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The National
a day ago
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- The National
Independent MPs table amendment to scrap welfare bill
The Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill, which is due to be debated by MPs next month, would change the eligibility criteria for the Personal Independence Payment (PIP) disability benefit in a bid to save £5 billion a year by the end of the decade. If passed, the changes would make it harder for people with disabilities to claim benefits, and the UK Government's own analysis has found that the cuts would push 250,000 people into poverty, including 50,000 children. On Thursday, the Independent Alliance – which consists of Corbyn, Shockat Adam, Adnan Hussain, Ayoub Khan and Iqbal Mohamed – tabled an amendment to decline a second reading of the Universal Credit and Personal Independence Payment Bill, on the grounds that it "fails to provide a fair and compassionate approach to reforming disability benefits", Independent MP Jeremy Corbyn (Image: PA) The amendment also states that the bill "does not include measures that have been developed together with people with disabilities and carers, or informed by robust evidence and consultation". It adds that the bill 'has not been designed to uphold the dignity, independence and security of people who rely on the welfare system.' READ MORE: 'A weak man': John Swinney tears into Anas Sarwar after leadership jibe Alongside the Independent Alliance, the amendment has also gained the support of Zarah Sultana MP, who was suspended from Keir Starmer's party last July after voting to scrap the two-child benefit cap. Commenting on the amendment, Corbyn said the UK Government's "attack on disabled people" is "disgusting and disgraceful". He added: "MPs should think long and hard about the dreadful consequences these cuts will have. 'MPs must decide: did you become an MP so you could to push thousands of disabled people into poverty?' It comes amid reports that Labour MPs are set to be blacklisted for Government jobs if they fail to back the welfare cuts. The National reported how rebels face the prospect of having the party whip suspended if they vote against the plans, while those considering abstaining have been warned they will not be considered for promotion.
New Statesman
4 days ago
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- New Statesman
A new force is stirring on the left
Photo byWe live at a time of extraordinary change: from the postwar liberal international order, dominated by the US, into something whose contours are not yet clear, and may never be. From a world where economic growth was a year-in, year-out near-guarantee, to one where climate instability, resource conflicts and nature crises threaten the very foundations of that growth. And, here in Britain, from one where a rock-solid two-party system dominated all questions of national political leadership, to something far more open. This is a time of new forces in politics. The beneficiaries of this change, so far, have been the radical right. Reform's local election results were a bolt from above. Councils that had been Labour strongholds for decades, rotting away from below, were finally knocked over. In the end, it has been Reform and the right, not the left outside Labour, that delivered the fatal blows. And yet that left has, so far, failed to respond. After its most extraordinary general election results since universal suffrage, with millions of votes, and four Green MPs and five left independents returned to Parliament, the past 12 months have been drift. The Greens have most obviously failed to capitalise, treading water in the polls and failing to recruit. The independent left twirls endlessly around the question of Jeremy Corbyn and his leadership – nearly a decade after Corbyn won his first Labour Party election. However, in launching his leadership bid for the Greens, Zack Polanski has demonstrated his grasp of the first rule in politics: knowing when to seize the initiative. In pledging 'eco-populism', he has made a bold claim to the form of politics our chaotic times demand. Starmer in office implicitly accepts those new constraints. This is the real meaning of the Spending Review: that Labour has accepted the harder economic realities we live with but cannot seriously address them. They have chosen to fund social spending to the barest minimum – Boris Johnson increased public spending by more – instead driving up military expenditure to the highest levels since the Cold War, and to concentrate some limited funds on infrastructure investment, matched to a forthcoming industrial strategy. We have not seen a government like this before. It will work electorally if, and only if, growth convincingly returns. Yet Labour appear to have no clue as to how unlikely this is. Only this week, the World Bank revised its forecasts for global growth downwards, in the face of continuing uncertainty – even ahead of Israel's military escalation. Domestically, Labour's concentration of spending on long-run capital investment will do the party few favours: Joe Biden did the same thing, on vastly bigger scale, investing in new infrastructure across the United States. It did nothing for the Democrats electorally since it confers few immediate benefits for most people. All Donald Trump had to do was ask if voters felt better off after four years of Biden, and of course the great majority did not. Nigel Farage will only have to repeat the same trick in 2029. Labour's strategists are aware of their weakness. They believe, instead, that they can frame the next election as a straight Reform v Labour contest, and thus frighten voters back into supporting the party. This is both dangerous, and stupid. Dangerous, because for this to work, Reform has to look like a serious threat; which means in practice Reform will be setting the agenda whilst Labour scrabble about to tag along. Witness the farrago over nationalising British Steel. And it is stupid because when Labour has failed to deliver in office and then offers the merest whisp of difference with Reform on key issues, principally migration, its voters will not turn out. Who could honestly blame them? Starmer's Labour is deeply unappealing. The local election results were a glimpse of one possible near-future. For too many voters Gaza is a moral stain on Keir Starmer that he cannot wash away, just as Iraq has been for Tony Blair. It already cost Labour dearly in 2024, and it will continue to do so in the future. But it is not only the moral offence of Labour's complicity – as powerful as this is. It is the party leadership's response to the ending of the postwar world, dramatically signalled by both JD Vance's Munich Security Conference tirade and Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariff assault, that will very directly impact on living standards here – in the short-sighted half-deal on tariffs, with its open-ended future loss of democratic sovereignty, and in the government's commitments to rapid military buildup. Subscribe to The New Statesman today from only £8.99 per month Subscribe The controlled opposition, Reform, have little to nothing useful to say on this, tied as they are to Trump and his coterie. But they have elan, and no shame in saying and doing what is necessary to win. The temptation for the broader left is to dust off the Corbyn playbook and insist that simply turning the volume up on the old tunes will cut through against the government. But with Reform now playing pick 'n' mix with the left's historic programme – a tasty little industrial strategy here, a cheeky renationalisation there – the political space for a social democratic revival is being extinguished. It may not be especially plausible for Farage to claim he wants British Steel in public ownership, but he, plausibly, could be the next Prime Minister and Jeremy Corbyn will not be. The left cannot compete on these terms. We need, instead, to address the immediate realities of the crisis we face. That starts with a correct understanding of what the climate and the nature crises are doing to us. They are not a handy justification for a bunch of things we wanted to do anyway, or, as Biden once put it, 'when I hear climate, I think jobs'. But nor, for most people here, most of the time, is climate change the Hollywood story of existential disaster. Instead, it is the slower, steadier accumulation of breakdowns and failures. Food costs more. Insurance costs more. More flights are delayed, more trains fail to run. Power systems break down. Floods worsen. Extreme heat spreads disease and shortens lives. There are existential risks, of course; but the immediate reality is typically of a slow, steady decay. It is in the countryside where these processes are most shockingly visible: the parched fields, the rivers full of shit. The reality of life across rural towns and villages is of deep neglect, stretching back many decades. It has been too easy to dismiss Green votes in rural England as 'Countryfile Tories'. There are certainly tensions inside the Greens, as the New Statesman's recent interview with Polanski's two opponents, MPs Adrian Ramsey and Ellie Chowns, made clear. It will require political skills to navigate through them. But the potential is there, in what sociologist Nic Buret has identified as a 'silent movement' in our countryside, where protests about development can't be dismissed as twee NIMBY-ism. Increasingly, they represent a direct battle for control over what should be common resources. Economic projects that look good in Westminster, like building a new data centre, does little for a local community, creating few jobs, sucking up scarce electricity and water, and repatriating profits back to the US. And the problem of food prices and availability in towns and cities is directly tied to the crisis of farming in our countryside. The problem of water supplies in Oxfordshire is directly tied to the promises made in Washington to US Big Tech, as Labour plans a massive roll-out of those same data centres. The Houthi blockade of the Red Sea raised prices in shops across the world last year, reinforcing the inflationary impacts of the drought in the Panama Canal. In other words, globalisation as we have known it is crumbling, to be replaced by something similarly interconnected, but far more disorderly. Four decades of falling prices as the world opened up and East Asia industrialised is being replaced with chaotic price rises and shortages as climate change bites – and the very success of China disrupts an international order constructed around the dominance of the United States. The instability creates winners, as well as losers. Soaring food prices in the last few years have handed all-time record profits to the four major companies that control 90 per cent of the global trade in grain. The same applies, notoriously, to soaring fossil fuel profits. This is what a real eco-populism can address: 'populism' facing squarely up to the need for redistribution from fat profits and idle hoards of wealth, and 'eco' in taking immediate actions to address insecurity and the steady breakdown of basic systems – like the shocking neglect and underfunding of our care sector. Ideas like a Basic Income for farmers, a campaign now taking root, could be adopted by an eco-populist Green Party. This is a new opportunity. The Greens are second-placed in over 30 Labour-held seats, with slender majorities. Next year's local elections include all 18 London boroughs. A joint Green-independent left campaign could knock many of these over, just as surely as Reform managed in the North, and lay the foundations for plausible victories in a 2029 general election. Privately, London Mayor Sadiq Khan has been warning of the growing risk to Labour's support. Sensing the possibilities, co-operation between the Greens and the left on the ground across cities in England is already happening. We don't know how the two-party system will break down at the next election. We do know the possibilities are real, and include winning a major bloc of Greens and independent lefts MPs. Zack Polanski will struggle in the role of insurgent, the British media always marginalising those outside of Parliament. But they laughed at Farage's electoral history, until he entered the House last summer. In Polanski's campaign, we have, finally, to bottle these new winds into a political programme. [See also: The Green Party's internal war] Related
The Guardian
5 days ago
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- The Guardian
Dining across the divide: ‘I thought Labour would be bad. I didn't think they'd be bad so quickly'
Occupation Data product owner at a utilities company Voting record Green but has voted Labour to keep the Tories out Amuse bouche Becky's surname, Fuego, comes from Vim Fuego, Adrian Edmondson's character in the fictional Comic Strip heavy metal band Bad News. 'When we got married, my husband changed his name, too, so we both adopted the surname Fuego' Occupation Industrial physicist Voting record Used to vote Labour and was a member. Left because of Corbyn and now votes Conservative Amuse bouche Andy once, almost literally, bumped into Princess Anne at a conference. 'I said, 'Are you following me?'' Becky We had some olives and bruschetta to start, then I had penne arrabiata. Andy and I are both from the north. I moved from Lincoln because it wasn't as diverse and free and open as Brighton is. Andy's kind, chatty, intelligent, a really nice person I probably wouldn't have met otherwise. Andy We had a bottle of primitivo. I don't know much about wine but I went to Puglia last year and got a taste for it. I had this enormous piece of steak, which was fantastic. Becky I joined Labour in order to get Jeremy Corbyn in. I felt he was a positive change for Labour and for politics. I'm a Unison branch secretary, and he came and did a speech at a conference. Thousands of people followed him up the road, cheering. It really felt like this was someone who was going to change the world. Andy I stopped supporting Labour during the Corbyn time. It seemed that the party was more focused on the professional classes, rather than their traditional, core vote. Plus the history of people he associated with – inviting supporters of Hamas to the Houses of Parliament – that's not something I could support. Becky I'd 100% dispute that he was a terrorist sympathiser. That's what any reasonable person would do: get different parties around the table and talk to them like an adult. He didn't win the election – probably because he was a bit too out there, people weren't ready. And the media helped scare people off, portraying him as some sort of commie. If he had won, I think we would have tried to help the crisis in Gaza, the world would be a more positive place. Andy We've had some pretty poor governments in the last few years, but I think he would have been really bad. Though sometimes people get into power and, as we see, they change, they don't always do what they said in the manifesto. So who knows? Sign up to Inside Saturday The only way to get a look behind the scenes of the Saturday magazine. Sign up to get the inside story from our top writers as well as all the must-read articles and columns, delivered to your inbox every weekend. after newsletter promotion Becky I'm very disappointed in Keir Starmer's politics, all the things he's gone back on – environmental promises, renewable jobs, now it's been dialled back. Andy I said to anybody who would listen last year that Labour would be bad. I didn't think they would be so bad so quickly. Becky I helped to run the Brighton Greenpeace group, so I'm very much for tackling climate change. People say you can't change things overnight. I say, look at plastic bags. You used to get one every time you bought a can of beans. Then one day they said we're going to charge you, and everyone stopped. Net zero is a target to aim for. It's ambitious, but if you don't try, you'll never know. Andy It's not at the top of my list of things to worry about. I can see why we're trying to get to net zero, but if you override reality with the ideology, then you're going to have problems, like the power cuts in Spain the other week. Ed Miliband wouldn't know a kilowatt if it zapped through him, he has no idea. Becky Never judge a book by its cover. We actually had a lot in common, he's ex-Labour, a working-class guy disappointed in politics who's gone over to the other side. Maybe with the right person in charge, he'd come back. Andy I thought, you know, this is a Guardian thing, so maybe I might be the sort of pantomime villain of the piece. But it was great, I really enjoyed it. We had another bottle of primitivo and when we left the restaurant, she gave me a huge hug. Additional reporting: Kitty Drake Andy and Becky ate at La Piazzetta in Horsham, West Sussex Want to meet someone from across the divide? Find out how to take part
The National
5 days ago
- The National
Jeremy Corbyn on 10 things that changed his life
Speaking to The Sunday National, Corbyn reflected on 10 things that shaped his life. One: Hitchhiking home from Germany In 1967, with just weeks of school left, 18-year-old Corbyn joined his brother Andrew on a drive to Germany. 'More fun than staying on,' he thought. His headteacher let him go, saying he would 'never achieve very much'. The two Corbyns set off for Hanover in an Austin Heavy 12/4 – an antique of a vehicle which looks more like a Ford Model T than a modern motor. A file photo of a different Austin Heavy'So, I went with him in this dreadful car, which weighed a tonne and frequently broke down,' Corbyn said. 'It wasn't a sort of pristine historic car, it was a bit of a rust bucket to be quite honest. 'The back seat was taken out to fill it up with the parts we needed to keep repairing the car on our journey.' But despite the slow pace and frequent breakdowns, the Corbyns did make it to Hanover and Andrew headed off to work – leaving the younger brother with the question of how to get home. READ MORE: Pam Duncan-Glancy among Scots recognised in honours list With no money for a return trip, Corbyn hitchhiked. 'It was the first time I'd ever done anything completely on my own,' he recalled. Two: Volunteering in Jamaica Not long later, Corybn was accepted to voluntary service overseas. Initially meant to travel to Malawi, a last-minute change sent him to Jamaica instead. 'That was the first time I'd ever been on a plane,' Corbyn told The Sunday National. 'I'd never been to an airport before, so this was a huge adventure. 'I arrived in Jamaica and I've never forgotten getting out of the plane and suddenly feeling the heat, just the heat, the warmth of it – and also the richness of the vegetation and the culture. To me, I'd never experienced anything like that before.' Corbyn was put to work as a 'sort of outdoor activities teacher' at Kingston College, where he became 'fascinated' with the 'culture, joy, and history' of the Caribbean nation. The late Tory minister Enoch Powell caused outrage with his 1968 Rivers of Blood speech When Enoch Powell gave his infamous 1968 Rivers of Blood speech, Corbyn saw the fallout firsthand. 'That caused the most unbelievable anger,' he said. 'The students were very, very angry because he had actually been the Tory minister who had recruited a lot of Caribbean people to go and work in the health service – and then decided that they were damaging to Britain's social wellbeing. 'Powell is now being repeated. The language used by the Prime Minister about being a 'nation of strangers', that's taken straight out of the Rivers of Blood speech. 'It's appalling, it's disgusting, it's disgraceful.' Three: First visit to Israel and Palestine The conflict between Israel and Palestine is currently in sharp focus due to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Corbyn says he has visited the war-torn region nine times – but the first, back in 1998, stands out as 'a turning point in lots of ways'. Whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu had been abducted from Italy and locked up in an Israeli jail for revealing secrets of Israel's still-publicly-unacknowledged nuclear weapons programme. Corbyn was part of a group of campaigners intent on securing Vanunu's release. He recalled: 'We had tried to visit the prison – we were told we could and then we were told we couldn't. On another occasion I went with Susannah York and we were again told we could and then told we couldn't. 'So, Susannah, who had an amazing sense of presence about her, she just sat down on the road outside the prison. Now, a Hollywood film star sitting on the road anywhere is news, so all the TV cameras came.' Vanunu was released six years later, in 2004, and Corbyn said the years-long campaign taught him about working with the people of Israel against the actions of the country's government – a lesson which in today's climate could not be more relevant. While in Israel, Corbyn also visited Gaza for the first time, which he says showed him how 'so appallingly treated' the people of Palestine had been. 'That was many, many years ago, and now all those places I visited then and visited many times since have all been destroyed,' he added. Four: First elected to Parliament Jeremy Corbyn (left) pictured with Les Silverstone in 1975 (Image: Getty)Corbyn has been a fixture at Westminster for 42 years – longer than most politicians' careers. He was first elected as the Labour MP for Islington North in 1983 in a moment which he says earned him a unique place in history. 'I was elected to Parliament having gone through an incredibly long selection process which lasted for six months,' Corbyn recalled. However, it was only the start of a 'very complicated campaign'. Michael O'Halloran, who had been the local Labour MP, had defected to the SDP. So, Labour selected Corbyn. But the SDP then selected John Grant, also a sitting MP, to run for the seat. A put-out O'Halloran instead ran as an 'independent Labour' candidate. Corbyn's victory therefore made him perhaps 'the first and only person to be elected by defeating two sitting MPs'. Five: First visit to Westminster as an MP Jeremy Corbyn (left) pictured with Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams (Image: Getty)Getting elected was one thing, going to Westminster as a MP was quite another. For Corbyn, it was a 'strange experience'. 'I discovered a lot of MPs already knew each other and I couldn't work this out,' he told The Sunday National. 'I asked somebody why this was the case. They said, 'well, they were all at Oxbridge together'. Both parties. 'OK, I noted that.' Corbyn then said he was soon threatened with the removal of the Labour whip, particularly for 'supporting the need to have talks with the Irish republican movement as a way of bringing about a peace process'. 'That was like, almost instantly on entering parliament,' he recalled. Six: His parents, Naomi and David Corbyn names both of his parents, Naomi and David, as two of the most influential people in his life. He says he was 'always very close' with both of them, who were 'supportive' and 'quite political'. 'They met campaigning in support of the Spanish Republic in the 1930s, and I picked up a lot of their ideas and principles from them,' Corbyn said. 'I learned a great deal from them, not least from a huge quantity of publications of the Left Book Club, which they gave me.' Of his mother Naomi, Corbyn recalled the first time she had ever visited him in parliament, soon after he was elected as an MP. 'I showed her all round, we had tea outside on the terrace overlooking the river and all the rest of it. 'And she then got up to go, so I walked with her to the tube station, and the last words she said to me as she left was: 'Very nice, dear. When are you gonna get a real job?'' Seven: Iraq war campaign Jeremy Corbyn joins well-known faces including Emma Thompson on a Stop The War march (Image: Getty) Corbyn's long political career has seen him attend – or even lead – a lifetime of anti-war demonstrations. But for the former Labour leader, one particular campaign stands out. 'I opposed the Iraq war from the very beginning,' he said. 'After [9/11] and then the attack on Afghanistan, we formed the Stop the War Coalition. 'We had the inaugural meeting – I said to the organisers, I think you're being a bit optimistic, holding it in Conway Hall, you might not fill it. 'They said 'We've changed the venue to Friends Meeting House', and I said, 'Are you mad? It's huge. We've got to make sure we have a room that's full, not a place that's half empty'.' As it turned out, all the estimates had been wildly off. On arrival, Corbyn said he found the venue 'overwhelmed' by the number of people. As well as the main hall, he was asked to address five overflow meetings – 'including one that was at the bus stop outside'. READ MORE: Iran hits Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Tehran after Israeli strikes kill 78 people A similar pattern happened in February 2003, during the large-scale protests against the Iraq War. He recalled a meeting with a police team who had asked how many people they expected to march in London. 'I said, I don't know, maybe 400,000. And this police officer said, 'No, no, no, you're completely wrong there. By our calculations, at least 800,000 will be coming'.' On the day itself, the BBC reported that 'around a million people' had marched in London, with other rallies in Belfast and Glasgow, in one of the 'biggest days of public protest ever seen in the UK'. Eight: The allotment Around the same time as the anti-war movement was spreading across the western world, Corbyn got a call he'd been waiting for – he'd reached the top of the waiting list for an allotment. While lists back then weren't quite as notoriously long as now, Corbyn says he had been waiting a year or two for that call – and it came 'right at the start of all the Iraq war protests'. 'I nearly said no,' he added. 'But then I said no, no, I can't turn down this chance, so in between all of this, I had to go and start work on the allotment.' Corbyn calls his allotment his 'joy in life'. 'There's something magical about actually being there. On a winter's afternoon when there's almost nobody else there, and you're just there on your own digging, pruning, or whatever you happen to be doing – and then stealing into the shed and catching up on the football.' But he says he enjoys it in the summer as well: 'Everybody walks past, gives each other advice on what they're doing. 'Usually the advice is very generously saying 'you're doing it all wrong, this is how you should do it'.' That sounds a lot like being in parliament. Nine: Meeting his wife Laura Independent MP Jeremy Corbyn speaking in the Commons in March 2025 (Image: PA) This list is about the 10 things which changed Corbyn's life. But if it was about specific years, it seems likely 2003 would top it. Anti-war campaigns and allotments aside, it was also the year he met his wife: Laura. Corbyn says she likes to try and grow maize from her home country of Mexico in the allotment . That doesn't always work due to London's very un-Mexican climate – 'but it is beautifully coloured when it does come out'. For a lifelong politician, where Corbyn met his wife is perhaps unsurprising: 'It happened in the Red Rose Club in Islington, which was the Labour centre in Islington at the time.' For the next few years, the two maintained a largely long-distance relationship – but they continued to bond over politics. 'It's wonderful being able to visit Mexico and meet people who've been through awful circumstances – but nevertheless have amazing hope and determination to improve their communities,' he said. Ten: The people of Islington North Asked for the tenth and final thing for this list, Corbyn names all the people of Islington North, the constituency he has represented since 1983, which elected him as an independent for the first time in 2024 with just under 50% of the vote. Giving an example of the inspiring people of his area, Corbyn recalls the story of the death of Makram Ali, who was killed in a terror attack in 2017 which saw a van driven into a crowd of Muslims gathered near the Finsbury Park Mosque. Makram Ali was killed in a terror attack in London in 2017Corbyn praised 'the bravery of the imam at the mosque', saying: 'Obviously people were very, very angry at Darren Osborne – who had driven into the crowd and killed Makram – but the imam protected him from the crowd until the police arrived to arrest him. 'He stopped them beating him up, or doing worse. It was an incredibly principled and brave thing to do.' Corbyn said he still attends annual commemorations of the attack with Makram's family, adding: 'You learn from people who've gone through the most amazing adversity.' That, it would seem, is a lesson Corbyn has lived by.
Days of Palestine
6 days ago
- Politics
- Days of Palestine
UK Police Drop Charges Against Jeremy Corbyn Over Pro-Palestine Protest
DaysofPal – Veteran British MP and former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn has reiterated his unwavering support for the Palestinian cause after UK police dropped charges against him related to his participation in a pro-Palestine rally. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Corbyn stated: 'I'm proud to have attended many demonstrations over the years with my friend John McDonnell. Today, the police have dropped the case against us following our attendance at a rally in support of Palestine.' He added: 'But let's be clear: we will continue to fight for as long as it takes to stop the genocide in Gaza.' The charges were related to Corbyn's involvement in a recent mass demonstration in London opposing the Israeli offensive on Gaza. Former MP John McDonnell had also been summoned for questioning in connection with the same protest. Corbyn's outspoken stance—particularly his use of the term 'genocide' to describe Israeli actions in Gaza—has drawn sharp criticism from right-wing political circles in Britain. However, rights advocates argue that these reactions form part of a broader effort to suppress pro-Palestinian voices within UK political discourse. Organizations such as the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) continue to play a leading role in mobilizing public support for Palestinian rights. Established in 1982, the PSC works through demonstrations, political lobbying, education campaigns, and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. The group maintains broad backing from British MPs, trade unions, and civil society groups. Since October 7, 2023, Israel—supported militarily and diplomatically by the United States—has launched a devastating war on the Gaza Strip. The assault has resulted in over 183,000 Palestinian casualties, including dead and injured, the vast majority being women and children. More than 11,000 people remain missing, many believed to be buried under rubble or in inaccessible areas. Famine, compounded by the siege, has claimed the lives of many—especially infants and the elderly. Despite mounting international criticism and binding orders from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to cease hostilities, the offensive continues unabated. As the humanitarian catastrophe deepens, voices like Corbyn's—and the movements he represents—are crucial in keeping the global spotlight on Gaza and in pushing for accountability. Shortlink for this post:
