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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Well, for once the professional prognosticators and forecasters got it right.
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
Well, for once the professional prognosticators and forecasters got it right.
There were of course the usual scoffers and nay-sayers and those who attempted to play down the severity of both the threat of devastation prior to the event itself and in the subsequent aftermath, but they're smirking on the other side of their faces now.
Large swathes of the country have been subjected to the type of ruination and destruction not witnessed on these shores since the mid-1980s.
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