ALEX HALL interviews PAUL HOLDEN, whose bombshell book uses leaked documents to expose how the Starmer faction used systematic dishonesty to seize power and reopen the door to the corrupting ecosystem of corporate lobbying and sleaze

ON SUNDAY April 28 I commemorated International Workers’ Memorial Day, remembering the dead and fighting for the living. This May Day, this is even more important as thoughts of the global working class are focused on Palestine.
The doctors, journalists and aid workers who have paid the ultimate price for doing their job. The alleged reports of mass graves at two destroyed Gazan hospital sites, including medical staff still in scrubs who refused to abandon their patients. Journalists targeted while clearly identified as press, or as with Wael al Dahdouh, his family targeted and bombed while he was reporting live on air.
The killings of the World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid workers have added to the ever-growing picture of workers in Gaza being targeted. Our government is complicit in their deaths, refusing to condemn clear violations of international humanitarian law, resisting calls for a ceasefire and continuing arms sales to Israel.

Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP

KIM JOHNSON MP places the campaign in the context of the history of the working-class battles of the 1980s, and explains why, just like Orgreave and the Shrewsbury Pickets before it, justice today is so important for the struggles of tomorrow

In his May Day message for the Morning Star, RICHARD BURGON says the call for peace, equality and socialism has never been more relevant
