Corbyn is the chair of Stop the War Coalition. Flickr/Chris Beckett. Some rights reserved.
In 'The Boy in the Bubble', Paul Simon sang 'every generation throws a hero up the pop charts' and the latest political star is Jeremy Corbyn, an austere and likeable man who has become the focus of enthusiastic anti-austerity activism in Britain. He could even win the Labour leadership in September with far-reaching consequences for Labour, current government policy on Iraq and Syria and, if Prime Minister, British foreign policy.
There's something of the old gospel revivalism about Corbyn's campaign, which has set the leadership contest alight and is attracting large crowds at rallies across the UK. Many are young, some are older and others are seasoned hard left cadres who, like Corbyn, have decades of activism under their belts.
