The victories that followed the American civil war and the 1960s civil rights era are once again under attack, echoing earlier efforts to roll back equality and redefine democracy, says JOE SIMS

PATRICK CHURA reflects on the mass murder of civilians in wartime and his own visit, 10 years ago, to My Lai where US soldiers slaughtered over 500 men, women, children and infants

Lawyer slams prosecution on final day Palestine Solidarity Campaign director Ben Jamal and Stop the War Coalition vice-chair Chris Nineham's trial

Five years ago a flash crowd of Glaswegian activists defeated the Home Office and the police; MATT KERR urges you to savour that day in a cinema

JOHN GREEN argues that the spreading practice of closing bank account without proof of criminality is an infringement of an elementary human right

MARJ MAYO recommends a lyrical and disturbing account of the tragic suicide in Venice of Pateh Sabally, a refugee from the Gambia

Court strikes down Palestine Action ban as government slammed for its promise to fight the decision in appeals

KEITH FLETT looks at the political impact of protest

Over 50 MPs, lords and Unison's new general secretary sign letter against changes to settlement scheme

Dockers from Italy, Greece and beyond will stage co-ordinated port blockades on February 6, declaring ‘we don’t work for war’ – in a call in solidarity with Palestine. ALFIO BERNABEI reports

The suicide of Tamara Jade Logon after her disability benefits were wrongly withdrawn is the latest in a series of deaths in which coroners have cited DWP failings, exposing a pattern of preventable harm, says DYLAN MURPHY

Schoolchildren who joined a nationwide anti-Trump walkout learned more outside the classroom than in it but could still be penalised, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Labour announces largest policing overhaul in 200 years, including the creation of a ‘British FBI,’ sparking human rights concerns

From Chartists and Suffragettes to Irish republicans and today’s Palestine activists, the treatment of hunger strikers exposes a consistent pattern in how the British state represses those it deems political prisoners, says KEITH FLETT

Stop the War warns government to ‘expect a very large riposte’ against its repression of pro-Palestine activism

Barristers say there is ‘no evidence’ that Labour's drastic plans will reduce the backlog of cases waiting to be heard in court

600 educators sign open letter urging government to protect lives of prisoners jailed for more than a year without trial over alleged direct action linked to Palestine solidarity

Activists graffiti the 8 hunger strikers' demands across the Deputy PM's north London office 

DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10

Far-right figures ‘Tommy Robinson’ and Nigel Farage praise Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood's plans to force asylum seekers into 20 years of limbo before being able to settle in Britain

New poll exposes fears around migration as ‘manufactured’

Home Office has ‘repeatedly cut corners and wasted considerable amounts of taxpayers’ money,’ report warns about the policy

Families call on Foreign Office to secure the release of their loved ones

Campaigners condemned government’s plan to give police new powers to crack down on protests

Families in Gaza City face two deadly options, Islamic Relief says: ‘Stay put under increasing bombardment, or follow Israeli orders to move south to camps where families are being killed in their shelters and suffer life-threatening overcrowding, starvation and diseases’

Campaigners urge new Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to drop ‘unenforceable’ ban on Palestine Action

Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI

Defend Our Juries calls on supporters to skip street bail at next protest against Palestine Action ban

Meanwhile, Campaigners raise contempt of court complaint against Home Secretary Yvette Cooper over claims Palestine Action was proscribed due to violence against people

Meanwhile, Defend Our Juries say the fact that only half of the protesters faced arrests ‘shows how unworkable and unenforceable this ban is’

Defend Our Juries organiser says police forces are ‘in disarray’ over how to respond to the proscription as November judicial review causes uncertainty 

Letter to Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and Home Secretary Yvette Cooper – to be delivered by a delegation of Jews to Downing Street today

Sir Keir faces backlash for continuing to enable the genocide in Gaza

Police arrest over 100 at protests supporting Palestine Action

Meanwhile, over 110 human rights organisations and trade unions demand the EU immediately suspend its trade agreement with Israel over its ‘egregious human rights abuses against Palestinians’

Campaigners vow to keep up fight against Assisted Dying Bill as it clears House of Commons

Leaving the ECHR will not reduce illegal immigration as the far right claim, but it will reduce our rights, liberties and restrictions on the wealthy’s control of government, explains ANSELM ELDERGILL
 

Global March to Gaza calls on supporters to contact their local Egyptian embassy to ensure the protesters’ safety

We want our cultural institutions to actually stand for something, says HAILEY MAXWELL, as the art world fails to interrogate or acknowledge the onslaught on Gaza

Despite internal pressure over the Gaza genocide, Narendra Modi’s government has deepened relations with Tel Aviv. ROGER McKENZIE explores the geopolitics behind these strengthening links

Unions and campaigners condemn Prime Minister's ‘far-right’ rhetoric and new immigration policies

Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY

ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians

Secret consultation documents finally released after the Morning Star’s two-year freedom of information battle show the Home Office misrepresented public opinion, claiming support for policies that most respondents actually strongly criticised as dangerous and unfair, writes SOLOMON HUGHES

Supreme Court ruling prompts sporting bodies to redefine eligibility by biological sex

The overall death toll includes nearly 700

Government accused of scapegoating ethnic minorities after Home Office reveals plan to publish the nationalities of foreign criminals