Where Is Our Jeremy Corbyn?
The politics of Jeremy Corbyn, elected by a landslide
Saturday to lead Britain’s Labour Party after its defeat at the polls
last May, are part of the global revolt against corporate tyranny. He
had spent his long career as a pariah within his country’s political
establishment. But because he held fast to the socialist ideals that
defined the old Labour Party, he has risen untarnished out of the ash
heap of neoliberalism.
His integrity, as well as his fearlessness, offers a lesson to
America’s self-identified left, which is long on rhetoric, preoccupied
with accommodating the power elites—especially those in the Democratic
Party—and very short on courage.
Jeremy Corbyn waves in London after he was elected the leader of the Labour Party on Saturday. (Kirsty Wigglesworth / AP)
