The massacre of Red Crescent and civil defence aid workers has elicited little coverage and no condemnation by major powers — this is the age of lawlessness, warns JOE GILL
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Not the right stuff: Starmer’s pyrrhic victory
The Labour leader has backed himself and his allies into a corner with their commitment to scapegoating progressive politics — but going to the right won’t work for long if Labour is elected as an alternative to the Tories, argues JOE GILL
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Public libraries are sanctuaries which facilitate the exploration of the universe of ideas for free for those curious enough. ROGER McKENZIE advocates their protection against authoritarian incursions, US style
Trump’s recent executive order ends union rights for a large number of federal workers, citing national security concerns after some unions vowed to oppose the massive cuts proposed by the new administration, writes PEOPLE’S DISPATCH
JOE BESWICK of the London Renters Union talks to the Morning Star’s new Left on Record programme
The unnecessarily violent police intervention at a Quaker place of worship is a PR disaster and will only serve to deepen the chasm between them and the public. SYMON HILL reports
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
Due to the actions of this government, the challenges facing those with disabilities, such as spinal cord injuries, are nigh on insurmountable, argus RUTH HUNT
EACH day brings fresh evidence that Keir Starmer is shifting the Labour Party rightwards in his effort to create a “patriotic,” pro-business, pro-Nato party in which members have little or no say on policy.
Starmer was supposedly elected on a platform of “continuity Corbyn,” promising to maintain the former leader’s platform of popular policies that won an unprecedented 10 per cent vote swing to Labour in 2017 after the party saw its vote decline in successive elections since 2001.
However, following the snap essentially single-issue Brexit election of 2019, the Jeremy Corbyn project of returning the party to its democratic socialist roots reached a dead end, and the party’s traditional parliamentary and bureaucratic elite seized back control.
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