The Employment Rights Act marks a major victory for workers, but without stronger enforcement and collective organisation, its promises may fall short, says ALICE BOWMAN
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The battle for Europe’s past and future
The EU's bid to draw an equivalence between communism and fascism isn't just a distortion of history – it's part of a drive towards war, writes JONATHAN WHITE
A couple look at The Motherland Calls, a monument to the Soviet victory at the Battle of Stalingrad that turned the tide against the nazis in World War II. The EU now seeks to blame the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany equally for the war
The ghosts of Custer’s doomed campaign haunt a modern America still devoted to waging imperialist war, says STEPHEN ARNELL
Trump’s drive for ‘regime change’ in Cuba has deepened the crisis across the island – while Venezuela has reaffirmed its commitment to Bolivarian solidarity, says FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
The 1797 slaughter of protesters and bystanders in Tranent exposed the brutality of the British state during a period of democratic repression, says KENNY MacASKILL
Unity and solidarity remain the key to defending workers, strengthening democracy and shaping a fairer Wales, write JULIE COOK and LINSEY IMMS
DAVE CALFE, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ trade union, writes exclusively for the Morning Star as the union’s five-day annual conference opens in Birmingham
WHILE Labour Party members were gearing up for their conference this year, they were probably unaware that their representatives in the European Parliament were quietly participating in an extraordinary exercise in the falsification of history.
On September 18, the Parliament voted by 535 votes to 66 to support a resolution with the seemingly innocuous title, “On the Importance of European remembrance for the future of Europe.”
The resolution was supported by the Socialist group (S&D). All of Labour’s MEPs voted for the motion, with the exception of one, who did not vote. Only the European United Left/Nordic Green Left voted against it as a bloc.
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