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Burnt cars remain in the middle of a street following the re
Features / 22 March 2025
22 March 2025
Ben Chacko asks NIZAR TRABULSI of the now banned Syrian Communist Party (Unified) to explain the country's turbulent, and violent, post-Assad scene
Delegates chat as they leave the Great Hall of the People af
Features / 22 March 2025
22 March 2025
From renewable tech to alternatives to the dollar, BEN CHACKO was encouraged by an optimistic meeting held by the China Media Group this week
Muslim Association of Britain president Anas Altikriti gives
Features / 10 March 2025
10 March 2025
Journalists, campaign groups and protest leaders received recognition from the Muslim community for their courage in standing against genocide amid growing police repression and media smears, reports BEN CHACKO
Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan (centre) on the picket l
Features / 22 February 2025
22 February 2025
Aslef general secretary MICK WHELAN speaks to Ben Chacko about rail renationalisation, the Employment Rights Bill and why we shouldn’t write off this Labour government
Brazil May Day
Features / 10 February 2025
10 February 2025
Long having been considered the ‘US’s backyard,’ Latin America is the crucible of anti-imperialist struggle – yet with the rise of China as an economic and ideological counterweight to Washington, we see a new phase of that struggle emerge, writes BEN CHACKO 
Cuba 09.02.25
Features / 9 February 2025
9 February 2025
BEN CHACKO appreciates the largest Adelante! conference yet, and how much there was to learn about decolonisation and defiance across Latin America and beyond
HARD-HITTING: Sevim Dagdelen
Interview / 8 February 2025
8 February 2025
Ben Chacko talks to Bundestag member for the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance, SEVIM DAGDELEN, about the continuing war in Ukraine, the economic crisis, controversies over immigration, the failings of Germany’s liberalised prostitution policy, and the importance of free speech
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Khalid Abdalla (front
Interview / 31 January 2025
31 January 2025
Stop the War Coalition vice-chair CHRIS NINEHAM speaks to Ben Chacko about the repression of Palestine protests, civil liberties and the left's priority tasks
CLEAR VISION: Peter Mertens, of the Workers Party of Belgium
Features / 18 January 2025
18 January 2025
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the annual Rosa Luxemburg Conference held last weekend in Berlin
Musk eyes
Features / 1 January 2025
1 January 2025
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says the status quo cannot last – but those currently poised to replace it would usher in a nightmarish new era
STANDING FIRM: CND activists protest at RAF Lakenheath again
Features / 24 December 2024
24 December 2024
Speaking to Ben Chacko, CND’s new leader SOPHIE BOLT outlines her organisation’s ambitious plans, from peace camps to base blockades to mass mobilisation, to fight the rising nuclear madness our politicians ignore
Matt Wrack, General Secretary of the Fire Brigades Union, sp
Interview / 21 December 2024
21 December 2024
The FBU general secretary, currently running for another term, speaks to Ben Chacko about what's needed to reverse 14 years of cuts – and decades of neoliberal deregulation
Teamsters General President Sean M. O'Brien (centre) rallies
World / 19 December 2024
19 December 2024