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 12th Jun 2024 Farage, extra-parliamentary politics and the left How has Farage repeatedly failed to get elected to Parliament, but always succeeded in influencing parliamentary politics? KEITH FLETT looks at the tools available to the right and left locked outside of Westminster
Wednesday 12th Jun 2024 Eyes Left Banking on bigotry and the two-horse race Starmer’s Labour is dog-whistling so loud it’s deafening, safe in the knowledge the minority communities being slighted by these affronts largely have nowhere else to turn. Remember these betrayals, writes ANDREW MURRAY
Tuesday 11th Jun 2024 Voices of Scotland Are we nearly there yet? Watching the progress of the general election campaign leaves LYNN HENDERSON doubtful that we’ll see anything like the fundamental change so desperately needed by working people
Tuesday 11th Jun 2024 Star quality in Ilford North Andrew Murray catches up with British-Palestinian parliamentary candidate LEANNE MOHAMAD who’s taking on shadow health secretary Wes Streeting, with the issues of Gaza, the NHS and the needs of the local community at the front and centre of her campaign
Tuesday 11th Jun 2024 Women’s issues are trade union issues HELEN O’CONNOR sees a worrying trend of women exiting the labour movement in their thousands, and warns that if this tide is not stemmed with proper and effective action, it will only be to the benefit of the capitalist class
Tuesday 11th Jun 2024 The radical tradition of African self-liberation ROGER McKENZIE discusses the different Marxist traditions of thought about race and racism in the first in a four-part serialisation of his new book, African Uhuru
Monday 10th Jun 2024 ‘A big part of my campaign is the way the government has treated the NHS’ RICHARD BURGON is on the campaign trail for re-election as Labour MP for Leeds East constituency in West Yorkshire. He talks to Morning Star northern reporter Peter Lazenby
Monday 10th Jun 2024 It’s time to explode myths of privatisation Far from being ‘more efficient’ and providing ‘choice,’ privateers taking over the public sector have worsened service delivery, and workers rights’ have been utterly compromised on the altar of corporate greed, warns HELEN O’CONNOR
Monday 10th Jun 2024 100 years ago – why was Giacomo Matteotti murdered by Mussolini’s secret police? ALFIO BERNABEI presents evidence that it was the Italian Socialist MP’s attempt – weeks before his death – to build an anti-fascist platform in Britain that cost him his life, as he vainly sought to prevent Italy from falling into dictatorship
Saturday 08th Jun 2024 Aw That Hospitality workers put politicians to shame As the mainstream party leaders trade forgettable platitudes, fired-up hospitality workers in Glasgow raised vital funds for Palestinian medics — and are building a workers’ co-op, reports MATT KERR
