Israel’s genocide in Gaza persists, while the war in Ukraine continues with no negotiated settlement in sight. As Europe rearms and Britain expands its nuclear capabilities, CAROL TURNER reviews the alternatives
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Don’t put them on a pedestal
Monuments to collective struggle can teach us more than idolising ‘the great and the good,’ says DAVID ROSENBERG
The Cable Street mural commemorates collective struggle rather than an individual
The global left must be unwavering in it is support for Venezuela as Washington increases its aggression, and clear-eyed about the West’s cynical motives for targeting it, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
ROGER McKENZIE shines a light on conflicts in Sudan and Nigeria, where Western powers are intent on laying claim to valuable resources necessary for market dominance
The Morning Star publishes the Communist Party of Britain's 58th congress address by general secretary ROBERT GRIFFITHS, delivered on November 15 2025
In part III of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY tells the extraordinary story of the attempts by ‘moderates’ to prevent leftwinger Mark Serwotka from taking the leadership of the then-newly formed PCS union
JOHN ELLISON takes a look at Sir Keir Starmer’s track record of duplicity and betrayal since taking the Labour leadership role, as highlighted in a new book, The Fraud, by Paul Holden
ON JUNE 7, slave trader Edward Colston’s statue in Bristol was daubed with paint, pulled to the ground, jumped on by joyful protesters, rolled along to the harbour and dumped in the River Avon.
The events caused quite a splash. As Colston sunk ignominiously to the bottom, what rose to the surface was a long overdue national debate about statues that grace or rather disgrace our towns and cities, and reinforce a dominant history.
Here is someone writing on this issue five years ago with some comments that are very pertinent for this moment: it’s Billy Bragg, in his foreword to the first edition of my book Rebel Footprints, which I had conceived of as a memorialisation of past struggles, in order to allow them to live and breathe in the present.
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