TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to the Morning Star’s Berny Torre about the increasing frustration the trade union movement feels at a government that promised change, but has been too slow to bring it about
Boris Johnson’s government is a government for the 1%
This week offered even more evidence of the nature of the Prime Minister’s minority Conservative government, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
Reversing outsourcing is the pre-election promise the government must honour, says Unison general secretary CHRISTINA McANEA
EMAN ABU ZAYED reminisces about the perilous time her family and neighbours endured in northern Gaza and how they were forced, in fear of their lives, to flee south
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
I WROTE in my last Morning Star column how Boris Johnson’s government signals every day that will put the interests of the 1 per cent first — and this week has given us ample more proof of this.
As Jeremy Corbyn said, this is a government with “no mandate, no morals and no majority.”
We have seen again this week how Johnson and his divisive hard-right Cabinet are willing to gamble with people’s jobs and living standards, both in the debate around a no-deal Brexit and in Wednesday’s Spending Review, which shadow chancellor John McDonnell rightly termed a “grubby electioneering stunt.”
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