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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Robert Griffiths delivered the annual TE Nicholas Memorial Lecture at this year's National Eisteddfod in Cardiff. This is an edited version of his speech
TE Nicholas, 'Niclas y Glais'
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
THOMAS EVAN NICHOLAS (“Niclas y Glais”) was born in 1879 into an age in which imperialism was spreading across much of the world, led by British monopoly capital but with US and German capital increasingly demanding their place in the sun.
The British raj was approaching its peak, while the British subjugation of Africa was on the verge of completion.
Nicholas began his life in Crymych, north Pembrokeshire, north-west of the south Wales coalfield which by then largely powered the British imperial navy.
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