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After months of uncertainty over printing and distribution, the first Scottish-printed edition of the Morning Star is soon to roll off the presses
There is something profoundly wrong with the way Britain cares for its most vulnerable citizens
Social care should be the fifth pillar in our welfare state alongside health, housing, education and social security, argues LAURA SMITH
Some thinkers and authors on the right are openly discussing the possibility that the historically successful party of the British ruling class may be exhausted
Class struggle is the motor of history but the direction and detail of change at any time and place is the outcome of many factors, suggests the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
Merseyside’s proud tradition of internationalism is being kept alive through events organised by trade unionists and allies in the region, writes ROBERT MACDONALD
JOHNNIE HUNTER reports from the German Communist Party’s (DKP) weekly Unsere Zeit (Our Newspaper)-organised Peace Days festival in Berlin last weekend
Les Preger was one of Manchester’s first volunteers to volunteer in support of republican Spain, writes his daughter JANEY PREGER
TONY BURKE surveys the shifting political landscape and the challenges Labour needs to address if it is to prevail in the 2028 federal elections
THIS year we have celebrated the 70th anniversary of the NHS. The idea of a publicly funded health service based on need, rather than the ability to pay, is no longer a controversial one.
Nowadays, it is difficult to imagine that this wasn’t always the case. Yet the Tories fought tooth and nail against the creation of the NHS, voting against it 22 times in Parliament.
It took courage, leadership and some brilliant minds to make the case for what is now regarded as a national treasure. Instead of seeing a National Health Service as a “cost” or a “burden,” Labour sold the nation a wealth creator, boosting Britain’s health, wellbeing and productivity.
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