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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Labour implosion is entirely self-inflicted
The “aspiration” of working people and a joint hope to create a better society has disappeared from Labour’s leadership, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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
DAVID MILIBAND is right. He said many voters avoided Labour because “They didn’t want what was being offered” by the party.
They did not want Tristram Hunt or Chuka Umunna or Rachel Reeves or Caroline Flint. They didn’t want the New Labour types who were among Labour’s leading lights in the election campaign.
Nor did they want Ed Miliband himself or Andy Burnham — the New Labour people who wanted to shift slightly to the left.
Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor
As the PM and his chief of staff’s blunders have mounted up, ANDREW MURRAY wonders who among Labour’s diminished ‘soft left’ might make a bid for the leadership