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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How about dropping pretensions of making Britain great again via or in spite of the EU — and freeing England’s oldest colony, suggests REUBEN BARD-ROSENBERG
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
SOMETHING strange occurred in the spring of 2017. An election was held. The parliamentary arithmetic aligned in an unprecedented fashion. And lots of people in England were rudely awakened to the fact that we continue to maintain a colony in Ireland.
Don’t get me wrong. I sympathised with people, especially women, who felt fearful about the prospect of ultra-reactionary Ulster Loyalists holding the balance of power in Parliament. But a part of me was a bit like “seriously libs, have you only just noticed these numpties?”
For whilst the degree of Loyalist power at Westminster was a novelty, the people of the Six Counties have, for many long years, been subjected to the moral and political bellenditude of the Democratic Unionist Party and similar political forces.
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AARON SMITH discusses why the Protestant diaspora are still part of Yeats’s ‘Indomitable Irishry’, and an integral part of any future united Ireland.
TOM GALLAHUE argues that asking what role Irish diaspora educators can play in shaping Irish unity is to ask a deeper question about democracy itself
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH