Corbyn campaign against Murdoch News UK TV channel

 Former Labor leader calls for ‘free and accountable’ media launch of his Peace and Justice Project.

Jeremy Corbyn pledged to campaign against the arrival of Rupert Murdoch News UK television channel  he launched his Peace and Justice Project at an online rally.

media is one of four causes Corbyn is encouraging his supporters to back. He also urged them  help with organizing direct support in communities, such as food banks; campaign for a green new deal  and press the government to speed up the delivery of Corvid vaccines in developing countries. So many of the ideas we need to make the 2020s better than the 2010 were developed in and around the party in recent years, by outstanding thinkers, but more importantly by demands of our movements, and the skills, knowledge and needs of the communities affected

broadcasting regulator, Offcomer,  last month to Murdoch’s right-leaning news channel, which is expected to be on air for four to five hours a night. It is expected to compete with the pair racing to be the first on air.

Corbyn repeatedly criticized the role of the media in public life during his time as a leader of the opposition. He was ridiculed in some of Murdoch’s newspaper, with the Sun front page on election day in 2017 urging its readers: “Don’t chuck Britain in the Cor-bin.”

Corbyn at the Edinburgh television festival in 2018 calling for a taxpayer-owned British Digital Corporation to offset the power of multinational corporations in the media, though the policy never found its way into Labor’s manifesto.

 digital rally also featured Greece’s former finance minister Yantis Varoufakis and the Labor MP for Coventry South, Zerah Sultana.

will not be signing up members but Corbyn hopes to play a convening role in bringing together activists, trade unions and other leftwing groups.

Setting out the aims of his new political venture, he appeared to take a sideswipe at his successor, saying: “If you refuse to argue for your side, our opponents win by default.” Some of Corbyn’s allies believe Starmer has not been sufficiently robust in attacking Boris Johnson’s government – and fear backsliding from some of the radical policies set out in the 2019 general election manifesto.