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How best to break the silence over Corbyn’s ejection?
ANDREW MURRAY notes the muted response to the symbolic destruction of the left through the defenestration of its iconic recent leader — but advises a fight within the Labour Party itself is now the best way forward
Former Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn joins members of the National Education Union (NEU) on a march through Westminster where they are gathering for rally against the Government's controversial plans for a new law on minimum service levels during strikes
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
JOHN PERRY, BECCA RENK and ROGER D HARRIS offer a corrective to the idea that Latin America still lags far behind the West on women’s rights by looking at the region’s significant feminist gains now stretching back decades
Danni Perry’s flag display at the Royal Opera House sparked 182 performers to sign a solidarity letter that cancelled the Tel Aviv Tosca production, while Leonardo DiCaprio invests in Tel Aviv hotels, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
THE decision by Keir Starmer to block Jeremy Corbyn from standing as a Labour candidate in the next general election poses a significant challenge to Labour’s left — and it is far from clear that the left is rising to meet it.
Starmer’s announcement — for which his authority is unclear — had been long anticipated. That should not, however, diminish the sense of injustice. Removing Corbyn from the Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) was never anything more than an act of political vindictiveness from a man who once described his predecessor as Labour leader as “a friend.”
The ostensible reason for the decision was Corbyn’s response to the publication of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report into anti-semitism in Labour in October 2020.
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