For many in the Labour movement, the socialist, diverse left bloc of last week’s Put it to the People march may have felt more of a political home than, say, the main, continuity remain element – and that also highlights the big Jeremy Corbyn-shaped hole both at the event and in the wider campaign. For it actually to be more Corbyn left, the campaign would need the leadership’s buy-in (and the grassroots organising that would flow from that). Instead, it was down to the left bloc of Love Socialism Hate Brexit MPs and campaigners to present the radical left, anti-racist arguments for a second referendum. They did a great job, even though their message did not necessarily chime with everyone: one organiser told me they overhead someone at the main demo ask why the left bloc kept going on about socialism at an anti-Brexit march.
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