Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely
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It’s the building of workers’ power that’s key to solving the climate crisis
If there is hope it will manifest outside the steel fences of the official conference zone, among workers and campaigners, says STUC leader ROZ FOYER
Police officers walk past the venue that will host Cop26 in Glasgow, Scotland
JOE GILL looks at research on the reasons people voted as they did last week and concludes Labour is finished unless it ditches Starmer and changes course
TONY BURKE says an International Labour Conference next month will try for a new convention to protect often super-exploited workers providing services such as ride-hailing (taxis) such as Uber as well as fast food and package delivery
In his May Day message for the Morning Star, RICHARD BURGON says the call for peace, equality and socialism has never been more relevant
This May Day we reaffirm our commitment to working people and our class and to get trade unionism back on the front foot, says EDDIE DEMPSEY
DIANE ABBOTT looks at the whys and hows of Labour’s spectacular own goal
When it comes to extreme weather events, from wildfires to flash floods, it’s firefighters who are on the front line of defence, but services have been cut to the bone, and government is not taking seriously its responsibility for the environment, says STEVE WRIGHT
AS SOME world leaders descend on Glasgow over the next few days (and others stay away), our city will host a summit that has no treaty to agree but which will nevertheless be closely scrutinised to see whether the world, particularly those who run its dominant economies, are showing any signs of facing up to the crisis that is engulfing the planet.
It is a crisis that will be felt most quickly and most acutely in the global South and by the world’s poor.
These are the people who do not account for most of the world’s greenhouse emissions but will be on the sharp end of its effects, whether directly through extreme weather events or indirectly if lives are affected through the economic impacts of an unjust transition.
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Congress can chart a bold course that will force meaningful transformation for the people of Scotland
Police Scotland has admitted institutional racism as an inquiry tries to uncover the truth over the death of the 31-year-old unarmed black man killed in 2015, and bring closure for his family, writes ROZ FOYER
There’s no avoiding the reality that decent public services need to be properly funded – and that means a progressive system of taxation, argues STUC leader ROZ FOYER
General secretary of the STUC ROZ FOYER salutes an almost unprecedented year of workers’ struggle that now has to stamp its will on the governments of Britain
