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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Covid helped me truly realise the power of our class
As educators take one step closer to strike action, teacher ROBERT POOLE reflects on how the pandemic helped refocus the politics of those who’d banked on Parliament for change – leading to an upsurge in organisation and resistance
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
WE are well and truly into autumn and it well and truly feels like it. The long summer holidays seem a long time ago and mince pies are filling the shelves of my local Co-op where until recently they had been selling charcoal for barbecues.
As the nights close in and the heating is coming on at home, talk in the staff room is increasingly around the cost-of-living crisis and there is a real sense of dread and exasperation.
A fellow member of my trade union came up to me this week and asked if we could go on strike sooner because their gas and electric bill was now over £4,000 a year.
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