Jeremy Corbyn calls for peace, per The Guardian.

[MyLifeIsYours]

The wonderful Jeremy Corbyn calling for peaceful resolutions around the world, not just in Gaza but in countries suffering castrophes as Sudan. This is the leadership all Western leaders should be calling for, not more bloodthirsty warmonging.

“The protagonists of 1914 were sleepwalkers, watchful but unseeing, haunted by dreams, yet blind to the reality of the horror they were about to bring into the world.”

Christopher Clark’s The Sleepwalkers retells the story of the outbreak of the first world war. Mapping a multipolar world enthralled by imperialism and paranoia, Clark refuses to pin the blame on a single power. Instead, he explains how political leaders narrowed the prospects for peace one misstep at a time, and sleepwalked into a global catastrophe that left around 20 million people dead.

Today, once more, our political leaders are stumbling through crisis after crisis to convince themselves that war is the only solution. The principal difference is that this time they are not sleepwalking into war. They are doing so with their eyes wide open.

For months, millions of us have demonstrated for a ceasefire in Gaza to stop the loss of life, end the perpetual cycle of violence and prevent a wider escalation. We have been ignored, maligned and demonised. Last week, Israel conducted missile strikes against Iran in a fast-widening conflict across the Middle East. Even without the involvement of more global players, the human, economic and environmental consequences of all-out war with Iran would be catastrophic for the entire world.

We need not imagine the worst-case scenario in order to put the brakes on. As the Israeli government weighed up its options in response to Iran’s attack on 14 April, bombs continued to fall on Palestinians in Gaza. Over the past few months, human beings have been forced to endure a level of horror that should haunt us for ever. Entire families have been wiped out – and survivors will face lifelong mental health consequences for generations to come. Neighbourhoods have been completely obliterated, strewn with corpses and limbs. Doctors are performing amputations without anaesthesia. Children are gathering sticks and leaves from the ground and fashioning “bread” from animal feed to stay alive. If the unfolding genocide of the Palestinian people does not already constitute a worst-case scenario, what does?

Many of us have spent our entire lives defending human rights for everyone, everywhere, often in the face of great opposition. Our critics know this. What they really oppose is our desire to build a more equal, sustainable and peaceful world for all.

Real security isn’t destroying your neighbour, it’s getting on with your neighbour. It’s having enough food on the table, a roof over your head, and a sustainable planet. Political leaders may take pride in their militaristic jingoism, knowing that it’s somebody else’s children who will pay the price. The truth is, however, that their thirst for war is endangering us all. If our politicians care about the legacy they leave behind, they may want to ask themselves: if they fail to pave a path to peace, who will be around to remember them?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/23/leaders-war-gaza-jeremy-corbyn

[Zinneke]

Stop giving this deluded man a platform. Just like Truss he seems to believe the only way to exist is to double down.

[MyLifeIsYours]

Stop giving this deluded man a platform. Just like Truss he seems to believe the only way to exist is to double down.

Corbyn is the only honest leader Labour had in a long time. He was taking the party back from the neoliberal Blarities who have havoc the working class as much as the Torries. If Corbyn were elected the United Kingdom would be in more staple condition now

[Hindsight was 2020]

Stop giving this deluded man a platform. Just like Truss he seems to believe the only way to exist is to double down.

Corbyn is the only honest leader Labour had in a long time. He was taking the party back from the neoliberal Blarities who have havoc the working class as much as the Torries. If Corbyn were elected the United Kingdom would be in more staple condition now

He got wrecked by Boris freaking Johnson when the economy was getting killed by Brexit

[Wiswylfen]

Stop giving this deluded man a platform. Just like Truss he seems to believe the only way to exist is to double down.

Corbyn is the only honest leader Labour had in a long time. He was taking the party back from the neoliberal Blarities who have havoc the working class as much as the Torries. If Corbyn were elected the United Kingdom would be in more staple condition now

He got wrecked by Boris freaking Johnson when the economy was getting killed by Brexit

[Zinneke]

Stop giving this deluded man a platform. Just like Truss he seems to believe the only way to exist is to double down.

Corbyn is the only honest leader Labour had in a long time. He was taking the party back from the neoliberal Blarities who have havoc the working class as much as the Torries. If Corbyn were elected the United Kingdom would be in more staple condition now

Guess what, I would also be an anti-Blairite, and I’m pro-self-determination of Palestine, including immediate recognition of it, but that doesn’t mean that I delude myself into thinking “US Imperialism” is the root of all evils, and that somehow Iran, Russia and China are not reactionary, ultra-nationalistic states that oppress their minorities (a lot more than Israel does) all thinking this just out of pure anti-US, or anti-Western hatred.  

These horrible foreign policy views keep hijacking any credibility a non-elitist Left has of gaining ground anywhere, because average people associate them rightly with crankish, conspiratorial views, and believe that cranks shouldn’t govern their public services.

If it weren’t for the fact that Corbyn is old I’d think he’s a psyop. Instead it’s just that he hasn’t grown up from his 1980s days. I’m starting to think people like Mélenchon or the Podemos crew are definitely psy ops though, deliberately funded to destroy social democratic politics in their respective countries.

[Silent Hunter]

Stop giving this deluded man a platform. Just like Truss he seems to believe the only way to exist is to double down.

Corbyn is the only honest leader Labour had in a long time. He was taking the party back from the neoliberal Blarities who have havoc the working class as much as the Torries. If Corbyn were elected the United Kingdom would be in more staple condition now

He got wrecked by Boris freaking Johnson when the economy was getting killed by Brexit

The economy hadn't really been killed at that point, but the fact is he still lost to Boris Johnson.

[Lief 🗽]

Can’t believe Corbyn is still being taken seriously by anyone. Few people have done more to discredit left-wing politics in recent history.

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

Just a comprehensively evil man who got as far as he did because of his skill at gaslighting. It's still working, apparently.

Also, posting Corbyn in any positive context anymore is a dogwhistle of epic proportions.

[CumbrianLefty]

As ever, your take on Corbyn is a fanciful caricature that does you little credit.

The real tragedy of the man is that he was presented with a tremendous opportunity by the 2017 GE result (and no, it was far from all the doing of others - even if that was a significant factor) and then proceeded to comprehensively blow it.

And he is maybe proof that just having your heart basically in the right place, or being in favour of on the face of it unequivocally good things like "peace", is not in itself enough to succeed. You need some political *strategy* to deal with all the powerful forces that will inevitably be hostile, and the equally foreseeable instances when the real world makes implementing your laudable goals more problematic.

He will certainly provide future historians with much of interest to study, that at least is for sure.