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Behind the News: Mark Fisher's Legacy w/ Matt Colquhoun

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What's Happened to Local Politics?

The collapse of that Corbin moment, what did that do to people's thoughts of the future and hope for politics? I think in a way our situation on the left in both countries I think is quite similar. There are remnants that live in the US. A lot of local politics is actually doing fairly well. But yeah, there's still Corbin and at various events that happened around that time, definitely politicized the generation. That politicization hasn't gone away. People still do care and are passionate, even if they have less of an influence on number 10, as it were.

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