On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights
From the grassroots Living Rent is working to win for tenants
Building a unified movement around in workplaces and communities can beat the housing crisis and landlord profiteering, says RUTH GILBERT
The UN has shamefully empowered the occupation of Gaza rather than ending it – we must redouble our efforts to build the movement required to establish a true peace, argues BEN JAMAL
Morning Star political reporter Andrew Murray speaks to ZARAH SULTANA on the mass party of the left holding its inaugural conference this weekend
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too
In part V of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY argues that to confront capitalism’s escalating crises, unions must reorient toward class politics and help build a united, explicitly socialist alternative capable of representing the working class and its material needs
DURING a year of industrial action on a scale not seen in 30 years, workers and tenants have stood united on picket lines across Scotland.
Solidarity between trade and tenants’ unions has never been more vital, and the emergent cross-union power located in our communities must be seized.
As Scotland’s Tenants’ Union, Living Rent is building working-class power from the ground up. Structured around a model of local neighbourhood branches, our work focuses largely on housing.
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