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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CARLOS FONSECA talks to Liz Light about the many achievements of the Sandinista government since 2007
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
Since being returned to power in 2007 the Sandinista government has many achievements - but one which makes Carlos Fonseca, son of Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) founder Comandante Carlos Fonseca, especially proud is the Councils for Citizens Power movement.
These neighbourhood councils are seen as an expression of direct democracy.
"We believe that citizens do not only elect government representatives but also decide on government policies and what their representatives should be doing," he tells me.
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