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
Women have always been at the heart of the battle against the far right
Dr LOUISE RAW explains why the seventh annual Matchwomen’s Festival is proudly anti-fascist
Women taking action against Donald Trump in 2017
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
IN A chilling phrase, state school teacher Roksana says that, as she helped organise a peaceful protest for women’s reproductive rights in Poland in 2016, she “felt the breath of the government on my back.”
Thousands demonstrated against the attempt by the ruling Law and Justice party (Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc, PiS) to completely ban abortion.
When the ban failed, it seemed like a victory. But two years later, women’s rights activists and organisations in Poland remain under direct attack.
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