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 20th Apr 2024 Gaza: what did you do in the war? As the slaughter in Palestine continues and the solidarity movement’s calls for accountability and a shift in international policy grow, political leaders must realise they face a reckoning for their silence, writes HUGH LANNING
Saturday 20th Apr 2024 Germany lashes out as its complicity with Israel is condemned British-Palestinian war surgeon, Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah, was barred from attending a Berlin conference and deported after Germany recoiled in shock at Nicaragua’s genocide accusations at the ICJ, reports JOHN PERRY
Saturday 20th Apr 2024 Privatisation is not the answer We need a proper strategy to revitalise our public services – expecting privateers to rush to the rescue is no answer to the problems in the NHS and elsewhere, warns DIANE ABBOTT MP
Friday 19th Apr 2024 Glasgow honours Orgreave KEITH STODDART introduces a meeting that will remember the most notorious incident of the strike that changed Britain forever
Friday 19th Apr 2024 From Sharpeville to Gaza: the international fight against racism ADRIAN LEE reports on the annual Anti-Racism Day event held by The Liberation Movement, an anti-racist campaigning group founded in 2021
Friday 19th Apr 2024 Wes Streeting and the history of ‘the middle class’ Socialist historian KEITH FLETT unpacks the term currently being flung about by the Labour right as an insult and finds its popular association with ‘being a lefty’ is anything but assured in reality
Friday 19th Apr 2024 The health service emergency is no accident If you need a hospital now, you may not realise you are being robbed at the door as private firms cash in on A&E – with Labour waiting in the wings to bring in even more privatisation, warns SOLOMON HUGHES
Thursday 18th Apr 2024 Communist elected leader of the lower house in Chile Karol Cariola becomes the first Communist Party member to be elected president of Chile’s chamber of deputies, a major defeat for the right, reports EL SIGLO
Thursday 18th Apr 2024 STUC Congress 2024 How can unions maximise wins from Britain's next government? Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from Scottish TUC fringe meetings that discussed union priorities and strategies to influence the course of the next government
Friday 19th Apr 2024 Artificial Intelligence and the threat to workers’ rights TONY BURKE looks at the issues that have led to the TUC’s special taskforce on AI and the concerns of organised workers in the sectors that are already being affected by this powerful new technology
