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
Marx in context: the beginnings of a critical theory
Karl Marx by Robert Diedrichs, 1970
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
IN THE 1950s, when the French geographer and political scientist André Siegfried gave a series of lectures on the history of England at the Sorbonne in Paris, he began every lecture with the same words, “Ladies and gentlemen, England is an island.”
Naturally, Siegfried’s point was not the banal assertion that England is, indeed, situated on an island. Rather, his point was that it makes a great difference whether or not one understands the country’s history in light of these given geographical conditions or not.
Karl Marx was a German philosopher
In the same vein, we must always remember that Karl Marx was a German philosopher and we must therefore keep the conditions given by what it meant to be a German philosopher in mind when we read his work.
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The creative imagination is a weapon against barbarism, writes KENNY COYLE, who is a keynote speaker at the Manifesto Press conference, Art in the Age of Degenerative Capitalism, tomorrow at the Marx Memorial Library & Workers School in London