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Left against right: Corbyn’s suspension has already restarted the debate about whether the left should stay in the Labour Party and fight the right, or leave and form a separate organisation
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
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
AFTER weeks of abstaining on key issues such as the SpyCops Bill Keir Starmer finally took some decisive action at the end of October. Unfortunately, but perhaps predictably, it did not mean fighting the Tories but rather sparking an internal war in the Labour Party.
Starmer suspended the immediate past leader Jeremy Corbyn because he disagreed with his response to the EHRC report into anti-semitism in the Labour Party, despite, according to the BBC, assuring him the previous day that he planned not to.
It remains to be seen where this ends up, but hopefully with the early reinstatement of Corbyn.
Meanwhile, incoming PM Andy Burnham dithers over who should be his Chancellor
Keir Starmer's early political life suggests a very different future from the one he ultimately embraced, says KEITH FLETT
Who you ask and how you ask matter, as does why you are asking — the history of opinion polls shows they are as much about creating opinions as they are about recording them, writes socialist historian KEITH FLETT
