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Jeremy Corbyn will be stepping down as leader of the Labour Party when a new leader is elected, and says that he’ll continue to fight as an MP for the principles of the manifesto and socialism. Corbyn won his seat with a majority of 26,188. In the face of relentless attacks and character assassination Corbyn has continued to fight for the rights of the most vulnerable in society. In Corbyn’s speech he paid tribute to his family for coping with the media attacks on him.

Fascism is gaining power around the world. And when faced with fascism and socialism, right-wing/centrists will unfortunately always choose fascism. The left remains the only force that can not only defeat the right but also eliminate the conditions that nurtured its rise. The radical center helped make this crisis.

Moving the Labour party back towards neoliberalism will just further enable fascism. A reminder that the Brexit referendum was called by David Cameron, a so-called “moderate” Tory, trying to appease the far-right. Labour primarily lost seats because leavers voted for the Tories due to the Labour policy of having a second referendum. The Labour Party must not sell out the vulnerable and move towards more austerity and become “tory-lite” again.

We will await the final election results, but it appears that the main issues that helped the Tories included the Labour policy of a second referendum and the refusal of the right-wing/centrists of the Labour Party to support a left-wing Labour government. The right-wing/centrists of the Labour Party pushed for a second referendum, likely knowing it would lead to a Labour loss. Their aim was always to get rid of Jeremy Corbyn above all else. Look at the “moderates” who said they couldn’t vote Labour this election, but thus enabled a far-right racist Tory government.

For centrists it was never truly about stopping brexit or racism, it was about stopping a left-wing Labour government. For the working class, it was about Brexit and they flocked to the Tories to “Get Brexit Done”. And now if the Tories do win a majority, there will be hard brexit and no second referendum. The Tories were never held to account by the media for their lies, for the deaths caused by their austerity, for the Black citizens who died because of their Windrush scandal, and the horrific rates of child poverty. Boris Johnson got selfies whilst he openly coddled the far-right, and Jeremy Corbyn got a systematic campaign of character assassination whilst he tried to advocate for the most vulnerable in society and their human rights. We must organise and fight for our rights more than ever before.