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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The right to protest against Israel’s policies is being threatened
BEN JAMAL argues that the headlong rush by Labour’s candidates for leader to endorse the Board of Deputies' 10 pledges for action on anti-semitism is ill-advised
RIGHT TO PROTEST THREATENED: Last September 30 HSBC bank branches were picketed by PSC activists calling for HSBC to end its complicity with Israeli apartheid
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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
IN THE summer of 2018, when the media was dominated by daily stories about Labour’s anti-semitism crisis, Brian Klug, one of the world’s foremost academic experts on anti-semitism, issued a plea for reasoned and informed thinking on the issue in place of the kind of moral panic which was ensuing.
At that time, the supposed touchstone of Labour’s commitment to addressing anti-semitism was its willingness to adopt the IHRA definition of anti-semitism unamended and with no additional accompanying text.
Klug’s forensic piece illustrated the illegitimacy of this argument, but ended with a heartfelt warning. “Part of me,” he wrote, “feels the hopelessness of appealing to reason, a sense of swimming against a mighty and unmindful current of opinion… rallying around the IHRA text as if it were the eternal word of God.”
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