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Active young Labour party members on joining, staying in, and making a future for the party in these grim times of falling party membership, faltering ideology and other well-documented horrors.

First up: the young socialists

Owen Jones, 22, Marsha-Jane Thompson, 26, Tim Flatman, 22, Mary Partington, 22 and Vino Sangarapillai, 25, are extremely clear about the party's options, or option: socialism is Labour's future. Blairism, on the other hand, strikes them as tantamount to political suicide, what with its thousands of dead Iraqis, collapsed party membership, flaming thirst for a lengthy rape of the public sector by the private one, burgeoning list of cash-for-honours delinquents, et cetera. Everybody normal, they say, knows that they're seeing the end when they look at Blairism.