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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Tony Benn: A man so much bigger than his time
As Tony Benn is laid to rest today his friend and colleague ALAN SIMPSON pays tribute
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
When Victor Hugo died, his coffin was followed by a crowd that outnumbered the usual population of Paris. Tony Benn's funeral today will not be followed by any such numbers but it ought to be.
There are few figures who can fill an epoch with ideas, humour, hope and inspiration in the way Tony Benn has done.
Fascinating as they are, Tony would never have entertained a claim that his diaries transformed the shape of a nation's literature or gave him the status of a visionary poet. But like Victor Hugo, he became a symbol of both the nation's virtues and its vices.
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