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Don’t abandon Labour, embrace the class struggle
Labour’s right wing would be only too happy to see the mass suicide of its left — we cannot encourage that; the alternatives are not in new overnight parties but intervention in the growing wave of genuine class struggle, argues NICK WRIGHT

FREE ADVICE is on offer. The latest comes from those impeccable sources of guidance, the Daily Mail, the Daily Express, the Daily Telegraph and George Osborne’s London Evening Standard.

These disinterested and impartial authorities are bigging up the idea that Jeremy Corbyn should start a new party.

This despite the fact that the former Labour leader has expressed no such intention and no other Labour MP has endorsed the idea.

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