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
Promises of the past, predicaments of the present: reflections on 75th anniversary of India’s independence
The great irony of Modi’s campaign to appropriate our independence celebrations is that his right-wing Hindutva politics had nothing to do with the actual struggle against colonialism — progressives must reclaim our heritage, argues BHABANI SHANKAR NAYAK
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
Reversing outsourcing is the pre-election promise the government must honour, says Unison general secretary CHRISTINA McANEA
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
TODAY Indians will unfurl the tricolour to celebrate the 75th anniversary of our independence. The Indian freedom struggle has not only shaped India as a modern constitutional democracy but also shaped the nature of our state, society and citizenship.
The anti-colonial, anti-capitalist, anti-feudal and anti-imperialist struggle were the four pillars of India’s cause — they laid the foundation of our sovereign nation state and created a promise to pursue a society based on socialist, scientific and secular values, to ensure egalitarian citizenship rights without any form of discrimination.
These inalienable values are central to the unity, integrity, peace, prosperity and progress of India as a multicultural society and secular state.
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