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Labour’s choice: Following opinion or shaping it
The party has a duty to expose right-wing lies about claimants rather than pandering to them, believes IAN SINCLAIR
The new TUC Cymru general secretary speaks to Morning Star Wales reporter David Nicholson about her trade union background and ambitions for the movement
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
The new PM may offer more of the same, but early signs on his housing policies look promising, says GLYNN ROBBINS
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Burnham’s U-turn on tackling greedy landlords has let the country down
SPEAKING about the government’s proposed benefit cuts on the BBC Sunday Politics show last month, the interim Labour Party leader Harriet Harman announced: “We won’t oppose the Welfare Bill, we won’t oppose the household benefit cap — for example, what they brought forward in relation to restricting benefits and tax credits for people with three or more children.”
Why was the main — supposedly left-wing — opposition party refusing to oppose the policies of a hard-right Tory government? Harman explained: “What we’ve got to do is listen to what people around the country said to us and recognise that we didn’t get elected again.”
As it happens, 48 Labour MPs defied their party’s three-line whip on the Welfare Bill and opposed the government’s plans to slash benefits from the poorest in society. Of the four Labour leadership hopefuls, Liz Kendall, Andy Burnham and Yvette Cooper all followed Harman’s lead and abstained on the proposed Bill, while Jeremy Corbyn outright opposed it.
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In a wide-ranging interview, JEREMY CORBYN talks to Ben Chacko about the difficulties the new Prime Minister faces and why he sees no future in Labour
Waiting for the grander vision to emerge
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
Who you ask and how you ask matter, as does why you are asking — the history of opinion polls shows they are as much about creating opinions as they are about recording them, writes socialist historian KEITH FLETT