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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.
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
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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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