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
Monday 03rd Mar 2025 The Musk-Trump demolition derby begins Musk’s ‘Doge’ is already dismantling institutions and destroying lives with shocking rapidity, while legal challenges and protest movements finally begin to mount against the chaos and cruelty, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Saturday 01st Mar 2025 'Sex, gangs and poor white girls' – unpicking the narratives Victims were forgotten until a far-right billionaire posted a series of tweets on Britain’s grooming gangs. ANN CZERNIK separates the grains of truth from the chaff of media frenzy in the story that has appalled one and all
Saturday 01st Mar 2025 Knit your scarf for Palestine with these handy instructions Six beautiful knitted Palestine solidarity scarves arrived at Morning Star HQ last week — with instructions on how to make your own
Saturday 01st Mar 2025 Aw That Bombs before babies: a matter of life and death Labour has announced it will spend billions on war instead of dedicating resources to saving children from poverty — they seem determined to drive those of us cursed with compassion to (assisted) suicide, writes MATT KERR
Friday 28th Feb 2025 No ‘Love Actually’ moment: Starmer assumes poodle position While German leaders talk independence and even the Tories promise to speak truth to America, the Labour leader grovelled before a president whose comments he once called ‘absolutely repugnant,’ writes PETER KENWORTHY
Saturday 01st Mar 2025 Battle of Holbeck Moor: don’t let them erase the communists An attempt to give the church credit for the mobilisation of 30,000 anti-fascists in Leeds in 1936 is an insult to the communists and socialists who fought the fascists, writes SAM KIRK
Friday 28th Feb 2025 Which side are you on? PETER LAZENBY is fascinated by a book of cartoons that shows how newspaper cartoonists were employed to, on the one hand, denigrade and, on the other, to defend the miners’ strike of 1984-85
Friday 28th Feb 2025 A tale of two cities: after fishing, after oil, what’s left for Aberdeen? Rich natural resources built Aberdeen twice, but today it lies almost abandoned, as our city faces a third major transition — and the renewable energy future threatens same old exploitation, warns LARA FLANNERY
Friday 28th Feb 2025 The world wildlife trade regulator at 50 What has worked well – and what needs to change – for the convention that controls trade in endangered species? DAN CHALLENDER and MICHAEL ’T SAS-ROLFES explain
Sunday 02nd Mar 2025 On Latin America, every US accusation is an admission The US projects its nation’s own sins, from funding narco crime to authoritarian rule, onto its ‘back yard’ — lashing out as Latin America drifts further into the multipolar future, write FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ and ROGER D HARRIS
