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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Labour: the beatings will continue even if morale improves
Despite a healthy poll lead, there are no signs of a let up in internal machinations against the left and the membership at large — that's because party democracy is the last thing Starmer wants if Labour wins power, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer congratulates deputy leader Angela Rayner after her speech during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool
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
IN the last two weeks, a newly elected member of Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC) — the only Jewish one, in fact — was suspended for attending the wrong sort of meeting sometime in the past.
Another NEC member, Nadia Jama, on the completion of her term on that body immediately resigned from the party itself, describing it as “toxic.”
And a delegate to Labour’s conference in Liverpool was apparently suspended for having the temerity to make a dissenting speech concerning the Ukraine war.
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