Hello everyone. Welcome to Options with Doug. Streaming Monday, Wednesday, and Friday at 1.30 p.m. Eastern time on Bookmap Discord and the Bookmap YouTube channel. Before I get started, I need to go through the Disclosures. General Disclosure, all bookmap limited materials, information, and presentations are for educational purposes only and should not be considered specific investment advice nor recommendations. Risk Disclosure, training futures, equities, and options involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for investors. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future results. Here's my contact information. The best way to get in touch with me is through Discord. My name on Discord is Doug P. Also on Bookmap Discord, there's an Options-Dash-Doug chat channel. That's a great place to post questions, comments, and content related to the topics of my presentation and the topics of the channel that I'll go through in just a moment. And I'm also on X, formerly known as Twitter. My name there is at Doug Plus. Here are the key tenets to my approach for trading. This is the basis of my approach to trading. First of all, I believe that Options Trades and Market Maker hedging activity are key drivers of price in many stocks and futures and certainly in the equity index futures that I follow as well as the large cap tech stocks, the Mag7 stocks. And for the SB500, SPX is the underlying index. SPY is the ETF version of that and the ES futures, that's a derivative of SPX. And when traders buy and sell puts and calls in SPX and SPY, market makers take the opposite side of those trades and they hedge their delta exposure with ES futures. And for the NASDAQ 100, NDX is the underlying index. QQQ is the ETF version of that index. And NDX, NQ, is a derivative of NDX. So the NQ futures are derivative of NDX. And what traders buy and sell puts and calls in QQQ and NDX, market makers take the opposite side of those trades and they hedge their delta exposure with NQ futures. The focus of my presentation today and the focus of the options dash Doug chat channel is options order flow, the impact of options markets and stocks and futures and the influence of market maker hedging flow on price action. I have a two step process for trading and the first is planning. And I use positional analysis. I look at how traders and market makers are positioned in the options market and how those positions change from day to day to develop a thesis regarding the expected trading range and volatility for the day as well as the directional bias. And the second step in my process is execution. I look at real-time order flow and book map and real-time market maker hedging flow and spot gamma hero to confirm my thesis and for setups. And when I talk about setups today, I will be focusing on an underlying asset. For example, setups in the SB500 can be taken with ES futures, spy shares, spy options, SPX options or even ES options. So the setups that I talk about today will be suitable for any of those instruments. Questions and comments are welcome. And I will be watching both the options dash jug chat channel and discord as well as the chat and YouTube for your questions and comments. Please feel free to post. I'll do my best to answer your questions. Hello, Stephen. Welcome. Glad you're here. Hello, Mark, using training price time method. Hello. Welcome. Glad you're here as well. Here's my agenda for today. First of all, agenda for today, Wednesday, April 10th. First of all, I want to go over news items, economic data and events for today, as well as the rest of the week. And today has certainly been a big day so far. Still not over. Then I want to go through my positional analysis for today. Then I'll review some setups from earlier today. Then I'll take a look at the live market. And when I get to the live market, if anyone has any stocks they want me to take a look at, please let me know and I'll be glad to do that. All right, let's start with economic data. Excuse me. And I forgot to bring this over. Give me just a moment. All right, so today, of course, CPI data came out at 830 a.m. Eastern time. This is from financial juice showing that the CPI data was greater than expected. Looks like it was most of it was in line with the previous number, but higher than expected. And there was quite a bearish reaction. We'll take a look at that in just a minute. So CPI data out at 830 a.m. Eastern time greater than expected and a pretty big drop in the markets and the futures market based on those numbers. Right today, there was a 10 year note auction at 1pm. There was also initial bearish reaction to that. We'll take a look at that. And then today at 2pm, the FOMC minutes come out. So wherever I am, I will stop and we'll watch the SB 500 and NASDAQ to see if there's any reaction to the FOMC minutes. Then tomorrow, Thursday at 830 a.m. Eastern time, PPI data comes out. Could be another market mover. And then on Friday, 10am, Michigan consumer sentiment to wrap up the week. All right, let's move on to the SB 500 to positional analysis. And of course, this is the reaction to the CPI data. A huge drop from right around 52.70 to maybe 51.80. So a huge drop in the SB 500 after the CPI data release, assuming just a little bit. So this is the reaction to the 10 year note auction at 1pm. We'll talk more about setups in a few minutes. All right, so this is the SB 500. We've seen the reactions to the data so far bearish both to the CPI data and the 10 year note auction. All right, let's take a look now at the larger time frame. We'll take a look at the SPX before we get started with a closer look at this chart. So let's go to SPX, start with a one day so we can go to a higher time frame. SPX, the underlying index. Hello, Caesar. Welcome. Glad you're here. The current trend began last year, October 30th. Maybe this looks like the biggest threat to that uptrend so far the last few days. All right, so this is the SPX one day chart and think or swim. All right, so let's take a look at the top of this rally now. Let's go to a one hour chart. So this is the top of that green trend line. And note that since that top SPX has been gradually making a series of lower highs. All right, let's take a look at the levels on this chart. First of all, the dash purple lines are showing the lower and upper weekly expected move. This is based on the options market based on the closing price for SPX last Friday. These lines remain in place for the entire week. The dash blue lines are showing the lower and upper daily expected move. Also based on the previous closing price, that's from yesterday. Note there was a very large expected move due to the CPI data that came out today. SPX is trading well below the lower daily expected move. So the expected move for SPX for today was plus or minus 46 points. SPX trading well below that level. And do note I do post those levels in discord every day. All right, the dark, the red lines, the red horizontal lines are showing these are spot gamma levels. These are provided to spot gamma subscribers. They're very available on a variety of trading platforms. This is thinkorswim. I'm going to point out the key data levels. These are based on gamma weighted open interest. So first of all, 5000. That's the absolute gamma strike. That was the put wall yesterday. The put wall did move up. So 5000 is the absolute gamma strike. That's a strike with the largest absolute positive and negative gamma. And above that is the put wall at 5100. And that's a strike with large net negative gamma that can be expected to act as support. And again, that level did move up from yesterday. It was at 5000 yesterday, moved up to 5100. The next level up is the volatility trigger at 5195. That is spot gamma's proprietary volatility level. Below that level, market makers position on the gamma curve is negative. In a negative gamma environment, market makers have to trade with price to achieve their delta exposure. That tends to enhance or increase volatility. And note that SPX is trading well below that level now. Now above that level, market makers position on the gamma curve is positive. In a positive gamma environment, market makers have to trade against price to hedge their delta exposure. That tends to subdue or decrease volatility. And then finally, the call wall is up at 5300. And that's a strike with the largest net positive gamma that can be expected to act as resistance. So this is the first time in a while that the put wall has really been more in play than the call wall. All right, potential floor at 5100, the put wall potential ceiling for price at 5300, the call wall. All right, let's wrap up our view of SPX with a one minute chart so we can see the levels in play for today. SPX, one minute chart. For today, the spot gamma level in play is the 5179 zero gamma level that acted as resistance earlier today. Here's the lower daily expected move now acting as resistance. And SPX, it looks like right after the node auction put in a low of the day right around 5138. All right, so again remember the next level below is the put wall at 5100. Let's just go check that. All right, so lower weekly expected move right around 5130 and then there's the put wall at 5100. So SPX still so far today above the lower weekly expected move. All right, let's go back to book map now. All right, so let's take a look at the levels on the book map chart. All right, so in book map I have my own cloud notes. So I can show SPX levels and the label you can't see it there but that's the 5179 zero gamma level that did act as resistance earlier today. Hello, Katina. Welcome glad you're here. I'm going to tone down the heat map just a bit so we can see the volume dots better. All right, so I have SPX levels on this chart and I also have spy levels on this chart. Here's the spy 512 level and around that level did act as support earlier today and this is the lower weekly expected move for ES. I calculate that separately than the lower weekly expected move for SPX. All right, so here's the spy 515 level acting as resistance after the impulse move up after the move down for the note auction. So levels in play after the move down cash open 514 and again the 516 level and the 5179 zero gamma level. All right, note there is a difference in price between ES and SPX and earlier today it was right around 47 points so that's about what it is. Now somewhere between 46 and 47 I'm using 47 so I'm showing SPX 5150 at ES 5197 and I do post those index relationships and discord every day so if you want to show the SPX and spy levels on your chart again I do post the index relationships. All right, let's zoom in on this just a little bit so we're showing from the cash open on 5147 level that was noted as support in the spot game I am Founder's note and again the 5179 zero gamma level. All right, shifts and levels I mentioned. Putwall shifted higher for SPX and spy as well so you can see the spy put wall down below at 510. All right, let's move on to NASDAQ. These are the NQ futures and book map and I do want to take a look at the underlying index charts. Most important level is this QQQ 434 435 put wall definitely in play for today acting as support so let's take a look at the QQQ chart. Here's that put wall at 435 acting as support so again it's been a while since a put wall has been in play rather than a call wall. So price that was support before the cash open shown in this light gray area then the dark area is after the cash open and since then NASDAQ is traded in a fairly narrow range and this there are a couple of combo levels in play here. This 43650 that's a combo to level combining QQQ and NDX gamma weighted open interest into one combined level here shown in terms of a QQQ price acting as support and then the 439 level acting as resistance and that's not a spot gamma level that's just a round number in QQQ so really the range has been from this 43650 combo to level up to the round number level 439 for today after the big move down for the reaction to the CPI data and you can see this narrow range in NASDAQ after the cash open. Let's take a quick look at NDX zoom in just a bit so again pretty narrow range after the big drop and the gap down in the case of NDX levels in play 17988 zero gamma level and the 18,000 level not really acting as support or resistance. Alright so just like yes I have my own cloud notes here so I can show QQQ levels. There's the put wall again acting as support key support for today. There's that 43650 C2 level acting as support after the cash open and then the 439 acting as resistance. Alright there were no shifts in levels for NDX or QQQ so just based on that a pretty neutral outlook of course that was based on data from open interest yesterday and that was before the data release this morning. Alright let's take a look at Gamma Notional to see how market makers were positioned on the Gamma curve at the beginning of the day then we'll take a look at the Vana model. Alright so this is Gamma Notional market makers position on the Gamma curve at the beginning of the day for the SB500 and NASDAQ. Note these numbers all shift at higher from yesterday and slightly positive for SPX and still negative for SPI and QQQ so in a positive Gamma environment again market makers have to trade against price to hedge their delta exposure. The assumption is that traders are short calls market makers are long calls in a positive Gamma environment then a negative Gamma environment the assumption is that traders are long puts market makers are short puts hence the negative Gamma and they have to trade with price to hedge their delta exposure so that's at the beginning of the day again before the data release at 8 30 a.m. Eastern time. Alright so let's take a look at the Vana model now in any time there's a data release it or I look at this every day so let's check this is for SPX the Vana model what this chart is showing is market makers delta notional on the vertical axis spot price for SPX on the horizontal axis there are two curves on this chart like gray curve shows how market makers delta notional may change with changes in price only and the purple curve adds implied volatility to the equation that shows how market makers delta notional may change with changes in price and applied volatility and that change in change in delta with a change in implied volatility is the Vana effect Vana is a second-order Greek so one thing that we can gather from this is if price drops and implied volatility increases just alone that will increase market makers delta notional on the other hand if price increases implied volatility drops that alone will decrease market makers delta notional alright so let's take a look at so far the low of the day let me check on prices so for SPX we know the low of the day was right around 51 38 so that's right around here let's go back and check our SPX chart again one minute chart high of the day right around the zero gamma level at 51 79 so 51 38 somewhere around here low of the day 51 79 right here so what we know is price drop today and applied volatility increased market makers delta notional increased delta notional increases market makers want to remain delta neutral so they had to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure now this does work the other way so this is typical in a very negative gamma environment remember SPX is well below its volatility trigger at 51 95 price drops implied volatility increases market makers have to sell futures to hedge their delta exposure if price increases market and implied volatility drops market makers can buy back short futures so this shows how market makers are trading in the direction of price in this negative gamma environment below the volatility trigger all right so let's move on and take a look at some setups now and I've got about five or six minutes before the FOMC minutes so I'm gonna take just a minute to take a look at some setups all right so the reason I'm doing this and this is the attitude that I take when I'm reviewing setups I want to see what I could have done better how can how could I improve what did I miss I'll look at some some trades today some I took some I didn't again I'm looking at this from a review point looking at how I can approve what I did wrong what I did well and what I could what what can I do better next time all right so I'm gonna start by taking a look at what options traders have been doing today so everything that we've looked at so far other than the book map is based on static data those levels that I was showing that on my charts that's based on static data spot gamma takes open interest data that's updated once a day sometime during the night they apply their algorithms to that data to come up with those levels and those levels do change every day that's why I keep track of those but now let's move on to execution we're going to take a look at real-time data so first of all this is hero hedging impact real-time options H I R O this is available to spot gamma subscribers what this chart is showing this particular chart for the SB 500 that's showing a combined signal of SB X by XSP and ES options options trades and market maker hedging activity so again that's a combined signal for all those forms of the SB 500 sorry about that I have complained to spot gamma about that banner that keeps popping up I don't know what the deal is with that alright so let's take a closer look at this chart alright so the white line on this chart is price for SP X and the purple line is the hero signal again hedging impact real-time options a rising hero signal indicates traders are taking positive delta positions a fall that would be buying calls and or selling puts and a falling hero signal indicates traders taking negative delta positions that is buying puts and or selling calls alright so let's take a look look at the morning I'm gonna zoom in a bit alright so right at the cash open there was a flow alert you can only see the just a little bit of it but heroes started to rise and again indicating traders are taking positive delta positions and note the flow alert that comes in right right around 1038 signaling the high point traders start taking negative delta positions the SB 500 moves lower so a set up long set up from the open up to 1040 and then a reversal lower so let's go take a look at book map go back to ES zoom in alright so we'll do this quickly I've got about a minute before the FOMC minutes so traders were taking positive delta positions from the open and there was a lot of chop and then finally an entry that took again right around the 41 51 47 and the spy 513 level in the SB 500 made a series of higher lows up to the 51 79 zero gamma level then traders that flow alert came in traders started taking negative delta positions and price move lower you can see the shift and cumulative volume delta a lot of aggressive sellers come in shown by the magenta volume dots alright let's zoom out let's zoom out FOMC minutes eminent see if there's any reaction alright we'll watch this of for a few minutes then we'll take a look and see what what options traders are doing so far not really much of a reaction they'll now you know another bearish reaction zoom in just a bit alright let's see if options traders are doing anything let's go back to hero zoom out I'm gonna zoom in to the alright so really no no special reaction so far hero is moving higher let's take a look and see what traders are doing with puts and calls so today they are buying calls that show them by the positive notion of value for the orange line and they're also buying puts that show them by the negative notional value for the blue line and note the the balance is pretty close to even for the day that's a very low number 158 million so call by are slightly more aggressive alright let's move back take a look at this short setup this one was a little bit more clear the flow alert coming in right at the top there hero shifted shiftly sharply lower and let's go back to the SB 500 ES futures alright so there's that move lower the magenta dots again the volume dots are showing market buy minus sell green volume dots indicate more buyers than sellers magenta dots indicate more sellers than buyers note the stop run up to the 5179 level that shown by the rising yellow line as well as the on-chart indicators buyers are exhausted aggressive sellers start to come in and price moves lower all right let's take a look at NASDAQ now hello trading for a living welcome glad you're here right NASDAQ I'm gonna go back to hero we zoom out the signal that I look at for the NASDAQ is this mag 7 signal what this is this is another combined signal showing options trades and market maker hedging activities about that man that is irritating I don't know if I can I'll be able to mark this or not so this is a combined signal options trades market maker hedging activity for a combined signal of the stocks known as the magnificent 7 Apple Amazon Google Meta Microsoft Nvidia and Tesla note this signal has been bullish all day let's zoom in on this chart traders have been taking positive Delta positions in the mag 7 stocks all day taking advantage of the dip buying the dip in the mag 7 stocks let's take a look and see what they're doing so they're buying calls and sort and or and selling puts calls shown by the rising orange line hello can you hear me can you hear me now all right how about YouTube right can you can you hear me on YouTube all right I'm not sure what happened I just I just had to unplug my microphone and then plug it back in so sorry about that looks like I lost a lot of people I'm so sorry had no idea that my audio was out right so again sorry apologies I'm back now alright so we're looking at Nasdaq again remember we're looking at the mag 7 hero signal traders taking positive Delta positions and not really much of a reaction on the Nasdaq slight grind higher all right let's take a look at some stocks there were some better trades and stocks all right the first AMD so this was a short today and otherwise all the setups that I'll take a look at were long so let's go take a look at hero for AMD so AMD initially let's zoom in a bit traders were buying calls shown by the rising orange line and they were also buying put shown by the falling blue line then right around just before 10 a.m. maybe 955 traders started selling calls blue line orange line moving in the same direction and price moves lower so it took some patience to wait for this but as the call signal shifted shifted down that was the time to take a short and that was just below the 170 hedgewall right so let's go take a look at AMD take a look at book map 170 hedgewall and price of reverse is lower just before 10 a.m. as traders started selling calls alright so short set up and in AMD initial entry right around 10 a.m. kind of a head and shoulder set head and shoulder entry there head and shoulders and then pullbacks to VWAP for secondary entries so continuation or pullback entries for the short to VWAP that's this light blue line so again it took some patience waiting for that call signal to shift lower all right so the next setup is coinbase just the opposite here opposite great long from the open let's take a look and see what options traders are doing let's go to coinbase so initially in coinbase traders were selling puts shown by the rising blue line they were also buying calls note the flow alert right around 945 signaling significant options activity and also note the call buyers take their foot off the gas right around 1040 and price consolidates so the initial move up was from about 932 1040 call buyers took their foot off the gas they continued to sell puts but that fuel from the call buyers stopped right around 1040 and price started to consolidate still grinding hires traders continue to sell puts so let's go back to book map coinbase the zoom in a bit there's an initial thrust lower this is the absorption indicator showing that buyers limit buy orders absorb those aggressive sellers price started to make higher lows pull back to VWAP this time did not make it quite to VWAP more pullbacks then right around 1040 call buyers take the foot off the gas and coinbase consolidates stop stops making higher highs then now traders have they're starting to sell puts again price moved up to the 250 key gamma strike let's go back to hero I'm gonna shift back to the total signal so coinbase has been grinding higher even though the hero signal is is flat looks like maybe finding some resistance at the 250 key gamma strike all right the next is meta know the long today dip buyers flow alerts come in right after the open then another one around 940 let's see what traders are doing so they're selling puts and buying calls it looks like the put sellers were the were the driving factor in the morning let's go back to the total signal I'm gonna have to jump again go back to meta just to avoid that auto zoom flow alerts traders taking positive delta positions selling puts and buying calls take the foot off the gas around 1110 now the hero signal is starting to rise again just a little bit right so this is very typical price action aggressive options traders in the morning take their foot off the gas mid to late morning and price consolidates let's go back to book map go to meta this is very typical for meta too much quick thrust higher then deep pullbacks so if you miss that initial long deep pullbacks to get long as traders continue to take positive delta options positions then price consolidating around 1110 1115 as options traders took their foot off the gas all right let's go back to hero all right so we saw with coinbase there were alerts hero rising long entries pullback entries meta the same alerts traders taking positive delta positions pullback entries and then the last one I want to take a look at is Nvidia aggressive options traders in the morning let's take a look at Nvidia see what they were doing I'm gonna shift to puts and calls then we'll go to Nvidia traders buying calls and and selling puts note that 865 is the hedge wall 825 is the put wall flow alert just a few minutes after the cash open traders aggressively buying calls that slows down a bit they're also selling puts that shown by the rising blue line and then finally right around 1130 they take the foot off the gas and Nvidia consolidates and Katina wants to take a look at Amazon let's do that all right so the hero signal pretty choppy several flow alerts spot gamma has indicated that when there are several flow alerts in a look in a row this can often indicate shop so overall though the trend is higher positive notion of value traders taking positive delta positions let's go take a look at a book map we'll go to Amazon so initial drop lower and Amazon this was before the cash open then the cash open this is the opening print Amazon grinding higher pullback to VWAP note the following cumulative on Delta looks like options traders definitely driving price in Amazon today all right any other stocks so anyone have any other stocks they want me take a look at so again Amazon pullback to VWAP for the pullback pullback let's take a look at the SB 500 see what it's done since the FOMC minutes not much chopping up and down around 514 let's go back to hero the SB 500 both the hero signal and the SB 500 moving sideways let's check check the mag 7 that hero signal continues to move higher I'm just scanning some charts seeing if I see anything for a setup let's take a look at Tesla it's looking looking somewhat weak just chopping so Tesla good short in the morning hero signal flow alert hero signal moving lower and traders options traders took the foot off the gas pretty quickly right around 950 and looks like Tesla has chopped around since then so let's go take a look at book map looks like the SB 500 are moving lower now look at all the magenta volume dots there's definitely some aggressive sellers here and in Tesla there's the initial move lower as traders were taking negative Delta positions and then chop pretty much ever since then again that's a lot of magenta volume dots a lot of aggressive sellers all right WRB there you go there's Tesla good move lower in the morning hero signal falling heroes falling hero signal flow alert and then chopping up and down between 171 and 73 all right let's let's take a look at something else see if we see any setups one thing that I like to do and in the morning is watch for these alerts so I pointed out the alerts in Coinbase meta Nvidia and in Tesla but now looks like some buyers are coming in and Tesla let's see what they're doing looks like they may be selling puts rising hero signal and you're welcome WRB let's see if there's any response in Tesla to that hero signal so far it looks like there's no response we'll go to book map go to Tesla and so far no response still a lot of magenta volume dots aggressive sellers so Tesla still making a series of lower highs down below VWAP if I were interested in a long I would look for Tesla to move up above VWAP and to start making a series of higher lows and higher highs and so far that's not happening let's go back to hero no alerts coming in so let's go back to the full screen maybe take a look at AMD KP wants to take a look at ACB not sure what that is I certainly I don't have a CBN book map we can take a look at hero are you sure that's the correct ticker there's nothing in nothing in hero so sorry KP all right AMD not much take a look at Google Google trying to move higher let's go take a let's do a quick scan all right Microsoft hero signal moving higher looks like it's Microsoft is up near recent highs let's go take a look at book map go to Microsoft right so Microsoft up near the upper end of its range during the regular trading hours right of round 422 so big move down like everything else then then a narrow range 420 to 422 after that mostly aggressive sellers shown by the falling cumulative volume Delta which really started to move down right around 1145 let's go back and take a look at the hero right now this is this can happen with Microsoft these big block orders institutional orders up up down moving a hero signal up and down all right let's do a quick scan through Tesla still flat Nvidia hero signal flat to rising Nvidia flat Meta still consolidating and Google also up near the highs of the cash session Amazon hero signal continues to rise let's go back to book map take a look at Amazon all right so maybe potential long on a pullback looks like there would not be much range in that maybe at 185 let's go check Nasdaq a lot of lines on the chart sorry about that Nasdaq still stuck in a range let's see what the mag 7 traders are doing so this is shown price shown in terms of QQQ so maybe if there's a pullback to this previous low maybe along so that would be that 436 50 that is active to support several times today all right everyone I want to thank you for watching thank you for your questions and comments and I will see you on Friday remember PPI data tomorrow out tomorrow at 8 30 a.m. Eastern time and then Michigan consumer sentiment 10 a.m. on Friday so we'll talk about on on Friday everyone have a great afternoon thank you very much for watching thanks for your questions and comments and I will see you on Friday bye


Yeah, we have just 10 minutes. Unfortunately, we have material for hours to talk, but we will give just high-level overview. So first of all, my name is Sergey Sergeev from AppDynamics Cisco. Hi, I'm Ayush. I'm a principal engineer at Cisco Systems. Yeah, and we will talk about cellular architecture and how to get up to fight. So first about AppDynamics, it's a full-stack observability platform. It provides insights for businesses, users, applications, infrastructure, network, and security. We have such deployments around the world, hundreds of billions of data points a day. So let's talk about cellular architecture and what it is. So it's a collection of components grouped from design and implementation into deployment. It's basically independently deployable, manageable, and observable. And it just provides a way to split, like infinitely scaling problem into smaller chunks. So you basically shard your customers into each cell. So it provides a way to apply some upper bound for your cell scalability. And basically, it provides a way to limit blast radius. So if something happens with one cell deployment, it affects only that part of customers. It also provides a way to reason about capacity and scalability. So you can define some upper bounds for each individual cell scalability. Also, it is disaster recovery. It's very hard to do disaster recovery for a huge deployment, infinitely growing. How do you recover it from disaster? So it's very hard with cell-based architecture. It can be tested, validated, so you can apply some CI pipeline for your disaster recovery processes. Also, it helps to move some of the heavy traffic customers to an individual cell. So they do not act as noisy neighbors for other customers. And also, it minimizes resources over provisioning. So basically, you may over provision resources in one cell, but once you have enough cell deployments, so it just limits resources over provisioning. So what is a cell? So it's basically over 100 of applications. We use microservices pattern at FD. So it's over 100 of different microservices with data stores and all the infrastructure and foundational components needed to run that system. Also, we have a global control plane which hosts basically global services needed for cells to operate, like a global event bus to communicate and orchestrate tenant provisioning or tenant management. Also, we have the management cell itself, which does basically fleet management. So it provisions new cells. It manages and monitors basically the rest of the cells. And just, again, to highlight the scale, it's hundreds of applications contributed by dozens of engineering teams. So it's quite a lot of things going on in each individual cell. And with this, I will usually provide more details about the GitOps side of the things. Yes, so we have a single management cell which is responsible to provision all of our tenant cell and the control cell. So to add a tenant cell, you basically manifest something like this where you say which control cell and to deploy in which cloud, which reason, the number of tenant cell and things like that. So what it does is that once you commit this to our main GitOps depository, the flux in the management cell will reconcile and that will kick in the cross plane in that management cell. That will actually create all the base cloud resources like the VPC, the subnet, the security group and the Kubernetes cluster itself. It will also create the node group based on the profile that has been provided here. And once the cluster is up and running, it will basically bootstrap, once the cluster is up and running, it will bootstrap flux in the cluster and with the cluster path that is provided here. So the cluster path that was provided in the cell creation manifest is a path to the cluster configuration. So cluster configuration is a way to encapsulate all the components that go in a cluster or that needs to be installed in a cluster. This necessarily doesn't need to be the Kubernetes resources. This can be any of the cloud resources that needs to be provisioned in that cell. So in our case, it's like a layer cake. So at start, it's like a layer cake and like the reconciliation order is from bottom to top and the layer above is depending on the services which are being provided from the layer below. So it starts with our foundational components like the HEM repositories, the foundational teams, definitions, the gateways and the service mesh. Once the foundational components are created, we start adding the security components, security and compliance components like Kibirno and OPA. So this ensures that everything that's added after this point is compliant with our security and compliance policies. So after the security components are good and ready, we onboard the teams. In the onboarding teams, it basically the namespaces, the service accounts are back. So this gives us a very tight control on what the teams can or cannot do in the cell. So after the teams are added, we add the infrastructure components like the cross-plane, the monitoring stuff. So, and this infrastructure component is used by the shared data stores and the application components. In shared data source, we have Kafka and Druid. So after the shared data source are created which are shared by multiple teams, the applications components are being reconciled. And we also encapsulate all the components that the application needs, like the private data stores, their ingress, their egress rule and any of the security components that is specific to their applications. So, and at Abdynamics, we use a monorepository and so we use a monorepository. So a flux basically reconciles from a directory in the cluster overlay which is basically derived from the base cluster overlay. We have two flavors of our deployment, basically the CI flavor and the cloud flavor. So in the ephemeral flavor, what we do is we provision continuous workload and if you basically spin up the same application in a cloud environment, you will spin up actual cloud resources, give an example. Let's say you have an application which is deployed and let's say you have an application which needs Redis. So if you deploy it in an ephemeral cluster, it will use Redis container, but if you deploy the same application in Kubernetes or in AWS environment, it will spin up Elastic Cache. So this gives us a uniform pattern to deploy the whole of SAS Abdynamics platform or part of it in CI, CD, local or production environment. And Abdynamics Hiring, come join us and see you in the break. 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Yeah, well, after that very tough, just the facts, let's talk some more cricket on the Sports Mag Zone. Round three of the West Indies Championship, bowled off today with four matches in three countries. Let's start our day one recap at Sabina Park, where Jamaica's Corpians are taking on Barbados pride. Gerard Morrisili is live on location. Let's join him. Thank you so much, Ricardo. Yes, let me start with the position of the game. Jamaica's Corpians, they have a slight lead ahead of the Barbados pride team. They have a 249 run, 44 run lead ahead of Barbados, but in first Jamaica's Corpians, they would have been dismissed for 269 and Barbados pride at a close of play were 15 without loss. The standout so far for this game, Romain Morris, they were to keep a batsman's score in 97, not out. Kirk McKenzie and Carlos Brown, 40 each. And the Jamele Warkand, though he was good with the ball for the Bajans, 5-4-62. Just before I put this game into context, though, I must say, Ricardo, answer lands that this is a game, a fixture that is very much close to my heart. Seeing Jamaica and Barbados play against each other all the time is really good for me. It was my first game at the regional first class server, and it is a little bit disheartening to see, though, that first class cricket has come to this point where we hardly have any fans in the crowd, because I remember the first time I saw them at Wingward Cricket Ground in Barbados, it was a full house. But it's a little bit disheartening to see that things have gotten this bad and we need to do some work about it. But without further ado, let me give you a little bit of context into the game. Jamaica, they were put into by Barbados pride. In the first couple of hours, it was obvious that they just wanted to survive until lunch. They were scoring at about a run-and-a-half and over up until lunchtime. And then after that, Barbados who got one wicket in the lunch break, then pretty much took control in the first hour post-lunch session, and they got four wickets leaving Jamaica at about 130 for five within the first hour after the lunch break. But then Romain Morris, with his half-century, very close to a century here, just falling three runs short because he was dropped in the 30s by Shane Mosey. It was a really easy catch. One that you couldn't imagine a player of Shane Mosey's caliber dropping. But Romain Morris made full use of that, and he got all the way to 97, losing a few partners in the end. But Jamele Warkand, he was a bit of the stalemate between the two teams. It was a very level day. At first, it started with Jamaica on top. There were 92 for two at lunch. And then the Bajans, they took control post-lunch up until tea, where the score had shifted in the favor of Barbados. Of course, they would have liked to stay on top, but then that in his Romain Morris, he was instrumental. It was a very flat batting service, not too hard to bat on, not too difficult for the bowlers either, pretty much neutral. But yeah, the conditions here were really good. It wasn't too hot. We have another cold front on the island, so there wasn't really much for the batsmen to contain them in terms of the elements. So yeah, it was really good on both sides of the day. There was a pocket of crowd here, not enough, but they were very much cheering on Romain Morris and the Jamaica's Corp. team. Who is with me now? Romain, 97 not out. Of course, he would have been a little bit disappointed that OJ Shields could not stay on with you to bat until you got to that 100. But you must be satisfied with the innings. Yeah, I'm satisfied. I know I'm the semifinals first-class Corp. So I'm really elated and disappointed at the moment. But I mean, it's all a process. So I just can't build on this from here. 15 without loss now. Well, first, before we get there and you get your outlook, just talk to me about your construction of the innings. You were a little bit conservative at the start of your innings, but then a banter between you and Rashon Primus, you just fully switched on gears. What if you say to you and did that push you to go all the way out? Well, what you said to me didn't really bother me, but I like the banter, it's a part of the game. So that kind of gave me that extra motivation and that extra boost. So that just cannot build my confidence so much. And I just tend to build on that. And I got 97 today, unfortunately, I didn't get the 100. But as I said earlier, it's a process. And I just can't build on this from here. 15 without loss now on Barbeidah's pride. You're in the field now. Of course, you're behind the stumps. You have the best view of all.  I mean, it's a decent cricket wicket. You know, what you put in there, you don't get out of it. Spend some time at the wicket, you'll get score. So I think it's neutral right now. So I just think tomorrow we can come and discipline and get the ball in the right areas and hopefully we can get a good start with a new ball. Thank you so much, Romain. I will play to you again. Thanks much. Yeah. So we did try to get an interview with one of the Barbeidah's pride players of especially Jamal Warican. Warican coming off of the physio bed. And yeah, so he was not able to join us. And yeah, so actually we can get Warican now. Warican is going to join us. Just bear with me a little bit, viewers, and Ricardo and Sir Lance. Jamal had to get a bit of rest before he came to speak to us. Jamal, it was a really good bowling performance from you. Are you satisfied with your output here today? I'm always satisfied with my work. We wanted to shoot the guys a less total. But unfortunately, we didn't do the job. But me personally, I'm happy with my performance.  Yeah, you have another five wicket hall in this series, I think it was your third, your second. And yeah, you must be really happy that the spinners are dominating, especially your bowling performances. Yeah, that's the plan to perform well for the team. They have barbers do well. So me getting too bad about favors is a plus for me. So I just want to count him more forward and count him performing well. Yeah, 15 without loss. You said you want to put a big score on the scoreboard. Do you think you have the batsmen that can do it? And who are you really hoping can fire for you? I think everyone has an important role to play. And I think we do have the capability and redress room to do it. So it can be a collective effort, a team effort. So when we come tomorrow, we'll come together and put a good score on the board. Thank you, Jamal. Thank you very much. Yeah, so that was Jamal Warikand there. So we have to watch this game very closely. Barbados Pride, Jamaica Scorpions, a fixture that is always full of vigor, a lot of pride as well. Yeah, point on that word again. There is, though, historically always a collapse in the second innings by one of these two teams. What we have to do is decide and see, well, wait and watch and see who will be that team to the collapse. So yeah, at the close of play here, Jamaica Scorpions 269 in their first innings. Barbados Pride 15 without loss. That's how it ended here at Sabina Park on day one, round three of the West Indies Championship. Yeah, thanks very much, Gerardo. Top four of the Jamaican left under Romain Morris, the second half century of the tournament. But 97 when the Scorpions were bowled out, Warikand 5-for-60 to another excellent performance coming from him. All right, let's head to Chedwin Park then. And this is where the combined campuses and colleges are taking on the Winwood Islands volcanoes, only just over 70 overs possibly in this match, 71.3 on day one because of a late start, damp areas to the outfield causing that, not for the first time in this regional four day championship that has happened at Chedwin Park. But the combined campuses and colleges bowled out for 204 at the close of play. Demaria Richard stopped scoring with 46 and there was also 43 for Damel Evelyn. So yeah, 204 all out and Cyrus taking 6-for-72 for the Winwood Islands volcanoes. So the volcanoes looking to continue their impressive start to the tournament. The Leeward Islands Hurricanes, they are taking on the Trinidad and Tobago Red Force. The Red Force bowled out for 137 banning first and Ched Gully top scoring with 30. So real disappointment that for the Trinidad and Tobago Red Force, Jeremiah Lewy taking 3-for-38. Kevin Archibald, 3-for-28. The pick of the bowlers and Rakeem Cornwell chipped in as well with two for five and then at the close of play, the Leeward Islands Hurricanes getting to 105 for one. Mikhail Lewy, who we spoke to on this show yesterday out for 32, but Kyron Powell on 54. One of those test immortals for the West Indies. By the way, we got no question on that one today. Unfortunately, he's not on 54 with K-Security on 11. So the Leeward Islands Hurricanes very much in control of that encounter. And then the other match that's taking place, the Guy in the Harpy Eagles against the West Indies Academy, the defending champions, Harpy Eagles, finding themselves in a spot of bother at the moment. 175 all out for the Harpy Eagles. Ronaldo Mohamed, 13, not out the top score in this one. Matthew Nando getting at 28. And then, yeah, Joshua James fighting for 43 and Johan Lane, two for 27. The pick of the bowlers for the Eagles and the West Indies Academy, they're replying 96 for four. Kevin Sinclair taking all four wickets for the Harpy Eagles, four for 32. Rashon Worrell on 34 with Joshua Bishop on 33. And yeah, they will be looking to push on day number two because at this stage they trail by 79 runs at the close of day number one. So yeah, that is it for our regional four day roundup for day one of round three. Another massive disappointment, the big West Indies names not getting runs. And yeah, it's those who are fighting to get into the side who are putting up the big numbers. We'll be back with more on the Sports Mac Zone. We'll close it out with Interactive.


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Here we are in the middle of a snap general election campaign, which I'd be surprised if any of us would have predicted a few weeks ago before the announcement that it was going to take place. It's one of those things where in retrospect it seems very unsurprising, but of course at the time it came as a massive surprise. Partly perhaps because the Prime Minister had repeatedly and categorically denied that there ever could be a snap general election on numerous occasions. But there we are, she's had a sudden change of thought, a change of heart. And we are now facing an election which the Tories, and I will argue, basically the whole of the British capitalist establishment are hoping is going to result in a landslide Tory majority. The one possibility of preventing that happening is, I would say, Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party. So here we are to discuss how we can make that a reality, how we can make a Tory disappointment the possibility through Jeremy Corbyn. But before I get onto that specific concrete question, I want to reflect a bit on the kind of period in the context of this election. I think that we can't really understand the election campaign properly. Unless we talk about what's been going on over the last few years, this is the second general election in basically as many years. It's about two years, isn't it, since the 2015 general election. It's also now the fourth meaningful vote that we've had in again as many years. We had the Scottish referendum, obviously we weren't voting in that. But we had the Scottish referendum in 2014, we had the election in 2015, the EU referendum of course, the year after. And now the British public has been asked again to make a pretty important decision on the electoral field. And I would say all of these elections reflect the massive instability that exists within British capitalism, also within global capitalism. We, as Marxists have explained many times really since the 2008 crash, that all of the attempts on the part of the state and on the part of the capitalist class to redress, if you like, the instability, the imbalance, and the contradictions thrown up by the crisis in the economy at the basis of capitalist society. All of the attempts to restore equilibrium on the economic plane would result in economic instability, chaos if you like, crisis. And I think that we're seeing an element of that, but of course it's not this unconscious mechanical relationship that you suddenly just have complete instability. The state itself and the establishment are trying to react back on that, they're trying to stabilise things further. And I would say we've seen that in the attempts of David Cameron, remember him, the last PM or the gambling that he went about doing, in order to try and restore some kind of semblance of order with his own party and with his own government. I'm sure we'll all agree that the attempt to the calling of the EU referendum was an attempt to ble take, a very vocal and increasingly influential wing of his party, which of course reflects at the base of society, especially amongst the Tory rank and file, which had become increasingly narrow and based on a certain section of society at a rabidly neuroskeptic or pro-Brexit section of society. It was an attempt to redress that balance and shore up his majority. And of course that gamble then reflected back on the stability of British capitalism as a whole and ultimately on the economy, which is surely being affected and will be affected by Brexit. You could say something similar about the Scottish referendum as well. Of course the Scottish referendum didn't go against Cameron, but of course what was going on was a huge shift in Scottish society, a massive change in the political landscape which resulted in the SNP sweeping almost every seat in the general election after that. And I'm sure you're already aware of this. And the setup that we have now is a Tory majority, with a working majority of 17 MPs, up until recently, and I'll get to this, was looking at investigations into 30 of those seats, of course that's now no longer in the pipeline. We'll discuss the reason for that a little bit later on. But also has a, I think at the time of the referendum, the majority, if I'm not mistaken of Tory MPs, reflecting the base of their party, campaigned vocally for Brexit, a situation in which Theresa May is facing Brexit negotiations where we're not just talking about the EU officials and EU bureaucrats, we're also talking about the very important interests from the point of view of British capitalism of the city of London, of the British capitalist class, who need the single market to sell their goods for passporting in the realm of banking and financial services, which of course are a very important part of the British economy. You've got these interests on the one hand, and then behind her she has a party which is campaigning or was campaigning for Brexit, which will accept nothing less than a hard Brexit, and any kind of movement backward, by which I mean a concession on having to pay the £60 billion to £100 billion, the figure seems to be put out of nowhere, but the billions of pounds that the UK will be asked to pay one way or another, or to capitulate on the jurisdiction of the European, sorry, the Court of Justice of the European Union, as it's now called, or the question of freedom of movement and so on, any concession on these quite important topics would result in an enormous rebellion, not just in the Tory party, but also in the country amongst the most passionate wing of lead voters, which would leave the majority utterly worthless. So, as we explained at the time at Socialist Appeal, Theresa May, up until this point, and I would say still at this point, is caught between a rock and a hard place or a rock and a hard Brexit. She is forced effectively to take this very, very hard position which is against the interests, it cuts very strongly against the interests of the bulk of British capitalism and British capitalist class, in order to make sure that you have some semblance of political stability. Now, you have, I would say, an attempt, a calculated attempt to overcome that problem, to overcome that obstacle, and that's what this Tory majority that they're aiming for is all about. And it's an open secret, there's actually a very interesting article in the Financial Times by Martin Wolff, who's the chief economics correspondent, which is entitled, if I remember correctly, it says, May has an opportunity to basically retain membership of the single market, which is interesting because you don't associate a May victory with remaining a member of the single market. And he goes on to explain, and I'll quote from the article. For Mrs May, the aim of the election should be allowed to make decisions in the national interest, by which we mean, of course, the interest of the British capitalist class, with extra time and a larger majority if achieved, she could make unpopular but necessary decisions. The past week will have shown her that these will be very unpopular. He was referring to the disastrous dinner that got leaked with John Claude Juncker. If she obtained a smooth transition via membership of the single market and customs union until a long term agreement is reached, she will have given UK business and so the UK economy what it needs most. Avoiding a big shock in 2019 is a price for which it is worth paying a great deal. It is a chance the election could give her, she should take it. So you here have, if you like a spokesman, one of the strategists of capital have heard that expression used in relation to these people. Someone expressing quite directly the interests of the capitalists in this matter. For despite the fact that Theresa May is standing in a high and hard brexit programme, I would say the whole of the British establishment is mobilising behind her in order to make sure that you have a strong and stable government. Have you heard that expression before? I do make it. It's the campaign slogan for the Conservative Party, if you know what I mean. A strong and stable government, which in the not too distant future can make decisions which will be cutting against its own social base, will be cutting against the British population for the most part. I don't just mean relation to Brexit negotiations. We are talking about Tory government here. So the austerity and attacks on the working class are very much going to continue. But which can withstand this. It can withstand the shocks which everybody knows is coming. Everybody knows that over the next couple of years there are going to be major concessions being made and there are going to be major political shocks in Britain. Perhaps internationally as well, which could of course impact on the situation in Britain. So a three-figure Tory majority would hopefully, for them, provide a cushion which means they can then basically turn around and act directly in the interests of the capitalist class. This shows that it expresses itself concretely, I would say, in quite an interesting phenomenon that you see almost unanimity, I would say, in the way that the media in particular, but also the British establishment are behaving in this election. Now I'll mention briefly the question of the 30 seats under investigation for electoral fraud. Now the Tory party was found guilty, responsible, if that's the word, by the Electoral Commission for basically not declaring its expenses. It had a number, not just one, but a number of so-called battle buses going to important seats full of activists and it wasn't declaring its expenses in the local areas where they were campaigning. The Electoral Commission said that's electoral fraud, finding £70,000. The Crown's prosecution service looked into the matter to see whether criminal investigations for electoral fraud would be appropriate. Not convictions, but investigations to then bring charges. It found that in all 30 cases, no further charges would be brought before the election. You've already seen the headlines saying that Tory's cleared, Theresa May could release a breath, a sigh of relief is the expression I'm looking for, and then could say, see they've done nothing wrong. Tory MPs were coming out demanding apologies. One Tory MP said that heads should roll at the Electoral Commission for even bringing this up. That's worth looking into this. Because the CPS said that the reason they weren't going to look into any further charges was because although there was clear evidence that a misreporting and underreporting of expenses had indeed taken place, that's never been in question. So the wrong had been committed, if you like. All of the people being investigated, or potentially investigated, all of the local activists and electoral officers, or agents, I think the word is sorry, whose responsibility was to report correctly this information, they didn't know they were doing wrong because the Tory National Office had told them that they were sorting it out. So no harm done there. The Tory party can get away with basically buying seats or attempting to buy seats. The fact that this has taken place just for a very important election, not just for the country but specifically for the interests of British capital is not a coincidence, I'd say. I would say that this is an example of the British establishment acting, if you like, in its own interests by backing a given political party an election. I would say this gives us quite a good demonstration, subtle demonstration, although not that subtle thinking about it, of the way that bourgeois democracy actually works. It's not quite as simple and idealistic of how we all get a full and fair decision on who rules us and we can hold those people accountable. What we're seeing is when the situation gets a bit more murky, when the class struggle, the picture that the class struggle starts to rise, after years and years of austerity, when millions and millions more people are having to fall into precarious employment, having to go for food banks, basically for charity in order to survive, and the anger, the level of anger, resentment, rage even in the country is rising and rising and rising. The way that politics functions is it becomes a bit different to how it was in the 90s, for example, in more stable times. What we're seeing now is that the state, the establishment is more prepared to act directly and intervene in the so-called democratic process in order to make sure that the right result comes out of it. I would say that another example of this can be found in the media. I certainly argue that the BBC is part of the establishment, a state-owned broadcaster, which I would say most of the time, especially in stable times on certain issues, maintains a veneer of respectable impartiality and is asking questions, holding politicians to account regardless of their political creed. But what we've seen particularly over the question of Jeremy Corbyn and that coverage of him is something a bit different, I would argue. The coverage of Corbyn has been, since he became the leader of the Labour Party, but it certainly hasn't let up during the election campaign, it's been a constant diatribe, portraying him as a terrorist sympathiser, which is quite an inflammatory headline, when a weak, indecisive, dangerous leader, somebody who wants to take the country back to the 70s, that's not actually the BBC, that was the Daily Mail and the Telegraph, somebody who the public basically can't trust, and that message, believe it or not, is seeping through at the base of society. I think this is a conscious editorial decision, frankly. There's another element to this, which is the BBC has shown quite a pro-tory bias, I would say, a bit more subtle than its anti-Corbyn bias. But in relation to the way that they deal with the Cotories, even back in the camera in Osborne days, the way that they would interview Tory politicians was extremely soft compared to the way they would deal with Corbyn and pro-Corbyn MPs, and even now that's continued. We've got a Prime Minister who is campaigning on a slogan of strong and stable leadership, often just showing in certain Labour heartlands, or former Labour heartlands, she's campaigning with a massive poster with just her face, and then the Tory symbol just maybe about this big in the corner, just going for people voting on her, having a strong hand in negotiations, you've probably heard that expression as well. So she's campaigning on decisiveness, strength, leadership qualities, and yet she's so terrified of journalists asking her difficult questions, or even easy questions, frankly, the way she performs. She's resorting to locking them in rooms, or I've heard the word cupboard used, I wasn't there, I don't know the dimensions of the room in question. She was locking up journalists until she was ready to give them three minutes, and was refusing to allow them just to film a simple, quite routine visit. It was in Cornwall, I think, I think it was a factory in Cornwall. This shows that a certain level of panic, I would say, this demonstrates that based on the very high polling, relative to Labour in particular, not just Labour in particular really, but the very high polling that the Tories have got in part, and I would say in the main down to very sympathetic treatment by the media, and the relentless campaign against Corbyn, from the media and the Tories, but from elements, quite influential elements, within his own party. They're now hoping to ride the surf on this wave, if you like, and hope that nobody gets in on the act, effectively, that nobody actually sees how inept Theresa May really is, or actually gets a glimpse of the real Tory programme. As far as I'm aware, and people can correct me in the discussion, as far as I'm aware, the Tory programme is basically strong and stable leadership. Those are the policies they're going to put into play. They're going to have strong leadership, they're going to have stable leadership, so that they can then conduct negotiations to achieve this Brexit where we leave the single market, but also get an even better deal than the single market. It sounds fantastic. She cannot be questioned on that because there's nothing beyond that. This presumably is why she's refusing to debate with anybody else. Personally, I think that's absolutely scandalous. I'll declare a prior interest as a Marxist. I've never had a huge amount of faith in the impartiality and openness of bourgeois democracy, but this is poor even by its own standards. In America you had several debates. In France you've had several debates, but in Britain, the sitting Prime Minister who is hoping for a three-figure majority and may well get it, isn't prepared to debate with other candidates. Again, you can correct me if you disagree on this, but I feel that the treatment of this scandal about the media has been a bit soft, to be honest. Surely they should be making a big deal about this, and yet they're not. I think the reason they're not is because they too are a bit worried about what would happen if they were to put her on the spot. I think she's crumpled. Now, instead, what we've got is a, can't call it a debate, I don't know what you call it, a dual interview, where the two main candidates, Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn, are going to be interviewed and asked questions separately. We'll see how that goes. That could still go wrong for her. But you can see, I would say, the establishment putting up barriers, trying to protect their candidate that they're rallying behind it, even if they don't necessarily agree with everything she says, and I hope that the national interests, the interests of British capitalism, can overall be safeguarded. And as to be said, that part of this campaign, as I've already mentioned, it's not just confined to the media and the various state institutions. There is a section of the Labour Party that's playing the same role. I would say there's a section of the Labour Party which is consciously playing this role. The so-called Blair Rights. Now, I appreciate that the Anatomy of the Labour Party is a bit more complex than just Corbyn Easters and Blair Rights. But there is, I would hope that we can all agree, there is a core of right-wing MPs who consider the eviction of Corbyn from the leadership of the Labour Party to be the most important goal, even including during a general election. I would say in support of this claim that I've seen videos, I've seen a video of John Woodcock MP saying, don't worry guys, Corbyn's not going to be the Prime Minister, but just for the record, I think he is too dangerous to be the Prime Minister. This is a Labour candidate in an election. Now less scandalous than that, there are also plenty of MPs who, I'm told, are campaigning on a purely local, on their own personal basis, if you know what I mean by that. So they're going off saying, I'm a good constituent in CMP, I'll show your views as a representative. Basically not campaigning on the policy points that Corbyn has put forward. Now I would imagine there's probably quite a few Labour MPs, right-wing Labour MPs, that aren't going to campaign on the manifesto that's just been leaked in any form. Instead they're just going to campaign on, ignore him, it's all about us. However, if it all goes the wrong way, I was going to use a different expression, but if it all goes the wrong way and Labour loses very badly, of course it will all be Corbyn's fault, he was poison on the doorstep, so on, so forth, and the media will parrot that with glee. This is something that I think we have to be alive to. There's no aspect of this for us as people who want to see the end of a Tory government. I believe that a Corbyn victory is the only way to secure that at this stage. So to move on to the most pressing question of, well, how is that even possible? How can we make this happen? It's worth first looking at what the lie of the land is so far. So we've had the local elections and what we saw in those, was it was a bad day for Labour, and we saw the Tories picking up many, many council seats, especially from UKIP. Basically, UKIP lost all of its seats but one. It actually managed to win one in Lancashire from Labour, unfortunately. But it went down from about 145 to one council seat, and almost all of that was going to the Conservative Party. And this gives us an impression of the kind of trajectory that we're seeing, that now in many cases this will be four Tory party activists, or four Tory voters to the right, even of that party, who move towards UKIP who are now coming home. But we also have to be alive to the fact, we shouldn't be complacent about this, we need to be alive to the fact that in certain areas, particularly in Labour's northern halflands, as they call them, there will be people who move from Labour to UKIP who are now considering voting Tory for a number of reasons. One, of course, is the question of Brexit, perhaps the manifesto pledge that basically the Labour Party, except an technologies Brexit, may help. But other parts of it are, first of all, the media campaign to make Corbyn out like he is basically a dangerous enemy of the state. I would imagine that's affected the way people think about it. But also there's an element of conscious cover-up, really, of Corbyn's message. I saw one statistic that claimed that only 7% of people had heard his slogan for the many, not the few, 7%. That's clearly not enough to be penetrating into the electorate. But that gives us, I would say, also a glimmer of hope, that the more people, I would argue that the more people who actually hear what Corbyn has to say and hear what policies he's putting forward, the more people are going to be considering voting for him. As long as the media and the Blair Act maintain this chorus in perfect harmony of saying he's unelectable, people don't like him, people think he's dangerous, then that almost becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. The more his policies, which the BBC's Laura Coonsberg's article out today, said that many of the points, most of the points in the manifesto, are popular and polled well consistently. So the more those ideas are getting out to the public and the kind of the real Jeremy Corbyn, if you like, then the more we can expect to swing towards Labour. We shouldn't be deliriously expecting that it's going to be like an immense swing and that you're going to have a huge Labour majority. We do have to be realistic about this. But the predictions of a Labour landslide, I think, have been put forward so forcefully in order to make that a reality. And there's a certain amount of hoping for that to become a reality. A Tory landslide? A Tory landslide, what did I say? Did I say Labour? Sorry. My mistake. I think we can see this or the potential for this within the polling. So already we've seen the last figure I saw, and again if there are more recent figures please do jump in with them. But the last figures I saw showed a Tory majority I think it was either 14 or 16 points. It depends on where you look. Now that is very large and the Tory proportion was about 44 points. One I saw had 46, but before it was up at 48, which means the trajectory for the Tories at this point has been downward and the trajectory for Labour at this point has been upward. It's interesting that what's happened in the meantime is Theresa May has been basically running away from journalists. There was one BBC reporter who could only just manage a picture of her head above a head row as she went diving away from me. He wasn't even allowed to cross the road in order to get a better picture of her. Whilst that's been going on Corbyn has been campaigning and the Corbyn movement is beginning to get mobilised and we've seen more policy ideas coming out. I'm very interested to see what the polling figures are like next week or the next time they do after this leak. I would hope that it would reflect an increase in the proportion of Labour votes or intended votes. We'll have to see how that goes. But if that's the case, I think that should give us hope. Hope that if we get involved, if we campaign vocally for Jeremy Corbyn's ideas, but I mean more importantly and I'll go into more detail on this, for a bold, a revolutionary programme, a big overturn, a great overturn in the way that politics and society is currently run, then actually there could be a very big upset in this election. At the very least, this massive majority that the Tories are looking for could be thwarted. A big disappointment for the Tories here means that the kind of instability that we I'm sure we're all predicting for the next couple of years is still very much on the cards. I'd say that instability is still there, but of course the Tories are going to be much less well equipped to be able to deal with it if they don't have a three-figure majority. First of all, being more vocal and getting the ideas out there alone, I would say can make a dent in the Tories majority. But there's more to it than that and I think we can learn lessons from abroad in this respect. I would say that the kind of phenomenon we're seeing in Britain with the anti-establishment feeling, the move towards different forms of nationalism and chauvinism in great swathes of the population in different forms, and the general kind of rage that we are seeing in politics in Britain are certainly not a unique phenomenon. We can see them in the United States surrounding their election, and we can see them in France as well. And in both of those elections, we can also see them in other countries, but to concentrate there, in both of those elections, yes, we did see right-wing populism and nationalism gaining a much bigger echo than it had before, but we also saw left-wing candidates gaining a much, much bigger echo than they had been done before. So this is, of course, a standout example of this. Now, Bernie Sanders' programme is, if anything, to the right of Corbyn's and the lead manifesto, particularly on foreign policy. But in terms of the spectrum of American politics, he was far, far to the left. And he was coming out calling for a political revolution against the billionaire class. In America, he was talking openly about revolution. Of course, his idea of what a revolution should look like, I imagine, would be different to ours. But he was using this language and it connected, it connected particularly with the youth, and it also connected with a large, large layer of American society that felt completely left behind, disenfranchised and alienated from politics and I would say from capitalism. They may not express it like that, although many of them did, in fact. Even a certain section of Trump voters were looking in his directions, and I heard around the time of the campaign, which I'll repeat here, when Sanders was still in the running for the Democratic primaries, and Trump had already basically won the Republican one. Thousands of people there, big screen, rock music, or the whole shrewd bag, what you'd expect. And on the big screen, you had a footage of Hillary Clinton speaking, and the response from the crowd was vitriol shouting, hissing, screaming, the kind of hatred that Trump supporters showed towards Hillary throughout the whole campaign. And then a clip of Sanders came on. Sanders, of course, running for Democratic primary on a very different programme to Trump. And instead of that, you didn't quite get cheering, but you did have this begrudging silence, this kind of slightly respectful we're not sure what to think about this guy, because you cannot accuse Bernie Sanders of being a Wall Street candidate, or crooked Sanders. Those epithets simply don't make sense.  Working class areas that, again, have felt completely abandoned by data use the language of globalisation, effectively talking about global capital, the deindustrialisation you've had in some areas, and the feeling that the whole of politics and societies run by a completely alien elite that doesn't act in their interests. And the communists, to their shame, have had nothing to say about it for all this time. I mean, there's a running theme in all of these elections, which is the kind of the failure of the cent-elect and the social democracies. And they're paying for it. In France in particular, the Socialist Party was in government. And it's paid for it, and it's austerity programme, having been elected on an anti-austerity programme, is paying for it by having their candidate get smashed in the presidential election. And now, from what I understand, the party itself has split about three ways, if it did well in the legislative elections. We're looking at the besokification, that's hard words to say. The Greek disease, if you like, of the French Socialist Party, and deservedly so. The Communist Party has been impotent throughout its entire proceedings. Meanwhile, the right is building. There's a link between these two things. But the candidacy of Jean-Luc Mélenchon cuts across that, to an extent. Clearly he didn't eliminate the foreign national presidential campaign. But he got 19%, he came within 15% of being in that second round. And I think if he got to that second round, there was a very good chance he could have won it. As it happens actually, if you'd factored, if all the people who voted for the new anti-capitalist party, and I forget the name of the other party, it was the Trotsky's party, who also stood at Candidate, if the roughly 3% of people who voted for those candidates had voted for Mélenchon, he would have got to the second round. That's a contingent factor, but what this shows is that this idea that being establishment left and being a far-left candidate is so unpalatable to the public, you could never do well. It explodes that idea, and I don't think it's just because of French conditions and French history. I think it's something that Corbyn could emulate. And one of the ways he could emulate it is by copying some of the campaign techniques and some of the messages that Mélenchon so successfully deployed. For example, Mélenchon was having huge rallies, not just of a few thousand, but over 100,000 in one case in Paris. And about it was between 70 and 80,000 of memory serves in Marseille. And Marseille happens to be a far national stronghold. It shows that you can go to places, mobilise people, get to your support together. And it's not just the Blairites say, oh, that's just talk, preaching to the converted. You'll never win round the public like that. But mobilising your support, energising them, sending them out into their communities does have an effect. I will say that the Mélenchon campaign and the Sanders campaign both demonstrate that. Mélenchon was even using holograms of himself. I don't know if that was suit Corbyn. It sounds very science fiction, so maybe he should give a go. I don't know. Either way, he was making sure that he got his face out there. That he overcame, if you like, the conscious media blockade of showing anything positive about him by basically doing his own media. And social media can play a role. I'm not one of these people who believe that social media in and of itself changes the way politics works. But I do think that one of the strengths of Corbyn during the leadership campaigns, and I would say potentially during this campaign, election campaign has been that his supporters who tend to be young, very active on social media can get the message out there very quickly and very widely, more so than relying on BBC journalists with whom you have a cozy relationship, because that's not going to happen in Corbyn's case. So these kind of campaigning techniques can help, but also, I'd say more importantly than just the techniques, we don't want this to be a purely technical discussion, is the way that the message was put across in both Sanders and Mélenchon's case. Once again, their campaigns, their policies were actually kind of different. But the way that they were talking, were talking in terms of revolution. Sanders was talking about a political revolution against the billionaire class. Mélenchon was talking about a citizens revolution. Now, you might say that's a bit of a vape. What does that mean? The meaning is different for different people. What we can say is that a large number of French people connected with that word revolution. I don't think they were connecting to the citizens part, but I do think it was the latter part, the revolution part that people were connecting to. I would say that Corbyn has to talk in these terms. I'd say that he's done a good job because campaign launch, he was saying, we don't play by the rules, the establishment are afraid of us. If I were Mike Ashley, I'd want the Tory government. I think that's a good way to begin your campaign. But I think he needs to start using the R word because that is what we need in Britain. And I think there are a great many people who do believe that to be the case. And at the moment, there'll be layers of the population who feel that to be the case and are still unsure as to whether that is what Labour represents. Now, a big part of that is for the reasons I've already explained, no-one attended, but the main message coming through, I would say, is that a fundamental root and branch change of society is needed linked to the policies he's already come out with. I think that that can mobilise even more people in the hundreds of thousands. And of course, if you get that connected to the 500,000 roughly membership of the Labour Party, pulling as much as possible in the same direction, then once again, it would be possible to achieve an upset. There's one point that I wanted to bring up early but I think it's worth bringing up now, which is a bit more of a general question about the role of individuals in history and society. I was meant to bring it up earlier. But when we look at Theresa May and the role that the establishment is playing, I think we see this in action, in living action. Theresa May has been put forward by this strongly decisive leader. That's why everyone should vote for her apparently. That's the portrayal that we're getting universally basically over the meeting. And yet we know the reality to be quite different. We can see by the way she's behaved and the examples I've already given. And the way that she's flip-flopped over so many issues, having campaigned for a main, now being a hard Brexiter, having ruled out a general election, now having slapped up a general election, that doesn't give the impression of strong, decisive leadership. And yet this is the image that's been promoted and it is an image that's been brought by many, many people. And I would say that that's not because of her own personal qualities. It's not really a reflection of her genuine strength and leadership. It's a reflection of the class forces that play. I think it's Marxist would say that ultimately history is made by men and women going about their daily lives, but the determining element is the class struggle, the social weight and social forces at play within society over a given question. And here's an example where basically the ruling class, except for a few kind of fringe elements if you like, enraged elements of the wealthy like Tony Blair, like Gina Miller who were campaigning on the Anything But Brexit programme. We can talk about them a little later. Aside from that basically the whole of the establishment is mobilising all of its social weight behind Theresa May and Billy and all of a sudden, hey presto, she starts appearing much, much stronger than she actually is. We can say however that with the experience of what happened with Trump that that can be cut across. We shouldn't be pessimistic and say whoever the media selects, whoever Murdoch selects can win because in America basically almost all of the media, massive media establishments were against Trump and he still cut through that. Now of course Trump is not the ideal candidate of backing but he was an anti-establishment candidate despite basically being a member of the establishment that managed to cut across the media. It shows it can be done. And Corbyn, the reason I bring up this question of social weight is because Corbyn also has his own social weight. I don't know if you've been looking into that so you've got to provide quite a lot of detail polling. And Corbyn, Corbyn's Labour, has the largest proportion of people under 50. Not just the youth, that's in the kind of the 18 to 30s or however you define youth, 18 to 24s. But anybody under fifth, not anybody. But the majority, the largest share, need to get my words right, the largest share of people under 50 are intending to vote Labour in this election. It's only when you get to the over 65s that Labour's vote share plummets to about 10%. This shows that if you can actually, and of course, I would say that the youth represent the future society, it's a cheesy line, but it is the truth. It shows that there is a social force there is willing to get behind Corbyn. And that if he's able to bring those into the campaign and connect to that, and I think that there are points in the manifesto that certainly have the potential to do that, then he can make a massive impact. And it's something that we should play up on in the campaign. And so in terms of the manifesto, actually there was another point that I wanted to raise about the manifesto, which is that Polly Toinby, I don't know if you're aware of who Polly Toinby is, but she stood for the Social Democratic Party in 83. So the SDP became the Lib Dems. So stood against Labour. And now has a kind of ambiguous, ambivalent relationship with Labour, where she attacks Corbyn one minute, but then she supports Labour. She described the manifesto as a cornucopia of delights. Unironically, I think. I mean, it shows the confusion on Labour right, but they kind of don't really know what to think about Corbyn at times. But it also shows that, that does reflect, I would say, that somebody who has called for Corbyn to step down, a critic of Corbyn, is saying this. I don't think she's just saying this out of party loyalty. I don't think she has a great deal of party loyalty to the Labour party. I think she's saying this because it reflects that there are meaningful policies that actually address the problems of the country. Now, we can talk about the limitations of the programme. It's certainly not a communist manifesto, which I think would be a better programme. But he's calling for the... I don't mean literally the but the communist manifesto. But he's calling for the abolition of zero-hours contracts, which I think we should all get behind. We should support to the hill. He's talking about abolishing employment tribunal fees, something that, when I was working as an employment lawyer, was a issue very close to my heart, and I think it's close to the hearts of many workers who have been oppressed and exploited in the workplace, calling for an increase in trade union representation to actually mobilise for that, and of course the abolition of anti-trade union laws. There are good policies here. It's interesting that many of those policies would be completely run-of-the-mill mainstream social democratic policies in countries like Norway. I'm saying that actually, even in relation to Labour, they're not really that radical. It's to the right of the 83 manifesto. It just shows actually what Labour manifestos have been like for the last 20 years, the ones that we have known that this comes across as so radical. So this is a message that can connect, but it can only connect if it's able to break through the blockade, if you like. And I would say it can only do that if it's done in an extremely bold and clear socialist manner. So on the question of what next, and I'll finish on this. First of all, what can we do? What can we do in the next few weeks to help mobilise for this, well, we've hoped Corbyn victory, but basically to defeat the Tories, to thwart the Tories' plan. Well, the first and most obvious thing that I'm sure you're already thinking of is we should get involved in the campaign to elect Corbyn's Labour. There are many ways you can do that. Joe already mentioned about if you put your name and details on to hear about future meetings, also put your constituency, because that means that when we as a canvas in a given area, which happens to be the same constituency as yours, we can go together, which I think would be a good thing. Also momentum of putting together lots of different ways in which you can get active. They're talking about phone banking, so you don't actually have to go and travel to a marginal seat to make an impact, which I think is a good idea. They're also talking about, it's basically a carpooling system. So if you go on their site, you can look at which marginals need people to go and when it's happening, and you can actually arrange a lift for those people. So there are plenty of opportunities, and there are plenty of opportunities around local constituencies, also an option. Now is the time that we should be getting involved in this activity. Not just making the case for Corbyn, but also explaining socialist ideas. It can be done, and it should be done. Also, another more immediate thing, is as I said, Corbyn has the largest proportion of the youth in support of him. When it comes to students, he has an absolute majority. He has 55% of students polled backing him. We, as young people and students, should be making sure that literally everybody we know is first of all registered to vote, and votes Corbyn. To make sure that that vote as much as possible can be mobilised to make a difference. This is another very simple, concrete way in which we can make a difference. But there's beyond this. Let's talk briefly about after the election. Obviously I'll start with our favoured outcome. I'll be a bit of an unlikely one, because I saw him a Corbyn majority, a Corbyn win, in which case our first priority has to be defending the Corbyn Government and his programme against the inevitable onslaught and sabotage, not just of the establishment in the capitalist class, which believe me would be even more ferocious than what we've seen already, but against a wing of his own party. Personally I believe that Corbyn were to be elected. He would struggle to apply any of the points in his manifesto, because it could section that he wouldn't let him. So we have to think already, we have to think ahead about how we can actually make that programme a reality. I would say that first of all in order to be able to carry out any of the meaningful demands in that manifesto Corbyn would have to take radical revolutionary steps against the capitalist class, against the banks, against the vested interests in order to do things like abolish the royale's contracts or reverse the privatisation of the NHS. It's not just simply a question of getting into power and then saying oh, this is what we want to do. We're talking about, it would effectively be class war in that case, in which case the Labour Party and Corbyn would have to be able to take a revolutionary stand on this. This is something that requires people within the Labour Party, the base of the Labour Party who have a marxist understanding of this question, campaigning, calling for this. Because without that section, without that base of support, then the trajectory of the party will be ever rightward. And then on the question of within the party, as I've already mentioned the Blairites would do everything in their power to including splitting the party and therefore bringing an end to this fugitive Corbyn majority. The only way that we can combat against this is by combating against Blairism and the right wing within the party. I'm not just talking about the MPs, mandatory reselection I think is something well, first of all it should be present in any democratic party structure. But also it's the only way that we can actually get the parliamentary party to correlate also beyond that. The bureaucracy, the machine of the party is totally within the hands of the right wing. Many of the people in this room know this because they've been expelled by just seeing suddenly receiving a letter saying because you sell the social appeal newspaper you're no longer eligible to be a member of the Labour Party. I very much doubt that Corbyn is personally overseeing the expulsion of left-wing activists, I'd be very disappointed if that's the case. I think it's probably people like Ian McNichol and the bureaucracy of the Labour Party. The only way to get away is by a Rootman branch movement to change the Labour Party, to transform the Labour Party. Corbyn has opened the door, but we have to push in through it as much as we can. And I think both of these points in reality apply in the event of a Tory victory. Now I don't think it would actually take all that much in such a huge impossible change in situation to thwart the Tories and either have a kind of status quo situation or worse for them. But really the purpose of this discussion I don't think is to speculate on the exact result. The point is that in the event of a Tory victory, the Blairites again will be calling for Corbyn's head saying of course he lost the election he's unelectable, he has to go, it will be chicken coo too. Now he is apparently he rode back on this so it's a bit ambiguous what he actually is going to do but he said he wouldn't step down. I would say he shouldn't step down. If Corbyn steps down before this kind of transformation of the Labour Party can take place unable to have any other kind of left wing leader ever again probably then that is basically the end of the process. I think it would be a step back for the left and a step back for the working class. It wouldn't be a final defeat of the working class by any means. There are bigger things on the horizon but it's something that we should try as we might to act against. So the same campaign against Blairites in the Labour Party which are the conscious agents of the establishment within the party in my opinion and this pushing for the application and campaigning on a revolutionary socialist basis putting forward the need not just to try and patch up the capitalist system but actually to overthrow it which is actually the only way that many of the good demands in Labour's manifesto can be put into application I would argue. This is the way that we have to act both before during and after the election and on that I think I've spoken more than long enough and I will end. Thank you.


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