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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South African unity under threat
JOHN HAYLETT examines the tensions emerging in the tripartite alliance
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
African National Congress secretary-general Gwede Mantashe voiced ANC concern this week at increasing disunity in trade union federation Cosatu, telling leaders to "have the courage to lock themselves in one room and deal with the contradictions."
Mantashe told the central executive committee meeting of transport union Satawu that although the ANC government had brought in progressive labour laws to protect workers, the government had to look after "the interests of the broader working class, not only the organised section."
It has provided basic services that were denied or minimal under apartheid, including water services, electricity, social grants, free education, school meals and the introduction of national health insurance to ensure universal access to quality health care.
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