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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The grim reality of nuclear colonialism
RAE STREET highlights the dangers of uranium mining and its impact on indigenous peoples
OFF LIMITS: Kakadu National Park uranium mining controlled area, Australia
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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
THERE is an abundance of reasons why it is folly to continue with building nuclear reactors.
There is the cost which is huge compared with investing in more genuine sustainable energy. There is the problem with radioactive waste, for which there is no solution yet for the legacy waste, let alone producing more.
There is the potential for attack: if wind turbines were attacked it would make for a difficult situation, but if a nuclear reactor were to be sabotaged it would be the equivalent of a nuclear bomb going off.
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