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Jeremy Corbyn: This Labour government has failed. People want real transformative politics – we will give it to them

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Jeremy Corbyn MP, former leader of the Labour Party

dizzy: I’ve only quoited small parts of this article. Recommended.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/29/jeremy-corbyn-labour-failed-politics-new-party

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Only a truly democratic party can provide the space for the policies that are needed to transform society. Up and down the country, there is huge appetite for an economic reset. One that brings water, energy, rail and mail into public ownership. One that invests in welfare, not warfare. One that ends this government’s complicity in genocide and brings about justice for the Palestinian people. One that makes the wealthiest in society pay a bit more in tax to ensure that everyone can live in dignity.

This is the political vision that can inspire hope, not fear. The great dividers want you to think that migrants and minorities are responsible for the problems in our society. They’re not. Those problems are caused by a rigged economic system that protects the interests of billionaires and corporations. By scapegoating migrants and minorities for its own domestic failures, Labour has paved the path for Reform UK. This Labour government is here to appease Reform. We are here to defeat Reform. We are at a critical juncture, and we need an alternative, now.

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Think of what we could achieve together.

The future we deserve is no pipe dream. Look around you, and you will find proof that a better world is possible. We are not fighting for crumbs. We are fighting for real change – and we are never, ever going away.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/29/jeremy-corbyn-labour-failed-politics-new-party

dizzy: I need to spend time on other projects for the next few years. We need left bloggers and social media activists. It’s a hard slog to get established but go for the long term. Teams of 10 or more would be ideal because you could share the work, maybe concentrate on your own area of interest. Suggest that you change passwords regularly and drop and replace people who don’t pull their weight. In a few years, ready for the next election, you should be kicking and taking on number 10’s influence and influencers reported in this article.

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Zarah Sultana restates ‘We are all Palestine Action’ in parliament

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https://www.thenational.scot/news/25319307.zarah-sultana-restates-we-palestine-action-parliament

Independent MP Zarah Sultana speaking in the Commons on Wednesday (Image: ParliamentLive)

AN MP has added the words “We are all Palestine Action” back onto the official parliamentary record after allegations of censorship.

On July 2, before the protest group Palestine Action were formally designated a terrorist organisation by the Labour Government, MP Zarah Sultana had spoken against the proscription in the Commons.

Video of her contribution showed the now-independent MP saying: “I oppose the blood-soaked hands of this Government trying to silence us. So I say this loudly and proudly on Wednesday 2 July 2025: We are all Palestine Action.”

READ MORE: Brian Leishman loses Labour whip amid ‘clear out’ of rebel MPs

Hansard, the official record of all statements in the UK Parliament, initially recorded that, before being cut off, Sultana had said: “So I say this loudly and proudly on Wednesday 2 July 2025: We are all Palestine –”.

It was later edited to report that Sultana had said: “So I say this loudly and proudly on Wednesday 2 July 2025 –”.

See the original article for more.

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Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: With the world in crisis, many say end globalisation. I say that would be a mistake

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This article is recommended https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/10/world-crisis-end-globalisation-mistake-lula-da-silva

Leaders from the five nations gather for the Brics Summit 2025 in Rio de Janeiro, 6 July. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

The year 2025 should be a time of celebration, marking eight decades of the United Nations’ existence. But it risks going down in history as the year when the international order built since 1945 collapsed.

The cracks had long been visible. Since the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the intervention in Libya and the war in Ukraine, some permanent members of the security council have trivialised the illegal use of force. The failure to act vis-a-vis the genocide in Gaza represents a denial of the most basic values of humanity. The inability to overcome differences is fuelling a new escalation of violence in the Middle East, the latest chapter of which includes the attack on Iran.

The law of the strongest also threatens the multilateral trading system. Sweeping tariffs disrupt value chains and push the global economy into a spiral of high prices and stagnation. The World Trade Organization has been hollowed out, and no one remembers the Doha development round.

The 2008 financial collapse exposed the failure of neoliberal globalisation, but the world remained locked into the austerity playbook. The choice to bail out the ultra-wealthy and major corporations at the expense of ordinary citizens and small businesses has deepened inequality. In the past 10 years, the $33.9tn (£25tn) accumulated by the world’s richest 1% is equivalent to 22 times the resources needed to eradicate global poverty, according to a report by Oxfam.

The stranglehold on the state’s capacity for action has led to public distrust in institutions. Discontent has become fertile ground for extremist narratives that threaten democracy and promote hate as a political project.

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There is an urgent need to recommit to diplomacy and rebuild the foundations of true multilateralism – one capable of answering the outcry of a humanity fearful for its future. Only then can we stop passively watching the rise of inequality, the senselessness of war and the destruction of our own planet.

  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the president of Brazil

This article is recommended https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/10/world-crisis-end-globalisation-mistake-lula-da-silva

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McCluskey warns Labour could lose trade union support to new party

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https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mccluskey-warns-labour-could-lose-trade-union-support-new-party

 Len McCluskey talks on stage during a live debate, at the Labour Live event at White Hart Lane Recreation Ground, north London, June 16, 2019

LABOUR could lose trade union support to a new party of the left, former union leader Len McCluskey has warned.

Mr McCluskey, general secretary of Unite the union from 2011 to 2021, told GB News that the new party called for by independent MPs Zarah Sultana and Jeremy Corbyn could prove attractive to disillusioned trade unionists.

“If this new party demonstrates it’s credible, then trade unions will consider their affiliations,” he said.

“If the new party proves credible, then I will join it, I will campaign for it and I will urge individuals and trade unions to give their support.

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Article continues at https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mccluskey-warns-labour-could-lose-trade-union-support-new-party

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