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The labour movement must not fall into the Tory ‘culture war’ trap
There is cunning in what some Tories are doing but there are also profound weaknesses – the left needs to be wise to this, says KEVIN OVENDEN
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THE term “culture war” is an unwelcome US import. The American culture warriors of the right had a lot going for them 30 years ago.
Whether it was gun worship or banning abortion, they could rely on vast networks, secular and religious. A big section of society had never reconciled to the changes driven by the upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s.
The parallel British effort in the years of John Major’s governments was feeble by comparison.
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