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When Praful Nargund stood against Jeremy Corbyn in Islington North at the July general election, I heard several confident predictions about why the moderate and business-savvy candidate favoured by Keir Starmer’s ruthlessly disciplined machine would promptly see off Jeremy Corbyn – the Old Testament prophet of doomful state socialism in…

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Fact check: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is the leader of the Socialist Party.

Venezuela’s socialism started out democratically with Hugo Chavez’s election in 1998—then the Venezuelan economy—and democracy—collapsed.

The Venezuelan experience shows that democracy cannot cure the evils of socialism, and that a democratic socialist system is unlikely to remain democratic for long.

“I would describe myself as a socialist. I describe myself as a progressive”. These were Labour leader Keir Starmer’s words in May 2024 shortly after his first speech of the election campaign. Labour’s constitution defines it as a democratic socialist party. So, in theory, Starmer is a socialist.

Our health service is a perfect example of socialism in action. Let’s apply its principles elsewhere

Labour’s leadership needn’t struggle to define the ideology; it’s in its very constitution

Letters: Austen Lynch recalls the work of John Ball, and Jol Miskin thinks the best we can now hope for is social democracy