Cable Street shows us we have to tackle racism head on JEREMY CORBYN on the lessons of the day the East End beat the Blackshirts The Battle of Cable Street has a deep personal significance to me, as I learned all about this historic event on 4 October 1936 from my mother, who was there …
We have a duty to the reach out the hand of humanity to the Rohingya By Jeremy Corbyn MP The suffering of refugees throughout history has been among the most cruel and persistent evils of humanity. In the world today 65 million people are refugees or internally displaced, the largest number in recorded history. The …
Refugee Lives Matter. We must step our campaigning in defence of refugees and against right-wing scapegoating writes Jeremy Corbyn. The global and ongoing refugee crisis has been back in the headlines in recent weeks, because of tragic scenes of the fire in a refugee camp in Moria, Lesbos. But refugees have also been the focus …
Parliament resumed last week and an unusual summer break, is now behind us.Caution, and ongoing Covid-19 restrictions are continuing everywhere including of course in the Houses of Parliament. Dissenting voices among government ranks are complaining about the lack of parliamentary scrutiny of lockdown rules. Between towns and regions there are also intermittent variations on these …
The past few weeks have not been at all typical of summer months in years gone by. The country is experiencing record high temperatures, and Covid-19 pandemic lockdown restrictions continue to dominate our lives. Solutions to the pandemic are slow in the making and in the absence of a vaccine, or a massive shift in …
Nuclear Weapons Cannot Solve the Crises of Our Time It’s time to step up our campaigning for peace and disarmament writes Jeremy Corbyn MP. On Hiroshima Day each August we remember the anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which indiscriminately killed over 100,000 civilians and military personnel. Still today, many survivors live …
