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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Ukip demagoguery is the real danger
JEREMY CORBYN points to uncomfortable historic parallels in Farage’s campaign
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
COVERAGE of the elections to the European parliament today is such that you might barely notice that there is a debate to be had about the role of the European Central Bank and European Union in imposing austerity across the whole continent.
In reporting the presidential debate in Brussels, the BBC managed to completely ignore the fact that Greece’s Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras is a candidate. They only reported speeches from the other political groupings, all of whom appeared to be roughly on the same page.
The local and Euro elections today have been heavily trailed as an opportunity for Nigel Farage to lead Ukip to a political breakthrough.
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