ALAN SIMPSON offers a few pointers on dealing with the ongoing, Trump-led destruction of the norms of a rules-based international order established post-WWII
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Political lobbying: capitalism, cronyism and corruption
STEVEN WALKER takes aim at the ever more indistinguishable agendas of corporate lobbyists and corporate politicians
The Morning Star publishes an edited transcript of a speech by NICOLAS MADURO GUERRA, a Venezuelan MP and son of Venezuelan President Maduro. The speech was given at the recent Voices from Venezuela event marking two months since Trump’s attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of President Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores on January 3
From the hills of the England–Wales border, our new fortnightly nature columnist MARK SEDDON reflects on rebellion, faith and the small dramas of rural life — from medieval fugitives to the quiet rescue of a bucket of tadpoles
While public outrage has focused on the abuse committed within Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit, key questions remain unresolved, says JOHN GREEN
KEITH FLETT argues that we need to stand up to those in power every single time they transgress
Gloucestershire’s phlebotomists have brought their historic strike to a close after almost a year of action, leaving a legacy of determination – and a clear lesson about the power of solidarity in the face of anti-union laws and austerity, says FBU general secretary STEVE WRIGHT
THE influence of big business and capitalists to use their economic power and political class connections to gain access to taxpayers money via a friendly government is nothing new. Recent revelations about procurement of Covid-19 related supplies is just the latest squalid example.
Housing Minister Robert Jenrick’s “favour” to dining pal and Tory Party donor Richard Desmond over a planning application which saved him £45 million in local tax that would have helped one of the most deprived local areas in the country.
But rewind to 1994 and thanks to investigative journalism the cash for questions scandal was exposed, showing the role played by professional lobbyists working on behalf of big business.
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Green Party MPs stand alone in Parliament in defending Palestine Action against Labour’s proscription of the group as a terrorist organisation — an outrageous move that the Tories supported and the cowardly Lib Dems abstained on, writes ELLIOT TONG
SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
