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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Polarised politics has allowed the far right to rise
We need to continue to stress that whether people voted Leave or Remain, we must unite in opposition to the far right, says WEYMAN BENNETT
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 crisis rapidly unfolding over Brexit is exposing this Tory government as one of the most profoundly weak and divided governments ever seen.
The unnerving phenomenon that has developed over the last week, with groups of the far-right hanging around outside Parliament, launching attacks on anyone perceived as opposing Brexit — whether Owen Jones or Tory MP Anna Soubry — sharply illustrates the chaos and polarisation in the bizarre atmosphere of politics today.
Far-right protesters have attempted to seize the “anti-Establishment” mantle of the gilets jaunes, or “yellow vest” movement in France, and attacked an RMT union picket line.
The movement in France — centred on taking on Establishment austerity — is a long way off being a movement of the far right.
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