DAVE CALFE, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ trade union, writes exclusively for the Morning Star as the union’s five-day annual conference opens in Birmingham
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Andrew Murray catches up with Green peer and former party leader NATALIE BENNETT in the Greens’ target seat in Bristol, where they discuss the party’s aim of winning four MPs, Farage, Labour’s lack of policy – and the all-important issue of Gaza
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Election of a new leadership at Hadash’s convention signals a renewed effort to forge a broad Arab-Jewish alliance in Israel, says AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN
HENRY FOWLER, national co-ordinator for General Strike 100, continued his nationwide tour of partner organisations by joining campaigners and trade unionists in Brighton for the unveiling of a new blue plaque and a full day of commemorative events marking the centenary of the ‘Battle of Lewes Road’
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The collapse of Streeting’s leadership challenge and an opening for Burnham’s potential path back to Parliament have accelerated the battle over what – if anything – Labour still stands for, writes ANDREW MURRAY
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ACROSS much of the country, voting for a left-of-Labour, pro-Gaza candidate in the general election can only mean voting Green.
The party is standing in almost every constituency across Britain, four times as many as the next largest effort, by the Workers Party, and around three times as many as all other socialist parties and independent left candidates aggregated.
And it is taking advantage of the evident gap in the market opened up by Labour’s march to the Establishment centre by offering a programme closely based on the popular Jeremy Corbyn offer of 2017.
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