ALAN SIMPSON offers a few pointers on dealing with the ongoing, Trump-led destruction of the norms of a rules-based international order established post-WWII
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A hard winter — but will there be discontent?
People are facing a triple whammy of rising energy costs, a national insurance hike and a cut to universal credit — but with Starmer’s failure to step up, it’s now up to the unions to fight back, writes STEVEN WALKER
Has Starmer got answers to the energy crisis?
The Morning Star publishes an edited transcript of a speech by NICOLAS MADURO GUERRA, a Venezuelan MP and son of Venezuelan President Maduro. The speech was given at the recent Voices from Venezuela event marking two months since Trump’s attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of President Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores on January 3
From the hills of the England–Wales border, our new fortnightly nature columnist MARK SEDDON reflects on rebellion, faith and the small dramas of rural life — from medieval fugitives to the quiet rescue of a bucket of tadpoles
While public outrage has focused on the abuse committed within Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit, key questions remain unresolved, says JOHN GREEN
KEITH FLETT argues that we need to stand up to those in power every single time they transgress
Gloucestershire’s phlebotomists have brought their historic strike to a close after almost a year of action, leaving a legacy of determination – and a clear lesson about the power of solidarity in the face of anti-union laws and austerity, says FBU general secretary STEVE WRIGHT
THE mainstream media are already beginning a narrative about the forthcoming triple whammy of crises facing workers this coming winter. As a misleading distraction they are repeating the old trope about the 1979 winter and the role played by trade unionists in making it a difficult time.
Tories often refer back to this traumatic period as an example of wildcat strikes, reckless unions wanting to run the country and a Labour government hamstrung by its relationship with the TUC.
For socialists, this travesty has been challenged by an alternative narrative that shows workers struggling in the face of plummeting living standards, out-of-control inflation at a staggering 13 per cent and the unemployment rate doubling to over 5 per cent, with half a million extra people thrown onto the dole. It was a winter of struggle against a right-wing Labour government attacking the people who funded it.
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