James Schneider - Progressive International's PR and director of James Corbyn's campaign for the 2024 UK general election - joins Cross-border Talks to offer progressive perspectives on a range of current issues: the anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim riots in the UK, the election results and policy platform of UK Labour Party leader Keir Starmer, UK-EU relations and the war in the Middle East. 
Schneider is deeply sceptical of Starmer's ability and intention to offer progressive change, and believes that he is merely offering a bit of nuance to the traditional politics of the status quo in the UK - both in the social and economic spheres and with regard to US-UK relations. Asked who was the vanguard of progressive forces in the Middle East, a region taken over by various fundamentalisms, Schneider said that the first ambition and commitment of progressive forces there should be to end the war in Gaza and stop the Israeli war machine. 
At the end of the talk, Schneider comments on Corbyn's political future, pointing to the unrelenting need for the left to organise, mobilise and fight for progressive change, no matter what the circumstances and dire straits.

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