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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Class Conference 2013 will prove to be the watershed in articulating the left's responses to austerity, says Ellie Mae O'Hagan
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 Centre for Labour and Social Studies has taken the important step of holding its first ever conference on Saturday November 2 at TUC Congress House.
The conference will be a platform to fast-track vibrant, fresh ideas into policy and looks set to be one of the biggest gatherings of progressives in the run-up of the 2015 general election.
We are delighted to be welcoming some of the most influential names on the British left to join us, including Owen Jones, Frances O'Grady, Len McCluskey, Angela Eagle MP, Mark Serwotka, Ian Lavery MP, John Hendy QC, Professor Keith Ewing, Lisa Nandy MP, Duncan Weldon, Zoe Williams, and many others.
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