In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
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Centrism is dead: welcome to the world of state-backed corporatism
The left must call out the fact that BlackRock and private billionaires have merged with the state apparatus as our leaders abandon any pretence of there being a ‘free market’ for direct and overt corporate control, writes JOE GILL
CORPORATE OVERLORDS: Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves host an ‘investment roundtable’ with BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and members of its executive board, Downing Street, November 21
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
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
Rising temperatures and human activity are making life far harder for these vital pollinators. ALEX DITTRICH explains
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners co-founder MIKE JACKSON talks to Matt Kerr about the enduring power of Pride, protest and trade unionism
Behind the language of military strategy is a confrontation that risks drawing the wider Middle East into war, says STEVE BISHOP
FOR many years, socialists have been predicting the imminent death of neoliberalism — the system of finance capitalism that has dominated the world since the late 1970s and ’80s.
Today, Donald Trump is promising tariffs across the board against Canada, Mexico, China and Europe. Keir Starmer’s Labour is going to renationalise trains and launch GB Energy, a state-backed energy company. Far-right populism is on the march across Europe.
Have we finally arrived when the era of liberalised global markets, privatisation and anti-union laws can be declared over?
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