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
A crucial time for British workers
After 14 years of Tory rule, Labour are finally in power, with some welcome measures announced in this week’s King’s Speech — but, as ever, the Devil will be in the detail, warns STEVE PREDDY
Nurses from the campaign group Unite, on the picket line outside St Thomas' Hospital, London, in their continuing dispute over pay, June 27, 2024
The Prime Minister’s hamfisted promotional video promising to go ‘further and faster’ coincides with Angela Rayner’s resignation over tax dodging and Mandelson’s long overdue departure over Epstein — incredible timing, writes MATT KERR
The desperate French president keeps running up the same political cul-de-sac. DENNIS BROE offers an explanation
Climate justice and workers’ rights movements are uniting to make the rich pay for our transition to a green economy, writes assistant general secretary of PCS JOHN MOLONEY, ahead of a major demonstration on September 20
Ben-Gvir’s threat to treat the flotilla as terrorists shows how seriously Israel takes the danger of growing solidarity activism from civil society to its standing on the international stage, writes RAMZY BAROUD
A new report from the Citizens Advice Bureau destroys the government narrative about disabled people ‘choosing’ not to work, showing the £3,000 annual cuts will create a two-tiered system based on claim dates rather than needs, writes DYLAN MURPHY
ON BEHALF of the Unite South West and our Food Drink & Agricultural Section, we welcome everyone to the 2024 Tolpuddle Festival.
On February 24 1834, farmworker George Loveless left for work — it would be three years before he would be back with his wife and children again.
George, and five fellow workers — James Brine, James Hammett, James Loveless, John Standfield and Thomas Standfield — were arrested, charged with making an illegal oath and transported to Australia.
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ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the legal case behind this weekend’s Tolpuddle Martyrs’ Festival and the lessons for today
As the labour movement meets to remember the Tolpuddle Martyrs, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of train drivers’ union Aslef, says it’s an appropriate moment to remind the Labour government to listen to the trade unions a little more
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR
