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 08th Jun 2024 On the march for Orgreave justice The police attack on striking miners at will be once again marked as a day of infamy at the annual march and rally of the Orgreave Truth and Justice Campaign in Sheffield next Saturday, writes Morning Star northern reporter PETER LAZENBY
Tuesday 11th Jun 2024 Interview ‘Connect those inspiring dots, so we begin to surge’ Ben Chacko talks to TYEHIMBA NOSAKHERE, co-author of a new GMB-produced book about the incredible stories of trailblazers for racial equality
Saturday 08th Jun 2024 Derby honours silk workers’ bitter lockout battle The annual Silk Mill Festival celebrates the first-ever industrial workers’ strike in Britain, which, although it ended in defeat, laid the template for today’s union movement, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS
Saturday 08th Jun 2024 Notes From A Free Walker The loss of council housing is creating a rural dystopia Decades of right to buy have eroded the social balance of our countryside — and now holiday lets and second home owners from the cities are compounding the crisis, writes DAVE BANGS
Saturday 08th Jun 2024 We reject Labour’s hollow vision for Wales As the Starmer regime parachutes in disconnected candidates and offers little more than hot air, Plaid Cymru is mounting a real challenge to the decades of decay and decline forced on us by Westminster, writes LUKE FLETCHER MS
Friday 07th Jun 2024 ‘Let us hope that they will remember the Red Army’ A look at the writing of war correspondent James Aldridge 40 years ago reminds us of the eastern perspective when a second front was finally opened on D-Day, 1944, says HELEN MERCER
Friday 07th Jun 2024 Independents and candidates from small parties are the hope of real change in the election Breaking the duopoly of British politics is not easy, but it is essential as working people are crying out for change, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
Friday 07th Jun 2024 What a crock! SOLOMON HUGHES explains the logic behind the ‘Ming vase strategy’ that’s firing up the thinking of Starmer and his gang of centrists
Friday 07th Jun 2024 We must resist a ‘permanent austerity’ consensus We need to urgently put forward – and mobilise now for – policies that can actually address the depth of the crises we face, writes MATT WILLGRESS, of Labour Assembly Against Austerity
Thursday 06th Jun 2024 Derby Silk Mill Festival – from 1834 to 2024 BILL GREENSHIELDS looks ahead to a lively event this weekend which draws the parallels of working-class struggle from the 19th century to today
