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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