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 peace movement v the Starmer war machine
From Storm Shadow missiles hitting Russia to support for the endless Gaza slaughter, the new Labour government has continued the years of Tory warmongering. The peace movement faces a crucial year ahead, writes LINDSEY GERMAN
LOUD AND CLEAR: People take part in a Palestine solidarity rally in central London
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
THE traditional Christmas message of peace on Earth is unlikely to be heeded by the British government and its allies in the coming year.
If the declarations of Prime Minister Keir Starmer and his Foreign Secretary David Lammy are anything to go by, then we will see continued warmongering, increases in arms spending and a militant form of militarism which regards calls for peace as akin to treachery.
Anyone who expected a reprieve from the belligerence of 14 years of Tory rule will have been disappointed, not least in foreign policy. Starmer’s record on Gaza was appalling in opposition, losing Labour many thousands of votes as he continued to pronounce that Israel had the right to defend itself. In government, he has expressed repeated support for a government which is a pariah across the world.
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