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Jeremy Corbyn has a long and honourable record of opposing fascism, racism and anti-semitism
KEITH FLETT recalls how the Labour leader played an active part in organising against and resisting the National Front in the late ’70s
Jeremy Corbyn speaks during an event to mark the 70th anniversary of the Hiroshima bomb, in Tavistock Square, London in 2015

WE have heard a lot from some in recent days about how Jeremy Corbyn overlooks anti-semitism or excuses it. 

Yet when one looks at many of those making such points there appears to be an absence of actual active opposition to those who both hold such views in Britain and act on them.

That is not something that can be said about Corbyn.

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