A 1936 confrontation with Mosley’s BUF became part of a wider international struggle, with local activists later joining the fight against fascism in the Spanish civil war. TONY FOX tells the story ahead of a 90th anniversary commemoration event
Women must be at the heart of the class struggle
The Star publishes an adapted political statement for the CPB women’s commission by SONYA ANDERMAHR, who argues that the stakes have seldom been higher for women, amid the fightback against the cost-of-living crisis and the defence of their sex-based rights
URGENCY: People in Parliament Square, London, take part in the People’s Assembly nationwide protest about cost of living crisis, February, 2022
Voters have delivered a stay of execution for Labour and exposed limits to Reform’s advance. But will Burnham offer a political alternative rather than just a different face at the top, asks ANDREW MURRAY
SEVIM DAGDELEN warns that Germany’s military resurgence and revival of old hostilities towards Russia have dangerous implications for Europe and beyond
MATT KERR takes stock of a night of by-elections, where the long repeated warnings for Labour and the political class remain stubbornly unheeded
Trump Is Building a Legal and Military Architecture to Invade Latin America. SARA VIVACQUA reports
Despite forming most of Britain’s trade union membership, women continue to endure harassment, inequality and minimal support for their sex-based rights, warns VALERIE COULTAS
THE “cost-of-living crisis,” which is actually a crisis of capitalism, is getting worse by the day. The Morning Star recently reported that “workers are living in a nightmare.”
Inflation is running at over 10 per cent, with many basic food items rising by much more and energy bills expected to exceed £5,000 by the new year.
Yet the wages and benefits of working-class people have fallen in real terms and as many as four out of 10 households are expected to be unable to pay their bills as the year goes on.
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