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The wheels of the Establishment now turn to preserve the monarchy
Pro-royal sentiment has been in decline for decades — now every available outlet of influence in service of the system is successfully turning public opinion around. NICK WRIGHT considers why the crown remains so important to the powers that be
MANUFACTURED MOMENT: Fawning blanket coverage of the carefully constructed ceremonies has turned the Queen’s death into a national event — and has already undoubtedly changed public opinion on the monarchy itself
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
NINETY per cent of the people living on these islands have known no other monarch than Elizabeth II.
When she ascended the throne the railways had been recently nationalised and unified — when she died they were lost to public ownership, save some were in the possession of the state-owned railway of Germany from where much of her family originated.
Elizabeth II became queen because her father was king. He became king only because his brother Edward had been forced to abdicate supposedly because the Establishment found his divorcee mistress Wallis Simpson unacceptable as royal consort.
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