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LABOUR is facing anger among councillors in the north-east of England after party officials intervened in the election of a leader and deputy leader of Sunderland Council.
Labour councillors were due to meet to elect a leader and deputy on May 2 but were told by email that the meeting was cancelled and that party officials would be interviewing and vetting candidates.
The email said that Sunderland’s Labour group had been put under the party’s “campaign improvement board” — a scheme set up to “support Labour groups that require improvement.”
Green Party MPs stand alone in Parliament in defending Palestine Action against Labour’s proscription of the group as a terrorist organisation — an outrageous move that the Tories supported and the cowardly Lib Dems abstained on, writes ELLIOT TONG
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says
JAMIE TUCKNUTT reports on an initiative that brings together two epochs of the city’s anti-fascist struggles
