Episode 39: Who Killed the Corbyn Project?

First aired on 22 October 2022

How the Corbyn project was destroyed? The news channel Al Jazeera obtained the largest leak of documents in British political history. The internal emails of the Labour Party revealed scandal upon scandal.

The Labour Files series of documentaries showed an internal party bureaucracy which worked relentlessly against both the membership and specific political figures who were supportive of the Jeremy Corbyn leadership.

Much of this was fixated on demonizing supporters of Palestine and disqualifying them from membership of the party.

Evidence of false allegations of homophobia, to force support for Corbyn's competitor Angela Eagle, started as early as 2015.

Members were mercilessly smeared with untrue claims. Was this a test run for the fake antisemitism crisis which helped bring down Corbyn?

Another episode in the series showed the Head of Internal Governance in the Labour Party, Claire Francis Fuller, joking about stabbing Jeremy Corbyn in a WhatsApp group with other Labour staff. She was not held accountable and is now a Senior Communications Manager at the British NHS.

It also reveals Labour Councillor Izzy Lenga twisting an example of previously alleged antisemitism at university and projecting it onto the Labour party to create a false impression. It was, of course, not mentioned that Lenga trained with the Israeli military. She entered through the Marva training program, which Palestine Declassified has previously pointed out can be accessed through the Union of Jewish Students.

The series also shows Dan Fox, the head of Labour Friends of Israel and partner of Labour Blairite MP Stella Creasy, cavorting with Islamophobes. Dan Fox fought as a British soldier in Afghanistan, and we can reveal that he is still part of British Military Intelligence.

The series also shows the party functionaries spying on local membership in the borough of Newham. They stalked members and collected private information on them for the purpose of investigation.

The surveillance of these members then aided the party in expelling them.

Evidence of Labour hacking the emails of a local newspaper in Croydon was also revealed.

The series denuded the party as a criminal conspiracy against its own members. The Labour Party functions not as an expression of its members' will but as a surveillance system repressing labour in the interests of capital.

It is a weapon in the British establishment's class war toolbox. It was before, during, and after the Corbyn era. The party appears to be concerned with narrowing rather than broadening political participation. But the Labour Files are also an indictment of the political and media culture of the country as a whole.

A conscious decision was made at the highest level of the Corbyn-led party to appease enemies of progress, thus sacrificing members and long-time allies in the hope that those forces of regression might grant some respite. They didn't, and thousands have suffered.

Today, Palestine Declassified delves into how exactly the party was captured by key Israel lobby groups.