Britain’s Labour Party Takes a Hard Left Turn

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Karl Marx admirer Corbyn rides socialist wave to lead Britain's Labour Party

"We challenge the narrative that only the individual matters, and the collective is irrelevant," Corbyn said at his last campaign rally on Thursday, drawing cheers from a crowd crammed into every corner of a former church in north London.

"Instead we say the common good is the aspiration of all of us," said the anti-war campaigner, who is an admirer of "Communist Manifesto" author Karl Marx and Hugo Chavez, the late Venezuelan leader who delighted in berating the United States.

Often dressed in the style of a university lecturer -- complete with several pens visible in his shirt pocket -- Corbyn has promised to renationalize privately-owned industries, print money to fund large-scale infrastructure investment, and raise taxes on businesses and the rich...

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