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 spat with China shows the US no longer always gets its way
Trump’s readiness to use trade threats is not some new departure for US imperialism, as the decades-long blockade of Cuba shows, but in the past these threats were always directed at vastly weaker countries, with little or no leverage to hit back, writes KENNY COYLE
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, right, arrive
at a news conference at the State Department in Washington on Wednesday
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
TRYING to make sense of US President Donald Trump’s foreign policy often seems more an area of expertise for child psychologists than political analysts.
If Trump seems permanently befuddled, this lack of direction is also a reflection of the serious policy divisions within not only the Republican Party but the broader US elite.
There are radically diverging differences emerging about how to handle a world that the US can no longer shape and channel as effectively as it once did.
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