The question is not simply how much we spend on defence, but what we understand defence and security to mean, says SIMON BRIGNELL
ON July 13, less than a month ago, Jeremy Corbyn spoke to over 250,000 people at the Together Against Trump demo in Trafalgar Square.
This was not some opportunist manoeuvre — Corbyn had opposed Theresa May’s kow-towing to Donald Trump since the president’s election and has been a stalwart of many of the movements that called the demonstration, including movements against racism and for refugees’ rights.
Indeed, Corbyn’s first act as Labour leader was to speak at a national demonstration in favour of the rights of refugees.
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
JOHN McINALLY sees little chance of change at Westminster, and calls on the left to get serious about building a real alternative
Your Party can become an antidote to Reform UK – but only by rooting itself in communities up and down the country, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
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



