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The Media Is Biased Against Jeremy Corbyn – but Does That Even Matter in This Election?
On 11 April 1992, Murdoch-owned redtop newspaper The Sun ran with the headline ‘It’s the Sun Wot Won It’, proudly proclaiming to have handed a general election victory to Conservative John Major, to the detriment of ‘evil’ left-winger Neil Kinnock. However, a few years later, scientific research found ‘no support’ for this bullish claim. Continue reading
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Trump targets Corbyn in UK election intervention
US President Donald Trump intervened at the start of Britain’s snap general election campaign Thursday to publicly attack Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, warning that a Corbyn premiership would take the UK into “bad places.” Continue reading
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European Union delays Brexit extension decision as Corbyn tries to avoid general election By Robert Stevens
Boris Johnson, right, and Jeremy Corbyn walk through the Commons Members Lobby in Parliament, London [Source: AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, pool] Continue reading
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UK: Factional warfare in Corbyn leadership after McDonnell allies with Blairites over Brexit By Chris Marsden
The Sunday Times describes McDonnell as Labour’s “leader in all but name,” having “assumed control of the party amid claims that Jeremy Corbyn is preparing to step down.” This includes being “in daily charge of the Labour operation as the party moves to an election footing,” launching “his own policy platform” and drawing up “a… Continue reading
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Corbyn holds pro-Remain party discussions over leading “caretaker” administration or stepping aside to allow “government of national unity”
Labour’s Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell yesterday publicly opposed plans for a “government of national unity” and insisted on Jeremy Corbyn’s right to head a “caretaker government” to prevent a no-deal Brexit. Continue reading
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Factional warfare over Brexit dominates Labour Party conference
A series of opportunist manoeuvres by party leader Jeremy Corbyn have failed to stop the descent of Labour’s annual conference into bitter conflict over its policy on Brexit. Continue reading
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Corbyn tries to unite Labour Party to solve Brexit crisis for ruling class By Thomas Scripps
At least 81 motions have been submitted by local branches calling on the party to pledge itself to campaign for the UK’s continued membership of the European Union (EU). Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson and Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer have repeatedly declared in the last weeks that “Labour is the party of remain” and… Continue reading
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Brexit reveals Corbyn to be the true moderate By Jonathan Cook
If there is an upside to Brexit, it is this: it has made it increasingly hard to present Jeremy Corbyn, contrary to everything the corporate media has been telling us for the past four years, as anything but a political moderate. In truth, he is one of the few moderates left in British – or… Continue reading
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Corbyn addresses Trades Union Congress in a display of cynicism and hypocrisy By Richard Tyler
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn addressed the assembled union functionaries at the annual Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Brighton Tuesday in a vain attempt to boost his left credentials among workers. He did so, however, under conditions in which he has capitulated time and again to the Remain agenda of his party’s right-wing Blairites. Continue reading
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The Financial Times lays down the law to Labour’s Corbyn By Thomas Scripp
After running a series of articles under the general title “The Corbyn Revolution,” analyzing Jeremy Corbyn’s programme for a Labour government, the Financial Times (FT) has delivered its verdict. Continue reading
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Corbyn makes his pitch to head a “caretaker government” to stop no-deal Brexit By Chris Marsden
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn yesterday submitted a letter to opposition party leaders and backbench pro-Remain rebels offering to lead the struggle to oppose a no-deal Brexit. Continue reading
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UK: Johnson government considers post-Brexit snap election, while Labour’s Blairites plot “national unity” government By Chris Marsden
12 August 2019 — WSWS Plans by Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government to force through a no-deal Brexit threaten to embroil the UK in a major constitutional crisis. Continue reading
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Norman Finkelstein on Corbyn and ‘anti-semitism’ in the Labour Party
Jewish academic and son of Holocaust survivors analyses the Labour Party anti-semitism scandal and its implications for the upcoming American elections Continue reading
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Blair’s number two, Alastair Campbell, reveals how Corbyn tried to keep him in the Labour Party By Robert Stevens
Alastair Campbell, one of the key figures in Tony Blair’s 1997 Labour government, announced this week he no longer wants to be a member of the party. The sentiment among most Labour Party members was “Good riddance to bad rubbish.” Continue reading
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Jeremy Corbyn and the coming to power of Boris Johnson
Johnson heads the most right-wing government in British history, dedicated to a “no deal” exit from the European Union that will have a devastating impact on jobs, wages and working conditions. An old Etonian who cannot conceal his contempt for the “lower orders,” he is despised by millions of British workers. Yet he has now… Continue reading
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Tory councillor calls for Jeremy Corbyn to be hanged as bogus anti-Semitism campaign intensifies By Robert Stevens
On Wednesday, as Boris Johnson became prime minister, a Lincolnshire Conservative councillor, Roger Patterson, tweeted that Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn was a “traitor” and supporter of terrorism who should be “swinging from the gallows like Saddam Hussein.” Continue reading
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Labour’s Necrotising Fasciitis A response to the BBC’s Panorama “Is Labour Antisemitic?” By W Stephen Gilbert
In the long history of party politics, coordinated and systematic attacks on one political party are always initiated and perpetuated by a rival party or parties. Not least of the ways in which the increasingly murderous row about alleged anti-Semitism in the Labour Party is unprecedented is that, although it was quietly seeded by Lynton… Continue reading
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The Campaign To Stop Corbyn – Smears, Racism And Censorship
The greatest fear of those holding the most power and wealth is that they will lose their exalted position in the world. They will resist any changes to the grossly unequal and unjust class structure that causes grievous damage to so many people; and to the planet itself. Even the threat of real change must be crushed.… Continue reading
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The Labour Right Would Prefer a Johnson Government to a Corbyn One. It’s Time to Replace Them by Aaron Bastani
This was the week when the British establishment, from right to centre, effectively conceded they would prefer a Boris Johnson premiership to a Jeremy Corbyn one. This includes the Labour establishment, of course, the highlight being an advert in the Guardian taken out by 64 Labour Lords criticising the party’s leadership. Continue reading
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