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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Nailing the lie that only the right is racist
We need more than gestures like taking the knee and wearing BLM badges, writes ROGER McKENZIE. We have the ability to create a black-led anti-racist movement — but the white left is still wary of losing its leadership position
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
THERE is a problem on the left in terms of anti-black racism. We just have to be honest about this if we are to make any progress in dealing with racism.
In the years that I have been around the trade union and labour movement I have continually heard statements such as “we have a proud record of fighting against racism.”
We have to be more truthful than that. The fact is that some people within the trade union and labour movement have a proud record of fighting against racism while others do not.
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