Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
Stella Assange: we all need to be there on Day X
‘Day X,’ the final extradition hearing, is now approaching for journalist Julian Assange, his wife tells Morning Star reporter PETER LAZENBY, and all available support must be mobilised
Stella Assange (left) and Chloe Schlosberg speak at a rally in Manchester
[Neil Terry Photography] 
CEREN SAGIR reports from the CND fringe meeting during the Labour conference, where speakers slammed a system where £99 billion nuclear arsenal replacement costs are ring-fenced while the two-child benefit cap remains
CND’s Stop the Nuclear Nightmare conference in Glasgow will be an important step towards destroying the false arguments that weapons and war spending will lead to job creation and prosperity, rather than bringing Armageddon closer, writes SIMON BARROW
KIM JOHNSON MP places the campaign in the context of the history of the working-class battles of the 1980s, and explains why, just like Orgreave and the Shrewsbury Pickets before it, justice today is so important for the struggles of tomorrow
REBECCA LONG BAILEY MP writes that it is time not just to adopt policies that will revitalise the lives of workers, but speak honestly and openly about whose side we are on and who the Labour Party is for: the millions, not the millionaires
All the areas that cause working people to feel insecure have to be addressed, through a return to unashamedly pro-worker politics, if the horror of a Farage government is to be avoided, writes IAN LAVERY MP
“IT is really the endgame for Julian because we are waiting for what is likely to be the final hearing in the British courts.”
Stella Assange spoke to the Morning Star shortly before she was due to address a meeting in Manchester where four days of political events were taking place coinciding with the Tory Party conference taking place in the city.
The People’s Assembly had erected a marquee in Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester city centre in which issues such as the climate crisis, Tory cuts and the NHS were debated and discussed — a far cry from the bilious right-wing rants taking place a few hundred yards away in the Conservative Party’s conference venue.
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