As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services
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Remembering Margaret Bondfield – a true hero of World War I
PETER FROST introduces us to Margaret Bondfield, a woman who bravely campaigned for peace in the first world war and did so much more
ANSELM ELDERGILL examines the tension between treating children as vulnerable dependants and recognising them as citizens with rights
The tightening of protest rights reflects a broader shift toward repression in Britain’s strained liberal democracy. Socialists and trade unionists must be ready to resist further attacks on our freedoms, warns JOHN McINALLY
Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR
As the US intensifies its economic and political pressure it is now vitally important to demand the British government intervene to end US aggression, writes GEOFF BOTTOMS
SEVIM DAGDELEN argues that a legal framework exists for a closure of US and Nato military base in Ramstein
THE Morning Star news pages recently reported that Jeremy Corbyn and Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis had opened new social for-rent cottages built on land donated by Eavis in Pilton, Somerset, the location of the Glastonbury Festival Site.
The 13 new homes, clad in stone paid for by the Battersea and Wandsworth Trades Union Council (BWTUC), were built on a new close named after a Somerset-born woman Margaret Bondfield.
So who is Margaret Bondfield? I’ve always had a soft spot for her and indeed have written about her in the Morning Star in years past, but it is a story well worth retelling.
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