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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Taking the long view
In the first of two articles, VINCE MILLS examines the structural weakness at the base of the Corbyn movement which prevented socialist advance
DAYS OF HOPE: Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader ahead of its annual conference in Brighton, 2015
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
THE recent vindictive and factional assault on Jeremy Corbyn by the Labour Leader Keir Starmer, part of a wider attack on the Labour left, has intensified calls for a new workers’ party, as have the “dog-whistle” attacks on the Tories on crime. It is difficult, given the situation, not to feel sympathetic to this, but socialists need to take a long view.
The Corbyn Project
The proximate cause for calls for a new left party is the collapse of the “Corbyn Project,” although that description gives it a sense of uniqueness, purpose even, that do not match its origins.
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