After months of uncertainty over printing and distribution, the first Scottish-printed edition of the Morning Star is soon to roll off the presses
Socialist policies matter more than party politics
The success we have had in our region goes to show what progressive strategies can achieve outside of the grind of the two-party race, writes North of Tyne Mayor JAMIE DRISCOLL
Some thinkers and authors on the right are openly discussing the possibility that the historically successful party of the British ruling class may be exhausted
Class struggle is the motor of history but the direction and detail of change at any time and place is the outcome of many factors, suggests the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
Merseyside’s proud tradition of internationalism is being kept alive through events organised by trade unionists and allies in the region, writes ROBERT MACDONALD
JOHNNIE HUNTER reports from the German Communist Party’s (DKP) weekly Unsere Zeit (Our Newspaper)-organised Peace Days festival in Berlin last weekend
Les Preger was one of Manchester’s first volunteers to volunteer in support of republican Spain, writes his daughter JANEY PREGER
TONY BURKE surveys the shifting political landscape and the challenges Labour needs to address if it is to prevail in the 2028 federal elections
“I’VE donated to your campaign,” an older gentleman told me in the street just this weekend. “I want the Tories out, but I’m not that hopeful Labour will change anything.” I get stopped in the cinema, at a cafe, on the Metro, at the shops. Every time I go out I hear the same thing.
I get the logic that if Labour apes the Conservatives, Tories can’t attack Labour policies. The Tories are so unpopular, in a two-party system, Labour will win by default — and then what?
Austerity failed. Even the IMF acknowledges that. Everything suggests the Labour leadership is serious about pursuing a neoliberal economic policy.
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