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A Party With Socialists In It: A History of the Labour Left
by Simon Hannah
(Pluto Press/Left Book Club, £12.99)
A PARTY with Socialists In It is inspired by Tony Benn’s comment that “the Labour Party has never been a socialist party, although there have always been socialists in it” and the book charts the attempts of those socialists to promote their vision over the course of the past 118 years.
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