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  • In November 2018 Islwyn CLP Passed a Motion That Demanded That Their Labour Council Must Set a Legal No Cuts Budget
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  • Paul Mason, Right and Wrong on a Socialist Brexit
  • Responding to George Lakey on Why Nonviolence is Not Enough to Defeat Fascism
  • Alice Walker’s Dangerous Liaisons With David Icke
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