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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Britain after Brexit, Corbyn and Covid-19
Muhammed Shabeer of the People's Dispatch, India, put six questions on the domestic political situation to ROB GRIFFITHS, general secretary of Communist Party
CONSISTENT PATH: The Communist party march against the EU, May 1, 2016. Rob Griffiths is on the far left
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
1. How did Britain become a Covid-19 hotspot? In your opinion, how effective has been the Tory government’s intervention in tackling the crisis?
Britain has the third-highest death rate per head in the world and is also in the worst ten when it comes to infection and recovery rates, which cannot be explained wholly or even mainly in terms of significant factors such as population density and age profile. Being an international passenger travel hub with many foreign visitors has also been a factor.
But above all, the late and inadequate measures of the British government to take account of these factors has made our infection, recovery and death rates much worse.
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