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 remembers snowmen and snowball fights before climate catastrophe
The Thames frozen over in 1963
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
WHEN I woke last Saturday, still in November, Storm Arwen had reached my home in the East Midlands. Outside the window there was heavy sleety snow and a few centimetres of fluffy white stuff had turned the garden into a winter wonderland.
Snow is a rare phenomenon nowadays in my part of the country but when I was a kid 60-odd years ago in north London we could almost guarantee a few weeks of heavy snow, certainly enough to build a snowman and have a few snowball fights, each and every winter.
I remember wrapping up warm to watch the huge number 18 six-wheel electric trolleybuses spinning their wheels on the stiff snowy climb from Harlesden to Wembley. These environmentally sound buses were much better on hills than the smelly diesels that would go on to replace them.
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