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Peter Hain will make an impassioned plea today for Labour to break with Blairism and return to its historical socialist mission if the party wins power in May.
The senior MP and close ally of leader Ed Miliband described “neoliberal orthodoxy” as the root of Britain’s economic problems on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show yesterday.
And he will argue people are “crying out” for an alternative to austerity as he launches his book Back to the Future of Socialism in Parliament this evening.
While Italy’s communist tradition remains fragmented and politically marginal, France’s party is attempting to re-establish itself as an independent force rooted in working-class organisation, says NICK WRIGHT
Can entrenched institutional power be overcome?
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO