Class and privilege at Durham University Male students’ online ‘chat’ about planning to sleep with the ‘poorest girl’ at the uni shows major problems in the societal structures that shape how these posh young men think, writes MOLLIE BROWN
Wednesday 16th Sep 2020 Nearly two decades after the September 11 attacks the military-industrial complex is stronger than ever Voting for 'Trump the anti-interventionist?' Think again, writes CJ ATKINS, the president’s two war budgets total over $700 billion each and he gets love from the arms industry — all the way to his cabinet
Wednesday 16th Sep 2020 Black Lives Matter accused of heralding a ‘lesbian, anti-family, anti-capitalist Marxist revolution’ The right-wing evangelical political figure Michelle Bachmann's outburst accidentally summoned a utopian vision for the US, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Thursday 17th Sep 2020 The ‘desaparecidos’ of Palestine Israeli defence minister Benny Gantz escalates Israel’s macabre war on the dead by witholding the corpses of those killed by the occupation, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Tuesday 15th Sep 2020 Deadly generation game Routine ridiculing, degradation and blaming of old people in the cultural mainstream has allowed the government to treat us as collateral damage – but sadly this mean-spirited ageism has infected parts of the left too, writes JULIA BARD
Tuesday 15th Sep 2020 Voices Of Scotland Slouching towards Ballyskeagh Scotland is suffering a depressing – and growing – democratic deficit, writes STEPHEN LOW
Tuesday 15th Sep 2020 TUC CONGRESS 2020 Nuclear weapons provide no protection against the multiple crises we are facing Find out why the time for defence diversification is now – KATE HUDSON invites readers to join a top panel of speakers at the CND’s online fringe event
Tuesday 15th Sep 2020 TUC CONGRESS 2020 Front-line workers need effective health and safety – especially in our schools A decade of cuts to ‘red tape’ has undermined efforts to keep workplaces safe against the transmission of the deadly coronavirus, says PATRICK ROACH
Tuesday 15th Sep 2020 TUC CONGRESS 2020 The PPE debacle shows how outsourced procurement is failing our NHS Procurement of goods for the NHS should itself be a function of the NHS, not an additional profit stream for private contractors, writes ANNETTE MANSELL-GREEN
Tuesday 15th Sep 2020 TUC Congress 2020 Probation reunification is a great victory — but the real work starts here Restoring the levels of gold-standard delivery that existed prior to the probation service’s part-privatisation will be a real challenge, write IAN LAWRENCE and KATIE LOMAS
Wednesday 16th Sep 2020 Workers’ rights in globalised industry – how can we protect them? Over the summer the Morning Star reported on a new study showing that major fashion brands were complicit in union-busting by Third World suppliers in the garment industry. Editor Ben Chacko spoke to IndustriALL general secretary VALTER SANCHES to find out what trade unions can do to tackle abuses stretching across international supply chains
