When the Guardian reported Jeremy Corbyn had sung the leftist anthem at a rally,it sparked a furious debate among readers as to the song’s provenanceJournalists are always on the lookout for a specific moment that captures and defines the event he or she is covering. For Ewen MacAskill there was such moment at a rally during Jeremy Corbyn’s election campaign when the future Labour leader sang the Bandiera Rossa with the crowd. It became the first paragraph of MacAskill’s story published on 18 September:“Jeremy Corbyn still speaks approximately it wistfully – a rally in Glasgow’s conventional Fruitmarket that turned into one of themost emotional moments of his leadership campaign. At the end of his speech, in front of a crowd of 1000, or he clapped and – unlike in St Paul’s – sang along to the Spanish civil war anthem Bandiera Rossa.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com