While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
SOME people — although not, I suspect, many who, like you, read and subscribe to the Morning Star — say, “We should keep politics out of… sport, education, whatever.” You know the sort of thing. It’s not possible, of course. Because everything in life that affects us — individually and collectively — is political.
That’s why this general election is so important. The way we vote — individually and collectively — is going to affect each of us, in every aspect of our lives, over the next five years.
And we cannot afford — emotionally, intellectually, financially — another five years of Conservative chaos. Britain deserves better. Much better than anything the Tories — who have targeted workers, as the Morning Star has reported every day for the past 14 years — can or ever will offer.
Two-hundred years ago, on September 27 1825, the world’s first passenger railway line was opened between Stockton and Darlington. MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, reflects on the history – and the future – of Britain’s railway industry
Labour must not allow unelected members of the upper house to erode a single provision of the Employment Rights Bill, argues ANDY MCDONALD MP
On the eve of the 157th Trades Union Congress, MICK WHELAN, general secretary of Aslef, the train drivers’ union, celebrates victory in his campaign to get dignity for drivers at work


