The Employment Rights Act marks a major victory for workers, but without stronger enforcement and collective organisation, its promises may fall short, says ALICE BOWMAN
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We face worse than Sunak’s Tories if Labour doesn’t deliver
We have a chance to offer not just a better standard of life, but a politics of meaning and hope if we win power – otherwise, all signs point to a hard-right politics of hatred taking hold, warns IAN LAVERY MP
(Left to right) Liz Truss, Ranil Jayawardena, Dame Priti Patel and Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg during the Conservative Party annual conference at the Manchester Central convention complex, October 2, 2023
The ghosts of Custer’s doomed campaign haunt a modern America still devoted to waging imperialist war, says STEPHEN ARNELL
Trump’s drive for ‘regime change’ in Cuba has deepened the crisis across the island – while Venezuela has reaffirmed its commitment to Bolivarian solidarity, says FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ
The 1797 slaughter of protesters and bystanders in Tranent exposed the brutality of the British state during a period of democratic repression, says KENNY MacASKILL
Unity and solidarity remain the key to defending workers, strengthening democracy and shaping a fairer Wales, write JULIE COOK and LINSEY IMMS
DAVE CALFE, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ trade union, writes exclusively for the Morning Star as the union’s five-day annual conference opens in Birmingham
AS what I would hope is the last Labour conference before a general election begins, it’s a good time to assess the state of the country and politics in general.
The picture is a bleak one. A cost-of-living crisis which has got no better as winter once again sets in, public services on their knees, industrial strife and communities across the country strangled by a lack of investment. When Labour wins the next election there is a huge amount of work to do.
At the same time, the past week has seen the Conservative Party in Manchester seeking to perform what looks like an impossible feat.
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