The basis for 20th-century social democracy in Britain is gone, argues ANDREW MURRAY – but there are measures a Burnham government could take that would break with neoliberalism
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First past the post will never deliver the change we need
Campaigner ALAN STORY explains why proportional representation is needed to make sure the left has a voice
Get PR Done! campaigners on the streets
TONY BURKE pays tribute to a dedicated trade unionist and true internationalist who helped organise workers from Britain to Bangladesh
NASUWT leader MATT WRACK says schools are crying out for serious investment — and there are other immediate changes a new prime minister could and should enact
Keir Starmer’s resignation speech seemed to be coming from a different universe, or maybe it was just a fanfaronade of falsehoods, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Starmer will be judged on his record, but it would be wrong to view him in isolation from the crisis of the British political establishment, says the COMMUNIST PARTY in its official statement on the PM’s resignation
Over 1,000 hostile US sanctions remain in place on Venezuela, while Britain continues its colonial theft of gold, writes MATT WILLGRESS
AN entire edition of the Morning Star could be filled exclusively with articles as to why we urgently need a new mass, left-of-Labour political party.
A recent article in the Independent was the latest convincer for me. In the article, Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves launched a sharp broadside against Suella Braverman, who has just been reappointed as home secretary.
Was Reeves’ broadside over Braverman’s infamous dream about the fate of asylum-seekers: “I would love to have a front page of the Telegraph with a plane taking off to Rwanda, that’s my dream, it’s my obsession.”?
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VINCE MILLS cautions over the perils and pitfalls of ‘a new left party’
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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