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Who is left in Labour?
The Corbyn surge was a phenomenon of hundreds of thousands — but a liberal surge, rather than a Marxist one. VINCE MILLS looks at the emerging and existing left groups in the Labour Party and their chances of forming a united front for socialism

YOU might have heard the one about the man who shouts across the fence to his neighbour during lockdown: “Jez, don’t bother trying to shave that beard off. I have just invented a mask with razors in it. Shove it on and it shaves your face in one go.”

“Hang on, Jon,” Jez replies, “not everybody’s face is the same shape.”

“Don’t worry Jez, it soon will be.”

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