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RICHARD BURGON MP previews this weekend’s Arise — a festival to showcase Labour’s left ideas

I’M really looking forward to speaking at Arise — a festival of Labour’s Left Ideas in London this weekend. It’s a major event which couldn’t come at a more important time for the Labour left.

The rise of Donald Trump, the far right in Europe and the re-emergence of Nigel Farage require radical socialist solutions to the challenges we’re facing politically and as a society.

We’ve got to be clear that Trumpism can’t be defeated by centrism.

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