While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
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Socialists can’t trust a Labour government
RICHARD RUDKIN can foresee only betrayal of working people under Starmer
Keir Starmer on an LBC radio call-in show
NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
We have the alternative economics, histories of our struggles and the confidence to change the world
General Federation of Trade Unions assistant general secretary HENRY FOWLER reports on the final day from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
WHAT’S that saying? Fool me once shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me. Words well worth remembering as we head towards the next general election.
Writing in the Guardian in July, Polly Toynbee attempted to reassure the families kept in poverty by the Tories and those with doubts about a Labour government, who have already been put on notice by Keir Starmer that he intends to keep them there.
Toynbee regaled a story of how in 1997, after Labour pledged to follow Tory spending plans, the then secretary of state for social security Harriet Harman had no option but to implement the benefit cuts to single parents. However, changes made to benefits later benefited single parents.
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The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
The election offers a critical chance to shape the future of pay, care and community provision in Wales, says Unison’s JESS TURNER
With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too
