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LABOUR Party conference saw Jeremy Corbyn’s and John McDonnell’s hugely successful riposte to their critics.
It was wonderful to see a potential prime minister who is not prepared to push the nuclear button and commit mass destruction.
After 14 years, I find myself back in the Labour Party and I feel like I’ve come home. But now anti-austerity politics are in the political mainstream, what can we do to keep building the anti-austerity movement, inside and outside the Labour Party and articulating an alternative to neoliberalism?
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