How workers fought US slavery and earned Abraham Lincoln’s gratitude PETER LAZENBY reports on how trade unionists in Manchester are to celebrate the role of the city’s cotton industry workers in the fight for the abolition of slavery in the US civil war
Saturday 15th Jul 2023 ‘Industrial action works’ Peter Lazenby spoke to PCS president FRAN HEATHCOTE about the regeneration of her union, the relationship with Labour, and her campaign to become general secretary
Tuesday 21st Mar 2023 March 21 1973: the Lofthouse colliery disaster Fifty years ago seven coal miners in Yorkshire died when they broke through to a long-abandoned shaft, releasing millions of gallons of water. Morning Star northern reporter PETER LAZENBY remembers the tragedy
Monday 11th Jul 2022 Socialist women raise a new banner at the Durham Miners’ Gala Five years ago the Durham Women’s Banner Group came together to make sure the role of women was fully appreciated and celebrated not just on the coalfields, but across the whole of the labour movement, writes PETER LAZENBY
Thursday 12th May 2022 Brian Jackson: trade unionist, co-operator, environmentalist and communist Tributes will be paid today to a Leeds communist who was for decades a familiar figure of left and progressive movements in Yorkshire
Thursday 10th Mar 2022 Halifax joins the revolt against NHS privatisation The rebellion against the exploitation of outsourced workers in the NHS is spreading, writes Morning Star Northern Reporter PETER LAZENBY
Thursday 10th Mar 2022 The robbery in front of our eyes A spell in Calderdale Royal Hospital gave PETER LAZENBY a chance to witness on the ward the NHS privatisation racket which is stealing from workers and taxpayers alike
Saturday 15th Jan 2022 Delivery drivers’ strike action deepens in northern England Work stoppages by fast-food couriers in the IWGB union against pay cuts in the so-called 'gig economy' are now spreading from Sheffield to Blackpool, Huddersfield, Chesterfield and Sunderland, reports PETER LAZENBY
Saturday 08th Jan 2022 OBITUARY Vic Eddisford: communist and champion of the workers Remembering a legend of the YCL and CPGB
Monday 04th Oct 2021 Menwith Hill: spying and killing for the US? A chilling new report documents how a vast state surveillance and assassination programme is secretly run from a US military base in Yorkshire, writes PETER LAZENBY
Saturday 25th Apr 2020 CAMPAIGN OF THE WEEK Anti-fascists are helping to feed an inner-city estate in Bradford ANTI-RACISTS in the West Yorkshire city of Bradford were taken aback by the success of an appeal for funds to help people on an impoverished inner-
