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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Women coming together can change things amid dark days of isolation
Journalist and scientist SARYA TUNC talks to the Star about her forced exile from Turkey, the threats faced by reporters and the role of women in the title she works for – Ekmek ve Gul
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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
FOR so many people in Turkey being involved in politics means running into difficulties with the state.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has tightened his increasingly authoritarian grip on the country with many opponents of the regime, including opposition politicians and journalists, in prison.
More than 160,000 have been arrested since a failed coup attempt in July 2016 and 150,000 public-sector workers purged from their posts.
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