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Labour needs left policies
by Daphne Liddle
LABOUR lost the election and is now embroiled in sorting out a new leader. The Party is polarising between those who want a return to “New Labour” and Blairism and the left wing who want Labour to return to its working class roots.
John McDonald MP, who heads the Labour Representation Committee, has ruled himself out of the contest but proposed that the party sort out its policies before rushing to choose a new leader.
“There’s been a lot of self-serving nonsense talked about why Labour lost the election and what it has to do to win in the future. We’ve just witnessed a well-planned media blitz of failed New Labour ex-ministers and their new-wave protégés blaming Ed Miliband with all the old Blairite mantras that Labour has failed to be a party of aspiration, to occupy the middle ground and appeal to middle England.
“This drivel from Tony Blair, Peter Mandelson and others is to shirk New Labour’s responsibility for what happened last week. No party has won an election when trailing in economic-competence polls. When the Tories shamelessly accused the last Labour government of crashing the economy, they were right, but for the wrong reasons.
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Labour needs left policies
Thank you for the victory!
by New Worker correspondent
“SPASSIBO za pobedu!” (Thank you for the victory” and “Slava geroyam” (glory to the heroes) were the chants that rang out loudly from hundreds of Russian voices in south London last Saturday.
They were saluting Russian and British veterans of the Second World war at a massive ceremony at the Soviet War Memorial in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park last Saturday, 9th May, to celebrate the victory of the Red Army over the military might of Nazi Germany — and to remember the 27 million Soviet citizens who lost their lives in that titanic clash.
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Thank you for the victory!