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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Trade unions are vital to Labour - and to all citizens
Labour is weakening the union link and the Tories are attacking the right to strike on the Tube. But defending the role of unions is defending democracy itself, argues JEREMY CORBYN
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
Labour's NEC voted to endorse Ed Miliband's changes to Labour Party structure, reducing trade union influence and removing the special status of MPs in leadership elections except where nominations for the leadership are concerned.
Only two NEC members, Dennis Skinner and Christine Shawcroft, voted against the changes.
The background to this dramatic structural change in the party has been the twin effects of the long term pressure of new Labour and the right to completely break the union link, alongside an absurd panic over the Falkirk selection process where there was much media criticism of the involvement of Unite.
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