The hidden evidence against benefit cuts Both Conservative and Labour administrations have now refused to release research showing PIP payments are vital for disabled people’s survival, exposing the ideological nature of planned welfare ‘reforms,’ writes Dr DYLAN MURPHY
Monday 17th Feb 2025 Thatcher’s Tory leadership victory at 50 KEITH FLETT looks back 50 years to when the Iron Lady was elected Tory leader…
Monday 17th Feb 2025 Labour pushes millions on benefits deeper into poverty Social security is lagging further and further behind inflation and our government quite simply does not care, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
Monday 17th Feb 2025 The demise of USAid: few regrets in Latin America With its track record of leveraging cultural power for US gain and barely concealed promotion of coup attempts, the US Agency for International Development will not be mourned among the US’s southern neighbours, write JOHN PERRY and ROGER D HARRIS
Saturday 15th Feb 2025 Shaping the future of Welsh politics Wales reporter DAVID NICHOLSON examines the options for the first all-Wales Morning Star conference
Saturday 15th Feb 2025 Aw That ‘Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?’ MATT KERR ponders the seduction on offer from a turbo-trainer to the detriment of a road romance
Saturday 15th Feb 2025 NHS under threat: Labour is wrong to embrace private sector Diverting public funding to grow private-sector ‘spare capacity,’ actively undermines the funding and staff available to the NHS and results in a worse service, write JOHN PUNTIS and TONY O’SULLIVAN
Saturday 15th Feb 2025 Starmer’s latest con job The government’s nuclear power expansion plan is a hollow betrayal of working people that panders to wealthy corporations and will rip off consumers, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Saturday 15th Feb 2025 Who does the economy work for and why doesn’t it work for me? In order to defeat the far right, the left must set out a positive alternative – one that effectively addresses working people’s concerns, argues DAVID MORGAN
Monday 17th Feb 2025 The case of the West End Riots MAT COWARD remembers when the Conservative HQ at the Carlton Club got engulfed in some street-based class warfare
Monday 17th Feb 2025 Time to rein in hate speech RAVISHAAN RAHEL MUTHIAH agues that much as social media are presently guilty of fanning hostilities, the roots of it lie with decades of xenophobic narratives peddled by politicians and the traditional media
