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LABOUR would be reduced to a party of “suits and spads [special advisers]” without its link to trade unions, veteran socialist MP Dennis Skinner warned yesterday.
Firebrand Mr Skinner took aim at divisive figures within the party trying to “freeze out” the unions, saying it would leave Labour without roots in working-class communities.
The miners’ MP spoke out ahead of the first meeting of Labour’s Trade Union Group of MPs since the election in Parliament last night.
Martin Taylor, the hedge-fund multimillionaire who has poured millions into pushing Labour rightwards, helped finance Lucy Powell’s supposedly dissenting campaign — suggesting her victory was not the ‘soft-left’ rebellion some have claimed, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Corbyn and Sultana’s ‘Your Party’ represents the first attempt at mass socialist organisation since the CPGB’s formation in 1921, argues DYLAN MURPHY
