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Ben Chacko
Chinese President Xi Jinping (centre) speaks as foreign minister Wang Yi (left) looks during the opening remarks of the EU-China summit at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, July 24, 2025
China / 4 August 2025
Xi calls for party to engage with 3 million-plus proposals submitted by public for next five-year plan
4 August 2025
Protesters with Stand Up To Racism gather outside the Thistle City Barbican Hotel in central London, which houses asylum seekers, August 2, 2025
Britain / 3 August 2025
Stay on the streets, anti-racists urge after weekend of face-offs with the far right
3 August 2025
RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey
Features / 19 July 2025
‘Political parties have pulled up the roots of our movement, and they’ve got to be put back’
19 July 2025

Ben Chacko talks to RMT leader EDDIE DEMPSEY about how the key to fixing broken Britain lies in collective sectoral bargaining, restoring unions’ ability to take solidarity strike action and bringing about the much-vaunted ‘wave of insourcing’

Neil Terry
Durham Miners’ Gala 2025 / 13 July 2025
Labour and defiance: an emotional Miners' Service at Durham cathedral
13 July 2025
Joanne Thomas campaigning for safe shopwork
Durham Miners’ Gala 2025 / 12 July 2025
‘The Employment Rights Bill is a monumental opportunity for unions’
12 July 2025

Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street

Alan Mardghum
Durham Miners’ Gala 2025 / 11 July 2025
The Big Meeting is testament to the resilience of our mining communities
11 July 2025

Durham Miners’ Association general secretary ALAN MARDGHUM speaks to Ben Chacko ahead of Gala Day 2025

Albertosaurus
Features / 4 July 2025
Digging it: the BBC’s resurrected dino-documentary
4 July 2025

200 years since the first dinosaur was described and 25 after its record-breaking predecessor, the BBC has brought back Walking with Dinosaurs. BEN CHACKO assesses what works and what doesn’t 

Louise Raw and Louise Regan with the Palestine flag and the other one is of Laura Alvarez (on the left) and Jamila Bolton-Gordon
Activism / 30 June 2025
Tales of resistance and revolt inspire at the Matchwomen’s Festival 2025
30 June 2025

BEN CHACKO reports on the struggles against sexism, racism and the brutish British state that featured at Matchwomen’s Festival this year

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
George Fielding
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

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
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
Attendees observe the main stage
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
The NUJ's 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
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
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 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
Soldiers on patrol
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
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
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
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 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
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
A US Virginia-class submarine in 2014
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
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
A phone using ChatGPT
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
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
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
Tony Burke and Ann Field
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
GMB leader 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
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
Author and campaigner 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 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
Christchurch delegate Carol Wilcox
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
German Communist leader Patrik Kobele
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
Attila the Stockbroker and Calum Baird at the Unsere Zeit pr
World / 28 August 2022
Attila and Calum Baird wow crowds at Germany's left press festival
28 August 2022
Die Linke MP Sevim Dagdelen (left), crowds at Unsere Zeit Pr
World / 28 August 2022
German government fuelling war in Ukraine, German MP Sevim Dagdelen says
28 August 2022
DETERMINATION: Liverpool Lime Street station picketed by RMT
Features / 26 August 2022
80 years after our ban, the fight for a workers' media continues
26 August 2022
On August 26 1942, the 18-month ban on the Daily Worker was ended. But censorship is a growing menace 80 years on, argues BEN CHACKO
John Pilger
Britain / 26 August 2022
‘The Morning Star tells the story of another Britain: one of struggle and resistance’
26 August 2022
JOHN PILGER salutes the daily miracle 80 years after the ban on the Daily Worker was lifted
Britain / 24 August 2022
It's not ‘Scotland's oil’ while it belongs to BP and Shell, Labour peer warns as SNP and Tories trade barbs over Scotland's deficit figures
24 August 2022
Microsoft Corp co-founder Bill Gates delivers his speech at
World / 16 August 2022
Bill Gates's ‘market solutions’ not the answer on global vaccination, health campaigners warn
16 August 2022
Morning light lights the landfall facility of the Nord Strea
World / 16 August 2022
German gas levy a ‘slap in the face’ for ordinary people
16 August 2022
Die Linke calls for weekly protests against a new energy levy that will cost families hundreds of euros extra each year
MISJUDGING THE POLITICAL MOOD: Vote leave supporters in Clac
Book Reviews / 14 August 2022
An excoriating account of the Corbyn years that merits critical engagement
14 August 2022
This deeply personal memoir will be controversial across the left, but makes points we should all take on board, argues BEN CHACKO
People march in support of two manifestos defending the nati
World / 12 August 2022
Thousands rally for democracy in Brazil to oppose potential Bolsonaro coup
12 August 2022
Mick Whelan (centre), general secretary, Aslef, joins the pi
Britain / 12 August 2022
New public mood backs train drivers striking this weekend, says Aslef leader Mick Whelan
12 August 2022
CHALLENGES AHEAD: Dave Ward
Features / 16 July 2022
‘We’ve reached a turning point – it is time for unions to win and build’
16 July 2022
CWU leader DAVE WARD speaks to Ben Chacko about turning a summer of discontent into a new settlement for Britain
Features / 13 July 2022
'Break the taboo – we need to talk about Nato'
13 July 2022
Ben Chacko reports on the launch of a new Stop the War pamphlet on the history of the US-led military bloc and the threat it poses to peace today
Sharon Graham has called for a ‘forensic’ approach to fi
Features / 10 July 2022
Using 'brains and brawn,' Unite is wresting pay rises from bad bosses
10 July 2022
Unite general secretary SHARON GRAHAM speaks to Ben Chacko at the Durham Miners' Gala
Features / 9 July 2022
Johnson may be going – but defeating his policies is the bigger battle ahead
9 July 2022
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says the labour movement must provide the political alternative notably absent at Westminster
Durham Miners’ Association secretary Alan Mardghum
Features / 7 July 2022
‘This year’s Gala is a celebration of the workers who kept this country going through the pandemic’
7 July 2022
Durham Miners’ Association secretary ALAN MARDGHUM speaks to Ben Chacko about the themes of the Gala this year, a collapsing Tory government and the need to champion the culture and cause of the working class
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken (left) and Chinese Fore
World / 6 July 2022
Nato poses ‘systemic challenge to world peace and security,’ China charges in broadside against US-led military alliance ahead of G20 summit
6 July 2022
De Linke's party headquarters in Oberhausen following the bo
World / 6 July 2022
Die Linke suspects far right behind bomb attack on Oberhausen HQ
6 July 2022
Chinese President Xi Jinping delivers a keynote speech in vi
World / 23 June 2022
Ukraine war ‘sounds an alarm for humanity,’ says China's President Xi
23 June 2022
Brics group summit condemns sanctions and inequality
Japan's Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, right, bows after he o
World / 23 June 2022
Okinawa governor calls for US troops to leave and for abolition of nuclear weapons on anniversary of brutal battle for the island
23 June 2022
Features / 18 June 2022
Welcome to the Morning Star – the alternative to the corporate media monopolies
18 June 2022
Editor BEN CHACKO welcomes new readers and explains why there’s never been a better time to get behind the people’s paper
Sudanese protesters take part in a rally against military ru
World / 8 June 2022
Sudanese revolutionaries boycott UN-brokered talks as brutal crackdown continues
8 June 2022
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen
World / 2 June 2022
Denmark votes to drop opt-out of EU military co-operation
2 June 2022
'Fear and insecurity' have won, warns communist leader
A Cabinet meeting at 10 Downing Street
Wales TUC Congress 2022 / 25 May 2022
Labour movement must fight back against Tories' ‘class war’ beginning with June 18 demo, Wales TUC hears
25 May 2022
Patrick Roach speaking at Wales TUC
Britain / 25 May 2022
Black workers 'held back, held down and pushed out' of Britain's labour market
25 May 2022
A general view of a wind farm. The government is being urged
Britain / 24 May 2022
Pay rises above inflation and investment in affordable energy key to cost-of-living crisis, Wales TUC hears
24 May 2022
La France Insoumise leader Jean-Luc Melenchon
World / 4 May 2022
French Socialists, Communists and Greens to ally with Melenchon for a left majority and 'radical programme'
4 May 2022
Former prime minister Tony Blair
Britain / 1 May 2022
Labour criticised for May Day video from war criminal Blair endorsing Sir Keir's leadership
1 May 2022
Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar
Britain / 26 April 2022
'Scotland has two governments – and they're both failures,' Anas Sarwar charges at Scottish TUC
26 April 2022
by Ben Chacko in Aberdeen
STUC Congress 2022 / 26 April 2022
Public transport the key to addressing global warming, STUC warns
26 April 2022
by Ben Chacko in Aberdeen
A care home resident holding hands with her daughter
STUC Congress 2022 / 25 April 2022
Congress condemns SNP's plans for national care service for entrenching privatisation
25 April 2022
by Ben Chacko in Aberdeen
First Minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon speaks during the
STUC Congress 2022 / 25 April 2022
Sturgeon pays tribute to ‘invaluable’ unions and attacks Westminster on cost of living crisis
25 April 2022
by Ben Chacko in Aberdeen
STUC general council member Mary Alexander reported that Sco
Features / 25 April 2022
Pay, pensions and the cost of living take centre stage at the Scottish TUC
25 April 2022
Leading Communist Brinda Karat blocks the way of a bulldozer
World / 21 April 2022
Indian communists condemn authorities over arrests and house demolitions
21 April 2022
A medical worker from eastern China's Anhui Province takes a
World / 5 April 2022
Shanghai extends city-wide lockdown after completing Covid testing of all 26 million residents
5 April 2022
Protesters near Downing Street in central London, at The Peo
Britain / 3 April 2022
Thousands across Britain protest against the cost-of-living crisis
3 April 2022
Argentina president Alberto Fernandez
World / 4 March 2022
Argentina strikes IMF deal – but Fernandez faces struggle to get it through congress
4 March 2022
Same hymn sheet: The Tories' Boris Johnson, Labour's Sir Kei
Features / 25 February 2022
Opposing Russian aggression mustn't blind us to authoritarian dangers at home
25 February 2022
Bans on RT and excommunications of anyone who criticises Nato will have long-term consequences in a Britain that is restricting protests and cracking down on free speech, argues BEN CHACKO
Ukrainian soldiers examine their tank at a military unit clo
Features / 31 January 2022
Stop the war posturing – Ukraine is a tinderbox
31 January 2022
Military brinkmanship is extremely risky – and the Donbass is crawling with neonazis, mercenaries and trigger-happy adventurers. The only sane approach is de-escalation, writes Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
People march at a protest in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, Januar
World / 18 January 2022
Sudanese revolutionaries call for civil disobedience and strikes after regime massacre
18 January 2022
Features / 1 January 2022
Socialism is still the only answer to the war on living standards, public services – and the planet itself
1 January 2022
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO on the challenges facing the paper and the movement as we enter 2022
A woman sits with her children inside the tent at the
World / 28 December 2021
SOS Mediterranee calls for end EU's Fortress Europe border policy as it announces name change to SOS Humanity
28 December 2021
Marchers in Khartoum yesterday
World / 20 December 2021
Protester shot dead as tens of thousands rally for the revolution in Khartoum
20 December 2021
Under fire: the scandal over Downing Street Christmas partie
Features / 10 December 2021
Can the rage at Boris Johnson be turned into a real left counterattack?
10 December 2021
Supporters watch on a screen, Brazilian President Jair Bolso
Britain / 5 December 2021
Pandemic, inequality and climate change are three crises that call for the end of capitalism, John McDonnell tells Adelante conference
5 December 2021
Pope Francis meets migrants during his visit at the Karatepe
World / 5 December 2021
Europe’s brutal treatment of refugees ‘the shipwreck of civilisation,’ Pope says on Lesbos visit
5 December 2021
Unite's Sharon Graham on the picket line with workers at Eas
Britain / 3 December 2021
Sharon Graham secured 43 pay deals worth more than £25m in her first 100 days in Unite's top job
3 December 2021
Features / 3 December 2021
Support anti-imperialism in Latin America? Then read the Morning Star
3 December 2021
Sharon Graham on the picket line with Weetabix workers
Features / 3 December 2021
The first 100 days: Unite's Sharon Graham on the wave of militancy that's winning for workers on pay
3 December 2021
New Unite general secretary SHARON GRAHAM speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about combines, leverage and building working-class power
A nurse checking on a patient suffering with Covid-19 on the
Britain / 1 December 2021
NHS will be ‘decimated’ if lessons aren't learnt from Covid debacle, ministers warned
1 December 2021
Sir Keir Starmer flanked by the shadow great officers of sta
Features / 30 November 2021
Shuffle to the right: the politics of Labour's top team changes
30 November 2021
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says roles that have disappeared completely are as important as the appointments in understanding the party’s direction
Sudan's top general Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, centre, and Prim
World / 21 November 2021
Sudanese army reinstates prime minister, but left warns against new power-sharing deal
21 November 2021
Farmers celebrate the repeal of the farm laws
World / 19 November 2021
Indian farmers score spectacular victory as Modi repeals farm laws
19 November 2021
Polish troops line the barbed wire fence keeping out refugee
World / 15 November 2021
EU slaps more sanctions on Belarus over refugee crisis as Poland deploys 15,000 troops to border
15 November 2021
Solidarity activists defend the Cuban embassy
Britain / 14 November 2021
Activists rally to defend Cuban embassy
14 November 2021
Austrian Airlines airplane takes off from the airport in Mun
World / 27 October 2021
Greenpeace calls for rail boost to cut air travel
27 October 2021
Interview / 19 October 2021
‘Unite has a psyche of fighting back’
19 October 2021
After 11 years leading Britain’s biggest union, LEN McCLUSKEY talks to the Star about how Corbyn changed Labour forever, the current gap in left leadership and Unite’s continued role amid what promise to be turbulent times ahead
Medics treat a patient with coronavirus (left) as others pre
World / 19 October 2021
Russia hits new Covid daily deaths record as virus bounces back globally
19 October 2021
The cake presented to Bernadette Keaveney for 21 years' serv
Britain / 3 October 2021
Morning Star AGM salutes 'Star of the Morning Star' Bernadette Keaveney for 21 years' service to the people's paper
3 October 2021
Features / 1 October 2021
The challenges ahead for your paper – and the wider movement
1 October 2021
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko’s report to the 2021 People’s Press Printing Society’s annual general meeting
Bakers' union president Ian Hodson
Britain / 28 September 2021
Bakers' union cuts ties with the Labour Party
28 September 2021
BFAWU's vote to disaffiliate from the party after 100 years caused by Sir Keir's ‘factional war’ against the left
Labour MP Richard Burgon
Features / 28 September 2021
‘The left has been winning on the conference floor. It's alive and kicking’
28 September 2021
Labour MP Andy McDonald
Britain / 27 September 2021
Andy McDonald resigns from shadow cabinet over Starmer order to oppose higher wages and sick pay
27 September 2021
Stop the War Coalition convener Lindsey German
Features / 27 September 2021
My message to Labour conference: we need to end militarism and war
27 September 2021
LINDSEY GERMAN talks to the Morning Star about 20 years of the war on terror
Len McCluskey, former general secretary of Unite, applauds d
Book Review / 25 September 2021
Always Red – an incisive political memoir with lessons for the whole left
25 September 2021
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO finds much to recommend the autobiography of former Unite leader Len McCluskey
Stop the War's 20th anniversary conference
Britain / 19 September 2021
Stop the War ‘politicised a generation and is more vital than ever,’ 20th anniversary conference hears
19 September 2021
Film-maker Ken Loach
Features / 17 September 2021
‘The left is at a unique moment post-Corbyn - but time is running out for real change’
17 September 2021
Film director KEN LOACH speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about the state of the movement ahead of Labour's 2021 conference
A US Virginia-class fast-attack submarine, which the Austral
Britain / 16 September 2021
Peace activists condemn government's ‘serious escalation’ of the new cold war on China
16 September 2021
Stop the War says the leaders of Britain, Australia and US ‘seem to have learnt nothing about the disasters that are generated by foreign military intervention’
Len McCluskey, flanked by Jeremy Corbyn and other comrades,
Britain / 16 September 2021
Corbynism ‘has changed politics forever,’ Len McCluskey says at launch of autobiography Always Red
16 September 2021
CWU leader Dave Ward: 'I would appeal to every trade union l
Interview / 12 September 2021
Can unions turn the Covid crisis into a ‘1945 moment’?
12 September 2021
CWU leader DAVE WARD speaks to Ben Chacko about building collectivism and challenging a system that doesn’t work for ordinary people
Cliff Cocker in Berlin, with his daughter Lizzie's dog Pacho
Features / 9 September 2021
Goodbye, Cliff Cocker – outstanding arts editor, writer, actor and communist
9 September 2021
Christine Funk, right, lawyer for Malaysian defendant Mohamm
World / 1 September 2021
No chance of a fair trial for Guantanamo inmates held for 18 years, defence lawyers say
1 September 2021
The summer palace in Beijing, China
World / 29 August 2021
China tells US to ‘stop poisoning’ virus origin investigations after inconclusive Washington probe
29 August 2021
US President Joe Biden
World / 25 August 2021
Biden celebrates wins on budget and voting rights in House of Representatives
25 August 2021
People evacuated from Kabul arrive at Hindon Air force base
Britain / 22 August 2021
‘Stop returns and let every Afghan enter’
22 August 2021
Protesters call on PM to open the doors to refugees as Kabul death count grows
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and German C
World / 22 August 2021
Merkel in Ukraine for talks as Kiev ramps up pressure on Russia over Crimea
22 August 2021
A woman walking in Beijing, China. President Xi Jinping is r
World / 18 August 2021
Xi Jinping signals stricter regulation of incomes amid policy shifts
18 August 2021
LEADING FROM THE FRONT: Steve Turner alongside workers from
Features / 13 August 2021
1 week to go – why a Steve Turner win in Unite is the strategic choice for socialists
13 August 2021
Visitors pray in front of the cenotaph dedicated to the vict
World / 6 August 2021
Japanese peace campaigners call for international ban on nuclear weapons at 76th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing
6 August 2021
Roger McKenzie
Britain / 4 August 2021
Corbyn and longtime Liberation leader Maggie Bowden welcome Roger McKenzie as new head of anti-imperialist campaign
4 August 2021
A woman takes a selfie backdropped by a banner depicting Bra
World / 4 July 2021
Massive demonstrations across Brazil demand ‘Bolsonaro out!’ over Covid ‘genocide’
4 July 2021
Far-right leader Marine Le Pen votes for the regional electi
World / 28 June 2021
Anti-fascists celebrate as Le Pen fails to win a single region in French elections
28 June 2021
The Morning Star banner and a few of its staff members out o
Features / 26 June 2021
Back on the streets and raring to go
26 June 2021
With Covid restrictions being relaxed, the Morning Star is taking part in the People’s Assembly demo today – but the daily paper of the left still needs your support to make sure it survives, says editor BEN CHACKO
World / 9 June 2021
China slams US over innovation and competition law
9 June 2021
President Joe Biden
World / 27 May 2021
Biden bid to revive Covid lab origin theory just ‘sugar-coating Trump’s racism’
27 May 2021
An aerial view of an under construction COVID-19 hospital th
World / 9 May 2021
EU declines to back vaccine patent waiver in talks with India
9 May 2021
Pack your bags? Keir Starmer returns to his north London hom
Features / 9 May 2021
Labour & the local elections: the lessons of 2017 are key to reversing the disasters of 2019-21
9 May 2021
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says the left needs to set its sights on majority support, however far off it might look
World / 6 May 2021
EU invites US, Canada and Norway to enjoy ‘unhindered’ troop movements within its borders
6 May 2021
Ukrainian neonazis carry emblems of the so-called SS Galicia
World / 29 April 2021
Corbyn joins socialists and communists in condemning neonazi march honouring SS war criminals in Ukraine
29 April 2021
From left, Members of European Parliament, David McAllister,
World / 28 April 2021
European Parliament ratifies EU-Britain trade agreement
28 April 2021
Russian President Vladimir Putin
World / 14 April 2021
Military drills a response to US-led war games in eastern Europe, Russia says
14 April 2021
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro
World / 7 April 2021
Brazilian government accused of ‘sabotaging’ health measures as Covid death toll hits 4,000 a day
7 April 2021
Medical workers from the Jose Gregorio Hernandez public hosp
World / 2 April 2021
Venezuela calls for debt restructuring in response to Covid pandemic
2 April 2021
Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro
World / 31 March 2021
Bolsonaro’s ‘dictatorial plans’ slammed by left who warn Brazilian democracy is ‘at the threshold’
31 March 2021
Bolivia's former interim President Jeanine Anez speaks to an
World / 28 March 2021
Bolivian rights activist slams ‘hypocrisy’ of US over Anez case
28 March 2021
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, centre, arrives for a pr
World / 25 March 2021
Brazil’s communists warn of ‘the greatest health and hospital crisis in history,’ as death toll passes 300,000
25 March 2021
Protesters participate in a march against the political lead
World / 21 March 2021
Women march on scene of Beirut blast in Mother's Day protest
21 March 2021
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro attends a ceremony to sig
World / 11 March 2021
Brazilian regions call on Bolsonaro to U-turn on virus denialism as deaths soar
11 March 2021
Culture / 8 March 2021
No Return to Blair Wars: a must-read pamphlet that answers the lies of the warmongers
8 March 2021
Interview / 1 March 2021
Australia v Facebook & Google: how will the new law affect public-interest journalism?
1 March 2021
International Federation of Journalists general secretary ANTHONY BELLANGER speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about the 'Goliath and Goliath' struggle between old and new media monopolies
Australia’s laws forcing Google and Facebook to pay for ne
World / 25 February 2021
Australia enacts law making Google and Facebook pay for news
25 February 2021
European Union Ambassador to Venezuela Isabel Brilhante Pedr
World / 25 February 2021
Venezuela expels EU ambassador over new sanctions during pandemic
25 February 2021
Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, center, speaks duri
World / 24 February 2021
European Parliament committee votes to lift Catalan politicians’ immunity
24 February 2021
Controversial vote paves way for extradition to Spain, where separatist politicians have received long prison sentences
An Australian Broadcasting Corporation page on Facebook is d
World / 18 February 2021
Facebook condemned for ‘unfriending Australia’ with sweeping purge of news outlets
18 February 2021
International Federation of Journalists warns media giant is ‘gravely undermining press freedom’
Bulgarian far-right nationalists hold torches as they gathe
World / 14 February 2021
Anti-fascists protest at annual commemoration of Bulgarian pro-Nazi general Hristo Lukov
14 February 2021
The Google campus at Mountain View in California, US
World / 12 February 2021
IFJ says Australian plan to make tech giants pay for news must go to fund public interest journalism
12 February 2021
The Nazi death camp at Auschwitz
World / 12 February 2021
Poland under fire over Holocaust ruling
12 February 2021
Israeli embassy hits out at ruling Law and Justice party's appointment of far-right figure Tomasz Greniuch to ideological watchdog
World / 5 February 2021
No Cold War condemns Ofcom for suppressing Chinese TV channel
5 February 2021
Elderly farmers talk on a heavily barricaded road along one
World / 5 February 2021
India's farmers vow to block more roads this weekend as government refuses to back down
5 February 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris (left) and Secretary of State A
World / 5 February 2021
‘America is back,’ Biden declares in first major foreign policy speech
5 February 2021
Workers from the Covent Garden branch of TGI Fridays on a pi
Britain / 31 January 2021
Parliamentary group on political literacy ‘no substitute’ for working-class education, say socialists
31 January 2021
Protesting farmers shout slogans in Mumbai, India
World / 25 January 2021
Tens of thousands of farmers descend on Delhi for Republic Day protest parade
25 January 2021
Chicago Teachers Union members and hundreds of supporters ma
World / 25 January 2021
Chicago Teachers Union votes to defy order to return to class on safety grounds
25 January 2021
People clash with police during a protest against the jailin
World / 25 January 2021
Putin's dismissal of mass protests won't wash, Russian communists warn
25 January 2021
A 'break the ban' edition of the Daily Worker produced three
Features / 21 January 2021
80 years ago today the Daily Worker was banned. Are there lessons for us today?
21 January 2021
A woman covers a child from the intensity of a bonfire as pr
World / 19 January 2021
Women farmers stage huge protests across India over Modi’s agriculture laws
19 January 2021
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro delivers his annual addr
World / 19 January 2021
Venezuela sends emergency oxygen to Brazilian hospitals as Covid cases rise
19 January 2021
In this Aug. 28, 1963 file photo, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther
World / 18 January 2021
Online parades and focus on inequality mark Martin Luther King Jnr Day in US
18 January 2021
A health care professional prepares a Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-
World / 18 January 2021
Concerns raised over privacy and ethics of Israel-Pfizer vaccine deal
18 January 2021
Members of Golden Dawn at a rally in Athens in 2015
World / 18 January 2021
Ex-Golden Dawn MEP Lagos and gang lose appeal over 2013 community centre attack in victory for anti-fascists
18 January 2021
World / 18 January 2021
Women still paid between a third and a fifth less than men for same work, finds ETUC
18 January 2021
Britain / 17 January 2021
Socialists launch new Political Education Project
17 January 2021
Features / 16 January 2021
Donald Trump, Julian Assange, free speech and censorship: for a class perspective
16 January 2021
Ben Chacko addresses some of vital points notably absent from the present media discourse on censorship
Neil Findlay has said the hostile parliamentary culture has
Features / 15 January 2021
‘The poisonous culture in Scottish Labour has been utterly dreadful’
15 January 2021
MSP NEIL FINDLAY talks to the Morning Star on the causes of Richard Leonard’s resignation – and the risk of the party pursuing a ‘hard-unionist’ strategy now he’s gone
Protesters rally against police brutality, Sunday, Jan. 3, 2
World / 4 January 2021
Minneapolis sees march for justice for Dolal Idd after new police killing
4 January 2021
A group of Google engineers announced Monday, Jan. 4, 2021,
World / 4 January 2021
Google workers form trade union with help from Communications Workers of America
4 January 2021
Activists of various nationalist parties shout slogans and c
World / 4 January 2021
Israel rebukes Ukraine over celebrations of Nazi collaborator Stepan Bandera
4 January 2021
In this photo released Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, by Tasnim News
World / 4 January 2021
Tudeh Party warns of ‘dangerous escalation’ between Iran and US as Tehran seizes oil tanker in Gulf
4 January 2021
Features / 1 January 2021
2020 was a bad year for the left. Where do we go from here?
1 January 2021
Socialists must fight to stop supporters abandoning politics and try to build a more coherent and united movement, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Prime Minister Boris Johnson signs the EU-UK Trade and Coope
Britain / 30 December 2020
EU trade deal ‘hardwires Thatcherite economics into future relationship,’ says Labour’s No Holding Back group
30 December 2020
A nurse prepares a syringe with the COVID-19 vaccine at Sant
World / 28 December 2020
Covid vaccinations rolled out across EU with publicity drive: ‘Believe in Science’
28 December 2020
World / 28 December 2020
Trump U-turns on Covid relief cheques after Democrats call his bluff
28 December 2020
A Sudanese soldier from the Rapid Support Forces or RSF, led
World / 28 December 2020
Sudanese murder revives calls for dissolution of brutal Rapid Support Forces state paramilitary group
28 December 2020
two Afghan families walk in a clearing after leaving a Croat
World / 21 December 2020
EU warns Bosnia that thousands of refugees face winter without shelter
21 December 2020
Stephan Balliet at the district court before the verdict in
World / 21 December 2020
Germany sentences anti-semitic killer to life behind bars over 2019 Yom Kippur attack
21 December 2020
Al-Jazeera staff work at their TV station in Doha, Qatar in
World / 21 December 2020
Saudis and UAE behind mass phone-hack of Al Jazeera, lab says
21 December 2020
Nepalese policemen detain the human right activists during a
World / 21 December 2020
Nepal dissolves parliament as PM fears removal by his own party
21 December 2020
World / 21 December 2020
Ukrainian communists denounce Lviv plan to remove monument of Red Army heroes
21 December 2020
Britain / 17 December 2020
Corbyn calls for solidarity with refugees at Morning Star Christmas rally
17 December 2020
Protesters hold a banner reading 'stop the authoritarian dri
World / 6 December 2020
Tens of thousands rally in France against security law as police and protesters clash again
6 December 2020
Participants in the day of action stand in front of the Fede
World / 6 December 2020
German peace campaigners form human chain around Bundestag to oppose arms spending rise
6 December 2020
World / 6 December 2020
Argentina: New wealth tax will pay for Covid aid packages
6 December 2020
World / 6 December 2020
Overhaul for Vatican financial watchdog
6 December 2020
Hugo Chavez's older brother Adan says the PSUV will not make
Features / 5 December 2020
Adan Chavez: ‘The US has failed to beat us’
5 December 2020
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko speaks to the vice-chair of Venezuela’s ruling PSUV, about the potential to diminish the right-wing bloc in the National Assembly at last and the prospects for Latin American socialism in an era of declining US influence
World / 4 December 2020
China says US is ‘abusing state power’ with new attacks on its companies
4 December 2020
Representatives of various farmers organisations arrive for
World / 4 December 2020
India sees rallies in solidarity with farmers besieging Delhi
4 December 2020
French President Emmanuel Macron
World / 4 December 2020
French police launch inspections of nearly 80 mosques in crackdown on ‘Islamic separatism’
4 December 2020
The airline warned nearly 7,000 employees that they could lo
World / 4 December 2020
US unions slam ‘scare tactic’ from airline bosses threatening 7,000 jobs
4 December 2020
Pro-government supporters attend a closing campaign rally in
World / 4 December 2020
Venezuelans go to the polls to elect new National Assembly
4 December 2020
Rohingya refugees walk to a naval vessel to be transported t
World / 4 December 2020
Bangladesh relocates 1,642 refugees to island in Bay of Bengal
4 December 2020
World / 2 December 2020
Rouhani rejects parliamentary Bill kicking out UN inspectors as revenge for Fakhrizadeh murder
2 December 2020
Hong Kong activists Joshua Wong, right, and Ivan Lam, left,
World / 2 December 2020
Joshua Wong and two others jailed in Hong Kong over 2019 police station siege
2 December 2020
Thailand's high court acquitted Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-
World / 2 December 2020
Protests continue as Thai court acquits PM of ethics violations
2 December 2020
Tigray refugees who fled the conflict in the Ethiopia's Tigr
World / 2 December 2020
UN signs deal to get humanitarian access to Tigray
2 December 2020
World / 1 December 2020
German police seize crossbows and machetes in raids on banned neonazi group’s members
1 December 2020
World / 1 December 2020
Egypt protests at Italy’s decision to try five police officers for Giulio Regeni’s murder
1 December 2020
Screenwriter Zhou Xiaoxuan speaks during an interview with t
World / 1 December 2020
All eyes on novel sexual harassment case in Chinese court
1 December 2020
Lawyers for Shell take their seats at the start of the court
World / 1 December 2020
Dutch environmentalists take Shell to court over emissions
1 December 2020
Poland's Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki speaks during a n
World / 1 December 2020
Poland and Hungary will block EU budget if democracy conditions are attached to funds, prime ministers say
1 December 2020
Indian farmers hold a meeting at the Delhi-Haryana state bor
World / 29 November 2020
Indian farmers vow to maintain roadblocks until Modi drops agriculture 'reforms'
29 November 2020
People pray over the flag-draped coffin of Mohsen Fakhrizade
World / 29 November 2020
Iranian peace campaigners warn scientist's assassination could spark Middle East war
29 November 2020
A demonstrator holds a board reading: who protects us from t
World / 25 November 2020
France to send draconian new police law to constitutional council
25 November 2020
World / 25 November 2020
Governor takes on Canadian oil firm
25 November 2020
An ethnic Armenian soldier stands guard next to Nagorno-Kara
World / 25 November 2020
Thousands of refugees flee as Azerbaijan occupies Armenian enclaves
25 November 2020
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) speaks with Chie
World / 25 November 2020
Netflix case highlights India's Islamophobic campaign against interfaith marriages
25 November 2020
National Executive Committee (NEC) members “walked out”
Editorial / 24 November 2020
The NEC left were right to walk out on Starmer
24 November 2020
Resisting the Labour right is not a distraction from fighting the Tories, but essential to doing so effectively
SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE: Communist politician Brinda Karat and
Features / 23 November 2020
‘A most anti-woman framework unlike anything which has gone before’
23 November 2020
Former Raj Sabha member BRINDA KARAT of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), which played a leading role in last year’s three million-strong Kerala women’s wall, tells the Star about the huge challenges in the fight against misogyny in Uttar Pradesh and beyond
A face mask was left behind on the square in front of the Ol
World / 23 November 2020
Anti-lockdown protesters in Germany ‘mocking resistance to the Nazis’ with tasteless stunts
23 November 2020
Tigray women who fled a conflict in the Ethiopia's Tigray re
World / 23 November 2020
Fears of Tigray bloodbath as Ethiopian army says it will show ‘no mercy’ on regional capital
23 November 2020
A Russian Air Force Tu-214 flies over Offutt Air Force Base
World / 23 November 2020
China condemns US over Open Skies withdrawal as Pompeo tour pushes Trump foreign policy priorities
23 November 2020
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens during a n
World / 23 November 2020
Gantz and Netanyahu at loggerheads again over probe into submarine purchase
23 November 2020
A man wears a protective face mask as he attends a solidarit
World / 23 November 2020
Policeman on trial in Belgium over shooting death of two-year-old refugee
23 November 2020
INTERVIEW / 13 November 2020
Rebuilding Labour – socialism, Brexit and democracy
13 November 2020
Following the launch of their No Holding Back report on Labour’s loss of working-class support, IAN LAVERY, LAURA SMITH AND JON TRICKETT speak to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about their findings
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn waves to the crowd after deliver
Britain / 10 November 2020
Left MPs demand Corbyn's reinstatement at passionate Arise online rally
10 November 2020
Unison assistant general secretary Roger McKenzie
Features / 8 November 2020
The whole movement should reject this cynical attack on Unison's Roger McKenzie
8 November 2020
The flimsy attempt to portray one of Britain's leading black trade unionists as a racist is a transparent bid by the Labour right to interfere in a union election, says BEN CHACKO
Bolivian president-elect Luis Arce
World / 6 November 2020
Thousands will rally in La Paz to 'safeguard' Arce's inauguration following dynamite attack on elected president
6 November 2020
World / 6 November 2020
German bid to cut anti-fascist paragraph from UN WWII resolution succeeds
6 November 2020
Russian draft amended to remove criticism of countries desecrating monuments to those who defeated fascism
Britain / 6 November 2020
Shift to a zero-Covid strategy now, Labour's Diane Abbott and Richard Burgon warn
6 November 2020
People's Assembly rally hears from MPs, trade unionists and campaigners on the need for a new approach to suppress the virus
South African political legends Nelson Mandela, former South
Britain / 2 November 2020
‘Corbyn as much a racist as Nelson Mandela,’ former ANC MP Andrew Feinstein tells online rally
2 November 2020
MP Margaret Hodge prepares to address a Jewish Labour Moveme
Features / 30 October 2020
Behind the headlines – what can we learn from the EHRC report into Labour anti-semitism?
30 October 2020
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says the media and Labour leadership have a selective attitude to the facts
People protest against the Gold Dawn outside a court in Athe
World / 9 October 2020
Greek state prosecutor ‘misrepresenting the law’ over Golden Dawn sentences
9 October 2020
Opponents of former President Evo Morales stage a counterpro
World / 7 October 2020
Bolivian MAS candidate warns coup regime is threatening military force to stop it winning
7 October 2020
A labour demonstrator raises his fists in support of the pro
World / 7 October 2020
Mass strikes and protests across Indonesia against ‘catastrophic’ assault on workers' rights and the environment
7 October 2020
Riot police detain a supporter of Movement Towards Socialism
World / 6 October 2020
Bolivian court rules MAS may stand – but threat to democracy remains, says activist
6 October 2020
Chinese honour guards are seen near the portrait of Mao Zedo
World / 6 October 2020
China leads UN call for US and allies to drop sanctions to help fight pandemic
6 October 2020
World / 2 October 2020
Indian communists slam ‘virtual prohibition on the right to strike’
2 October 2020
World / 1 October 2020
Cuba Solidarity Campaign launches petition to award Cuba's doctors the Nobel Peace Prize
1 October 2020
A woman reacts as police detain activists protesting against
World / 1 October 2020
Congress leaders arrested in India after trying to visit rape victim's family
1 October 2020
All-India Democratic Women's Association condemns government crackdown on anti-rape protesters
US schoolchildren
World / 1 October 2020
New York and Los Angeles roll out mass schools testing after talks with unions
1 October 2020
An MAS rally last month
World / 1 October 2020
‘False flag’ bomb scares plot to scupper Bolivian election
1 October 2020
Documents passed to the Morning Star allege far-right paramilitaries with links to the army are making contingency plans to forestall a win by Evo Morales's Movement Towards Socialism
Shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds
Britain / 29 September 2020
'Worst days of Thatcher' back as Chancellor abandons workers while Covid cases soar
29 September 2020
by Ben Chacko and Bethany Rielly
An MAS election rally this month
World / 29 September 2020
Bolivian resignations expose coup regime's bid to privatise utilities before elections, says campaigner
29 September 2020
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claimed Cuba was able to u
World / 29 September 2020
Trump administration tightens Cuba blockade with remittance crackdown
29 September 2020
Current students from the teachers' college in Ayotzinapa ch
World / 27 September 2020
Arrest warrants for abductors of the 43 Iguala students 'gives hope,' say Mexican justice campaigners
27 September 2020
Jeanine Anez
World / 18 September 2020
Coup president Jeanine Anez drops out of Bolivia’s presidential race as polls show Morales’s party on course to win in first round
18 September 2020