In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
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Labour's leaked report: we can't let them get away with it
While we were wholeheartedly campaigning for Britain's first ever socialist government, the Labour right was actively sabotaging its own party in any way it could think of. It's all in the open now: so it is time to take action against the guilty, writes LAURA SMITH
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech showed that far from being stuck in the past — he’s learning from it, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
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Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners co-founder MIKE JACKSON talks to Matt Kerr about the enduring power of Pride, protest and trade unionism
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AFTER a brief break from Twitter for the bank holiday I came back online to the revelations of a damning internal party report, titled The Work of the Labour Party’s Governance & Legal Unit in Relation to Anti-Semitism, 2014-2019 that was leaked on Sunday.
Although, like many, I was fully aware of the hostility and organised attempts to undermine the Labour leadership of Jeremy Corbyn, reading of the systematic sabotage by the party apparatus between his election in September 2015 and Jennie Formby taking over as general secretary in April 2018 made even my jaw hit the floor.
The paranoia and dislike from some towards working-class activists like me who supported Corbyn and made it to Parliament was always clear. In my first week in June 2017 I was introduced to several fellow MPs on the terrace. Among the first words out of Neil Coyle’s mouth were: “So — are you a Trot?”
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