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The Corbyn moment
MARK PERRYMAN argues that now – more than ever – is the time to transform Labour into a social movement
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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
THIS week my new best comrade George Osborne has described the impact of Jeremy Corbyn’s customs union speech as “the Labour leader, has with the smallest of nudges, manoeuvred himself into a more pro-business, more pro-free trade European policy than the Tory government.”
The question of whether this marks the Corbyn Moment stretches way beyond the ranks of the Corbynite Left.
Osborne meant those words as a compliment. Their provenance and meaning will, however, trouble many on Corbyn’s side. But this, dear comrades, is what hegemony looks like, our ideas becoming the new common sense. And without in essence even a smidgen of principle being sacrificed either.
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