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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The rats have crawled out of the sewer
The revolting disloyalty of many Labour figures to Ed Miliband stems from their nostalgia for the right-wing days of Blair, warns MICHAEL MEACHER
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 Blairites never wanted Ed Miliband to win the leadership.
Since he unexpectedly did, they have never missed an opportunity to gossip about him from the sidelines. Some, like Dan Hodges — son of Glenda Jackson — regularly spit out their vitriol and bile against Miliband in the in the Tory press.
Others more insidiously give unattributed briefings to the media which Blairite journalists, like Nicholas Watt in the Guardian at the weekend, shamefully repeat without naming the source.
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As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership
