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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‘We want the people of the whole world to stand by the side of the people of Burma’
KENNY COYLE talks to a representative of the Communist Party of Burma about its current priorities in the wake of the coup d’etat earlier this year
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
IN THE 1930s, a group of young, educated Myanmar radicals, who became known as the Thakins, emerged within the broader nationalist movement Dobama Asiayone (We Burmans Association).
Marxist ideas and literature had circulated in British-ruled Burma since the early 1930s, often as a result of Myanmar students in Britain making contact with the British Communist Party and the League Against Imperialism. A Red Dragon Book Club was set up in 1937 modelled on Britain’s Left Book Club.
In August 1939, a small group of the Thakins, including Aung San, held the founding congress of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB).
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