Remember when the Left had intellectual giants in its ranks? Real democratic socialists who understood the dangers of globalisation, how it would gut industries, hollow out communities, and trap us in a spiral of cheap imports for fat profit margins. Who could have foreseen that Maastricht and the euro wouldn’t build a “democratic workers’ paradise,” but hand power to unelected bankers and Brussels bureaucrats? Who could have guessed that “closer integration” would mean austerity, privatisation,