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 pantomime horse from hell
With Mandelson and Farage galloping into 2025 via Mar-a-Lago and wherever else a land-hungry Trump takes a fancy to, ANDREW MURRAY has a sinking feeling about what the next year has in store
Mandelson and Farage are to be charged, it appears, with dissuading the incoming President Trump from being too beastly to Britain as he threatens trade wars with US allies across the globe
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
IT IS the pantomime season.
That is the only plausible explanation for the news that Britain is going into 2025 with its strategy for averting being embroiled in inter-imperialist conflict pivoting on a partnership of Peter Mandelson and Nigel Farage.
This combo is the pantomime horse from hell, uniting the progenitor of New Labour with the ascending leader of right-wing nationalist populism.
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