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The nuclear debate is a cover for sustaining exploitation
We have to change the way we see our society rather than simply change the way we power it, writes NICOLAS LALAGUNA
A soldier walking on the deck of a Trident nuclear submarine

A FEW years ago Owen Jones made the case that the increasing membership of the Labour Party didn’t necessarily equate to an increasing engagement with the British working class. 

Jones argued that for the Labour Party to really fulfil its potential as the political voice of working-class Britain it needed to reach further than the university-educated southerners and urban professionals that were disproportionately swelling its ranks. 

In order to do this, he argued, it had to maintain its current membership as well as building and organising in the communities that the Establishment had historically sacrificed to capitalism. 

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