UNEMPLOYMENT ON THE RISE BUT TORIES IN DENIAL

New minister Crabb’s delusions as jobs disappear along with raises and benefits ...

posted by Conrad Landin in Britain

Socialist story and song honours 1916 Rising

SCOTTISH Morning Star supporters and the 1916 Rising centenary committee hosted an evening of story and song in honour of the Easter Rising in Dundee on Tuesday night.

Musical duo Jimmy and...

posted by Morning Star in Britain

Mandate to campaign for Remain

THE STUC was mandated by delegates yesterday to campaign for a Remain position in the upcoming European Union referendum after a fiery debate at conference.
Usdaw delegate Jean Hession warned...

posted by Zoe Streatfield in Britain

Communists will prevail, says Fidel

CUBAN revolutionary leader Fidel Castro assured the world “the Cuban people will win” on Tuesday.

Speaking at the close of the Communist Party of Cuba’s seventh congress...

posted by James Tweedie in World

Oil strike ends after pledge

OIL UNIONS in Kuwait ended a three-day strike over pay cuts in the state-owned industry yesterday, having won a pledge of no reprisals against workers.

The unions said the action showed...

posted by Morning Star in World

‘Several hundred’ drown as traffickers’ boat sinks

UP TO 500 people are feared dead after a shipwreck in the Mediterranean last week, the UN refugee agency said yesterday after interviewing survivors at Kalamata in Greece.

The disaster...

posted by Morning Star in World

Brazil’s right is on the march

NO-ONE should underestimate the stakes Dilma Rousseff is battling for in Brazil by her pledge to fight impeachment proceedings “tooth and nail.”

There is a risk that the extreme...

posted by Morning Star in Editorial

School places crisis just the tip of the iceberg

HOW Tory efforts to marketise our schools will hurt working-class families was made clearer yesterday by TeachFirst’s damning report.

The teacher training group’s document was...

posted by Morning Star in Editorial

The return of Real Labour

HOW long have Labour supporters waited to hear such firm pledges on bread-and-butter issues, as John McDonnell gave at the weekend?

posted by Morning Star in Editorial

‘Listen to people, hear their problems and listen to their solutions’

Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood talks to John Haylett about the party’s manifesto which she sums up as three ambitions to build a Wales that is ‘well, well-read and wealthier’ ...

posted by John Haylett in Features

‘An unelected dictatorship of money’

When policy-making is dominated by powerful business organisations and a small number of the super-rich, then US claims to being a democratic society are seriously threatened, writes IAN SINCLAIR ...

posted by Morning Star in Features

Why renationalisation is the best way forward

If the money being paid out to shareholders were instead reinvested in the industry, how could the system not work better? asks PAUL DONOVAN ...

posted by Morning Star in Features

Bubbles about to burst as West Ham bid farewell

PAUL DONOVAN looks at the the final few weeks at the Boleyn Ground...

posted by Morning Star in Sport

Lennon chucks his hat in for the hoops

Ex-boss admits ‘interest’ after Deila announces departure ...

posted by Morning Star in Sport

Russia acts to ‘stamp out cheating athletes’

Moscow makes bid to get team to Rio Games ...

posted by Morning Star in Sport

Of his, and our time

GORDON PARSONS reflects on the timely republication of a book on Shakespeare’s significance in his own period and today...

posted by Morning Star in Arts

Dramatic diversions of India’s ‘third gender’ engage

The House of In Between Theatre Royal, Stratford East

THE HIJRA in India regard themselves as neither male nor female and as a “third gender,” they dance,...

posted by Morning Star in Arts

No joy with New Dawn

New Dawn Fades City Varieties, Leeds/Touring

JOY Division are as synonymous with Manchester as rain and Coronation Street. So it makes sense for any play about the...

posted by Morning Star in Arts