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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
food
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’
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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
CP rossette
Features / 30 April 2023
30 April 2023
PHIL KATZ looks at the concerted campaign in eastern England that has got the CPB’s ideas for regional assemblies, redistributive tax systems and publicly owned transport on the agenda
ARBEIT MACHT FREI: A general view of the gates at Auschwitz
Features / 26 January 2023
26 January 2023
We need to guard against historical revisionism, while recognising just how close Nazi-fascism came to achieving its stated goal, warns PHIL KATZ
Tractor
Features / 2 September 2022
2 September 2022
Simple improvements in countryside communities' income, working conditions and economic support is urgently necessary, but a plan for a revolution in agriculture is also needed — and entirely feasible, argues PHIL KATZ
Bill rust
Features / 26 August 2022
26 August 2022
PHIL KATZ relates how our forerunner, the Daily Worker, was banned and the massive struggle to restore press freedom to unban the people’s paper
A modern Russian tank lays in ruins in front of a monument t
Opinion / 22 May 2022
22 May 2022
The conflict in Ukraine means that the struggle over historical revisionism — especially equating the Nazi regime with the Soviet Union — has now taken a great leap forward, warns PHIL KATZ
Vote communist banner drop
Features / 8 April 2022
8 April 2022
PHIL KATZ, Communist Party director of communications, urges readers to get involved in the May elections, to vote left and where possible, vote Communist
A battery of Katyusha rocket launchers firing at the enemy,
Features / 23 June 2021
23 June 2021
The unflinching heroism and sacrifice of the USSR in stopping the Nazis’ genocide on the Eastern Front must never be diminished by those trying to score political points, writes PHIL KATZ in the final part of his anniversary article
Wehrmacht nearby Pruzhany, Belarus. June 1941
Features / 22 June 2021
22 June 2021
PHIL KATZ charts the run-up to the most formidable and deadly invasion in the history of mankind – Operation Barbarossa – which took place 80 years ago today
Features / 30 May 2021
30 May 2021
Communist Party head of communications PHIL KATZ reports from the first of two mobilising events held at the weekend
Daily Worker It will rise
Features / 21 January 2021
21 January 2021
PHIL KATZ relates how the Morning Star’s forerunner was banned and the massive struggle to restore press freedom to unban the people’s paper
Future of work
Features / 22 November 2020
22 November 2020
Communist Party centenary project officer PHIL KATZ looks back at a year of achievement and the opportunity of future advance
Daily Worker Cable Street front page
Features / 3 October 2020
3 October 2020
PHIL KATZ traces the Morning Star's forerunner's role in rallying anti-fascist support