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The open letter thanks the Labour leader for “raising political awareness in our country to a level not seen since the end of World War II” in the face of unprecedented media hostility Hundreds join artists, from Brian Eno to Nigel Kennedy in powerful tribute to Jeremy Corbyn

I just want to know what the music is?Anyway, he's back!Former Bolivian President Evo Morales is planning to campaign for the upcoming Bolivian election from his exile in Argentina. During his first public appearence in Buenos Aires, he held a speech to his supporters. Argentina’s new leftist government has granted Morales refugee status. Morales left Bolivia after a contested October election that caused a political crisis. Morales claims he was overthrown in a right-wing coup. Prior to...

Apparently, the authorities went mental when they found out that Epstein’s guards were asleep, so now they are in court, but the tape that monitored Epstein has gone now missing and there is no outcry. There was also another camera but that wasn't working.Prosecutors say the recording of deceased convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s July 23 suicide attempt has gone missing. RT America’s Rachel Blevins reports. Then legal and media analyst Lionel dives in. [embedded content]

The US House of Representatives has passed a bill imposing sanctions on Germany over the Russian-led gas pipeline Nord Stream 2. The new sanctions target the ships needed to lay the massive pipes the project depends on. But does the bill have the potential to stop a project that's already nearing completion? [embedded content]

The twentysomethings about to enter the Commons will make Westminster ‘the gayest parliament in the world’, Grant Tucker and Rosamund osamund Urwin report Blue Labour say they represent the working class, who they say despise Corbyn and his 'communist' supporters, plus they also despise the Remain Labour centre.Blue Labour are the very patriotic working class, with many supporting the Monarchy, the Establishment, and the ruling class. They call Corbyn supporters, like me, communists,...

Identity Politics has taken over British universities and has started to become authoritarian, say the panel here. They think it will backfire as the right is already successfully mobilising against it.To save the rights of minorities, the panel says the left must fight against it. They say how the 'Identitarians' have sabotaged the left.The right describe the Identitarians as cultural Marxists, but they not Marxists, the panel says - Marxism is about class politics and economics.The panel...

Labour were going to sort out the finance sector, which is why it fought so hard to prevent them gaining power.It is just like Yes Minister, the great British comedy, where unless a minister has a lot of experience in finance, or the military, etc, and they usually don't, they will have to rely on very experienced civil servants instead, who will tell them what to do and what to say.But the civil servants, the regulatory authorities, and the bankers are all part of the same club - the Gentry...

Craig Murray says his both China and Russia are authoritarian empires, and like all empires, they can be very oppressive. Indigenous Eurasian Islamic Populations

No wonder China is zooming ahead. Vulture capitalism is gutting out rural America. [embedded content]

Oh well, my new attitude about trying to make peace with the right didn't last long.On twitter I put out research showing how most young people tend to be left leaning, but some people on the right told me that they will see sense and go conservative as they get older, as people always do, they said.So I put out articles saying that this isn't the case, but they refused to believe it (which I can understand, because nobody changes their views very easily) and they came viscously back at me....