BEN CHACKO reports on fears at TUC Congress that the provisions in the legislation are liable to be watered down even further
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The terrible toll of war
With increasingly sophisticated technology in today’s world of warfare, the burden of death and injury falls on civilians, writes LINDSEY GERMAN
Refugees from Afghanistan wait to be processed after arriving on a evacuation flight at Heathrow Airport
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
WHAT a year this has been for refugees. Suffering all the misery of displacement, illegal travel, state brutality and discrimination, and demonised by right-wing politicians and media across the world, they are finding the borders of the richest countries closed.
The callous disregard for their fate displayed by governments has been formalised in a series of laws and directives which further endanger their lives, preventing safe passage at sea and encouraging those who might be expected to show some humanity to their plight to instead demonise them.
The death of 27 refugees crossing the Channel in a small dinghy was a crime facilitated by governments who all pander to the right in scapegoating refugees.
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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
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