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Muslim Vote campaign: ‘Our demands are in line with what ordinary people need’
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OUTRAGE AND SOLIDARITY: Supportersof Faiza Shaheen gather to endorse her choice to run as an independent candidate
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DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
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A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
THE man who did more damage to Keir Starmer’s Labour Party on July 4 than the socialist left aggregated is sipping hot chocolate in a cafe in Gloucester and pulling no punches.
“They don’t care about the anti-war movement, Muslims, the left, the working class.”
Abubakr Nanabawa is referring to the Labour Party. He is the director of Muslim Vote, the organisation which helped elect four independent MPs at the general election and powered the mass abandonment of Labour by Muslims on polling day.
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