A new generation of right-wing politicians have shifted from promoting deregulation to championing anti-migrant politics warns SOLOMON HUGHES
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Why an Active Boycott of EU elections is necessary
Who in their right minds could imagine that sending Farage to Brussels to pocket yet more MEPs’ expenses could represent a genuine route to win Britain’s departure from the EU, asks ALEX GORDON
PRETENSIONS SHAKEN: Leave supporters should not be taken in by Nigel Farage
by the Greater Manchester Workers’ and Tenants’ Association
The US relationship with Israel has evolved into a strategic liability, argues RAMZY BAROUD
A champion motorcyclist, trade union organiser and communist, Clem Beckett went from Britain’s speedway tracks to the battlefields of Spain, where he gave his life resisting Franco’s forces at Jarama. GEOFF BOTTOMS pays tribute to this remarkable anti-fascist
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
Claiming to ease a fertiliser shortage, the Trump administration has suspended tariffs on Moroccan phosphate imports – deepening US support for the Morocco’s control over Sahrawi territory, writes LUKE ROTELLO
AS polls open in Britain for European parliamentary elections, which should not be taking place given the vote to leave the European Union on June 23 2016, a debate is taking place online and in the pages of the Morning Star on what attitude the left and the labour movement should adopt to these elections.
For much of the media the main story is the irresistible rise of Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party, officially registered in February this year, although its parent company “The Brexit Party Ltd” (TBP) was incorporated on November 23 2018.
The lure for a populist, cross-class alliance of “pro-democracy, free-thinkers” of European elections, habitually treated as an opportunity for a protest vote, is the preferred narrative of both supporters and critics of Farage’s latest vehicle.
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