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Robbed of the official Labour candidacy by Tony Blair, Ken Livingstone defied the New Labour leaders and in the summer of 2000 was elected Mayor of London. No sooner was Livingstone installed as Mayor than he created a Tory-Liberal-New Labour “popular front” government for London.
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With the London Mayoral Elections approaching, many socialists will feel conflicted.
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The Lucas Arms, 245a Grays Inn Road, Kings Cross, London
London mayor Ken Livingstone has a reputation for being "red" - a left-wing socialist politician. But is it deserved? In recent years, he has gone along with privatising bits of the Tube and called for striking Tube workers to cross picket lines, backed the police over the Jean Charles de Menezes killing and embraced the City of London and property developers. But was he ever any better? Come and join the discussion about Ken Livingstone's history and record.
Speakers in the debate: Martin Thomas (Workers' Liberty); Richard Price (Labour Briefing)
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The British Workers’ Revolutionary Party (WRP) was a sizeable organisation up to its implosion in 1985.
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Mr Livingstone,
Marx once rightly said:”To leave error uncorrected is to encourage intellectual immorality.”
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A round-up.
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On 11 May former London mayor Ken Livingstone told the Daily Express that the coming Labour leadership contest would offer "a clear choice between left and right", and classified Ed Miliband and Ed Balls as the possible "left" candidates.
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Redmond O’Neill, a leader of the Socialist Action group, has died aged 55 of cancer. Because O’Neill was an official in Ken Livingstone’s London mayoral administration, his death has received wide attention, for instance in the Guardian.
Ken Livingstone’s obituary describes him as a “lifelong revolutionary socialist and leading figure on the left for three decades”. In fact, for many years it has been an abuse of language to call O’Neill and his organisation socialist, or even really part of the left.
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Redmond O’Neill, a leader of the Socialist Action group, has died aged 55 of cancer.
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There is a Radio Four programme, Great Lives, in which prominent people nominate their “hero” and then discuss the hero with an “expert” — usually the hero’s biographer — with the one-time Tory MP Matthew Parris chairing the discussion.
