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

A LABOUR government can deliver a step change in relations with the labour movement and deliver much-needed investment in working-class communities, Durham Miners’ Association president Stephen Guy believes — but it needs to be much more ambitious to achieve that.
“Ministers have been inviting trade union leaders in for discussions within a matter of days, so that’s welcome. But it’s not at the point where we want it to be.”
We meet in the County Hotel on the morning of the Miners’ Gala, in a special year given it is the 40th anniversary of the miners’ strike.

Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the start of Kunming’s Belt and Road media forum, where 200 journalists from 71 countries celebrated a new openness and optimism, forged by China’s enormous contribution to global development

Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports on TUC Congress discussions on how to confront the far right and rebuild the left’s appeal to workers