Corbyn launches petition demanding Burnham back Gaza enquiry

Corbyn launches petition demanding Burnham publicly back Gaza enquiry

Your Party parliamentary leader Jeremy Corbyn is asking for the public’s help to pressure Makerfield by-election candidate Andy Burnham into confirming he will back an independent inquiry into UK collusion in Israel’s genocide. Corbyn wrote to the Greater Manchester mayor in May 2026 asking Burnham to say publicly that he will back an inquiry. Burnham did not respond.

Now Corbyn wants members of the public, particularly but not exclusively in Makerfield, to sign a petition demanding Burnham state unequivocally that he will back an inquiry – and arrange it if he wins the by-election and a leadership election.

The British public deserves to know the full scale of its government’s complicity in genocide. That’s why I will continue to push for an independent, public inquiry.

We will not give up until there is justice for the people of Palestine.https://t.co/X0HlSxpGCg

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) May 26, 2026

Friends of genocide – except Corbyn

Burnham, at least formerly a supporter of Labour Friends of Israel (LFI), is surrounded by concerns over his closeness to the UK Israel lobby. Disgraced, Israel-supporting incumbent Josh Simons quit in order to trigger the by-election and other pro-Israel figures now support Burnham. Burnham needs to win in order to challenge Keir Starmer for the keys to Number 10. Simons’s pro-Israel ‘Labour Together’ sabotage outfit appears to be trying to stay in control.

Makerfield voters go to the polls Thursday, 18 June 2026. If Burnham wants the left to lend him a vote, he needs to say right now – as per Corbyn’s demand – that he will hold an independent inquiry into the collusion of UK government, media and others in Israel’s slaughter of innocents.

Sign the petition here.

Comments 2

Bazza says:

6 days ago

Burnham is a Lightweight political careerist who climbs the greasy pole doing the usual stuff to get himself a name in Labour eg joining LFI as he learns the bourgeois dark art of telling people what he thinks they want to hear rather than telling people what they need to hear.
Whilst left wing Democratic socialists like Your Party are honest and stand for what they believe in and say it!
Capital could easily live with Burnham the greasy pole climber who is no threat though he is an inch more talented than the other drones.
But perhaps the real reason the billionaire media might lay off him is they actually dread a Corbyn revival which would transform society and hopefully end their luxurious upper class welfare state.
So good old JC putting him on the spot!

Airlane1979 says:

5 days ago

Once again, Mr Corbyn shows his spineless refusal to confront the capitalist state. Calling for yet another pointless, toothless, almost endless inquiry which will not change anything of substance after perhaps ten years of making lawyers even richer is not what socialists do. We want to overthrow the capitalist system and replace it with a working class, revolutionary socialist one. Corbyn and Burnham want only to be nice and use the proper procedures. Reformism is a dead end for the working class, yet Corbyn, Polanski et al continue to promote it – and Canary elevates them to heroic status.