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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A farcical backlash from the commentariat
A number of liberal-left figures have lined up to attack RMT shop steward Eddie Dempsey for his comments about Brexit. ROBBIE RAGANI cautions against such bad-faith posturing
RMT shop steward Eddie Dempsey (left) and Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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
THE political sphere, especially that section of it which populates social media, is and always has been full of bad tempers, bad faith and bad blood.
These low-level intrigues are rarely of concern to the wider electorate, even the relatively engaged section of it.
However, a recent argument between RMT shop steward Eddie Dempsey and a section of the left commentariat carries within it the signs of a much deeper malaise.
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