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
Making the case for Welsh federalism
With a new report showing that much of the public feels disconnected from discussions about the constitutional future, it’s important to engage with people’s current experience and everyday lives, argues DAI MORGAN
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
THE recent report of the Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales presents a major challenge to those of us advocating a federal structure for Britain.
The report recognises federalism as a viable option alongside strengthened devolution and independence options. However, it also describes federalism as “…generally the least attractive option for citizens across all the strands of our engagement.”
We need to consider the reasons given for this outcome, by the report authors. Can they be rebuffed? What work do we need to do to remedy this?
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Calls for public ownership, an industrial strategy driven by the unions and extending devolution to encompass workers’ rights and protect us from Westminster are growing at this week’s conference, writes DAI MORGAN
DAI MORGAN reviews the pro-independence left-wing think tank Melin Drafod’s economic paper
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