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 Democracy Roadshow is back
We’ve started a new nationwide tour to promote democracy in the Labour Party — and in the economy too, write CHRIS WILLIAMSON and TOSH McDONALD
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
LAST year’s roadshow preceded Labour’s annual conference and focused on the ideas contained in the party’s Democracy Review which, according to the Labour Party’s website, was launched to explore “how our hugely expanded membership becomes a mass movement which can transform society.”
And Labour’s national chair, Ian Lavery, said: “In order to ensure our vision for a country which works for the many not the few, it is essential that our party’s structure and rules allow us to build a mass movement.”
Sadly, most of the recommendations contained in the Democracy Review didn’t get implemented, so it is important that we keep the issue of party democracy on the agenda. This is particularly important because there are reactionary elements in the party, particularly inside the Parliamentary Labour Party, who want to destroy the prospect of a member-led mass movement.
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