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Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn during Prime Minister's Questions
HYSTERICAL attacks on Labour over accusations of anti-semitism and a renewed drive to force the party to back staying in the EU show the Establishment remains terrified of a Corbyn-led government, the Communist Party’s political committee heard last night.
Labour’s decision on Tuesday to call for a second referendum if faced with a Tory Brexit on no-deal or bad-deal terms and to campaign for Remain in such a vote will undermine the party’s credibility with working-class voters, the committee warned.
But it pointed out that Labour is still calling for a general election and committed to negotiate Brexit — and that the cause of the Labour leader’s retreat was the dominance of pro-EU narratives among Labour members and the trade union movement. Communists should commit to “the long haul” in fighting to build a clearer understanding of the nature of the EU throughout the unions and the party welcomes a forthcoming gathering of pro-Leave left forces to plan that strategy at London’s Soas on Saturday July 27.
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Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
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