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How best to support Jeremy? Get involved in the vibrant mass movement against austerity
The left is entering the most serious political war in a generation – and the Tories need to know the scale of the public fight that they will face if they try to close hospitals, libraries and schools, writes LIZ DAVIES

LABOUR Party conference saw Jeremy Corbyn’s and John McDonnell’s hugely successful riposte to their critics.

It was wonderful to see a potential prime minister who is not prepared to push the nuclear button and commit mass destruction.

After 14 years, I find myself back in the Labour Party and I feel like I’ve come home. But now anti-austerity politics are in the political mainstream, what can we do to keep building the anti-austerity movement, inside and outside the Labour Party and articulating an alternative to neoliberalism?

  • Liz Davies was a member of the Labour Party until 2001 and an elected member of its national executive committee between 1998-2000. She is a barrister specialising in homelessness and housing rights.
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