"Our timeless task in the Labour Party
is to stand up against injustice wherever we find it. That notion has driven me
throughout my political life – and it’s what drove me to
stand for Parliament in the first
place."
Jeremy Corbyn.
I have been proud to be a trade union rep, a trade union official, a
local councillor and a Labour MP for the last 32 years. My purpose in every
role has been to share that power, providing a platform to the voiceless, at
home and abroad, and to stand up with them.
I am now asking for your support to become Labour
leader. I want that role for the same reason – to work with you to right the
many wrongs we see around us.
Our party must become a social movement again. It
was founded to stand up to injustice, and too often we have lost our way,
ignored our supporters or been cowed by powerful commercial interests and the
press.
Austerity policies are harming people’s life
chances and taking away opportunities. We must reject the notion that the
journey to prosperity tramples over people – and become an anti-austerity
movement. You can’t build a fair economy by casting people aside.
No leader has a monopoly on wisdom, so we need to
organise like a social movement too, building on our party’s unique base: our
trade union link to millions of working people, our quarter of a million
members, and our growing band of registered supporters.
The more we exclude them, the weaker we are. The
more we involve them, the stronger we will be. So to win, our party must draw
on its greatest strength: the people.
Ours is a movement to give people hope – the hope
of a better world, with less injustice and more equality, peace and solidarity.
Together we need to agree policies that will achieve those goals and then
campaign for them, winning more people over to these principles – and giving
them hope.
If that vision inspires you like it inspires me, then join us to deliver
it together.
Contact
email info@jeremyforlabour.com or call 0333 444 1945.
Jeremy's campaign team are on Twitter at @Corbyn4Leader whilst
Jeremy himself is @JeremyCorbyn,
You can also join the campaign on Facebook.
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