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Features / 15 November 2024
15 November 2024
JOHN ELLISON looks back to the 1974 general election in Greece which freed the people from the oppressive military junta
Harold Wilson arrives in Downing St 1974
Features / 31 July 2024
31 July 2024
JOHN ELLISON looks back at the Wilson government’s early months, detailing how left-wing manifesto commitments were diluted, and the challenges faced by Tony Benn in implementing socialist policies
An injured Palestinian boy is carried from the ground follow
Features / 11 January 2024
11 January 2024
Robert Fisk and John Pilger knew that the legacy of the aggression of the US and its allies against the Middle East was crucial to understanding that crimes like the war on Gaza will only lead to more violence, writes JOHN ELLISON
MAN WITH A BOAT: Tory leader Edward Heath poses for the came
Features / 4 December 2023
4 December 2023
JOHN ELLISON looks at the miners' strike and Shrewsbury 3 case that led Edward Heath to ask ‘Who governs Britain?’ and the electorate to answer: not you
70th anniversary of the Korean armistice
Features / 27 July 2023
27 July 2023
On the 70th anniversary of the Korean armistice, JOHN ELLISON looks at a moment in time when the US almost resorted to its nuclear arsenal and Britain nearly ended up colluding
DISASTER FOR THE NAZIS: A German soldier in the Orel Salient
Features / 9 July 2023
9 July 2023
JOHN ELLISON shows how the calculated moves of the West and East during their time as allies against fascism would prefigure the divided Europe of the cold war to come
YEAR OF UNREST: Union marchers on the mass May Day demo, 197
Features / 5 April 2023
5 April 2023
A proxy war raged in Vietnam between the West and East, while strikers took on a Tory government — JOHN ELLISON considers the similarities
FRAME-UP: Firemen work on the burning Reichstag, 1933
Features / 26 February 2023
26 February 2023
JOHN ELLISON assesses the significance of the Reichstag fire, for which communists were blamed in the early days of Hitler’s dictatorship
Soviet soldiers on the attack on the house, Stalingrad
Features / 2 February 2023
2 February 2023
JOHN ELLISON looks at the turning point of the second world war, when the Red Army overcame the odds to turn back the Nazi tide – to the shock of the Western powers
clothing factory
Features / 29 January 2023
29 January 2023
JOHN ELLISON explains how the textile industry in Western countries was hollowed out by low-cost outsourcing at the behest of transnational companies
Daily Worker Ban
Features / 5 September 2022
5 September 2022
In the middle of WWII, the forerunner to the Morning Star was banned by the state for calling for colonial freedom, campaigning against profiteering, for union rights and for a better life for the workers amid the Blitz, explains JOHN ELLISON
Stefan Heym: a central witness to socialism
Features / 15 December 2021
15 December 2021
Fleeing the Nazis to become a best-selling author in the US, then forced by Mccarthyism to settle in the GDR in the '50s, he would go on to open the reunified German parliament in 1994. JOHN ELLISON remembers a remarkable leftist