ROBERT GRIFFITHS asks who should govern Britain? Monopoly corporations through the EU, the Bank of England, Nato and the Pentagon — or the people, through their mass movements and elected representatives?
FIONA EDWARDS believes the student and youth movements have a crucial political role to play
RICHARD MAUNDERS pays tribute to the humble workers’ cafe
Sixty years ago Bill Haley’s Rock Around the Clock hit number one in the charts. FRANCIS BECKETT explores its cultural significance
The Morning Star sorts the good eggs from the rotten scoundrels of the year
Government reversals and the Oldham triumph mean the Labour leader enters 2016 with a spring in his step – but reshaping British politics will be a long hard slog, he tells Ben Chacko
Whitehall takes on 47 mercenary mandarins for £1,000 daily moneybag...
posted by Conrad Landin in Britain
HEALTH bosses stood accused of bullying striking junior doctors yesterday after they demanded a last-minute scabbing spree on the back of a “major incident.”
Bosses at Sandwell...
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Lead campaigner reduced to tears following investigation...
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10 victims killed, 15 wounded by ‘Isis attacker’...
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THE South African Communist Party (SACP) warned yesterday that the US was using a unilateral trade policy to dictate to Pretoria.
SACP spokesman Alex Mashilo said that Washington was using...
posted by James Tweedie in World
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THE Philippines’ Supreme Court yesterday validated a deal giving US forces free access to military bases across the country.
Ten of the 15 members...
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ENGLAND’S junior doctors refuse to play Jeremy Hunt’s game by calling off justified strike action in favour of a return to the negotiating table.
The Health Secretary has had...
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TRADE unions founded the Labour Party, and the party is at its best when it acts as the political wing of the labour movement — a movement that, despite three decades of attack and repression...
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YESTERDAY saw the resignation of yet another Labour MP nobody had really heard of, Alison McGovern, from a child poverty policy review group that she hadn’t even started yet.
The...
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NICK DEARDEN spotlights how the Venezuelan peasants’ movement forged a genuinely progressive seeds rights law...
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BEN STEVENSON examines the flawed and sometimes fatal approach of handing the housing supply entirely over to market forces...
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People across the labour movement are set to remember Eleanor Marx’s legacy tomorrow, as JOHN CALLOW explains...
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By fielding weak teams in cup competitions, Premier League managers add extra games and make the calendar more congested, argues KADEEM SIMMONDS...
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As the third round of the competition got underway last night, SUZANNE BEISHON and KADEEM SIMMONDS debate whether football’s oldest cup competition still means something...
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Ethics board want harsher punishments for Blatter and Platini...
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Apart from striving to eradicate world hunger and promoting intergalactic love and peace, there are other hugely important things I’ll be tackling in the coming year, writes James Walsh...
posted by Morning Star in Arts
JOHN WIGHT decodes the neocon agenda embedded in the latest US blockbuster...
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ROSS BRADSHAW of Five Leaves Publications reports on a poetic response to the refugee crisis...
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