
by Ben Chacko and Steve Sweeney
in central London
LESSONS from Latin America demonstrate the need to overturn the existing order to resolve three crises threatening humanity’s future, Labour MP John McDonnell told the Adelante conference on Saturday.
The Hayes and Harlington MP said that the pandemic had illustrated the need to confront Big Pharma and secure shared access to the technologies to defeat disease.
The second crisis was growing inequality both within and between nations, requiring a reckoning with finance capital, and the third was climate change that risks making the planet uninhabitable for future generations.

Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the start of Kunming’s Belt and Road media forum, where 200 journalists from 71 countries celebrated a new openness and optimism, forged by China’s enormous contribution to global development

Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports on TUC Congress discussions on how to confront the far right and rebuild the left’s appeal to workers