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‘A great event in parliamentary history to honour a very remarkable MP’
The Morning Star reprints an account of the event to mark Corbyn’s 30th anniversary of being an MP, from Wednesday September 4 2013, by then parliamentary correspondent ROGER BAGLEY
Jeremy Corbyn at a surprise event held by the Speaker of the House of Commons to honour a 'very remarkable MP' on the 30th anniversary of his election, 2013
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
CAMPAIGNING left MP and scourge of the Establishment, Morning Star columnist Jeremy Corbyn was hoodwinked into a spectacular secret rendezvous on Monday night.
Commons Speaker John Bercow was at the centre of the plot to lure Mr Corbyn into a surprise celebration of his 30 years as MP for Islington North.
When Mr Corbyn arrived inside the Speaker’s Commons house for “a meeting,” he was suddenly greeted by 150 applauding peace and human rights activists, trade unionists and fellow MPs.
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