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The Corbyn leadership campaign: from novelty candidate to juggernaut
We should be in no doubt that ‘Corbynmania’ is the result of blowback from the static wretchedness of Labour policies and decisions over the past two decades, writes JOHN ELLISON
The new TUC Cymru general secretary speaks to Morning Star Wales reporter David Nicholson about her trade union background and ambitions for the movement
The Claudia Sheinbaum government is no pushover and is holding firm despite US abuses of the relationship, says DAVID RABY
As we approach the grim anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, SIMON BARROW sounds the alarm over the dangerous and murderous direction our government is heading
The new PM may offer more of the same, but early signs on his housing policies look promising, says GLYNN ROBBINS
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Burnham’s U-turn on tackling greedy landlords has let the country down
DURING the first weeks which followed Jeremy Corbyn’s electrifying arrival on June 15 as a shortlisted contender for the leadership of the Labour Party (acquiring one MP nomination more than the 35 minimum) he was treated by the weightier press as no more than a novelty candidate.
The “three main candidates,” in the view of the Guardian’s veteran commentator Polly Toynbee — who favours “centrism” flavoured with social compassion — on June 23, were Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper (ministers during Gordon Brown’s premiership) and, joining them as shadow ministers under Ed Miliband’s leadership, Liz Kendall.
Corbyn, never a minister, always a troublemaker, according to this perspective, could not be expected to be taken seriously by prospective voters. The bookmakers agreed.
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