The Mandelson scandal reveals a political settlement in which democratic choice is curtailed and the power of markets eclipses the will of voters – only the left can challenge this, writes JON TRICKETT MP
Catching up with the second referendum mob
SOLOMON HUGHES looks up the abortive movement for a ‘people’s vote’ run by corporate creatures, New Labour hacks, Lib Dems and other transient centrists, whose main campaign groups still exist, despite losing both the referendum and the 2019 election
Alastair Campbell addresses a People's Vote rally at New Dock Hall in Leeds
Corbyn’s intervention exposes a corrupted system, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Paul Holden’s book, The Fraud, exposes a hidden war inside Labour, where claims of anti-semitism, amplified by media power and factional networks, were used to break Corbynism and recast the party. JOHN ELLISON revisits the scandals, investigations and suppressed evidence from that era
In the second of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution
The growth of Cuba’s biotechnology sector is an example of how socialism can prioritise scientific innovation, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
Paul Holden’s The Fraud reveals how a network of donors, MPs and opaque organisations quietly organised to destroy Corbyn’s leadership and manufacture a new centre of power inside Labour, writes JOHN ELLISON
Systems of power enable, excuse and normalise abuse, while survivors are ignored and women’s exploitation is repackaged as commerce and choice, warns CHARLIE WEINBERG
THE main “people’s vote” organisation is over three months late filing its accounts at Companies House, further underlining the way the second referendum campaign, which dominated the “liberal” press and became a huge conflict within the Labour Party, has now disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Top corporate PR executive Roland Rudd has controlled Open Britain, the main second referendum campaign organisation, since a “boardroom coup” last November.
Rudd is founder and chairman of PR firm Finsbury, which specialises in “corporate governance guidance” and “financial communications” — yet his own organisation is breaking company rules.
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