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====Palestine====
====Palestine====
Corbyn is a member of the [[Palestine Solidarity Campaign]], campaigning against [[Gaza-Israel conflict|conflict in Gaza]] and what the organisation considers to be [[Israel and the apartheid analogy|apartheid in Israel]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.palestinecampaign.org/mps-actors-authors-musicians-among-21000-demanding-arms-embargo-israel|title=MPs, actors, authors and musicians among 21,000 demanding arms embargo on Israel|accessdate=23 June 2015|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623234057/http://www.palestinecampaign.org/mps-actors-authors-musicians-among-21000-demanding-arms-embargo-israel/|archivedate=23 June 2015|df=}}</ref> Corbyn has also supported [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions|boycotting and sanctioning]] arms dealings in Israel, saying on ''[[Electronic Intifada]]'': "I think we have to push robustly for the limitation of arms supplies ... Israel is after all facing an investigation ... for war crimes, [at the International Criminal Court] as indeed are the Hamas forces on a much different or lesser scale".<ref>{{cite news|title=New UK Labour leader Corbyn said to consider a ‘minister for Jews’|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-uk-labour-leader-jeremy-corbyn-said-to-consider-a-minister-for-jews/|accessdate=25 January 2016|work=The Times of Israel|date=12 September 2015|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129150211/http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-uk-labour-leader-jeremy-corbyn-said-to-consider-a-minister-for-jews/|archivedate=29 January 2016|df=}}</ref>
Corbyn is a member of the [[Palestine Solidarity Campaign]], campaigning against [[Gaza-Israel conflict|conflict in Gaza]] and what the organisation considers to be [[Israel and the apartheid analogy|apartheid in Israel]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.palestinecampaign.org/mps-actors-authors-musicians-among-21000-demanding-arms-embargo-israel|title=MPs, actors, authors and musicians among 21,000 demanding arms embargo on Israel|accessdate=23 June 2015|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150623234057/http://www.palestinecampaign.org/mps-actors-authors-musicians-among-21000-demanding-arms-embargo-israel/|archivedate=23 June 2015|df=}}</ref> Corbyn has also supported [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions|boycotting and sanctioning]] arms dealings in Israel, saying on ''[[Electronic Intifada]]'': "I think we have to push robustly for the limitation of arms supplies ... Israel is after all facing an investigation ... for war crimes, [at the International Criminal Court] as indeed are the Hamas forces on a much different or lesser scale".<ref>{{cite news|title=New UK Labour leader Corbyn said to consider a ‘minister for Jews’|url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-uk-labour-leader-jeremy-corbyn-said-to-consider-a-minister-for-jews/|accessdate=25 January 2016|work=The Times of Israel|date=12 September 2015|deadurl=no|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160129150211/http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-uk-labour-leader-jeremy-corbyn-said-to-consider-a-minister-for-jews/|archivedate=29 January 2016|df=}}</ref> In August 2016, Corbyn said: "I am not in favour of the academic or cultural boycott of Israel, and I am not in favour of a blanket boycott of Israeli goods. I do support targeted boycotts aimed at undermining the existence of illegal [[Israeli settlement|settlements]] in the [[West Bank]]."<ref>"[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/israel-boycott-goods-jeremy-corbyn-tom-watson-labour-party-morally-wrong-a7446186.html Corbyn-backed boycotts of Israeli goods are 'morally wrong', says Tom Watson]". ''The Independent''. 29 November 2016.</ref>

In June 2018, during his first international trip outside Europe since he was elected Labour leader, Corbyn said: "I think there has to be a recognition of the rights of the Palestinian people to their own state which we as a Labour Party said we would recognise in government as a full state as part of the United Nations."<ref name="independent">{{cite news |last=Baynes|first=Chris|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/palestine-state-recognition-jeremy-corbyn-labour-government-israel-soon-a8413796.html|title=UK would 'recognise Palestine as state' under Labour government, Jeremy Corbyn says|work= |location= |publisher=''[[The Independent]]''|date=24 June 2018|accessdate=24 June 2018}}</ref>


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This article summarises the policies, views and voting record of

Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2016 against challenger Owen Smith
with 61.8% of the vote.

Positioning

Corbyn self-identifies as a

the railways.[2] A longstanding anti-war and anti-nuclear activist, he supports a foreign policy of military non-interventionism and unilateral nuclear disarmament.[3]

In 1997, the political scientists

far-left".[4] However, more recently it has been argued that Corbyn is less radical than previously described,[5] described as "Keynesian" by George Eaton.[6]

When Andrew Marr asked Corbyn if he regarded himself as a

Marxist, by which Corbyn responded saying: "That is a very interesting question actually. I haven't thought about that for a long time. I haven't really read as much of Marx as I should have done. I have read quite a bit but not that much".[7] Similarly, defending John McDonnell's statement that there is "a lot to learn" from Karl Marx's book Das Kapital, Corbyn described Marx as a "great economist".[8][9]

Corbyn has said he has read some of the works of Adam Smith, Karl Marx and David Ricardo and has "looked at many, many others".[8]

Taxation and economy

Corbyn and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell at the 2016 Labour Party Conference

Corbyn has campaigned against

budget deficit should be reduced to meet an "arbitrary deadline", but also said that Labour would not reintroduce a current budget deficit if budgets were balanced before 2020.[14]

An initial proposal to find up to £120 billion that Corbyn alleged to be lost through

Richard Murphy clarified that the £120 billion figure reflects what he believes is the overall tax gap (which is substantially bigger than the HMRC figure of £34 billion for the overall tax gap).[17] of which Murphy calculates the collectable portion of is up to £20 billion.[18][19] Maugham stated that this lower figure would only be available if a range of very unlikely decisions were to be made by Osborne (then Chancellor of the Exchequer), saying that "if this [plan by Corbyn] was a brilliant 'slam dunk' thing to do, it would have been done already".[15][16] In an interview with CNBC, Murphy said that "This issue is bigger than HMRC can deal with at the moment. Spending up to £300 million on staff could raise £8 billion extra, according to people I speak to at HMRC".[20]

Corbyn also planned to reduce the £93 billion which

Social Policy at York University.[21][22][23] This amount is made up by several reliefs, including railway and energy subsidies, regional development grants, lower corporation tax for small businesses, relief on investment and government procurement from the private sector.[22] However, Corbyn criticised the Conservative government for not doing more to support the Redcar steel works with subsidies as the Italian government has done with their steel sector.[24]

He has described year-on-year corporation tax cuts for companies with profits over £300,000[25] by current British Governments as a "race to the bottom".[26] In 1990, Corbyn participated in the tax resistance movement against the Community Charge, also known as the Poll Tax, for which he faced imprisonment.[27] In 2015, Corbyn suggested bringing in a land value tax to help tackle high housing costs,[28][29] and the 2017 Labour manifesto said that a Labour government would consider a land value tax.[30][31]

Corbyn has raised the prospect of devolving income tax rates to English regions, meaning each region could charge a different income tax rate. Corbyn said "We have a tax-raising power in Scotland but not in English regions. I want genuine regional taxation powers [in England]".[32]

Bank of England policy

During his first Labour leadership election campaign, Corbyn proposed to have the Bank of England print money to invest in housing and public transport, described by Corbyn as "People's Quantitative Easing".[33][34] This would aim to turn the UK into a high-skill, high-tech economy and to build more council houses in order to lower long-term housing benefit costs. To achieve this, the Bank would purchase bonds for a State-owned "National Investment Bank".[35] Richard Murphy stated that People's Quantitative Easing would only be used in lieu of Quantitative easing.

The Nobel Prize in Economics winner Paul Krugman argued in The New York Times that "On economic policy, in particular, the striking thing about the leadership contest was that every candidate other than Mr. Corbyn essentially supported the Conservative government's austerity policies. ... The Corbyn upset isn't about a sudden left turn on the part of Labour supporters. It's mainly about the strange, sad moral and intellectual collapse of Labour moderates".[36]

Robert Skidelsky offered an endorsement of Corbyn's proposals to carry out QE through a National Investment Bank with minor quibbles.[37] As the policy would change the central bank's focus on stabilising prices, however, it has been argued it would increase the perceived risk of investing in the UK and raise the prospect of increased inflation.[38] It might also clash with Article 123 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty which prevents central banks from printing money to finance government spending and could cause a legal battle with the European Court of Justice, although it has been argued that money wouldn't be printed and would be issued in the form of bonds.[39][40]

His second leadership campaign saw him promise £500 billion in additional public spending, though he never mentioned how he planned to fund it.[41] As well as investing in new homes including council houses, universal childcare, the renationalisation of the railways and more publicly-controlled bus services, he has also proposed 'billions for ignored seaside towns' in the south east under a £30 billion regional investment bank for the south east outside of London[42]; investment in former mining areas[43]; and in the Arts, including a £1 billion cultural capital fund.[44]

Corbyn has been a consistent supporter of

energy companies.[45][46] Initially Corbyn suggested completely renationalising the entire railway network, but would now bring them under public control "line by line" as franchises expire.[47]

Strikes

Corbyn is in favour of repealing the Trade Union bill which would place restrictions on strikes in key areas such as transport and prevent unions from charging members a political levy unless they specifically agree (currently members can be charged unless they opt out).[48] He would also repeal legislation that bans workers from secondary strikes, which are strikes from workers in support of a strike initiated by workers in a different organisation.[49]

Welfare and health

Corbyn speaking at a demonstration to end the Atos Work Capability Assessment in September 2013

In 2013, Corbyn co-signed a letter to The Guardian newspaper which indicated his support for the People's Assembly Against Austerity.[50] He was a prominent sponsor of the "March for Homes".[51]

At the Second Reading of the

Welfare Reform and Work Bill in July 2015, Corbyn joined 47 Labour MPs to oppose the Bill, describing it as "rotten and indefensible", while the other three leadership candidates abstained.[52] In August 2015, he called on Iain Duncan Smith to resign as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions after it emerged that thousands of disabled people had died after being found fit to work by Work Capability Assessments (instituted in 2008) between 2011 and 2014.[53]

Corbyn has said that the

Private Finance Initiative, arguing that the NHS will have to repay "six times the original investment in them".[10] In 2010, he stated on Twitter that he believed homeopathy could work for some people[56] and signed a parliamentary motion introduced by the Conservative MP David Tredinnick calling on the Government to consider the experiences of other countries such as India, which backs homeopathy treatment, when formulating health policy.[57]

Corbyn is a long-standing champion for the rights of

Corbyn has long championed the rights of frozen overseas British pensioners who are excluded from annual up-rating adjustments to their State Pensions because of the country that they live in. He became a founder member of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Frozen British Pensions in 2013.[59]

Education

Corbyn envisions the establishment of a "National Education Service", on a similar model to that of the existing National Health Service. He advocates a return to local authority control over state-funded academies and free schools, and an end to the charitable status of public schools.[33] He advocates the restoration of maintenance grants, which were replaced with loans by the UK's Conservative Government in 2015.[60][61][62] Corbyn is also in favour of an organised "living waged national creative apprenticeship service" for Arts-based further education.[63][64]

Corbyn criticised the Conservative

reforms to GCSE exams starting in 2017, saying that it will leave pupils feeling "devalued" and like "failures". He also said that "going through day after day of that very complex matrix of exams and knowing that the grading system has been so changed that they’re going to feel a bit devalued at the end of it".[65][66]

Tuition fees

Corbyn has campaigned strongly against

corporation tax to fund public services such as free higher education. The 2017 Labour manifesto pledged to remove tuition fees at a cost of around £10 billion per year. Before the election, Corbyn said that he would "deal with" the existing student debt, but after the election, Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell clarified that this was an "ambition" for Labour rather than a firm promise.[67][68] Labour did not know how much the student debt would cost to wipe when Corbyn made his statement, with Corbyn saying in July 2017 "We never said we would completely abolish it because we were unaware of the size of it at that time".[69]

LGBT issues

An advocate of

gay blood ban enacted by the Democratic Unionist Party, were he to become prime minister.[73]

Energy and transport

Corbyn has been a consistent supporter of

public ownership.[45][46] Initially Corbyn suggested completely renationalising the entire railway network, but would now bring them under public control "line by line" as franchises expire.[74]

Analyses cited by

fourth railway package, indicate potential forthcoming EU legislation requiring the "opening up" of passenger railway markets;[77] thus energy and transportation markets, even if renationalised, would have to give a "right of competition" among other EU-domiciled companies.[78][79]

Corbyn claims renationalisation would save money by both joining up a fragmented market, thereby reducing duplication in the

train operating companies. Both the energy and the train operating companies claim that they make a low return on their money (3.9% for the energy companies[80] and 3.4% for the train companies).[81]

In August 2015, Corbyn said he would consider introducing women-only carriages for public transport, as well as a 24-hour hotline for women to report cases of harassment.[82] He said that although his aim was to "make public transport safer for everyone from the train platform, to the bus stop to the mode of transport itself", he would consult women on whether separate carriages would be welcome, after the idea was suggested to him.[82] His statement was condemned by Andy Burnham, Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall, with Cooper stating that Corbyn's plan was "turning the clock back instead of tackling the problem",[83] while Conservative Women's Minister Nicky Morgan said she was "uncomfortable with the idea", it sounding to her like "segregation".[84]

Nationalism and devolution

Northern England

Corbyn called

High Speed 3 train link, arguing that it should be completed before Crossrail 2 in London, as well as greater electrification of the railways.[89]

Ireland

Corbyn is a long-standing supporter of

bullhorn, police officers warned Corbyn against the move due to the contentious nature of the march.[97]

Corbyn voted against the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement, saying that it strengthened the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland and he opposed it as he wished to see a united Ireland.[98] In July 1998, Corbyn endorsed the Good Friday Agreement by voting for the Northern Ireland Bill saying: "We look forward to peace, hope and reconciliation in Ireland in the future".[99]

Following the 1987 Loughgall ambush, in which eight IRA members and one civilian were killed in a British Army operation aimed at preventing the IRA trying to blow up a police station, he attended a commemoration by the Wolfe Tone Society and stated "I’m happy to commemorate all those who died fighting for an independent Ireland’.[100][101]

In an interview on BBC Radio Ulster in August 2015, Corbyn said he opposed "all bombing" although he did not express an opinion about the actions of the IRA specifically, and welcomed the ceasefire and peace process.[102][103] In May 2017 he said he was "appalled" by the IRA bombing campaign.[104]

Scotland

When asked by Glasgow's

2014 campaign for an independent Scotland. Corbyn stated his belief that economic inequality exists across the UK, and that Labour should unite people on the basis of a "radical economic strategy".[105]

In March 2017, when asked by the

Press Association about the possibility of a second independence referendum, he responded by saying that Westminster should not block one and that it would be "absolutely fine" for one to be held.[106] However, he said Labour would still campaign in favour of the union in such an event.[107] He later told the BBC that he had simply been arguing that it would be wrong for Westminster to prevent a vote if the Scottish parliament had agreed one. He stressed that he did not think there should be another referendum, adding that "independence would be catastrophic for many people in Scotland" as it would lead to "turbo-charged austerity".[108]

Constitution and Royal Family

Corbyn believes the royal ceremony for the

2017 UK general election that abolishing the monarchy is "not on anybody's agenda, it's certainly not on my agenda".[110]

Foreign affairs and defence

Corbyn and Hilary Benn meet with President Obama in April 2016

Corbyn does not consider himself an absolute pacifist and has named the

just war since 1945.[116][117]

He has made a link between British military interventions abroad, and terrorist attacks in the UK, saying that there was a link between "wars our government has supported or fought in other countries and terrorism here at home", making this statement following the Manchester Arena bombing in May 2017; and adding "None of those acts of terror are done in the name of Islam as I understand it, any more than attacks such as Timothy McVeigh in Oklahoma were done in the name of Christianity"[118][119]

Middle East

Corbyn has been vocal on

Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen.[122] He has called for Tony Blair to be investigated for alleged war crimes during the Iraq War.[123]

Palestine

Corbyn is a member of the

Electronic Intifada: "I think we have to push robustly for the limitation of arms supplies ... Israel is after all facing an investigation ... for war crimes, [at the International Criminal Court] as indeed are the Hamas forces on a much different or lesser scale".[125] In August 2016, Corbyn said: "I am not in favour of the academic or cultural boycott of Israel, and I am not in favour of a blanket boycott of Israeli goods. I do support targeted boycotts aimed at undermining the existence of illegal settlements in the West Bank."[126]

In June 2018, during his first international trip outside Europe since he was elected Labour leader, Corbyn said: "I think there has to be a recognition of the rights of the Palestinian people to their own state which we as a Labour Party said we would recognise in government as a full state as part of the United Nations."[127]

Hamas and Hezbollah

At a meeting hosted by Stop the War Coalition in 2009, Corbyn said he invited "friends" from Hamas and Hezbollah to an event in parliament, referred to Hamas as "an organisation dedicated towards the good of the Palestinian people and bringing about long term peace and social justice and political justice in the whole region" and said that the British government's labelling of Hamas as a terrorist organisation is "a big, big historical mistake".[128][129] Asked on Channel 4 News in July 2015 why he had called representatives from Hamas and Hezbollah "friends", Corbyn explained, "I use it in a collective way, saying our friends are prepared to talk," and that the specific occasion he used it was to introduce speakers from Hezbollah at a Parliamentary meeting about the Middle East. He said that he does not condone the actions of either organisation:

"Does it mean I agree with Hamas and what it does? No. Does it mean I agree with Hezbollah and what they do? No. What it means is that I think to bring about a peace process, you have to talk to people with whom you may profoundly disagree ... There is not going to be a peace process unless there is talks involving Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas and I think everyone knows that".[130]

Iran

Corbyn has spoken in favour of improved international relations with Iran and against its "demonisation" by Western countries, including at events organized to celebrate the Iranian Revolution.[131] Between 2009 and 2012 he appeared four times, earning $20,000 presenting on Iran's state-funded broadcaster Press TV, a decision criticised[132] Corbyn later said in 2016 that he had used his Press TV role to address "human rights issues". Business Insider said that although recordings of the appearances no longer existed, it was "not possible to say that Corbyn never raised human rights issues on any of his Press TV appearances".[133][134] Oliver Kamm, of The Times, however, states that, when Kamm appeared alongside Corbyn on Press TV, Corbyn never raised these issues.[134]

In 2014, Corbyn spoke at the Islamic Centre of England at an event celebrating the 35th anniversary of the Iranian Revolution. He praised Iran's "tolerance and acceptance of other faiths, traditions and ethnic groupings in Iran" and said "I respect Iran's history. I respect what brought about the revolution in 1979".[135][136][137]

Corbyn has called for the lifting

al-Quds Day rallies.[141]

Saudi Arabia

Corbyn has criticised Britain's close ties with

Saudi Arabia in Yemen, and called for the suspension of the arms sales to Saudi Arabia to show that we are wanting a peace process in Yemen, not an invasion by Saudi Arabia".[142]

Syria

In November 2014, Corbyn questioned subjective "legal obstacles" put in place for UK fighters returning from the Syrian Civil War, including those who had fought for

ISIS and the Syrian Government as well as the Free Syrian Army, arguing that "There are an awful lot of contradictions surrounding how we decide who is a good fighter and who is a terrorist; who is struggling for liberation and who is a terrorist". Corbyn said "I have no support for ISIS whatsoever, and obviously that should apply to someone who has committed crimes, but we should bear in mind that expressing a political point of view is not in itself an offence". He called on the Government to think about this rather more carefully and avoid the knee-jerk reaction of saying, "These are bad fighters and those are good fighters, so we will ban these and allow those in".[143]

In November 2015, Labour were split over whether to back air strikes in Syria.[144] However, Corbyn offered Labour MPs a free vote but made it clear that opposition to airstrikes is official Labour party policy, backed by the membership.[145] Corbyn thought that Prime Minister David Cameron did not make a "convincing case" that airstrikes would strengthen not undermine Britain's national security and "did not set out a coherent strategy, coordinated through the United Nations, for the defeat of (IS)" nor "explain what credible and acceptable ground forces could retake and hold territory freed from (IS) control by an intensified air campaign" and believed Cameron was "unable to explain the contribution of additional UK bombing to a comprehensive negotiated political settlement of the Syrian civil war, or its likely impact on the threat of terrorist attacks in the UK".[146]

In April 2017, the United States' airstrikes on a Syrian air base, in response to the use of chemical weapons by Assad, were opposed by Corbyn, saying it risked "escalating the war in Syria still further" and "unilateral military action without legal authorisation or independent verification risks intensifying a multi-sided conflict that has already killed hundreds of thousands of people". He instead suggested the international community should "reconvene the

Geneva peace talks and unrelenting international pressure for a negotiated settlement of the conflict".[147] He later added: "it's nobody's interests for this war to continue. Let's get the Geneva process going quickly. In the meantime, no more strikes. Have the UN investigation into the war crime of the use of chemical weapons in Syria and take it on from there" and to "bring about a political solution".[144]

In April 2018, responding to the U.S, UK and France airstrikes in Syria.[148] Corbyn called for an independent UN-led investigation of the chemical weapons attack so that those responsible can be held to account[149] and thought Prime Minister Theresa May should have sought parliamentary approval before taking military action.[148] Corbyn urged May to remember the lessons of intelligence failures in the buildup to the Iraq war and said: "There has to be a proper process of consultation. Cabinet on its own should not be making this decision."[148] Corbyn also called for 'war powers act' as check on military intervention that would force future UK governments to seek approval from parliament.[150]

Osama bin Laden

In an interview with Press TV, he stated about Osama bin Laden's death that there was "no attempt whatsoever that I can see to arrest him and put him on trial, to go through that process" and that "this was an assassination attempt, and is yet another tragedy, upon a tragedy, upon a tragedy". Corbyn said his view about the desirability of putting bin Laden on trial was shared by Boris Johnson and Barack Obama.[151][152][153]

NATO and Ukraine

In April 2014, Corbyn wrote an article for the

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). He said the "root of the crisis" lay in "the US drive to expand eastwards" and described Russia's actions as "not unprovoked".[154] He has said it "probably was" a mistake to allow former Warsaw Pact countries to join NATO: "NATO expansion and Russian expansion – one leads to the other, and one reflects the other".[154][155] Corbyn's views on Ukraine, Russia, and NATO were criticised by a number of writers, including Halya Coynash of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group,[156] Anne Applebaum in The Sunday Times,[157] Ben Judah in The Independent,[158] and Roger Boyes in The Times.[159] Writing for The Daily Telegraph, Edward Lucas saw Corbyn as having a "desire to appease Russia by sacrificing Ukraine" and said that Corbyn's "anti-imperialist sentiments did not stretch to understanding countries such as Ukraine".[160] Lithuanian ambassador Asta Skaisgirytė disagreed with Corbyn's portrayal of NATO, saying her country was not "forced or lured into NATO as part of an American global power grab. We were pounding on the door of the alliance, demanding to be let in".[161]

Corbyn told The Guardian in August 2015: "I am not an admirer or supporter of Putin's foreign policy, or of Russian or anybody else's expansion". Corbyn would like to pull the United Kingdom out of NATO,[162] but has acknowledged that there is not an appetite for it among the public and instead intends to push for NATO to "restrict its role".[163]

Falklands

In 1982 Corbyn opposed the sending of British troops sent to retake the islands during the

Cristina Kirchner who described him as a "great friend of Latin America".[166]

Cuba

Corbyn is a longtime supporter of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, which campaigns against the US embargo against Cuba and supports the Cuban Revolution.[167][168][169] In November 2016, following the death of former communist President of Cuba Fidel Castro,[170] Corbyn said that Castro, despite his "flaws", was a "huge figure of modern history, national independence and 20th Century socialism...Castro's achievements were many".[171]

Venezuela

A proponent of the

2017 Venezuelan Constitutional Assembly election, which was condemned and not recognized by over 40 nations,[175] including the European Union,[176] pressure was mounted on Corbyn to speak out against President Maduro's election.[174] Corbyn condemned "violence done by all sides" but did not personally criticise Maduro.[172]

Chagos Islands

Corbyn was chair of the

US President Barack Obama about the matter.[178]

Catalonia

Following the

2017 Catalan independence referendum, Corbyn said that Spain should stop the "police violence against citizens in #Catalonia".[179] He also said that Theresa May should intervene and call on Mariano Rajoy to find a "political solution to this constitutional crisis".[180][181]

Nuclear weapons

Corbyn at Global Justice Now, 2015

Corbyn is strongly opposed to

replacement of Britain's Trident nuclear weapons system, and supports the creation of a Defence Diversification Agency to assist the transfer of jobs and skills to the civilian sector.[184][185] In his leadership election campaign, Corbyn suggested that the 11,000 jobs supported by Trident could be replaced by "socially productive" jobs in renewable energy, railways and housing.[186] Corbyn hinted he might allow party members who support Trident replacement to back it in a free vote,[187] but also said that defence chiefs would be under instructions not to use nuclear weapons under any circumstances if he was Prime Minister.[188]

During the

Labour Party (UK) leadership election, 2016, Corbyn reiterated his position, vowing to vote against Trident on 18 July "I will be voting against continuous at-sea deterrent, because it rules out any compliance with the nuclear non-proliferation treaty”. Corbyn allowed a free vote on the issue, with 140 MPs voting in favour of Trident in line with the party's longstanding policy and 47 joining Corbyn in voting against".[189] Afterwards, Corbyn reiterated his position that the UK should "move rapidly towards [nuclear] disarmament".[189] Since over half of the Labour MPs voted against Corbyn's position, The Daily Telegraph billed this event as "the biggest rebellion of his leadership" and reported that "Corbyn was told by his backbenchers that he was holding Labour members in 'contempt'" by voting against the party's pro-Trident policy.[190]

The Labour

2017 general election manifesto said "any prime minister should be extremely cautious about ordering the use of weapons of mass destruction", adding that "As a nuclear armed power, our country has a responsibility to fulfil our international obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Labour will lead multilateral efforts ... to create a nuclear free world".[191] Corbyn said he would "respect the decision" of the party not to commit to nuclear disarmament but declined to say that he had changed his own position[192] He added that there would be a review to "look at the role of nuclear weapons" if Labour won.[192]

North Korea

Corbyn stated during

US, that the UK should not get involved in any military action with the country, saying that, "our government must not drag our country into any military action over the Korea crisis, including joint exercises" and that there could be "no question of blind loyalty to the erratic and belligerent Trump administration".[193] He further added that "any nuclear conflict over North Korea today would kill millions of innocent people in the Korean peninsula and beyond".[194]

Kosovo

Corbyn opposed the

Early Day motion which praised John Pilger for his "expose" of the "fraudulent justifications for intervening in a 'genocide' that never really existed" during the buildup to the Kosovo War.[195][196]

Turkey

He has opposed Turkish bombing of

2016 EU referendum, he was going to travel to Turkey to make a speech calling for Turkey to join the EU, but stopped these travel plans after fears from the remain campaign that this would "sabotage the campaign to keep us in Europe".[198][199]

United States

Corbyn has said he would want with the

US President, Donald Trump, "seems determined to add to the dangers [in the global situation] by recklessly escalating the confrontation with North Korea, unilaterally launching missile strikes on Syria, opposing President Obama’s nuclear arms deal with Iran and backing a new nuclear arms race".[200] Following Trump's withdrawal of the US from the Paris Agreement, he said it was a "very big shame", further saying that "Donald Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the Paris climate change deal is reckless and dangerous".[201][202]

Privacy and surveillance

Although previously denouncing the extension of mass surveillance as a "travesty of parliamentary democracy"[203] and pledging to protect British citizens from "unwarranted snooping on their online activities by the security services" as part of a "people's charter of digital liberties", Corbyn has supported the Investigatory Powers Act 2016, nicknamed the "snooper's charter" by its opponents.[204] Whistleblower Edward Snowden described the Act as "the most extreme surveillance in the history of western democracy. It goes further than many autocracies".[205]

European Union

In the

1975 European Communities referendum put forward by the Labour Party in the United Kingdom, Corbyn opposed Britain's membership of the EEC.[206] Corbyn also opposed the ratification of the Maastricht Treaty in 1993, saying: "... the whole basis of the Maastricht treaty is the establishment of a European central bank which is staffed by bankers, independent of national Governments and national economic policies, and whose sole policy is the maintenance of price stability[.] That will undermine any social objective that any Labour Government in the United Kingdom—or any other Government—would wish to carry out. ... The Maastricht treaty does not take us in the direction of the checks and balances contained in the American federal constitution[.] It takes us in the opposite direction of an unelected legislative body—the [European] Commission—and, in the case of foreign policy, a policy Commission that will be, in effect, imposing foreign policy on nation states that have fought for their own democratic accountability".[207][208][209]

Corbyn also opposed the

2015 Greek crisis, accusing the EU of allowing financiers to destroy its economy.[212][213]

In July 2015, Corbyn said that if Prime Minister

Pro-European Labour MPs and campaigners already fear Corbyn's allegedly lukewarm attitude towards the EU may convince Labour voters towards withdrawal.[206] However, in September 2015, Corbyn said that Labour would campaign for Britain to stay in the EU regardless of the result of Cameron's negotiations, and instead pledged "to reverse any changes" if Cameron reduced the rights of workers or citizens.[215] He also believed that Britain should play a crucial role in Europe by making demands about working arrangements across the continent, the levels of corporation taxation and in forming an agreement on environmental regulation.[54]

Corbyn made a speech on April 14, 2016,[216] in which he supported the EU; but in which he also appeared to repeat some of the claims of the Leave campaign: "Over the years I have been critical of many decisions taken by the EU, and I remain critical of its shortcomings; from its lack of democratic accountability to the institutional pressure to deregulate or privatise public services".[212] He summarised his stance as being "for ‘Remain – and Reform’ in Europe".[217]

In June 2016, in the run-up to the

EU referendum, Corbyn said that there was an "overwhelming case" for staying in the EU. In a speech in London, Corbyn said "We, the Labour Party, are overwhelmingly for staying in, because we believe the European Union has brought investment, jobs and protection for workers, consumers and the environment". Corbyn also criticised media coverage and warnings from both sides, saying that the debate had been dominated too much by "myth-making and prophecies of doom".[216] In the same speech,[218] Corbyn listed various criticisms of the EU, and stated: "that’s not to say we can be satisfied with the European Union as it is".[219] He also rejected the claims that leaving the European Union would lead to a "year-long recession", implying that George Osborne had made the claim in error, adding "This is the same George Osborne who predicted his austerity policies would close the deficit by 2015. That's now scheduled for 2021".[219]

In July 2017, Corbyn said that Britain could not remain in the single market after leaving the EU, saying that membership of the single market was "dependent on membership of the EU". Shadow Minister Barry Gardiner later clarified that Corbyn meant that Labour interpreted the referendum result as wanting to leave the single market, with others pointing out that several countries are in the single market but not in the EU.[220][221]

Trade unions

Tolpuddle Martyrs' Festival and Rally

He was one of sixteen signatories to an open letter to then-Labour Leader Ed Miliband in January 2015 calling for Labour to strengthen collective bargaining arrangements.[33]

Corbyn is in favour of repealing a government proposed trade union bill[222] which he has described as a "threat to us all". This bill, would require higher strike voting thresholds (40% of members of a union in protected sectors like health, education, fire, transport and border security[223]), place restrictions on strikes in key areas such as transport, and prevent unions from charging members a political levy unless they specifically agree (currently members can be charged unless they opt out).[48] He would also repeal legislation that bans workers from secondary strikes, which are strikes from workers in support of a strike initiated by workers in a different organisation.[49]

Environment and animal rights

Corbyn has been a strong advocate for environmentalism. During his leadership bid in 2015, he published a "Protecting Our Planet Manifesto", detailing plans for a "Green Investment Bank" that would invest in green technologies such as renewable energy. He advocates a ban on

nuclear power stations,[224][225] and has advocated the re-opening of some of Britain's coal mines, while stressing that 'substantial coal fire generation' be of 'clean burn technology' and carbon neutral.[226][227]

Corbyn has been a long-time campaigner on

Yulin Dog Meat Festival.[228][229][230] He sponsored two Early Day Motions relating to the McLibel case.[231]

Abortion

Corbyn has supported

rape during warfare.[233][234] He has pledged to extend the 1967 Abortion Act to Northern Ireland.[73]

Cannabis

In 2000, Corbyn signed an Early Day Motion calling for the decriminalisation of cannabis.

2016 Labour leadership election, Corbyn called for the decriminalisation of cannabis for medicinal purposes, but said that he wouldn't support legalising recreational drugs. He said about them that he wanted people to be "educated away from" taking drugs, and further stated that he "would also want to look at supporting people who want to get out of the drugs trade in other parts of the world because there is the horrors of the drugs war that's going on in Central America".[238][239]

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