Ben Chacko | Morning Star

Your Paper / 28 May 2025

The Morning Star AGM’s on tour – join us and help shape the fightback

28 May 2025

Our roving AGM from this Thursday through Sunday and our upcoming Morning Star Conference 2025 on June 14 in London are great opportunities to meet the team and help plan the way forward, says editor BEN CHACKO

Antigovernment demonstrators march to protest a reform to the social security system in Panama City, May 23, 2025

Panama / 25 May 2025

Call for papal intervention as Panama's repression of mass strikes escalates

25 May 2025

Union members on the picket line outside Scottish Water's scientific services department at Juniper House in Edinburgh, as Scottish Water workers go on strike in a dispute over pay and grading. Picture date: Tuesday April 22, 2025

GFTU Conference 2025 / 20 May 2025

Trades councils crucial to rebuilding trade unions in the community, GFTU conference hears

20 May 2025

Lord John Hendy. Photo: Khatun & Will Killington

GFTU Conference 2025 / 19 May 2025

Employment rights Bill does not empower workers – unions must demand more, GFTU conference hears

19 May 2025

People take part in the People's Assembly Britain is Broken national demonstration in central London, November 5, 2022

Britain / 15 May 2025

Unions to demand Labour changes course in national demonstration

15 May 2025

People's Assembly demo on June 7 will warn ministers to stop the cuts and invest or face oblivion

Navy soldiers stand guard over boxes of election materials t

World / 13 April 2025

Fears state of emergency in Ecuador could be bid to rig election

13 April 2025

Burnt cars remain in the middle of a street following the re

Features / 22 March 2025

Syria's nightmare: the view from the country's communists

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

Could China's rise be Britain's opportunity?

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

People take part in a demonstration at Old Palace Yard in We

Britain / 20 March 2025

Assisted dying is a class issue, Diane Abbott and disability rights groups warn

20 March 2025

Muslim Association of Britain president Anas Altikriti gives

Features / 10 March 2025

Palestine champions honoured with Solidarity Iftar

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

‘Build it, and they’ll come’ – the case for investment in rail

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

UN Special Rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territori

World / 20 February 2025

Junge Welt denounces ‘grotesque and dangerous’ intimidation of Palestine rapporteur Albanese on Germany trip

20 February 2025

US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth (right) speaks with Nat

World / 13 February 2025

Nato exercises without US begin as alliance reels from US U-turn on Ukraine

13 February 2025

US President Donald Trump listens as far-right billionaire b

World / 13 February 2025

Musk vows to ‘delete entire agencies’ in US state-shrinking mission

13 February 2025

A supporter of Brazilian President Lula da Silva of the Work

Features / 10 February 2025

A new multipolar world or a new cold war? Latin America, China and the rising global South

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's President Miguel Diaz-Canel, centre, and Raul Castro,

Features / 9 February 2025

Adelante! Trump, Latin America and the world: an inspiring and empowering conference

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

Interview / 8 February 2025

‘Our focus is peace’

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

President Donald Trump speaks as he signs executive orders i

Britain / 2 February 2025

Trump's trade wars should prompt U-turn in Labour economic policy, say communists

2 February 2025

Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Scottish Labour Leader Anas Sar

Britain / 2 February 2025

Scottish Labour ‘cannot get rid of its biggest problem – Keir Starmer,’ former MSP warns after dire polling figures

2 February 2025

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Khalid Abdalla (front

Interview / 31 January 2025

‘It's crucial to keep the Palestine movement on the streets’

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