Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn: US Dems Must Challenge Power & Change A Broken System

[portlander23]

Labour MP Jeremy Corbyn: US Dems Must ‘Challenge Power’ & ‘Change A Broken System’
MintPress News

Responding to Obama’s comments and the overall concept of “Corbynization,” a spokesperson for the Labour leader suggested Democrats should embrace a more liberal platform, rather than pursue compromise with Republicans.

“Both Labour and U.S. Democrats will have to challenge power if they are going to speak for working people and change a broken system that isn’t delivering for the majority,” the spokesperson told The Guardian on Dec. 27

Rather than “Corbynization,” British politics may have suffered from “Americanization” in recent years, as neoliberal initiatives, such as increased privatization of public services and cuts to the social safety net, have become increasingly commonplace. Corbyn’s leadership, by contrast, is widely seen as a rejection of neoliberalism in Britain.

Although Sanders was defeated in the 2016 presidential primaries, analysts like Diane Abbott, a member of Parliament from the Labour Party, suggest that the continued popularity of Sanders and Corbyn represents an ongoing need for progressive, anti-corporate voices in the political arena.

“It would be a mistake for the party establishment on both sides of the Atlantic to dismiss this insurgency, and think that things can return to how they were,” Abbott wrote in The Guardian in August.

[JCMach1]

1. Seriously Corbyn...? glass houses and all that

[lunasun]

2. MinTNews blames it on America because the UK never voted in someone named Thatcher..I think that is

where the UK privatization started getting a boost....
Thanks for the axel rod /Obama exit interview included in the link

[nycbos]

3. Forgive me...

... before I take advise from a terrorist supporting anti-semite.


He has called Hamas and Hezbollah agents of “long-term peace and social justice and political justice in the whole region,” and once invited to Parliament a Palestinian Islamist, Raed Salah, who has suggested Jews were absent from the World Trade Center on 9/11. Corbyn called him an “honored citizen.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/08/opinion/an-anti-semitism-of-the-left.html?_r=1

Anti-semsitsm is a cause that unites the Far-Left and the Far-Right.


There is also this from The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/13/jeremy-corbyn-labour-leadership-foreign-policy-antisemitism

[LeftishBrit]

5. All leaders have invited and mixed with extremists...

Look at the way they all rub shoulders with the rulers of Saudi Arabia.

Blair was very palsy-walsy with Gaddafi, who was hardly the number one fan of Jews.

I don't think Corbyn is himself an anti-Semite, though he's been weak in opposing anti-Semitism, as in much else.

[LeftishBrit]

4. Jeremy Corbyn needs to get his own and his party's act together about opposing our Brexit nightmare

before he lectures the opposition party in another country.

Sorry, I agree with him on some of these issues, but he's not been very effective at all, especially on opposing this self-destructive measure of Brexit.

Unfortunately, we don't have many others who are being very effective. Perhaps you could loan us Bernie Sanders?

[T_i_B]

6. How about Corbyn starts challenging the Tories for once?

The man has been a complete disaster as leader of the opposition and is totally failing to hold an increasingly extreme Tory government to account.

The question of where to stand on a theoretical spectrum is not the problem. You need to get the basic stuff right first.