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SHADOW chancellor John McDonnell said yesterday he was “furious” to find he had spoken in front of Communist Party of Great Britain Marxist-Leninist (CPGB-ML) flags at May Day.
The CPGB-ML is a small party associated with the teachings of Harpal Brar.
Mr McDonnell was quizzed on Radio 4 about standing in front of the red flags adorned with a hammer and sickle in a star, following a complaint about his attending the May Day rally when some attendees carried portraits of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.
The General Strike exposed the power of the working class — and the limits of its leadership, writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY
Millions of ordinary English people of all backgrounds consider the cross their own — abandoning it, and its left-wing history that includes the peasants’ revolt, concedes vital ground to the right, argues SIMON BRIGNELL
Corbyn and Sultana’s ‘Your Party’ represents the first attempt at mass socialist organisation since the CPGB’s formation in 1921, argues DYLAN MURPHY
