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Opinion: From Despair to Where? #McStrike Shows Us Where Labour’s Rebuilding Must Start
Alex Wood argues that Labour's declining support in former industrial areas should be understood alongside the decline of the trade union movement. Revitalising Labour, he argues, will require a labour movement rooted in post-industrial realities.