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Features / 17 October 2024
17 October 2024
RMT president ALEX GORDON exposes the government's bellicose foreign policy
Protesters form a blockade outside weapons manufacturer BAE
Features / 13 September 2024
13 September 2024
ALEX GORDON details how Stop the War Coalition’s efforts have shaped the TUC’s stance, with motions calling for a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel and workplace action for a ceasefire
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Features / 2 May 2024
2 May 2024
ANGELO ALVES is a member of the political committee of the Portuguese Communist Party. He spoke to Alex Gordon on the 50th anniversary of Portugal’s Carnation Revolution of April 25 1974 about the legacy and the struggle of young workers and trade unionists today against Portugal’s latest right-wing government
A demonstrator during a pro-Palestine protest outside Barcla
Features / 18 March 2024
18 March 2024
The Star publishes the Karl Marx Graveside Oration delivered by ALEX GORDON at Highgate Cemetery yesterday
Our trade unions must make anti-strike laws inoperable
Features / 7 December 2023
7 December 2023
RMT president ALEX GORDON on Saturday’s TUC Special Congress
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Album Review / 3 November 2023
3 November 2023
ALEX GORDON introduces a classic 20th century anti-fascist song, little known in the UK, but now released is an stunning new version for our times
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Features / 31 October 2023
31 October 2023
It’s no surprise sustainable moves like wind farms and high-speed rail are failing when the political class still believe big business has any interest in delivering them, explains RMT president ALEX GORDON
The first named train as part of the London North Eastern Ra
Features / 27 June 2023
27 June 2023
RMT president ALEX GORDON says privatised railways stand exposed as unable to deliver safe, reliable public transport, or the modal shift from road to rail that our planet needs
Alex Gordon
Features / 23 June 2023
23 June 2023
At the union’s 2023 Annual General Meeting in Bournemouth, RMT president ALEX GORDON calls on the trade union movement to lead the opposition to the Tory recession
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Features / 23 February 2023
23 February 2023
Ahead of the RMT young members conference this weekend, ALEX GORDON explains why young workers’ involvement is key to our movement’s success
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Culture / 4 January 2023
4 January 2023
ALEX GORDON introduces painter Inga Bystram - the picket line phenomenon
NHS
Features / 16 December 2022
16 December 2022
Linking up existing strike actions with demands for housing, fuel, food and decent work holds the key to rebuilding class consciousness today, argues RMT national president ALEX GORDON
RMT picket line
Features / 26 July 2022
26 July 2022
RMT members taking industrial action to defend rail jobs and services against rampant profiteering by private monopolies are standing up for us all, writes RMT president, ALEX GORDON
RMT flag
Features / 18 December 2021
18 December 2021
President-elect of the National Union of Rail, Maritime & Transport Workers ALEX GORDON on why workers face the struggle of a generation
A history workshop at the Marx Memorial Library
Features / 23 March 2021
23 March 2021
Chair of the Marx Memorial Library ALEX GORDON calls on Morning Star readers to join this unique archive of the working-class and anti-colonial movements
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Features / 10 January 2020
10 January 2020
ALEX GORDON assesses the tasks facing socialists in Britain following the 2019 general election
Nigel Farage milkshaked
Features / 22 May 2019
22 May 2019
Who in their right minds could imagine that sending Farage to Brussels to pocket yet more MEPs’ expenses could represent a genuine route to win Britain’s departure from the EU, asks ALEX GORDON
EU flags
Features / 5 April 2019
5 April 2019
ALEX GORDON looks at the nature of WTO rules and how trading on them would affect us
Ukraine’s Right Sector rally in Kiev in 2015
Features / 17 September 2018
17 September 2018