From training Israeli colonels during the slaughter to protecting Israel at the UN, senior British figures should fear Article 3 of the Genocide Convention that criminalises complicity in mass killing, writes IAN SINCLAIR

THE Times leader of September 2 1851, entitled “Literature for the Poor,” spoke to a bourgeois readership with the opinion that “only now and then when some startling fact is bought before us do we entertain even the suspicion that there is a society close to our own, and with which we are in the habits of daily intercourse, of which we are as completely ignorant as if it dwelt in another land, of another language in which we never conversed, which in fact we never saw.”
Learning from this, the most far-sighted of our bourgeoisie — including Winston Churchill by his own account — read the Morning Star as intently as they scour the columns of the Financial Times.
This urgent necessity for class warriors to know what the class enemy is thinking and doing is highlighted in the present storm of industrial action which is nowhere documented, analysed and described more comprehensively than in the Morning Star (although no day passes when it is not imperative for protagonists on either side of this struggle to consult the Strike Map website).

Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT

Deep disillusionment with the Westminster cross-party consensus means rupture with the status quo is on the cards – bringing not only opportunities but also dangers, says NICK WRIGHT

Holding office in local government is a poisoned chalice for a party that bases its electoral appeal around issues where it has no power whatsoever, argues NICK WRIGHT

From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT