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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Should socialists vote Labour under Starmer?
We Labour members may ‘stay and fight’ inside the party, but if Starmer does well at the next election, it will now explicitly be on the basis of his gratuitous and open repudiation of socialist values and principles — we cannot vote for that, argues ADAM LEWINSKI
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
FOLLOWING from conference, Keir Starmer’s office and their assorted press contacts appeared buoyant about the heckling he had received throughout his speech.
Bizarrely, the heckling appeared to have been factored into his performance following a tense conference in which the Labour right gerrymandered, rigged and corrupted disciplinary processes and CLP delegate AGMs to secure a narrow win for Starmer on several proposed rule changes, designed to disempower members and hand uncontested authority to MPs.
In a clearly premeditated press briefing, Starmer supporters told journalists that delegates had heckled the leader during a section of his speech in which he had discussed the death of his mother — an out-and-out fabrication which was clearly at odds with the video footage of the event. The press, of course, blindly printed these lies anyway.
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