The greatest threat to democracy may no longer come from political parties but from unelected tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and his powerful Silicon Valley network, argues JOHN GREEN
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Putting Jeremy Corbyn into 10 Downing Street is more important than Brexit
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn waves to the crowd after delivering his speech at the Labour Party annual conference at the Brighton Centre last year
Today’s interconnected conflicts are enriching the arms industry while pushing the entire world towards permanent militarisation, argues ROGER McKENZIE
by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey hit the right note when he told his union conference this week that putting Jeremy Corbyn into 10 Downing Street was more important than Brexit.
Whether Britain is in or out of the EU, too many more years of right-wing Tory rule is going to wreck our economy and society for a generation.
We cannot afford another long stretch of austerity, privatisation, militarism and widening social inequality. It would condemn millions more people to slum landlordism, low wages, insecure work, poverty and discrimination of every kind.
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