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John Foster
Alex Salmond speaks at the SNP conference in Glasgow, Octobe
Features / 17 October 2024
17 October 2024
JOHN FOSTER examines how the late SNP leader shifted the party leftwards and upwards, bringing Scottish independence to the forefront while fundamentally failing to address deeper issues of class and corporate capture
Features / 2 December 2023
2 December 2023
Ahead of a TUC special Congress next weekend to fight Conservative anti-strike laws, JOHN FOSTER looks back to 1969 and 1972 when similar proposals were defeated through class solidarity and painstaking organising work
Jeremy Corbyn with Neil Findlay MSP during a rally at Glasgo
Book Review / 13 August 2023
13 August 2023
JOHN FOSTER recommends the down-to-earth realism of a political memoir that navigates the surreality of Scottish politics
The HMS Queen Elizabeth en route to make trouble in the Chin
Features / 14 August 2021
14 August 2021
JOHN FOSTER discusses the role of communists in responding to the aggressive militarisation initiated by the US in a world that faces an unprecedented period of acute crisis, as he introduces the international resolution for this autumn's Communist Party Congress
MASS TURNOUT: 40,000 workers march in Glasgow, August 1971
Features / 26 January 2021
26 January 2021
Half a century ago, 8,000 workers took over four shipyards in Scotland and instead of striking, kept working. JOHN FOSTER previews an event to mark this brave action, which not only saved every job, it turned a period of retreat into a working-class offensive
TORY DEAL: Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Brussels with Eur
Features / 3 January 2021
3 January 2021
As the false polarisations that have divided working people over the past decade subside, the class politics of both the EU and Johnson are there for all to see, writes JOHN FOSTER
Engels (right) with Marx, statue in Berlin
ENGELS 200 / 27 November 2020
27 November 2020
JOHN FOSTER pays tribute to Friedrich Engels on the 200th anniversary of his birth
Features / 11 September 2020
11 September 2020
The government's new Bill withdraws economic decision-making powers from devolved administrations just as they are set to escape EU 'competition' regulation, explains JOHN FOSTER
Features / 2 March 2020
2 March 2020
Just because Labour lost the election does not mean the Scottish labour movement can afford not to fight for its agenda of nationalisation, writes JOHN FOSTER
Features / 21 October 2019
21 October 2019
Class solidarity is overcoming sectarian violence as the economic situation worsens and protests grow OMAR EL DEEB tells John Foster
Glasgow
Features / 3 October 2019
3 October 2019
Scotland's rail construction complex, once employing 30,000 skilled engineers and exporting trains across the globe, is slated for closure - but not without a fight, writes JOHN FOSTER as he previews this weekend's Scottish Morning Star autumn conference in Glasgow
A Palestinian man in East Jerusalem is forced to knock down
Features / 15 September 2019
15 September 2019
In conversation with John Foster, SABRI ATEYEH represented the views of the Palestine Liberation Organisation at this September’s Avante Festival in Lisbon