As Labour delegates gather in Liverpool for conference, CND activists are handing out their latest newsletter featuring a column from the Transport Salaried Staffs Association union general secretary Maryam Eslamdoust which argues that the left should oppose regime change in Tehran. Off comes the mask…
Eslamdoust, whose union is affiliated to Labour, writes that her CND comrades must “continue to campaign against nuclear weapons, but also we must campaign against nuclear intimidation and regime change.” Her column lists the “sanctions, covert operations, assassinations of scientists, military threats and attacks” Iran has “endured“. It says nothing about the regime itself and demands an end to “economic collective punishment”…
Eslamdoust is no fringe activist – she was a Labour councillor in Camden for twelve years and mayor of Camden for two terms, as well as holding senior jobs inside the Labour Party. Including running the secretariat for the NEC Equalities Committee…
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband was pictured shaking hands with the Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araghchi in New York last week. Labour support for Iran is worrying, let me aya-tell-ya…
Bookmark this from Andy Burnham:
2029: “that’s when the next election will be.”
May 2027: “Absolutely not.”
“No election any time soon.”
“All of this speculation on an early election, I can knock that dead.”