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
Friday 14th Jun 2024 Andrew Feinstein: what’s wrong with the Labour manifesto From muzzling Palestinian rights to embracing austerity and outsourcing the NHS, Labour's ‘tough choices’ always seem to hurt normal people while sparing wealthy donors — that’s why I am running to unseat Keir Starmer on July 4
Friday 14th Jun 2024 Uncle Sam stands alone: Gaza cracks Western unity As Israel’s onslaught continues, nations like Spain and Ireland are breaking ranks with Washington’s unwavering support. The US now faces a legitimacy crisis that could reshape the world order, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Friday 14th Jun 2024 Lettuce Liz flees Norfolk’s red menace While the infamous ex-PM pens apocalyptic tomes ‘on saving the West,’ locals hunger for basic services like dentists and public transport, not doomsday prophecies about China, Communist Party candidate LORRAINE DOUGLAS tells Andrew Murray
Friday 14th Jun 2024 The ‘riddle of Rishi Sunak?’ Mainstream media pundits have recently discovered that our PM is terrible at politics, leaving a puzzle over how he reached the top. There’s really no mystery, writes SOLOMON HUGHES, but they wouldn’t like the answers
Friday 14th Jun 2024 From Windrush to Thatcher: black workers get organised As African and Asian activists pushed back against racism in workplaces and politics in the ’70s and ’80s, eventually trade unions and political parties reluctantly opened their doors to self-organised groups, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Thursday 13th Jun 2024 Can an economy be ‘big enough’? CRAIG DALZELL asks how long the ‘growth at all costs’ mantra can be sustained by the main political parties
Thursday 13th Jun 2024 Workers in Iran are in destitution Despite pledges from the late president that absolute poverty would be eradicated by 2022, the reality is that Iran’s commitment to neoliberalism has seen working people plunged ever-deeper into misery, says JAMSHID AHMADI
Thursday 13th Jun 2024 Interview: ‘Stop looking to government - we need to build our strength in the workplace’ As GMB conference meets in Bournemouth, its general secretary GARY SMITH speaks to the Morning Star
Thursday 13th Jun 2024 The black, and Red, contribution to Nazi defeat must never be forgotten We have long struggled for black and Asian Allied soldiers to be properly acknowledged in Europe's commemorations — but now a worse travesty is upon us, as Russia’s crucial role is purged from the record, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Wednesday 12th Jun 2024 Black British activism after WWI In the second in a four-part serialisation of his new book, African Uhuru, ROGER McKENZIE outlines the organised resistance to a surge of racism against black workers in law and in the unions as they returned from the war
