Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the start of Kunming’s Belt and Road media forum, where 200 journalists from 71 countries celebrated a new openness and optimism, forged by China’s enormous contribution to global development
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Back to the failed future
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
Women opponents of the Trump regime fear his misogynist, racist and anti-immigrant views are taking hold in Britain, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER, as protests against his visit hit London’s streets
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
MISH RAHMAN introduces the platform of a new organisation within Your Party, which will campaign for the highest level of democracy, accountability and participation, having learned from the mistakes of Labour in the 2015-19 era
ANDREW MURRAY wonders what the great communist foe of Oswald Mosley would make of today’s far-right surge, warning that while the triumph of Farage and ‘Robinson’ is far from inevitable, placing any faith in Starmer in an anti-fascist front is a fool’s errand
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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