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Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
Buried at Grenfell: a disaster foretold
Three months to the day after the worst fire in England for over half a century, ANN CZERNIK questions how such dangerous materials ever made it onto the sides of Grenfell Tower
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ, ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY contrast Trump’s warships and F-35 fighters threatening Venezuela with the $20bn bailout for Milei’s collapsed economy, all enabled by a highly ideological IMF
KAY GREEN explains how the Middle East and colonialism were explored at at last weekend’s FiLiA conference
ROS SITWELL reports from Europe’s largest feminist conference – hosted this year in Brighton
Morning Star campaigns manager CALVIN TUCKER gives an update on the drive to raise £95,000 to see the people’s paper keep fighting the good fight against the rich and powerful
THE BLACKENED, twisted shell of Grenfell Tower looms darkly over north Kensington as a monumental tombstone marking the site of Britain’s largest open grave.
Following the fire, a range of organisations supporting and campaigning for the rights of private renters across London and Britain — Generation Rent, Acorn, Digs, the Radical Housing Network, Renters Power Project, Advice4Renters and Renters’ Rights — issued a statement: “The Grenfell fire has exposed gross failings on the part of governments and institutions and the urgent need for proper regulations to keep us safe,” they declared.
Last week, Communities and Local Government Secretary Sajid Javid told MPs: “Across England there are 173 social-housing buildings that are over 18m tall and clad with some form of aluminium composite material. In July, the Building Research Establishment began a series of large-scale fire safety tests on aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding systems — both the visible cladding and the internal insulation.
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