Ben Chacko | Morning Star

A F35 aircraft prepares to land at RAF Marham, Norfolk

Military / 28 June 2025

Three-fold increase in anti-Armed Forces Day protests in a year

28 June 2025

People hold banners during a demonstration ahead of the NATO summit in The Hague, Netherlands, June 22, 2025

Nato / 23 June 2025

Protests hit The Hague ahead of Nato summit expected to enshrine 5% target for military spending

23 June 2025

Features / 19 June 2025

My appeal to MPs: vote against assisted suicide tomorrow

19 June 2025

GEORGE FIELDING of Not Dead Yet UK speaks to Ben Chacko as legalisation of medically facilitated suicide faces its third and final Commons reading

Demonstrators standoff against law enforcement on horseback during a protest, June 14, 2025, in Los Angeles

United States / 15 June 2025

Millions attend anti-Trump 'No Kings' rallies as president stages military parade for 79th birthday

15 June 2025

Members of the GMB union on the picket line outside the Amazon fulfilment centre in Coventry, November 7, 2023

Interview / 11 June 2025

Gary Smith: rebuilding British industry should be Labour’s priority

11 June 2025

The GMB general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko at the union’s annual conference in Brighton

Features / 7 June 2025

Join us on Saturday June 14 to debate Race, Sex & Class Liberation!

7 June 2025

Editor BEN CHACKO explains why next weekend’s Morning Star conference is not to be missed

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

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 ‘Luxemb

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’s political agenda is more sharply defined than Trump

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

Suspended Israeli MP Ofer Cassif speaks at the Marx Memorial

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

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

An edition of Junge Welt from the summer, reporting Jeremy C

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, Sept

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

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

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, December 21, 20

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

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

Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC speaking at the TUC

Britain / 8 September 2024

TUC leader to call on unions to help shape a new economic settlement

8 September 2024

Crowds at the Peace Days event in Berlin last weekend

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

Relatives mourn a child killed in the Israeli bombardment of

World / 30 August 2024

Ministers risk being ‘judged as participants’ if they don't act to end ‘mass murder’ in Palestine

30 August 2024

World / 25 August 2024

Berlin ‘peace days’ festival declares solidarity with Palestine and demands end to militarism

25 August 2024

Palestine marchers on the Democratic National Convention on

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

In this picture provided by Swedish Coast Guard a leak from

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

Protesters climb a public monument as they celebrate after g

World / 5 August 2024

Bangladeshi PM resigns and flees as crowds ransack palace

5 August 2024

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

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

French President Emmanuel Macron (right) and French Prime Mi

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

Adriana Pella addresses the Durham Miners' Gala, July 13, 20

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

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

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

Durham Miners' Association general secretary 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

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

Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage speaking during a BBC Question

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

BIG MEETING: Alan Mardghum speaking at last year’s Gala; a

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

People walk by Victoria Square, Birmingham, September 20, 20

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 August 27, 2023, in Washington

World / 16 June 2024

US ran covert anti-vax campaigns during Covid to discredit China

16 June 2024

Protesters march with a banner that reads

World / 16 June 2024

Hundreds of thousands march in France against far right and for new left Popular Front

16 June 2024

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 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

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

United Auto Workers union supporters attend a rally, May 4,

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, at Cardiff University, after being elected

Wales TUC Congress 2024 / 23 May 2024

‘Two Labour governments, working together, will transform Wales,’ pledges First Minister

23 May 2024

Britain / 22 May 2024

Welsh unions to launch campaign to drive profit out of social care

22 May 2024

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 of the far-right PVV party

World / 16 May 2024

Xenophobia and militarism the priorities of new far-right-led coalition in Netherlands

16 May 2024

A 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

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

Britain / 29 April 2024

Disabled People Against Cuts and Not Dead Yet rally against assisted dying as parliamentary debate begins

29 April 2024

Birmingham People's Assembly's Kate Taylor addresses the roo

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

MARCHING FORWARDS: Crowds at the PTB stage on a national dem

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

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 employees and supporters link arms during a union

World / 23 April 2024

Starbucks takes anti-union case against NLRB to US Supreme Court

23 April 2024

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 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 trying to walk back from central Gaza

STUC Congress 2024 / 16 April 2024

Scottish TUC backs ban on arms sales to Israel and affirms support for BDS

16 April 2024

Scottish Liberal Democrat MSP Liam McArthur during a media e

STUC Congress 2024 / 16 April 2024

Scottish TUC calls on affiliates to discuss implications before adopting a stance on assisted dying

16 April 2024

L-R on table, Sophie Johnson Stop the War Scotland secretary

STUC Congress 2024 / 15 April 2024

‘Silence not an option when bombs rain on Gaza,’ Scottish teachers' union leader warns

15 April 2024

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

WAR FOOTING: A picket walks past the massed ranks of the pol

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

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to D

Britain / 5 February 2024

New coin celebrating 200 years of RNLI should focus minds on refugees' plight, says anti-racist leader

5 February 2024

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

Participants in a Ver.di demonstration walk through the city

World / 2 February 2024

Public transport strikes sweep Germany in sign of ‘growing dissatisfaction’

2 February 2024

PEACE IS POPULAR: A demonstration supporting Wagenknecht’s

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

Britain / 21 January 2024

Marx House conference commemorates centenary of Lenin's death

21 January 2024

World / 14 January 2024

German paper launches exhibition to highlight Palestinian artwork

14 January 2024

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

Bangladeshi polling officials count votes after the voting e

World / 7 January 2024

Bangladesh election turnout plunges as opposition boycotts ‘one-sided farce’

7 January 2024

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, 1961

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 was Morning Star Moscow correspondent in the 1980

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

CWU leader Dave Ward said every union must present an action

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

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

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 videograph

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

(Left to right) Dr Firas Sarhan, Nader Awaad and Navid Shoma

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

CP general secretary Robert Griffiths giving the opening add

Britain / 4 November 2023

No bigger priority for the Communist Party than building solidarity with Palestine, Congress hears

4 November 2023

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

Polarisation: In the years between the Cameron and Sunak pre

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

FACT NOT FICTION: If people really knew the truth, the war w

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

National Education Union general secretary 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

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

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

TUC General Secretary Paul Nowak at the demonstration in Par

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

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

Britain / 12 July 2023

Unions must act now to stop AI being a ‘job-killing catastrophe,’ Unite conference agrees

12 July 2023

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 gathered at the annual Durham Miners' Ga

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

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

Two sides of the same coin? Both Labour and the Tories are e

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 is retiring as GFTU general secretary

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

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

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

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 Commi

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

World / 14 March 2023

German healthcare workers begin two-day strike for pay and investment

14 March 2023

In the past, Morning Star and before them Daily Worker confe

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

Prokhanov with Aleksey Mozgovoy, the Lugansk militia leader

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

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

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

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

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

The 2023 Annual Rosa Luxemburg Procession marches through Be

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

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

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

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 Shrewsbury 24 campaigners

Britain / 19 October 2022

Tribute paid to Shrewsbury 24 campaign at TUC fringe meeting

19 October 2022

by Ben Chacko in Brighton

“Of those 451 disputes we’ve won 81 per cent. You don’

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

Labour MP for Leeds East, Richard Burgon, joins rail workers

Britain / 2 October 2022

Richard Burgon slams ‘class war economics’ as Tories hint at new cuts to public services

2 October 2022

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

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

Britain / 23 September 2022

CLP delegate expelled days before Labour conference after 30 years' membership

23 September 2022

Egon Krenz at the UZ Pressfest last weekend

Features / 3 September 2022

'Every weapons delivery is a licence to kill' - an interview with Egon Krenz

3 September 2022

Ben Chacko speaks to East Germany's last leader about a world dividing again into armed camps

Features / 30 August 2022

‘Germany’s leaders are playing with fire’

30 August 2022

The workers in Europe’s largest economy face ruin due to savage energy price hikes, PATRIK KOBELE tells the Star’s Ben Chacko, but with the nation's unions wedded to the governing SDP-led coalition, the fightback is yet to begin