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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We must oppose the government’s slide towards authoritarianism
That the Tories wish to grant undercover agents more power to infiltrate well-meaning activist groups is an issue of grave importance which should concern us all, says CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
Doreen Lawrence, the mother of murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence, leaves the Home Office with her son Stuart, after a meeting with then home secretary Theresa May, to discuss claims that undercover police officers hunted for information to smear her family, and (below) Boris Johnson at Downing Street
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
I FEAR that under cover of its catastrophic handing of the coronavirus, our government is embarking on a dangerous slide towards authoritarianism.
After all, this is a government which openly broke international law by breaking its election promises over Brexit; which recently passed a Bill granting immunity to soldiers who committed crimes over five years ago, and which has embarked on a worrying war of words against “lefty lawyers,” which is nothing more than a coded culture war against those defending our human rights.
Last week I was proud to vote against the government’s latest dangerous piece of legislation which could legalise brutal crimes committed in secret by undercover agents.
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