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The Searchers

How not to do radicalism: The hold of capital-ism on Labour’s left from Benn to Corbyn

July 23, 2024
The Searchers: Andy Beckett, Allen Lane £30. Review by Gerry Hassan Bella Caledonia, 14 June 2024 This book covers the rise and fall, and rise again and subsequent fall, of the Labour left over a period of over fifty years - from the late 1960s to the present. Andy Beckett locates such an epic canvas through telling the story of five connected individuals - Tony Benn, Ken Livingstone, Jeremy Corbyn, John McDonnell and Diane Abbott. Such an approach aims to make this more human and relatable.  However, this is a questionable conceit, as it assumes a major thread connecting all

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