Together we must turn the tide against the far-right menace JULIE SHERRY looks ahead to this weekend’s Stand Up to Racism and trade unions conference that will play a vital part in developing the urgent anti-fascist fightback
Wednesday 29th Jan 2025 ‘The repression we’re facing is the action of a bully who knows it’s weak’ TIM CROSLAND of Plan B and Defend Our Juries talks to Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir about the legal mechanisms behind Britain’s crackdown on protest rights
Wednesday 29th Jan 2025 Starmer’s conspiracy of silence means an assault on Gaza speech and protest What we are seeing now in the policing of Gaza protests is a manifestation of an authoritarianism that the government intends to inflict on our country, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Wednesday 29th Jan 2025 Science and Society Trump and science The new US administration’s policy decisions are already having seismic effects worldwide, argue ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
Tuesday 28th Jan 2025 Voices of Scotland Successful rent controls must apply in between tenancies A new Bill seeks to prevent price-gouging landlords evicting tenants under dubious grounds only to hike up the rent for the next tenant. Living Rent is campaigning hard to make sure this provision becomes law, writes ADITI JEHANGIR
Tuesday 28th Jan 2025 The pillars of the post-World War II world are crumbling A multipolar world is emerging where a number of countries of the global South are now using their growing economic power and political importance to demand reform of the post-WWII order, argues DAVID CAVENDISH
Tuesday 28th Jan 2025 The drivers’ union taking on Uber and the apps Martin Smith speaks to general secretary of the App Drivers and Couriers Union ZAMIR DRENI about his members’ fight against the nefarious methods of exploitation by shadowy app giants like Uber and Bolt
Tuesday 28th Jan 2025 Dear World: this is what Palestinian unity looks like As Gazans return to the ruins of their homes, their chants and songs and moving spirit of defiance point the way to a new Palestinian future, by and of the people, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Monday 27th Jan 2025 Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 Ghostly silences surround Holocaust remembrance Political manipulation of history and exceptionalising of anti-semitism as a shield for Israeli war crimes are having a harmful effect on the fight against all racism and fuelling a cynicism that’s especially dangerous in today’s world, argue JULIA BARD and DAVID ROSENBERG
Monday 27th Jan 2025 Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 The theological origins of anti-semitism JAMES CROSSLEY charts how anti Jewish sentiment developed from ancient days and the dawn of Christianity to the Middle Ages, the birth of Protestantism and the sinister era of of the Nazis
Monday 27th Jan 2025 Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 The liberation of Auschwitz 1945 and Holocaust denial 2025 The proponents and enablers of Holocaust distortion and anti-communism now have increasing political power and influence in a number of European countries, obstructing an understanding of the reality of fascism’s crimes, warns MARY DAVIS