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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed
Corbyn has been an activist for peace and fairness most of his working life. So have I but that doesn't make me 'hard left'. I spent years canvassing and being a member of the Lib Dems. I jumped ship but I wouldn't do that lightly because I'm a centrist and regardless of what your imbecilic Black Tops and Murdoch paint, Corbyn's Labour party is a centrist party.
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You're ignoring his pre-leadership history. Saying he was always on the far left of the party is not a tabloid smear - it is a matter of historical record.
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Throughout his pre-leadership parliamentary career Corbyn was a member of the Socialist Campaign Group, a hard-left group of MPs that split with the soft-left Tribune Group in 1982. It is important to note the context. Labour’s ‘right’ had already left and formed the centrist Social Democratic Party in response to the election of the left-wing Michael Foot as Labour’s leader. Corbyn and his associates actually rebelled against Foot’s leadership from the left, most notably when Tony Benn challenged Dennis Healey for the Deputy Leadership.
On a variety of issues Corbyn was well to the left of the leadership and has always held Bennite-socialist,*not*social democratic, views. In addition to campaigning to leave the EEC in 1975, Corbyn opposed the expulsion of the Trotskyite*Militant Tendency*from Labour and supported the Miner’s Strike of 1984-5. From 1982, he contributed to the*Morning Star, which has consistently had an editorial in line with the programme of the Communist Party of Great Britain. As recently as 2015, Corbyn*referred*to the paper as “the most precious and only voice we have in the daily media”.
https://www.adamsmith.org/blog/no-co...3Fformat%3Damp
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