BEN CHACKO reports on fears at TUC Congress that the provisions in the legislation are liable to be watered down even further
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Britain’s healthcare crisis – a consensus emerges
It’s cuts upon cuts since 2010 that have led to today’s imminent collapse of the NHS – as acknowledged by even that bastion of the Establishment, the Financial Times, says NICK WRIGHT
David Cameron talks to nursing staff during a visit to Birmingham Children’s Hospital, 2012
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
THE Times leader of September 2 1851, entitled “Literature for the Poor,” spoke to a bourgeois readership with the opinion that “only now and then when some startling fact is bought before us do we entertain even the suspicion that there is a society close to our own, and with which we are in the habits of daily intercourse, of which we are as completely ignorant as if it dwelt in another land, of another language in which we never conversed, which in fact we never saw.”
Learning from this, the most far-sighted of our bourgeoisie — including Winston Churchill by his own account — read the Morning Star as intently as they scour the columns of the Financial Times.
This urgent necessity for class warriors to know what the class enemy is thinking and doing is highlighted in the present storm of industrial action which is nowhere documented, analysed and described more comprehensively than in the Morning Star (although no day passes when it is not imperative for protagonists on either side of this struggle to consult the Strike Map website).
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