewhere:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/news/green-wave/

which it may be able to piggyback off. In terms of policy positions, it doesn't look too bad:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Party_of_England_and_Wales#Foreign_policy_and_defence

The party has opposed the invasion of Iraq, NATO-led military intervention in Libya[102] and British involvement in Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen.[103]

The party campaigns for the rights of indigenous people around the world and argues for greater autonomy for these individuals. Furthermore, they support the granting of compensation and justice for historical wrongs, and that the reappropriation of lands and resources should be granted to certain nations and peoples.
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Amid the toughening rhe

toric surrounding immigration at the 2015 general election, the Greens issued mugs emblazoned with the slogan "Standing Up For Immigrants".[104] They claimed to offer a "genuine alternative" to the views of the mainstream parties by promoting the removal of restrictions on the number of foreign students, abolishing rules on family migration, and promoting further rights for asylum seekers.[87]

"small left wing parties"

It is unfortunate that Respect deregistered:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respect_Party#2015%E2%80%9316:_general_election_and_de-registration

The Respect Party "voluntarily deregistered" from the Electoral Commission's Register of Political Parties on 18 August 2016, twelve years after it initially registered.[122][123]

Perhaps you could discuss with Yaqoob the possibility of reviving it?