[D66] UK government to target “far left”

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https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/10/extr-s10.html

UK government to target “far left” in revised Counter Extremism Strategy
By Laura Tiernan
10 September 2019

A report published by the UK government’s Commission for Countering
Extremism (CCE) has branded large sections of the “left” in Britain as
“extremist.” It claims the left’s “revolutionary workerist ideas” are
associated with increased sympathy for “violent extremist tactics.”

The 37-page report, “Violent extremist tactics and the ideology of the
sectarian far left,” was written by British academics Daniel Allington,
Siobhan McAndrew and David Hirsh. It was commissioned in the lead-up to
a “landmark report” that will be delivered to Home Secretary Priti
Patel. The CCE will make recommendations toward a revised UK government
“counter-extremism strategy,” including draconian laws aimed at
criminalising nonviolent “extremist ideology” for the first time.

In their report to the CCE, the academics warn that small “far-left
sectarian” groups might soon win a mass following for their
anti-imperialist, anti-war and anti-fascist views. Amid the most acute
crisis of capitalist rule since the 1930s, including mass
anti-government protests and strikes across the globe, the report is in
preparation for state repression against the working class and its
revolutionary vanguard.

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