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'''Jeremy Bernard Corbyn''' (born 26 May 1949) is a British politician who served as Leader of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] and Leader of the Opposition from 2015 to 2020. | '''Jeremy Bernard Corbyn''' (born 26 May 1949) is a British politician who served as Leader of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] and Leader of the Opposition from 2015 to 2020. | ||
Corbyn is a social democrat, though has more Marxist-leaning views than is typical of a social democrat. Corbyn campaigned against the [[Iraq War|2003 US invasion of Iraq]] and typically supports a non-interventionist foreign policy. Corbyn's views made him a target of sabotage by the neoliberals of the Labour party, leading to him losing the 2019 general election to incumbent Prime Minister [[Boris Johnson]]. | Corbyn is a social democrat, though has more Marxist-leaning views than is typical of a social democrat.<ref>{{Citation|year=2020|title=The Rise and Fall of Project Corbyn|title-url=https://thecommunists.org/2020/08/15/news/book-rise-and-fall-of-project-corbyn/|page=20-22|quote=There is nothing in Corbyn’s political and economic propositions, nothing in his foreign and internal policy stance, that could be described as truly socialistic, in the Marxist understanding of that term. <i>Corbyn is not a Marxist.</i>|pdf=https://s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/s3.cpgb-ml.org/ProjectCorbyn.pdf|publisher=[[CPGB-ML]]|isbn=978-1-913286-01-9}}</ref> Corbyn campaigned against the [[Iraq War|2003 US invasion of Iraq]] and typically supports a non-interventionist foreign policy. Corbyn's views made him a target of sabotage by the neoliberals of the Labour party, leading to him losing the 2019 general election to incumbent Prime Minister [[Boris Johnson]]. | ||
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Jeremy Bernard Corbyn (born 26 May 1949) is a British politician who served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 2015 to 2020.
Corbyn is a social democrat, though has more Marxist-leaning views than is typical of a social democrat.[1] Corbyn campaigned against the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and typically supports a non-interventionist foreign policy. Corbyn's views made him a target of sabotage by the neoliberals of the Labour party, leading to him losing the 2019 general election to incumbent Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
- ↑ “There is nothing in Corbyn’s political and economic propositions, nothing in his foreign and internal policy stance, that could be described as truly socialistic, in the Marxist understanding of that term. Corbyn is not a Marxist.”
The Rise and Fall of Project Corbyn (2020) (pp. 20-22). [PDF] CPGB-ML. ISBN 978-1-913286-01-9