There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES

OUR democratic rights have been hard fought for. From those killed 200 years ago at the Peterloo Massacre after demanding universal suffrage to the inspiring activists who secured women the vote a century ago and the Chartists to whom our labour movement owes so much, our democratic rights have been wrested from the ruling elite by mass movements.
But the struggle for democracy has never been fought in a vacuum. It has always been linked to the wider battle for social justice. And that’s true today too.
Those protesting at Peterloo were also opposing the biting poverty they faced as the infamous Corn Laws that had left them with poverty wages and without enough bread to live on.

RICHARD BURGON MP points to the recent relative success of widespread opposition to the Labour leadership’s regressive policies as the blueprint for exacting the changes required to build a fairer society

In his May Day message for the Morning Star, RICHARD BURGON says the call for peace, equality and socialism has never been more relevant

