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Director Ken Loach (left) poses with actors Hayley Squires (centre) and Daniel Johns (left) from his film I, Daniel Blake at the British Independent Film Awards, at Old Billingsgate Market, London in 2016
FILM director Ken Loach is calling on the Labour Party not to give in to pressure from the right and “betray Palestinians” in a futile bid to appease Jeremy Corbyn’s enemies.
Speaking exclusively to the Morning Star, the legendary director of Kes, Cathy Come Home and I, Daniel Blake warned that adopting a set of examples attached to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of anti-semitism would not satisfy critics whose real goal was to smother the party’s socialist revival.
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe