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Uniting against the media onslaught on Jeremy Corbyn
We can be proud that Labour is an anti-racist, socialist party led by an anti-racist socialist leader, writes RICHARD BURGON
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THREE years ago this week, Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader in a landslide victory that shook the Establishment. There has been constant press hostility ever since.

Over the summer as Labour colleagues discussed the IHRA definition and examples of anti-semitism, some in the right-wing media even sought to hijack that important discussion for their own political ends.

The right-wing press — no champions of equality and anti-racism — ran wild headlines.

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