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
Desperate Establishment resorts to fear-mongering
CALLUM ALEXANDER SCOTT traces the history of anti-communism and anti-terrorism as a means of demonising individuals and groups who threaten existing power and privilege
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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
A SPECTRE is haunting Britain’s right-wing newspapers — the spectre of desperation.
Devoid of credibility and condemned to watch the slow collapse of their neoliberal weltanschauung (world outlook), it seems all they have left to exploit is the power of fear.
“Commie spy,” “loony lefty,” “traitor,” “Britain-hating ideologue,” “terrorist sympathiser” and “threat to our national security.” These are just a few of the desperately absurd scare-terms the right-wing press has tried to pin on Jeremy Corbyn over the past few years.
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