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
Saturday 13th Jul 2024 Durham Miners' Gala Orgreave campaigners renew their call for justice at the Durham Miners’ Gala Four decades on from the miners’ strike, the OTJC demands an inquiry into police brutality and government lies. Labour's pledge offers us hope, but the fight continues, writes KATE FLANNERY
Saturday 13th Jul 2024 Durham Miners' Gala Durham, our school of socialism, our day of pride HEATHER WOOD, national secretary of Women Against Pit Closures charts her journey and the journey mining community women like her, from 1984 to Durham Gala 2024, explaining why this day remains vital for families decades after closures
Saturday 13th Jul 2024 Durham Miners' Gala Ambitious outreach plans at the Marx Memorial Library The Marx Memorial Library is a treasure trove of labour movement archives and tradition of working-class education, writes MEIRIAN JUMP
Saturday 13th Jul 2024 Durham Miners' Gala A summer of solidarity MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ trade union, writes for the Morning Star as union activists prepare to march through Durham today in a display of working-class solidarity at the 138th Durham Miners’ Gala
Saturday 13th Jul 2024 Durham Miners' Gala Education for the whole trade union movement From AI to class-struggle unionism, the the GFTU's new courses aim to equip activists with skills to take on employers and halt membership decline, writes HENRY FOWLER
Saturday 13th Jul 2024 Durham Miners' Gala Labour must act swiftly to lift children out of poverty As she returns to Westminster, REBECCA LONG BAILEY MP calls on the new government to scrap the two-child benefit cap immediately to ease families’ financial strain that she sees in Salford
Friday 19th Jul 2024 From RAF police to militant trade unionist: Roy Jones’ working-class odyssey In the first of four extracts from his new book, the man who would go on to be the Morning Star’s industrial reporter recounts his journey through postwar Britain’s labour struggles
Saturday 13th Jul 2024 Notes From A Free Walker Midsummer magic STANDING around at Stonehenge. Smoking too much weed. Bonkers dancing. That’s one way of celebrating the solstice.
Saturday 13th Jul 2024 Durham Miners' Gala Turn Labour's win into a victory for ordinary people Former miner and Labour MP IAN LAVERY reflects on how to regain trust and offer hope as we celebrate the Durham Miners' Gala
Sunday 14th Jul 2024 Durham Miners' Gala A pivotal moment for the trade union movement As Labour takes power, PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE urges solidarity to push for workers’ rights and calls for pension justice and job security after years of Tory attacks on civil servants
