The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers
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Rebuffing the pretences of the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty
Labour’s For the Many, Not the Few manifesto contains a 20-point labour rights reform programme. ANDY GREEN looks at the recent intervention in the debate by a minuscule political sectlet
Jeremy Corbyn at the launch in Bradford of the Labour Party manifesto for the general election in 2017
Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports
The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war
Claudia Webbe pays tribute tribute to KANYA KING CBE, February 12 1964 to June 3 2026
The Milburn review presents itself as a plan to help young people into work, but Dr DYLAN MURPHY argues it is laying the groundwork for a harsher benefits regime
Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain
READERS of the Morning Star may have recently noticed a new campaign for labour rights has been launched, Free our Unions.
All very commendable. But if we dig a little deeper we discover not a broad-based campaign but a front organisation for the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty (AWL).
It therefore may pay to examine more closely the AWL and its antecedents as its leader and guru, Sean Matgamna, approaches his 80th birthday.
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It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR