Abstract
In September 2015, Jeremy Corbyn, a veteran left-winger, won the UK Labour Party leadership election convincingly on a distinctly anti-austerity agenda, despite having pitted himself against the establishment candidates. The result surprised many observers as well as many in the Labour Party, who asked themselves how a somewhat scruffy 67-year-old self-proclaimed socialist had achieved such popularity, especially among young people, in such a short period of time.
‘They Cut, We Bleed’
(anti-austerity slogan)
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Unsurprisingly, Vodafone refuted the £6bn calculated by Private Eye (2010), describing it as ‘an urban myth’.
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Cammaerts, B. (2018). Introduction. In: The Circulation of Anti-Austerity Protest. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70123-3_1
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