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An aerial view of the offices of HSBC, Citi, JP Morgan and Barclays banks in Canary Wharf, east London

Editorial / 14 May 2026

Don’t let the bond market veto democracy

14 May 2026

Health Secretary Wes Streeting looks on as Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers a speech during a visit to Elective Orthopaedic Centre in Epsom, Surrey, January 6, 2025

Editorial / 13 May 2026

Reshaping Labour’s agenda during and after a leadership contest

13 May 2026

Health Secretary Wes Streeting and Prime Minister Keir Starmer during a visit to Elective Orthopaedic Centre in Epsom, Surrey, January 6, 2025

Editorial / 12 May 2026

Starmer-Streeting row is about more of the same

12 May 2026

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer meets Labour Party members at Kingsdown Methodist Church Hall in Ealing, west London, May 8, 2026

Editorial / 11 May 2026

Starmer, Labour and the working class: a century-old dilemma

11 May 2026

Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaking to the media after meeting Labour Party members during a visit to AFC Wimbledon in south London, May 9, 2026

Editorial / 10 May 2026

Labour’s crisis runs deep — it needs a real debate on its future

10 May 2026

The vote count gets underway in the 2026 Senedd elections at Ysgol Bro Teifi, in Ceredigion. Picture date: Friday May 8, 2026

Editorial / 8 May 2026

The Morning Star view on the 2026 election results

8 May 2026

Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan and Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley speak to police officers during a walkabout in the West End of London, July 30, 2025

Editorial / 7 May 2026

Sadiq Khan must sack Mark Rowley

7 May 2026

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage being interviewed by the media after an eve of poll photocall at College Green, Westminster, on the last day of campaigning ahead of the local elections on Thursday, May 6, 2026

Editorial / 6 May 2026

Political fragmentation deepens as Britain goes to the polls

6 May 2026

A worker outside Tata Steel's Port Talbot steelworks in south Wales, as around 3,000 jobs are at risk at the plant as part of a planned restructuring, September 15, 2023

Editorial / 5 May 2026

The labour movement must demand more than subsidies

5 May 2026

People on Westminster Bridge as they take part in a Palestine Solidarity Campaign march in central London, October 11, 2025

Editorial / 4 May 2026

Cynicism and lies behind bid to ban Palestine protest

4 May 2026

Soldiers attend an event marking International Workers' Day at Jose Marti Anti-Imperialist Square in Havana, Cuba, May 1, 2026

Editorial / 3 May 2026

Defy Trump, resist imperialism and stand with socialist Cuba

3 May 2026

The scene in Golders Green, north-west London, after two men - one aged in his 70s and another in his 30s - were stabbed on Wednesday morning

Editorial / 1 May 2026

The Golders Green attacks and the state’s response

1 May 2026

People take part in a May Day march on Aldwych in London

Editorial / 1 May 2026

Working people of all countries, unite!

1 May 2026

Israeli soldiers operate in southern Lebanon, as seen from northern Israel, Wednesday, April 29, 2026

Editorial / 29 April 2026

Imperialist delusions drive Britain towards an economic precipice

29 April 2026

Artist Kaya Mar has his last paintings referring to Keir Starmer and Peter Mandelson on display in London, April 20, 2026

Editorial / 28 April 2026

Moral clarity versus Morgan McSweeney

28 April 2026

Striking refuse workers outside Perry Barr depot in Birmingham, April 28, 2026

Editorial / 28 April 2026

15 months on the picket line: how unity won in Birmingham

28 April 2026

Wales Green Party Leader Anthony Slaughter, Reform UK's Dan Thomas, Welsh Labour Leader and First Minister Eluned Morgan, Plaid Cymru of leader Rhun ap Iorwerth, Welsh Conservative leader Darren Millar and Welsh Liberal Democrat Leader Jane Dodds

Editorial / 26 April 2026

Attention turns to Wales: Labour's long-term control under threat

26 April 2026

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking at Dodworth Central Social club in Barnsley, April 22, 2026

Editorial / 24 April 2026

The left must do all it can to keep Reform UK out

24 April 2026

A US Air Force B-1 bomber is loaded with bombs at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, March 16, 2026

Editorial / 23 April 2026

Scottish TUC arms vote welcome

23 April 2026

President Donald Trump (left) gets a reaction from Britian's ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson (right), in the Oval Office of the White House, May 8, 2025, in Washington

Editorial / 22 April 2026

Look beyond Mandelson: Trump, and the US alliance, are the bigger picture

22 April 2026

Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to make a statement in the House of Commons, April 20, 2026

Editorial / 21 April 2026

Clear out Labour Together gang

21 April 2026

Prime Minister Keir Starmer departs 10 Downing Street, London, to make a statement in the House of Commons, April 20, 2026

Editorial / 20 April 2026

Don’t let Starmer talk himself out of this scandal

20 April 2026

College lecturers from across Scotland gather at a rally outside the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh following a morning on the picket line at their college campuses after walking out on strike action as a long-running dispute over pay and jobs continues. Picture date: Thursday February 29, 2024

Editorial / 19 April 2026

Scotland needs a new trajectory — can its unions point the way?

19 April 2026

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at a press conference after a multinational coalition summit to facilitate shipping in the Strait of Hormuz once the US-Iran war ends, at the Elysee Presidential Palace in Paris, France, April 17, 2026

Editorial / 18 April 2026

Starmer’s perfect storm

18 April 2026

Goods at a food bank

Editorial / 16 April 2026

Food crisis is the price of Trump’s war

16 April 2026

People take part in a march organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, from Russell Square to Whitehall in central London, June 21, 2025

Editorial / 15 April 2026

Suppressing protest won’t save the government or Labour Party

15 April 2026

Peter Magyar, leader of the opposition Tisza party, waves the Hungarian flag following the announcement of the partial results of the parliamentary election in Budapest, Hungary, April 12, 2026

Editorial / 14 April 2026

Hungary and great power rivalry

14 April 2026

Former defence secretary George Robertson arrives in Downing Street, London, for a Cabinet meeting, January 16, 2024

Editorial / 14 April 2026

Robertson has exposed truth - It’s warfare or welfare

14 April 2026

Central London following the UK-EU Summit, May 19, 2025

Editorial / 13 April 2026

Alignment with the EU won’t help workers — and is a political trap for the left

13 April 2026

A worker cleans the street as police officers walks towards their vehicle outside a media center close to Serena Hotel, the venue for the U.S. Iran officials meeting, in Islamabad, Pakistan, April 12, 2026

Editorial / 12 April 2026

Talks were inconclusive. But forcing the US to the table has changed the world for the better

12 April 2026

People take part in a Together for Palestine march organised by Palestine Coalition, in central London, March 28, 2026

Editorial / 10 April 2026

Cost-of-living protests are coming — but can the left lead them?

10 April 2026

Rescuers carry an injured man from a destroyed building that was hit in an Israeli airstrike in central Beirut, Lebanon, April 8, 2026

Editorial / 9 April 2026

Israel will keep this war going unless it is stopped

9 April 2026

President Donald Trump departs after speaking with reporters during a news conference in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, April 6, 2026, in Washington

Editorial / 8 April 2026

The Iran ceasefire and the limits of US imperial power

8 April 2026

President Donald Trump gestures while speaking with reporters in the James Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House, April 6, 2026, in Washington

Editorial / 7 April 2026

Trump’s crimes are an abomination. So is Starmer’s complicity

7 April 2026

Ant-war protesters outside RAF Lakenheath, April 4 2026 [Neil Terry Photography]

Editorial / 6 April 2026

Stand with the Lakenheath peace camp – end our complicity in Trump’s war

6 April 2026

Junior doctors and members of the British Medical Association (BMA) outside St Thomas' Hospital, London, January 3, 2024

Editorial / 3 April 2026

Why the doctors’ strike matters to all trade unionists

3 April 2026

Members of the National Education Union (NEU) hold a rally at Old Palace Yard, in Westminster, London, January 29, 2025

Editorial / 2 April 2026

Labour can’t afford to ignore the anger across our education workforce

2 April 2026

FW Pomeroy's Statue of Justice stands atop the Central Criminal Court building, Old Bailey, London

Editorial / 1 April 2026

Solidarity on trial – how the state is redefining the right to protest

1 April 2026

Israel's Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir (centre) and lawmakers celebrate after Israel's parliament passed a law approving the death penalty for Palestinians convicted of murdering Israelis, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 30, 2026

Editorial / 31 March 2026

Apartheid hangings: the horrific reality of the Israeli state must isolate it

31 March 2026

Displaced people who fled Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon sit inside tents used as shelters as a rainbow breaks through the rain in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, March 29, 2026

Editorial / 30 March 2026

On the brink of war — and paying the price at home

30 March 2026

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Editorial / 29 March 2026

Together, we can beat the far right

29 March 2026

Counter protesters, organised by Stand Up To Racism, in West Parliament Square, Edinburgh, ahead of an anti-immigration protest outside Holyrood in Edinburgh. Picture date: Saturday March 21, 2026

Editorial / 27 March 2026

The far right is more menacing than ever in Britain — but together, we can take it on

27 March 2026

Prime Minister Keir Starmer (R) and the British ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson during a welcome reception at the ambassador's residence in Washington, DC., February 26, 2025

Editorial / 26 March 2026

McSweeney’s missing phone reeks of Establishment cover-up

26 March 2026

Iranian Red Crescent emergency workers use a bulldozer to clear rubble from a residential building that was hit in an earlier U.S.-Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, March 23, 2026

Editorial / 25 March 2026

Ministers are in denial about the scale of the Iran war shock

25 March 2026

People march towards Downing Street in London to demonstrate against racism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, fascism and the far right. Picture date: Saturday March 18, 2023

Editorial / 24 March 2026

Together against Islamophobia

24 March 2026

A member of Shomrim North West London, at the scene in Highfield Road, Golders Green, London, after an apparent arson attack on four ambulances belonging to the Jewish Community Ambulance service in London, March 23, 2026

Editorial / 23 March 2026

Ambulance horror shows anti-semitism is on the rise — narratives that excuse it must be confronted

23 March 2026

President Donald Trump steps off Air Force One, March 20, 2026, at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Editorial / 22 March 2026

Endless conflict: the rising cost of war on Iran

22 March 2026

A US Air Force B-1 bomber is loaded with bombs at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, March 16, 2026

Editorial: / 20 March 2026

Starmer is not trying to ‘de-escalate’ the war on Iran – he has got us involved

20 March 2026

Angela Rayner answers questions during the Night Time Economy Summit in Liverpool, February 12, 2026

Editorial / 19 March 2026

Left must put pressure on Rayner

19 March 2026

Portrait of independence leader of the Democratic Republic of Congo Patrice Lumumba during a press conference in Leopoldville (today Kinshasa), Congo, on June 16, 1960

Editorial / 18 March 2026

Lumumba’s murder and Trump’s gangster-imperialism — the blood never dries

18 March 2026

Job & Talent agency bin workers during a picket line and rally, organised by Unite the Union, outside Job & Talent's Smithfield Depot in Birmingham, December 1, 2025

Editorial / 17 March 2026

The trade union movement needs a political strategy

17 March 2026

President Donald Trump boards Air Force One, March 13, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md., for a trip to Florida

Editorial / 16 March 2026

Trump wants to draw us into his failing war. That must not happen

16 March 2026

HMS Agamemnon nuclear submarine at the BAE system factory, Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, north west England, March 20 2025

Editorial / 15 March 2026

Liberal opportunism and the myth of Britain’s independent bomb

15 March 2026

Rescue workers carry a severely injured man after pulling him from the rubble following a strike in southern Tehran, Iran, Friday, March 13, 2026

Editorial: / 13 March 2026

Capitalism is war. Socialism is peace

13 March 2026

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (right) and then British ambassador to the US Peter Mandelson during a welcome reception at the ambassador's residence in Washington, DC, February 27, 2025

Editorial: / 12 March 2026

Labour Together is key to the Mandelson scandal

12 March 2026

King Charles III reads the King's Speech in the House of Lords Chamber during the State Opening of Parliament in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster in London, July 17, 2024

Editorial / 11 March 2026

Lords reform: too little, too late

11 March 2026

Defence Secretary John Healey arrives for a Cabinet meeting in Downing Street, London, March 3, 2026

Editorial / 11 March 2026

Healey the hypocrite and his pirate delusions

11 March 2026

Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves after attending the annual Commonwealth Day Service of Celebration at Westminster Abbey, in London, March 9, 2026

Editorial / 10 March 2026

Starmer is finished — MPs shouldn’t fear to reject his attack on jury trials

10 March 2026

Former prime minister Sir Tony Blair during the Sharm El Sheikh Peace Summit in Egypt, October 13, 2025

Editorial: / 9 March 2026

Reject Blair, reject war

9 March 2026

The son of a Lebanese soldier, cries as he sits on his father's coffin who was killed by Israeli airstrikes, during a funeral procession in Khraibeh village, eastern Lebanon, Sunday, March 8, 2026

Editorial: / 8 March 2026

Britain is drifting into Donald Trump’s war. That has to be stopped

8 March 2026

Palestinian women offer Friday Ramadan prayers in Jerusalem, as the Old City remains closed to visitors under nationwide Home Front Command restrictions banning large gatherings amid the war with Iran, Friday, March 6, 2026

Editorial: / 6 March 2026

International women’s day in a world at war

6 March 2026

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves with Second Permanent Secretary of the Treasury Jim O'Neil (left), and Scottish Secretary Douglas Alexander as she hosts a roundtable with gas and oil bosses at 11 Downing Street, central London, March 4, 2026

Editorial / 5 March 2026

Reeves is Chancellor for the City

5 March 2026

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks to soldiers at the RAF base in Akrotiri, Cyprus, during his three-day trip to the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and Cyprus, December 10, 2024

Editorial: / 4 March 2026

Keep British bases out of Trump’s reckless war

4 March 2026

A plume of smoke rises following a US-Israeli military strike in Tehran, Iran, March 3, 2026

Editorial: / 3 March 2026

No repeat of Iraq crime

3 March 2026

Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a press briefing at the Pentagon in Washington, March 2, 2026

Editorial: / 2 March 2026

Imperial ambitions laid bare in US–Israel attack on Iran

2 March 2026

Rescue workers and residents search through the rubble in the aftermath of what Iranian officials said was an Israeli-U.S. strike on a girls' elementary school in Minab, Iran, February 28, 2026

Editorial / 1 March 2026

Trump’s unprovoked attack on Iran has sparked a war with incalculable consequences

1 March 2026

Newly-elected Green MP for Gorton and Denton, Hannah Spencer, eats chips in curry sauce from a takeaway near her constituency office in Manchester, February 27, 2026

Editorial / 27 February 2026

Spencer’s seismic win shows British politics is changing fast

27 February 2026

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana take part in a discussion on Your Party, their new political party, at The World Transformed conference, at Niamos Radical Arts Centre in Hulme, Manchester, October 10, 2025

Editorial / 26 February 2026

Your Party has the chance of a fresh start

26 February 2026

Green Party posters in Gorton, Greater Manchester, ahead of the Gorton and Denton by-election, February 18, 2026

Editorial / 25 February 2026

Three-horse races like Gorton and Denton show electoral tactics alone won’t beat the far right

25 February 2026

Downing Street chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, in Downing Street, central London, ahead of the visit today of President Zelensky, October 10, 2024

Editorial / 24 February 2026

Labour Together’s sinister actions must be fully investigated

24 February 2026

RENEGADE: Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lammy on a visit to Downing Street briefing on Monday February 9 2026

Editorial / 23 February 2026

Juries growing challenge to the state repressive measures seals their fate

23 February 2026

A Boeing EA-18G Growler on the flight deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Indian Ocean on January 21 2026 / Pic: Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Daniel Kimmelman/US Navy via AP, File

Editorial / 22 February 2026

US poised to strike Iran while the world watches this with popcorn

22 February 2026

Editorial webpic.jpgKarl Marx and Friedrich Engels / Pic: Wikipedia/CC

Editorial / 20 February 2026

The Communist Manifesto is as relevant today as it was in 1848

20 February 2026

President Donald Trump listens during a Board of Peace meeting at the U.S. Institute of Peace, February 19, 2026, in Washington

Editorial / 19 February 2026

Time for clarity – no support for a US attack on Iran

19 February 2026

Robert Jenrick making his first speech as Reform UK's Treasury spokesman at the LCW Plaisterers' Hall in the City Of London, February 18, 2026

Editorial / 18 February 2026

Jenrick confirms Reform are another Establishment party – and that’s a weakness

18 February 2026

Green Party Gorton and Denton by-election candidate Hannah Spencer speaking to Green Party volunteers at Granada Park in Denton, February 7, 2026

Editorial / 17 February 2026

Vote Green in Gorton and Denton

17 February 2026

Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool, September 30, 2025

Editorial / 16 February 2026

Can unions and the left help shape post-Starmer Labour?

16 February 2026

Marco Rubio

Editorial / 15 February 2026

Rubio’s manifesto means imperialist subjugation of the world – and he says so openly

15 February 2026

A woman is detained by police officers as supporters of Palestine Action take part in a mass action in Parliament Square, Westminster, central London, August 9, 2025

Editorial: / 13 February 2026

The Palestine Action ban is unlawful – make the government lift it, now

13 February 2026

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to a community centre in Hertfordshire, February 10, 2026

Editorial: / 12 February 2026

Majority want major shift left– but can the opportunity be seized?

12 February 2026

Defence Secretary John Healey (left) and the CEO of software company Palantir Technologies Alex Karp at the signing of a �1.5 billion investment, unveiled as part of US President Donald Trump's historic second state visit, at Wellington Conference Room, Horse Guards, Whitehall, London. Picture date: Thursday September 18, 2025

Editorial: / 11 February 2026

Cancel the contracts: Palantir is a threat to our freedoms and independence

11 February 2026

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar speaking to the media during a press conference at Trades Hall, Glasgow, where he is calling on Sir Keir Starmer to resign as Prime Minister, February 9, 2026

Editorial / 10 February 2026

Sarwar’s stunt highlights Blairite danger

10 February 2026

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking during a visit to Horntye Park Sports Complex in St Leonard's on Sea near Hastings, East Sussex, February 5, 2026

Editorial: / 9 February 2026

Project Starmer’s in meltdown – now to reverse its anti-democratic crusade

9 February 2026

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Labour / 8 February 2026

With McSweeney’s fall, the emptiness of the Starmer project is exposed

8 February 2026