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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We need an industrial strategy that will deliver real change
Only a progressive Labour government committed to a radical economic vision will bring about the secure, sustainable jobs that Britain needs, writes LEN McCLUSKEY
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (centre) with members of his shadow cabinet following a shadow cabinet meeting at the Lowry Theatre in The Quays in Salford, Manchester, last week
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
OUR COUNTRY is in the grip of a manufacturing emergency. Manufacturing’s share of national economic output stood at 27 per cent in 1970, but by 2017 it was just 10 per cent.
Over the last 30 years, service sector output rose by 97 per cent, and by 2017 it was 79 per cent of the economy, up from 69 per cent in 1990. By September last year, services accounted for 83 per cent of workforce jobs.
In the three months to June, production contracted by 1.4 per cent, and even though services growth was far smaller than it has been, there was still growth.
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