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Labour MPs Ruth Smeeth (left), Luciana Berger (centre) and Jess Philllips (right) at a demonstration outside the Labour party disciplinary hearing for Marc Wadsworth in London
LABOUR’S perverse decision to expel black anti-racism campaigner Marc Wadsworth is a watershed moment.
Recent months have seen a resurgence of Establishment attacks on Labour and its leader, resuming a pattern of misinformation and smears that began when Jeremy Corbyn was elected to lead the party in 2015.
Corbyn has been attacked for lacking patriotism because he refused to believe everything the Conservatives claimed about the apparent poisoning of Sergei Skripal without seeing some evidence to back it up.
ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
Starmer doubles down on witch hunt by suspending the whip from Diane Abbott
The New York mayoral candidate has electrified the US public with policies of social justice and his refusal to be cowed. We can follow his example here, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
In an address to the Communist Party’s executive at the weekend international secretary KEVAN NELSON explained why the communists’ watchwords must be Jobs not Bombs and Welfare not Warfare