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We must go to the warehouses and call centres where modern working class are today, not where yesterdays workers were, writes JOHN GREEN
The final shift leaves Kellingley Colliery on the last day of production at Britain’s only remaining deep coalmine

WITH the Labour Party leadership election now well underway, the soul-searching and breast-beating will no doubt continue unabated.

In an attempt to learn from recent events, a number of correspondents to the Star have called for the need for “a proper class analysis” of the situation, but none has attempted to define what they mean by this.

There have been many words written in castigating the loss of “Labour’s heartlands,” of the “working classes deserting Labour” but who has attempted to describe the changes that have taken place, not suddenly at the last election, but over decades under our very noses?

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