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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Divided we stood, and divided we fell. Now it’s time to rebuild Labour
JOHN STEVENSON assesses a Scottish political landscape much changed by the Tory majority that nobody predicted
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
IT IS now clear that the part of the Scottish election campaign that debated whether we would best get social justice by voting Labour, or voting SNP to support and cajole Labour, was painfully academic.
It relied on a narrow Labour win. It forgot that the real enemies are the Tories.
The “voice for Scotland” mantra has backfired. The SNP now has to grapple with a Tory-dominated British Parliament, with much less influence than if Labour had been the largest party.
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