Back our enemies' enemies?
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We need a new Marxist left. The one we have is largely degenerate.
Communist Party of Britain and Morning Star
How the "left" mourned Kim Jong Il
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On 17 December 2011, the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il was announced to the world. As with the death of any major political figure, the world turned to examination of his “legacy”.
Neither Washington nor Tehran!
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By Cathy Nugent
Last month the UN’s nuclear energy watchdog passed a resolution calling on Iran to come clean about whether or not it was developing nuclear weaponry. How has the left responded?
The main enemy is...Clegg
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Here’s a Christmas puzzle for Solidarity readers. Who is most confused and disoriented by David Cameron’s refusal to sign up for EU fiscal unity — the Daily Express and Mail or the Morning Star?
For a united Europe!
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The Morning Star, the paper associated with the Communist Party of Britain, carried a naively self-revealing editorial on 9 December: “There’s a huge feeling of guilt and confusion when a leader writer in the Morning Star feels even a momentary twinge of fellow feeling with chief speculators’ stooge David Cameron...”
Labour left resolves to fight capital, not “Europe”
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By Vicki Morris
The Morning Star has attacked the Labour Representation Committee (LRC) conference decision on 19 November “Against British nationalism: for a Workers’ United Europe”.
Left must be clear against Europhobes
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The Tory right mobilised on 24 October, with the help of the right-wing tabloid press, to demand a referendum on British withdrawal from the European Union.
Debating the Histradrut
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Recently I have become involved in a debate on the Morning Star letters page about Israel and the Israeli trade union federation Histadrut.
The left: slipping towards Qaddafi?
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When the revolt against Qaddafi started in Libya, hardly anyone on the left — however broadly defined — could say anything in defence of Qaddafi.
The left and Libya
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A statement about Libya has appeared on the website of Unite, declaring itself simply to be a “Unite statement” without any indication of what committee of the union it was endorsed by.