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Catching up with the second referendum mob
SOLOMON HUGHES looks up the abortive movement for a ‘people’s vote’ run by corporate creatures, New Labour hacks, Lib Dems and other transient centrists, whose main campaign groups still exist, despite losing both the referendum and the 2019 election
Alastair Campbell addresses a People's Vote rally at New Dock Hall in Leeds
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
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NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
THE main “people’s vote” organisation is over three months late filing its accounts at Companies House, further underlining the way the second referendum campaign, which dominated the “liberal” press and became a huge conflict within the Labour Party, has now disappeared in a puff of smoke.
Top corporate PR executive Roland Rudd has controlled Open Britain, the main second referendum campaign organisation, since a “boardroom coup” last November.
Rudd is founder and chairman of PR firm Finsbury, which specialises in “corporate governance guidance” and “financial communications” — yet his own organisation is breaking company rules.
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