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by Les May

TODAY in Geneva, Jeremy Corbyn was awarded a highly prestigious International peace prize.  But of course you knew that already because it has been plastered over the TV news and the press.  Or perhaps you blinked and missed it.

Corbyn was awarded the Sean MacBride Peace Prize – an award dedicated to the memory of peace campaigner Sean MacBride, a Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1974.  As well as winning the Nobel Peace Prize, the namesake of the award, Sean MacBride, was a founding member of Amnesty International, a charity set up by ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Se%C3%A1n_MacBride
Corbyn was handed the prestigious award for his ‘sustained and powerful political work for disarmament and peace’, and, unlike almost all other mainstream Western politicians, for looking for ‘alternatives to war’.
The press release from the International Peace Bureau says:
'Jeremy Corbyn – for his sustained and powerful political work for disarmament and peace. As an active member, vice-chair and now vice-president of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the UK he has for many years worked to further the political message of nuclear disarmament. As the past chair of the Stop the War Campaign in the UK he has worked for peace and alternatives to war. As a member of parliament in the UK he has, for 34 years continually taken that work for justice, peace and disarmament to the political arena both in and outside of Parliament. He has ceaselessly stood by the principles, which he has held for so long, to ensure true security and well-being for all – for his constituents, for the citizens of the UK and for the people of the world. Now, as leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition he continues to carry his personal principles into his political life – stating openly that he could not press the nuclear button and arguing strongly for a re-orientation of priorities – to cut military spending and spend instead on health, welfare and education.'


You can download the full press release here:
http://www.ipb.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Press-release_MacBride-Peace-Prize-2017.pdf