Labour government must urgently start to implement the policies on which it got elected, or it will face curtains, writes BRIAN LEISHMAN MP
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No matter the country, capitalism is always the enemy
We have drifted too long without class analysis, taking sides in uprisings and wars based on shallow understandings and personal political preferences rather than the material realities of economics, writes ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
NO HERO BY DEFAULT: Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei reviews a group of armed forces cadets during their graduation ceremony in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Oct. 3, 2022
CND and the Stop the War Coalition are calling for a mass protest this Saturday to end British complicity in illegal US strikes at RAF Fairford. SOPHIE BOLT explains
The labour movement must challenge the endless austerity narrative — and Unity Consulting will play its part to complement the work already being done by trade unions
Rising discontent is fuelling Reform UK’s advance ahead of crucial polls next month, but behind the insurgent branding lies an agenda of more cuts and austerity, says RUBY GIBSON
Speakers at the Morning Star’s recent conference highlighted historic and present-day activism while challenging far-right narratives and calling for solidarity with abuse survivors. LYNNE WALSH reports
Concrete proposals are needed to bring about full integration of the rail system, with real protections for workers and an end to private operators, argues EDDIE DEMPSEY
WE SWIM in a sea of obfuscation, confusion, and fabrication. We are bombarded by academics, commentators, consultants — experts of every type — who build their brands on telling us what our rulers want us to hear. Through calculated ruses, they penetrate our entertainment, even our escapism, with embedded messages that strengthen conformity and consensus.
The purveyors of this conformity — the messengers — are given the stolid image of trustworthy tradition or the superficial appearance of daring nonconformity or diversity, depending on the sensibility of the audience, though the message is the same in all cases.
Today’s bourgeois society has utilised previously unimaginable advances in communication and technology to achieve even more unimaginable control over the thinking of the people. This is what Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky so insightfully called “manufacturing consent.”
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