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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Brazilian communists: ‘we can win a life worth living’
CHARLIE MAY spoke to Young Communist Union (UJC) international secretary Ligia Fernandes about the rise of the far right in Brazil, the failures of social democracy and where the left goes from here
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
Charlie May: The British left were shocked by the election of Jair Bolsonaro — how did the UJC characterise this development?
Ligia Fernandes: The rise of this right-wing reactionary government has its most clearly visible origins in the 2008 global financial crash. It was in the aftermath of this world-wide calamity that the Workers’ Party (WP) entered into a period of severe crisis.
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