Israel continues to operate with impunity in what seems to be a brutal and protracted experiment, while much of the world looks on, says RAMZY BAROUD
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The pieces are in place for rebuilding the socialist left in 2024
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO says militant unions and a growing peace movement create the conditions for a fight to put socialist politics back on the map after four bleak years
A new report by Amnesty International pulls no punches in highlighting the Labour government’s human rights violations of those on benefits, says Dr DYLAN MURPHY
With Reform UK surging and Labour determined not to offer anything different from the status quo, a clear opportunity opens for the left, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
A recent Immigration Summit heard from Lord Alf Dubs, who fled the Nazis to Britain as a child. JAYDEE SEAFORTH reports on his message that we need to increase public empathy with desperate people seeking asylum
By sticking together, working collectively and building the union, we can weather any uncertainty ahead, writes general secretary of Usdaw PADDY LILLIS
The announcement of a Women’s Justice Board should be cautiously welcomed, writes SABINA PRICE, but we need to see a recognition that our prison system is in crisis and disproportionately punishes some of the most vulnerable people in society
Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely
THIS month marked four years since the defeat of the most serious challenge to British capitalism in decades — Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour leadership.
The coming year marks four decades since the start of the great miners’ strike of 1984-85, whose defeat signalled the decisive victory of Thatcher’s neoliberal project in Britain, prompting a sharp acceleration of her government’s privatisation drive (we lost public control of British Telecom, British Aerospace, British Petroleum, British Gas, British Steel, British Airways, Rolls-Royce and, at the tail-end of her decade in power, the municipally owned water and electricity boards).
Defeat of the miners ushered in a long period of decline for unions. There are less than half as many trade union members in Britain now as in 1980; less than a quarter of workers are covered by collective bargaining agreements, compared to more than half in 1980; the number and size of strikes declined too.
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