Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the start of Kunming’s Belt and Road media forum, where 200 journalists from 71 countries celebrated a new openness and optimism, forged by China’s enormous contribution to global development
Introducing a new way to show support for the CWU
CWU leader DAVE WARD unveils a network for the wider movement to move beyond retweets and ‘likes’ and get more involved with the union’s campaigns
Jeremy Corbyn with CWU leader Dave Ward
Women opponents of the Trump regime fear his misogynist, racist and anti-immigrant views are taking hold in Britain, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER, as protests against his visit hit London’s streets
It is rather strange that Labour continues to give prestigious roles to inappropriate, controversy-mired businessmen who are also major Tory donors. What could Labour possibly be hoping to get out of it, asks SOLOMON HUGHES
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
MISH RAHMAN introduces the platform of a new organisation within Your Party, which will campaign for the highest level of democracy, accountability and participation, having learned from the mistakes of Labour in the 2015-19 era
ANDREW MURRAY wonders what the great communist foe of Oswald Mosley would make of today’s far-right surge, warning that while the triumph of Farage and ‘Robinson’ is far from inevitable, placing any faith in Starmer in an anti-fascist front is a fool’s errand
WINNING a Yes vote in a national ballot of 110,000 members across 1,400 workplaces is no easy task.
It certainly isn’t made any easier by the Tory anti-trade union laws which seek to discredit and undermine union activity every step of the way — particularly when balloting members for industrial action.
One of the ways we went about winning this vote was by galvanising our members across social media with digital communications.
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