2 THE NEW WORKER 18.12.2020 THE NEW Corbyn launches WORKER Weekly paper of the New Communist Party new peace and

Tidings of comfort and joy justice campaign SADLY, there’s not much sign of ‘glad tidings’ during by Jason Dunn “Injustices and threats at new project and urged followers the festive season overshadowed by the coronavirus home and abroad cannot be to sign up. plague that has swept through Britain this year. Whilst FORMER Labour leader Jer- separated. What’s happened this John McDonnell MP called the people’s democracies spared no effort and moved emy Corbyn unveiled on Sun- year has shown us how connect- it a “brilliant new initiative”. day his new project to promote ed we all are. Fellow MP Claudia Webbe said swiftly to counter the threat, the governments in the international co-operation and “We need solidarity beyond the new initiative will focus on imperialist heartlands dithered, putting profits above establish cross-country ties to our borders and across com- combating poverty, inequality people’s health that led to the premature deaths of tackle issues such as racism munities to solve our common and unaccountable corporate hundreds of thousands of people throughout the cap- and climate change. Since the problems together. The Peace power; and promote peace, italist world. election defeat in December and Justice Project is there to global co-operation and climate No-one has died from COVID-19 in Democratic Korea, 2019, the left-wing movement create space, hope and opportu- justice; self-determination, de- and only a handful of fatalities were recorded in Laos and surrounding the leadership of nity,” he added. mocracy and human rights. Vietnam. There have been 137 deaths in Cuba and 4,634 was consid- He ended the announcement Tommy Corbyn, the son in People’s China where the outbreak supposedly began. ered to have come to an end. by saying that: “This year, many of the former Labour leader, The USA tops the list with over 17 million cases and With continued opposition of us have felt powerless in implied in a tweet that the an- nearly 300,000 fatalities. Brazil comes next with over from the Labour Party, how- the face of forces beyond our nouncement was designed to 181,000 deaths, closely followed by India’s 143,000. Sad- ever, the former leader has set control. It does not have to be circumvent systemic hurdles at ly, Britain is also in this grim top 10 with around 65,000 up a new campaign to promote like that. Things can – and they present facing Corbyn and his deaths – the second largest death toll in Europe. his political values. will – change.” political values. The roll-out of the first COVID-19 vaccine hopefully In an announcement on so- The launch event in Janu- This comes as Corbyn fac- will reverse the trend and bring an end to the pandemic cial media, the 71-year-old MP ary will include major guests es opposition from within the next year. The labour movement must campaign for a re- for Islington North launched the and speakers including former Labour Party, having had the covery plan to get people back to work when the crisis is Peace and Justice Project, which Greek left social-democratic Whip removed in October for over whilst ensuring a safe return to the workplace when is set to begin in January 2021. Finance Minister Yanis Varou- having described the crisis of it does. In the meantime we must continue to fight for the “Today I’m announcing a fakis, Labour MP for anti-Semitism in the Labour continuation and extension of the emergency measures new project for the new year.” South Zarah Sultana, UNITE the Party as “exaggerated” follow- to protect health and jobs until life can return to normal. Corbyn said. “The coronavirus Union leader Len McCluskey, ing the release of the Equality pandemic has exposed and and South African communist and Human Rights Commission deepened the scale of injustice and Nelson Mandela’s minister (EHRC) report in the wake of and inequality in our society. Its for government, Ronnie Kasrils. leaked documents, originally In bleak midwinter mishandling and devastating hu- According to the Peace and intended so that the equalities Furloughs, tiers and lockdowns – no matter what hap- man consequences have shown Justice Project’s mission state- body might help to provide more pens, workers will make the best of the festive season. the inability of a privatised, ment on their newly launched context to the accusations of an- We may have an incompetent Tory premier and a La- hollowed-out system to meet the website, the organisation “will ti-Semitism, which revealed that bour party led by an equally useless leader. We are still in challenges of our time.” back campaigns, commission officials right up to the top of the the middle of a pandemic that has spread sickness, misery Corbyn said that the world- reports and develop progressive Labour Party actively worked to and unemployment in its wake. But at least we can look wide appeal of the Black Lives networks in Britain and across undermine Corbyn’s chances in at the bright future that is already being built on the island Matter (BLM) movement, the world”. the 2017 general election. of Cuba and in the people’s democracies of Asia, as well which saw protests erupt across “The Peace and Justice Pro- Many supporters have urged as the growth of the communist movement throughout the the world in opposition primar- ject will work with labour and Corbyn to begin a new political ily to policy brutality and the social movements and provide party as a left-wing alternative world in recent years. “scourge of racism”, as well as platforms to those campaigning to the leadership of the Labour The bourgeoisie have nothing to look forward to in the wildfires in many countries for change for the many, not the Party under his successor, Sir the New Year. The determined resistance of the masses driving home that “none of us few,” it said. . has thwarted the imperialist drive for regime change in are safe from the climate crisis”, Allies of – and former shad- Iran, Syria and Venezuela. The Yemenis are beating back prove that issues should be tack- ow cabinet ministers under – American-inspired Saudi aggression on the Arabian pen- led internationally. Jeremy Corbyn welcomed the Sputnik insula, and the Palestinian Arabs remain steadfast despite the treachery of the feudal Arab rulers who have sold out to Zionism and US imperialism. Donald Trump may have built some of his wall along the Mexican border, but his attempt to “Make America Great Again” on the pillars of racism and white supremacy was not enough to secure his re-election last month. Gone are the days of the gurus who said that com- munism was finished and that this was going to be the “New American Century”. Gone are the media pundits who told us that the greatest virtue that anyone could possibly have was the possession of the largest amount of money. The entire wealth of the world comes from workers in factories and peasants tilling the land. Yet beyond the peo- ple’s democracies working people only receive a miserable fraction of the wealth they produce through their labour. At the same time, the ruling elite live the lives of Roman emperors through the capitalist system that guarantees them ease, health and everything else money can buy – all off the backs of the workers. Socialism will end this rotten system once and for all. The sooner the better! • Corbyn launches new project.