Jeremy Corbyn’s call for ‘peace’ plays into the hands of anti-western dictators

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Jeremy Corbyn’s call for ‘peace’ plays into the hands of anti-western dictators

To support arms for Ukraine and defending Red Sea shipping is part of Labour’s anti-fascist tradition, writes Paul MasonTwo years ago in Madrid, I watched Jeremy Corbyn launch a pan-European campaign to end arms supplies to Ukraine. As he did so, a friend in the Ukrainian army sent me a photo of the machine gun that he’d been issued with: it was made in 1944. If the west had not poured billions of pounds worth of arms and ammunition into Ukraine…