Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
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Back to the roots of feminism – what has the Wollstonecraft statue achieved?
JULIA BARD examines the controversy caused by Maggi Hambling’s tribute to a great Enlightenment thinker unveiled earlier this week
Feminists protest at the Miss World contest in 1970 and (right) Maggi Hambling’s latest creation in north London
CHARLEY ALLAN reports from Clacton on Farage’s fears his by-election stunt has backfired
JEREMY CORBYN says we should never forget the horrific reality of nuclear weapons, or cease our efforts to rid the planet of them entirely
The new TUC Cymru general secretary speaks to Morning Star Wales reporter David Nicholson about her trade union background and ambitions for the movement
Internationalism is deeply embedded in socialist theory and practice. Examination illuminates its complexity asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
The Claudia Sheinbaum government is no pushover and is holding firm despite US abuses of the relationship, says DAVID RABY
As we approach the grim anniversaries of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, SIMON BARROW sounds the alarm over the dangerous and murderous direction our government is heading
FIFTY years ago a raucous band of women disrupted the finals of the Miss World competition, describing it as a cattle market.
They sprayed the bouncers with ink, showered the stage with flour bombs and broadcast a fundamental feminist message across the globe, shouting: “We’re not beautiful, we’re not ugly, we’re angry!”
Last week, just before the half-centenary of that consciousness-raising protest, a statue to commemorate Mary Wollstonecraft, the visionary Enlightenment thinker, was inaugurated in Newington Green in north London.
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