Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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Women must be at the heart of the class struggle
The Star publishes an adapted political statement for the CPB women’s commission by SONYA ANDERMAHR, who argues that the stakes have seldom been higher for women, amid the fightback against the cost-of-living crisis and the defence of their sex-based rights
URGENCY: People in Parliament Square, London, take part in the People’s Assembly nationwide protest about cost of living crisis, February, 2022
Our groundbreaking report reveals how private rail companies are bleeding millions from public coffers through exploitative leasing practices — but we have the solutions, writes Aslef Scottish organiser KEVIN LINDSAY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Reform’s rise speaks to a deep crisis in Establishment parties – but relies on appealing to social and economic grievances the left should make its own, argues NICK WRIGHT
This year’s Bristol Radical History Festival focused on the persistent threats of racism, xenophobia and, of course, our radical collective resistance to it across Ireland and Britain, reports LYNNE WALSH
A maverick’s self-inflicted snake bites could unlock breakthrough treatments – but they also reveal deeper tensions between noble scientific curiosity and cold corporate callousness, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
The FBU is demanding 52 weeks of full pay for women firefighters, highlighting the unique health risks they face — and the continuing need to recruit and retain more women if policies like this are still not in place, writes SEONA HART
THE “cost-of-living crisis,” which is actually a crisis of capitalism, is getting worse by the day. The Morning Star recently reported that “workers are living in a nightmare.”
Inflation is running at over 10 per cent, with many basic food items rising by much more and energy bills expected to exceed £5,000 by the new year.
Yet the wages and benefits of working-class people have fallen in real terms and as many as four out of 10 households are expected to be unable to pay their bills as the year goes on.
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