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Gary Kent

Gary Kent is an international relations expert and Labour Party member. His column for PB highlights Labour's foreign policy challenges.  
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The New Political Circus Acts

The new ZZ Top acts in the leftist political circus, Zarah and Zack, are attracting attention but Sultana is intransigently one-dimensional and Polanski is, well, green on security. Sultana is the worse of the pair. Despite Russian imperialism’s war to snuff out an independent Ukraine and menace its near neighbours

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A Tale of Two Solidarity Networks

Russia’s war against Ukraine and the Hamas/Israel conflict have spawned two solidarity networks: one healthy and one that is definitely not. Visible and practical support for Ukraine is vital and should be maintained as the war grinds on. Ultra-leftist organisations active on Palestine oppose our government, as well as Israel,

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Making the case for defence in every generation

The adage that ‘America eventually does the right thing after exhausting all other options’ is apocryphally, and probably falsely attributed to Winston Churchill. Churchill or at least his bust, is back in the Oval office after being removed by Biden. He was restored by Donald Trump, the president who –

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Kurdish Lessons for Labour

The small town of Ranya in Iraqi Kurdistan once loomed large in British foreign policy and now matters a great deal to Labour’s migration policy. The Kurdish uprising against Saddam Hussein’s genocidal dictatorship began there in 1991 and was nearly crushed before John Major pioneered a safe haven over the

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The Trumplications for Labour

The high octane theatrics of recent weeks in Washington have frazzled and terrified the world. It’s all been great TV as Donald Trump revealingly said after kneecapping the Ukrainian President in the Oval Office and in his big bang announcement on tariffs. Will Hutton eloquently nails the fundamental flaws in

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The Politics of Organisation and the Organisation of Politics

Party meetings become tough and tedious when moderates resist predatory groups that exploit Labour as a recruiting ground but don’t share its values of social democratic change by parliamentary means. In the early 1980s there was a running confrontation in Brighton and elsewhere with the Militant Tendency, formally known as

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