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Britain / 15 April 2025

Education unions launch blistering attack on the cost of supply teachers in Wales

15 April 2025

A view of the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Cardi

Britain / 9 April 2025

Senedd committee urges government intervention to deal with delays in buying new trains

9 April 2025

Britain / 8 April 2025

Teachers slam Welsh government's failure to tackle pay in schools

8 April 2025

Britain / 6 April 2025

Winter and Wood hold meetings in the valleys to combat Reform

6 April 2025

Wales' First Minister Eluned Morgan attends a press conferen

Britain / 1 April 2025

Welfare cuts dominate First Minister's questions in Cardiff

1 April 2025

A general view of staff on an NHS hospital ward at Ealing Ho

Britain / 1 April 2025

Health unions urge Cardiff Bay to tackle NHS pay in Wales

1 April 2025

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves holds a press conf

Britain / 31 March 2025

Row intensifies over the impact of Rachel Reeves' welfare cuts in Wales

31 March 2025

Members of the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) protest against Mid

Britain / 26 March 2025

Firefighters in Wales threaten strike action over shift changes

26 March 2025

Britain / 25 March 2025

Welsh party leaders clash over council tax increases at First Minister’s Questions

25 March 2025

Britain / 25 March 2025

UCU Cardiff members vote for strike action to fight job cuts

25 March 2025

Plaid economy spokesman Luke Fletcher speaking at the party�

Britain / 23 March 2025

Nationalists pledge to cut taxes for small Welsh businesses

23 March 2025

Leader of Plaid Cymru Rhun ap Iorwerth speaks during the par

Britain / 23 March 2025

Plaid Cymru leader confirms his government would review Welsh electoral system

23 March 2025

Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth launches his party's Gen

Britain / 21 March 2025

Plaid leader promises a new weekly child benefit payment in Wales

21 March 2025

General view of the Cardiff University Brain Research Imagin

Britain / 21 March 2025

UCU promises strike action unless compulsory redundancy threat is removed

21 March 2025

Features / 21 March 2025

A plan for the renewal of Wales

21 March 2025

Wales reporter David Nicholson talks to Morning Star columnist and Plaid Cymru economy spokesman LUKE FLETCHER ahead of the unveiling of his economic strategy for Wales

England's Joe Heyes (centre) scores a try during the Guinnes

Men’s Rugby Union / 16 March 2025

England overpower Wales but France take title

16 March 2025

Campaigners demonstrate outside Swansea's Guildhall

Britain / 12 March 2025

Hundreds protest outside Wales Pension Partnership meeting in Swansea

12 March 2025

A registration form and a stethoscope at the Temple Fortune

Britain / 10 March 2025

Doctors union cautiously welcomes Welsh government plans to strengthen GPs' role

10 March 2025

Displaced Palestinians make tea at a school run by UNRWA, th

Britain / 10 March 2025

Campaigners demand Wales Pension Partnership divest from firms linked to Israel's Gaza genocide

10 March 2025

England's Ollie Sleightholme scores his second try during th

Six Nations / 9 March 2025

England move into 2nd place after defeating Italy

9 March 2025

Britain / 8 March 2025

Unity demanded at Stop the War Cymru conference

8 March 2025

A view of £5, £10, £20 and £50 bank notes

Britain / 4 March 2025

Senedd debates the Welsh budget

4 March 2025

First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan speaks during the Labo

Britain / 4 March 2025

First Minister's Questions celebrates Eluned Morgan's 20th session as leader

4 March 2025

Britain / 4 March 2025

Union welcomes ministers' meeting with higher education chiefs

4 March 2025

A patient bed on an NHS hospital ward in England

Britain / 3 March 2025

Plaid Cyrmu slam crisis handling at Wales' largest health board

3 March 2025

Book Review / 2 March 2025

A socialist heroine

2 March 2025

DAVID NICHOLSON is fascinated by one of the early pioneers of the women’s movement and of the early days of the Labour Party

General view of a Welsh flag before the Six Nations match at

Britain / 2 March 2025

St David's Day messages demand fairer funding for Wales

2 March 2025

Plaid Cymru's Luke Fletcher speaks with delegates during the

Britain / 26 February 2025

Plaid's Luke Fletcher faces internal challenge for new Senedd constituency

26 February 2025

First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan at Cathays Park in Car

Britain / 26 February 2025

First Minister's office bats away Tory calls to shut Welsh government foreign offices

26 February 2025

Britain / 19 February 2025

Senedd scrutiny committee recommends punishments for lying politicians

19 February 2025

Britain / 18 February 2025

Dentists' union accuses the Welsh government of spin and half-truths

18 February 2025

A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos

Britain / 18 February 2025

Health workers call for better pay in the NHS in Wales

18 February 2025

Britain / 17 February 2025

Beth Winter supports trades council's condemnation of Labour anti-migrant rhetoric

17 February 2025

Britain / 17 February 2025

RMT calls for better safety measures as Network Rail fined $4m

17 February 2025

Britain / 16 February 2025

Cardiff conference calls for left unity against Reform

16 February 2025

Britain / 12 February 2025

Midwives welcome Welsh government initiative but demand better staffing

12 February 2025

Britain / 11 February 2025

Heart Unions Week marked in Senedd as Morgan champions unions at FMQs

11 February 2025

Britain / 9 February 2025

Welsh government review of school funding must end postcode lottery, head teachers warn

9 February 2025

Britain / 5 February 2025

Two Welsh fire services in ‘desperate need of lasting change at the top’, FBU says

5 February 2025

Unite Wales members demonstrate outside the Senedd against t

Britain / 4 February 2025

Trade unionists besiege Senedd to demand changes to the Welsh budget

4 February 2025

general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospi

Britain / 3 February 2025

Senedd scrutiny committees line up to criticise the Welsh government's draft budget

3 February 2025

Britain / 29 January 2025

UCU ballot Cardiff University staff for industrial action to oppose proposed job cuts

29 January 2025

The sign for the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Ca

Britain / 29 January 2025

Senedd moves towards removing profit-making from children’s care services in Wales

29 January 2025

A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward

Britain / 29 January 2025

Welsh government's handling of the NHS attacked by nurses and Senedd committee

29 January 2025

a person wearing a University and College Union (UCU) armban

Britain / 28 January 2025

UCU demands alternative action to avert 400 job losses at Cardiff University

28 January 2025

the Bank of England in the City of London

Britain / 21 January 2025

‘The Bank of England must play its part’

21 January 2025

Experts warn not to overplay the risk of wage growth to inflation

The Northern Belle train crosses the Chirk Viadcut in Wrexha

Britain / 21 January 2025

Fractious Senedd quizzes First Minister on rail funding and Welsh NHS

21 January 2025

Members of fascist group Patriotic Alternative protest in To

Britain / 21 January 2025

Calls grow to ban Patriotic Alternative

21 January 2025

Britain / 14 January 2025

First Minister confirms Welsh government continues to call for truce in Gaza

14 January 2025

Eluned Morgan asked to call for release of Dr Hussam Abu Safiyya in FMQs

A woman's hand pressing keys of a laptop keyboard

Britain / 14 January 2025

Unions in Wales respond to Welsh government's AI plans

14 January 2025

Britain / 14 January 2025

Plaid Cymru detail plan to reduce Welsh NHS waiting lists

14 January 2025

A user on a laptop displaying a 'Matrix'-style screensaver

Britain / 13 January 2025

Welsh governments tasks school inspectors to report on the use of AI in schools

13 January 2025

Britain / 12 January 2025

Welsh government asked to cover Powys Teaching Health Board’s funding shortfall of £9.9m

12 January 2025

Britain / 7 January 2025

Wales FM sets out priorities for the year ahead

7 January 2025

Britain / 7 January 2025

Cardiff Council leader brands railway planning permission delay ‘indefensible’

7 January 2025

Album review / 6 January 2025

Butcher Bastards

6 January 2025

DAVID NICHOLSON draws attention to an album of music and poetry that channels a first-hand experience of Gaza

Britain / 6 January 2025

Local brand 23-year roadworks ‘the road to hell’ as it nears completion

6 January 2025

Music / 18 December 2024

Terfel's triumphant return

18 December 2024

Features / 18 December 2024

How Welsh Labour will face down the populist-right storm

18 December 2024

Wales reporter David Nicholson talks to First Minister ELUNED MORGAN in a wide-ranging interview looking at how Welsh Labour will see off the challenge of Reform UK in the 2026 Senedd elections

Theatre review / 17 December 2024

Going over children’s heads

17 December 2024

DAVID NICHOLSON is disappointed by a show that fails to engage its target audience

Exclusive / 14 December 2024

Wales' First Minister promises her government will deliver positive change to people’s lives

14 December 2024

Mabli Siriol, one of the speakers at the Senedd rally on the

Britain / 13 December 2024

Welsh language campaigners slam Senedd scrutiny committee's failure to hold government to account

13 December 2024

Britain / 10 December 2024

Trade unions cautiously welcome Welsh government's 2025-26 budget

10 December 2024

Ambulance workers on the picket line outside Croydon Street

Britain / 10 December 2024

Unison strike threat in Swansea Bay wins pay offer

10 December 2024

First Minister of Wales Eluned Morgan, September 23, 2024

Britain / 3 December 2024

FM sets out where additional £157m funding is being spent in Wales

3 December 2024

Leader of the Welsh Conservatives, Andrew RT Davies, makes a

Britain / 3 December 2024

Welsh Tory leader resigns after narrowly surviving no-confidence vote

3 December 2024

Campaigners blockade BAE Systems’ Glascoed site

Britain / 27 November 2024

Cymru Peace coalition blockade BAE factory in Monmouthshire

27 November 2024

The Accident & Emergency entrance at the Royal Liverpool Uni

Britain / 27 November 2024

Health workers welcome Welsh government review of ambulance response targets

27 November 2024

Flood water in Cwmtillery in Wales, as an apparent mud slide

Britain / 26 November 2024

Storm Bert hits First Minister’s Questions

26 November 2024

Wales' Ryan Elias shows his dejection after the Autumn Inter

Men’s Rugby Union / 24 November 2024

Wales hit a new low after losing for the 12th game in a row

24 November 2024

Roof workers building new houses in Derbyshire

Britain / 20 November 2024

Senedd report says Welsh government must build more social housing

20 November 2024

Britain / 19 November 2024

FMQs cover farmers, HS2 and the Middle East

19 November 2024

Britain / 19 November 2024

Teachers protest outside the Senedd demanding full funding for education

19 November 2024

Peace campaigners protest against the Gaza genocide at the W

Britain / 17 November 2024

Peace protesters take Gaza rally to Welsh Labour conference and Keir Starmer

17 November 2024

Wales' First Minister Eluned Morgan during the Council of th

Britain / 17 November 2024

‘There’s a new Wales on the horizon and I intend to lead us there’

17 November 2024

Welsh Labour celebrate new leaders' first 100 days in office

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer conducting media interviews

Britain / 17 November 2024

Starmer delivers first Labour Prime Minister address to Welsh Labour Conference in 16 years

17 November 2024

Britain / 5 November 2024

FMQs tackle the Westminster budget

5 November 2024

Members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) on the picket

Britain / 5 November 2024

RCN Wales survey shows NHS nursing vacancies hit 2000

5 November 2024

The crowd at the emergency vigil for Gaza outside the Senedd

Britain / 5 November 2024

Emergency vigil for Gaza held outside Welsh Parliament

5 November 2024

Britain / 4 November 2024

Beth Winter resigns from Labour, attacking party's loss of values

4 November 2024

A worker's payslip showing details of their employers' natio

Britain / 4 November 2024

Clarity needed on funding employers’ NI contributions in public sector in Scotland and Wales

4 November 2024

PARENTS and children have staged a sit-in at the Senedd cal

Britain / 1 November 2024

Senedd sit-in slates inaction on Palestine

1 November 2024

Britain / 28 October 2024

Libraries at risk of closure due to council funding problems, campaigners warn

28 October 2024

Workers from Tata's Port Talbot steelworks gather at College

Britain / 28 October 2024

Steelworkers allege Tata Steel redundancy scheme is being misused

28 October 2024

Britain / 23 October 2024

Councils are on the brink of financial ruin, Plaid Cymru tells Welsh government

23 October 2024

Britain / 23 October 2024

Plaid Cymru demands fairness for Wales in Chancellor Rachel Reeves’s Autumn Statement

23 October 2024

Britain / 22 October 2024

Senedd members demand fair funding for Wales, housing and disinvestment in Israel’s economy

22 October 2024

The scene after a collision involving two trains near Llanbr

Britain / 22 October 2024

Rail unions call for investigation into rail crash in Powys

22 October 2024

Theatre review / 21 October 2024

Miners’ strike drama hits the wrong notes

21 October 2024

DAVID NICHOLSON is disappointed that an ambitious telling of the strike from a Welsh perspective disregards the collective struggle

Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales

Britain / 15 October 2024

Senedd discusses help for communities blighted by Tata Steel job losses

15 October 2024

A view of the Job Centre Plus on Benalder St in Glasgow

Britain / 15 October 2024

Unions call for more to be done to tackle youth unemployment

15 October 2024

Britain / 14 October 2024

Campaigners in Wales call for the children of migrants to have the same right to free school meals as other pupils

14 October 2024

Palestinians look at the damage after an Israeli strike hit

Britain / 14 October 2024

Peace campaigners welcome Plaid Cymru's decision to support the Israel boycott campaign

14 October 2024

Rhun ap Iorwerth speaks at the Plaid Cymru annual conference

Britain / 11 October 2024

Plaid Cymru leader backs Palestinian statehood and calls for immediate ceasefire in Middle East

11 October 2024

Britain / 11 October 2024

Think tank shares proposals to outlaw politicians from lying in Wales

11 October 2024

Britain / 8 October 2024

Welsh FM faces questions on two-child benefit cap and winter fuel allowance

8 October 2024

A tanker pumping out excess sewage from the Lightlands Lane

Britain / 8 October 2024

Water companies face fines for continued pollution

8 October 2024

Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales, Septembe

Britain / 30 September 2024

Tata Steel closes last blast furnace

30 September 2024

The construction site for the HS2 project at Curzon Street i

Britain / 29 September 2024

Welsh Labour urged to take on the UK government over rail funding

29 September 2024

Britain / 29 September 2024

Welsh Tory leader warns his party to adapt or die

29 September 2024

The 57-year-old, 25 metre dish at the Chilbolton Observatory

Britain / 25 September 2024

Peace campaigners accused MoD of incompetence over consultation on controversial new radar station

25 September 2024

Exclusive / 24 September 2024

Unison warns of use of private sector in new cooperation agreement

24 September 2024

Ambulances outside the Royal London Hospital in east London,

Britain / 23 September 2024

Welsh and UK government to co-operate on NHS reform

23 September 2024

Britain / 16 September 2024

Welsh government review of 20MPH policy nears end

16 September 2024

The Welsh Language Society protest and match in Machynlleth,

Britain / 15 September 2024

Welsh language campaigners march to demand action on the housing crisis

15 September 2024

Britain / 13 September 2024

A quarter of unpaid carers in Wales are live in poverty

13 September 2024

Attendees of the Cuba Solidarity Campaign event at the Eiste

Britain / 9 August 2024

Cuban solidarity on show at the Eisteddfod

9 August 2024

Event organiser, compere and local communist Catrin Ashton a

Britain / 9 August 2024

Morning Star pays tribute at Eisteddfod meeting to communist and welsh language campaigner Gareth Miles

9 August 2024

Germany's first freely movable radio telescope near Bad Mün

Britain / 8 August 2024

Peace campaigners slam MoD decision to site deep space radar in Wales

8 August 2024

Eluned Morgan walks in the garden at the Caer Heritage Centr

Britain / 8 August 2024

Culture unions demand meeting with Wales' new FM and slam cuts to the arts

8 August 2024

RMT president Alex Gordon speaking at the Stop the War Cymru

Britain / 7 August 2024

Peace groups come to the National Eisteddfod

7 August 2024

Britain / 6 August 2024

Eluned Morgan elected as First Minister of Wales

6 August 2024

Britain / 4 August 2024

Anti-fascist demonstrators see off the far right in Cardiff

4 August 2024

Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth with Morning Star stall

Britain / 4 August 2024

Visitors and politicians welcome the Star’s Welsh-language Eisteddfod edition

4 August 2024

Britain / 31 July 2024

TUC calls for more health and safety funding

31 July 2024

Britain / 30 July 2024

Job Centre security guards name dates for strike in fight for better pay

30 July 2024

Junior doctors on the picket line at Cardiff's University Ho

Britain / 30 July 2024

Doctors and nurses in Wales demand extra pay to match England

30 July 2024

Britain / 24 July 2024

Welsh Labour appoints Baroness as first woman leader

24 July 2024

Britain / 24 July 2024

Plaid launch rural development strategy for Wales

24 July 2024

Britain / 21 July 2024

Welsh Labour leadership election timetable agreed

21 July 2024

Jeremy Miles at the Joint Ministerial Council (European Nego

Britain / 21 July 2024

Jeremy Miles drops out of race to be first minister and nominates Baroness Eluned Morgan

21 July 2024

Britain / 17 July 2024

Welsh politicians jockey to replace Gething as First Minister

17 July 2024

Palestine Solidarity Campaign activists lobby a Rhonnda Cyno

Britain / 17 July 2024

Palestine supporters urge Rhondda Cynon Taf councillors to support a ceasefire in Gaza

17 July 2024

Britain / 17 July 2024

Doctors threaten strike action as GPs cannot guarantee patient safety

17 July 2024

Britain / 16 July 2024

Gething resigns as first minister of Wales

16 July 2024

Britain / 16 July 2024

Education unions demand extra funding for pupils with additional learning needs

16 July 2024

Britain / 9 July 2024

Sacked MS releases statement about dismissal

9 July 2024

Britain / 1 July 2024

Unions welcome resumption of talks with Tata Steel

1 July 2024

Britain / 1 July 2024

A shortage of nurses in Wales is endangering patient safety, survey reveals

1 July 2024

Britain / 18 June 2024

Parties clash at FMQs over election manifesto commitments for Wales

18 June 2024

Britain / 17 June 2024

Climate activists join eve-of-action rally at Tata Steel

17 June 2024

Britain / 17 June 2024

SNP criticises Starmer's ‘crippling’ caution

17 June 2024

Britain / 13 June 2024

Plaid Cymru launch manifesto pledging a consultation on Welsh independence

13 June 2024

Britain / 13 June 2024

Plaid Cymru calls out Labour's ‘lack of ambition’ for Wales

13 June 2024

Britain / 11 June 2024

First Minister questions dominated by last week's no-confidence vote

11 June 2024

Britain / 11 June 2024

Tata Steel pressing ahead with job losses as it rejects Labour pleas to keep blast furnaces open

11 June 2024

Britain / 5 June 2024

Senedd passes vote of no confidence in Vaughan Gething

5 June 2024

Britain / 5 June 2024

Seventeen Gaza protesters arrested in Cardiff

5 June 2024

Britain / 4 June 2024

FMQs still dominated by row over Vaughan Gething's campaign donation

4 June 2024

Britain / 4 June 2024

Education unions welcome Welsh government U-turn

4 June 2024

Britain / 4 June 2024

GMB wins strike ballot at Tata steel

4 June 2024

Opera Review / 30 May 2024

Two outstanding youth productions

30 May 2024

DAVID NICHOLSON is enthralled by new work from WNO that teaches children to sing and perform

Britain / 29 May 2024

Peace campaign launched against deep space radar station in Wales

29 May 2024

Britain / 28 May 2024

Plaid accuse Labour and Tories of fiscal consensus

28 May 2024