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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PETER FROST goes in search of a plague or two and ventures down memory lane to his churchgoing youth
A woodcut showing the massacre of the firstborn and Egyptian darkness, c 1490
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
SEVENTY years ago I started my education at Keble Memorial School in Harlesden in what we now call Brent, north-west London.
This was a Church of England (CoE) school that wouldn’t be taken into the control of the local authority until 1955.
The school took its name from John Keble, who also has an Oxford college named after him. Keble was a key church leader of the the Oxford Movement within the CoE in the early 1800s.
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