TIM LEZARD dissects the motives behind the apoplectic right-wing attack on the BBC

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

Politicians and campaigners back police's plans to ban Israeli fans attending Aston Villa v Maccabi Tel Aviv match

SOLOMON HUGHES finds one-time Cameron-centrist EU fans now promote vicious anti-migrant rhetoric in their bid to get attention for their ailing party

Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana discuss the formation of a new leftwing party 

MARJORIE MAYO is moved by the clarity with which the FBU call out the true causes of this preventable tragedy

In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE

Incoming Usdaw general secretary JOANNE THOMAS talks to Ben Chacko about workers’ rights, Labour and how to arrest the decline of the high street

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

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

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
 

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

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

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

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

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