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Good riddance to the dead centre
We are living through a serious breakdown of the ruling class’s political mechanisms of control and the twilight of neoliberal 'centrism.' Not one step back for the left, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
Labour campaigning

TOMORROW is a chance to elect a socialist prime minister in the country that gave the world Thatcherism and Blairism.

It is a historic election on a par with 1979. Every effort up to 10pm will make a difference.

However the results stack up, the campaign has already revealed fundamental fault lines. Among them is a crisis for the politics of the capitalist class and for the ruling bloc in Britain that has held such control for so long.

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