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Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer
LABOUR’S leadership faces an autumn uprising against its “McCarthyite” persecution of socialists in the party.
Left-wing members campaigning as Defend the Left will take the battle for internal party democracy to the leadership with protests at Labour offices nationwide, culminating in a mass demonstration at the annual party conference at the end of September.
The campaigners have promised a “storm of protest” against purges which have included the expulsion of veteran socialist film-maker Ken Loach.
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP
‘People up and down the country are asking whose side is the Labour government on and coming up with the answer: not workers,’ Unite general secretary Sharon Graham says