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
Reflections on a lost world of socialism
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko speaks to former Moscow correspondent KATE CLARK about her book Twilight of the Soviet Union and what the faults and achievements of the first socialist state can teach us today
Kate Clark was Morning Star Moscow correspondent in the 1980s
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
DESPITE the best efforts of politicians to patch together a broken Thatcherite consensus, the days of capitalist triumphalism are gone.
Polls show big majorities for a return to public ownership of large sectors of the economy and the soaring inflation of the last two years has brought back demands for price controls.
The “unipolar moment” of US world supremacy ushered in by the collapse of the Soviet Union is past too, with China’s rise met with a new cold war against another Communist Party-led counterpart.
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