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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The public outcry over the Assange case is reaching a new pitch, writes JOHN REES of the Don’t Extradite Assange campaign
ONGOING CAMPAIGN: Stella Moris, the wife of Julian Assange, talks to the media outside Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London, after the Wikileaks founder was formally issued with an order for extradition to the US to face espionage charges, April 2022. John Rees is pictured on the left (dark coat, glasses)
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
“NEVER can there come fog too thick, never can there come mud and mire too deep, to assort with the groping floundering condition which is this High Court of Chancery,” wrote Charles Dickens in Bleak House.
Famously he used the smog of London as a metaphor for the all enveloping bureaucracy and obfuscation which engulfed the case of Jarndyce v Jarndyce that lies at the heart of the novel.
Such was the outrage at Dickens’ depiction of the courts that Bleak House played its role in the reform of the legal system in the 19th century.
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