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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We cannot forget February 15’s connection to Palestine
SHABBIR LAKHA argues that Britain retains one of the biggest Palestine solidarity movements in the world — built on the foundation of the massive anti-war marches of the 2000s
A young supporter of Palestine waves a flag next to one of the Trafalgar Square lions as thousands of people crowd into Trafalgar Square in central London for a CND rally, in January 2002
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
THE two-million-strong demonstration against the Iraq war on February 15 2003 remains, 20 years later, the biggest protest in British history. It is estimated that one in every five households in the country had at least one person on the demonstration.
It was also the biggest day of co-ordinated protests across the globe, with tens of millions of people taking to the streets in over 600 cities.
The scale of the demonstration dispels the lies of Tony Blair, Alistair Campbell and the MPs that supported the war who say it was the right decision or that the arguments supporting an invasion were credible at the time. The film Official Secrets portrays well the impact of the demonstration and the prevalence of the anti-war arguments.
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