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
Socialists can’t trust a Labour government
RICHARD RUDKIN can foresee only betrayal of working people under Starmer
Keir Starmer on an LBC radio call-in show
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
WHAT’S that saying? Fool me once shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Words well worth remembering as we head towards the next general election.
Writing in the Guardian in July, Polly Toynbee attempted to reassure the families kept in poverty by the Tories and those with doubts about a Labour government, who have already been put on notice by Keir Starmer that he intends to keep them there.
Toynbee regaled a story of how in 1997, after Labour pledged to follow Tory spending plans, the then secretary of state for social security Harriet Harman had no option but to implement the benefit cuts to single parents. However, changes made to benefits later benefited single parents.
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