While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
'Keep our eyes on the prize and we'll build that better Britain'
Ahead of Derby's Silk Mill festival, CHRIS WILLIAMSON MP speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about the spread of poverty in Britain and the rush to war with Iran
NICK WRIGHT continues his series analysing the trends in European politics
We have the alternative economics, histories of our struggles and the confidence to change the world
General Federation of Trade Unions assistant general secretary HENRY FOWLER reports on the final day from the GFTU’s residential Summer School at the Workers’ Retreat, Quorn Grange Hotel
Capitalism has exploited — and polluted — our natural resources for too long, it’s time we treated our rivers as living beings, writes MIRIUM GAUNTLETT, LIAM SHAW and ROX MIDDLETON
Treating the Clacton by-election as a joke risks reinforcing the Reform leader’s claim to be the victim of an out-of-touch Establishment, argues JOHN McINALLY
MPs and others called for the urgent release of tortured Palestinian doctor, Hussam Abu Safiya, held hostage by Israel and reportedly near death, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
THIS weekend Derby North MP Chris Williamson speaks at the city’s Silk Mill festival, commemorating the lockout of 1833-4 when employers tried to force workers to renounce trade unions. Is the lockout relevant today?
The trade union movement has been under attack for as long as I can remember. In the 1970s we were fed a propaganda diet by the media about trade union barons holding the country to ransom. The truth was very different — the unions had successfully reduced inequality through successful collective bargaining — though there was still a long way to go.
The seminal Grunwick dispute over trade union recognition and low pay started the year I joined the Labour Party in 1976 and ended in failure two years later.
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