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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Why we can't trust judges to beat the bedroom tax
LIZ DAVIES says the courts may be able to help a few individuals, but we need to step up the political battle
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
Judges - and lawyers - can't be trusted to uphold social justice.
In July, two senior judges dismissed the challenge brought by disabled people against the bedroom tax. They found that penalising disabled adults who needed an extra room for one of them to sleep in, or to store equipment in, might be disability discrimination but was still legal.
On September 25 the Court of Appeal granted the applicants permission for their appeal to be argued, probably some time early in 2014. The Court of Appeal has the chance to put right a horrendous wrong and allow some flexibility in the housing benefit rules for people with disabilities.
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CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
