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Train drivers from the Aslef union on the picket line at Euston station in London, April 5, 2024
Features / 21 February 2026
21 February 2026

The newly elected general secretary of the Aslef train drivers’ union speaks to Ben Chacko about union wins, a welcome shift in approach to the rail sector and what still needs to be done

Police officers watch as people take part in a national march for Palestine on Whitehall in central London, January 18, 2025
Features / 21 February 2026
21 February 2026

CHRIS NINEHAM, who along with Ben Jamal, is one of the activists facing trial over a Gaza demo last year, talks to Ben Chacko about the state’s increasing use of force against peaceful protest, and the significance of increasing imperial aggression around the globe

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Latin America / 8 February 2026
8 February 2026
Richard Burgon MP
Features / 8 February 2026
8 February 2026

RICHARD BURGON MP speaks to Ben Chacko about the Labour right’s complicity in the Mandelson scandal and the need for a total break with Starmerism if the party is to defeat Reform

Government supporters call for the release of former President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, a month after U.S. forces captured them, in Caracas, Venezuela, February 3, 2026
Venezuela / 6 February 2026
6 February 2026
Fidel Antonio Castro Smirnov
Features / 7 February 2026
7 February 2026

FIDEL ANTONIO CASTRO SMIRNOV, grandson of the Cuban revolutionary leader, speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about his country’s resilience in the face of dire threats, its incredible achievements and the legacy of his grandfather

Ann Field introduces the conference
History / 25 January 2026
25 January 2026

Strike veterans and trade unionists found many parallels between Rupert Murdoch’s attack on the print unions and today’s democratic struggles, reports BEN CHACKO

Social media apps
Mental Health / 19 January 2026
19 January 2026

The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture

A massive gathers in Hyde Park, London, for a meeting during the General Strike, May 1926
History / 1 January 2026
1 January 2026

BEN CHACKO says in different ways, the centenary of the General Strike and that of Fidel Castro’s birth point to priority tasks for the British left in the coming year

Cartoon: Sally Lewis
Cartoon / 30 December 2025
30 December 2025

BEN CHACKO salutes the Morning Star cartoonists

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Book Review / 3 December 2025
3 December 2025

BEN CHACKO welcomes a masterful analysis that puts class struggle back at the heart of our understanding of China’s revolution

Jeremy Corbyn, with Zarah Sultana (not pictured) speaking at a discussion on Your Party, their new political party, at The World Transformed conference, at Niamos Radical Arts Centre in Hulme, Manchester. Picture date: Friday October 10, 2025
Your Party Conference 2025 / 28 November 2025
28 November 2025

With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz arrives for the cabinet meeting at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, November 12, 2025
Germany / 14 November 2025
14 November 2025

Sevim Dagdelen tells the Morning Star Germany is being readied to fight Russia in the interests of the United States

RMT in Whitehall
Workers' Rights / 7 November 2025
7 November 2025
Ofer Cassif
Features / 25 October 2025
25 October 2025

BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’

Peter Frost
Obituary / 13 October 2025
13 October 2025

Ben Chacko pays tribute to the author of our much-missed Frosty’s Ramblings column, a champion of the countryside and working-class culture 

Erhai lake
Climate Crisis / 9 October 2025
9 October 2025

One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results

Telling ‘Silk Road stories’ for a multipolar world
Features / 19 September 2025
19 September 2025

Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the start of Kunming’s Belt and Road media forum, where 200 journalists from 71 countries celebrated a new openness and optimism, forged by China’s enormous contribution to global development

Protesters marching in Epping, Essex after a temporary injunction that would have blocked asylum seekers from being housed at the Bell Hotel, was overturned at the Court of Appeal, August 31, 2025
Anti-Racism / 13 September 2025
13 September 2025

Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports on TUC Congress discussions on how to confront the far right and rebuild the left’s appeal to workers

Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC speaking at the TUC congress at the ACC Liverpool. Picture date: Monday September 11, 2023
Workers' Rights / 10 September 2025
10 September 2025
Labour MP for Leeds East, Richard Burgon, speaks during a pr
Labour Party / 8 September 2025
8 September 2025

Candidates only have until Thursday to get 80 MPs to nominate them

Fran Heathcote
TUC Congress 2025 / 9 September 2025
9 September 2025

BEN CHACKO reports on fears at TUC Congress that the provisions in the legislation are liable to be watered down even further

CWU leader Dave Ward
TUC Congress 2025 / 8 September 2025
8 September 2025

CWU leader DAVE WARD tells Ben Chacko a strategy to unite workers on class lines is needed – and sectoral collective bargaining must be at its heart

Jon Farley
Interview / 16 August 2025
16 August 2025

Morning Star editor Ben Chacko speaks to JON FARLEY – the retired headteacher whose arrest in Leeds exposes the grim absurdity of the Palestine Action ban

RMT general secretary Eddie Dempsey
Features / 19 July 2025
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
13 July 2025
Joanne Thomas campaigning for safe shopwork
Durham Miners’ Gala 2025 / 12 July 2025
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
11 July 2025

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

Albertosaurus
Features / 4 July 2025
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
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

George Fielding
Features / 19 June 2025
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

Members of the GMB union on the picket line outside the Amazon fulfilment centre in Coventry, November 7, 2023
Interview / 11 June 2025
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
7 June 2025

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

Your Paper / 28 May 2025
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

People take part in the People's Assembly Britain is Broken national demonstration in central London, November 5, 2022
Britain / 15 May 2025
15 May 2025

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

Burnt cars remain in the middle of a street following the re
Features / 22 March 2025
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
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
Muslim Association of Britain president Anas Altikriti gives
Features / 10 March 2025
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
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