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Category: Jeremy Corbyn

  • Easter message

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    UK Extinction Rebellion’s ‘The Big One‘ starts on 21 April.

    There has been less activism over recent years which is often attributed to lockdown. I wonder whether it’s more to do with Corbyn i.e. it’s almost as if all those people who were supporting Corbyn and pursuing a better World have learned learned helplessness. It’s great that so many people supported Corbyn proving that there is a real demand for Socialism in UK. Please appreciate that it’s more than any one person and it’s more than one attempt – if you believe in something do it until you win.

    And so we are back to the normal situation in UK – that we have a Tory as leader of the Labour Party so that Socialists ideals and policies are denied expression. It’s worse that that really – since the ruling class got scared shitless that we could have a Socialist government Starmer has done his bestest to kill the left forever and Socialists in the Labour Party are taking it.

    Fight until you win.

  • Corbyn slams ban from standing again as part of broader assault on democracy

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    Jeremy Corbyn MP, former leader of the Labour Party

    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/corbyn-slams-ban-from-standing-again-part-broader-assault-democracy

    LABOUR’S internal war intensified today as former leader Jeremy Corbyn tied the party’s unprecedented decision to ban him from standing again to a broader assault on democratic rights.

    At the same time his successor Sir Keir Starmer insisted on LBC radio that he had never supported or been friends with Mr Corbyn, whom he described as a “friend” when running for the leadership.

    The Islington North MP, who was banned two weeks ago from being a Labour candidate in Islington North at the next election by the national executive committee (NEC), penned a piece in the Islington Tribune condemning the “insult to the millions of people who voted for our party in 2017 and 2019” as well as to those who supported Sir Keir’s leadership bid on the basis he would, as he claimed, maintain Mr Corbyn’s radical policies.

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    https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/corbyn-slams-ban-from-standing-again-part-broader-assault-democracy

  • What to do?

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    The Morning Star has an article discussing how the left should respond to Starmer. One comment: The next general election is expected in 17 months or so, I suggest that it’s the sooner the better if there is to be a party challenge to Starmer’s.

  • Starmer’s war on the Labour left is class war

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    dizzy: An article discussing how Starmer is the other cheek on the Capitalist arse ;) I have no idea how such actions would be received, I hope that Corbyn seriously considers defecting to the Green Party.

    Starmer’s war on the Labour left is class war

    LABOUR’S national executive (NEC) is due to consider a motion in Keir Starmer’s name on Tuesday confirming that Jeremy Corbyn will not be endorsed as a candidate for the party at the next election.

    Nobody will be surprised at this long-trailed development.

    From Corbyn’s first, unjustifiable, suspension from the party in autumn 2020 and Starmer’s subsequent refusal to restore the whip once his membership status was reaffirmed by the NEC, the left has responded hesitantly and incoherently.

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    It is impossible — as union leaders frequently point out — to address the the crisis in the NHS, the rigged energy market or the causes of disputes from mail to rail without looking at the longer-term causes in privatisation, marketisation and outsourcing.

    Corbyn is being exorcised for having demonstrated how popular these solutions are.

    If our movement is serious about changing this country and the rotten deal it forces on workers, Starmer’s attacks on Corbyn are not an unfortunate aside. They are part of the class war being waged against us.

    Starmer’s war on the Labour left is class war

  • Breaking: new Labour Files episode sees Forde respond to Labour racism

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    Republished from the Skwawkbox for non-Commercial use.

    The Al Jazeera ‘Labour Files’ documentary series exposed afresh the rampant racism and war on democracy of the Labour right, both to sabotage the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn and to purge the left from the party under Keir Starmer.

    Now a new episode sees Martin Forde – the barrister Starmer reluctantly commissioned to investigate the report’s allegations and whose findings have been ignored by the Labour right and their media allies ever since – respond to the programme’s evidence and conclusions:

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    The Labour Files – The Forde Response I Al Jazeera Investigations

    Republished from the Skwawkbox for non-Commercial use.