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 20th Jan 2025 Labour’s chance to right a Tory wrong on workplace discrimination RICHARD BURGON MP says the government should use the Employment Rights Bill to reverse a shameful Tory decision on discrimination
Monday 20th Jan 2025 Who left LA to burn? California’s real-life water theft makes the classic Jack Nicholson film Chinatown look tame as a billionaire couple diverts resources and the climate crisis worsens the city’s peril, reports MARK GRUENBERG
Saturday 18th Jan 2025 Aw That A paradise lost in Ardrossan’s empty harbour Mismanagement, privatisation and EU rules have strangled vital ferry services, leaving Scotland’s island communities stranded and the once-bustling ports of my youth in what feels like terminal decline, laments MATT KERR
Saturday 18th Jan 2025 How workers fought US slavery and earned Abraham Lincoln’s gratitude PETER LAZENBY reports on how trade unionists in Manchester are to celebrate the role of the city’s cotton industry workers in the fight for the abolition of slavery in the US civil war
Saturday 18th Jan 2025 Roger Sutton: a champion of workers who never let go of the banner From anti-apartheid work to uniting migrant workers, Sutton showed us how to build worker power, keeping socialism’s flame burning bright, and leaving London’s mighty May Day parade as his legacy, writes Phil Katz
Saturday 18th Jan 2025 Grasping the will for radical change Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the annual Rosa Luxemburg Conference held last weekend in Berlin
Monday 20th Jan 2025 Rebalancing the power relationship between workers and employers As the Employment Rights Bill enters Parliament, JAMES HARRISON introduces a podcast designed to help trade unionists, as well as MPs, understand its intentions and how to go about improving it
Saturday 18th Jan 2025 This fragile Gaza peace deal masks darker truths After 46,000 dead and countless more from disease and starvation, Palestinians can celebrate a truce, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER, yet even as the Democrat and Republican leaders scramble to take credit, Israel continues killing
Saturday 18th Jan 2025 Trump’s return will boost the far right in Brazil With Trump coming back to power, interventions aimed at regime change and a far-right resurgence in the region are heavily on the agenda, writes MATT WILLGRESS, calling on the international left to prepare to act in solidarity
Friday 17th Jan 2025 Statement from Together Against Trump DONALD TRUMP will be inaugurated as US president on January 20 2025.
