Force Parliament to call a General Election

This brief blog is not part of the series on modern revolution.

The political crisis in Britain is about to hit its first wall. There are many to come but the six months ahead - ending with Britain's removal from the EU on March 29, 2019 - will begin Britain's political avalanche with a vengeance.

Here is the logic, but not of the Sir Kier Starmer's legalistic variety offered in Liverpool at the Labour Conference.

The British Prime Minister May will probably agree some half-baked plan from Brussels that supposedly will continue to be discussed after next March. (She has ruled out any extension of the EU leave date.) The Labour Party and a couple of dozen Tories cannot do anything but vote against or abstain. That ends May. The gung-ho Tory Brexiteers see this as a positive step to 'no deal' (read no restrictions) and will begin to set up more of their off-shore wealth funds etc.

At this stage Labour will ask for a General Election. But none of the Tories (they are after all in a faction fight and not a class-war with their colleagues) will vote for a new election. And neither will the pumped up DUP who have literally never had it so good. But (sooner rather than later) the Tories WILL seek another sort of election; an election for a new leader. Boris is the only possible candidate to navigate the Tories through the No Deal by March scenario. A couple of Tories will leave. There will be pools of Tory 'remainer' tears. The overwhelming majority of Tory MPs will support Boris (Not to mention the ancient Tory Party members.) A vicious right-wing government will be in the saddle.

Without any Election, this leads Britain to a No Deal war with the EU and the only way to conduct such a war, with the slightest possibility of any success, is the Trump way. Slash business taxes. Open the door to US 'investment'; first in Agriculture then the NHS. Sell anything that can be priced. Tear down any legal limits that restrain the market. Etc.

Consequently, the next political step by the Labour Party cannot centre on an appeal to the British to have a new referendum over Brexit. To appeal to the majority of the British people, and it has to be the majority, led by the working class, it is the fire sale of Britain that has to be stopped. We need a General Election not because we want set up another 48% v 52% vote in reverse over Brexit. A move that can only be supported by half the voting population. No. The Tory led Parliament has to be brought down because they are about to destroy the living standards and conditions of millions - and accelerate the yawning gap between the rich and poor.

Labour MP Laura Smith called for a General Strike to bring the Tories down. She has been ticked off by senior Labour leaders for her well received remarks at the Momentum conference. Laura Smith has the right of it. There IS a big majority in Britain opposed to Johnson and his British version of the Alt Right. But it has to be mobilised. New millions are needed on the streets. Last year's leavers and remainers across the working class and the youth must link arms to break the extreme right domination of what was a hung Parliament. The government must be broken and fall. They are not legitimate. The have to stand down.

This, radical and extensive mass action including mass strike action where possible, is surely the coming test for the Labour Party. They have to break through to a new Election by all means necessary. And they will find that they will have to break through Labour MPs who would rather support the Tories than fight them.