#Corbyn: unless progressives break w/ “failed economic and political establishment” the far right will fill the gaphttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/dec/03/corbyn-far-right-are-parasites-feeding-on-peoples-concerns?CMP=fb_gu …
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“Merrick’s failure to cite any of Corbyn’s policies that she actually disagrees with, coupled with the highly publicised manner in which she decided to dramatically enter and now exit from the party has ... led to many people questioning her true motives”https://evolvepolitics.com/journalist-who-left-labour-due-to-antisemitism-only-joined-party-in-2016-to-vote-against-corbyn/ …
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“The British Labour leader’s relatively bright fortunes contrast with his peer parties’ electoral decline ... Corbyn’s U.K. tactics are now attracting the attention of other center-left parties across Europe”https://www.politico.eu/article/jeremy-corbyn-labour-left-left-look-to-corbyn/ …
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Bart Cammaerts of
@MediaLSE: “when it comes to the coverage of Corbyn in his role as leader of the opposition, the majority of the press did not act as a critical watchdog of the powers that be, but rather more often as an antagonistic attackdog.”https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-media-bias-labour-mainstream-press-lse-study-misrepresentation-we-cant-ignore-bias-a7144381.html …Show this thread -
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@AsaWinstanley: “Lansman’s JLM appearance fits into a key goal of the lobby groups that work in close association with the Israeli government to embrace ‘soft critics’ of Israel as a way to drive a wedge into the Palestine solidarity movement & the left”https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/asa-winstanley/labours-jon-lansman-capitulating-israel-lobby …Show this thread -
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@patrickkmaguire: “It isn’t the Corbyn of Westminster that will win them back Tory seats like Mansfield, they say – but the Corbyn of the road. ... The devotion to Corbyn at the grassroots is as much personal as it is political” https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2018/08/jeremy-corbyn-s-two-universes …pic.twitter.com/bCFbkNua86
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@apdmurray, chief of staff at@unitetheunion and an adviser to@jeremycorbyn, writes that a series of recent events indicates secret state political chicanery over the possibility of an anti-war government https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2018/09/deep-state-trying-undermine-corbyn …pic.twitter.com/tDppqaJd7l
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Jeremy Corbyn rally on eve of Labour Party conference in Liverpool: "Above all, we mobilize people ... into the kind of society we can live in rather than the kind of society we are told to live in"https://youtu.be/WgxwvW66qyM
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@jeremycorbyn talking to@yanisvaroufakis: "governments that are trying to adopt a social justice path will always be attacked by those that want to preserve their wealth be it in tax heavens or within their own society"https://youtu.be/cLLoSzNn6xgShow this thread -
Leo Panitch of
@yorkuniversity discusses with@aaronjmate the@UKLabour's bold proposals for what it calls the “greatest extension of economic democratic rights that Britain has ever seen”https://therealnews.com/stories/uk-labour-alarms-elites-with-plan-to-democratize-workplace-public-ownership …Show this thread -
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@marydejevsky: “A new chapter is beginning for the Labour leader, in part because the country at large – including sections of the elite – is more open to radical change”https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/jeremy-corbyn-labour-party-conference-general-election-theresa-may-conservative-a8558371.html …Show this thread -
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@garyyounge: “Just over three years after Jeremy Corbyn won Labour’s leadership election, our understanding of the role a party can play in political life has been reimagined.”https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/oct/13/labour-jeremy-corbyn-british-politics-tories …Show this thread -
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@davidgraeber's interesting observation on Labour under Corbyn: "The institutional Left actually understands that you don't want to co-opt, you don't want to simply absorb, the extra-parliamentary left." https://youtu.be/v7s-dn9P33k?t=588 …pic.twitter.com/8BTfder3N1
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