George Lansbury: an East End hero

Speaker: Jeremy Corbyn MP
Time: 8:00 PM
Venue: Islington Town Hall, Upper Street, London N1

Jeremy Corbyn has been MP for Islington North since 1983 and is widely regarded for his devotion to his constituency. His biography is available at http://www.jeremycorbyn.org.uk/abou-jeremy-corbyn/ .

George Lansbury was born in 1859 and began his career as a rising star in the Liberal Party before moving to the embryonic Independent Labour Party. His Parliamentary career was punctuated by a spell in Pentonville Prison in 1913 when he was charged with sedition, resulting from his support of the Suffragette movement. An immensely popular figure in the East End, where he campaigned tirelessly for the working classes, he is revered nearly 70 years after his death in May 1940. As a pacifist leader of the Labour Party in the 1930s he was a controversial figure inside and outside the party, and his words on pacifism resonate with equal controversy to this day.