City of temples hosts the 24th congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) As a delegate to the party’s 24th congress, HARSEV BAINS connects historical threads from Harry Pollitt’s 1954 visit to today’s challenges of building left unity against corporate-backed Hindu nationalism
Wednesday 16th Apr 2025 Protester for life Activist Angie Zelter has been arrested more than a hundred times. She’s not stopping now, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Wednesday 16th Apr 2025 Eyes Left Geopolitical breakdown: lessons from the history of capitalism ANDREW MURRAY casts an eye over past upheavals and asks whether the left can find a fire escape before the world goes up in flames
Tuesday 15th Apr 2025 NEU Conference 2025 Teachers and school staff, this is your paper RON BROWN makes the case for the Morning Star as the daily paper of all trade unionists, and especially education workers who have seen it cover their issues and their actions, day in, day out
Tuesday 15th Apr 2025 NEU Conference 2025 Early years education is still being overlooked Although our sector is hearing better things from the current government, the recognition that what we do is education in its own right, rather than just childcare, is still not reflected in policy, writes LUCY COLEMAN
Tuesday 15th Apr 2025 NEU Conference 2025 The power lies with you: fighting for education’s soul As Labour mimics Tory welfare cuts while ignoring crumbling schools, educators must collectively resist the government's priorities and fight for an inclusive, creative system that values all children, writes NEU president SARAH KILPATRICK
Tuesday 15th Apr 2025 Is the Trump-Netanyahu ‘unthinkable’ about to erupt over Iran? Once able to defy a US president before Congress, Netanyahu now finds himself weakened by military setbacks and facing a populist Trump who may yet put ‘America first’ instead of Israel, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Tuesday 15th Apr 2025 NEU Conference 2025 Peace not war, education not militarism We are not here to advocate for the arms industry or its CEOs, writes STEVE HANDFORD, and that means we must take a stand against the government’s spending on war
Tuesday 15th Apr 2025 Marx, Engels and the English Easter break From bemoaning London’s ‘cockneys’ invading seaside towns to negotiating holiday rents, the founders of scientific socialism maintained a wry detachment from Victorian Easter customs while using the break for health and politics, writes KEITH FLETT
Monday 14th Apr 2025 NEU conference: pay, Palestine, and professional unity The NEU’s annual conference promises heated debate, with motions on international politics, curriculum reform and union amalgamation likely to provoke strong reactions and challenge the status quo, writes Education for Tomorrow editor ROBERT POOLE
Monday 14th Apr 2025 Trump, ‘irregular warfare,’ and El Salvador's mega-prison Without due process, hundreds of Venezuelans living in the US have been arrested, slandered as terroristic criminals and sent flown in chains to El Salvador’s notorious mega-prison under an obscure 18th-century law, reports JOHN PERRY
