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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Insult to the working class
The posh-boy Tory Party has been shown up for what it is - an out-of-touch, inept, sexist bunch of opportunists, says BERNADETTE HORTON
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
Last week's bingo Budget was a case of "All the 4's - the working poor" and "Foodbank heaven - No 7" for ordinary people.
Then the Tories' inept, accident-prone but certainly humorous party chairman Grant Shapps saw fit to tweet about how "hard-working people" can take advantage of the cut in bingo tax and 1p off a pint doing more of the things "they" enjoy. Us working classes are up in arms and rightly so.
The contempt the Tory Party has always held towards the working class is well documented, but even Thatcher would be amazed at the very public way Shapps showed the Tory hand.
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