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Socialist historian KEITH FLETT looks at an example from the past given by Rebecca Long Bailey in her advocation of ‘progressive patriotism’

REBECCA LONG BAILEY is now officially the standard-bearer of the left in the Labour leadership election.
She is not of course some kind of “continuity Corbyn” candidate but a leadership contender with her own perspectives for the 2020s.
She laid some of these out in a recent article in the Guardian.
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