For the hard Left, parliamentary politics has only ever been one of several possible routes to power. While Tories focused on winning elections, Left-wing activists, schooled in the thinking of Gramsci and Lenin, waged cultural warfare and gradually took over social, educational and charitable institutions as well as swathes of the professions. Then there is direct action: demos and strikes are a staple of Left-wing life.
But times are changing, and the forces of conservatism are fighting back. The Brexit vote was cross-party, of course, but it also exploded the Left’s 30-year strategy to use EU technocrats to undo the Thatcherite policies introduced through national democracy. For the first time, centre-Right activists successfully marshalled non-parliamentary tactics to take on and defeat the establishment. It was a remarkable departure.
Labour, for its part, is in a long-term crisis. Telegraph.
Defeated at the ballot box, the Left is waging guerrilla war on Britain