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Prime Minister Boris Johnson (left) during a visit to the West Carclaze Garden Village housing development in St Austell, ahead of the G7 summit in Cornwall
THE electoral map of Britain shows vast areas of the country swathed in Conservative blue, and while it is clear that the working-class vote is concentrated in urban areas — most particularly the big cities and industrial towns — these are the surface indicators of class politics.
That said, they also reveal much about the economic realities and the physical topography of our country in which land ownership is concentrated in very few hands.
When Britain’s richest man — the Duke of Westminster — was asked what advice he had for young entrepreneurs, he suggested that they secure an ancestor who was very good friends with William the Conqueror.
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
Young Communist League general secretary GEORGINA ANDREWS says the far right are filling a vacuum created by Labour’s abandonment of working-class interests — we have to give our class a better offer
CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises