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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Divided Britain
The north and south of England could almost be different countries, writes JOHN PILGER
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
England is two countries. One is dominated by London, the other remains in its shadow.
When I first arrived here from Australia, it seemed no-one went north of Watford and those who had emigrated from the north worked hard to change their accent and obscure their origins and learn the mannerisms and codes of the southern comfortable classes.
Some would mock the life they had left behind. They were changing classes, or so they thought.
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