Fownhope’s Heart of Oak Society traces its roots to the age of friendly societies, when communities provided their own safety net. Its anniversary celebrations reveal a tradition still very much alive, says MARK SEDDON
Latest editorial
Unite will always work towards democratic reform
Unite has been accused of voting against the union’s policy on mandatory reselection. LEN McCLUSKEY asserts this is simply false
ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world
Special report by PEOPLE’S WORLD
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
LABOUR Party democracy took major steps forward in Liverpool this week. Our structures and procedures are developing, empowering our new mass membership while remaining true to our federal traditions based on union affiliation.
You would not know that from some of the comment in the last few days. Tired cliches about “machine politics” have been trotted out to divide unions from constituency delegates.
This rhetoric risks splitting the tremendous support for the Labour leadership which has been on show throughout conference. It also — and here’s the rub — bears no relationship to reality.
Similar stories
This by-election could plausibly see both Reform and Labour defeated — but splitting the left insurgent vote would put that at risk, argues CHRIS WILLIAMSON
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
VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’
From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT