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A year of tragedy, but also hope for the future
RICHARD BURGON surveys 2017, where, amid death and conflict, the spirit of socialism was rejuvenated

SINCE this is my last Morning Star column of 2017, I wanted to take the opportunity to reflect upon the year we’ve just had and upon the year ahead that, as a movement, we must strive to collectively shape.

I write this in the week in which the six-month anniversary of the fire at Grenfell Tower takes place. 

Nothing here in Britain so symbolises the indifference of powerful people and institutions to the lives of ordinary people as the Grenfell fire, the circumstances leading up to it and its aftermath.  

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