ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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John Haylett – a giant of the Morning Star who retires after 35 years’ service
Editor Ben Chacko pays tribute to JOHN HAYLETT, whose sharp journalism, dedication to fighting injustice, and ready wit will be much missed by staff and readers alike
John Haylett (second from left holding banner) has retired after 35 years working for the Morning Star
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
In the first of two articles, DANIEL POWELL investigates the causal aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war as Britain commemorates 80 years since VE Day
THE Morning Star would not have lasted nearly 90 years without the efforts of numbers of unsung heroes.
Journalists, fundraisers, printers, lawyers and more, on the staff or not, Britain’s socialist daily could not have survived bans, advertising boycotts and institutional hostility if we hadn’t been able to count on the dedication of comrades ready to move heaven and Earth for the paper over the decades.
Among its journalists a number of names stand out for the brilliance of their contributions — among them our founding editor William Rust, who also distinguished himself with his war reporting from Spain; the longstanding chief subeditor George Allan Hutt, under whose stewardship the paper won numerous design awards and who was also the longest ever editor of the NUJ journal The Journalist; reporter Alan Winnington, whose eyewitness pamphlet I Saw the Truth in Korea’s exposure of war crimes by Britain’s ally South Korea proved so explosive that the Tory Cabinet discussed prosecuting our then editor JR Campbell for treason.
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