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
Stand united and never be divided
Aslef general secretary MICK WHELAN reflects on a controversial call for the disaffiliation of trade unions from the Labour Party
Mick Whelan (fifth from right) joins an Aslef protest
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
I’VE been a member of the Labour Party, and an active trade unionist, all my working life. For me, as for many people, including most of us who read the Morning Star six days a week, they walk hand in hand.
Why? Because the Labour Party was built by the collective voice of the trade unions — and the work on the streets of Britain by hundreds of thousands of trade union members — at the start of the 20th century.
To remove the collective voice of organised labour from the Labour Party would be to destroy its foundations. Quite literally. And for what purpose? Other than to shift the party — which, under Jeremy Corbyn, is on the brink of power — to perpetual opposition.
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