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The Corbyn leadership campaign: from novelty candidate to juggernaut
We should be in no doubt that ‘Corbynmania’ is the result of blowback from the static wretchedness of Labour policies and decisions over the past two decades, writes JOHN ELLISON
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
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A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
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DURING the first weeks which followed Jeremy Corbyn’s electrifying arrival on June 15 as a shortlisted contender for the leadership of the Labour Party (acquiring one MP nomination more than the 35 minimum) he was treated by the weightier press as no more than a novelty candidate.
The “three main candidates,” in the view of the Guardian’s veteran commentator Polly Toynbee — who favours “centrism” flavoured with social compassion — on June 23, were Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper (ministers during Gordon Brown’s premiership) and, joining them as shadow ministers under Ed Miliband’s leadership, Liz Kendall.
Corbyn, never a minister, always a troublemaker, according to this perspective, could not be expected to be taken seriously by prospective voters. The bookmakers agreed.
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