Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
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MAT COWARD wonders what is to be done in an election year when the options for socialists appear so utterly dismal
Labour Party leader Keir Starmer during a visit to Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, to unveil their Child Health Action Plan, January 11, 2024
Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS
In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers
Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA
The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES
Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election
AFTER 47 years’ continuous membership of the Labour Party, I left in 2023 and now find myself, like many Morning Star readers, in a quandary: for the first time in my life, I’ve no idea who I’ll vote for at the next general election.
Plenty of people are offering answers to this question. But I’ve come to think that maybe, for once, we have too many answers and not enough questions. So I’ve been jotting down a few of the latter as they dance around my own confused head. Let me stress this: I don’t have the answers — and I’m not sure I believe anyone who says they have — but I have got some questions, which I hope might help.
For the first time ever it’s possible that an incoming Labour regime will be objectively to the right of the outgoing Conservative one. Does this invalidate the traditional doorstep argument that “the worst Labour government is better than the best Tory government”? Or is that principle less to do with policy, more to do with class orientation? Does the formal link between the unions and Labour mean that even a hostile Labour government puts organised workers closer to power?
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