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Lammy postures, but Haringey remembers the real Corbyn
The current MP for Tottenham might want to ‘distance’ himself from Corbyn’s socialist politics now, but his constituents haven’t forgotten the day the young councillor took the fight to the National Front in 1977, writes KEITH FLETT
Corbyn played a key role in the “Battle of Wood Green” on April 23 1977, one of the landmark battles which grappled with the rise of the fascist National Front, eventually successfully. On that Saturday afternoon the fascists planned to march down a bustling multi-racial shopping street with the aim of stirring up division and hate.
Corbyn was the organiser of the counter-demonstration.
BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
JEREMY CORBYN’S Haringey years have led to lasting respect in the area.
I last saw Corbyn in person just before the first lockdown in early March 2020 when he delivered the 20th anniversary Bernie Grant lecture at the Bernie Grant Centre in Tottenham.
His speech that day ranged across issues from anti-racism, the history of slavery and the rise of Black Sections in the Labour Party.
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