The mandate has been upheld and it is honestly overwhelming to see this vision for a fairer society stand firm. I never imagined we would actually reach this point but you all carried the weight of this effort on your shoulders. Please take a moment to celebrate this success while …
November 24, 2015
Final supporters
The overwhelming election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party is a hugely welcome development for everyone who opposes austerity, racism and war.
The thousands who packed into halls across Britain to hear Jeremy are clearly looking for a new kind of politics that breaks with the pro-austerity consensus. Some were established activists but many were young people from a generation that have faced the assault on EMA, spiralling tuition fees and the rise of zero hours contracts.
They have been inspired by the campaign’s message. After years where the Labour leadership often aped Tory policies the party now has a leader who is a socialist with a proven track record of standing in solidarity with those fighting against injustice and for peace.
His first act on being elected was to join the demonstration in support of refugees in London and to speak out in defence of the trade union movement and against the Tory Trade Union Bill.
He won in an election where over 400,000 voted and he won almost 60 percent of the vote. This gives him a clear democratic mandate to carry out the polices that he put forward during the leadership contest.
Any attempt by the media, or politicians from either inside or outside Labour Party to undermine Jeremy Corbyn and the policies he represents flies in the face of what is clearly an overwhelming democratic mandate.
Jeremy Corbyn’s victory has already sent shock waves through an establishment that for years has had the luxury of a political leadership on both sides of the House of Commons prepared to back austerity.
In Corbyn they see someone who stands for resistance to year after year of privatisation, cuts, and war. In short – policies that make the 99 percent pay for a crisis created by the 1 percent.
We call on all those both inside and outside the Labour Party who support the pro-union, anti-austerity, anti-racist and anti-war policies that Jeremy Corbyn has put forward to stand up to any attempts to undermine his democratic right to lead the Labour Party and the programme he has supported.
Currently supported by:
Sean Vernell & Jane Aitchison (Joint Secretaries Unite the Resistance)
Len McCluskey (General Secretary Unite)
Mark Serwotka (General Secretary PCS)
Ronnie Draper (General Secretary BFAWU)
Matt Wrack (General Secretary FBU)
Christine Blower (General Secretary NUT)
Dave Prentis (General Secretary Unison)
Michelle Stanistreet (General Secretary NUJ)
Dave Ward (General Secretary CWU)
Sally Hunt (General Secretary UCU)
Mary Bousted (General Secretary ATL)
Kevin Courtney (Deputy General Secretary NUT)
Tony Kearns (Deputy General Secretary CWU)
Ian Hodson (National President BFAWU)
Liz Lawrence (President UCU)
Peter Pinkney (President RMT)
Andy Smith (President NUJ)
Rob Goodfellow (UCU President elect)
Kevin McHugh (Deputy President PCS)
Janice Godrich (President PCS)
Cheryl Gedling (Acting Vice President PCS)
Martin Kavanagh (PCS DWP Vice President)
Zita Holbourne (PCS exec & BARAC)
Ian Gawther (PCS RAC Group branch chair)
Gordon Rowntree (PCS Assistant group Secretary HMRC)
Mary Ferguson (PCS NEC & Northern Region Chair)
Sarah Wooley (BFAWU NEC)
Zita Holbourne (PCS exec & BARAC)
Kevin McHugh (Deputy President PCS)
Ian Gawther (PCS RAC Group branch chair)
Gordon Rowntree (PCS HMRC Assistant Group Secretary)
Mary Ferguson (PCS NEC & Northern Regional Chair)
Dave Muritu (UCU NEC & Chair Black members' standing committee)
Richard McEwan (UCU NEC & FEC vice chair)
George Atwell (BFAWU full time officer)
Sharon Holder (National Officer GMB)
Updates
Reached 2,500 supporters
September 24, 2015
Reached 1,000 supporters
September 18, 2015
Reached 100 supporters
September 17, 2015
September 16, 2015
I am honestly stunned by how many people have put their names to this. If you know someone who might care about this mandate please send this link their way so we can push past the thousand mark today.
958 Comments
JC offers hope to all of us who oppose austerity. The Young who want a decent education and the poor who just want to live without Food banks. The disabled who are put through the most demeaning interviews in order to claim something that they should be entitled to.
From within the membership of our branch the effort was made to gain an opposition that actually opposes, leads a fight against austerity and delivers for our class. Corbyn's success is a victory for grass roots democracy which should be defended by all
Higher education is in crisis and tuition fees are a barrier to potential students. Only Jeremy Corbyn has a coherent plan for a national education service that doesn't further impoverish graduates and drive education into the spiral of chasing the market.
I am the Secretary of Haringey Defend Council Housing (pers cap); and UNISON Steward (pers cap) - Let's resist these smears and slurs which reflect the fear of our rulers when challenged at long last by reasoned, compassionate and common sense ideas.
The people have spoken, and the ones who were denied a vote were represented by those who did vote, all 250,000+ of them. Corbyn is an inspiration and I will withdraw my support of the Labour party if he is ever removed as leader.
brexit for breakfast -trump for lunch-nigel for dinner-looney labour imploding-hahaha
I am pleased to see people organizing to support Jeremy Corbyn, and abhor this shameful and cowardly attack on him by the PLP. A political class who represent their own interests not members of the Labour who elected Jeremy Corbyn on a huge mandate. It is time for them to go.
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The mandate has been upheld and it is honestly overwhelming to see this vision for a fairer society stand firm. I never imagined we would actually reach this point but you all carried the weight of this effort on your shoulders. Please take a moment to celebrate this success while …
November 24, 2015
Final supporters
The overwhelming election of Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party is a hugely welcome development for everyone who opposes austerity, racism and war.
The thousands who packed into halls across Britain to hear Jeremy are clearly looking for a new kind of politics that breaks with the pro-austerity consensus. Some were established activists but many were young people from a generation that have faced the assault on EMA, spiralling tuition fees and the rise of zero hours contracts.
They have been inspired by the campaign’s message. After years where the Labour leadership often aped Tory policies the party now has a leader who is a socialist with a proven track record of standing in solidarity with those fighting against injustice and for peace.
His first act on being elected was to join the demonstration in support of refugees in London and to speak out in defence of the trade union movement and against the Tory Trade Union Bill.
He won in an election where over 400,000 voted and he won almost 60 percent of the vote. This gives him a clear democratic mandate to carry out the polices that he put forward during the leadership contest.
Any attempt by the media, or politicians from either inside or outside Labour Party to undermine Jeremy Corbyn and the policies he represents flies in the face of what is clearly an overwhelming democratic mandate.
Jeremy Corbyn’s victory has already sent shock waves through an establishment that for years has had the luxury of a political leadership on both sides of the House of Commons prepared to back austerity.
In Corbyn they see someone who stands for resistance to year after year of privatisation, cuts, and war. In short – policies that make the 99 percent pay for a crisis created by the 1 percent.
We call on all those both inside and outside the Labour Party who support the pro-union, anti-austerity, anti-racist and anti-war policies that Jeremy Corbyn has put forward to stand up to any attempts to undermine his democratic right to lead the Labour Party and the programme he has supported.
Currently supported by:
Sean Vernell & Jane Aitchison (Joint Secretaries Unite the Resistance)
Len McCluskey (General Secretary Unite)
Mark Serwotka (General Secretary PCS)
Ronnie Draper (General Secretary BFAWU)
Matt Wrack (General Secretary FBU)
Christine Blower (General Secretary NUT)
Dave Prentis (General Secretary Unison)
Michelle Stanistreet (General Secretary NUJ)
Dave Ward (General Secretary CWU)
Sally Hunt (General Secretary UCU)
Mary Bousted (General Secretary ATL)
Kevin Courtney (Deputy General Secretary NUT)
Tony Kearns (Deputy General Secretary CWU)
Ian Hodson (National President BFAWU)
Liz Lawrence (President UCU)
Peter Pinkney (President RMT)
Andy Smith (President NUJ)
Rob Goodfellow (UCU President elect)
Kevin McHugh (Deputy President PCS)
Janice Godrich (President PCS)
Cheryl Gedling (Acting Vice President PCS)
Martin Kavanagh (PCS DWP Vice President)
Zita Holbourne (PCS exec & BARAC)
Ian Gawther (PCS RAC Group branch chair)
Gordon Rowntree (PCS Assistant group Secretary HMRC)
Mary Ferguson (PCS NEC & Northern Region Chair)
Sarah Wooley (BFAWU NEC)
Zita Holbourne (PCS exec & BARAC)
Kevin McHugh (Deputy President PCS)
Ian Gawther (PCS RAC Group branch chair)
Gordon Rowntree (PCS HMRC Assistant Group Secretary)
Mary Ferguson (PCS NEC & Northern Regional Chair)
Dave Muritu (UCU NEC & Chair Black members' standing committee)
Richard McEwan (UCU NEC & FEC vice chair)
George Atwell (BFAWU full time officer)
Sharon Holder (National Officer GMB)
Updates
Reached 2,500 supporters
September 24, 2015
Reached 1,000 supporters
September 18, 2015
Reached 100 supporters
September 17, 2015
September 16, 2015
I am honestly stunned by how many people have put their names to this. If you know someone who might care about this mandate please send this link their way so we can push past the thousand mark today.
958 Comments
Jeremy Corbyn was elected by supporters of the Labour Party who want to reclaim the party from its Blairite bureaucracy. People can see through the attacks on him in the party, in Parliament and in the media and will continue supporting him.
JC offers hope to all of us who oppose austerity. The Young who want a decent education and the poor who just want to live without Food banks. The disabled who are put through the most demeaning interviews in order to claim something that they should be entitled to.
From within the membership of our branch the effort was made to gain an opposition that actually opposes, leads a fight against austerity and delivers for our class. Corbyn's success is a victory for grass roots democracy which should be defended by all
Higher education is in crisis and tuition fees are a barrier to potential students. Only Jeremy Corbyn has a coherent plan for a national education service that doesn't further impoverish graduates and drive education into the spiral of chasing the market.
I am the Secretary of Haringey Defend Council Housing (pers cap); and UNISON Steward (pers cap) - Let's resist these smears and slurs which reflect the fear of our rulers when challenged at long last by reasoned, compassionate and common sense ideas.
The people have spoken, and the ones who were denied a vote were represented by those who did vote, all 250,000+ of them. Corbyn is an inspiration and I will withdraw my support of the Labour party if he is ever removed as leader.
brexit for breakfast -trump for lunch-nigel for dinner-looney labour imploding-hahaha
I am pleased to see people organizing to support Jeremy Corbyn, and abhor this shameful and cowardly attack on him by the PLP. A political class who represent their own interests not members of the Labour who elected Jeremy Corbyn on a huge mandate. It is time for them to go.
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Jeremy Corbyn was elected by supporters of the Labour Party who want to reclaim the party from its Blairite bureaucracy. People can see through the attacks on him in the party, in Parliament and in the media and will continue supporting him.