Nearly two decades after leaving office, the former PM is still trumpeting the same futile militarism and failed free market dogmas. The question naturally arises: why does anyone still listen to him, says ANDREW MURRAY
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A wealth tax is crucial in the transition to a fairer society
Not only is it morally right for wealth to be taxed at the same rate as income, but the government also has the potential to raise up to £174 billion a year by doing so, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE MP
Very modest growth in membership serves to underline the need for a change of recruiting strategies, posits NIGEL FLANAGAN
DIANE ABBOTT debunks claims made politicians drumming up support for an enhanced militarisation of the British economy
The Morning Star’s AGM tour comes at a critical moment for both the British left and the newspaper itself, as it battles political fragmentation and media industry upheaval. Editor BEN CHACKO issues a clarion call to readers to play their part in the coming period
The growing argument that welfare must be sacrificed for ‘security’ is built on nothing but myth, argues MICHAEL BURKE
Esmond Romilly horrified Britain’s Establishment by turning from privileged schoolboy to anti-fascist fighter, writes MAT COWARD
THE Covid-19 crisis is, of course, unprecedented in the scale of its economic and social disruption. Yet much of the unequal impact of the pandemic is because it is operating in a world in which half of global wealth belongs to the richest 1 per cent and in which global and regional inequalities are defined by racial, gender and class oppression.
Whilst billionaires increase their wealth and self-isolate on luxury yachts, workers in Leicester and across the world are forced to put themselves at risk in order to pay the bills.
We know that, as we rebuild from this crisis, we cannot sustain our fundamentally unequal social order. I believe that a wealth tax is crucial if we are to transition towards a fairer society.
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