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Corbyn : Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics - Richard Seymour

Corbyn

Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics

By: Richard Seymour

eBook | 17 May 2016 | Edition Number 1

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Demolishing the Blairite opposition in 2015, Jeremy Corbyn saw off an attempted coup against his leadership under the banner of the “soft left” one year on. This unassuming antiwar socialist now leads Labour with a huge mandate. For the first time in decades, socialism is back on the agenda-and for the first time in Labour's history, it defines the leadership.

This book tells the story of how Corbyn's rise was made possible by the long decline of Labour and a deep crisis in British democracy. It surveys the makeshift coalition of trade unionists, young and precarious workers, and students who rallied to Corbyn. It shows how a novel social media campaign turned the media's “Project Fear” on its head, making a virtue of every accusation thrown at him. And finally it asks, with all the artillery that is still ranged against Corbyn, given the crisis-ridden Labour Party that he has inherited, the devastating impact of the coup attempt and the fall-out from Brexit, what it would mean for him to succeed.
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“The finest study of Corbyn yet written”
Stephen Bush, New Statesman

“It is a point of contention whether the politics represented by Jeremy Corbyn offers a pathway out of the crisis or we are instead witnessing the last hurrah of Britain's harried and diminished workers' movement. That is one of the questions Richard Seymour tries to answer in his excellent new book…Seymour's analysis remains indispensable”
Alex Doherty, New Statesman

“A brilliant and incisive analysis by a long-term watcher of the party.”
Asa Winstanley, Middle East Monitor

“The best, and the definitive, account of what Corbyn's victory the first time round meant. One year on the essential summer 2016 read.”
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