Do try and track down this weekend's First World War centenary commemorative edition of the Morning Star, produced with Junge Welt of Germany, Arbejderen of Denmark, and Zeitung Vum Letzebuerger Vollek of Luxembourg.
Andrew Murray on imperialism then and now, Uli Brockmeyer on its continuation by the EU (this is what proper criticism of it looks like, and from the country that had Juncker as Prime Minister for aeons), Martin Hedland Fink on the war profiteering of the Danish 'goulash barons', Selina Todd on trade unionism among the factory women, Arnold Schozel on the disastrous support for the War by the SPD and then by its sister-parties in numerous other countries (including Britain; he even criticises the ILP for merely protesting against the War), John Ellison on the sequence of events in 1914, Symon Hill on the Conscientious Objectors, Wayne David MP on Morgan Jones MP (if you don't know, then read it), and Peter Frost on that football match and on much else besides.
David's strong criticism of the Communist Party, echoing Jones's, and Hill's treatment of the role of Christianity and the priority of traditional civil liberties, indicate quite what a broad church, so to speak, the Morning Star is, as does Jonathan Edwards MP's article in the main paper. Having both a South Wales Labour MP and a Plaid Cymru MP in the same place is quite an achievement.
All in all, highly recommended.
I am very proud to be a member of the People's Press Printing Society. In my provincial, rural, religious and socially conservative way, I do what I can within, through, and thus between it, the One Nation Society, the Co-operative Party, Unite the Union, the Fabian Society, Christians on the Left, Progress, Movement for Change, Compass, the Labour Representation Committee, the People's Assembly Against Austerity, and the Blue Labour project, in order to rebuild as an electoral and a wider political force the natural majority in favour of social justice, peace, civil liberties, and parliamentary and municipal democracy.
That majority has always included metropolitan, urban, secular and socially liberal perspectives, and I work readily with those who hold them, in all of the above contexts and beyond. For that majority has also always included our perspectives. Labour cut itself off from that natural majority, and thus from electoral success, as it became unwelcoming to us.
I am very proud to be a member of the People's Press Printing Society. In my provincial, rural, religious and socially conservative way, I do what I can within, through, and thus between it, the One Nation Society, the Co-operative Party, Unite the Union, the Fabian Society, Christians on the Left, Progress, Movement for Change, Compass, the Labour Representation Committee, the People's Assembly Against Austerity, and the Blue Labour project, in order to rebuild as an electoral and a wider political force the natural majority in favour of social justice, peace, civil liberties, and parliamentary and municipal democracy.
That majority has always included metropolitan, urban, secular and socially liberal perspectives, and I work readily with those who hold them, in all of the above contexts and beyond. For that majority has also always included our perspectives. Labour cut itself off from that natural majority, and thus from electoral success, as it became unwelcoming to us.
Wow. The People's Press Printing Society, the One Nation Society, the Co-operative Party, Unite the Union, the Fabian Society, Christians on the Left, Progress, Movement for Change, Compass, the Labour Representation Committee, the People's Assembly Against Austerity, and the Blue Labour project. Impressive. But I can't help feeling there is something missing. With a list like that, it is missing you.
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