All the evidence shows voters want Labour to shift to the left — but initial signs from Andy Burnham are worrying on that front, cautions DIANE ABBOTT
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It’s good the former London mayor has not been expelled from Labour, but he ought to have avoided a sorry affair which hasn’t helped Corbyn, says DAVID ROSENBERG
ANDY McDONALD MP says Labour must show it is capable of delivering real improvements in people’s lives — bold action is required
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At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
ON THE recent St Patrick’s Day parade in London, one banner proclaimed: “More Blacks! More dogs! More Irish!” It mocked the daily racism of the 1960s when people looking for homes were confronted by openly discriminatory window signs.
The Race Relations Act of 1968 outlawed such signs but it took another 20 years of grassroots campaigns led by victims of racism, ultimately aided by another layer of government — the Greater London Council (GLC) — to normalise anti-racism and explicitly promote multiculturalism.
Under Ken Livingstone’s visionary leadership from 1981, the GLC railed against both discriminatory practices and the mindset supporting them — racist, sexist, homophobic and disablist. Its generous grants programme gave grassroots campaigners from minority backgrounds the resources to make their voices heard.
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