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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Why I tore up my Labour membership card after 41 years
Labour’s anti-black racism and lack of natural justice led ROGER McKENZIE to quit and join the Communist Party, where the struggle against race and class oppression is placed to the fore
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 black radical tradition, which I associate myself with, is rich in its history of struggle and resistance to oppression. It is also a Marxist tradition.
It is this tradition that has, eventually, led me to joining the Communist Party of Britain.
I remember attending a CP meeting one Sunday morning in Birmingham city centre in 1983 and buying the book Black Marxism by Cedric Robinson at the obligatory bookstall.
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