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The Shattered Dream of a ‘British’ Left: Why Scotland Refused to be a Branch Office

The collapse of Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘Your Party’ in Scotland was perhaps as predictable as a North Sea haar, yet its demise offers a brutal autopsy of the perennial tensions between an 18th Century London-centric idealism and the reality of Scottish political autonomy. ​The recent mass resignation of the Scottish interim executive, spearheaded by figures like […]

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Left Recompostion CAN’T Include Red Brownism…

Although Daphne Lawless is in New Zealand, every word of this is familiar as the British left makes its moves to grind together again… My bottom line on Left recomposition is that I’ve found out, by experience, that there are a hell of a lot of people who call themselves Socialist who are reprehensible human […]