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Watching the Labour right die by the sea
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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
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FOUR years on and Jeremy Corbyn is still Labour leader. He still has the membership’s support and his grip on the Labour machine is firmer, if incomplete.
So what are Labour’s right wing, the ones who are utterly irreconcilable to Corbyn, doing?
I went to some of their meetings at Labour conference to find out. They are weaker on the ground, and they know it, though they still have institutional strength.
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