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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Tory failures are throwing millions out of work
The left must respond by fighting for every job and arguing for massive investment in the economy, writes KEN LIVINGSTONE
British Gas workers outside the Scottish Gas call centre in Edinburgh on strike over new contracts
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
RECENT figures showing unemployment rising to 5 per cent in the three months to November 2020 were further evidence of the growing jobs crisis facing Britain.
Not a week passes by without more announcements of job cuts from household name companies, and many job losses of course do not even reach the headlines.
Behind these latest figures was confirmation that both times unemployment rose the most last year was when government support through furlough was expected to end or reduced — namely, in July when the initial Job Retention Scheme ended (with unemployment rising by 17 per cent) and October when the Job Retention Scheme was due to end on October 31 and an extension not announced until November (with unemployment rising by 8 per cent).
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