Let me just make a few things clear: after all these years I am still a socialist. I voted Labour in 2015 (and would do so all over again), and find myself broadly agreeing with a lot of what the current Labour manifesto has to offer. I never supported the Iraq War, and I feel the War in Afghanistan was mismanaged, as was the intervention in Libya. However, I cannot bring myself to vote Labour due to the leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, one of the most pressing issues of contention being his relationship to, and opinions of, terrorism.
This piece was originally two separate posts that I have edited together to form one full whole for publication here. The original posts can be found here and here.
On Corbyn’s Terrorism Speech, Islamist Terrorism and the Left’s “Terrorism Problem”
Firstly there is the issue of Corbyn’s speech,
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