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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NHS: for the people, not the privateers
As trade unionists lead today's marches across Britain to demand proper NHS pay rises, investment and reversal of privatisations, GARY SMITH outlines the seriousness of the Tory threat to this national asset
GMB general secretary Gary Smith
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
CUT government funding, “make sure that things don’t work,” wait for the people to get angry, blame the public sector and then hand the assets over to private capital.
Noam Chomsky’s analysis of the method used to privatise publicly owned wealth and services over the last 40 years holds true for the NHS.
It has already been salami-sliced into a multitude of local hospital trusts, with contracts and services outsourced to private providers. And yet the failures of the private sector to deliver adequate PPE and to test and trace during the Covid-19 pandemic can be contrasted with the selfless dedication shown by NHS staff working on the front lines and by the enormous success of the vaccination programme, which has enabled the gradual reducing of restrictions.
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