JEREMY CORBYN reports from Hiroshima where he represented CND at the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city by the US
The media's Farage love-in helps drive our politics right – so we need a better media
BEN CHACKO says a stronger Morning Star would counter the corrosive influence of press barons on our political culture
Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage speaking during a BBC Question Time Leaders' Special at the Midlands Arts Centre in Birmingham, June 28, 2024
SOPHIE BOLT makes an urgent case for comprehensive nuclear disarmament
Today Coventry’s Hiroshima Day Remembrance marks 80 years since the atomic bomb was dropped in 1945. Statement from Coventry Lord Mayor’s Committee of Peace and Reconciliation
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Letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper – to be delivered by a delegation of Jews to Downing Street today
Laughter has always been how workers cope and fight back, but university-educated union reps now scold members for calling bosses ‘money-grabbing bastards’ and label everyday humour ‘problematic’ — this needs to be stopped, writes MARK JONES
POPPING across the road for my Morning Star today I was struck by the front page of the Daily Mail on the rack, the words VOTE FARAGE screaming from the headline.
Was Britain’s biggest-selling daily openly endorsing the far-right rabble rouser? The whole headline read “Vote Farage, Get Them” and the picture showed Keir Starmer and Angela Rayner.
At first I assumed this was a declaration for Reform UK, interpreting “get them” in a “go get ’em” sense. Then I realised it was a warning (vote Farage and you’ll get them instead) and invited readers to an inside supplement on tactical voting to block Labour.
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