As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY
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Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says the status quo cannot last – but those currently poised to replace it would usher in a nightmarish new era
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If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE
MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used
One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story
Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT
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AS WE enter 2025, the exhaustion of liberal centrism across the West is clearer than ever.
The return of Donald Trump to the White House. The recent collapse of the governments of France and Germany.
Britain’s own experience — a Labour government resting on fewer votes than it won in opposition, beset by corruption scandals and political pratfalls in its first few months, already trailing the recently wiped out Tories in the polls.
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The left must avoid shouting ‘racist’ and explain that the socialist alternative would benefit all
