Comments on: Comment: A progressive foreign policy alternative to Corbynism

By: Why does Corbyn’s party hate Britain? - New English Times

Why does Corbyn’s party hate Britain? - New English Times — Sun, 19 Jan 2020 09:56:30 +0000

[…] did so because of the crude ‘anti-imperialism’ he subscribed to. As Professor Alan Johnson wrote in 2015: “Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘strange associations’ — so widely noted, yet so little understood — […]

By: Vince

Vince — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 19:14:00 +0000

In reply to Jonathan Phillip Bird. LFF certainly isn't written for the majority of Labour party members and supporters. It has "Left" in the title but that's where the association seems to end.

By: joseph

joseph — Wed, 04 Nov 2015 21:28:00 +0000

Are you vetted and financed by MI6, who have close/special association with CIA? No mention of Saudi, Bahrain, fascists & neo-nazis in Ukraine, terrorists in Syria (not the regime which is persecuting minorities), terrorists in Pakistan & Afghanistan who have been armed and funded by US/UK/Saudi, the atrocities of whom the people of those countries are bravely facing at great human and material cost and so on (If I attempt to enumerate all the ideologically motivated capitalist-corporate driven wars over the last 80 or so years, I do not know how many volumes of books it will run into). .

By: StephenB

StephenB — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 16:44:00 +0000

Since Johnson wants to talk about Stephen Sizer…..

http://wp.me/p5W2a1-aB

By: Philip

Philip — Sun, 06 Sep 2015 10:38:00 +0000

Well-written. Corbyn’s plea to build warmer relations with Russia and opposition to Ukraine’s admission to NATO plays into the hands of the “murderous Putinism” of which you speak and is deeply worrying to me as a principled progressive thinker. In fact, there is really little to choose between Corbyn’s foreign policy and that of Nigel Farage where Eastern Europe is concerned. They would both have the UK retreat into degrees of head-in-the-sand isolationism with regard to the imperialist belligerent atrocities being committed in Ukraine. In Corbyn’s case, because he harbours a delusion that those atrocities were provoked by NATO; in Farage’s because he’s strongly against the EU and thinks Britain has no legitimate business meddling in Russia’s backyard. Neither position is compatible with the fundamental progressive view that people subject to oppression and aggression anywhere in the world deserve compassion, support and protection.

By: Liam Large

Liam Large — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 14:25:00 +0000

The truly progressive voices speak for a one nation solution to the Israel / Palestine issue. Any two state solution will just enshrine the deep racial and socio-economic divisions that are already so brutally well defined.

By: Paul Madill

Paul Madill — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 10:23:00 +0000

Why you call yourselves “Left” foot forward is a mystery to me. Corbyn’s foreign policy is fine and dandy with me as a socialist and an internationalist. No tinkering required, no special pleading for the brutal, apartheid Israel state. Just consistent, humanitarian, international socialism. THAT’S what I call “Left foot forward”.

By: craigbhill

craigbhill — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 19:31:00 +0000

The scum who equate their application of “national security” with patriotism are now co-opting “Left” to = “Right”, like all corporately corrupt center-right parties who pretend to speak for a left alternative to corporate government.

By: StephenB

StephenB — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 18:59:00 +0000

Works for BICOM ? Who funds BICOM and therefore Johnson ?

By: PaulPettinger

PaulPettinger — Thu, 03 Sep 2015 14:19:00 +0000

I and many liberals don’t object to the use of “Progressive” almost as a trademark of the left