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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The right is profiting from our weakness
Uniting the labour movement around the key demands of council housing, rent controls and an end to the marketisation of the NHS are key to electoral success in 2015, says 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
THE results of the European and local elections have been presented by the media as an unquestioning triumph for Ukip and the right.
Throughout Saturday all the media were leading with the allegedly huge Ukip gains in the council elections — completely ignoring that Labour had already won 2,000 council seats in total.
However, we cannot ignore the fact that in the European elections — albeit on a 34 per cent turnout — Ukip managed 4.3 million votes to Labour’s 4 million, with the Conservatives being down to 3.7 million.
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