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Crunch time for the Bakers’ Union – and Keir Starmer
BFAWU members are on the cusp of voting whether to continue their century-long relationship with Labour. The union’s president IAN HODSON says, come what may, they won’t be backing down on the working-class right to have a political voice
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This is a relationship that spans three centuries, with the first recorded meeting being with Labour’s first elected MP, Keir Hardie, in 1893, following a demonstration of journeymen and Jewish bakers in London.
But it seems that in the Sir Keir Starmer party of 2021 there is no place for working-class organisations like the BFAWU. He and those around him prefer to suggest that we are entryists.
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