In his May Day message for the Morning Star, RICHARD BURGON says the call for peace, equality and socialism has never been more relevant
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Hegemony and building an alternative
The Morning Star’s mission is to try to challenge the dominant ideological culture. GAWAIN LITTLE takes a look at the Marxist concept of hegemony — and how it can inform our approach
This May Day we reaffirm our commitment to working people and our class and to get trade unionism back on the front foot, says EDDIE DEMPSEY
DIANE ABBOTT looks at the whys and hows of Labour’s spectacular own goal
When it comes to extreme weather events, from wildfires to flash floods, it’s firefighters who are on the front line of defence, but services have been cut to the bone, and government is not taking seriously its responsibility for the environment, says STEVE WRIGHT
LUKE FLETCHER pours scorn on Labour’s betrayal of the Welsh steel industry, where the option of nationalisation was sneered at and dismissed – unlike at Scunthorpe where the government stepped in
Washington’s tariff policies become explicable in light of the US economy’s relative decline and the astonishing rise of China, argues MICHAEL BURKE
SOLOMON HUGHES highlights a 1995 Sunday Times story about the disappearance of ‘defecting Iraqi nuclear scientist.’ Even though the story was debunked, it was widely repeated across the mainstream press, creating the false – and deadly – narrative of Iraqi WMD that eventually led to war
WE live in a class-divided society.
No serious analysis of Britain’s politics can fail to consider the fact the there is a deep and obvious division between the producers in our society, those who work for a living and produce the value on which our economy and society is based, and those who live off the value created by others, using their wealth, crystallised value created by workers, and setting it into motion as capital, whether by directly employing labour in production or investing in financial markets based on the material root of this production, to provide a seemingly limitless source of profit for its “owner.”
This basic fact of exploitation, first fully elaborated by Marx in developing the labour theory of value, is undeniable and forms the very basis of our society.
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