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This is JeremyCorbyn through the decades - one of UKLabour's most rebellious MPs whose views have remained largely unchanged in 30 years:

LINK - 2 mins 19 secs of interview clips from 1990 to the present.

The Labour Party leader is one of the most rebellious MPs in the party's history, voting against the Labour whip more than 600 times.

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The Guardian has spent the last two years relentlessly attacking Jeremy Corbyn. Only recently has it changed its tune, perhaps worried that it has alienated too many readers. Corbyn's success has been despite the Guardian and the rest of the corporate media.

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MacCruiskeen » Mon Jun 12, 2017 11:53 am wrote:Can't embed this short film-compilation, but it's well worth two minutes of anyone's time (and 100x more instructive than any number of Guardian or WaPo columns)

Harvey » Thu Aug 11, 2016 7:04 pm wrote:You're gonna enjoy this inspired rant.

AhabsOtherLeg » Fri Jun 09, 2017 1:27 am wrote:Hope that Gnostic Heresy is still around somewhere. Reviewing my last post after many long months of absence I found it short-sighted and needlessly tribal, as well as shitely written. We can all be a bit of a bawjaws at times.

AhabsOtherLeg » Fri Jun 09, 2017 1:27 am wrote:And then watch as the UK gets the Venezuela treatment (international disinvestment, unavoidable sanctions, universal derision, pariah status, open economic warfare against it's interests by it's nominal allies, and no toilet paper to wipe your arse on).

This seems to be the inevitable fate of all states who try to sail to the left. Well, fair enough. Let's be having it. Bring it on. It'll be largely indistinguishable from the effects of Brexit anyway, lol.

MacCruiskeen » Wed Jun 28, 2017 12:07 pm wrote:An actual real letter to the Telegraph:


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gnosticheresy_2 » Sat Jun 24, 2017 7:04 am wrote:Yep, if he wins the next election outright he won't be just up against the UK establishment but everyone else's establishment as well.

Rory » Wed Aug 17, 2016 12:32 pm wrote:http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2016/08/why-jeremy-corbyns-disdain-pop-culture-so-disrespectful

The Staggers
17 August 2016
By Julia Rampen

Why Jeremy Corbyn's disdain for pop culture is so disrespectful

It's OK not to know about celebrities. But they do matter.

The sharks circling around Corbyn scent blood

26 March 2018

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2018 ... ent-blood/

After a short reprieve following Jeremy Corbyn’s unexpected success in Britain’s general election last year, when he only narrowly lost the popular vote, most of the Labour parliamentary party are back, determined to bring him down. And once again, they are being joined by the corporate media in full battle cry.

Last week, Corbyn was a Soviet spy. This week we’re in more familiar territory, even if it has a new twist: Corbyn is not only a friend to anti-semites, it seems, but now he has been outed as a closet one himself.

In short, the Blairites in the parliamentary party are stepping up their game. Corbyn’s social justice agenda, his repudiation of neoconservative wars of aggression masquerading as “humanitarianism” – lining the coffers of the west’s military-industrial elites – is a genuine threat to those who run our societies from the shadows.

The knife of choice for the Labour backstabbers this time is ...

https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2018 ... ent-blood/

Jeremy Corbyn’s Nazi Death Cult
by CJ HOPKINS

So it appears the British are our last best hope of stemming the blood-dimmed Putin-Nazi tide that has shaken the foundations of Western democracy since Hillary Clinton lost the election. The neoliberal Resistance in the United States, led by the intelligence agencies, the Democratic Party, and the corporate media, fights on, but it’s a losing battle. Despite their control of most of the media, most members of the US Congress, and the military industrial complex, they are just no match for the fearsome power of Vladimir Putin’s international army of Nazi-brainwashing specialists and the evil genius of Donald Trump. All is not lost by any means — there is still the chance that the CIA might stage a coup, or a heart attack — but for now it seems that the ruling classes (and the millions of Americans who identify with them) are lying low and biding their time like Camembert-slurping surrender monkeys.

Thus, once again, it’s up to the Brits to save democracy from annihilation. They’re doing a bang up job of it so far. Just look at how they’ve responded to the so-called “Labour Anti-Semitism Crisis,” which exploded just a few short weeks ago. No sooner had members of the neoliberal Blairite wing of the Labour Party dug up a six-year-old Facebook post in which Jeremy Corbyn had the gall to wonder why a mural depicting a group of bankers (some of them sporting rather large schnozzes) needed to be removed from view, did the British ruling classes spring into action. Clearly, this 2012 Facebook post was proof that the Corbyn-led Labour Party had been infiltrated by a Nazi Death Cult bent on brainwashing gullible leftists into “failing to recognize Anti-Semitism,” using unwords like “Zionist,” and inappropriately criticizing Israel. The public needed to be alerted immediately, so the media started pumping out stories repeating the words “Corbyn” and “Anti-Semitism,” over and over, in a variety of contexts. At this point, there have been literally hundreds of them.

The conservative press has been entirely predictable, running headlines like “Jeremy Corbyn’s Hate Factory,” “Once in the shadows, anti-Semitism is now entrenched at the poisoned heart of the Labour Party,” “Theresa May slams Jeremy Corbyn for letting anti-Semitism, misogyny and hatred run free in Labour,” and so on. But it’s the liberal media that are doing the heavy lifting. The Independent warned the world that “Labour’s antisemitic cancer shows the party for what it has become — a cult of keyboard warriors and raging Corbynistas.” Michael Segalov, writing in The Guardian, put potential Corbyn-apologists on notice: “If you can’t see antisemitism, it’s time to open your eyes.” Owen Jones has been conducting a virtual one-man anti-anti-Semitism crusade, reminding the public on an hourly basis that “the poison of anti-Semitism” exists, and “the left has to get its house in order,” and otherwise reinforcing the connection of Corbyn with anti-Semitism.

Which, of course, is the purpose of this manufactured “crisis,” i.e., to associate Jeremy Corbyn with anti-Semitism in the public consciousness. The content of all these impassioned articles (whether attacking or defending Corbyn) is, if not irrelevant, secondary. Their primary aim is to generate the “crisis,” and then position Corbyn in the middle of it.

Here’s a quick lesson on how that works.

Say, for example, we wanted to simulate a “Racism Crisis” in Hollywood and smear a certain producer with it. This should be easy enough to do, as there is plenty of racism in Hollywood to work with (just as there is plenty of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, and in most other major political parties). And let’s say we want to kick off this “crisis” by citing some “inappropriate response” by some well-known producer to a Facebook post about a movie featuring a Magical Negro, that loveable, mystical African American who exists to serve the white protagonist, a familiar stock character in American cinema. OK, so we go dig up that post, in which our target “fails to recognize the racist nature” of the Magical Negro depicted in whichever movie we choose, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Shining, The Matrix, or whatever, and we demand a full confession and apology. Next, we go digging for any other comments, posts, tweets, quotes, or hearsay that we can easily construe as “glaring proof” of our target’s racism. At the same time (and this is absolutely crucial), we go digging among our target’s current and former associates, and their associates, and any random Facebook groups our target has ever carelessly joined, and tweets our target has ever carelessly “liked,” and anything else we can possibly link to him, until we can claim to have firmly established that Hollywood is experiencing a “Racism Crisis,” and that a “cancer of Racism” is running rampant through the Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild West. Then we get our associates in the corporate media to make an incredibly big stink out of it, and argue “both sides” of the “crisis” we’ve just generated. Half the media can attack our target as a racist or a racism enabler. The other half can do the Owen Jones schtick, repeatedly confessing that, yes, indeed, Hollywood has a racism problem, a corrosive, longstanding racism problem, which has suddenly grown to crisis proportions and … I think you get the general idea.

This is just an example, of course. Because, clearly, there’s no Racism Crisis in Hollywood, or, rather, the global capitalist ruling classes have no reason to generate one. They do, however, have a reason to generate an Anti-Semitism Crisis and use it to demonize Jeremy Corbyn, and anyone else they deem an enemy.

As I’ve been tracking for going on two years now, the global capitalist ruling classes are putting down a nationalist insurgency … the populist backlash against global capitalism that led to the Brexit, the election of Trump, and the rise of nationalist parties in Europe. They are conducting this counter-insurgency against an assortment of forces on both the left and the right. Ideology makes no difference to capitalism, which can accommodate pretty much any ideology as long as it doesn’t interfere with the market. Hard as it is to get our minds around, what we’ve been living through since 2016 is not a battle between left and right. It’s a battle over sovereignty. Since the end of the Cold War, global capitalism has been dissolving national sovereignty and replacing it with supra-national sovereignty … corporate supra-national sovereignty. A lot of people, on both the left and the right, are not real happy with how that is going and are resisting the only way they know how to, by reasserting their national sovereignty. The global capitalist ruling classes cannot allow this rebellion to continue, not when it leads to events like the Brexit, the election of Trump, and the destabilization of the entire Western neoliberal order.

Which brings us back to the Putin-Nazis and the War on Dissent that the global capitalist ruling classes are currently waging against any and all resistance to their brave, new global capitalist world. Because they are unable to characterize the nature of this conflict as what it is, they need a convincing “official enemy” to scare the living Bejesus out of people. This is where the Putin-Nazis come in.

For the last two years, as you’ve probably noticed, the corporate media have been not so subtly alternating between manufacturing Russia hysteria and Nazi hysteria, and sometimes whipping up both at once. Thus, I’ve dubbed the new Official Enemy of Freedom “the Putin-Nazis.” They don’t really make any sense, rationally, but let’s not get all hung up on that. Official enemies don’t have to make sense. The important thing is, they’re coming to get us, and to kill the Jews and destroy democracy … and something about Stalin, if memory serves. Putin is their leader, of course. Trump is his diabolical puppet. Julian Assange is … well, Goebbels, or something. Glenn Greenwald is also on the payroll, as are countless “useful idiots” like myself, whose job it is to sow division, discord, racism, anti-Semitism, anti-capitalism, anti-Hillaryism, collusion rejectionism, ontological skepticism, and any other horrible thing you can think of.

Where does Corbyn fit into all this? Well, obviously, he’s been quietly building his extreme-left Putin-Nazi Death Cult in the shadows of British politics for years. If the Blairites hadn’t tracked down that telltale comment in his six-year-old Facebook post, who knows what horrors he and his legions of cultists might have unleashed on Britain.

Luckily, we won’t have to find that out, because the ruling classes and the corporate media are united against the Putin-Nazi threat. They shall not flag. They shall go on to the end. They shall fight these devils in the streets and the fields, and on the hills, and on the seas and oceans. They shall defend global capitalism, whatever the cost, no matter who they have to smear as an anti-Semite or a Russian agent. They shall smear them on television and on the Internet. They shall smear them in their “respectable” papers, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its corporate power and might, steps forth to the liberation of the old …

Oh, gosh, here I am, over my word limit, and I got all wrapped up in that Churchill parody and completely forgot to virtuously signal my steadfast opposition to anti-Semitism … but then I’ve never been very good at responding to emotionally manipulative Pavlovian stimuli. I’ll have to work a little harder on that.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/04/06 ... eath-cult/

Which, of course, is the purpose of this manufactured “crisis,” i.e., to associate Jeremy Corbyn with anti-Semitism in the public consciousness. The content of all these impassioned articles (whether attacking or defending Corbyn) is, if not irrelevant, secondary. Their primary aim is to generate the “crisis,” and then position Corbyn in the middle of it.

Here’s a quick lesson on how that works.

Say, for example, we wanted to simulate a “Racism Crisis” in Hollywood and smear a certain producer with it. This should be easy enough to do, as there is plenty of racism in Hollywood to work with (just as there is plenty of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party, and in most other major political parties). And let’s say we want to kick off this “crisis” by citing some “inappropriate response” by some well-known producer to a Facebook post about a movie featuring a Magical Negro, that loveable, mystical African American who exists to serve the white protagonist, a familiar stock character in American cinema. OK, so we go dig up that post, in which our target “fails to recognize the racist nature” of the Magical Negro depicted in whichever movie we choose, Forrest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption, The Green Mile, The Shining, The Matrix, or whatever, and we demand a full confession and apology. Next, we go digging for any other comments, posts, tweets, quotes, or hearsay that we can easily construe as “glaring proof” of our target’s racism. At the same time (and this is absolutely crucial), we go digging among our target’s current and former associates, and their associates, and any random Facebook groups our target has ever carelessly joined, and tweets our target has ever carelessly “liked,” and anything else we can possibly link to him, until we can claim to have firmly established that Hollywood is experiencing a “Racism Crisis,” and that a “cancer of Racism” is running rampant through the Screen Actors Guild and Writers Guild West. Then we get our associates in the corporate media to make an incredibly big stink out of it, and argue “both sides” of the “crisis” we’ve just generated. Half the media can attack our target as a racist or a racism enabler. The other half can do the Owen Jones schtick, repeatedly confessing that, yes, indeed, Hollywood has a racism problem, a corrosive, longstanding racism problem, which has suddenly grown to crisis proportions and … I think you get the general idea.

This is just an example, of course. Because, clearly, there’s no Racism Crisis in Hollywood, or, rather, the global capitalist ruling classes have no reason to generate one. They do, however, have a reason to generate an Anti-Semitism Crisis and use it to demonize Jeremy Corbyn, and anyone else they deem an enemy.

The neoliberal Resistance in the United States, led by the intelligence agencies, the Democratic Party, and the corporate media, fights on, but it’s a losing battle. Despite their control of most of the media, most members of the US Congress, and the military industrial complex, they are just no match for the fearsome power of Vladimir Putin’s international army of Nazi-brainwashing specialists and the evil genius of Donald Trump.

Only one week after Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader, a serving general of the Army warned of a direct and public challenge if a future Prime Minister Corbyn jeopardised the country’s security: "The army wouldn’t stand for it... people would use whatever means possible, fair or foul to prevent that."

The idea of a military coup against an elected Prime Minister Corbyn may seem fanciful. Yet, fifty years ago this week, this almost happened to Harold Wilson, a prime minister regarded by many as Left-wing and anti-establishment, who had also been accused of consorting with communist spies.

On May 8, 1968, Earl Mountbatten of Burma hosted an extraordinary meeting at his London home in Kinnerton Street, Belgravia. The attendees were Cecil King, Chairman of the International Publishing Corporation, which owned the Daily Mirror; its editor, Hugh Cudlipp; and at Mountbatten’s invitation, his long standing friend, Sir Solly Zuckerman, the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser.

Astonishingly, the-68-year-old Mountbatten was invited by King to head up a government of national emergency, whereby certain members of the armed forces, businessmen and other City figures would take over and replace the unpopular and mistrusted Wilson and his cabinet. So could history repeat itself under a Jeremy Corbyn premiership?

First, things would need to get pretty bad. Certainly, should investor confidence collapse, the economy unravel, and unemployment rise, then an unpopular leader intent on ruling out Trident, ambiguous on Nato, and implementing a defence diversification "swords into ploughshares" policy would no doubt raise eyebrows with the Armed Forces.

A post-Brexit Conservative opposition in disarray, or at worst irrevocably split and leaderless, would not help.

But we would then need to assume that the scenario included Security Services reorganisation, abolition of private schools and, for good measure, a republican-inspired referendum on the monarchy’s abolition. Then, perhaps, one could envisage mess room rumblings soon over spilling into a planned movement against the government.

The circumstances in 1968 involved widespread disillusionment with Wilson’s socialist government. King, who was also a director of the Bank of England, claimed a second sterling devaluation leading to economic collapse was imminent. In the ensuing crisis, the army would be deployed "with machine guns at street corners" to prevent major social breakdown and bloodshed.

Furthermore, Wilson was seen by many in the establishment as a Leftist opportunist, while others accused him of collusion with the Soviets and working for the KGB. A switch to the Conservatives was discounted – the opposition leader Edward Heath was as unpopular in his party as he was in the country. Moreover, Heath was seen as too pro-Europe –anathema to many pro America opinion formers. Therefore, urgent action was required and King appealed to the PR-minded Mountbatten to lead a new administration and restore public confidence.

For any modern day coup to work against a radical Labour prime minister, a comparable, charismatic figurehead would also be required. Even assuming a plausible unelected leader was found (Daniel Craig? Miranda Richardson?), would they really want to challenge Corbyn’s 1.4 million Facebook followers with a depleted army of less than 80,000 soldiers?

In 1968, talk amongst some army officers was that Wilson would be held at the Tower of London, with the Shetland Islands designated an internment camp for up to 5,000 Left-wing and trade union detainees. A lack of social media and mobile phones makes such a round-up easy.

Were tanks to arrive now outside the BBC and Channel 4 News, however, one imagines the beleaguered PM would emulate President Erdogan of Turkey, who, when faced with his own coup in 2016, communicated via WhatsApp, tweeted his nine million followers and rallied supporters on FaceTime using his iPhone.

Fifty years ago, one cannot be sure if King’s offer tempted Mountbatten. Sir Solly Zuckerman saved the day – and possibly the nation – by storming out of the meeting, stating: "this is rank treachery…I am a public servant and will have nothing to do with it. Nor should you, Dickie." Mountbatten concurred and King and Cudlipp were swiftly shown the door.

The so-called military coup of 1968 faded and failed and was blamed on a "pretty loony crew" motivated by "loose talk from gin-sodden generals". However, King’s apocalyptic vision of Britain’s economic breakdown did not occur - democracy was allowed to run its course.

Should Prime Minister Corbyn implement radical policies with dire economic consequences, while at the same time attempting to reconstitute the British state, who knows what may go through the minds of a new generation of more sober minded generals? Even if it failed, as seems likely, the result would be to sow terrible division in our country.

It might pay a future Prime Minister Corbyn to know how to keep the Facebook, Twitter and WhatsApp infrastructure switched on, while checking building applications for large scale camping grounds in under-populated Scottish Islands.

Well, they've managed to get pretty far with this bullshit. Tom fucking Watson is a rat.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... ism-crisis

Labour’s deputy leader, Tom Watson, challenged Jeremy Corbyn directly on Sunday to address what he called “a crisis for the soul of the Labour party” or risk many more defections to the Independent Group.

In a forthright interview on The Andrew Marr Show, Watson urged Corbyn to take personal leadership of efforts to tackle antisemitism in his party and to reach out to MPs from the social democratic tradition.

“My message to our Labour party, to our half million members, is – ‘look, I know we’re in a crisis. The departure of our colleagues is a real blow to us, and we need to understand why they felt they need to go, because if we’re going to be in government, we need to address those concerns’,” he said.

I mean WHAT CONCERNS? Where does this shit originate from? Does Labour also have an "anti-muslim" problem? I mean what the fuck.