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The Morning Star AGM in Salford
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
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 ‘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