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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IWD: I’m proud to identify myself as a feminist – and you should be too
Shami Chakrabarti argues that backing feminism is indivisible from supporting human rights
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
He quickly responded, cross and full of indignation, that men could be feminists too. I’m not too big to be corrected — even by my own son — so I quickly agreed, but asked him whether he was a feminist.
He thought for a few moments. “Yes,” he finally replied, “but not diehard.” I’m going to spend the next few years working on developing the “diehard.”
More seriously, I struggle to understand why so many in this generation have such a problem with the “F word.”
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