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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Sinn Fein faces its choices
Will the ‘socialist republican party’ turn to the left and lead the emerging housing rebellion, asks OLIVER EAGLETON
People take part in a sit down protest in O'Connell Street, Dublin following an eviction last night from a house at 34 North Frederick St in Dublin's city centre
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
THE last Irish general election upended decades of political orthodoxy.
The country’s largest parties, Fine Gael and Fianna Fail, had passed power back and forth since Eamon de Valera took office in 1932.
Their shared commitment to free-market dogma and IMF-backed austerity made this process especially seamless in recent years, as did their comparable reputations for cronyism and parochialism.
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