From Palestine, to racism, to fiscal rules and migrant rights, DIANE ABBOTT surveys some of the main themes of Labour conference this week
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The Morning Star keeps shining – but a price rise can't be helped in the New Year
The cover price will rise to match increasing energy and printing costs, but the only daily socialist newspaper in the English language will continue to spread the socialist message as the current strike wave deepens, writes editor BEN CHACKO
We must remember how the CPGB led anti-fascist movement defeated Mosley’s BUF in September 1936 and apply the lessons of mass mobilisation and open, unapologetic confrontation to the rise of the far right today, writes DYLAN MURPHY
On the anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, DAVID ROSENBERG reflects on his encounters with those who were there that day in 1936 – and suggests two urgent tasks for the anti-fascists of today
The basic human requirement of having a roof over one’s head is being undermined by West Northamptonshire Council – but local anti-cuts campaigners are rising above the divisive Farageist rhetoric to build unity and fight back, reports DAVID CONWAY
BEN CHACKO hears from a variety of speakers at Labour conference about the broken political system, the hatred propagated by super-wealthy tycoons, the importance of physically mobilising against the far right and the role of unions and working people in fighting back
Morning Star campaigns manager CALVIN TUCKER encourages readers to get behind our five-year plan to keep the Star shining brightly as the paper approaches its 100th anniversary
AS WE approach 2023, the Morning Star is still alive and kicking – just as well given the surge in industrial action of 2022 and the increasingly hysterical propaganda being deployed by ministers and mainstream media pundits against nurses, ambulance workers, posties, railway workers and many more.
But as assistant business manager Bernadette Keaveney warned at the beginning of the month, from next week (Tuesday January 3, to be precise) we will be putting up the price of your daily paper to £1.30 and of the weekend paper to £1.70.
This is not a decision we have taken lightly.
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