IF THE left cannot offer an alternative to the status quo “fascism beckons,” former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn warned the Matchwomen’s Festival in London’s East End.
Mr Corbyn and his wife Laura Alvarez did their first ever joint interview with Matchwomen’s Festival founder and historian Louise Raw on Saturday.
Labour in its current form was no alternative to the government at all, Ms Alvarez said. “Jeremy was the leader for five years in the Labour Party, and he couldn’t change the corruption inside the party. We need to carry on fighting and challenging this corrupt government — and right-wing MPs wherever they are.”
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
BEN CHACKO reports on the struggles against sexism, racism and the brutish British state that featured at Matchwomen’s Festival this year
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Morning Star’s Race, Sex and Class Liberation conference last weekend, which discussed the dangers of incipient fascism and the spiralling drive to war
The Morning Star invites readers to join Jeremy Corbyn and others to celebrate a working-class female victory that echoes through the ages



