TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to the Morning Star’s Berny Torre about the increasing frustration the trade union movement feels at a government that promised change, but has been too slow to bring it about
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DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
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EMAN ABU ZAYED reminisces about the perilous time her family and neighbours endured in northern Gaza and how they were forced, in fear of their lives, to flee south
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
AS THIS most difficult winter yields to spring, Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School is preparing to emerge from the period of public closure forced on us by the Covid-19 pandemic.
This month Marx Memorial Library launches a new membership offer. We want Morning Star readers to become library members and support the important work of Marxist education today.
New members who join Marx Memorial Library in March and April receive hot off the press a 2021 edition of our indispensable journal Theory & Struggle, with a wide range of contemporary articles, reviews and commentary on history, political economy, working-class education and culture.
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