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
Bloody Sunday amnesty: victims let down again
The legal campaigns by bereaved Irish families are not ‘vexatious’ or political propaganda. Where the British army has lied, history needs to be corrected by the guilty being brought to justice, writes RICHARD RUDKIN
DEVASTATED: A February 1972 funeral procession in Derry for the 13 Irish protesters killed by the British army on Bloody Sunday
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
ON FRIDAY July 2, like the vast majority of people who believe in justice, I was saddened to hear the news that the families of Bloody Sunday victims will not see those accused of the murder and attempted murder of their loved ones face justice.
While those of us that value truth and justice were dismayed by this decision, there were of course those who jumped for joy, hailing it as some kind of success.
The Daily Express, which campaigned to protect veterans from prosecution, ran the headline: “Witch-hunt against Northern Ireland veterans dealt blow after two cases dropped.”
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