Patronise Jeremy Corbyn at your peril – he can win
It was probably inevitable that as soon as Jeremy Corbyn succeeded in making it onto the ballot for the Labour leadership contest, a frog’s chorus of swivel eyed Tories and Blairites would unleash a...
View ArticleJeremy Corbyn is not leading a campaign he is leading a movement
For far too long we have been accustomed to a political culture shorn of compassion, decency, and solidarity. We’re all familiar with the script: a leader, or prospective leader, is someone who isn’t...
View ArticleCorbyn is the antidote to Scottish independence
Scotland has been the glaring and conspicuous omission in the predictions of doom and disaster being offered by a parade of New Labour voices in the event that Jeremy Corbyn ‘dares’ win the Labour...
View ArticleBritish Jews slam McCarthyite smear campaign against Corbyn
Morning Star DOZENS of Jewish campaigners sent an open letter to the Jewish Chronicle yesterday blasting the paper’s “McCarthyite” smear campaign against Labour leadership favourite Jeremy Corbyn. The...
View ArticleIt’s Corbyn!
Labour leadership election result: Andy Burnham – 19%. Yvette Cooper – 17% Liz Kendall – 4.5% Jeremy Corbyn – 59.5% Total votes cast: 422,664 The post It’s Corbyn! appeared on Socialist Unity.
View ArticleCorbyn’s mandate being openly and flagrantly opposed inside his own shadow...
More people have joined Labour since Jeremy Corbyn was elected the leader of the party than are in the Lib Dems. This amounts to 62,000 new members, adding to the thousands who joined or registered as...
View ArticleCorbyn’s first conference as leader proves Labour has entered a new chapter
The first Labour Party conference under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership has to be considered a resounding success. In fact considering the circumstances in which it took place Corbyn and his shadow...
View ArticleCorbyn’s decision to allow a free vote
There is simply no word to describe the decision by Jeremy Corbyn to allow Labour MPs a free vote on bombing Syria other than disastrous. He had a massive mandate for imposing a whipped vote, and in so...
View ArticleComrade Corbyn – book review
It was only a matter of time before a biography of Jeremy Corbyn would surface. After all, his spectacular rise from relative backbench obscurity to leader of the opposition over the summer of 2015 was...
View ArticleSadiq Khan’s election as London Mayor is a boost for the campaign to oust Corbyn
Sadiq Khan’s election as Mayor of London is symbolically significant and important for obvious reasons; even more so considering the Islamphobic smear campaign prepared and unleashed against him,...
View ArticleThe delusions of the anti-Corbyn plotters
On Thursday 23rd June the unexpected triumph of the Leave campaign can only be read as a rebuke to the authority of the political class. Certainly racism and anti-immigrant prejudice informed many...
View ArticleGMB officially endorses Owen Smith in Labour leadership contest
I wonder to what extent Corbyn’s position on Trident has had on this result, which at 60-40 counts as an emphatic endorsement of Owen Smith?...
View ArticleUnite shop stewards urge members to back Owen Smith
In a letter to Unite members, 29 trade union officials are urging a vote for Owen Smith in the upcoming Labour leadership election. The letter reads: Britain needs a Labour Government to defend jobs,...
View ArticleWhen the Corbyn bubble bursts
The second Labour Party leadership contest in a year has resulted in another Jeremy Corbyn landslide in advance of the party’s annual conference in Liverpool. It means now that the bubble within which...
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