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Phil Katz
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Features / 18 January 2025
18 January 2025
From anti-apartheid work to uniting migrant workers, Sutton showed us how to build worker power, keeping socialism’s flame burning bright, and leaving London’s mighty May Day parade as his legacy, writes Phil Katz
Reform UK
Features / 28 October 2024
28 October 2024
In the last of a three-part series, PHIL KATZ explains how unions are best placed to present a positive, pro-worker, pro-public services alternative to the narrative of division, deregulation and greed peddled by Farage’s party
Farage
Features / 27 October 2024
27 October 2024
In the second of a three-part analysis, PHIL KATZ looks at areas where the labour movement should be able to demolish the new right-wing upstart party: its economic policies and attitude to the welfare state
NF
Features / 26 October 2024
26 October 2024
Farage's party is a political machine deeply tied to the interests of US big business, writes PHIL KATZ in the first of a series of features on this growing force in British politics
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Features / 31 August 2024
31 August 2024
PHIL KATZ, district secretary of the Communist Party in the East of England outlines the importance of the Burston Strike Rally, the food and land issue for workers and outlines the issues covered in the launch of a new Rural Charter
12darrenturner
Features / 27 June 2024
27 June 2024
PHIL KATZ, all-Britain election co-ordinator of the Communist Party, describes a campaign that is taking socialism to the heart of rural communities in the East of England
Tom Mann
Features / 13 March 2024
13 March 2024
An opportunity to exchange views is also a great opportunity for Morning Star readers, writes author-activist PHIL KATZ, who is currently on a speaking tour of Australia
Griffiths
Books / 28 December 2023
28 December 2023
PHIL KATZ recommends an accessible and painstakingly researched history written by an educator, agitator and organiser
Burston
Features / 2 September 2023
2 September 2023
East of England Communist Party secretary PHIL KATZ looks forward to Sunday’s Burston School Strike Festival with a call for the left and labour movement to form a united front in the region
Mann in Trafalgar Square
Features / 1 September 2023
1 September 2023
The final extract from PHIL KATZ’s book looks at the great communist’s last years, which saw him still regularly imprisoned, and finally venerated as ‘the most persuasive mob orator in the three kingdoms’
Tom Mann illustration
Features / 18 August 2023
18 August 2023
The fifth extract from PHIL KATZ’s book looks at the impact of Mann’s visits to Soviet Russia and the start of his advocacy for the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’
TM
Features / 11 August 2023
11 August 2023
The fourth extract from PHIL KATZ's book looks at Tom Mann's role in the Merseyside transport strike of 1911