TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to the Morning Star’s Berny Torre about the increasing frustration the trade union movement feels at a government that promised change, but has been too slow to bring it about
Wales has an alternative to Labour’s ‘Austerity 2.0’
Labour is abandoning Port Talbot workers and pursuing more austerity — but Wales has an alternative path, one committed to economic justice and sustainability in the face of rising energy bills, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS
LOST INDUSTRY: The Port Talbot steelworks in 2020
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
Reversing outsourcing is the pre-election promise the government must honour, says Unison general secretary CHRISTINA McANEA
EMAN ABU ZAYED reminisces about the perilous time her family and neighbours endured in northern Gaza and how they were forced, in fear of their lives, to flee south
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
LAST weekend, as Plaid Cymru’s economy spokesperson, I stood before delegates at the SNP’s annual conference in Edinburgh with a clear message: a radical vision is essential to counter Labour’s impending programme of “Austerity 2.0.”
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has already warned us that his government’s first Budget in October will be “painful,” but pain is not inevitable — it’s a choice. Labour has chosen to double down on Osbornomics, embracing a failed economic model that has slashed investment and hollowed out our communities.
Labour is signalling a disturbing alignment with the very forces that have perpetuated inequality and economic decline for over a decade.
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