How to deal with hostile press? Be bold!
Some lessons can be learnt from the press “exposés” about the Labour left and Momentum during the Labour leadership campaign. First, it is worth restating, the press is not interested in representing the views of the left fairly. The media are not just gunning for the Trotskyists, they have the whole left in their targets. Many Momentum activists have rightly expressed frustration and exasperation at the press’s treatment of Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour left. Sometimes the clamour for fair treatment by the press comes from a position of forgivable naivety. Many are new to the left and have not...