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The true target of the People's Vote is Corbyn, not Brexit
Holding a second referendum on EU membership and winning it for remain is actually not the aim of the People's Vote campaign, argues SAM EDWARDS, concluding his two part investigation
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
CONSIDER for a moment a key basis upon which Jeremy Corbyn and his supporters have staked their legitimacy — Corbyn’s decades of Campaign for Labour Party Democracy membership and adopting political positions that are consistently more representative of the membership and much of the base of Labour than many in the PLP and successive Labour leaders.
The Labour right, using the People’s Vote campaign, now turn this to their advantage — trumpeting that the man who was the embodiment of the membership is now finally out of touch with the rank and file, who they describe as being overwhelmingly in favour of a second referendum. This is the one area where there is enough ambiguity in the opinions of the membership to furnish enough material to make a framing of “the membership versus Corbyn” remotely plausible.
The brazen dishonesty of this project has been rendered explicit by recent parliamentary events that demonstrate, in practice, the inability to find a majority for a second referendum in the House of Commons.
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