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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Revenge of the Poor Law
The Tories are conjuring up a Victorian workhouse-style regime that literally starves people. It must stop, says IAN LAVERY MP
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
It is perhaps a sign of the apathy of these dark days that more people in Parliament turned up for the badger cull debate than the debate on benefits sanctions that followed it.
We are living through an era where being disabled, poor and disenfranchised attracts state punishment rather than help. The government’s flagship social security reforms and their wider austerity measures are pushing vulnerable people to the brink.
It is a period in our history that will be looked on by future generations with horror.
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