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Scottish Labour after the Brighton conference
The contrast between Scottish Labour’s radical proposals and the SNP’s ‘business as usual’ agenda could scarcely be greater, writes STEPHEN LOW
Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
“THE shareholder dividend and the profit motive should never have had any place in our National Health Service. And it should have no place in the delivery of our bus services, in the delivery of our post, no place in our prisons and no place in our asylum system.”
That was Scottish Labour leader Richard Leonard’s declaration to Labour’s Brighton conference last month. This statement, as much as any of the policy announcements, shows how different Scottish Labour is from other parties in Holyrood.
Indeed, under Leonard’s leadership, Scottish Labour is not just offering something different in Scottish politics, but something new. A radicalism that has been all but absent in the era of devolution.
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Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
The new Scottish Parliament looks set to continue a cycle of managerial tinkering while public services face the axe, writes STEPHEN LOW
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