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
Grasping the will for radical change
Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO reports from the annual Rosa Luxemburg Conference held last weekend in Berlin
CLEAR VISION: Peter Mertens, of the Workers Party of Belgium (PTB) addressess the conference
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
POLICE snatching Palestine solidarity demonstrators from the annual march to the tombs of Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht showcased an authoritarian new Germany.
Junge Welt, the Morning Star’s German sister paper which organises the annual Rosa Luxemburg Conference which took place last weekend, has been on the sharp end of this repression.
It has fought in the courts against its designation as “extremist” by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution: this does not ban the daily paper, but restricts its ability to advertise and sees access to it denied online at many universities and libraries.
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Morning Star editor Ben Chacko speaks to JON FARLEY – the retired headteacher whose arrest in Leeds exposes the grim absurdity of the Palestine Action ban
