The Employment Rights Act marks a major victory for workers, but without stronger enforcement and collective organisation, its promises may fall short, says ALICE BOWMAN
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How can the left take on the state and big business?
It vitally important for the working class movement to discuss, debate and understand the nature of the state, writes JONATHAN WHITE
The ghosts of Custer’s doomed campaign haunt a modern America still devoted to waging imperialist war, says STEPHEN ARNELL
Trump’s drive for ‘regime change’ in Cuba has deepened the crisis across the island – while Venezuela has reaffirmed its commitment to Bolivarian solidarity, says FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
The 1797 slaughter of protesters and bystanders in Tranent exposed the brutality of the British state during a period of democratic repression, says KENNY MacASKILL
Unity and solidarity remain the key to defending workers, strengthening democracy and shaping a fairer Wales, write JULIE COOK and LINSEY IMMS
DAVE CALFE, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ trade union, writes exclusively for the Morning Star as the union’s five-day annual conference opens in Birmingham
OVER the course of 2007 and 2008, two things happened that were supposed to be impossible.
First, the financial systems of the most advanced capitalist states went into meltdown as the big banks stopped lending to each other, each one panicking that they were all holding worthless assets.
Far from boom and bust being a thing of the past, as Gordon Brown and others had claimed, the global economy was thrown into a massive recession.
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