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MATT WILLGRESS, from Arise – A Festival of Left Ideas, calls for greater co-ordination on the left
It is time for the left to come together and get our act together — let’s make the run-up to next year’s general election a year of mass waves of resistance, where we put our socialist values of solidarity, struggle and unity into practice

A GREAT Italian socialist once said: “I hate the indifferent. I believe that living means taking sides. Those who really live cannot help being a citizen and a partisan. Indifference and apathy are parasitism, not life. Indifference is the deadweight of history.”

These words from Antonio Gramsci in a very different context sum up the situation socialists face in Britain today as Labour conference meets.

Now is the time for everyone in the labour movement to take sides.

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