Owen Jones & Laura Pidcock’s Assume Tank Closes Down
In but extra proof the onerous left is ‘profitable the battle of concepts’, the onerous left assume tank CLASS has introduced it’s closing down. In a press release this morning the commerce union-backed wonk home mentioned the choice “comes because the commerce union motion transitions into a brand new period of grassroots industrial organising”. No matter meaning…
CLASS was fashioned in 2012 by the Unite, GMB and CWU unions, and the assume tank boasts that, regardless of their closure, “the left is in a stronger place than it was throughout CLASS’s basis in 2012.
The transfer is one other blow for the ever-shrinking profession prospects of former ‘future chief of the Labour Get together’ Laura Pidcock, who’s their present President and Chair, simply months after she confirmed she’d deserted plans to re-stand as a Labour candidate on the subsequent election.
Owen Jones has additionally intently been concerned with the assume tank, serving on its Nationwide Advisory Panel and advising them on “coverage route”. Others serving on the panel embrace Diane Abbott, Will Hutton, Ian Lavery, Kevin Maguire and Len McCluskey. The onerous left will proceed ‘profitable the argument’ for a few years to come back, little doubt…
