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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Political conflict turns into open ethnic war
The Communist Party of South Sudan offers a comprehensive political analysis of the background to the present confrontation
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
In July last year when South Sudanese President Salva Kiir dissolved his entire cabinet and removed his vice-president, the Communist Party of South Sudan described this as a further step in a series of power struggles within the ruling party.
We pointed out that these struggles had nothing to do with solving post-independence problems such as poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, disease and declining living standards.
They are all about who rules the country and for how long.
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