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A Left without class can only be left behind by the culture wars : Comments
By Marko Beljac, published 19/5/2015Support for the Labor Party among its core working class constituency has thereby become tepid and tenous, a fact seized upon by the right wing commentariat and the political representatives of corporate Australia.
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The SNP campaigned on issues that really affect working people - especially anti-austerity and anti-privatisation (of the NHS in particular), while Labour simply offered more of the same.
Ditto Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain. Whether any of these political parties will follow through on their promises is not at all clear yet. However, their electoral successes are overwhelming proof of what working people, battered by almost four decades of neo-liberalism and a kleptocratic international financial system, are crying out for.