NDP Leader Forced to Temporarily Step Down: Jack Layton’s Right-Wing Record
Submitted on July 30, 2011
By Richard Dufour - WSWS
Press commentary has focused on Layton's personal charisma...The main point of Layton's affability, however, is to hide the reactionary nature of his politics. He has been instrumental in the transformation of the federal NDP from a party of parliamentary protest into a respectable right-wing bourgeois party that, if called on to assume government responsibilities in Ottawa, would not hesitate to impose the full weight of the capitalist crisis on the backs of the Canadian working class.
