VIJAY PRASHAD examines why in 2018 Washington started to take an increasingly belligerent stance towards ‘near peer rivals’ – Russa and China – with far-reaching geopolitical effects
‘News isn't just another business’
MICHELLE STANISTREET, who is stepping down from leadership of the National Union of Journalists after 13 years, speaks to the Morning Star on what's wrong with the media industry – and how to address it
ROGER McKENZIE looks back 60 years to the assassination of Malcolm X, whose message that black people have worth resonated so strongly with him growing up in Walsall in the 1980s
At least 1.5 million tons of crude oil has been spilt in the Niger Delta since 1958, writes PAVAN KULKANI
ANDREW MURRAY surveys a quaking continent whose leaders have no idea how to respond to an openly contemptuous United States
Based on his experience of Haringey Council Councillor MARK BLAKE believes only a radical policy rethink will reconnect councils with the alienated constituencies they are supposed to serve
Last week the CPUSA launched a new Rapid Response project aimed at mobilising a popular resistance to policies enacted by the new government. CAMERON HARRISON explains
MICHELLE STANISTREET is stepping down as leader of the National Union of Journalists, a role she has held since 2011.
It’s been, as she frankly acknowledges, “an extremely challenging time” for the industry.
As soon as she was in post evidence that Rupert Murdoch title News of the World had hacked the phones of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler spurred a national conversation about media ethics — and the corrupting influence of ownership by a handful of plutocratic press barons, concerns that led to the Leveson Inquiry.
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