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Deselected, disowned, cast out: why Starmer keeps up his war on the left
As the prospect of a Labour government looks likely — according to the polls at least — ANDREW MURRAY explains why the party leadership are still hell-bent on defenestrating the remaining left-wing MPs
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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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
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
EVERYONE has now noticed that left-wing campaigners are being more or less entirely excluded from nomination for Labour parliamentary candidates in winnable seats.
Local Labour members are not rejecting left candidates — Keir Starmer’s apparatus at party headquarters, seizing on any justification, however absurd, is ruling them out of consideration.
Emma Dent Coad, who actually won Kensington for Labour in 2017 for the first time ever, is only the best-known of those victimised. It is estimated that of 40 decent Labour prospects at the next general election where a candidate has been chosen, only one is from the left. Black men in particular are being blocked.
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As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership
Every Starmer boast about removing asylum-seekers probably wins Reform another seat while Labour loses more voters to Lib Dems, Greens and nationalists than to the far right — the disaster facing Labour is the leadership’s fault, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
