Beard Liberation Front
PRESS RELEASE 8th November
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CAMPAIGNERS SAY JEREMY CORBYN’S BEARD IS IN THE TRADITION OF KEIR HARDIE NOT MARX
by George Charles Beresford, sepia-toned platinotype print, 1905
The Beard Liberation Front, the informal network of beard wearers, has said that with the Election campaign underway familiar criticism that Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn is a ‘marxist’ has appeared again.
The criticism is often linked with his beard. For example an article in the right-wing Spectator magazine by Melissa Kite (22nd June 2019) referred to Corbyn as a ‘great bearded Marxist’.
The campaigners say such references reflect pogonophobic prejudice.
In reality Corbyn’s beard is firmly in the great social-democratic tradition of the first Labour Leader Keir Hardie
BLF Organiser Keith Flett said Karl Marx had a fine beard, but his beard was not the only facial hair style on the left and Jeremy Corbyn’s beard can be found to stand in the hirsute tradition of Keir Hardie
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