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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
Morning Star AGMs on hold due to coronavirus
A message to readers from People’s Press Printing Society chair BOB ORAM
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
STRANGE as it may seem, I was really looking forward to travelling round the country with the Morning Star’s editor, business manager and circulation manager – Ben Chacko, Jimmy Macintyre and Bernie Keaveney – in a car, over four hectic days attending the paper’s sectional AGMs.
It is always an honour to meet our readers and hear their thoughts, complaints and praise, but what is always inspiring is their belief in their paper that has defied the odds for 90 years in a struggle for peace and socialism.
We had lots to talk about and it would as well have been a fantastic celebration, but it is not to be.
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