A left-wing United Kingdom politician has registered a landslide win in a parliamentary by-election on a platform promising to advocate for Gaza.
George Galloway won the seat in the northern English town of Rochdale after a fractious campaign, which saw the Labour Party withdraw support from its candidate over his anti-Israel comments.
Galloway won 12,335 votes compared with 6,638 for second-placed David Tully, an independent candidate. The former Labour candidate, Azhar Ali, came fourth after the opposition party pulled its support after he was recorded espousing conspiracy theories about Israel. Turnout was low at 39.7 percent.
“Keir Starmer, this is for Gaza,” Galloway said on Friday, referring to the Labour leader who initially refused to call for a ceasefire in Gaza where more than 30,000 people have been killed in the past five months of Israeli bombardment.
Late on Friday, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who supports Israel’s war, said the election of Galloway to a parliamentary seat was “beyond alarming” and accused him of dismissing Hamas’s October 7 attack.
I said it sounds like a tankie party based on the description from the OP of this chain. Then you (as I understand it) said it couldn’t be because it is anti-imperialist and I replied how it sometimes it’s a term tankies use without actually meaning it.
I said that anti-imperialism does not equate being a Tankie. Which seems to be the new favorite slander word for liberals to paint anyone who is critical of American imperialism for.
I feel like you’re using “anti-imperialism” to describe what most would call a “tankie”. Which would mean we are in agreement but we just use the terms differently or disagree about their meaning.
A tankie is someone who specifically condones and/or denies the Genocides (or extremely stupid economic policies) by Stalin or Mao, or apologizes for/denies every crime the CCP/Russia commits.
Anti imperialsm and tankies are two entirely different things.
I mean I agree with that all, though I’d say it also includes just includes simping for Russia, China these days. Especially supporting the invasion of Ukraine and so on. The OP’s description gave eerie tankie vibes.
Their own site:
The whole article is, jeesh
https://workerspartybritain.org/2022/03/10/nato-and-russia-a-brief-history/
So yeah…
He is not saying he supports Russia. He is saying that the 2008 statement to include Ukraine into Nato was very provocative. Especially since Nato previously guaranteed that Ukraine would not become a member.
This is extremely difficult to understand for people who only consume liberal media where Imperialism is good and we were the good guys in Afghanistan. It does not equate saying “Russia good”. It means “Hey guys maybe there’s a reason why Russia is attacking Ukraine, maybe we can promise to not include them in Nato and then they will stop, because they have said multiple times before the attack that this Nato expansion is not something they’re comfortable with and we promised them in the past we would not do it”.
If you want to understand that position here is a clear video about it
The whole of the article is word for word the Kremlin peddled nonsense that you’d expect from a tankie. Whether you agree with it or not isn’t really the point but rather that that’s literally what people call tankie stuff these days.
I’m against Russian invasion though
Same. I’m also against Nato expanding though. Everyone creating their own giant war block is a recipe for ww3.
I’m not if it is by countries willfully joining it. Hell, I was for very long time against Finland joining NATO but Russia had to be Russia. Would you have been fine with Russia attacking us to prevent us from joining? Should be the country’s own decision, not decided by Russia (or the US).
Tbh this is a bit off-topic, but I don’t mind
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here is a clear video about it
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