Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
ON June 26, an internal flight took the international delegation of 11 Communist parties from nine countries to the lush, green, mountainous province of Guizhou, south-central China.
There we stayed at the sumptuous Guizhou Provincial Party School. It comprises two buildings of residential, teaching and restaurant facilities set in spectacular grounds. With more than 300 teaching, administrative and research staff, it trains hundreds of members of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for state, government and party posts.
An evening visit to the Guiyang Grand Theatre provided a lavish feast of Guizhou culture as colourful troupes of dancers, singers and musicians from the Miao, Dong, Tujia, Buyi and Shui nationalities performed their stunning tableaux.
Activists from across the world gathered in China for an educational exchange where they witnessed the progress the country has made in building an ecological society and discussed the path to peaceful international relations, reports CALLUM NORRIS



