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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
Politics / 5 November 2025
5 November 2025

Ahead of an important online meeting, HILARY SCHAN, CARL WALKER and MARGARET HOWARD of Worthing Independents discuss how integrating left-wing councillors within the new party could have a transformative effect

FACING US TERRORISM: Venezuelans protest against foreign interference in Caracas, Venezuela t-shirt message reads 'Yankee Go Home'
Latin America / 5 November 2025
5 November 2025

Brazilian workers are calling for internationalist brigades to defend Venezuela from US attack, reports WT WHITNEY JR

A man views a lifelike audiovisual installation of a Bowhead whale, highlighting Hull�s whaling heritage, at the Maritime Museum in Hull, forming part of the 2017 UK City of Culture Made in Hull programme
Science and Society / 5 November 2025
5 November 2025

SCIENCE AND SOCIETY ask how an 80-tonne whale that lives 200 years is so resistant to cancer

Black Lives Matter protester
Features / 3 November 2025
3 November 2025

October 2025 was another Black History Month. Has Britain learned anything – or are we going backwards, asks CLAUDIA WEBBE

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana
Voices of Scotland / 3 November 2025
3 November 2025

VINCE MILLS sizes up the problems facing Your Party north of the border as it grapples with a range of policies, including its approach to Scottish independence

Donald Trump nuclear test
Features / 3 November 2025
3 November 2025

The US reprisal of global nuclear proliferation, threatening a new arms race, could push the world to the brink of annihilation, warns SOPHIE BOLT of CND

richard gott
Obit / 3 November 2025
3 November 2025

Scholar of Latin America, journalist and anti-imperialist, who leaves a powerful intellectual and political legacy

A forensic investigator on the platform by the train at Huntingdon train station in Cambridgeshire, after a number of people were stabbed on the train on Saturday. Two people have been arrested after British Transport Police were called to the incident. Picture date: Sunday November 2, 2025
Health and Safety / 3 November 2025
3 November 2025

Real action is needed to make sure tragedies like that at Huntingdon never happen again. TSSA leader MARYAM ESLAMDOUST suggests some practical, achievable steps to be taken

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
Parliamentary Politics / 2 November 2025
2 November 2025

MARK SERWOTKA issues a rallying call to those committed to building a new radical socialist party of the working class to commit to real democracy, not imaginary or performative gestures

(Left to right) Reform UK chairman David Bull, Reform UK MP for Ashfield Lee Anderson, Reform deputy leader Richard Tice, Danny Kruger and Reform UK Head of Policy Zia Yusuf, listen as Reform UK leader Nigel Farage delivers his speech at Banking Hall in the City of London. Picture date: Monday November 3, 2025
Politics / 4 November 2025
4 November 2025

Plaid Cymru’s spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in the second article of a two-part series, argues that Labour’s contempt for voters and backward-facing approach have led to widespread mistrust in Wales 

Trinidad High Commission protest
Features / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025

Washington’s lawless behaviour towards countries in the region it considers its ‘back yard’ should be condemned by all law-abiding people, says LUKE DANIELS

A State of Struggle
Features / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025

In part I of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY takes a look at the early days of organising government workers

Morning Star
Features / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025

Across the country readers are rallying to the People’s Paper’s cause. Star campaigns manager CALVIN TUCKER has some handy ideas on how to get involved

Colombia protest
Features / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025

Colombia’s success in controlling the drug trade should be recognised and its sovereignty respected, argues Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA

Cartoon: Songi
Features / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025

Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT

Lindsay Whittle
Features / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025

Plaid Cymru’s front-bench spokesman on health and social services MABON AP GWYNFOR, in a two-part series, analyses the Caerphilly by-election and the wider political scene in Wales ahead of the 2026 Senedd election

WARFARE NOT WELFARE: Defence Secretary John Healey (red tie) is shown the Tekever AR5 drone during a visit to Tekever's new military drone production facility, part of an expansion of the country's defence manufacturing capabilities, in Swindon, Wiltshire in September 2025
Features / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025

There is a popular way out of the British economic crisis, suggests MICHAEL BURKE

Robert Jenrick
Features / 31 October 2025
31 October 2025

The shadow lord chancellor has recently made a name for himself as an rabid hater of immigration – but there are exceptions to every rule, says SOLOMON HUGHES

Sunflower
Features / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025

EMMA DENT COAD laments the problems that have engulfed the newly launched Your Party and calls for a new spirit of focus to drive the work that needs to be done to overturn the desperation so many of us feel

Residents walk through Santa Cruz, Jamaica on Wednesday after Hurricane Melissa passed
Features / 1 November 2025
1 November 2025

Hurricanes might have natural causes but the tragedy that follows is entirely human-made and a consequence of capitalist greed, asserts ROGER McKENZIE

Plaid Cymru's Lindsay Whittle celebrates after being declared winner for the Caerphilly Senedd by-election, at Caerphilly Leisure Centre. Picture date: Friday October 24, 2025
Wales / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025

There is no substitute for hard work and on-the-ground organising when it comes to defeating the hard right, argues JOAO FELIX

Palestinians watch as Egyptian machinery and workers search for the bodies of hostages in Hamad City, Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025
Gaza Genocide / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025

Lasting peace requires the establishment of justice, the formation of an independent Palestinian state, and respect for the national sovereignty of the Palestinian people, writes NAVID SHOMALI

CATASTROPHIC END OF THE LINE: Recent die-off of bees in the Groot Winterhoek mountains is linked to widespread pesticide poisoning, with cases confirmed in February 2025 / Pic: Discott/CC
Race / 29 October 2025
29 October 2025

The West’s dangerous pesticide dumping in Africa is threatening biodiversity, population health and food sovereignty, argues ROGER McKENZIE

Rail staff at Waverley station, Edinburgh
STUC Women’s Conference 2025 / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025

EDDIE DEMPSEY explains why the RMT is calling for urgent action against assaults on staff and passengers on our public transport system

Marx Memorial Library meeting
Features / 28 October 2025
28 October 2025

KELLIE O’DOWD reports on an event to highlight the GMB sisterhood

 

 

Women’s campaigners
Features / 29 October 2025
29 October 2025

The Scottish labour movement’s rejection of the Supreme Court ruling on sex-based rights jeopardises not only the credibility of the unions but also poses legal risks and opens the door to far-right reaction, warns JANE McLENACHAN

Waiting for news after the Senghenydd pit disaster
Eyes Left / 28 October 2025
28 October 2025

With the last bricks of the red wall crumbling in the Caerphilly by-election, Starmer and co cannot count on the spectre of Farageism translating into votes for them come the next general election, argues ANDREW MURRAY

FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY: A vanguard class nuclear submarine HMS Vengeance in Gare Loch, after departing HM Naval Base Clyde in Faslane for sea trials, February 2025 ' Pic: Ministry of Defence
Features / 28 October 2025
28 October 2025

ARTHUR WEST alerts readers to peace-centred activities in Scotland in November

Roz Foyer
STUC Women’s Conference 2025 / 29 October 2025
29 October 2025

Working-class women lead the fight for fair work and equitable pay and against sexual harassment, the rise of the far right and years of failed austerity policies, writes ROZ FOYER

Maccabi fans watch the Europa League opening phase soccer match between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Midtjylland in Backa Topola, Serbia, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2025
Gaza Genocide / 28 October 2025
28 October 2025

ROGER MCKENZIE argues that it was correct to ban the notorious Israeli side who were likely to cause trouble in Muslim areas of Birmingham, but asks, given the occupation and slaughter in Palestine, why any Israeli team is being hosted anywhere

Lunar House in Croydon, south London which houses the headquarters of UK Visas and Immigration, a division of the Home Office
Voices of Scotland / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025

The visa system traps workers with abusive employers, creating a vulnerable workforce scared to complain for fear of deportation — that is why we’re campaigning for a ‘common sponsorship’ model instead, writes FAVOUR DAVIDKING

The American embassy in Havana, Cuba, January 14, 2025
Features / 26 October 2025
26 October 2025

Where normally only the US and its ally Israel vote to strangle Cuba economically, there have been special efforts to slander and isolate the besieged socialist island nation year — so we must redouble our solidarity, writes TARIQ ANDERSON

German Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul speaks to the media during a joint press conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan in Ankara, Turkey, October 17, 2025
International Relations / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025

The cancelled China trip of the German Foreign Minister marks a break with Helmut Schmidt’s China policy and drives Germany further into Washington’s confrontation course, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
 

President Donald Trump holds an artist rendering of interior of the new White House ballroom as meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025, in Washington
United States / 27 October 2025
27 October 2025

Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaking at the Regional Investment Summit at Edgbaston Stadium, in Birmingham. Picture date: Tuesday October 21, 2025
Austerity / 27 October 2025
27 October 2025

The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS

women workers 1910
Working Class History / 27 October 2025
27 October 2025

ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns

The Downing Street Riot
Features / 25 October 2025
25 October 2025

MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today

Monument to the heroes of the Long March
Features / 3 November 2025
3 November 2025

STEPHEN BELL reports from a delegation that traced the steps of China’s socialist revolution from its first modest meetings to the Red Army’s epic 9,000km battle to create the modern nation that today defies every capitalist assumption

SOCIAL DISLOCATION: Migrant construction workers in the West Bay area of Doha, Qatar waiting for a bus. Pic: Alex Sergeev/CC
Features / 25 October 2025
25 October 2025

The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research explores the factors that are bringing today’s highly educated but often underemployed young people out onto the streets, from Chile, to Algeria, to Nepal

RARE RED ARTEFACTS: Germinal number 2, 1924, edited by Sylvia Pankhurst, sold by Left on the Shelf
Features / 25 October 2025
25 October 2025

The nation’s leading second-hand socialist bookseller that has been running strong for 33 years is changing hands and expanding its vision — now is the time to get involved, buy, donate and support, writes ANDREW MURRAY

Ofer Cassif
Features / 25 October 2025
25 October 2025

BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’

UNLIKELY RIVALS: Blairite centrist Lucy Powell (left) is an enemy of circumstance to Keir Starmer in her bid for the Labour deputy leadership
Aw That / 25 October 2025
25 October 2025

The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR

Megastrike new zealand
Working Class History / 25 October 2025
25 October 2025

HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies

ALL IN A GOOD CAUSE: The statue of James Connolly in Dublin, designed by the sculptor Eamonn O'Doherty unveiled in 1996 was commissioned by the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) / Pic: William Murphy/CC
Features / 30 October 2025
30 October 2025

A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE

RALLYING CALL: Roz Foyer of the STUC and a range of civil society groups will be protesting tomorrow at the Scottish Parliament
Features / 24 October 2025
24 October 2025

We are demanding action from our politicians to deliver justice, fairness and decency throughout our communities – join us, says ROZ FOYER

APOCALYPSE: Tents sheltering displaced Palestinians stand amid the ruins of a mosque destroyed by Israel in Gaza City, photo taken yesterday
Features / 24 October 2025
24 October 2025

Despite the apocalyptic destruction RAMZY BAROUD points to Gaza’s triumph of spirit against the architecture of genocide

SELF-DETERMINATION: Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro posters cover the walls in downtown Caracas, Venezuela
Features / 24 October 2025
24 October 2025

To defend Puerto Rico’s right to peace is to defend Venezuela’s right to exist, argues MICHELLE ELLNER

Standing Together olive harvest
Palestine / 23 October 2025
23 October 2025

URI WELTMANN reports on a day in the life of peace activists from Israel, travelling to help Palestinians in the West Bank harvest their olives under threat from settlers and soldiers

Independent presidential candidate Catherine Connolly with Sinn Fein vice president Michelle O'Neill and party TD Pearse Doherty at a rally in Monaghan town, during campaigning for the Irish presidential election. Picture date: Wednesday October 22, 2025
Ireland / 23 October 2025
23 October 2025

The independent TD’s campaign has put important issues like Irish reunification and military neutrality at the heart of the political conversation, argues SEAN MacBRADAIGH

People protest against the participation of the Israeli national team in the 2026 Soccer World Cup qualification match against Italy being played in the evening in Udine, Italy, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025
Southern Europe / 23 October 2025
23 October 2025

Italian unions are mobilising against rearmament and for wages and investment – but left blunders still leave the ‘post-fascist’ Italian PM looking likely to keep her job, says NICK WRIGHT

PROTEST PIONEERS: The assault of the Chartists on the Westgate Hotel, where some of their comrades were held prisoner, Newport, 1839
Features / 24 October 2025
24 October 2025

It’s not just the Starmer regime: the workers of Britain have always faced legal affronts on their right to assemble and dissent, and the Labour Party especially has meddled with our freedoms from its earliest days, writes KEITH FLETT

VOX POPULI, VOX DEI: Demonstration against Israel’s war on Palestine in Frankfurt’s Willy-Brandt-Platz last year. The banner reads: ‘Stop the criminalisation of Palestinian resistance and solidarity’ / Pic: conceptphoto.info/CC
Features / 24 October 2025
24 October 2025

After NGOs and the EU, UN condemns Germany’s crackdown on Palestine Solidarity, writes LEON WYSTRYCHOWSKI

People take part in the Stand Up To Racism rally near the TLK Apartments and Hotel in Orpington, August 22, 2025
Anti-Racism / 23 October 2025
23 October 2025

Once again Tower Hamlets is being targeted by anti-Islam campaigners, this time a revamped and radicalised version of Ukip — the far-right event is now banned by the police, but we’ll be assembling this Saturday to make sure they stay away, says JAYDEE SEAFORTH

A sign in a field by the M40 near Warwick, protesting the changes to inheritance tax (IHT) rules, November 2024
Landownership / 22 October 2025
22 October 2025

CAROL WILCOX argues for the proper implementation of the land value tax, which could see unused plots sold off and landlords priced out of landlordism, potentially resolving the housing and planning crises

Smoke from flares thrown by fans fills the field before the soccer derby between Maccabi Tel Aviv and Hapoel Tel Aviv was called off Sunday after pregame disturbances led police to deem it unsafe to proceed at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Oct. 19, 2025
Features / 22 October 2025
22 October 2025

The ban on Maccabi Tel Aviv fans was based on evidence of a pattern of violence and hatred targeting Arabs and Muslims, two communities that have a large population in Birmingham — overturning the ban was tacit acceptance of the genocidal ideology the fans espouse, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE

LIFELONG MUTATIONS: Spermatogenesis commences during puberty and continues throughout life and until old age because of the inexhaustible stem cell reservoir - an abundance of germ cells are developed and delivered from the seminiferous tubules / Pic: CoRus13/CC
Anatomy / 22 October 2025
22 October 2025

New research into mutations in sperm helps us better understand why they occur, while debunking a few myths in the process, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT

PAA Lewisham
Activism / 21 October 2025
21 October 2025

Lewisham People’s Assembly organiser BEN WOODWARD reports on uproar in south London as campaigners condemn an ‘undemocratic stitch-up’ after the council waved through redevelopment of a vibrant shopping centre into ‘luxury flats’ 

Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly in Rathfarnham Castle Park during her campaign. Picture date: Thursday October 9, 2025.
Features / 21 October 2025
21 October 2025

The polling is looking good for the left’s choice, writes ERNEST WALKER, but there are farcical electoral oddities that are throwing up dangers to the campaign

Registered nurses march against US President Trump's authoritarian tactics in San Francisco on October 18, 2025
US / 21 October 2025
21 October 2025

LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports from the one of 2,700 protests against the Trump government’s power grabs, on a day when seven million people defied fear-mongering in a outpouring of joy and hope in what might be the biggest protest in US history

Pills
Voices of Scotland / 21 October 2025
21 October 2025

There is no chance of defending and renewing an NHS which is still savagely undermined by having to pay mark-ups of up to 23,000 per cent to Big Pharma — let’s take control of pharmaceutical manufacturing and distribution, writes DREW GILCHRIST

The BCHT medical team with support vehicle
Middle East / 21 October 2025
21 October 2025

Our trust makes 3,200 home visits caring for 227 patients despite 198 Israeli checkpoints around Bethlehem; this compassion which transcends boundaries has lessons for the debate on end-of-life care in Britain too, writes FATHER GEOFF BOTTOMS

Sam Nguyen shows a gold bar at her shop in the St. Vincent Jewelry Center in the Jewelry District of Los Angeles, April 30, 2025
Features / 20 October 2025
20 October 2025

As gold hits $4,000 per ounce, soaring from only $250 back in 2001, the US national debt has reached $37 trillion — it’s all about to come crashing down, warns JOHN ELLISON, which our leaders would have known had they only studied Marx’s magnum opus Capital

Baroness Mone ahead of the State Opening of Parliament by Queen Elizabeth II, in the House of Lords at the Palace of Westminster in London, June 21, 2017
Features / 20 October 2025
20 October 2025

The recent calls to strip Michelle Mone of her peerage after she was caught scamming the public for £122 million should reinvigorate the longstanding progressive demand to completely abolish the entire undemocratic, corrupt relic, writes ELLIOT TONG

Then Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn (right) alongside shadow Brexit secretary Keir Starmer during a press conference in central London, December 6, 2019
Features / 20 October 2025
20 October 2025

ALEX HALL interviews PAUL HOLDEN, whose bombshell book uses leaked documents to expose how the Starmer faction used systematic dishonesty to seize power and reopen the door to the corrupting ecosystem of corporate lobbying and sleaze

Green Party leader Zack Polanski speaking during the Green Party conference at Bournemouth International Centre. Picture date: Friday October 3, 2025
Parliamentary Politics / 18 October 2025
18 October 2025

Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external

Press cuttings of the Angry Brigade, 1973
History / 18 October 2025
18 October 2025

With the recent release of Paul Thomas Anderson’s movie One Battle After Another, STEPHEN ARNELL gives the storied history of the British real-life left-wing urban guerillas

President Donald Trump greets Argentina's President Javier Milei, as he arrives at the White House, Tuesday, Oct. 14, 2025, in Washington
Latin America / 18 October 2025
18 October 2025

FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ, ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY contrast Trump’s warships and F-35 fighters threatening Venezuela with the $20bn bailout for Milei’s collapsed economy, all enabled by a highly ideological IMF

Your Paper / 18 October 2025
18 October 2025

Morning Star campaigns manager CALVIN TUCKER gives an update on the drive to raise £95,000 to see the people’s paper keep fighting the good fight against the rich and powerful

Protesters form a blockade outside weapons manufacturer BAE Systems in Govan, Glasgow, in protest over the Israel-Gaza conflict and calling for an immediate ceasefire to halt the killing of civilians in Palestine. Picture date: Wednesday May 1, 2024
Workers' Rights / 18 October 2025
18 October 2025

Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production

Palestine Liberation is a Feminist Issue
Features / 18 October 2025
18 October 2025

KAY GREEN explains how the Middle East and colonialism were explored at at last weekend’s FiLiA conference

Filia at Brighton
Features / 18 October 2025
18 October 2025

ROS SITWELL reports from Europe’s largest feminist conference – hosted this year in Brighton

A protester dressed in a costume watches as Department of Homeland Security officers detain a protester outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2025, in Portland, Ore
United States / 17 October 2025
17 October 2025

From terrifying the children of immigrants to pepper-spraying frogs, the US under Trump is rapidly descending into mayhem, writes Linda Pentz Gunter

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi attends the India-UK CEO Forum at Jio World Convention Centre in Mumbai, India, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025
Fascism / 17 October 2025
17 October 2025

Modi has rolled out the carpet for the Taliban in New Delhi — and we shouldn’t be surprised. They have more in common than you might think, argues Bhabani Shankar Nayak

President Donald Trump talks with Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Knesset, Israel's parliament, Monday, Oct. 13, 2025, in Jerusalem.
Middle East / 17 October 2025
17 October 2025

Israel and the US talk as if they’ve won a victory, but the reality is that world opinion has turned decisively against the Israeli regime, says RAMZY BAROUD

Then prime minister David Cameron (left) welcomes then newly-elected Newark MP Robert Jenrick to the Houses of Parliament in London, June 11, 2014
Politics / 17 October 2025
17 October 2025

SOLOMON HUGHES finds one-time Cameron-centrist EU fans now promote vicious anti-migrant rhetoric in their bid to get attention for their ailing party

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage delivers a speech at Blockworks' Digital Asset Summit: London, at Old Billingsgate in central London. Picture date: Monday October 13, 2025
Politics / 17 October 2025
17 October 2025

Farage and other Reform-ers keep pointing to Dubai’s immigration policy – but there migrants make up most of the population and do all the work without any rights, muses SOLOMON HUGHES

Ayman Odeh
Features / 16 October 2025
16 October 2025

CJ ATKINS reports on the stand that saw Ayman Odeh and Ofer Cassif hauled out of Israel’s parliament during Donald Trump’s vainglorious address

THIRD WORLD RISING: President Xi Jinping addresses the Global Women's Summit in Beijing
Features / 16 October 2025
16 October 2025

ROGER McKENZIE argues that Western powers can see the beginning of the end in the rise of the global South — and racist reactions are kicking in

Palestinians inspect the remains of a site that housed a distribution center operated by the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) in Netzarim, central Gaza Strip, October 10, 2025
Features / 16 October 2025
16 October 2025

HUGH LANNING says there is no path to peace without dismantling Israel’s control over Palestinian land, lives and resources

Class alternatives
Features / 16 October 2025
16 October 2025

KEVIN COURTNEY of Stand Up to Racism and JOHN PAGE of the Ella Baker School of Organising announce a joint project aiming to unite trade unions and social movements in creating new narratives to fight the divisive rhetoric of the far right

SACRED SHROUDS: Thatcher’s old dresses on display at this year’s limp Tory conference, Manchester, October 5
Eyes Left / 15 October 2025
15 October 2025

The Tory conference was a pseudo-sacred affair, with devotees paying homage in front of Thatcher’s old shrouds — and your reporter, initially barred, only need mention he’d once met her to gain access. But would she consider what was on offer a worthy legacy, asks ANDREW MURRAY

LEADING THE WAY: China’s President Xi Jinping, centre left in front, and his wife Peng Liyuan, centre right in front, pose for a group photo with national leaders and delegations before an opening ceremony of the Global Women’s Summit 2025 at the China National Convention Centre in Beijing, October 13
Features / 15 October 2025
15 October 2025

As the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women begins in Beijing, it’s clear that China has fulfilled its commitments set 30 years ago and delivered amazing progress in women's education and equality, writes YU BOKUN

NO PEACE: Trump holds a signed document during a summit to support the ceasefire deal, in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, October 13 2025
Features / 15 October 2025
15 October 2025

Taking a brief look at who the US president surrounds himself with reveals a team dedicated to the complete erasure of Palestine, not justice and civil rights for its people, writes TERRY HANSEN

Jenrick
Features / 15 October 2025
15 October 2025

Following comments made by Robert Jenrick about the people of Handsworth, the TUC, together with 12 trade unions representing members who live and work in the area, have issued a joint letter calling for the Conservative Party to take immediate action

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage reacts to the speech by Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer at the Labour Party conference, during a photocall at the Reform UK headquarters in Westminster, London, September 30, 2025
Features / 14 October 2025
14 October 2025

With the rise of Reform and the flag-raising phenomenon, it’s hard not to recall my family’s struggles with racism, from Teddy Boys attacking my pregnant mother to me being told to ‘go back to the jungle’ at only five years old, writes ROGER MCKENZIE

A general view of Royal Mail vans, May 221, 2013
Voices of Scotland / 14 October 2025
14 October 2025

Royal Mail’s job quality has plummeted, with gruelling hours, two-tier pay, intense surveillance, and poor work-life balance for postal workers — but our union is fighting back, writes CWU branch secretary JOHN CARSON

FANNING THE FLAMES: An anti-immigration demonstration turns violent outside the Holiday Inn Express in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, part of the August 2024 wave of rioting
Features / 14 October 2025
14 October 2025

Introducing a new course open to all, JAY COOK and CHIK COLLINS argue the best way to fight hard-right rhetoric is to explain how everything we have achieved in Britain, from the welfare state to free healthcare, was the product of solidarity, not separation

Gwynt y Mor, the world's 2nd largest offshore wind farm loca
Features / 14 October 2025
14 October 2025

To deepen the wound of closing Grangemouth, the wind power boom off our shores is going to corporations from France, Japan, China, Ireland — jobs and money going everywhere, it seems, except Scotland, writes KENNY MACASKILL

An aerial view of a container port is seen in Qingdao in east China's Shandong province, on June 6, 2024
Features / 13 October 2025
13 October 2025

The move to restrict exports of the important rare earth metals that China has a 90% monopoly on has provoked Trump to declare a 100% tariff on Chinese exports and other retaliatory measures, reports DYLAN MURPHY

Prime Minister Keir Starmer (centre) Northern Ireland Secretary Hilary Benn (left), walk with Edwin Poots, Speaker of the Northern Ireland Assembly (right), as they arrive at Parliament Buildings, Stormont, July 8, 2024
Features / 13 October 2025
13 October 2025

Giving a personal insight into the Labour Party conference, Sinn Fein MP CHRIS HAZZARD slams the lack of mention of the North of Ireland and the need to take the next steps in the journey from peace to Irish unity

People wave flags as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool, September 30, 2025
Features / 13 October 2025
13 October 2025

The ferocity with which Labour in power has cracked down on protest within its own ranks and also on the streets is unprecedented — and championing those protests is the only way we can turn this ship around, argues ALAN SIMPSON

Peter Frost
Obituary / 13 October 2025
13 October 2025

Ben Chacko pays tribute to the author of our much-missed Frosty’s Ramblings column, a champion of the countryside and working-class culture 

battle of bexley square
Working Class History / 11 October 2025
11 October 2025

MAT COWARD looks back to a 1931 protest against mass unemployment featuring a young Ewan MacColl

A general view of the Houses of Parliament in London
Lawman / 11 October 2025
11 October 2025

ANSELM ELDERGILL is a member of Your Party and he suggests how the new party should reform Britain’s constitution

Displaced Palestinians walk along the coastal road near Wadi Gaza in the central Gaza Strip, moving toward northern Gaza, October 10, 2025
Features / 11 October 2025
11 October 2025

ANN CZERNIK looks back over the last two years of carnage that began with the unprecedented October 7 operation and considers the rhetoric from both sides in light of the massacre carried out by Israel that has united the world in horror

A mural of a woman laughing
Features / 11 October 2025
11 October 2025

The Colombian government has become entangled in confusion over questions of sex and gender – it’s high time for progressives to wake up and get educated on this subject, writes Dr GLORY SAAVEDRA

President Donald Trump listens during a news conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the State Dining Room of the White House, September 29, 2025, in Washington
Aw That / 11 October 2025
11 October 2025

Trump’s Gaza deal is a transient, self-aggrandising spectacle that barely distracts from the West’s outright complicity in the massacre in Gaza and our slide into warmongering, writes MATT KERR

FRACTURED NATION: Anti-government protesters hurl stones during clashes in Baghdad, November 2019, making calls to sweep aside Iraq’s sectarian state system
Features / 10 October 2025
10 October 2025

ROBERT GRIFFITHS reports on talks with Raid Jahid Fahmi, general secretary of the Communist Party in Iraq, where sectarian power-sharing makes wielding state apparatus the ‘main domain of conflict’ and the struggling nation’s oil revenues are still held in US banks

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage (left) with his party's candidate, Llyr Powell standing in front of a Tommy Cooper statue while campaigning in Caerphilly, South Wales, for the upcoming Caerphilly Senedd by-election. The by-election is due to be held on October 23 to elect the new member of the Senedd following the death of Hefin David on August 12. Picture date: Friday October 10, 2025
Politics / 11 October 2025
11 October 2025

Plaid Cymru and Reform UK lead the polls — the Caerphilly by-election will be the first stop on the journey to see if our nation chooses union-friendly, progressive, left-nationalism or Farage’s reactionary dead end, writes Wales reporter DAVID NICHOLSON

A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hospital in London
Features / 11 October 2025
11 October 2025

We need a massive change in direction to renew a crumbling health service — that’s why Plaid Cymru has an ambitious plan to recentre primary care by recruiting 500 additional GPs and opening six new elective care hubs across Wales, writes MABON AP GWYNFOR

LONG-HATED IDEA: Demonstrators protest against identity cards at the DVLA office in Glasgow, May 2004
Features / 10 October 2025
10 October 2025

Socialist historian KEITH FLETT looks at the pronounced hostility the labour movement has had to giving the state the power to pry and identify dissidents, going back to the era of the ‘Freeborn Englishman’ and Captain Swing

RENTERS REVOLT: Supporters of the Renters Reform Bill and tenant’s groups campaign in Westminster, 2023
Features / 10 October 2025
10 October 2025

The Renters Reform Bill is a big step in the right direction, but it won’t apply to Wales — we desperately need our own legislation to protect and respect tenants, to give them dignity and security, free from fear of eviction, writes SIAN GWENLLIAN MS, Plaid Cymru’s shadow cabinet secretary for housing and planning

BOLD ECONOMICS: Luke Fletcher speaks at Plaid Cymru’s 2024 conference. Photo: Rob Norman, HayMan Media
Features / 10 October 2025
10 October 2025

Our Making Wales Work plan champions employee buyouts, community-led co-operatives and social enterprises, and reversing managed decline. As 26 years of Labour in power comes to an end, we are the alternative, argues LUKE FLETCHER

Erhai lake
Climate Crisis / 9 October 2025
9 October 2025

One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results

RIGHT ANGER, WRONG ANSWER: Faversham’s small anti-migrant demo assembles, Sunday October 5 2025
Features / 9 October 2025
9 October 2025

Once again, our broad-based coalition outnumbered the anti-migrant protest in Faversham, but tackling the sentiment behind this wave of anger requires explaining the real reasons pushing millions into leaving their homelands, argues NICK WRIGHT

People gather outside of the United Nations' office in Caracas, Venezuela, for a government-organised rally against foreign interference, October 6, 2025
Latin America / 9 October 2025
9 October 2025

HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth

Former Labour leader and Independent MP Jeremy Corbyn addresses campaigners from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign taking part in a protest outside Downing Street, London, to oppose the upcoming visit of Israeli President Isaac Herzog, September 9, 2025
Politics / 8 October 2025
8 October 2025

EDMUND GRIFFITHS makes a robust defence of sortition, the chosen method of picking attendees for the new left party’s inaugural conference from the membership at random, but sounds the alarm on the eye-watering number of suggested delegates

A person wheeling his bike on the promenade in Salthill, Galway. Storm Amy will bring damaging winds to the island of Ireland with every county under weather warnings on Friday. Wind speeds could reach up to 80mph (130km/h) along the most exposed coastal areas of the island, with fallen trees and power outages among the potential impacts. Picture date: Friday October 3, 2025
Science and Society / 8 October 2025
8 October 2025

High pressures squeeze and crush, but low pressures damage too. Losing the atom-level buzz that keeps us held safe in the balance of internal and external pressure releases dangerous storms, disorientation and pain, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT

lockdown easing
Features / 7 October 2025
7 October 2025

The NEU kept children and teachers safe during the pandemic, yet we are disgracefully slandered by the politicians who have truly failed our children by not funding a proper education recovery programme — here’s what is needed, explains KEVIN COURTNEY

A general view of Charing Cross police station in London
Features / 7 October 2025
7 October 2025

The appalling bigotry and bias of London’s police force has been obvious for years – and the police leadership does not appear inclined to do anything about it, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE

File photo dated 27/03/23 of former prime minister Sir Tony Blair during an interview
Features / 7 October 2025
7 October 2025

JOHN GREEN has doubts about the efficacy of the Freedom of Information Act, once trumpeted by Tony Blair

NOT GIVING UP HOPE: MK Ofer Cassif at a protest in 2021. Pic: Shay Kendler/Creative Commons
Features / 7 October 2025
7 October 2025

ASSAF TALGAM talks to an Israeli Communist lawmaker about the need to use every tool of democratic and non-violent struggle; how Israeli society has changed since October 7 2023; and the persecution of the left in the parliamentary arena

SOCIAL JUSTICE CALL: Brian Leishman
Voices of Scotland / 7 October 2025
7 October 2025

As Holyrood elections approach, BRIAN LEISHMAN MP argues that Labour’s time has come — to open a new chapter which puts an end to the years of managed decline

MARCHING FORWARDS: Communists protest against the Unite the Kingdom rally in London, September 13 2025
Features / 6 October 2025
6 October 2025

The CPB's congress aims to build the united front against monopoly capitalism, utilising the YCL’s promising new generation of militants — but our party remains far from the strength history requires of it, despite recent progress, writes JOHNNIE HUNTER 

Why we need the return of women’s centres
Features / 6 October 2025
6 October 2025

In the face of funding cuts, closures and a shift into women’s centres providing criminal justice-only services rather than a holistic approach, RUTH HUNT urges women to protect existing resources, volunteer and build new networks of support

SYMBOLISM OVER SUBSTANCE: Keir Starmer’s flag-draped speech to Labour conference, September 30
Features / 6 October 2025
6 October 2025

Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP

EVOCATIVE: The Wallenstein Palace, which is now home of the Czech senate. Photo: Vitvit/Creative Commons
Praxis / 4 October 2025
4 October 2025

The famously beautiful palace in Prague was named after the brutal Czech warlord Wallenstein, commander of the Thirty Years’ War, as was a Czech SS division in WWII — and so too was a regiment after the counter-revolution of 1989 … JOHN CALLOW traces the threads of history…

Chilli pepper. Photo: Pixabay
Gardening / 4 October 2025
4 October 2025

Spice up your life – and your greenhouse – with MAT COWARD’s gardening tips

95 years
95th Anniversary Appeal / 4 October 2025
4 October 2025

Morning Star campaigns manager CALVIN TUCKER encourages readers to get behind our five-year plan to keep the Star shining brightly as the paper approaches its 100th anniversary

BUILDING BRIDGES: Activists from Northampton Against Cuts campaign against austerity. Photo: Author supplied
Features / 4 October 2025
4 October 2025

The basic human requirement of having a roof over one’s head is being undermined by West Northamptonshire Council – but local anti-cuts campaigners are rising above the divisive Farageist rhetoric to build unity and fight back, reports DAVID CONWAY

SPEAKING OUT: Dawn Butler MP objected to big tech tycoons stirring up hatred
Features / 4 October 2025
4 October 2025

BEN CHACKO hears from a variety of speakers at Labour conference about the broken political system, the hatred propagated by super-wealthy tycoons, the importance of physically mobilising against the far right and the role of unions and working people in fighting back

PRECURSOR TO CABLE STREET: The crowd at Holbeck Moor with police cavalry; and (below) Oswald Mosley ranting into a microphone in 1936
Features / 4 October 2025
4 October 2025

We must remember how the CPGB led anti-fascist movement defeated Mosley’s BUF in September 1936 and apply the lessons of mass mobilisation and open, unapologetic confrontation to the rise of the far right today, writes DYLAN MURPHY

David Rosenberg with the late Beatty Orwell, in front of the Cable Street mural. Photo: Author Supplied
Features / 4 October 2025
4 October 2025

On the anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, DAVID ROSENBERG reflects on his encounters with those who were there that day in 1936 – and suggests two urgent tasks for the anti-fascists of today

TWO WAYS AT ONCE? Labour conference this week appeared confused and confusing
Features / 4 October 2025
4 October 2025

From Palestine, to racism, to fiscal rules and migrant rights, DIANE ABBOTT surveys some of the main themes of Labour conference this week

STATE MURDER: Activists protest at the epidemic of ‘disappearances’ of social movement organisers by the government during its decades-long war against leftist rebels, June 2019
Features / 3 October 2025
3 October 2025

With the ceasefire and peace process now firmly in place for almost a decade, Colombia’s peace court has begun issuing its first sentences against both sides over human rights violations during the armed conflict, reports NICK MACWILLIAM

MAJOR DISRUPTION: Crowds surge at Bologna train station, overrunning riot police, as part of a wave of blockades and strikes in solidarity with Gaza, yesterday
Features / 3 October 2025
3 October 2025

By refusing to recognise a Palestinian state and continuing to supply Israel with weapons, Meloni has provoked an uprising that is without precedent in the history of solidarity with Palestine — and it could change Italy profoundly too, writes RAMZY BAROUD

THE REAL VICTIMS: Everyday Iranians enjoy a warm evening in Tehran, Iran, September 27 2025
Features / 3 October 2025
3 October 2025

As war between Iran and the West looms once more, NAVID SHOMALI sounds the alarm bell and calls on the peace movement in Britain and internationally to mobilise for action before it is too late

Google
Features / 3 October 2025
3 October 2025

The new angle from private firms shmoozing their way into public contracts was the much-trumpeted arrival of ‘artificial intelligence’ — and no-one seemed to have heard the numerous criticisms of this unproven miracle cure, reports SOLOMON HUGHES

DEFIANT: Protesters holding a banner reading : ‘Macron resignation, general strike’ attend a demonstration called by major trade unions to oppose budget cuts, in Paris, France, September 18 2025
Features / 2 October 2025
2 October 2025

A day of strike action is set to be unleashed today, against tax injustice, attacks on pensions and the anti-democratic manoeuvrings of Macron, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS

Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump during a press conference at Chequers, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire, on day two of the president's second state visit to the UK, September 18, 2025
Features / 2 October 2025
2 October 2025

Once again, working people have been betrayed with false promises about jobs in an industry that is actually making climate change worse, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

President Donald Trump address the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 23, 2025, at U.N. headquarters
Features / 2 October 2025
2 October 2025

The UN is not only in need of structural change, a fundamental mindset revolution is also required – and it’s China that points the way with its Global Governance Initiative, argues ROGER McKENZIE

Starbucks Workers United
Workers' Rights / 1 October 2025
1 October 2025

Organised workers at the notoriously anti-union global giant are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR