Councillor SAM WHEELER says there’s a tangible shift in mood on the left in the city whose mayor has recently become PM — but there’s no room for complacency
The most wonderful plants in the world
Not the words of PETER FROST but of Charles Darwin who wrote an entire book on plants that eat insects
Communist Party leaders Alex Gordon and Lorraine Douglas deliver vital medicines in trip to besieged socialist island
TUC Cymru is playing a leading role in tackling far-right ideas in the workplace, says LAURA DOEL
A New Delhi press conference in which Sheikh Hasina and her son implied the new order in Bangladesh is a security threat to India has sparked fears she is planning a comeback. SIAM SAROWER JAMIL reports on the fallout
Two months of student unrest have forced out India’s education minister and rattled the BJP regime. Could this be the beginning of the end for Modi, asks Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY
MAT COWARD says the heatwave is a testing time for gardeners — but he has some tips
EIGHT years and about half-a-million rambling words ago I wrote a column for this paper on why peat bogs are important and fascinating places. Peat traps carbon and as our planet warms up that becomes more and more important.
In the article I told readers why peat bogs and the plants that grow in them are so important to me. I went back more than half a century to my early days helping out at the Morning Star offices in Farringdon Road.
I was learning my trade and my politics and one facet of life there was a wonderful comrade volunteer who awakened in me my first ideas on something, not much talked about in those days, called the environment.
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