Preferable to Starmer he may be, but there is scant sign of a sharp political break in Burnham’s policies so far — while left challenges aren’t making much of a running either, finds ANDREW MURRAY. How can socialism be put back on the map?
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THE hyperbole and wall-to-wall media coverage of the moon landing and safe return of three US astronauts 50 years ago fails to tell the real story about the motivation of and purpose of the Kennedy promise to land a human on Earth’s satellite.
In reality it was about trying to restore macho pride in a nation that had suffered the humiliation of being outstripped by the Soviet Union in space technology, the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba defeat, the Korean and Vietnam war debacles, and the demands of the US military-industrial complex to test potential military hardware.
Kennedy also needed to secure a second-term presidency and domestically had to win black voters who were engaged in civil rights demonstrations exposing the hypocrisy of US claims to be leaders of the free world.
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