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 farcical return of the ‘trickle-down’ myth
Truss and Kwarteng are determined to rerun failed free-market policies, but this time taken to new, devastating extremes that will see living standards in Britain slip behind eastern Europe, warns IAN LAVERY MP
Prime Minister Liz Truss on a visit to New York
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
WHEN announcing her plans to tackle the cost-of-living crisis last week, the new Prime Minister said that she is “willing to be unpopular.”
What she means by this is that she is willing to be unpopular with the ordinary man and woman on the street who she does not have to interact with.
She is not, on the other hand, willing to be unpopular with the bankers who she is lifting the bonus cap of.
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