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Fenner Brockway and the continued struggle against imperialism
Liberation will be celebrating one of its most significant founders today at an event with great resonance for the contemporary world. ROGER McKENZIE reports
Fenner Brockway in later years, pictured at a Labour Party conference, and (right) King George V takes part in a tiger shoot
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THIS evening former leader of the Labour Party and our co-president Jeremy Corbyn, will deliver the inaugural annual Liberation Fenner Brockway lecture.
The lecture, like so many other things, delayed from last year because the Covid-19 pandemic, gives Liberation an opportunity to celebrate perhaps our most significant founder, but also to argue for a British foreign policy that puts people first rather than the interests of capitalism.
There is no more appropriate person to deliver the lecture about one of the key driving forces behind the setting up of the then Movement for Colonial Freedom than Jeremy Corbyn. Both shared a fierce commitment to socialism as a solution capitalism and imperialism.
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