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?
I TALKED to Joe Guinan on the morning of May 21, just before leaving the house to vote in European elections that were never supposed to have been held.
Commons leader Andrea Leadsom had resigned the previous night and the headlines were full of descriptions of a besieged Theresa May, sofas upended against the doors of No 10.
It was a real-time study in the fluid, surreal, accelerating dimensions of 2019 politics and a good backdrop to discuss Joe Guinan and Christine Berry’s new book, People Get Ready.
With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart
We are experiencing a wave of organised, often deadly violence targeting migrants from other parts of Africa — but the poorest South Africans reject this hatred, staying true to the spirit of Ubuntu and Pan-African unity, reports NIGEL BRANKEN



