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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Taylor Wimpey on Tory ‘help to grift’ scheme
Don’t believe the government’s hot air about ‘creating housing’ has anything to do with solving homelessness — it’s all to boost the profits of the housebuilding corporations that offer them donations and jobs, 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
TOP housebuilding firm Taylor Wimpey increased its Conservative links, doubling the number of Tories on its board just as the government announced a new scheme that will pump up housebuilders’ profits.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak wants the government to support mortgages on properties worth up to £600,000 in a new version of a Tory scheme that has pushed up house prices, enriched building firms, but done nothing to help homelessness.
Sunak’s Mortgage Guarantee is a new version of Help to Buy, the mortgage support scheme introduced by George Osborne in 2013.
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It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES