The Stop the War Coalition held its Christmas party on Friday and Jeremy Corbyn was a star guest and speaker.
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A quarter of voters believe the radical left-winger is “turning out to be a good leader of the Labour Party” compared with 17% for his predecessor in the months after he was elected, the ComRes survey for The Independent on Sunday and Sunday Mirror finds.
Jeremy Corbyn has launched a staunch defence of the Stop the War Coalition in the face of criticism from senior figures in his own party.
Mr Corbyn has also come under fire this weekend for his links to the Stop the War coalition.
He said: “Those of us who’ve attended the National Policy Forum have valued the chance of a more detailed, two-way policy dialogue including all sections of the party”.
Commentators have constantly attacked the organisation for alleged pro-Saddam Hussein and pro-Bashar al Assad stand points.
“Stop the War has nothing to apologise for and much to be proud of”.
Almashi is a constituent of Corbyn and was quoted approvingly by the Labour leader during his House of Commons speech against bombing ISIS targets in Syria.
But Chris Nineham, one of the founders of Stop the War, told Today that Reynolds was telling “untruths” and was engaging in “tittle tattle and smears”.
‘But there are some people in the party, who I call the Bitterites, who want to continue the war that they lost.
‘He’s a different man, isn’t he?’ “Do you just want him to say ‘sorry, I’m not going to do it”?
MPs at the meeting demanded Mr Corbyn explain the proposals to them in person early in the new year, The IoS understands.
Appearing on the BBC’s Sunday Politics programme, the shadow treasury minister Richard Burgon, said: ‘The attacks on Stop the War are proxy attacks on Jeremy Corbyn.
“We haven’t had this previously”.
For his stance, Stop the War dubbed him “Bomber Benn” and published a blog which argued: “Benn does not even seem to realize [sic] that the jihadist movement that ultimately spawned Daesh [Islamic State] is far closer to the spirit of internationalism and solidarity that drove the International Brigades than Cameron’s bombing campaign – except that the international jihad takes the form of solidarity with oppressed Muslims, rather than the working class or the socialist revolution”.
After the Paris attacks in which 130 people died, the group posted an article which said the French capital “reaps the whirlwind of Western support for extremist violence in the Middle East”.
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Mr Corbyn, who used to chair the group, has said he will continue to support it, including attending a fundraising event this week. “It’s the job of Jeremy and all of us in position in the Labour Party to make sure that the Labour Party gets back in touch”.
