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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TONY GREENSTEIN puts the record straight on his suspension from the Labour Party for alleged anti-semitism
ANDY McDONALD MP says Labour must show it is capable of delivering real improvements in people’s lives — bold action is required
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
ALLISON FEWTRELL on what Plaid Cymru's historic election victory means for the communities being failed by Wales’s housing crisis, and four things the new government can do right now
France Insoumise MP JEROME LEGAVRE speaks to Christophe Domec on building the Europe-wide peace movement that came together in the International Conference Against War last weekend
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
IF YOU listen to the BBC or read Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian, you’d be forgiven for believing there is a serious problem of anti-semitism in the Labour Party.
For the past nine months there has been a steady onslaught on Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of the party relating to this. First, he was guilty of associating with Holocaust deniers and, when that failed, he was accused of being soft on anti-semitism.
Yet what is the evidence? A two-year-old tweet about Jews having large noses and an idiot Trotskyist, Gerry Downing, who believes that there is a cabal of zionist capitalists who run the foreign policy of Britain and the US.
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