Welsh Labour leader ELUNED MORGAN explains how a vote for the party will deliver the progress and continuity the country needs on manufacturing, renewables, creative industries and more

Starmer facing Labour rebellion as back-bench MPs come out against plan to block probe into his handling of Mandelson

The party’s internal enforcer built his sinister influence in the shadows – but nemesis now appears to be at hand, says ANDREW MURRAY

JOANNE THOMAS argues that unions’ political voice remains vital to winning stronger rights and protections for working people

The labour movement must challenge the endless austerity narrative — and Unity Consulting will play its part to complement the work already being done by trade unions

DIANE ABBOTT looks at how a declining US has resorted to globalised violence to salvage any vestiges of political and economic hegemony

Polls show Labour facing meltdown in May elections for devolved parliaments and local authorities

Socialists cannot back warfare over welfare, MPs and peace campaigners warn after former Nato boss demands government cuts social spending to finance weapons

KEITH FLETT looks at the state’s efforts to limit protest rights from the 19th century to today’s repression of the Palestine movement

The government has few aces up its sleeve when it comes to managing popular anger, argues ANDREW MURRAY

Thousands expected to join largest anti-racist march in a generation in London this Saturday

Green Party leader Polanski slams Chancellor Reeves' ‘unbelievably weak response’ to the ‘enormous bill hikes facing households’

Changing visa rules are pushing young migrant workers into precarious work and exploitation, report NUPUR PALIWAL and SOMIHA CHATTERJEE of the Student Federation of India

Young Communist League general secretary GEORGINA ANDREWS says the far right are filling a vacuum created by Labour’s abandonment of working-class interests — we have to give our class a better offer

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

Until ministers stop deferring to the market and start drawing hard lines, the public will remain at the mercy of private power, says MATT KERR

As the Stop the War Coalition holds its annual conference, ANDREW MURRAY warns that Britain’s alignment with US foreign policy is fuelling global instability and diverting billions from welfare, wages and public services

While Wes Streeting claims Britain lacks a growth strategy, his own NHS plans reveal one – turning the health service’s vast troves of patient data into a commercial asset for tech giants, investors and private healthcare firms, says HELEN MERCER

Prime Minister urged to ditch Trump as campaigners warn US's illegal war in Iran will raise energy bills and worsen public services

Tehran retaliates with attacks on Israel, the Gulf Arab states and crude oil flows

While the result signals a restless appetite for real change, it also underlines how much organising, beyond the ballot box, is still required to turn protest into lasting transformation, argues DAN ROSS

Labour’s by-election defeat tells a story Scotland has known since 2008. A party that assumes loyalty while offering little more than managed decline will eventually discover that voters always have somewhere else to turn, says MATT KERR

With our ruling class struggling to secure a new vehicle for power and the disintegration of the traditional party system, a volatile new chapter is opening, sharpened by war, austerity and electoral distortion, argues NICK WRIGHT

KEITH FLETT highlights the inimical role of the strategist who helped shape Tony Blair’s ascent and whose political blueprint continues to echo in the era of Keir Starmer

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

A political culture of spin and wilful blindness where journalists play along with power has meant the so-called ‘Prince of Darkness’ has been given an easy ride by the media – until now… MATT KERR reports

Tax exile Sir Jim Ratcliffe slammed after claiming that ‘UK is being colonised’ immigrants

The Carpathia isn’t coming to rescue this government still swimming in the mire, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

The US president’s career is defined by a consistent use of racist tropes and provocation. Why are world leaders so silent over his repeated vitriolic prejudice, asks ROGER McKENZIE

Paul Holden’s book, The Fraud, exposes a hidden war inside Labour, where claims of anti-semitism, amplified by media power and factional networks, were used to break Corbynism and recast the party. JOHN ELLISON revisits the scandals, investigations and suppressed evidence from that era

The Mandelson scandal reveals a political settlement in which democratic choice is curtailed and the power of markets eclipses the will of voters – only the left can challenge this, writes JON TRICKETT MP

Anti-war campaigners say the Health Secretary's private admission to Peter Mandelson only makes him more guilty of complicity in Israel’s crimes

Corbyn’s intervention exposes a corrupted system, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE

Paul Holden’s The Fraud reveals how a network of donors, MPs and opaque organisations quietly organised to destroy Corbyn’s leadership and manufacture a new centre of power inside Labour, writes JOHN ELLISON

The British Prime Minister’s Beijing visit marked the end of a long diplomatic hiatus and produced tangible, if limited, economic results, says KEITH BENNETT

MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used

Megapicket to shut down Birmingham’s refuse sites

The Labour Growth Group and its think tank partner, the Good Growth Foundation, have taken funding from major lobbying firms linked to housebuilders, banks and Heathrow – raising questions about corporate influence at the heart of Starmer’s pro-growth project. SOLOMON HUGHES reports

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

As liberal commentators puzzle over the Prime Minister’s record-breaking unpopularity, the reasons remain glaringly obvious to everyone else, says IAN SINCLAIR

Trade unionists and MPs hit back at party executive's decision to block Greater Manchester mayor from running in upcoming Gorton and Denton by-election

PM could be ejected from Downing Street if Welsh Labour loses Senedd elections in May, First Minister says

Lawyers to challenge approval of data centre in Britain that ‘pollutes on the scale of an international airport’

Campaigners call on public to join protests across the country demanding Starmer stands up to the far-right US president

But hospitality industry warns other businesses are being forgotten

ANSELM ELDERGILL examines our laws concerning the treatment of animals and their rights

After 15 years of spending cuts and regressive redistribution, the British economy is weaker, investment is still anaemic and living standards are stalled – yet all major parties remain committed to a policy that has repeatedly failed to deliver recovery, says MICHAEL BURKE

SOLOMON HUGHES says Starmer has done everything the Westminster set think Labour leaders should do – but it hasn’t endeared him to the public

Labour’s decline, Tory exhaustion and the advance of Reform UK signal the end of stable two-party rule, with British politics entering a volatile new phase, says NICK WRIGHT

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

BEN CHACKO salutes the Morning Star cartoonists

Campaigners urge Labour ministers not to entertain Tory and Reform UK's ‘racist’ calls to strip human rights activist Alaa Abd Fattah of his citizenship over decades-old social media posts

Labour’s cynical recruitment drive normalises militarism, diverts attention from youth unemployment and public service cuts, and seeks to build consent for an increasingly aggressive defence agenda, argues GEORGINA ANDREWS