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Fight or flight? Choices for socialists in Parliament
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THE parliamentary left faces difficult choices going forward, both that part of within the Labour Party and that part outside.
The common challenge is the disastrous course being steered by the Starmer government. Its economic policy amounts to austerity and deregulation.
Its foreign policy is defined by support for war and genocide while being desperate to avoid taking any position that Donald Trump frowns on.
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