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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Challenging inequality in education, in society and in our economy
As Labour Women’s Conference meets, ANGELA RAYNER sets out how a Corbyn-led government will bring about a fairer society for women
Shadow education secretary Angela Rayner
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
THIS weekend Labour’s Women’s Conference is a chance to reflect on the strides the labour movement has made in fighting inequality but also to remind us of how far we have to go.
That is pretty obvious in politics itself. As a working-class trade unionist, arriving in Parliament was like entering a different world.
Like a lot of the women elected as Labour MPs in the last two elections, it was made clear that we were different.
Often I face a wall of wealthy white men on the benches opposite. After one of my first appearances at the despatch box, a Daily Mail columnist wrote that I must have got lost from the set of Little Britain. And I know the prejudice faced by my ethnic minority colleagues has been even worse.
As a Labour Party we can start tackling that. But a Labour government will need to change not just politics but the country as a whole.
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