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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Bishops against pawns
Why are 26 seats in our legislature still reserved for a group from one single religion to vote with the Tories and oppose progressive reforms, asks STEVEN WALKER
UNDEMOCRATIC: Baron Sentamu is sworn in to the House of Lords to take one of the 26 seats reserved for Anglican bishops
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
KARL MARX famously said that “religion is the opium of the masses,” distracting working-class people from taking revolutionary action.
Over 150 years later there is a glaring anachronism at the heart of British politics which automatically allows unelected bishops to sit in the House of Lords.
Parliament awards 26 seats in the House of Lords to bishops of the Church of England. These bishops vote on legislation, make interventions and lead prayers at the start of each day’s business.
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