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 only prospect other than victory was slavery – enslavement for generations’
Daniel Powell talks to D-Day veteran JIM RADFORD about that momentous event of the second world war and why he subsequently went on to campaign for the peace movement and against homelessness
Supply landings at Omaha Beach, mid-June 1944
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
AT FIRST glance, the picturesque French coastal town of Arromanches in Normandy is a quiet, peaceful place; yet it holds a remarkable history.
Above its beaches where children play happily building sandcastles in the summer breeze, the coastal clifftops are profoundly indented with shell-battered bunkers, the concrete and steel remnants bearing the scars of a most epic 20th-century event — D-Day, June 6 1944.
As world leaders meet for the 75th anniversary commemorations, French families will warmly fete elderly British veterans gathering at their inns, recalling the town’s longest day.
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