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Another cheap and nasty 'civil defence' ploy
Steven Walker doesn't feel the government is telling the whole truth about its new emergency text messages
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
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
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
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
We heard last week that the government is testing a new system for alerting the public to imminent civil emergency by text.
One of the first sites for the system, which will involve sending a text to residents in threatened locations, is in the village of Leiston in Suffolk.
That's Leiston right next to the site of two nuclear reactors at Sizewell and where a third will be built soon.
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