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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
‘Why I’ve been a long-time supporter of the Morning Star’
Pauline Fraser talks with Star reader JEAN TURNER about what first attracted her to the paper – and what keeps her reading it
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
I SPEAK to Jean Turner in the fading late Georgian splendour of the Society for Co-operation in Russian and Soviet Studies (SCRSS) premises in Brixton Road, where she works one day a week. Jean is the former general secretary of SCRSS and is now honorary treasurer.
I begin by asking Jean when she first bought the Daily Worker, now the Morning Star.
“It was in 1946 when I was living near Leatherhead. A man used to stand outside Leatherhead Co-op every Saturday and I started to buy the Daily Worker from him once a week. It cost 6d at that time. I felt rather sorry for him because he was out there in all weathers. I was very politicised because of the war.”
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