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
Latest editorial
A bitter aftertaste of fascism – and a foretaste
The shadow left by Pinochet’s murderous regime makes LEN YANNIELLI wonder how to characterise today’s US under Trump
General Augusto Pinochet
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
FASCISM must leave a bitter aftertaste. Like tasting the rotten area of an apple, it shows as eyes narrow and lips squeeze together, as if to prevent any more entering one’s body.
Punta Arenas is the last city at the end of continental South America, at the very tip. I was on a plane heading there. It was 2002. Fascism had technically ended in Chile in 1988. The Chilean passenger sitting next to me was a journalist. We struck up a light conversation.
The lay of the land, some 20,000 feet below us, was the dominant topic. A smoking volcano kicked it off. I knew little about geology. He seemed to know much. The smile on his face told me that he was enjoying my rudimentary questions.
Similar stories
Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
For the first time in years, the dominant voice within Chile’s official left comes not from neoliberal centrists but from the world of labour, writes LEONEL POBLETE CODUTTI
KATE CLARK recalls an occasion when the president of the Scottish National Union of Mineworkers might just have saved a Chilean prisoner’s life