Corbyn approved of the demonstration currently camped outside St Paul’s Cathedral, adding that as a young man he would have been on the streets protesting against the rise of capitalism. “A few people have got very rich, whilst a lot of people are in poverty. We need to share our resources and respect cultures and diversity, not spend money going to war.”
“The protestors’ strength is that there are no leaders and they share the view of the people - no one is able to attack them.”
Corbyn’s left-wing stance has developed since he was a young schoolboy growing up in Shropshire. “I was a minority of one in my school. My classmates used to boast about what animals they had killed on the weekend’s hunt, whilst I refused to join the Cadets on conscientious objection. The head teacher told me I would never make anything of my life.”
But Corbyn’s past experiences helped build his passion for human rights activism.
“In Buenos Aires I watched three police officers walk up to a communist journalist and shoot him. I was arrested for protesting at his funeral the next day,” said Corbyn.
“It was pretty stupid of me to go to that protest, but I was so angry about what I had seen.”
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