[GNC] Re: [GreenAllianceUSA] New anti-war party in London wins a seat

[Aram Falsafi]

A left/immigrant/Muslim alliance defeats Labor in Britain. Maybe we'll try it
here someday ...

> Doug Nielson wrote:
> 
> http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=546500
> 
> Labour in third place as Respect wins council seat
> 
> By Nigel Morris, Home Affairs Correspondent
> 
> 31 July 2004
> 
> The Anti-War Respect Coalition was yesterday celebrating an
> electoral breakthrough in the East End of London after winning its
> first council seat.
> 
> The area could become a crucial battleground in the general
> election, expected next spring, as the far-left group attempts to
> break Labour's stranglehold on east London.
> 
> Respect, founded by the former Labour MP George Galloway six months
> ago, is now planning a concerted effort to pick up parliamentary
> seats in the East End in the election.
> 
> It won its first councillor when Oliur Rahman, 23, captured a seat
> on Tower Hamlets council in a by-election on Thursday night, with
> Labour falling from first to third place.
> 
> Mr Rahman, a civil servant, said: "People don't see Labour any more
> as a working-class party that represents them."
> 
> He said anger with the war was just one of several issues in the
> by-election.
> 
> Respect is an alliance of far-Left groups, Muslim groups and peace
> organisations. It outpolled the other parties in Tower Hamlets last
> month in the European elections and is understood to be planning to
> move headquarters to the area. It will target resources next year
> on the parliamentary constituency of Bethnal Green and Bow, where
> Mr Galloway may be considering standing, as well as Poplar and
> Canning Town, West Ham and East Ham.
> 
> Its potential to damage the larger parties was illustrated in this
> month's by-elections where it picked up enough of the vote to lose
> Leicester South for Labour and to stop the Liberal Democrats from
> winning Birmingham Hodge Hill.
> 
> RESPECT COALITION WEBSITE: http://www.respectcoalition.com/index.php?sec=1
> 
>  The only moral virtue of war is that it compels the capitalist system to look
>    itself in the face and admit it is a fraud.  HELEN KELLER, "The Menace of
>                                  Militarism."
> 
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