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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BlacKkKlansman – a spycops’ survivor’s perspective
Spike Lee's film is a fun but often fanciful treatment of undercover infiltration, with little regard for the women targeted by the state's spies, writes 'Alison'
A Ku Klux Klan gathering in Muncie Indiana in 1922
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 WASN’T sure what to expect from Spike Lee’s new film set in the late 1970s based on the memoir of ex-undercover police officer Ron Stallworth.
All I knew was that it included an intimate relationship between the protagonist cop and a black female activist and that it had provoked some online debate about Lee’s representation of racism in the police.
Like Peter Moffat’s undercover police drama for the BBC last year, Lee’s film explores the dilemmas faced by officers employed in these duplicitous roles. And like Moffat’s hero, his undercover policeman is black.
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