The Socialist 27 July 2016

No compromise with Labour right

No compromise with Labour right wing

Mood to defeat the Blairites

Anger against Blairite 'traitors' sweeps Portsmouth Momentum

'Defend Corbyn' rally

Corbyn's 'rock-star welcome' in North West

End Victorian working conditions

Tories plan further fee hikes for uni students

Them & Us

What we saw: UB40 backs Corbyn

Europe and the workers' movement after Brexit

Why the Socialist Party opposed the EU

Turkey: no to military rule, no to Erdoğan's rule

Barcelona 1936: the people's Olympics

Fawley refinery strike against 'race to bottom'

Unite policy conference backs reselection of Labour MPs

Brookes workers continue the fight against 2Sisters

Workplace news in brief

Black Lives Matter demo shakes Leeds

Sheffield solidarity with Black Lives Matter

Huntingdon anti-racist rally

Pent Valley school closure judicial review blocked

Reverse Derby council cuts

An explosion in sales of the Socialist

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Malcolm Moreland, local trades council chair, speaking (Click to enlarge)

Grimsby 'Defend Corbyn' rally

Angela Greenfield, Grimsby Socialist Party

On Saturday 23 July, 'North East Lincs Unite 4 Corbyn' held a successful rally attended by 140 people in Grimsby town centre, in support of Jeremy Corbyn. This was a follow-on from a well-attended public meeting of over 80 held three weeks earlier, which saw the setting up of the North East Lincs for Corbyn campaign on the initiative of Socialist Party members.

This meeting brought together Corbyn supporters from inside and outside the Labour Party, determined to build a campaign in North East Lincolnshire in the face of the hostility shown towards Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn by the MP and councillors in the Grimsby and Cleethorpes Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs).

A number of speakers addressed the rally, with comrades from the Grimsby and Lincoln branches of the Socialist Party, along with Socialist Party Yorkshire secretary, Alistair Tice, sharing the platform with members of the Grimsby and Cleethorpes branches of the Labour Party, the local chair of the Trades Council, Malcolm Moreland, a representative from Scunthorpe Momentum and a young Labour member from Louth.

Sadly, some Labour Party members, including one Labour councillor, pulled out of speaking at the rally due to pressure that they had received from the CLP; but several pro-Corbyn councillors did attend the rally.

The NE Lincs for Corbyn campaign is ongoing, with a further rally planned to take place in Cleethorpes in a couple of weeks' time.

This version of this article was first posted on the Socialist Party website on 26 July 2016 and may vary slightly from the version subsequently printed in The Socialist.

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