Green Party deputy leader MOTHIN ALI, who will speak at the International Anti-War Conference in London on June 20, says Britain needs to rethink its priorities – and its allies
IF YOU’RE reading this bumper edition of the Morning Star for the first time, welcome to Britain’s only national daily socialist, co-operatively owned newspaper!
After over two years of lockdowns, Covid waves and a shift to online only events, we’re very pleased to have worked with one of our 11 national shareholder unions, the CWU, to ensure a mammoth distribution today at the TUC’s We Deserve Better demo and elsewhere around Britain.
It’s all to get the message across — that however timid the parliamentary opposition to a government whose policies are deliberately driving down pay and allowing inflation to let rip, there is real opposition to this government in the trade union movement and it’s our job to build it into a force capable of forcing change.
Editor BEN CHACKO looks at the invaluable contribution the paper makes, and the headwinds it has to struggle against to get by, following the Morning Star’s 80th AGM this month
As advertising drains away, newsrooms shrink and local papers disappear, MIKE WAYNE argues that the market model for news is broken – and that public-interest alternatives, rooted in democratic accountability, are more necessary than ever
A chance find when clearing out our old office led us to renew a friendship across 5,000 miles and almost nine decades of history, explains ROGER McKENZIE
BERNADETTE KEAVENEY announces a simplified and streamlined way to get your paper delivered daily, and a big push for new readers that we can all help make into a success


