If parties are serious about rebuilding trust, as the elections approach, they must embrace bold redistribution, invest in public services and put working people, not the wealthy few, at the heart of Scotland’s future, argues ROZ FOYER
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VINCE MILLS takes issue with the New Labour-inspired plans of shadow work and pensions secretary Liz Kendall for so-called Neets – people not in education, employment or training
BLAST FROM THE PAST: Kendall (left) and Starmer want to resurrect New
Labour thinking regarding young jobseekers
Sinn Fein’s CHRIS HAZZARD MP addressed the closing rally at Latin America 2026 earlier this month with a reminder that the struggle for national dignity and popular power is no longer regional or symbolic — it is the front line of a global realignment led by organised peoples who refuse to bow to empire. The Star republishes his speech here
LEIGH SEEDHOUSE looks at why special educational needs is in crisis — and why the government’s pledge of Send training for every teacher is a poisoned chalice
As Beijing gathers for its annual ‘Two Sessions,’ all eyes are on China’s technological blueprint that will steer the world’s second-largest economy forwards in the coming period, says ZHANG HE
Twice elected in Battersea, ‘Comrade Sak’ devoted his life to the twin causes of working-class struggle and Indian independence – a legacy now honoured 90 years after his death, write DAVID HORSLEY and JEANNE RATHBONE
The real question for Your Party, as it holds its CEC elections, will be whether shaped from above or built from below by empowered branches and a bold, uncompromising socialist programme. Mel Mullings, Riccardo la Torre and Chloe Braddock of the Grassroots Left slate set out their case
WITH each passing opinion poll, the famous Ming vase Keir Starmer metaphorically clings to on his way electoral victory, has been transformed into a material so unbreakable, through the political alchemy of the Tory collapse, that it could be bounced off the brass neck of Tony Blair without any damage.
The certainty of a Labour government means that the left needs to grasp not just the neoliberal general direction of the next Labour government, but the specific policies that it intends to introduce, the better to address this new period, for good, or more likely, for ill.
This is no easy task, for as frustrated media presenters tell Labour spokespeople on an almost daily basis on our screens and radios, the detailed policies of the next Labour government remain veiled in secrecy. All the more reason then, why we should pay attention to those aspects of their programme that Labour have chosen to reveal.
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