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
Thousands fear being forced out as 73 landlord MPs vote down motion to ensure housing is ‘fit for humans’...
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Muslim convert vilified by Mail and Express slams ‘tittle-tattle’...
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Calls for firm to be stripped of youth offender facilities role...
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Detente ‘consolidates power in Latin America’...
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Crew free after misunderstanding cleared up...
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SOUTH AFRICAN miners will march to Kimberley Mines today to protest against threats to their pay and conditions.
The future of 600 workers hangs in the...
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WHEN David Cameron is rattled, as in Prime Minister’s Questions on housing, his braying Flashman persona takes over and he talks cobblers about Jeremy Corbyn not believing in Britain.
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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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Eleanor Marx biographer Rachel Holmes talks to the Star about the brave socialist and her special connection to the GMB...
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Marx Memorial Library introduces regular opening hours on Saturdays, enhanced collections, a Cinema Action film festival, quarterly book sales and benefit gigs. MML archivist Meirian Jump reports...
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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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IAAF president says he does not underestimate the seriousness of the doping scandal...
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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...
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JOHN WIGHT decodes the neocon agenda embedded in the latest US blockbuster...
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JOHN GREEN recommends W Stephen Gilbert’s highly readable and insightful biography of the Labour leader...
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