Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely
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The elections show Starmer is handing Britain over to Reform UK
JOE GILL looks at research on the reasons people voted as they did last week and concludes Labour is finished unless it ditches Starmer and changes course
Prime Minister Keir Starmer speaks to members of staff during a visit to Leonardo, a defence contractor in Luton, to launch UAS StormShroud into operational service, May 2, 2025
TONY BURKE says an International Labour Conference next month will try for a new convention to protect often super-exploited workers providing services such as ride-hailing (taxis) such as Uber as well as fast food and package delivery
In his May Day message for the Morning Star, RICHARD BURGON says the call for peace, equality and socialism has never been more relevant
This May Day we reaffirm our commitment to working people and our class and to get trade unionism back on the front foot, says EDDIE DEMPSEY
DIANE ABBOTT looks at the whys and hows of Labour’s spectacular own goal
When it comes to extreme weather events, from wildfires to flash floods, it’s firefighters who are on the front line of defence, but services have been cut to the bone, and government is not taking seriously its responsibility for the environment, says STEVE WRIGHT
LUKE FLETCHER pours scorn on Labour’s betrayal of the Welsh steel industry, where the option of nationalisation was sneered at and dismissed – unlike at Scunthorpe where the government stepped in
“They’ve gone back on everything they said they would do for the working class,” said a female voter speaking to the BBC after Reform defeated Labour in the Runcorn and Helsby byelection on May 1.
On every doorstep it was Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s winter fuel payment and benefit cuts that voters were angry about, a Labour source told the BBC. Labour’s 15,000-vote majority in the north-west England seat was wiped out.
And it was the same elsewhere, as Reform swept up Labour and Tory votes in local elections across England and Wales. People were not voting for Reform’s far right policies, they were voting against Starmer’s Tory-blue Labour.
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