‘A police horse ran full-pelt at me’ In the second of two features, ex-miner PAUL KELLY records his experiences at the battle of Orgreave when police mounted an unprecedented attack on striking miners, and what he did in the aftermath of the great strike
Thursday 09th May 2024 With Banners Held High 2024 A celebration of the labour and trade union movement will take to the streets of Wakefield in Yorkshire on Saturday, writes Morning Star northern reporter PETER LAZENBY
Thursday 09th May 2024 China’s model of co-operation supersedes the West's exploitative one ROGER McKENZIE sees at first hand the progress made by China towards an economic template that offers hope to the many not just the few
Thursday 09th May 2024 The phoney ‘war on motorists’ is a painful farce Rishi Sunak’s propaganda glamorising car culture aims to whip up anti-green backlash from a fantasy world of tweed caps and open-top Morgans in a cynical vote-grabbing ploy, writes SALLY WILTON
Thursday 09th May 2024 Italy braces itself for a hot summer Liberation Day celebrations have brought the dark reality of the Giorgia Meloni government’s fascist origins to the surface as the nation's industrial and political struggles boil over, reports NICK WRIGHT
Wednesday 08th May 2024 AI and entertainment: here come the machines, there go the jobs After the recent writers' and actors' strikes, the bosses in film and TV are embracing the cost-cutting potential of AI even faster than before — barely acknowledging that what they will be cutting is livelihoods, writes DENNIS BROE
Wednesday 08th May 2024 The students will not tolerate hypocrisy over Gaza The brightness of the souls of the youth now rebelling on campuses across the globe illuminates the wretchedness of our system, which has at its heart the ugliness of Israel’s war, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
Tuesday 07th May 2024 Tribute Remembering Bill Ronksley Former Aslef president TOSH McDONALD pays tribute to his political mentor and to the lifetime he spent serving the left and labour movement
Tuesday 07th May 2024 Miners’ strike stalwarts mark epic struggle 40 years on GREG CHALLIS reports on an event, organised by Chorley TUC, to remember the landmark struggle of the miners and their families, where calls were made for a return to working-class politics to address the issues of today
Tuesday 07th May 2024 Local elections were a disaster for the Tories – and bad news for Labour After 14 years of Tory rule there's little enthusiasm for Starmer and his menu of reheated Thatcherism, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Tuesday 07th May 2024 Peaceful student encampments opposing Israel’s genocide have become a political football Biden tries to look tough by condemning campus violence. But the violent attacks are coming from police and zionist mobs, leading a university workers' union to threaten strike action while faculty members act to defend their students, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER