Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says assessing a Labour leader whose mission was to smash the left must involve addressing the delusions that fuelled his rise
Canada’s disgrace: parliament’s Nazi celebration cannot be forgotten or forgiven
DAN ROSS, a community activist and Communist Party member based in Manchester, discusses why the Canadian parliament knew exactly what it was doing when it praised a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator, and why it matters
Zelensky and Trudeau cheer Nazi veteran Yaroslav Hunka at the House of Commons in Ottawa, Ontario, last Friday
Rebuilding Labour’s working-class roots and organising power is essential if the party is to recover, says MERCEDES VILLALBA
ANDREW MURRAY looks back at a damaging career marked by dishonesty, incompetence and revolting complicity in war crimes
Britain’s historic vote to leave the EU was a rejection of the political Establishment and the strategic direction pursued by Britain’s ruling class since the second world war, writes ALEX GORDON
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
THE Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons, Anthony Rota, has issued a quiet statement apologising for his astonishing praise for 98-year-old Yaroslav Hunka in the Canadian parliament last week.
Hundreds of Canadian MPs gave not one but two standing ovations to Hunka, a Canadian-Ukrainian veteran of the Nazi Waffen-SS Galizien division during the second world war (euphemistically described by AP News and others as the “First Ukrainian Division”).
Hundreds of Canadian MPs, including the Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, gleefully smiling and applauding was a chilling spectacle.
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