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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Afghanistan follies
The end of the 20-year US-Afghanistan adventure is another one of imperialism’s overreaching, supremely arrogant, regime change projects ending in fiasco, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
Ronald Reagan talks to mojahedin forces at the White House during the cold war
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
FOR most of the post-war era, the US and Israel — the anointed police agent of the eastern Mediterranean and central Asia — promoted Islamism as a bulwark against secularists and socialists.
Both governments offered arms and aid, while enthusiastically tolerating cultural and political backwardness in the service of imperialist interests.
From Gamal Abdel Nasser to Bashar al-Assad, the US counterposed Islamist “freedom fighters,” with their feudal values and intolerance, against imperfect but secular, anti-monarchical, independent and nationalist regimes.
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