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Left, right, populism and woke – why are the working classes not voting socialist?

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We use them every day, but do the terms left and right really describe our politics today. What is ‘woke’ and why do people hate it? And socialists struggle with the working class as much as for it, why is that? 


David McCann from Ulster University and Michael Pierse from Queen’s University Belfast join Ciarán Dunbar to take a deep dive into today’s political trends. 


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Left, right, populism and woke – why are the working classes not voting socialist?

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