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
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We will never stop our protests until Palestine is free
A temporary ceasefire does not change the brutal reality of the military occupation and the daily injustices inflicted on the Palestinian people, writes BEN JAMAL of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign
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
SOME 150,000 people took to the streets of London last week in protest against Israel’s brutal bombardment of the Gaza Strip, its ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Jerusalem from their ancestral homes and its violent, repressive treatment of Palestinians inside Israel exercising their right to protest.
Yesterday a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas came into effect and many think this will be the end of it, calling on all parties to now restore “calm.”
And while there is no doubt that life for the Jewish-Israeli population will indeed go back to normal, with the beaches and clubs of Tel Aviv heaving, calm is not a concept Palestinians get to enjoy along with them.
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