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US rapper Kanye West
US RAPPER Kanye West’s declaration that he is planning to stand for the presidency may be a joke.
It is not clear that West has actually registered anywhere to run. Nor does his declaration amount to a policy platform or even a single-issue cause.
But West’s rebuke to an audience when he made a similar announcement last November – “what are you laughing at?” – seems fair enough given the current incumbent of the Oval Office. If Donald Trump, a TV celebrity with no background in politics, can be president, why not West?
Young Communist League general secretary GEORGINA ANDREWS says the far right are filling a vacuum created by Labour’s abandonment of working-class interests — we have to give our class a better offer
Former Labour MP LAURA SMITH makes the case for The Many slate in the elections to Your Party’s new executive
Deep disillusionment with the Westminster cross-party consensus means rupture with the status quo is on the cards – bringing not only opportunities but also dangers, says NICK WRIGHT
Sixty Red-Green seats in a hung parliament could force Labour to choose between the death of centrism or accommodation with the left — but only if enough of us join the Greens by July 31 and support Zack Polanski’s leadership, writes JAMES MEADWAY