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I found evidence Corbyn WAS a member of the editorial board that wrote “the British only sit up and take notice when they are bombed into it”. SA, to which Corbyn often contributed, wrote he was involved in setting up the National Briefing Supplement and was at a board meeting 
Below is the notorious National Briefing Supplement editorial – it referred to the Brighton bombing as a “big bang” and spelled out solidarity and support for the Irish Republican movement “though we may not always agree with all their tactics or policies”
In 2017, Sophy Ridge handed Jeremy Corbyn a copy of this Briefing National Supplement editorial. He said “I wasn’t even a member of the editorial board… I read the magazine, I wrote for the magazine, I wasn’t a member of the editorial board”
ALSO NEW: In 1985 Jeremy Corbyn claimed one reason why British government “actually wants to remain in Northern Ireland” is due to “possibilities of using Northern Ireland as a police and army training ground in an urban environment”
In the same article Corbyn claimed: “if you talk about international matters with French, Italian, African or any other socialists they ask why can’t the Labour Party come out clearly in support of withdrawal from Northern Ireland? Why are you letting it become your Algeria?”
Corbyn also called to reject the Anglo-Irish Agreement: “it doesn’t bring Irish reunification any nearer… We have to return to the fundamental case for the withdrawal of British troops and the reunification of Ireland”
ALSO NEW: Corbyn sponsored a march of the Irish Freedom Movement in August 1986 which called to “Close Britain’s concentration camps” and demanded “Troops out of Ireland! Prisoners out of jail!”
