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Starmer’s Britain sleepwalks toward Farage’s nightmare
While Starmer courts BlackRock and backs genocide, leading to despair and historically low voter turnout, the vultures of the new populist right circle Britain’s crumbling institutions, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
RAGE: Locals confront police
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anti-immigration riots,
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Labour, like the Tories, sees rising mental ill health simply as a spending problem — but it reflects a diseased society, argues DR DAVID MATTHEWS
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As the new party emerges from its founding conference with a bold socialist identity, its future hinges on whether it can provide the organisational clarity needed to turn class sentiment into class power, argues NICK WRIGHT
RICHARD BURGON MP argues the left must build on recent victories and urgently unite around a bold cost-of-living programme
NIGEL FARAGE’S Reform party — actually a limited company — poses a threat to British democracy and we on the left must organise to provide voters with a real alternative to the Labour-Tory consensus.
Reform is on a roll, and it is kicking off the new year with its East Midlands conference on January 3 2025 in my home city of Leicester. A city where Britain’s minority population makes up the majority.
Just a week before July’s general election, a Channel 4 undercover investigation exposed a canvasser for the Reform party using racist language about political opponents and saying Britain should “just shoot” asylum-seekers trying to cross the Channel.
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