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WORKING-CLASS voters could be hoovered up by a Syriza-style anti-austerity party if Labour continues to promote the EU’s capitalist agenda, party grandees warned today.
The party’s biggest individual donor John Mills said there was still an “evident danger” of Labour shedding more of its core vote in spite of its “very welcome” U-turn to supporting a referendum on EU membership. He said the party’s current stance would “weaken Britain’s hand” in negotiations.
And in an exclusive article in today’s Morning Star, left MP Kelvin Hopkins issues a stark warning over the “virtual disappearance” of Greek centre-left party Pasok following its “deadly embrace” with right-wingers in support of EU austerity.
Italians reject controversial judiciary reforms in a referendum that boosts the left, reports NICK WRIGHT
Barred from returning home, a group of Greek Brigaders came to Britain and founded the League for Democracy in Greece – a movement that carried the flame of anti-fascist resistance from the 1930s through the cold war and beyond. ALI BASSAM ZAHID tells the story
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
RON JACOBS welcomes a book that tells the story of the far right in Greece from the perspective of migrants