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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It only takes one dissenting voice to cut through a torrent of hatred
Evidence shows that even a small number of nonconformists can have a disproportionate impact in preventing dangerous forms of groupthink. NICOLAS LALAGUNA reports
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
DURING the decades leading up to World War II, fascists around the world were very publicly supported by highly influential sections of the international ruling elite, in political, cultural and commercial terms.
And this was going on at the same time as many working people were speaking out against those same fascists in terms of the far right being used as a counter-force against socialist movements in regions where the elite were most threatened.
Italy, Germany and Spain at that time were perhaps the three regions in the northern hemisphere most likely to develop into revolutions, which is why it is no surprise that, in those countries during the pre-war years, alongside the traditions of patriarchy and anti-semitism, the fascists also embraced the capitalist tradition of anti-trade unionism and the ruling elite’s tradition of anti-equality.
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