{"id":308088,"date":"2017-05-14T05:29:42","date_gmt":"2017-05-14T04:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-labour-party-adopts-pro-business-militarist-election-manifesto\/"},"modified":"2017-05-14T05:29:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-14T04:29:42","slug":"uk-labour-party-adopts-pro-business-militarist-election-manifesto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/uk-labour-party-adopts-pro-business-militarist-election-manifesto\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Labour Party adopts pro-business, militarist election manifesto"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>UK Labour Party adopts pro-business, militarist election manifesto<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Robert Stevens<br \/>\n    <br \/>13 May 2017<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>On Wednesday, a draft of the Labour Party\u2019s manifesto for the June 8 general election was leaked, with several newspapers publishing its contents Thursday amid screaming headlines denouncing it as tantamount to communism.<\/p>\n<p>Later that day, Labour\u2019s Clause 5 committee discussed the draft. The committee includes the nominally left Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, his fierce right-wing critic and deputy leader Tom Watson and other leading party and trade union officials. After the meeting, Corbyn declared to the press that the document had been unanimously agreed and would be officially released next week.<\/p>\n<p>The manifesto has been agreed because it contains all the main demands of the Blairites.<\/p>\n<p>It reaffirms Labour\u2019s commitment to NATO and the renewal of the Trident nuclear weapons system. On the terms of Britain leaving the European Union, it affirms that Labour\u2019s central concern is for British business to retain access to \u201cthe benefits of the Single Market and the Customs Union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The manifesto is so entirely dedicated to the interests of Britain\u2019s ruling elite that the <em>Guardian<\/em> newspaper praised its contents, along with a number of its columnists who have been demanding Corbyn\u2019s head since he was elected leader in September 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Leading supporter of the party\u2019s Blairite wing, Polly Toynbee, wrote that the manifesto was a \u201ccornucopia of delights.\u201d In contrast to Labour\u2019s 1983 manifesto\u2014dubbed by the Labour right as the \u201clongest suicide note in history\u201d\u2014she wrote, \u201cThere is no reprise here of the killer pledges that caused the party to split back then \u2013 pulling out of Europe, out of NATO with unilateral disarmament, protectionist exchange and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2017\/05\/13\/mani-m13.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 UK Labour Party adopts pro-business, militarist election manifesto By Robert Stevens 13 May 2017 On Wednesday, a draft of the Labour Party\u2019s manifesto for the June 8 general election was leaked, with several newspapers publishing its contents Thursday amid screaming headlines denouncing it as tantamount to communism. Later that day, Labour\u2019s Clause 5 committee [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-308088","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}