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Mear One’s mural – bad art and bad politics
Narratives around the Illuminati, Freemasonry and conspiracies cannot be disentangled from deeply suspect discourses in which alien semitic elites are the controlling forces in our lives, argues NICK WRIGHT
Mear One's mural

LABOUR is weathering a co-ordinated campaign which combines criticism of Jeremy Corbyn’s policies and persona with an intensified drive to brand any criticism of the murderous policies pursued by Israel’s rulers with anti-semitism.

I was once branded an anti-semite. It was the during the Thatcher/Major years and I was editing the newspaper of the trade union for executive civil servants. 

Our cartoonist, the brilliant, award-winning Frank Boyle, drew a series of strips which called out the Tories for their dogma-driven privatisation policies. 

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