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
Trump’s tariffs – the shocks and the after-effects
While the immediate impact is disastrous, the US president’s actions could lead more nations to seek greater trading stability by refocusing their economies towards each other and countries such as China, writes ROGER McKENZIE
GLOBAL ANGER: Indians burn a US flag at a protest against Trump’s tariffs in New Delhi, India, April 5 2025
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
ECONOMICS is known in some quarters as the dismal science and is often presented as an overly complicated set of facts, figures and formulas.
In reality it’s an analysis of the choices that individuals, businesses, governments and nations make to allocate resources and, it must be said, to exert political power. Through it we can analyse the impact of class and the class struggle.
I am not any sort of economist — as I’m sure some reading this will be quick to agree. But even I can see that the trade tariffs that United States President Donald Trump has just slapped on the world are utterly ridiculous.
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