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Corbyn’s speech: We need a democratic, anti-austerity, reformed European Union
This is the text of Jeremy Corbyn’s speech to the Senate House in London this morning
The people of this country face a historic choice on 23 June whether to remain part of the European Union, or to leave. I welcome the fact that that decision is now in the hands of the British people. Indeed, I voted to support a referendum in the last Parliament.
The move to hold this referendum may have been more about managing divisions in the Conservative party. But it is now a crucial democratic opportunity for people to have their say on our country’s future, and the future of our continent as a whole. Continue reading
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Jeremy Corbyn’s new year message
Jeremy says was elected on a mandate for change and we have defeated the government on working tax credits, on cuts to the police service and on running prisons in Saudi Arabia. But we have to challenge them much more on cuts to local government and lack of investment in the economy and the needs of our people.
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Jeremy Corbyn welcomes Unite’s endorsement
It is a great honour to receive Unite’s nomination for the Labour leadership, and it underlines that this a serious campaign that has growing momentum.
The leadership election is about one issue above others: whether we accept another five more years of a race to the bottom based on cuts that destroy services and damage living standards, or whether we invest our way to growth and fairness.
I thank Unite for this backing, not just for myself but for all those people who have already committed time and effort to my campaign. Continue reading
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For Labour to succeed it must get real
The Labour Party was founded by the trade unions and later developed into a federal structure of local constituency parties, trades and Labour councils, and socialist societies. The link with the trade unions has always been under attack, either legislatively by successive Tory governments, or by the right wing of the Labour Party.
As we move into a period of post-election examination of the reasons for Labour’s loss — despite having had five years of austerity under the coalition government — there are those who think the way back for Labour is to move further from the centre ground, and that the election campaign was too “left wing.”
Ed Miliband tried very hard and certainly presented a very convincing argument on zero-hours contracts, rights at work, the Health and Social Care Act as well as abolishing the non-dom status on taxation. Continue reading
