Continuous US threats against Cuba and Venezuela are a grave threat to democracy throughout the region, writes FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ

A wave of independent candidates is urging members to look beyond internal politics, drawing on experience in community organising and union campaigns, writes HILARY SCHAN

TARIQ ANDERSON urges widespread solidarity action against US increasing intimidation

Morning Star circulation manager BERNADETTE KEAVENEY applauds the heroic efforts of our Star comrades and reminds you all where you can get your favourite daily

JEREMY CORBYN calls on Britain to break free from Washington’s shadow and champion an independent foreign policy grounded in international law, solidarity and peace

The latest revelations about the ‘Prince of Darkness’ expose a web of political patronage, media collusion and unaccountable power. To restore public trust and safeguard democracy, Leveson 2 is urgently needed to hold the powerful to account, says KIM JOHNSON MP

The bombing of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Maduro were not isolated acts of aggression but the first move in a wider strategy to reassert US domination over the western hemisphere, argues LEE BROWN

Labour’s collapse in public support and the stench of sleaze around its leadership share a common origin in the New Labour project. Without a decisive rejection of this harmful ideology, the road is clear for a Farage-led government, warns DIANE ABBOTT

Grounded in anti-imperialist history and lived co-operation, the region’s support highlights a growing global South resistance to genocide and domination, argues MATT WILLGRESS

For decades, from Kinnock to Starmer, the party tolerated, enabled and repeatedly restored a man who embodied its contempt for socialism, its intimacy with oligarchs, and its willingness to trade principle for power – until the rot could no longer be concealed, writes ANDREW MURRAY

FIDEL ANTONIO CASTRO SMIRNOV, grandson of the Cuban revolutionary leader, speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about his country’s resilience in the face of dire threats, its incredible achievements and the legacy of his grandfather

Trump is trying to crush Cuba — we in the British trade union movement have a duty of practical solidarity, argues MICAELA TRACEY-RAMOS

In the first of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution

DR GLYN ROBBINS ties fights at universities and sixth-form colleges to the consequences of the market system that began a generation ago with tuition fees

The PM says Mandelson 'betrayed our values' – but ministers and advisers flock to line their pockets with corporate cash, says SOLOMON HUGHES

Hundreds in Berlin gathered on January 15 to honour the US-born socialist who made East Germany his home. Florentine Morales Sandoval reports

The far right thrives on division, but denying racism within the left only strengthens it. As we mobilise for the All Together March, real solidarity demands honesty about our own failures, argues ROGER McKENZIE

A survey circulated by a far-right-linked student group has sparked outrage, with educators, historians and veterans warning that profiling teachers for their political views echoes fascist-era practices. FEDERICA ADRIANI reports

Morning Star Wales reporter DAVID NICHOLSON analyses polling for the Senedd election — and it’s bad news for Welsh Labour

Dockers from Italy, Greece and beyond will stage co-ordinated port blockades on February 6, declaring ‘we don’t work for war’ – in a call in solidarity with Palestine. ALFIO BERNABEI reports

TOM GALLAHUE argues that asking what role Irish diaspora educators can play in shaping Irish unity is to ask a deeper question about democracy itself

The British Prime Minister’s Beijing visit marked the end of a long diplomatic hiatus and produced tangible, if limited, economic results, says KEITH BENNETT

In reopening relations with China, the PM showed an uncharacteristic grasp of power, proportion and Britain’s diminished place in the world – a lesson many in Westminster still refuse to learn, says ANDREW MURRAY

The suicide of Tamara Jade Logon after her disability benefits were wrongly withdrawn is the latest in a series of deaths in which coroners have cited DWP failings, exposing a pattern of preventable harm, says DYLAN MURPHY

Schoolchildren who joined a nationwide anti-Trump walkout learned more outside the classroom than in it but could still be penalised, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

The city has some of the most expensive, fragmented and unreliable buses in Britain – the case for bringing buses back into public ownership has never been stronger, says GRACE STEVENS

On January 29, US President Donald Trump declared Cuba an ‘unusual and extraordinary threat’ to US national security and tightened the blockade against the island nation MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS reports

For those who lived in Yanoun, its disappearance is not just a local tragedy, but a stark symbol of escalating violence, displacement and impunity across the occupied West Bank, says JANE HARRIES

The selection, analysis and interpretation of historical ‘facts’ always takes place within a paradigm, a model of how the world works. That’s why history is always a battleground, declares the Marx Memorial Library

As tens of thousands return to the streets for the first national Palestine march of 2026, this movement refuses to be sidelined or silenced, says PETER LEARY

One of Canada’s most revered politicians is a native of Falkirk but is relatively unknown in his original homeland. KENNY MacASKILL tells his story

MATT KERR takes a winter journey through poetry, labour and memory, from Glasgow to Newcastle, arguing that our radical past isn’t something to revere from a distance, but a tool still meant to be used

The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a registered nurse and union member, has sparked nationwide protests and renewed calls from National Nurses United to dismantle Ice and related agencies, says MARK GRUENBERG

If the government really wanted to address public finances, improve living standards and begin economic recovery, it would increase its borrowing for investment, argues MICHAEL BURKE

YUBIN DU explains why Britain and China should be natural partners in a restless world

Washington’s decades-long blockade of Cuba is eroding not only the island’s economy but Britain’s own sovereignty, Fidel Antonio Castro Smirnov tells the all-party parliamentary group on Cuba

A Vatican photo-op, a hard-right donor and a rhetoric of mass deportations reveal how appeals to ‘Christian values’ are being reshaped by Reform and Tory MPs, says SOLOMON HUGHES

The Labour Growth Group and its think tank partner, the Good Growth Foundation, have taken funding from major lobbying firms linked to housebuilders, banks and Heathrow – raising questions about corporate influence at the heart of Starmer’s pro-growth project. SOLOMON HUGHES reports

One hundred years after 1.7m workers shut the country down in defence of the miners, the struggles that sparked the 1926 General Strike are still with us – and will be honoured on London’s May Day march this year, writes MARY ADOSSIDES

Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT

HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket

By pressuring Mexico to halt oil shipments, Washington is escalating its blockade of Cuba into a direct bid for economic collapse and regime change, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN

As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE

A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE

Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning. PAVAN KULKARNI reports    

As Labour plans a centralised National Police Service, the resignation of a chief constable over the Maccabi football ban reveals how policing, technology and narrative management converge when public order and class power are at stake, says NICK WRIGHT

Recent research pushes back the date of the earliest cave art by several thousand years. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT look into the science applied

Framed as post-war reconstruction, it cements foreign control, bypasses Palestinian self-determination and models a new form of neocolonial domination disguised as development, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE

Journalists and opposition politicians have described the decision to remove TeleSur from national TV programming as censorship against alternative and critical journalism, reports PABLO MERIGUET

Eighty-one years after the liberation of Auschwitz, the threat of far-right extremism is resurging – the lessons of history demand unity, organisation and resistance, argues SABBY DHALU

As liberal commentators puzzle over the Prime Minister’s record-breaking unpopularity, the reasons remain glaringly obvious to everyone else, says IAN SINCLAIR

On May 16 1944, Romani families in Auschwitz-Birkenau armed themselves with stones, tools, and sheer collective will, forcing the SS to retreat – leaving a legacy of defiance that speaks directly to the fascisms of today, says VICTORIA HOLMES

On Holocaust Memorial Day STEVE SILVER warns that the ‘double genocide’ theory and modern ‘revisionism’ are not just historical errors, but calculated tools for rehabilitating fascist ideology

From the radical promise of early land reform to today’s cautious Community Wealth Building Bill, Scotland’s Parliament has lost sight of its founding ambition to shift power and ownership, writes RICHARD LEONARD MSP

A nurse dies as US immigration agents are ready to hunt down “everyone,” a US senator is told, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

Strike veterans and trade unionists found many parallels between Rupert Murdoch’s attack on the print unions and today’s democratic struggles, reports BEN CHACKO

ALFIO BERNABEI says an Italian minister meeting the British far-right agitator in his ministerial office is an ominous sign of the times

The government’s case for abolishing most jury trials doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, argues KIM JOHNSON MP – and it must be stopped before it does lasting damage to democracy

Former Labour MP LAURA SMITH makes the case for The Many slate in the elections to Your Party’s new executive

ROBERT GRIFFITHS delivered the main political report to the Communist Party’s executive committee meeting last weekend. Here is the second of two articles based on his address

A past confrontation permanently shaped the methods the state will use to protect employers against any claims by their employees, writes MATT WRACK, but unions are readying to face the challenge

Donald Trump’s bid to seize Greenland has exposed the deep hypocrisy at the heart of Nato, the EU and US foreign policy, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP

A step-by-step account of how Rupert Murdoch’s clandestine move to Wapping triggered one of the longest and most brutal industrial disputes in modern Britain, marked by secret deals, mass sackings, unprecedented policing and lasting consequences for trade unionism and the press

MEIC BIRTWISTLE offers an appreciation of the renaissance man GARETH MILES

SHARON GRAHAM reflects on the lessons of Murdoch’s confrontation with print workers – and argues that, in an age of AI, automation and net zero, only early organisation, collective power and planning can stop history repeating itself

ROBERT GRIFFITHS delivered the main political report to the Communist Party's executive committee meeting last weekend. Here is the first of two articles based on his address

VIJAY PRASHAD details how US support for Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa allowed him to break the resistance of the autonomous Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF)

Trump’s ‘Peace Council’ is not a peace project, but a war and colonial council that renews Western colonialism, writes SEVIM DAGDELEN

JOHN LANG recalls how Murdoch used scabbing electricians and even devised a fake newspaper to force a confrontation with printers – then sacked them all

The US attack on Venezuela raises grave threats to Cuba and the region, writes NATASHA HICKMAN of Cuba Solidarity Campaign

The newly catalogued News International Dispute Archive ensures the history of the Wapping dispute – and the solidarity it inspired – is preserved, accessible and alive for future generations, says MATT DUNNE

Forty years on, TONY DUBBINS revisits the Wapping dispute to argue that Murdoch’s real aim was union-busting – enabled by Thatcherite laws, police violence, compliant unions and a complicit media

Claims that digital media has rendered press power obsolete are a dangerous myth, argues DES FREEDMAN

Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA BABY reflects on 2025, tracing how war, imperialism, shrinking democratic spaces and neoliberal restructuring shaped global and Indian politics – pointing towards the urgent task of building a more democratic and just future

ROGER McKENZIE pays tribute to a communist, internationalist and organiser, who endures, 50 years after his death, not just as a towering artist but as a master teacher of struggle

Trump’s vision of ‘might is right’ signals the collapse of the postwar order — and a warning of who may be next, warns BOB ORAM

Tensions have once again escalated between Egypt and Ethiopia over GERD, Africa’s largest hydroelectric project, and now Trump has offered to mediate. NICHOLAS MWANGI reports

RAMZY BAROUD sees Gaza abandoned while the genocide continues

ANDREW MURRAY offers some troubling thoughts on pressing political issues

The once beating heart of British journalism was undone by technological change, union battles and Murdoch’s 1986 Wapping coup – leaving London the only major capital without a press club, says TIM GOPSILL

LAURA DAVISON traces how Murdoch’s mass sackings, political deals and legal loopholes shattered collective bargaining 40 years ago – and how persistent NUJ organising, landmark court victories and new employment rights legislation are finally challenging that legacy

While Iranians take to the streets en masse to protest sky-high inflation, Trump and Netanyahu are threatening military intervention. The Iranian population is trapped between a repressive regime, a suffocating economic war from the outside, and a history of dark alliances, argues MARC VANDEPITTE

As advertising drains away, newsrooms shrink and local papers disappear, MIKE WAYNE argues that the market model for news is broken – and that public-interest alternatives, rooted in democratic accountability, are more necessary than ever

LOUISA BULL traces how derecognition, outsourcing and digitalisation reshaped the industry, weakened collective bargaining and created today’s precarious media workforce

Unison Scotland’s BRENDA AITCHISON says her union won’t tolerate further cuts to public services 

A handful of journalists at The Times faced a stark personal and political choice in 1986 – cross the picket lines for cash and career, or stand with organised labour at great personal risk. BARRIE CLEMENT recalls why refusing to scab at Wapping was not just an act of union loyalty, but a stand for the future of journalism

The Danish Communist Party’s Lotte Rortoft-Madsen assesses the fallout from US threats to annex the huge Arctic island

Four decades on, the Wapping dispute stands as both a heroic act of resistance and a decisive moment in the long campaign to break trade union power. Lord JOHN HENDY KC looks back on the events of 1986

Enduring myths blame print unions for their own destruction – but TONY BURKE argues that the Wapping dispute was a calculated assault by Murdoch on organised labour, which reshaped Britain’s media landscape and casts a long shadow over trade union rights today

The National Education Union general secretary speaks to Ben Chacko on growing calls to protect children from a toxic online culture

On the 40th anniversary of the Wapping dispute, this Morning Star special supplement traces the long-planned conspiracy that led to the mass sackings of printworkers in 1986 – a struggle whose unresolved injustices still demand redress today, writes ANN FIELD

Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN

Karl and Eleanor Marx – father and daughter – share the credit for a pamphlet which was widely read as an introduction or alternative to his longer Capital and is still relevant today, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School

Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right —  and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY

Born into immense privilege yet committed to world revolution, Ivor Montagu was a pioneer of British cinema, a founding father of table tennis, a Communist loyalist and alleged Soviet spy. MAT COWARD tells the story of his extraordinary life

With US sanctions, military pressure and electoral interference looming, the struggle over Colombia’s sovereignty — and the fate of its fragile peace process — has reached a critical moment, says NICK MacWILLIAM

MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change

It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR

Out of the ashes of Gaza rises the world’s most remarkable graduating class, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER

RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation

Cuba, despite the privations, remains a beacon of sovereignty and resistance to imperialism, writes BERNARD REGAN

International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE

As the anti-fascist movement mourns the death of Gerry Gable, his long-time comrade and former Searchlight editor STEVE SILVER reflects on the life of an indispensable activist who spent six decades infiltrating, exposing and undermining fascism

Despite opposition from Greenland’s people and Denmark, Washington intends to control the Arctic territory one way or another. Strategic dominance, mineral wealth and military power are the driving forces at play, writes ROGER McKENZIE

Honduras may not be as much in the spotlight as Venezuela and Cuba right now, but Trump's circling vultures are making their move. JOHN PERRY reports

With the illegitimate partition of Palestine, and inflicting ongoing terror on Palestinians, Israel and the US continue to smash down the basic principles of democracy

NICK WRIGHT returns to Berlin and finds a city in darkness and political turmoil

DEIRDRE O’CONNOR warns about a big shift in how freedom of speech and protest are treated in new policy document before Parliament today

Data on regional deprivation in England shows us an unequal society, but what to do about it remains unanswered argue ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT

FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ considers Trump’s war on Venezuela as tentative prelude to US recolonisation of Latin America by military force

ALEX GORDON outlines the real battle for workers in Britain and Europe, to break the state capture by arms firms and the new finance-technology capitalists

Speakers in Berlin traced how Germany’s rearmament, US-led violence abroad and the repression of solidarity at home are converging in a dangerous drive toward war. BEN CHACKO reports

As Holyrood sets the Budget, the gulf between rich and poor is wider than ever. PETER OLECH of Unite Community Scotland argues that only by taxing extreme wealth can we properly fund public services and deliver justice for working-class communities

Ahead of an important CND webinar, ULRIKE EIFLER argues that militarisation is not only draining social budgets — it is reshaping everyday life, preparing society for war and demanding a socialist response rooted in the labour movement

Israel’s recognition of Somaliland has little to do with self-determination and far more to do with strategy, offering Israel a potential military foothold near Yemen, says JE ROSENBERG

Statement of the Tudeh Party of Iran