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Category: Jeremy Corbyn

  • Corbyn: ‘I love my job and I want to carry on’

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    https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/corbyn-i-love-my-job-and-i-want-to-carry-on

    MP wins backing of local Labour Party in Islington North ahead of the next general election

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    Jeremy Corbyn MP, former leader of the Labour Party

    JEREMY Corbyn has told the local Labour Party in Islington North that he wants to “carry on” with his job as the area’s MP.

    With the party blocking him from standing again, members of the constituency Labour ­Party almost unanimously passed a motion calling for them to have the democratic right to select their own candidate for the next general election.

    Ninety-eight per cent voted in favour of the motion, with 60 voting in support and one member abstaining. No one spoke against the motion.

    Mr Corbyn himself attended the meeting, which he is allowed to despite having the party’s parliamentary whip removed by leader Sir Keir Starmer. The party’s National Executive Committee in March approved its own motion, brought by Mr Starmer, barring Mr Corbyn from standing for Labour again.

    Mr Corbyn, however, thanked members for their support and told them: “I love my job and I want to carry on doing it.”

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    https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/corbyn-i-love-my-job-and-i-want-to-carry-on

  • Corbyn leads calls for ‘immediate release’ of Assange on World Press Freedom Day

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    Jeremy Corbyn MP, former leader of the Labour Party

    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/corbyn-leads-calls-immediate-release-assange-world-press-freedom-day

    JEREMY CORBYN led calls today [Wednesday] for the immediate release of imprisoned WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on World Press Freedom Day.

    The former Labour leader highlighted how Mr Assange has spent four years in maximum security prison Belmarsh for exposing the truth.

    He said: “We cannot stand by and let governments silence those who seek to expose the truth.

    “Today, let’s defend free and democratic journalism everywhere.”

    In 2010, Mr Assange published US government records on WikiLeaks that revealed its military committed war crimes against civilians in Afghanistan and Iraq, including the killing of two Reuters journalists.

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/corbyn-leads-calls-immediate-release-assange-world-press-freedom-day

  • BBC issues correction after saying Corbyn refused to apologise on antisemitism

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    Jeremy Corbyn MP, former leader of the Labour Party

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/antisemitism-bbc-correction-corbyn-refused-apology

    Clarification published over false Newsnight claim following ban on former leader running as Labour candidate

    The BBC has published a correction after a news item last month falsely claimed that former UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn had not apologised over antisemitism in the party. 

    The clarification referred to an episode of the flagship current affairs programme Newsnight on 28 March, following the decision by Labour’s executive committee to ban Corbyn from standing as a candidate in the next election. 

    The programme referenced Corbyn’s alleged “refusal to offer up any kind of apology” over accusations of antisemitism in the party under his watch. 

    It also questioned whether the former leader would refuse to apologise “as he has all the way up to now”, if the issue of antisemitism arose in an election campaign. 

    “To be clear, Mr Corbyn apologised for antisemitism in Labour on a number of occasions as Party Leader, including ahead of a meeting with Jewish community leaders in April 2018,” the BBC said on Thursday, in an entry on its “Corrections and Clarifications” page. 

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    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/antisemitism-bbc-correction-corbyn-refused-apology

  • Jeremy Corbyn: Labour should be defending democracy, not debasing it

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    Jeremy Corbyn MP, former leader of the Labour Party

    https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/jeremy-corbyn-labour-should-be-defending-democracy-not-debasing-it

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    When I became Leader, I was proud to be part of a movement that gave its members a voice, fought for a politics of redistribution and anti-imperialism, and mobilised a new generation of voters to believe that a better world was possible.

    The decision to block my candidacy is an insult to the millions of people who voted for our Party in 2017 and 2019, and to all those who voted for his leadership on the basis that he would “defend [the] radical values” we put forward.

    Keir Starmer has abandoned his pledges to defend trade unions, bring key industries into public ownership, reverse NHS privatisation, raise corporation tax, protect free movement and abolish tuition fees. Solidarity is now saved for CEOs, not striking workers. Trust is placed in corporate interests, not party members.

    Human rights issues are cherry picked at the expense of a consistently ethical foreign policy. And empathy for desperate refugees is eschewed to appease the right-wing press.

    As the government plunges millions into hardship, Keir Starmer has decided to attack the democratic foundations of his own party and the principles he once proclaimed to support.

    However, just because the Labour leader has abandoned his faith in a better world doesn’t mean the rest of the labour movement should follow. There is huge demand for a more hopeful alternative: decent pay rises, democratic public ownership, housing for all, a wealth tax to save our NHS, and a humane immigration system grounded in dignity, empathy and care.

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    https://www.islingtontribune.co.uk/article/jeremy-corbyn-labour-should-be-defending-democracy-not-debasing-it

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    Continuing from what I said yesterday, if you have 2 pretend opponents – Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer – who both represent the class interests of the rich and powerful then it doesn’t really matter which one wins or loses because the rich and powerful win regardless. That’s certainly my perspective and approach to Sunk and Starmer and it’s also why Corbyn’s progress was destroyed by the rich and powerful.

    The Tories are so unpopular that it’s for Starmer to lose and he seems to be going for that outcome with nasty, ridiculous attack ads against Sunak.

    ‘Stand by every word’: Keir Starmer defends attack ad on Rishi Sunak

    Keir Starmer has said he will “make absolutely zero apologies for being blunt” in an article published after a row over a widely criticised Labour attack advert on child sexual assaults.

    In a veiled message to critics within his own party, the Labour leader said he will “stand by every word Labour has said on this subject” and would continue to use the Conservatives’ record on crime as a legitimate criticism “no matter how squeamish it might make some feel”.

    The advert, which drew criticism from both left and right, used a picture of Rishi Sunak and said he “does not believe adults convicted of sexually assaulting children should go to prison” and pointed to the Conservative record on offenders avoiding jail.

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    ‘Stand by every word’: Keir Starmer defends attack ad on Rishi Sunak