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LABOUR leader Ed Miliband directly challenged the party's biggest union donor Unite yesterday with a brash dismissal of its support for an in-out EU referendum after the 2015 election.
Playing to the gallery in front of a mainly business audience Mr Miliband took the opportunity to scoff at the union’s position, which had been backed a day earlier by delegates to its Liverpool policy conference.
“There should be an in/out referendum if there is a further transfer of powers from Britain to the EU,” he said.
As the dollar falters and US power turns predatory, Britain and Europe must abandon transatlantic illusions and build a collectivist alternative before the system implodes, writes ALAN SIMPSON
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare