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Amanda Seyfried and Rivera Reese in Long Bright River (2025)
TV Network Monitor / 22 April 2025
22 April 2025

DENNIS BROE sifts out the ideological bias of the newest TV series offerings, and picks out what to see, and what to avoid

Steve Craddock of Ocean Colour Scene; Pic: Jim Mitcham
Music Review / 22 April 2025
22 April 2025

MICK McSHANE rubs shoulders with Mod legend Steve Craddock and joins in with the joyous Glasgow choir

 From left to right: The Morning Star's Roger McKenzie an Cuban Ambassador Ismara Mercedes with students at a school in Oxfordshire
Features / 22 April 2025
22 April 2025

During visits to Cheney School and Oxford Brookes University, Ismara Mercedes Vargas Walter highlighted how Cuba devotes half its budget to education, health and social security despite the US blockade, reports ROGER McKENZIE

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer ahead of bilateral talks wit
Britain / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025

Letter to PM outlines best way to reduce hardship

Everton fans in the stands ahead of the Premier League match at Goodison Park, Liverpool, April 19, 2025
Men’s football / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025

As the historic ground prepares for its emotional farewell, even visiting teams like Manchester City are paying tribute to one of English football’s most storied stadiums, writes JAMES NALTON

Children sit and play on the remains of a tank, at the river
Features / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025

Keir Starmer’s £120 million to Sudan cannot cover the government’s complicity in the RSF genocide or atone for the long shadow of British colonialism and imperialism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE

The Blaze's Kathryn Bryce during a media day at Trent Bridge Cricket Ground, Nottingham, March 24, 2025
Women’s cricket / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025

Player of tournament shines in World Cup qualifiers despite Scotland falling short

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood during the official opening of HMP Millsike, March 27, 2025
Britain / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025
Workers load coal on trucks at a coal yard port on the Yangtze River in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality on April 20, 2025
Editorial: / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025
A health worker administers a polio vaccine to a child at a neighbourhood of Karachi, Pakistan, April 21, 2025
World / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025
Ben Whittaker (left) in action against Liam Cameron (right) for the IBF International Light Heavyweight Championship at BP Pulse Live Birmingham, April 20, 2025
Men’s boxing / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025
Yemenis crowd at Farwah popular market, which Houthis said was struck by U.S. airstrikes, in Sanaa, Yemen, April 21, 2025
World / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025
First Minister of Scotland John Swinney during a press conference in Bute House, Edinburgh, April 14, 2025
Britain / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025
Celtic fans in the stands before the Scottish Cup semi-final match at Hampden Park, Glasgow, April 20, 2025
Voices of Scotland / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025

Fans have beaten repressive, stigmatising legal attacks on themselves before, but now a new wave of repression is building Scottish trades councils are looking to organise new community resistance, reports SEAN O’NEILL

 

Octopus Energy promotional toys at the headquarters of Octopus Energy in London
Britain / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025
Culture / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025
Molotovs
Music review / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025

MIK SABIERS admires a band that delivers short, sharp shocks to the system

PCS flag
Britain / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025
Members of the Unite, Unison and GMB unions on the picket li
Britain / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025
IS albums
Album reviews / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025

New releases from Brown Horse, Craig Finn, and Julien Baker & TORRES

Sport / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025
President Donald Trump speaks at a reception celebrating Wom
Features / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025

The US president’s universal tariffs mirror the disastrous Smoot-Hawley Act that triggered retaliatory measures, collapsed international trade, fuelled political extremism — and led to world war, warns Dr DYLAN MURPHY

El Salvador's President Nayib Bukele waves as he departs following a meeting at the White House with President Donald Trump, April 14, 2025, in Washington
World / 21 April 2025
21 April 2025
Aimeric (third left) ridden by jockey James Doyle on their w
Horse Racing / 19 April 2025
19 April 2025
Including races at Musselburgh, Haydock, Carlisle, Wolverhampton and Fairyhouse
City of temples hosts the 24th congress of the Communist Par
Features / 19 April 2025
19 April 2025
As a delegate to the party’s 24th congress, HARSEV BAINS connects historical threads from Harry Pollitt’s 1954 visit to today’s challenges of building left unity against corporate-backed Hindu nationalism
Coins and Scottish bank notes
Features / 19 April 2025
19 April 2025
From Labour MPs obsessing over Easter egg shapes to SNP ministers celebrating pay rises while marking zoo animals’ arrivals, Scottish politics is really deteriorating, says COLL McCAIL
Thousands march to Trafalgar Square in central London, to ce
Features / 19 April 2025
19 April 2025
Five years ago, on May Day 2020, as the initial shockwaves of the pandemic rippled through our society, #RedForKeyWorkers launched. To mark International Workers’ Day this year, the need to honour and fight for those who keep our society running is more urgent than ever, write ROBERT POOLE and HENRY FOWLER
Cartoon: Lewis
Features / 19 April 2025
19 April 2025
British Steel has vindicated what the left has said all along — nationalisation of our key industries is common sense, and it’s the neoliberals who are now clearly the ideologically driven zealots, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
The Meta logo is seen at the Vivatech show in Paris, France,
Britain / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025

'Turning the migrant crisis into a marketplace'

Hull KR head coach Willie Peters before the Betfred Super Le
Men’s Rugby League / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025
Arsenal manager Renee Slegers acknowledges the crowd at the
Women’s football / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025
People take part in an anti-Trump protest in Trafalgar Squar
Editorial: / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025

Building opposition into a political campaign

People gather to protest outside Caglayan courthouse, in Ist
World / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025
Police officers and a police forensic tent outside the Lifeb
Channel deaths / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025

RNLI confirms death following medical emergency 

Mercedes driver George Russell of Britain steers his car dur
Formula One / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025
Manchester City fans hold a banner in protest of ticket rese
Men’s football / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025

A new front in the fight for football’s soul is emerging — one rooted in trade union values and collective power

Palestinians inspect the remains of a displacement tent hit
World / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025
A teenage girl with her head in her hands showing signs of m
Britain / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025

Warning from NASUWT general secretary

In this photo released by Agence Kampuchea Press (AKP), Chin
World / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa, his wife Lavinia Valbonesi
Features / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025

Ecuador’s election wasn’t free — and its people will pay the price under President Noboa

Manchester United's Harry Maguire scores their side's fourth
Men’s football / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025

Jaw-dropping European win

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Attila the Stockbroker / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025
Back from a mini tour of Yorkshire and Stockport and cheering for supporting act Indignation Meeting
The Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) building in Edin
Scotland / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025

'Genuine reform is desperately needed'

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Theatre / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025
ALISTAR FINDLAY is mesmerised by this multiple ‘Visions of Scotland’ assault on the audience’s eyes and senses
Tottenham Hotspur manager Ange Postecoglou after the UEFA Eu
Men’s football / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025
Sport / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025
People take part in an anti-Trump protest in Trafalgar Squar
Donald Trump / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025

US president suggests he might visit the King in September

Former MP Jonathan Ashworth appears as a guest presenter on
Britain / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025
In this photo taken from video released by Al Masirah TV cha
World / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025
Pupils in a classroom
Education / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025

Government urged to consider further measures

Features / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025
From bemoaning London’s ‘cockneys’ invading seaside towns to negotiating holiday rents, the founders of scientific socialism maintained a wry detachment from Victorian Easter customs while using the break for health and politics, writes KEITH FLETT
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Transport / 18 April 2025
18 April 2025

Walkout follows long-running dispute over sacking

Daniel Kebede 17.4.25
Editorial: / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025
Daniel Kebede 17.4.25
Features / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025

We face austerity, privatisation, and toxic influence. But we are growing, and cannot be beaten

World / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025
Xi 17.4.25
World / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025
LiW
Features / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025

The money tap to anti-Cuban agitators will never be shut off under Trump

Safe consumption 17.4.25
Britain / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025
Nuno
Men's Football / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025
Ronnie O’Sullivan has been drawn to face long-term rival A
Snooker / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025
Van Dijk
Men's Football / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025
NEU 17.4.25
Britain / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025
By Berny Torre in Harrogate
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Cinema / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025
The Star's critics ANGUS REID, ANDY HEDGECOCK and MICHAL BONCZA reviews I Am Love, The Penguin Lessons, Freaky Tales, The Thicket
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Britain / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025
By Berny Torre in Harrogate
Edna O'Brien in London, 1971
Documentary / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025

A beautifully-crafted documentary from Sinéad O’Shea

NEU general secretary Daniel Kebede
Britain / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025
By Berny Torre in Harrogate
Johnny Sexton
Men's Rugby Union / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025

Johnny Sexton appointed as an assistant coach

Bukayo Saka celebrates scoring against Real Madrid, April 16
Men's Football / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025
Sport / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025
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Features / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025

Mountains of research show that hardcore material harms children, yet there are still no simple measures in place

A NOBLE AND VIBRANT TRADITION: The 2024 London May Day march
Features / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025

Join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right

Social media
NEU Conference 2025 / 17 April 2025
17 April 2025
Men's Football / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
Maree Todd, Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and S
Britain / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
RESIST AND REFUSE: An anti-deportations activist distributes
Features / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
Unions, Black Lives Matter, migrant and student groups gathered in Los Angeles to build a ‘united resistance’ to the massive wave of deportations brought in under the Trump regime, reports MATTHEW HUNTER
Marlie Packer
Women's Rugby Union / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
World in brief
World / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
China US 17.4.25
Features / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025

Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy: forcing other countries to provide financial support for US hegemony

11 - black workers
Features / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
From the TUC Race Relations Committee to national union treasurers, a new generation of formidable black women leaders are breaking barriers and transforming the movement through uncompromising politics, writes ROGER McKENZIE
a general view of a sign displaying a 'good' Ofsted rating o
NEU Conference 2025 / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
Geopolitical abuse
Features / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
Despite liberal whining that Trump threatens the ‘international rules-based order,’ the historical record shows Western nations have repeatedly overthrown democracies, backed genocides and violated sovereignty, writes IAN SINCLAIR
Mary Fowler
Women’s Football / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
21st Century Poetry / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
by Owen Gallagher
England women Belgium
Women's Football / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
Sport / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
Britain / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
Protesters and members of the Jewish Voice for Peace gather
Features / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
Natalia Marques looks at last week's ruling that Khalil can be deported and its implications
Angie Zelter
Features / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
Activist Angie Zelter has been arrested more than a hundred times. She’s not stopping now, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
President Donald Trump gestures to the crowd as he departs a
Eyes Left / 16 April 2025
16 April 2025
ANDREW MURRAY casts an eye over past upheavals and asks whether the left can find a fire escape before the world goes up in flames
(L to R) Arian Nik as Samir, Shazia Nicholls as Faiza) Sabrina Sandhu as Harleen
Culture / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
MAYER WAKEFIELD has reservations about the direction of a play centered on a DVLA re-training session for three British-Pakistani motorists
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage poses outside The Waterford Lo
Britain / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
National Education Union vows to fight Reform UK's election candidates and racist policies
This image taken from a video provided by Christopher Helali
World / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
Newcastle Falcons head coach Steve Diamond before the Gallag
Men's Rugby Union / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
a general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward at Ealing Hos
Britain / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
Robert Gordon University lecturers on strike
Britain / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
BP sign
NEU Conference 2025 / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
England head coach Sarina Wiegman and Arjan Veurink on stage
Women’s Football / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot addresses the media
World / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
Hungary’s parliament has passed an amendment to the consti
World / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
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Music / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025

STEVE JOHNSON, CHRIS SEARLE and TONY BURKE review new releases from Steve Knightley, Jupiter & Okwess, Jason Palmer, Lisa Knapp and Gerry Driver, Kin'Gongolo Kiniata, Ingrid Laubrock/Tom Rainey, Dan Sealey, Simin Tande, PAZ

Britain / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
Protesters hold a CND flag in Parliament Square in London
Britain / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
People take part in a Palestine Solidarity Campaign rally in
NEU Conference 2025 / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
Saracens' Andy Onyeama-Christie scores a try during the Gall
Men's Rugby Union / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
Tyson Fury ringside at the Co-op Live Arena, Manchester. Pic
Men's Boxing / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
Sport / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
NEU delegate David Room moves motion calling for an end to f
NEU Conference 2025 / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
NEU conference urges Labour to fix school funding crisis by getting rid of academy bosses earning over £500,000
Striking members of the National Education Union (NEU) at a
NEU Conference 2025 / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
RON BROWN makes the case for the Morning Star as the daily paper of all trade unionists, and especially education workers who have seen it cover their issues and their actions, day in, day out
Early years education
NEU Conference 2025 / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
Although our sector is hearing better things from the current government, the recognition that what we do is education in its own right, rather than just childcare, is still not reflected in policy, writes LUCY COLEMAN
President Donald Trump, right, shakes the hand of Israel's P
Features / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025
Once able to defy a US president before Congress, Netanyahu now finds himself weakened by military setbacks and facing a populist Trump who may yet put ‘America first’ instead of Israel, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Trade unionists and protesters form a blockade outside weapo
NEU Conference / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025

We must take a stand against the government’s spending on war

Striking members of the National Education Union (NEU) on Pi
NEU Conference 2025 / 15 April 2025
15 April 2025

Educators must fight for an inclusive, creative system that values all children

A child playing with blocks
NEU Conference 2025 / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025
Pupils in a classroom
NEU Conference 2025 / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025
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Photography / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025

Peter Mitchell's photography reveals a poetic relationship with Leeds

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Books / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025
A uncomfortably misogynistic authorial voice that sometimes seems to lack insight troubles FIONA O’CONNOR
Red Bull team principal Christian Horner sits on the pit wal
Formula One / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025
Smoke rises from an explosion following a Russian drone stri
World / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025
Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers celebrates after the William
Men's Football / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025
Manchester United's Celin Bizet Ildhusoy (left) scores her s
Women’s Football / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025
Omani security personnel watch a convoy believed to be carry
World / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025
Karl Marx 1
Features / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025
From bemoaning London’s ‘cockneys’ invading seaside towns to negotiating holiday rents, the founders of scientific socialism maintained a wry detachment from Victorian Easter customs while using the break for health and politics, writes KEITH FLETT
CS+SN
Interview / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025
CHRIS SEARLE speaks to drummer Steve Noble
A view of the Senedd, the Welsh parliament building in Cardi
Britain / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025
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Culture / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025
MARY CONWAY is disappointed by a production that panders – if inadvertently – to Western prejudice against China
Nottingham Forest goalkeeper Matz Sels during the Emirates F
Men's Football / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025
(left to right) Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves, P
NEU Conference 2025 / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025
a child's hand pressing a key of a laptop keyboard
NEU Conference 2025 / 14 April 2025
14 April 2025