SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
Lobbyists & Labour: a look at Lowick
SOLOMON HUGHES delves into a consultancy that claims it 'grew out of the labour movement'
DISQUIETING IMPLICATIONS: Labour leader Keir Starmer and the Parliamentary Labour Party welcome newly elected MP Alistair Strathernto the Houses of Parliament on October 24, 2023.
Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
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LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports on this week’s conference unveiling the findings of the Gaza Tribunal established by Jeremy Corbyn
CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess
THE Labour Party was born from the 1900 Labour Representation Committee: rail and dock workers’ delegates persuaded the TUC to try increase representation of “Labour” — meaning the organised working people — in the House of Commons.
The unions put in money and worked with leading socialists to find good potential MPs. By 1906 this union-backed group of socialists had enough parliamentary seats to rename themselves the Labour Party.
So what does it mean when corporate lobbyists fund the election of Labour MPs, and many of those MPs come from corporate backgrounds? Does this mean a Lobbyists Representation Committee has formed? Do they want Labour to represent their clients — in short , do they want the Labour Party to represent capital?
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