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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Collapsing male fertility: not enough seed to spill?
Is the future of the human race in danger from lack of sperm? PETER FROST reads a worrying new report
DIMINISHING RETURNS: Human sperm recorded using an optical microscopy technique, 3000x magnification for A4 picture format
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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
IS it men who are to be the harbingers of the end of humanity as we know it? Before any readers hurry to email me saying I should have started that question “is it women and men who...” sorry you are premature (a word for reasons that will become clear I shall try to avoid in the rest of this article).
It is men only who are causing a potential disaster for the whole of the human species, although women and particularly babies — some as yet unborn — are certainly going to suffer too.
Quite simply, all across the world human male testicular equipment is falling down on the job and failing to produce enough live, fast swimming, go-for-it-lad sperm.
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