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The only English-language socialist daily newspaper in the world, published six days a week. https://morningstaronline.co.uk
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The ferocity with which Labour in power has cracked down on protest within its own ranks and also on the streets is unprecedented — and championing those protests is the only way we can turn this ship around, argues ALAN SIMPSON
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The Anachronistic Procession: today’s politics of the lost
IT IS hard to understand the self-destruct buttons Labour seems intent on pressing at the moment.I don’t blame loyalists for springing to the defence of Keir Starmer’s lukewarm leadership. It is what ...
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Giving a personal insight into the Labour Party conference, Sinn Fein MP CHRIS HAZZARD slams the lack of mention of the North of Ireland and the need to take the next steps in the journey from peace to Irish unity
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This Labour administration is failing its duty to Ireland
LEAVING Liverpool this week following my attendance at the British Labour Party conference, it is acutely apparent that the British government is not representing the needs and interests of people in ...
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The move to restrict exports of the important rare earth metals that China has a 90% monopoly on has provoked Trump to declare a 100% tariff on Chinese exports and other retaliatory measures, reports DYLAN MURPHY
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Rare earth curbs v tariffs as the trade war explodes again
ON Thursday October 9, China announced new restrictions on the export of five rare earth metals and the technologies used to refine them.China mines and refines 90 per cent of the world’s rare earth m...
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Socialist historian KEITH FLETT looks at the pronounced hostility the labour movement has had to giving the state the power to pry and identify dissidents, going back to the era of the ‘Freeborn Englishman’ and Captain Swing
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ID cards and the history of working-class anonymity
KEIR STARMER’S plan to introduce digital ID cards has a recent history. It was a project of the Blair years. Tony Blair, who has never had a personal social media presence, was keen on ID cards becaus...
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ROBERT GRIFFITHS reports on talks with Raid Jahid Fahmi, where sectarian power-sharing makes wielding state apparatus the ‘main domain of conflict’ and the struggling nation’s oil revenues are still held in US banks
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Iraq’s crisis and the regional dangers: a communist view
RAID JAHID FAHMI has none of the self-important air we expect from long-standing politicians who have held high office.General secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party (ICP) since 2016, he served as min...
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We desperately need our own legislation to protect and respect tenants, to give them dignity and security, free from fear of eviction, writes SIAN GWENLLIAN MS, Plaid Cymru’s shadow cabinet secretary for housing and planning
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Wales must not fall behind on renters’ rights
ACROSS Wales, more and more people are renting their homes — families with children, young people trying to get a start in life, and older residents who once might have bought but now find themselves ...
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Our Making Wales Work plan champions employee buyouts, community-led co-operatives and social enterprises, and reversing managed decline. As 26 years of Labour in power comes to an end, we are the alternative, argues LUKE FLETCHER
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Plaid Cymru offers better than Labour’s anaemic managerialism
ROUGHLY seven months remain until what could be a historic election in Wales — one that could see Labour’s electoral hegemony come to an end.
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The US acts like pirates in the Caribbean - HANK KENNEDY contends that US military attacks in the Caribbean amount to modern piracy driven by Venezuela’s oil wealth
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The US acts like pirates in the Caribbean
IN reading historian Marcus Rediker, one can learn a great deal about the “Golden Age of Piracy.” Far from being nothing more than cruel brutes, pirates often practised an egalitarian proto-socialism,...
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Once again, our broad-based coalition outnumbered the anti-migrant protest in Faversham, but tackling the sentiment behind this wave of anger requires explaining the real reasons pushing millions into leaving their homelands, argues NICK WRIGHT
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Faversham: a local battle in the international migration crisis
LAST SUNDAY Faversham Against Racism campaigners — gathered outside a small facility housing refugee children — outnumbered anti-migrant marchers who had threaded through the deserted streets of the K...
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One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
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Red goes green: witnessing the truth of China’s ‘ecological civilisation’
SUSTAINABLE development is one of the world’s biggest challenges — can we raise living standards while protecting the environment and reducing emissions?In Britain as in the United States, the answer ...
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Losing the atom-level buzz that keeps us held safe in the balance of internal and external pressure releases dangerous storms, disorientation and pain, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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Storm Amy: low-pressure damage
STORM AMY battered Ireland and Britain — especially Scotland — this weekend, felling trees and powerlines, causing floods, destroying structures and leaving 33,000 people without electricity.This was ...
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EDMUND GRIFFITHS makes a robust defence of sortition, the chosen method of picking attendees for the new left party’s inaugural conference from the membership at random, but sounds the alarm on the eye-watering number of suggested delegates
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Your Party launch conference: the sortition of the 13,000
HOLLYWOOD no longer even tries to bring out an old-fashioned summer blockbuster each year. In 2025, we did not need one. The British left has been producing all the thrills and heartbreak, all the com...
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ASSAF TALGAM talks to an Israeli Communist lawmaker about the need to use every tool of democratic and non-violent struggle; how Israeli society has changed since October 7 2023; and the persecution of the left in the parliamentary arena
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Ofer Cassif: ‘I don’t accept that Israeli society is lost’
“I DO not accept the claim that Israeli society is lost and that there is nothing to fight for within it. We must not give up.” That was the point emphasised by Ofer Cassif, a member of the Israeli pa...
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Turning the page on SNP failure: Labour’s moment to lead - As Holyrood elections approach, BRIAN LEISHMAN MP argues that Labour’s time has come — to open a new chapter which puts an end to the years of managed decline
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Turning the page on SNP failure: Labour’s moment to lead
THERE has long been a single truth to Scottish politics — trust must be earned close to home.With the Holyrood elections fast approaching, Scottish Labour had a clear strategic choice to make.The part...
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The appalling bigotry and bias of London’s police force has been obvious for years – and the police leadership does not appear inclined to do anything about it, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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The unfit Metropolitan Police’s racism and misogyny is not a ‘hidden culture’
LAST WEEK, the BBC in its headline reported a “hidden culture” of racism and misogyny in the Metropolitan Police. In its article announcing its findings, the BBC said that “Serving Metropolitan Police...
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Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP
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Labour Party conference 2025: where do we go from here?
THIS year’s Labour Party conference in Liverpool should have been a moment of unity and renewal. After 14 years of Tory rule, we are a government with over a year back in power. People are desperate f...
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In the face of funding cuts, closures and a shift into women’s centres providing criminal justice-only services rather than a holistic approach, RUTH HUNT urges women to protect existing resources, volunteer and build new networks of support
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Why we need the return of women’s centres
PROFESSOR Linda Gask, whose latest book, All in Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women’s Mental Health and What Must Change, shares the personal testimonies of women who have been failed by mental health ...
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The CPB's congress aims to build the united front against monopoly capitalism, utilising the YCL’s promising new generation of militants — but our party remains far from the strength history requires of it, despite recent progress, writes JOHNNIE HUNTER
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58th congress of Britain’s communist party: renewal and change in a dangerous time
HISTORY has shown us in the clearest possible terms that when the Communist Party is strong, Britain’s labour movement, left and working class are strong — the struggle for socialism is strong.Around ...
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Liberty and justice for Iran, not war, not sanctions - As war between Iran and the West looms once more, NAVID SHOMALI sounds the alarm bell and calls on the peace movement in Britain and internationally to mobilise for action before it is too late
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Liberty and justice for Iran, not war, not sanctions
AMID the continuing disorienting cacophony of war in the Middle East, and the horrific toll being exacted upon the Palestinian people in particular, while the international community and its represent...
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With the ceasefire and peace process now firmly in place for almost a decade, Colombia’s peace court has begun issuing its first sentences against both sides over human rights violations during the armed conflict, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
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Justice over Colombia’s civil war takes shape
IN a long-awaited development, Colombia’s transitional justice court, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), has issued its first sentences for crimes committed during the armed conflict. Crea...
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The new angle from private firms shmoozing their way into public contracts was the much-trumpeted arrival of ‘artificial intelligence’ — and no-one seemed to have heard the numerous criticisms of this unproven miracle cure, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
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Buying the bubble: a Labour conference love-in with AI
MY experience of artificial intelligence (AI) feels like the big tech firms are following the “junk food model,” where the food industry promoted superficially attractive super-processed products load...
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By refusing to recognise a Palestinian state and continuing to supply Israel with weapons, Meloni has provoked an uprising that is without precedent in the history of solidarity with Palestine — and it could change Italy profoundly too, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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Meloni’s Gaza challenge: the people v Netanyahu’s cronies
WHAT is happening in Italy regarding Gaza is unprecedented in the history of solidarity between the country and any other international cause anywhere. A popular uprising is under way, the consequence...
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The United Nations needs a radical overhaul - The UN is not only in need of structural change, a fundamental mindset revolution is also required – and it’s China that points the way with its Global Governance Initiative, argues ROGER McKENZIE
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The United Nations needs a radical overhaul
THE fact that the United States gets to effectively decide who attends the United Nations is proof, if ever it was needed, of why a new system of global governance is urgently required.Towards the end...
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The ‘Golden Age of nuclear’ deal is all a veneer - Once again, working people have been betrayed with false promises about jobs in an industry that is actually making climate change worse, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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The ‘Golden Age of nuclear’ deal is all a veneer
AT THIS point there is no need for any of us who are inclined toward commentary to further point out the utter dereliction of the Keir Starmer government. It is doing a perfectly fine job on its own.O...
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French prepare to ‘block everything’ all over again - A day of strike action is set to be unleashed today, against tax injustice, attacks on pensions and the anti-democratic manoeuvrings of Macron, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS
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French prepare to ‘block everything’ all over again
TODAY the French people will celebrate the inability of the state and its increasingly unstable governments to hold back their anger and opposition to yet more pro-Big Business, anti-worker imposition...
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