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Corbyn is our Chavez: the left must show some solidarity
Whether it’s the Labour leadership or oil-rich Venezuela, rightwingers are obsessed with regime change, writes CHARLEY ALLAN

THE Tories and their media allies are using the escalating crisis in Venezuela to attack Jeremy Corbyn — and their agenda is regime change, both at home and abroad.

“What [Hugo] Chavez did to Venezuela, Corbyn could do to Britain,” tweeted the Conservative press office recently, linking to a Telegraph piece with the same headline.

The Daily Mail — also linked to by Tory press officers — reminded readers that the Labour leader had once said that Chavez “showed us a different and better way of doing things — it’s called socialism,” before it added ominously that “every voter should remember those words — and be warned.”

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