@izzythepush,
To their shame, mainstream media leaves out biographical information showing his character and focuses on items some may find negative.
But, still, the truth hasn’t been completely erased.
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https://challenge-magazine.org/2024/03/09/george-galloway-the-peoples-champion/
Imperialism is the greatest crisis facing the world today and it is the first job of communists in Britain to organise against it. George Galloway has risked his life to do so, becoming hospitalised in 2014 by Neil Masterson, a British Zionist wearing an IDF hoodie who broke his jaw and ribs and beat him repeatedly in the head—leaving scars that his trademark hat covers to this day. Galloway was also an undercover agent in apartheid South Africa, joining others who supported the work of the African National Congress, including comrades from the YCL.
Galloway is completely fearless in his opposition to western imperialism, having been expelled from Tony Blair’s Labour Party for his outspoken stance against the Iraq War. He has continued to speak out against war hawks, most notably on his online programme, The Mother of All Talk Shows, in which he regularly defends China, Russia, and other countries fighting for a socialist or multipolar world. In a recent interview, he was accused of supporting Hezbollah, a “proscribed terrorist organisation”, to which he simply responded that Hezbollah is part of the Lebanese government with diplomatic relations to the British government, and a right to resist foreign occupiers. In 2009, Galloway was part of an aid convoy, delivering £1 million of food, medicine, clothes as well as emergency vehicles to the besieged people of Gaza.
George Galloway’s response to the media also marks him out from Jeremy Corbyn, a decent enough reformist socialist who nevertheless crumbled under pressure from a hostile capitalist press. When accused of anti-Semitism or support for Hezbollah or the IRA, Corbyn’s defensiveness would come across as weak and dismissive, while Galloway correctly finds opportunity in these interviews to expose the class bias of the media and educate viewers on who the real terrorists are. Galloway is also far less likely to roll over on any of his socialist positions than Corbyn was, not only because of personal strength, but also because, unlike Corbyn, he has the full backing of an independent party. Whether due to personal weaknesses or pressure from within or outside his party, Corbyn made several capitulations to the capitalist class before even taking office, not only on Brexit, but also on Syrian airstrikes and NATO. Galloway’s Worker’s Party of Britain has a ten-point programme of socialist policies, the first of which is to leave the imperialist NATO alliance.
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Grateful for people like George.