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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A new era of crisis
Amid climate change, economic meltdown, worsening living standards and the growing threat of world war, the radical left must draw its own political horizon, combined with a popular sense of urgency, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
Extinction Rebellion demonstrators in Whitehall, London, on the last day of the environmental action group's four days of action that they called ‘The Big One’, April 24, 2023
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
THE next five years are almost certain to be the hottest period recorded.
The World Meteorological Organisation reported last week that its modelling, taking account of the shift from the El Nina to El Nino warming cycle in the Pacific, is of a 66 per cent chance of global temperatures rising to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels at some point by 2027.
That doesn’t necessarily mean that that threshold, which was set at the Paris climate conference in 2015, will be permanently breached. But it becomes more likely every month.
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