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
The ‘grooming gang’ scandal: how Musk subverts true justice
By spreading race-based conspiracy theories, the billionaire tycoon turned right-wing provocateur has been seriously undermining the case against those who really did let victims of the grooming gangs down, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
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
ELON MUSK is a US citizen who has lived in several mansions in Los Angeles. But despite his local knowledge, Musk has been busy pumping out entirely made-up stories about the cause of the Los Angeles fires.
Given Musk talks nonsense about his own country and former city, why would anyone take seriously his ranting about Britain? For much of the British media and political system, the fact Musk has loads of money seems to outweigh his obvious lack of sense.
For Los Angeles, Musk and Donald Trump claimed California Governor Gavin Newsom had failed to sign a “water restoration declaration” that would have allowed “millions of gallons of water” from “snowmelt” in the north to flow into the state and so stop the fires.
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SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
