WE ARE living in worrying yet hopeful times. The left has made so much progress in the last three years, it’s remarkable. We are at an important crossroads in history and in British society. But we have to stay focused and united​.

There are various things being put about on social media and the mainstream media to derail us. We must see them for what they are: attempts to undermine the socialist project. Activists on Twitter are having fake accounts set up in their names. Things are taking a dark turn in many ways.

There are also the usual smears being bandied about: for example David Aaronovitch saying Red Action carried out the Warrington bomb in 1993 instead of the IRA. Guess who allegedly had close links with them? Of course, Jeremy Corbyn. The media are using anything they can to portray Corbyn and in turn, the rest of us, as bad and dangerous. It’s an old trick and most of us get it.