As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
Hegemony and building an alternative
The Morning Star’s mission is to try to challenge the dominant ideological culture. GAWAIN LITTLE takes a look at the Marxist concept of hegemony — and how it can inform our approach
If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket
WE live in a class-divided society.
No serious analysis of Britain’s politics can fail to consider the fact the there is a deep and obvious division between the producers in our society, those who work for a living and produce the value on which our economy and society is based, and those who live off the value created by others, using their wealth, crystallised value created by workers, and setting it into motion as capital, whether by directly employing labour in production or investing in financial markets based on the material root of this production, to provide a seemingly limitless source of profit for its “owner.”
This basic fact of exploitation, first fully elaborated by Marx in developing the labour theory of value, is undeniable and forms the very basis of our society.
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