ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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After election defeat, we need to build the Morning Star as the voice of the socialist left
The last four-and-a-half years show a media owned and controlled by ordinary people is more important than ever, writes BEN CHACKO as we mark our 90th anniversary
Six year old Daisy Cook from the Whitefield area of Manchester hands out copies of The Morning Star newspaper during a march through Manchester City Centre by public sector workers in 2011
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
In the first of two articles, DANIEL POWELL investigates the causal aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war as Britain commemorates 80 years since VE Day
THE Morning Star’s Christmas party took place on Friday December 13 — less than 24 hours after the exit poll that dashed hopes built over four-and-a-half years of dogged campaigning.
If the mood in the office that day had been glum, our paper’s ambassador Maxine Peake struck a chord when she reminded us of the words of Tony Benn: “Toughen up, bloody toughen up.” On the British left we are more used to defeat than victory.
Champions of the social and economic status quo known (increasingly inaccurately) as “centrism” were quick to insist that the result was a foregone conclusion, that radical socialist politics was never going to wash in Britain.
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