{"id":311157,"date":"2017-06-03T19:50:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T18:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-progressive-senator-backs-uk-labour-party-leader\/"},"modified":"2017-06-03T19:50:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-03T18:50:41","slug":"us-progressive-senator-backs-uk-labour-party-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-progressive-senator-backs-uk-labour-party-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"US progressive senator backs UK Labour Party leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US Senator Bernie Sanders has voiced support for UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the southern British seaside resort of Brighton at ceremony promoting his book, the 75-year-old American politician said he was impressed by the British Labour leader and his\u00a0efforts to reach out to the grassroots and transform the UK Labour party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat has impressed \u2026 is he has taken on the establishment of the Labour party, he has gone to the grassroots and he has tried to transform that party,\u201d said Sanders on Thursday shortly after getting off the plane.<\/p>\n<p>The former Democratic presidential candidate praised Corbyn, 68, for his willingness to address class issues, saying most politicians avoid talking about the subject of class conflict due to the sensitivity of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u201cI am also impressed by his willingness to talk about class issues\u2026. Too many people run away from the grotesque levels of income and wealth inequality that exist&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/06\/03\/524119\/US-Sanders-UK-Corbyn\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Senator Bernie Sanders has voiced support for UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Speaking at the southern British seaside resort of Brighton at ceremony promoting his book, the 75-year-old American politician said he was impressed by the British Labour leader and his\u00a0efforts to reach out to the grassroots and transform the UK Labour party. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-311157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}