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Stand With Corbyn
MATT WILLGRESS says now is the time to unite against Tory austerity, at the launch of a new campaign
Now is the time for a unified fight back from the left - and we must all resist the attempts of our enemies to divide us

WE HAVE seen a wave of attacks on Jeremy Corbyn and his leadership team in recent weeks, ranging from Blairite elements within the Labour Party such as Peter Mandelson, through to the Tory media, through to leaks from civil servants and even attacks from Mike Pompeo of the Trump administration.

As I have written in the Morning Star before, the simple reason for this is that the political and economic Establishment know that, with the Tories in crisis, the possibility of a Jeremy Corbyn-led, genuinely transformation government is a real possibility.

As Richard Burgon has said: “The recent smear against Corbyn in the Times is an important reminder of what we are up against — and why we must remain united as we approach power.”

Please also find details of the upcoming accompanying meetings in the national tour of the same name below — please note the tour is run on an entirely voluntary basis, and we are therefore trying as hard as we can to ensure all local requests for meetings are acted upon.

To this end, we are currently working on events in Oxford, Sheffield, Brent, Wolverhampton, Wimbledon, Chingford, Oldham, Camden, Portsmouth, Plymouth and elsewhere between now and the end of October — more details to come in your Morning Star!

As Jeremy Corbyn said this week, “We need a general election. After nine years of austerity, too many people in this country cannot find decent secure well-paid work and have to rely on public services that have been severely cut back [and] that is why we need a Labour government to end austerity and rebuild our country for the many, not the few.”

Let’s unite and make it happen.

Matt Willgress is the National Co-ordinator of the Labour Assembly Against Austerity.

You can sign the ‘Stand with Corbyn — unite to end Tory austerity’ statement at bit.ly/
standwithcorbynstatement

Forthcoming events in the tour of the same name are as follows:

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