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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Supporting PR Unison could radically transform our political system in favour of working people
Proportional representation is an issue on which Unison delegates have the power to fundamentally remake British politics, says STEPHEN SMELLIE
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
BRITAIN finds itself in the midst of a crisis. For working people across Britain times are hard. Rising prices and stagnant wages have caused a cost-of-living spiral as bills rise and people struggle to make ends meet.
The key driver of this crisis is clear — a right-wing Tory government, tired, out of ideas and too focused on its own survival than improving the lives of those it is meant to represent.
This week Unison meets in Brighton for its national delegate conference against the backdrop of a cost-of-living crisis heaping pain on to public service workers.
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