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‘Labour simply has more seats to lose in Leave-voting areas’
Ian Sinclair talks to STEVE HOWELL, Corbyn's former deputy director of strategy and communications, about what Labour’s strategy should be as Britain stands poised to go to the polls again
Former Corbyn campaign strategist Steve Howell
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
“LABOUR’S narrative will have to be sharper this time”: Steve Howell on the looming general election.
Having run a communications company for more than 20 years, longstanding Labour Party member Steve Howell took leave of absence to work for Jeremy Corbyn as deputy director of strategy and communications.
He played a key role in Labour’s extraordinary general election performance in 2017, writing a book about his experience, Game Changer: Eight Weeks That Transformed British Politics.
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