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The Stop the War Coalition panel at the beginning of the conference
THE trade union movement risks “sleepwalking into catastrophe” by mutely following a Tory government bent on escalating war with Russia, delegates at the first ever Stop the War Coalition trade union conference heard today.
Stop the War vice-chair and former Unite chief of staff Andrew Murray warned that the British government had the most aggressive stance of any world power on the war in Ukraine — with even the United States seeing more “nuance and dissent”.
By contrast, a cross-party consensus in Britain was pushing the war’s “continuation, exacerbation and extension” — and the TUC’s endorsement of more arms spending showed it failed to understand that “war is a class question and the working-class movement must stand against it,” he charged.
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the start of Kunming’s Belt and Road media forum, where 200 journalists from 71 countries celebrated a new openness and optimism, forged by China’s enormous contribution to global development
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports on TUC Congress discussions on how to confront the far right and rebuild the left’s appeal to workers
