![]() ![]() On the contrary Corbyn had a record of working with many of us in opposing all Labour’s imperialist adventures and wars, had always stood as the expression of sanity against nuclear weapons and against NATO and had a known record for a determined solidarity with the Palestinians. ![]() His election campaign also reactivated many socialists who over the years had skirted round or totally abandoned the Labour Party and who were necessarily constantly engaged in fighting against New Labour policies – the greatest anger of all being directed to Blair’s allegiance to Bush’s war. His election had been aided by the widening of the franchise and he had appealed to many of the young who had never been even vaguely attracted to any of Labour’s stale established positions but who had been galvanised by his politics. He was a man known to, and respected by, many on the left and was an outsider, a man with no leadership ambitions. Three years ago we were part of an explosive upsurge, when a stale party, historically social democratic but which had been totally invaded and reconstructed by the body snatchers in the Blair/Mandelson years, was shaken to its core by the victory for Labour leadership by Jeremy Corbyn. LEFT WING MELANCHOLIA – MARXISM, HISTORY AND MEMORY.īy Enzo Traverso, pub. ![]()
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