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Democracy / 2 July 2025
2 July 2025

From Gaza complicity to welfare cuts chaos, Starmer’s baggage accumulates, and voters will indeed find ‘somewhere else’ to go — to the Greens, nationalists, Lib Dems, Reform UK or a new, working-class left party, writes NICK WRIGHT

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks during a visit to BAE Systems in Govan, Glasgow, to launch the Strategic Defence Review, June 2, 2025
War & Austerity / 19 June 2025
19 June 2025

LIZ PAYNE condemns how Labour backs war in Gaza and Ukraine, and massive funding for Trident’s nuclear bombs, when billions are needed just to restore public services

Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch delivers a speech about the European Convention on Human Rights at the Royal United Services Institute in central London, June 6, 2025
The Tories / 13 June 2025
13 June 2025

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
 

Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick outside BBC Broadcasting House in London, June 1, 2025
Britain / 1 June 2025
1 June 2025
ouse of Commons Handout photo issued by the House of Commons of Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch during Prime Minister's Questions in the House of Commons, London, May 21, 2025
Eyes Left / 28 May 2025
28 May 2025

The Tories’ trouble is rooted in the British capitalist Establishment now being more disoriented and uncertain of its social mission than before, argues ANDREW MURRAY

SOBERING FIGURES: Vote counting for the Runcorn and Helsby by-election on May 1 2025
Opinion / 16 May 2025
16 May 2025

VINCE MILLS gathers some sobering facts that would inevitably be major obstacles to any such initiative

Channel Migrants
Features / 9 May 2025
9 May 2025

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

People take part in a protest organised by the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) opposite Downing Street, London, over the proposed closure of railway station ticket offices, August 31, 2023
Features / 3 May 2025
3 May 2025

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

Karen Shore webpic for Abbott.jpg
Features / 3 May 2025
3 May 2025

DIANE ABBOTT looks at the whys and hows of Labour’s spectacular own goal

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

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer leads a roundtable discussio
Editorial: / 31 March 2025
31 March 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Ra
Britain / 12 March 2025
12 March 2025
Tax rich instead of cutting benefits, PM told
(L to R) Nicholas Garland in The Telegraph; Frank Eccles Bro
Features / 28 February 2025
28 February 2025
PETER LAZENBY is fascinated by a book of cartoons that shows how newspaper cartoonists were employed to, on the one hand, denigrade and, on the other, to defend the miners’ strike of 1984-85
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage speaking during the Reform UK
Britain / 4 February 2025
4 February 2025
Activists from Fossil Free London and Green New Deal Rising
Features / 31 January 2025
31 January 2025
BERNIE EVANS despairs of a government that is asking the crooks sucking Britain dry how to get the economy back on track
HEAVY HANDED: (Above) Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, Jo
Eyes Left / 22 January 2025
22 January 2025
ANDREW MURRAY considers whether the mass arrest of peaceful protesters was an attempt by the PM to appease his right-wing critics following his crackdown on last August’s race rioters — and a dark omen of the tyrannies to come
Screen grab of Home Secretary Yvette Cooper giving a stateme
Britain / 16 January 2025
16 January 2025
Tulip Siddiq MP speaking at an Association of Jewish Refugee
Britain / 15 January 2025
15 January 2025
Tulip Siddiq outside 10 Downing Street, central London, May
Britain / 12 January 2025
12 January 2025
AN IMPERATIVE CALL: Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers pro
Features / 11 January 2025
11 January 2025
PROFESSOR ANSELM ELDERGILL suggests ways in which the government can boost legal aid and support
ENABLERS OF FASCISM: German police break up a protest outsid
Features / 11 January 2025
11 January 2025
KEVIN OVENDEN cautions against a simplistic ridiculing of Trump, Musk or Farage as any such laughter might turn out to be at our expense
The door to number 11 Downing Street, London, the official r
Britain / 9 January 2025
9 January 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves at the Confederati
Features / 9 January 2025
9 January 2025
Labour’s ex-banker Chancellor plans deregulation while City profits soar and customers suffer — between money laundering scandals and the exploitation of Covid loans, it’s clearly time to end this madness, says BERNIE EVANS
The door of 10 Downing Street, London, October 20, 2022
Britain / 2 January 2025
2 January 2025
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage holds up a banner during a pro
Editorial: / 30 December 2024
30 December 2024
Sir Keir Starmer, then leader of the opposition, speaking du
Britain / 28 December 2024
28 December 2024
TUC general secretary Paul Nowak warns government that people working people desperately needed to see ‘tangible change’
Dame Andrea Jenkyns, Reform UK Chairman Zia Yusuf, and Refor
Eyes Left / 10 December 2024
10 December 2024
From boozy banker renegade to man-of-the-people populist, Farage’s evolution continues — if he can win constituencies like the Welsh mining areas, the left will need new and better answers, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Communication Workers Union (CWU) general secretary Dave War
Features / 4 December 2024
4 December 2024
Communications Workers Union general secretary DAVE WARD says combatting a resurgent far right means uniting the working class behind a positive vision for change – with collective bargaining at its heart
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during the annual Lord Mayor
Editorial: / 3 December 2024
3 December 2024
A view of HMP Northeye in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex, which
Britain / 15 November 2024
15 November 2024
Government urged to put ‘clear distance between it and the cruel, wasteful camps policy held by the previous one’
Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson arrives in Downing St
Britain / 4 November 2024
4 November 2024
Tory Party leader Kemi Badenoch, May 19, 2024
Editorial: / 4 November 2024
4 November 2024
Paul Nowak, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress
Britain / 22 October 2024
22 October 2024
Unions slam Tories and Reform for voting against Employment Rights Bill
General Secretary of the Unite union, Sharon Graham speaks d
Editorial: / 9 October 2024
9 October 2024
People take part in a demonstration for trans rights outside
Opinion / 8 October 2024
8 October 2024
As the Establishment stokes a culture war against gender recognition — not in favour of it — the left must unite in support of the trans community, says TOM KING
Michael Ancram responds to a standing ovation from the floor
Britain / 2 October 2024
2 October 2024
A Tom Tugendhat supporter holds up a giant foam finger ahead
Britain / 1 October 2024
1 October 2024
Secretary of State for Scotland Ian Murray speaks during the
Features / 1 October 2024
1 October 2024
Unwanted, imposed Tory interventions on Scotland fuelled demands for devolution, and today Labour risks repeating past mistakes if Ian Murray seeks to bypass Holyrood on spending, warns PAULINE BRYAN
Leadership contender Robert Jenrick speaking at a fringe eve
Britain / 30 September 2024
30 September 2024
Enoch Powell during the National EU Referendum Campaign Pres
Britain / 30 September 2024
30 September 2024
Liz Truss arrives for the Conservative Party Conference at t
Britain / 30 September 2024
30 September 2024
Aslef general secretary Mick Whelan (centre) on the picket l
Britain / 18 September 2024
18 September 2024
Britain / 17 September 2024
17 September 2024
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey playing tennis with dep
Britain / 17 September 2024
17 September 2024

A statue of former British prime minister Sir Robert Peel i
Features / 17 September 2024
17 September 2024
KEITH FLETT draws parallels with the 1834 Tory crisis, noting the absence of modern-day Robert Peel among the leadership contenders capable of reinventing the party for a new era
Britain / 12 September 2024
12 September 2024
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (left) and Health Secretary,
Editorial: / 12 September 2024
12 September 2024
TUC 2024 / 9 September 2024
9 September 2024
Aslef general secretary MICK WHELAN writes for the Morning Star on the eve of the TUC in Brighton, about the pay offer from the DfT, relations with the Labour government, and the union’s motion at Congress calling for the renationalisation of rail freight
Firefighters at the scene after a blaze at a block of flats
Britain / 27 August 2024
27 August 2024
Starmer slammed for ‘not say a word about the building safety crisis since he became prime minister’
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer during a meeting with the Cr
Editorial: / 27 August 2024
27 August 2024
Anti-racism protesters demonstrate in Newcastle, ahead of a
Britain / 21 August 2024
21 August 2024
Campaigners warn Labour is ‘repeating the mistakes of the last government’
Cartoon: Lewis Marsden
Features / 21 August 2024
21 August 2024
The more Starmer’s government demonstrates its inability to offer real change, the more its chances of securing a second term diminish, warns MICK WHITLEY
Billionaire buffoon Elon Musk (left) and (right) Reform owne
Britain / 14 August 2024
14 August 2024
Conservative leader Margaret Thatcher arriving at Conservati
Features / 10 August 2024
10 August 2024
In the last of four extracts from his new memoir, the Star’s former industrial reporter recalls the opening shots — and at least one moment of glory — in what was to be a devastating decade for the union movement
A car burns during an anti-immigration protest in Middlesbro
Britain / 7 August 2024
7 August 2024
Unions say politicians and media bear ‘share of responsibility’ as riots sweep Britain’s streets
Scottish Conservative Liam Kerr makes a speech, May 8, 2021
Britain / 5 August 2024
5 August 2024
Chancellor Rachel Reeves giving a speech at the Treasury in
Britain / 29 July 2024
29 July 2024
Campaigners accuse Chancellor Rachael Reeves of prolonging the era of austerity after heralding in a new raft of cuts
Jacob Rees-Mogg in the studio at GB News during his new show
Features / 23 July 2024
23 July 2024
With Meet the Rees-Moggs soon playing on Discovery+, STEPHEN ARNELL considers what kind of shows his fellow defenestrated MPs might best star in
Children enjoying playing on swings in a park near Ashford,
Britain / 22 July 2024
22 July 2024
Unacceptable for one of world’s wealthiest nations to fuel child poverty, campaigners charge
Newly elected Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking outsi
Features / 11 July 2024
11 July 2024
As Starmer claims Downing Street with a whimper, not a roar, his party’s dwindling membership and anaemic vote share lay bare the crisis of representation, writes PETER KENWORTHY in the last of his four-part series on the election
GREENS APPEAL: The four new Green MPs (L to R) Sian Berry (M
Eyes Left / 10 July 2024
10 July 2024
ANDREW MURRAY looks at Labour's shifting fortunes, the left as it stands in the new parliament and the likely character of the Starmer government
Newly elected Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer gives a speech
Features / 9 July 2024
9 July 2024
Communist Party leader ROBERT GRIFFITHS dissects the election results, looking at all of the political spectrum, from the hard right to the far left, and assesses the political landscape it reveals
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a visit to Redcar and Clev
Britain / 30 June 2024
30 June 2024
Workers from Tata's Port Talbot steelworks gather at College
Britain / 28 June 2024
28 June 2024
Unite calls on steel company to negotiate rather than issue threats to slash jobs
Protestors outside the Post Office Horizon IT inquiry at the
Features / 28 June 2024
28 June 2024
Evidence from the Post Office inquiry suggests Simon Blagden – formerly of Fujitsu and now in a government quango role – had greater involvement than previously realised in the notorious IT scandal that blamed subpostmasters for crimes they did not commit, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
Campaigners and charities including Show Israel the Red Card
Eyes Left / 26 June 2024
26 June 2024
In light of the mass movement in solidarity with Gaza, there is a simple metric to assess whether a Labour candidate deserves your support on July 4, explains ANDREW MURRAY
Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union general secretary M
Features / 25 June 2024
25 June 2024
RMT leader MICK LYNCH talks to Elizabeth Short about why Starmer needs to fulfil promises to scrap anti-strike laws and renationalise rail, and laments the lack of a transformative green new deal to create jobs and tackle the climate crisis
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak at the launch of the Scottish Con
Britain / 24 June 2024
24 June 2024
People take part in a national demonstration for Gaza after
Editorial: / 23 June 2024
23 June 2024
Then Prime Minister David Cameron (right) and then Deputy Pr
Features / 22 June 2024
22 June 2024
The last 14 years have completely disproven the economic myths the Tories used to set us on the path of cuts and devastation – we need massive direct investment to rebuild the post-industrial communities, writes JON TRICKETT
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak during a visit to Sizewell in Suf
Britain / 19 June 2024
19 June 2024
A queue forms at foodbank in north London, March 2021
Features / 19 June 2024
19 June 2024
Millions are going hungry in our nation, but Labour is still not prepared to commit to taking the action needed to address the chaos the Tories leave in their wake, write Dr TOMMY KANE, ALEX COLAS and Dr MICHAEL CALDERBANK
kshata Murty, the wife of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, meets
Britain / 19 June 2024
19 June 2024
Unison demands properly funded increases for adult social care at its annual conference
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak launches the Conservative Party G
Editorial: / 13 June 2024
13 June 2024
Sir Keir Starmer speaks at the launch of Labour's six steps
Features / 8 June 2024
8 June 2024
As the Starmer regime parachutes in disconnected candidates and offers little more than hot air, Plaid Cymru is mounting a real challenge to the decades of decay and decline forced on us by Westminster, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS
Houses on St Anne's council estate in Bristol, dating from t
Notes From A Free Walker / 8 June 2024
8 June 2024
Decades of right to buy have eroded the social balance of our countryside — and now holiday lets and second home owners from the cities are compounding the crisis, writes DAVE BANGS
A view of the Elizabeth Tower, also known as Big Ben, and th
Editorial: / 7 June 2024
7 June 2024
Emperor Tiberius (left) and orator Cicero
Features / 6 June 2024
6 June 2024
There are strange similarities between the ancient emperors and today’s departing Tories, writes STEPHEN ARNELL
George Galloway speaking to the media during a press confere
Features / 4 June 2024
4 June 2024
As the charismatic rebel candidate for Rochdale GEORGE GALLOWAY sends a remarkable 326 candidates into battle against Labour, Andrew Murray sits down with him to discuss Gaza, Starmer, and the Workers Party’s agenda
Nigel Farage during a press conference to announce that he w
Britain / 3 June 2024
3 June 2024
Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer and shadow defence secr
Britain / 3 June 2024
3 June 2024
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer renews commitment to militarism and Britain's nuclear weapons
Rise of the right in Europe / 3 June 2024
3 June 2024
We don’t need to peer into shadowy, secretive corners for extremist politics here in Britain — it is growing openly in the mainstream of the Tory Party, and without meaningful left opposition, things will only get worse, warns BEN CHACKO
ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE: (L to R) Lord Walney; Just Stop Oil pro
Opinion / 31 May 2024
31 May 2024
KEITH FLETT looks at a Labour turncoat behind the ratcheting up of measures to courtail the right to protest
Sir Keir Starmer holds a Labour pledge card while speaking a
Features / 31 May 2024
31 May 2024
After 14 years of the Tories, there’s a real prize for working people to be won. And trade unions are a vital part of the picture in rebuilding Britain’s future, says TUC leader PAUL NOWAK
Shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves speaking about the economy a
Features / 24 May 2024
24 May 2024
SOLOMON HUGHES examines questions raised about the Crown Commercial Service’s organisation of cross-departmental spending – and finds Labour sadly committed to ‘more of the same’
A screen at the FBU conference in Blackpool, May 23, 2024
Britain / 23 May 2024
23 May 2024
FBU vows to press Labour to repeal anti-strike laws
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak issues a statement outside 10 Dow
Britain / 22 May 2024
22 May 2024
Sunak gambles on a snap general election for July 4
Cartoon: / 21 May 2024
21 May 2024
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in Teesside celebrating with Lord
Features / 18 May 2024
18 May 2024
DIANE ABBOTT takes down the attempts by the Tories to distract from their abysmal handling of the economy and public services by making one last desperate pitch to be the party of ‘defence’ by banging the drum of war
Cartoon: / 17 May 2024
17 May 2024
by Songi
Cartoon: / 16 May 2024
16 May 2024
Lake Windermere, Cumbria, during the warm Spring Bank Holida
Britain / 15 May 2024
15 May 2024
Over 440,000 hours of sewage was released along England’s coastline in 2023
roups including Friends of the Earth Scotland, Stop Climate
Features / 14 May 2024
14 May 2024
Major cities underwater, a billion climate refugees — many scientists now expect societal collapse due to climate change. Yet from the political elite here in Britain, we have nothing even approaching acknowledgement, writes IAN SINCLAIR
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak delivers a keynote address at the
Britain / 13 May 2024
13 May 2024
Sunak claims Sir Keir's Labour Party will endanger national security and embolden Russia’s Vladimir Putin
A man driving a car in traffic at night
Features / 9 May 2024
9 May 2024
Rishi Sunak’s propaganda glamorising car culture aims to whip up anti-green backlash from a fantasy world of tweed caps and open-top Morgans in a cynical vote-grabbing ploy, writes SALLY WILTON
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak greets supporters in Teesside cel
Features / 7 May 2024
7 May 2024
After 14 years of Tory rule there's little enthusiasm for Starmer and his menu of reheated Thatcherism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak departs 10 Downing Street, London
Britain / 18 April 2024
18 April 2024
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak welcomes the President of Rwanda,
Britain / 16 April 2024
16 April 2024
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks to staff and patients in t
Britain / 11 April 2024
11 April 2024
Campaigners call for fair NHS pay and end to the ‘blatant failure’ of relying on private sector
A pile of one pound coins
Features / 11 April 2024
11 April 2024
What was once common sense to both major parties – that we all pay a little of our wages to receive a pension when we are too old to work – has been viciously undermined by decades of neoliberalism, explains NICK WRIGHT
Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting speaking during the La
Britain / 8 April 2024
8 April 2024
Labour accused of betraying the NHS after Wes Streeting says the health service needs more private-sector involvement
Labour's shadow health secretary Wes Streeting (right) with
Editorial: / 8 April 2024
8 April 2024
A Palestinian man cries while holding a dead child who was f
Britain / 4 April 2024
4 April 2024
600 legal experts warn Sunak of Britain’s complicity in Gaza bloodshed
Then Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn makes a speech on the gener
Britain / 3 April 2024
3 April 2024
Party membership drops by 23,000 this year
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer during the Labour Party local
Features / 3 April 2024
3 April 2024
Where Keir Starmer’s pledges to the unions clash with business interests, we can look to the archives of the Blair era to see what he is likely to do, writes KEITH FLETT
People taking part in Stop the Genocide in Gaza national dem
Eyes Left / 2 April 2024
2 April 2024
Hundreds of thousands of Labour members are leaving, councillors are resigning, and numerous former Labour MPs and left-wing newcomers are running against Starmer’s party — let us all unite, argues ANDREW MURRAY
Water running from a household tap
Britain / 29 March 2024
29 March 2024
Robert Halfon attending as a counting agent during the elect
Britain / 27 March 2024
27 March 2024
Opinion / 27 March 2024
27 March 2024
From more austerity to perpetual war, the party will not fight our battles or defend our most vulnerable, argues EMMA DENT COAD