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Why Luke Akehurst is wrong to sneer at communists
Throughout the world Labour’s sister parties find their enemies not to the left but on the right, says NICK WRIGHT
Rob Griffiths, Monty Goldman and Martin Levy, representing the Communist Party of Britain, pledge their support of a Labour government in their election manifesto in 1997

I AM not highly skilled at using the image manipulation software tool Photoshop. In the primitive 1960s when I trained as a film and TV designer, colour TV had not been invented and Daleks could not yet climb stairs. 

Thus I am certainly not as competent as the whiz kids who work in the BBC Newsnight graphics team.

It took me some time and experiments with several techniques to transform Jeremy Corbyn’s well-defined jaunty Donovan-style cap into a reasonable likeness of a Russian fur hat and place the thus manipulated image in a sufficiently low resolution to enable it to be projected on a Kremlin-sized backdrop without revealing the hat’s clear 1960s provenance.

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