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Britain’s Labour Party Takes a Hard Left Turn
With Jeremy Corbyn Elected as New Leader, Britain’s Labour Party Takes a Hard Left Turn
By STEPHEN CASTLESEPT. 12, 2015
Among those supporting the new leader was Sean Maher, a telecom executive from London, who said he had lost interest in the party during the 1990s because of the policies pursued by Mr. Blair, whom he likened to a Conservative.
“What’s the point of winning elections by being Conservative?” he said. By contrast, Mr. Corbyn, “offers a great deal of hope, and it has been a long time coming.”
“What’s the point of winning elections by being Conservative?” he said. By contrast, Mr. Corbyn, “offers a great deal of hope, and it has been a long time coming.”
LONDON — After three decades as a political outsider and clarion of the left, Jeremy Corbyn on Saturday won the leadership of Britain’s opposition Labour Party with an emphatic victory and a program that includes expanding the economy, scrapping nuclear missiles and dismantling the centrist policies of his predecessors, including former Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Mr. Corbyn, 66, won the Labour leadership overwhelmingly with the backing of thousands of newly recruited supporters, and in doing so delivered one of the biggest upsets in modern British politics.
His success underlines the extent to which European political structures have been destabilized by the aftershocks of the financial crisis in 2008, with voters increasingly attracted away from the political center ground, either to the socialist left or the nationalist right ...
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Solidarity
Karl Marx admirer Corbyn rides socialist wave to lead Britain's Labour Party
"We challenge the narrative that only the individual matters, and the collective is irrelevant," Corbyn said at his last campaign rally on Thursday, drawing cheers from a crowd crammed into every corner of a former church in north London.
"Instead we say the common good is the aspiration of all of us," said the anti-war campaigner, who is an admirer of "Communist Manifesto" author Karl Marx and Hugo Chavez, the late Venezuelan leader who delighted in berating the United States.
Often dressed in the style of a university lecturer -- complete with several pens visible in his shirt pocket -- Corbyn has promised to renationalize privately-owned industries, print money to fund large-scale infrastructure investment, and raise taxes on businesses and the rich...
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/12/us-britain-politics-labour-corbyn-insigh-idUSKCN0RC0EZ20150912"Instead we say the common good is the aspiration of all of us," said the anti-war campaigner, who is an admirer of "Communist Manifesto" author Karl Marx and Hugo Chavez, the late Venezuelan leader who delighted in berating the United States.
Often dressed in the style of a university lecturer -- complete with several pens visible in his shirt pocket -- Corbyn has promised to renationalize privately-owned industries, print money to fund large-scale infrastructure investment, and raise taxes on businesses and the rich...
