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Ben Chacko
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
Brazil May Day
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 09.02.25
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
HARD-HITTING: Sevim Dagdelen
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
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, MP John McDonnell (front
Britain / 26 January 2025
We will ‘break your climate of fear’, peace activists warn police and politicians
26 January 2025
CLEAR VISION: Peter Mertens, of the Workers Party of Belgium
Features / 18 January 2025
Grasping the will for radical change
18 January 2025
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the annual Rosa Luxemburg Conference held last weekend in Berlin
Police officers and demonstrators clash during the
World / 12 January 2025
German police attack Palestine bloc on annual procession to Luxemburg and Liebknecht's graves
12 January 2025
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar delivers a speech at Univ
Britain / 7 January 2025
Scottish Labour will abstain on Scottish budget – for not lifting Westminster Labour's two-child benefit cap fast enough
7 January 2025
Musk eyes
Features / 1 January 2025
In 2025, we must confront a dystopian right fighting for unchecked corporate power
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
Then US president-elect Jimmy Carter leans over to shake han
World / 30 December 2024
Tributes pour in for Jimmy Carter for retirement peace work following his death at 100
30 December 2024
STANDING FIRM: CND activists protest at RAF Lakenheath again
Features / 24 December 2024
Confronting the terrifying prospect of nuclear war
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
Matt Wrack: How to rebuild the fire and rescue service
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
Teamsters launch biggest strike in Amazon's US history
19 December 2024
Prince Andrew leaves after attending the Christmas day servi
Britain / 15 December 2024
Britain's communists denounce ‘war psychosis’ over alleged Chinese spy
15 December 2024
TAKING ON A GIANT: (Left to right) Louveza Iqbal, Tyehimba
Features / 7 December 2024
Organising Amazon: the battle isn't over
7 December 2024
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko reports on an event detailing GMB's campaign to unionise the Coventry warehouse addressed by regional organiser FERDOUSARA UDDIN and Amazon worker LOUVEZA IQBAL
(From left to right) National Education Union leader Daniel
TUC Racial Discrimination and Equality Conference ’24 / 4 December 2024
Can unions fight racism yet support Starmer, audience asks at TUC conference
4 December 2024
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks to journalist
Britain / 1 December 2024
British ministers ‘foolish and cynical’ to encourage Ukraine to pursue Nato membership
1 December 2024
Ofer Cassif 23.11.24
Features / 24 November 2024
'Israel is on the road to fascism'
24 November 2024
OFER CASSIF, a communist member of Israel's Knesset suspended for calling out genocide, discusses war, ethnic cleansing and worsening repression by the violent, bigoted regime in Tel Aviv
Demonstrators gather for a protest organised by social and c
World / 10 November 2024
Valencia march demands right-wing regional president resign over flood deaths
10 November 2024
Kate Hudson
Features / 2 November 2024
Two decades of fighting for peace
2 November 2024
In a farewell interview with Ben Chacko, outgoing CND general secretary KATE HUDSON reflects on 21 years of leading Britain’s peace movement, tracing the evolution of global threats and peace activism from the cold war to today
People join civil society groups led by Stand Up To Racism d
Britain / 27 October 2024
‘We will put you in the dustbin of history,’ anti-racists tell Tommy Robinson's goons
27 October 2024
Triumph fur Corbyn
World / 27 October 2024
Junge Welt hopes to appeal court ruling that it is extremist
27 October 2024
Nakedly political judgement says newspaper is anti-constitutional for promoting 'a socialist-communist social order according to classical Marxism'
Daniel Kebede speaking at the Socialist Campaign rally
Britain / 25 September 2024
Labour's crackdown on internal dissent means unions must step up as real opposition, NEU leader tells socialist fringe meeting
25 September 2024
People hold posters in support of Colombia's President Gusta
Labour Conference 2024 / 25 September 2024
‘In Colombia, it's the government versus the Establishment,’ fringe meeting hears
25 September 2024
Andy Kerr
Features / 24 September 2024
Andy Kerr: a working-class champion with time for everyone
24 September 2024
CWU president KAREN ROSE and GRAHAM COLK speak to Ben Chacko about their memories of a giant of the union and wider movement who is laid to rest today
Cuban flag
Labour Conference 2024 / 24 September 2024
Cuban internationalism is proof that another world is possible
24 September 2024
We publish here a speech delivered by BEN CHACKO to the Viva Cuba rally at Labour conference last night
A shadow of a man with a clenched fist as a woman cowers in
Labour Conference 2024 / 23 September 2024
Cultural revolution required to end violence against women, Labour fringe meeting hears
23 September 2024
Unite union general secretary Sharon Graham, 21/12/2022
Labour Conference 2024 / 23 September 2024
Labour must not be allowed to deliver Austerity Mark II
23 September 2024
‘The fiscal rules are a noose around our neck,’ Unite's SHARON GRAHAM tells the Morning Star – it's time to tax the rich
Morning Star
Features / 19 September 2024
Why we have to raise the cover price of the Morning Star at the end of this month
19 September 2024
Editor BEN CHACKO says the cumulative impact of a couple of years of very high inflation have now hit the people's paper despite modest rises in income
Communication Workers Union (CWU) general secretary Dave War
Britain / 10 September 2024
TUC agrees to hold collective bargaining summit within six months
10 September 2024
11/09/23 of Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC speakin
Britain / 8 September 2024
TUC leader to call on unions to help shape a new economic settlement
8 September 2024
Friedenstage 24
Features / 31 August 2024
'Our priority is a stronger movement for peace'
31 August 2024
German Communist Party leader PATRIK KOBELE speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about rising repression and the domestic ramifications of Germany's drive to war
Gaza
World / 30 August 2024
Ministers risk being ‘judged as participants’ if they don't act to end ‘mass murder’ in Palestine
30 August 2024
Peace days main stage
World / 25 August 2024
Berlin ‘peace days’ festival declares solidarity with Palestine and demands end to militarism
25 August 2024
Palestine demo Chicago 18.8.24
World / 19 August 2024
'Tell Kamala Harris - stop supporting genocide!' Code Pink and other peace campaigners descend on Democrat National Convention in Chicago
19 August 2024
Nord Stream leak
World / 18 August 2024
Tusk tells Germany to ‘keep quiet’ on fate of Nord Stream pipeline
18 August 2024
Doves fly over the cenotaph dedicated to the victims of the
World / 6 August 2024
Nuclear disarmament is not a pipe dream but an urgent priority, says Hiroshima governor
6 August 2024
Bangladesh
World / 5 August 2024
Bangladeshi PM resigns and flees as crowds ransack palace
5 August 2024
Michelle Stanistreet
Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival 2024 / 20 July 2024
‘News isn't just another business’
20 July 2024
MICHELLE STANISTREET, who is stepping down from leadership of the National Union of Journalists after 13 years, speaks to the Morning Star on what's wrong with the media industry – and how to address it
NEU general secretary Daniel Kebede
Tolpuddle Martyrs Festival 2024 / 20 July 2024
Labour must invest in renewal to save our schools
20 July 2024
National Education Union general secretary DANIEL KEBEDE talks to Ben Chacko about the crisis in education, the need for fair pay and how to see off the threat of Farage
Macron Attal
World / 16 July 2024
Macron poised to formally accept PM's resignation while leaving him in charge in bid to subvert election result
16 July 2024
Marchers at the Durham Miners' Gala, July 13, 2024
Durham Miners' Gala / 15 July 2024
Labour must give communities a voice - and real investment - to stop the far right
15 July 2024
Durham Miners' Association president STEPHEN GUY speaks to Ben Chacko about the miners’ strikes consequences today, his hopes for the new Labour government — and the sorry saga of Luke Akehurst
Adriana Pella
Features / 15 July 2024
Argentina's trade unions face a war on the working class
15 July 2024
ADRIANA PELLA of Argentinian trade union federation CGT speaks to Ben Chacko about leading the resistance to Javier Milei
Children take part in the Durham Miners' Gala in 2022
Durham Miners’ Gala / 14 July 2024
Time to end 45 years of Thatcherism and rebuild Britain, Mick Lynch says
14 July 2024
Alan Mardghum
Features / 11 July 2024
‘By God, we need Labour to deliver’: ALAN MARDGHUM speaks to the Morning Star on Gala day
11 July 2024
The Durham Miners' Association leader speaks to Ben Chacko about the election result and the far-right menace that can only be defeated by fixing broken Britain
8 - Labour landslide the press
Features / 6 July 2024
Democracy and the Labour landslide
6 July 2024
So huge a majority on so small a vote points to the widening gulf between rulers and ruled and a deep crisis of bourgeois democracy, argues BEN CHACKO
Nigel Farage
Features / 4 July 2024
The media's Farage love-in helps drive our politics right – so we need a better media
4 July 2024
BEN CHACKO says a stronger Morning Star would counter the corrosive influence of press barons on our political culture
Alan Mardghum
Features / 29 June 2024
‘Solidarity forever’ – our message in a very special Gala year
29 June 2024
Durham Miners Association leader ALAN MARDGHUM talks to Ben Chacko about the continued relevance of trade unions, the lacklustre general election campaign, whether we can believe opinion polls and the ‘reprehensible’ North Durham candidate, Luke Akehurst
Victoria Square Birmingham
Unison Conference 2024 / 17 June 2024
A wealth tax should be introduced to prevent the collapse of council services, Unison conference hears
17 June 2024
The Pentagon is seen on Sunday, Aug. 27, 2023, in Washington
World / 16 June 2024
US ran covert anti-vax campaigns during Covid to discredit China
16 June 2024
Popular Front banner
World / 16 June 2024
Hundreds of thousands march in France against far right and for new left Popular Front
16 June 2024
GMB general secretary Gary Smith
Interview: / 13 June 2024
‘Stop looking to government - we need to build our strength in the workplace’
13 June 2024
As GMB conference meets in Bournemouth, its general secretary GARY SMITH speaks to the Morning Star
GMB flag
GMB Conference 2024 / 12 June 2024
GMB's race ambassadors pledge to work ‘member by member, branch by branch’ to make union reflect its members' diversity
12 June 2024
David Cameron & Farage
Rise of the right in Europe / 3 June 2024
There's no space for complacency: the British hard right is flourishing
3 June 2024
We don’t need to peer into shadowy, secretive corners for extremist politics here in Britain — it is growing openly in the mainstream of the Tory Party, and without meaningful left opposition, things will only get worse, warns BEN CHACKO
UAW Mercedes
World / 26 May 2024
UAW calls on US regulator to annul Mercedes plant recognition vote, citing illegal anti-union behaviour by German car giant
26 May 2024
Vaughan Gething
Wales TUC Congress 2024 / 23 May 2024
‘Two Labour governments, working together, will transform Wales,’ pledges First Minister
23 May 2024
New old hands Danie Franco / Creative Commons
Britain / 22 May 2024
Welsh unions to launch campaign to drive profit out of social care
22 May 2024
Unite flags
Britain / 22 May 2024
Wales TUC backs Unite call for an industrial strategy for Wales
22 May 2024
A general view of Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks in sou
Wales TUC Congress 2024 / 21 May 2024
Congress condemns Tata's ‘bad deal for steel’ and vows to fight for Port Talbot
21 May 2024
Geert Wilders
World / 16 May 2024
Xenophobia and militarism the priorities of new far-right-led coalition in Netherlands
16 May 2024
US nuclear weapons test in Nevada in 1953
World / 16 May 2024
US dismisses Chinese proposal for no-first-use treaty between nuclear-armed states
16 May 2024
a Unison flag flying in front of the sun as public sector wo
Britain / 13 May 2024
‘Barnet Council, shame on you’
13 May 2024
Frontline mental health social workers begin another three weeks of strike action
Cundy Cuba
Features / 11 May 2024
‘Working in rail is a battle from day one’
11 May 2024
RMT young members' committee chair SARAH CUNDY speaks to Ben Chacko about the challenges facing young transport workers, public campaigning and training a new generation of union reps
Assisted dying protest
Britain / 29 April 2024
Disabled People Against Cuts and Not Dead Yet rally against assisted dying as parliamentary debate begins
29 April 2024
Brum Rise Up launch
Features / 28 April 2024
Brum, Rise Up! Activists and unions come together in Birmingham to resist municipal devastation
28 April 2024
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO attends a vibrant meeting bringing together anti-cuts campaigns and local unions to co-ordinate a fightback against the biggest cuts faced by any city in the country
17 - PTB stage on Boulevard Pacheco, national demonstration
Features / 27 April 2024
Let the left embrace a world in mutiny
27 April 2024
The Marxist politician who led the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB) during its unprecedented rise from 2008 to 2021, PETER MERTENS, speaks to Ben Chacko about how the European left can regain its vision and its base in the working class
Morning Star
Features / 27 April 2024
From May 4 your weekend paper will go up in price by 10p. Here's why
27 April 2024
Editor BEN CHACKO explains that despite rising print sales our costs have still risen sharply ahead of income over the past couple of years
Starbucks union
World / 23 April 2024
Starbucks takes anti-union case against NLRB to US Supreme Court
23 April 2024
MS - IER fringe
STUC Congress 2024 / 18 April 2024
How can unions maximise wins from Britain's next government?
18 April 2024
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from Scottish TUC fringe meetings that discussed union priorities and strategies to influence the course of the next government
STUC Justice for Colombia
STUC Congress 2024 / 17 April 2024
Colombia making progress under Petro but threats abound, STUC Justice for Colombia fringe meeting hears
17 April 2024
Displaced Palestinians
STUC Congress 2024 / 16 April 2024
Scottish TUC backs ban on arms sales to Israel and affirms support for BDS
16 April 2024
Liam McArthur
STUC Congress 2024 / 16 April 2024
Scottish TUC calls on affiliates to discuss implications before adopting a stance on assisted dying
16 April 2024
Stop the War Scotland
STUC Congress 2024 / 15 April 2024
‘Silence not an option when bombs rain on Gaza,’ Scottish teachers' union leader warns
15 April 2024
P&O rally
Features / 23 March 2024
‘There's no law on Earth that stops the government making sure seafarers are paid properly’
23 March 2024
RMT assistant general secretary EDDIE DEMPSEY says a Labour government has the opportunity to protect mariners, renew our port towns and rebuild a once proud tradition of seafaring in this country
Miners strike
Features / 8 February 2024
Building the left 40 years after the miners' strike
8 February 2024
In a major conference this weekend, the Morning Star will bring together veterans of the great strike with leading organisers of today’s left and labour movement to chart the path forward, writes BEN CHACKO
RNLI
Britain / 5 February 2024
New coin celebrating 200 years of RNLI should focus minds on refugees' plight, says anti-racist leader
5 February 2024
Soldiers
Britain / 4 February 2024
‘There are good reasons people don't join the army’: peace campaigners hit back at MPs' call for bigger military
4 February 2024
Ver.di
World / 2 February 2024
Public transport strikes sweep Germany in sign of ‘growing dissatisfaction’
2 February 2024
Peace Germany
Interview / 23 January 2024
Germany's new peace party: Sevim Dagdelen speaks to the Morning Star
23 January 2024
Ben Chacko interviews an MP of the new Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance ahead of its founding convention this weekend
Marx memorial library
Britain / 21 January 2024
Marx House conference commemorates centenary of Lenin's death
21 January 2024
Junge Welt painting
World / 14 January 2024
German paper launches exhibition to highlight Palestinian artwork
14 January 2024
Ken Loach, November 2019
Features / 13 January 2024
Ken Loach: ‘The left is always on the map’
13 January 2024
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko speaks to one of Britain’s greatest living directors — and one of the biggest names to be expelled from Labour in the recent purges — about what the socialist left does next in the Starmer era
Bangladesh Elections
World / 7 January 2024
Bangladesh election turnout plunges as opposition boycotts ‘one-sided farce’
7 January 2024
Right to strike
Features / 30 December 2023
The pieces are in place for rebuilding the socialist left in 2024
30 December 2023
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says militant unions and a growing peace movement create the conditions for a fight to put socialist politics back on the map after four bleak years
Chairman Mao reading People's Daily in Hangzhou
Mao 130th anniversary / 25 December 2023
In Xi Jinping's China, is Chairman Mao back?
25 December 2023
On the 130th anniversary of the founder of People's China's birth, BEN CHACKO asks whether media hype about Xi as a new Mao rings true – or whether the country's trajectory has really changed that much
Keir Starmer gives a keynote speech marking the four-year an
Britain / 21 December 2023
Disabled would be put in danger by legalisation of assisted dying, DPAC activist warns
21 December 2023
Kate Clark
Features / 16 December 2023
Reflections on a lost world of socialism
16 December 2023
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko speaks to former Moscow correspondent KATE CLARK about her book Twilight of the Soviet Union and what the faults and achievements of the first socialist state can teach us today
Dave Ward 12.23
Britain / 10 December 2023
Unions mustn't miss another opportunity to change balance of power in Britain, union leaders warn special congress
10 December 2023
Special TUC Congress
Britain / 10 December 2023
Unions will defy anti-strikes law and refuse to tell members to cross picket lines, special Congress vows
10 December 2023
by Ben Chacko at Congress House
FBU leader Matt Wrack
Interview / 9 December 2023
'Build a mass movement to defeat the Tory attacks on strike rights'
9 December 2023
FBU general secretary and TUC president MATT WRACK tells Ben Chacko how he sees resistance developing as the first Special TUC Congress since the 1980s meets
Civil Defense workers remove the body of Reuters videographe
World / 8 December 2023
IFJ reports 94 journalists killed this year, mostly in Gaza
8 December 2023
The Burkinabe honor guard in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso after
World / 3 December 2023
Niger and Burkina Faso withdraw from regional military bloc, saying it serves French interests
3 December 2023
A Palestinian girl wounded in Israeli bombardment of the Gaz
World / 1 December 2023
‘Hell on Earth’ returns to Gaza as Israel extends bombing to the south
1 December 2023
Over 100 solidarity actions planned in Britain on Saturday
Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, left, and Tuval
World / 10 November 2023
Australia-Tuvalu deal extends net around China
10 November 2023
Meanwhile, emigration clause underlines islands' looming disappearance
NHS workers take part in a march from St Thomas' Hospital to
Britain / 5 November 2023
Communists resolve to help build ‘militant shop stewards' movement’ to reverse long-term trends of decline in trade unions
5 November 2023
Dr Firas Sarhan, Nader Awaad and Navid Shomali
Features / 4 November 2023
Free Palestine! Communists from Palestine, Lebanon and Iran discuss the war on Gaza
4 November 2023
A packed fringe meeting at the 57th congress of the Communist Party heard warnings of a second Nakba. BEN CHACKO reports
Robert Griffiths
Britain / 4 November 2023
No bigger priority for the Communist Party than building solidarity with Palestine, Congress hears
4 November 2023
Morning Star on the road
Features / 3 November 2023
Rising authoritarianism and the drive to war pose new challenges for the daily paper of the left
3 November 2023
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO outlines the role and challenges facing the Daily Miracle in a world growing dark
People take part in a Palestine Solidarity Campaign demonstr
Britain / 10 October 2023
No end to war without an end to occupation, Palestine solidarity activists warn at Labour conference
10 October 2023
Migrants are rescued by a MSF (Medecins Sans Frontiers) resc
World / 6 October 2023
Rescue ship saves 258 refugees in Mediterranean as Sunak teams up with fascist Meloni to vow crackdown on arrivals
6 October 2023
Thousands of All India Democratic Women’s Association memb
World / 5 October 2023
All-India Democratic Women's Association rally in Delhi to condemn Modi government over welfare cuts and misogyny
5 October 2023
J&C soc
Features / 29 September 2023
State of Chaos – the pitfalls of viewing British politics through Establishment eyes
29 September 2023
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says Laura Kuenssberg's new series is deeply misleading about events from 2016 through 2022
StWC
Pamphlet review / 24 September 2023
‘If people really knew the truth, the war would stop tomorrow’
24 September 2023
BEN CHACKO recommends a pamphlet which lucidly separates the propaganda chaff from the grain of truth
LE - U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Cody Brown, right, with the 4
World / 17 September 2023
Stop the War AGM calls to rebuild the peace movement in a world at war
17 September 2023
Unite union general secretary Sharon Graham
Features / 13 September 2023
‘It's not 1997 – today's solutions need to be much bolder’
13 September 2023
Unite leader SHARON GRAHAM talks to Ben Chacko about winning on pay, campaigning on public ownership and building a bigger and stronger union
General secretary of the Public and Commercial Services (PCS
Interview / 12 September 2023
‘PCS has changed, root and branch’
12 September 2023
It’s PCS leader MARK SERWOTKA’s last TUC, and, he tells Ben Chacko, he leaves a union that’s engaged, militant and winning disputes
Daniel Kebede
TUC Congress 2023 / 11 September 2023
‘A baptism of fire’ - Daniel Kebede on hitting the ground running as the NEU's new leader
11 September 2023
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko interviews the new general secretary of Britain's biggest industry-specific union
Foreign Secretary James Cleverly
Britain / 29 August 2023
Cleverly Beijing trip welcome, but breakthrough unlikely unless Britain abandons new cold war, expert says
29 August 2023
Anti-government protesters clash with police in downtown Lim
World / 21 July 2023
‘Third takeover of Lima’ sees democracy protesters sweep through Peru's capital
21 July 2023
Submarine
World / 16 July 2023
Cuba condemns US deployment of nuclear submarine in its waters
16 July 2023
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and his wife Lis Cuesta Pe
World / 16 July 2023
Cuban President receives rapturous reception in Portugal following European Parliament attack
16 July 2023
Festival organiser Louise Raw with former Labour Party leade
Britain / 16 July 2023
‘The only newspaper allowed in our house is the Morning Star,’ Laura Alvarez tells Matchwomen's Festival
16 July 2023
PN
Features / 15 July 2023
‘We'll defend the right to strike and the workers who exercise it’
15 July 2023
TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about the anti-union laws, the strike wave and the Labour Party
Unite union general secretary Sharon Graham
Britain / 12 July 2023
Unite ready to confront a ‘failed economy’ and win big for workers, Sharon Graham tells union's policy conference
12 July 2023
by Ben Chacko in Brighton
Mojahid Mottakin
Britain / 12 July 2023
Unions must act now to stop AI being a ‘job-killing catastrophe,’ Unite conference agrees
12 July 2023
DMG
Features / 9 July 2023
The growth of the Gala shows that class politics remains strong
9 July 2023
STEPHEN GUY spoke to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about how, far from being a purely historical commemoration, this year’s Big Meeting is evidence of a growing fightback
Thousands of people have gathered for the annual Durham Mine
Britain / 9 July 2023
Starmer branded an ‘absolute disgrace’ at Durham Miners' Gala
9 July 2023
A view of a supply ship at the Edvard Grieg oil field, in th
World / 28 June 2023
Norway announces 19 new oil and gas projects as Ukraine war fallout sees profits soar
28 June 2023
American military convoy patrol in Hassakeh, Syria, on Feb.
World / 13 June 2023
Helicopter accident in Syria hurt 22 soldiers, says US, reminding world of its illegal presence in the country
13 June 2023
razilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, and Eur
World / 13 June 2023
Brazil will insist on control of procurement policy, Lula tells von der Leyen in setback for EU trade deal
13 June 2023
Jeremy on bench
Features / 10 June 2023
‘We managed to achieve a fundamental change in political outlook’
10 June 2023
After 40 years of being an MP, JEREMY CORBYN talks to Ben Chacko about the role of democracy, the long history of attacks on the left and the importance of taking a stand
Starmer Suella
Features / 21 May 2023
‘National Conservatism’ and ‘Progressive Britain’ — is there really such a difference?
21 May 2023
BEN CHACKO argues that behind the deliberate dog-whistle provocations of the loony right and the vacuous ‘aspirational’ rhetoric of Blairism is a united front to lower our expectations — and our living standards
Doug Nicholls
Interview / 12 May 2023
'Unions need to broaden our horizons — and become the political leadership in this country'
12 May 2023
DOUG NICHOLLS, who is stepping down as GFTU general secretary, talks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about the lessons of a lifetime in struggle
Prisons Minister Damian Hinds
Britain / 11 May 2023
‘Answer the question!’ prisons minister told as POA grills him on pay and pension age
11 May 2023
by Ben Chacko in Eastbourne
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a press conference in Down
Britain / 10 May 2023
Far-right and Tories ‘blurred’ by increasing extremism on immigration, say Hope Not Hate leaders
10 May 2023
Braverman's rhetoric ‘to the right of the BNP under Nick Griffin’
Paul Nowak, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress (
Britain / 10 May 2023
End prison privatisation, TUC's Paul Nowak tells government as he addresses POA conference
10 May 2023
by Ben Chacko in Eastbourne
Members of the National Education Union (NEU) take part in a
Britain / 9 May 2023
‘Doomed’ Tories seeking to ‘do as much damage as they can’ with anti-union laws and bonfire of rights, prison officers hear
9 May 2023
by Ben Chacko in Eastbourne
Shadow justice secretary Steve Reed
Britain / 9 May 2023
Make specific commitments on strike rights and retirement age, Gillan urges Labour after shadow justice secretary's address
9 May 2023
by Ben Chacko in Eastbourne
Rishi Sunak with President of Brazil Lula da Silva in 10 Dow
Britain / 7 May 2023
Lula's London appeal for Assange's release shows ‘international clamour’ rising, say campaigners
7 May 2023
mass protest
Features / 30 April 2023
'There is now a mood of resistance'
30 April 2023
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko speaks to FBU general secretary MATT WRACK about the union's plans to mount a campaign of mass non-compliance against the government's anti-strike Bill
An image of Julian Assange is projected onto a building in L
Britain / 26 April 2023
Assange case creating new norms that will cow British journalism, experts warn in NUJ event
26 April 2023
A farmer looks at a part of a Russian rocket in an agricultu
Britain / 19 April 2023
Scottish TUC rejects motion calling for immediate peace talks to end Ukraine war
19 April 2023
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar makes a keynote speech at
Britain / 19 April 2023
Sarwar vows to stand by workers ‘from the picket line to Parliament’ as he calls for Labour governments north and south of the border
19 April 2023
Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner and Scottish Labour leade
Britain / 18 April 2023
Rayner to set out British Labour's promise on banning zero-hours
18 April 2023
Scottish TUC calls for employment rights fightback
Ukrainian soldiers during training at the frontline in Donet
Britain / 17 April 2023
Stop the War fringe calls for STUC to back a motion supporting peace talks in Ukraine
17 April 2023
Daniel Urresti speaks with his lawyer Vanessa Alfaro as he a
World / 14 April 2023
Retired general and interior minister jailed in Peru for journalist's murder 35 years ago
14 April 2023
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn (centre left) joins prote
Britain / 6 April 2023
Islington locals launch petition to let Corbyn stand again as Labour MP
6 April 2023
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn speaks at a refugees welc
Britain / 3 April 2023
Corbyn slams ban from standing again as part of broader assault on democracy
3 April 2023
Emma Beattie (left) and the Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial Commit
Britain / 26 March 2023
Sylvia Pankhurst brought to life by actor Emma Beattie in re-enactment of Britain's first anti-fascist public meeting 100 years on
26 March 2023
Sylvia Pankhurst Memorial committee holds fundraiser event at same site in Clerkenwell that saw revolutionary suffragette speak in 1923
Vladimir Fedotov / Creative Commons
World / 14 March 2023
German healthcare workers begin two-day strike for pay and investment
14 March 2023
This Saturday, join us at the Morning Star conference
Features / 8 March 2023
This Saturday, join us at the Morning Star conference!
8 March 2023
Editor BEN CHACKO explains why the people's paper is hosting its first public conference in years and the issues that union reps, peace campaigners and MPs participating will be looking at
books
Book Review / 4 March 2023
Resurrection, colonising space and 'mystical Stalinism' – the strange world of Aleksandr Prokhanov
4 March 2023
An illuminating study of one of modern Russia's most influential thinkers is an invaluable aid to understanding the country's politics, finds BEN CHACKO
Stop the War organisers and supporters march through central
Britain / 26 February 2023
4,000 march in London for peace talks to end Ukraine war
26 February 2023
by Ben Chacko at Trafalgar Square
Tony Burke and Ann Fiel
Interview / 16 February 2023
A Glorious History: How print and papermaking unions were Britain's labour movement pioneers
16 February 2023
TONY BURKE and ANN FIELD talk to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about their new history of the print and papermaking unions of Britain and Ireland
Gary Smith
Features / 5 February 2023
'A thousand fires have been lit across the country – this is a grassroots revolt'
5 February 2023
As ambulance workers join nurses in the biggest NHS strike in history, GMB leader GARY SMITH talks to Ben Chacko about what’s behind the current wave of industrial militancy
Big Ben
Features / 4 February 2023
The End of the Line for Bourgeois Democracy — the Tories, Labour and the New Authoritarianism
4 February 2023
The text of a speech given by the editor on Thursday February 2 2023
Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn
Britain / 29 January 2023
Latin America shows us another world is possible, Jeremy Corbyn tells Adelante! conference
29 January 2023
by Ben Chacko at Hamilton House
Stop the war platform
Features / 22 January 2023
Stop the war: conference discusses strategies for winning the labour movement to an anti-war understanding
22 January 2023
BEN CHACKO reports from Hamilton House
The Stop the War Coalition panel at the beginning of the con
Britain / 22 January 2023
Unions must reverse TUC support for arms spending, Stop the War trade union conference urges
22 January 2023
by Ben Chacko at Hamilton House
Annual Rosa Luxemburg Procession
World / 15 January 2023
Peace banners dominate annual Rosa Luxemburg procession in Berlin
15 January 2023
A huge postal workers' march on Buckingham Palace earlier th
Features / 31 December 2022
Britain's crisis is one of representation as well as living costs – in 2023 we need to build the alternative
31 December 2022
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says public faith in the British state is lower than ever, but we face a ruling-class offensive in which both main Westminster parties are complicit
Morning Star
Features / 28 December 2022
The Morning Star keeps shining – but a price rise can't be helped in the New Year
28 December 2022
The cover price will rise to match increasing energy and printing costs, but the only daily socialist newspaper in the English language will continue to spread the socialist message as the current strike wave deepens, writes editor BEN CHACKO
People take part in the Scotland Demands a Pay Rise march an
Britain / 4 December 2022
Nurses' rep calls for ‘every trade unionist’ to show solidarity with upcoming hospital strikes
4 December 2022
by Ben Chacko at Hamilton House
An anti-government demonstrator holds a doll in the likeness
World / 25 November 2022
Peru's President Castillo to pick fifth PM in 13 months as right-wing congress block reforms
25 November 2022
Andrew Murray
Britain / 16 November 2022
Labour movement ‘morally diminished’ by failure to defend Corbyn, says Andrew Murray
16 November 2022
Author and campaigner calls for left strategy to resist Starmer's purges
Former Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn addressing the Peop
Britain / 13 November 2022
Members of Corbyn's CLP say continued withdrawal of Labour whip is an ‘egregious affront’ to his constituents
13 November 2022
Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks with reporters a
World / 8 November 2022
Canada's claims of Chinese election interference branded ‘cold war posturing’
8 November 2022
UCU general secretary Jo Grady
Features / 24 October 2022
Jo Grady: Workers will not be shock absorbers for a failed neoliberal model in education
24 October 2022
Ben Chacko talks to UCU leader JO GRADY about the first national strike vote from an education union since the anti-trade union laws of 2016 came into force
University and College Union (UCU) workers and supporters on
Britain / 24 October 2022
‘Game has changed’ – UCU secures mandates for national strikes over pay, job security and pensions
24 October 2022
The Palestinian flag is raised at a demonstration by Israeli
Britain / 20 October 2022
TUC votes to oppose any government attempts to relocate its embassy in Israel to Jerusalem
20 October 2022
Dave Ward, general Secretary of the Communication Workers Un
Britain / 20 October 2022
Royal Mail workers will beat ‘the biggest attack on a group of workers since the miners,’ Dave Ward tells strike rally
20 October 2022
by Ben Chacko in Brighton
Eurofighter Typhoon's after returning to base at RAF Conings
Britain / 19 October 2022
TUC narrowly votes to back higher military spending and drop defence diversification policy
19 October 2022
Ricky Tomlinson (second left) with Shrewsberry 24 campaigner
Britain / 19 October 2022
Tribute paid to Shrewsbury 24 campaign at TUC fringe meeting
19 October 2022
by Ben Chacko in Brighton
It’s no coincidence the Tories are attacking unions now â€
Features / 17 October 2022
‘It’s no coincidence the Tories are attacking unions now – it’s because we’re winning’
17 October 2022
Unite general secretary SHARON GRAHAM speaks to Ben Chacko about winning on pay, challenging the bosses’ narrative on inflation and driving an agenda for change
Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right,
World / 3 October 2022
Brazilian communist leader calls for left to flood streets and ‘talk to everyone’ to ensure Lula wins second round
3 October 2022
Richard Burgon slams ‘class war economics’ as Tories hin
Britain / 2 October 2022
Richard Burgon slams ‘class war economics’ as Tories hint at new cuts to public services
2 October 2022
BARRY GARDINER
Features / 27 September 2022
‘Redistribution, not tax cuts, are the way to get the economy moving’
27 September 2022
BARRY GARDINER speaks to Ben Chacko about the Tories’ tax plans, anti-union repression and the alternative policies Labour should champion
Andrew Murray
INTERVIEW / 26 September 2022
Overcoming the City: socialism in Britain
26 September 2022
Speaking to Ben Chacko, ANDREW MURRAY outlines the themes of his new book, addressing the unique roadblocks the British left faces thanks to the dominance of finance capital — and what it will take to turn things around
Jeremy Corbyn joins striking Port of Liverpool workers
Britain / 26 September 2022
Corbyn and Lynch join striking Port of Liverpool workers' picket line
26 September 2022