RAMZY BAROUD highlights how Israel’s ambassador sought to shut down UN officials documenting sexual violence and abuses against Palestinians
THE Labour leadership contest is heating up and over the last few weeks so has the inquest into December’s catastrophic election defeat.
Many have laid the blame at the door of the manifesto, and in some ways they have a point: when combined with a doom-laden mass media onslaught, the “shopping list” of policies didn’t quite manage to communicate a compelling vision people felt they could realistically believe in.
But some have gone further in their finger-pointing, questioning the fundamentals of the policy platform itself, with suggestions that we abandon or dial back key elements of our transformative economic vision.
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
JOHN CALLOW examines what went wrong for the Czech communist party in the recent parliamentary elections, where it failed to meet the threshold to return deputies and some now talk of the party abandoning its commitment to socialism
Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
Starmer sabotaged Labour with his second referendum campaign, mobilising a liberal backlash that sincerely felt progressive ideals were at stake — but the EU was then and is now an entity Britain should have nothing to do with, explains NICK WRIGHT


