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Step back a few decades and workers were regularly out on strike, stock markets were crashing and the far left in British politics was agitating for a revolution.

The left-wing activist turned TV journalist and writer, Paul Mason, spoke about politics in the 1980s and today.

He told Daily Politics presenter Jo Coburn: 鈥淲e were fighting a battle for the survival of working class communities, which we lost, which I am terribly sorry about.鈥�

After watching archive from 1987, he spoke with Peter Taaffe, the general secretary of the Socialist Party and former chief of Militant, who thinks a revolution is still nigh.

Taaffe claimed Jeremy Corbyn was 鈥渢rapped behind enemy lines鈥� and that Labour was currently 鈥渢wo parties in one鈥�.