RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
Trades councils must be prioritised
Trades councils are key to linking up the class struggle at a local level — all unions and union branches must affiliate, writes TAM KIRBY
BUSY PERIOD: Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar speaking at the
Scottish Trades Union Congress at Caird Hall in Dundee, April 2024
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
With US sanctions, military pressure and electoral interference looming, the struggle over Colombia’s sovereignty — and the fate of its fragile peace process — has reached a critical moment, says NICK MacWILLIAM
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
Out of the ashes of Gaza rises the world’s most remarkable graduating class, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR
WE have just come from a period in our calendars where it seems everything happens in two weeks.
The STUC congress, Workers’ Memorial Day, then May Day and for me the Voices of Scotland Readers and Supporters meeting this very night, which will be on the introduction of the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974, 50 years ago.
These are all very important events that trades councils across the country organise for every year.
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