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Ron's rages are sincere and — according to his wife — healthily cathartic. But can these splenetic outbursts loosen the grip of capitalism at its most monstrous?
Sleepless Nights
by John Pinkerton
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FRANCIS DEVINE introduces a new collection of essays that draws on Pease McKenna’s example to indicate future paths for the movement
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To lead
And not be led
By chancers
To heed
And not dread
The answers
To feed
And not be fed
By lies
To have led
The TUC rally
‘Enough is enough’
Would have been
A surprise
To have appeared at
The Durham Miners’ Gala
And not to have feared
The multitude’s angry tropes
To have fed those thousands
And their hopes of
The socialist gleam
Would have been
My moment damascene
A nightmare
Not a dream
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