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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Years of neoliberal austerity have left Britain crying out for an alternative
Outsourcing and market fundamentalism have failed the country and the public, writes LEN McCLUSKEY
Unite general secretary Len McCluskey
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
I ARRIVED here in Manchester angry. Angry at the failure of a neoliberal dogma that has resulted in the spectacular collapse of four high-profile outsourced and privatised projects, for which no-one is being held accountable or punished.
Carillion — two much-needed new hospitals in Liverpool and Birmingham lie mothballed, while the failed construction and outsourcing giant’s apprenticeship programme appears to have been a sham scheme.
Birmingham Prison — the government forced to take over from G4S after the chief inspector of prisons said it had fallen into a “state of crisis.”
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