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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Kill the Bill: We killed a trade union bill in the ’70s – here’s how
Conrad Landin talks to ex-Ford union convener and communist industrial organiser Kevin Halpin about the Industrial Relations Act
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
When Sajid Javid announced the terms of punitive new union laws, the labour movement was left pondering serious questions.
The past five years have seen vibrant campaigns against NHS privatisation, the gagging laws, the privatisation of Royal Mail — but only in a few exceptional cases have campaigners defeated Tory laws politically.
Some still advocate for the Kill the Bill campaign to focus on undermining the new, albeit small, Tory majority in the House of Commons, while others see parliamentary lobbying as a non-starter.
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