Bernie Sanders Praises Jeremy Corbyn’s Stance Against Elites

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Bernie Sanders congratulated the British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn for his gains in the UK general election last week, saying that his success came by standing up to the British elites.

The US Democratic Senator and former presidential candidate emphasized that Labour supporters were successful “not by moving to the right, not by becoming more conciliatory – they won those seats by standing up to the ruling class.”

Sanders said “All over the world people are rising up against austerity and massive levels of income and wealth inequality. People in the UK, the US and elsewhere want governments that represent all the people, not just the 1 per cent. I congratulate Jeremy Corbyn for running a very positive and effective campaign.

Press TV reports:

Hailing Corbyn for his frank anti-establishment positions throughout his electoral campaign, Sanders reassured his supporters that “we may not have won the campaign in 2016, but there is no question that we have won the battle of ideas.”

Sanders was enthusiastically greeted by his progressive supporters at the Chicago rally, many of whom called for his presidential run in the 2020 US election.

“Ideas that, just a few years ago, seemed radical and unattainable are now part of Main Street discussion, and in fact, some of them are being implemented across the country as we speak,” Sanders said in his address at the rally. “Today, support for the concept of paid family and medical leave is gaining support… Today, states and communities throughout the country are moving forward to make public colleges and universities tuition free.”

The People’s Summit has brought together various progressive activists from across the United States, including Palestinian-American Muslim activist Linda Sarsour, who is affiliated with the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and a frequent target of anti-Islam politicians and political groups.

In an interview with the Washington Post published on Saturday, Sanders also stated, “People have got to understand that we’re at a pivotal moment in American history, and it’s not clear which way we’ll go.”
“There’s an enormous potential to improve peoples’ lives; on the other hand, there’s an opening for an austerity economy where everybody but the top one percent gets poorer,” he further underlined. “I will do my best to make people to understand that this is a 12-month-a-year operation, not about an election every four years.”

3 Comments

  1. All these thirty shekel prostitutes are like the Energizer bunny. No matter haw bad you want them to shut their lying mouths, take their bribes, and just go somewhere far away and shut the hell up, they just keep popping up like a jack in the box, spouting zionist BS and propaganda.

  2. Bernie Sanders is like a conservative compared to Jeremy Corbyn.. of course Bernie likes him Corbyn is way out on the left

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