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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Organising against the great recession to come
A scatter-gun approach will not change the balance of power in the workplace. We need a focused national organising strategy informed by the best research and intelligence, says ROGER McKENZIE
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
ECONOMISTS and politicians are referring to this moment as the great recession to come.
As furlough ends, as spending plummets, as markets shrink and redundancies and cuts tsunami across the economy, trade unions will be left to defend our people from poverty and despair — our historic mission which sometimes we have failed to accept. Some theorists also suggest that trade unions will decline in numbers and power during recession.
As workers chase jobs that are disappearing and as those still in work desperately cling onto them, then so it goes that the unions will lose even more power and that the consequences of not making hay while the sun shines will hit us.
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