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Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson launches her campaign for the deputy leadership of the Labour party at a rally held at The Fire Station in Sunderland, September 14, 2025
Labour Party / 5 October 2025
5 October 2025
Prime Minister Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool, September 30, 2025
Editorial / 1 October 2025
1 October 2025
Richard Burgon speaks at the Morning Star fringe meeting, September 30, 2025
Labour Party Conference 2025 / 30 September 2025
30 September 2025
People wave flags as Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivers his keynote speech during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool. Picture date: Tuesday September 30, 2025
Labour Party Conference 2025 / 30 September 2025
30 September 2025
Junior doctors and members of the British Medical Association (BMA) outside St Thomas' Hospital, London, January 3, 2024
Labour Party Conference 2025 / 30 September 2025
30 September 2025
Owen Jones joins cleaners staging a protest outside Downing Street in London, following revelations in Sue Gray's report into parties in Whitehall during the coronavirus lockdown, of how cleaners and security staff were treated, May 27, 2022
Labour Party Conference 2025 / 30 September 2025
30 September 2025
School children in a classroom
Labour Party Conference 2025 / 30 September 2025
30 September 2025
Health Secretary Wes Streeting during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool, September 30, 2025
Labour Party Conference 2025 / 30 September 2025
30 September 2025
Unite the Kingdom
Fascism / 1 October 2025
1 October 2025

The far right feels comfortable openly saying the most racist, extreme things imaginable and harassing left events in ways unseen in living memory — we desperately need an anti-fascist Labour Party to replace the current appeasement regime, writes ANDREW MURRAY

Displaced Palestinians girls carry a jerrycan after collecting water from a distribution point at a tent camp in Muwasi, an area that Israel has designated as a safe zone, in Khan Younis southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Sept. 29, 2025
Editorial: / 30 September 2025
30 September 2025
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood during the first meeting for the reshuffled Cabinet in Downing Street, London, September 9, 2025
Labour Party Conference 2025 / 29 September 2025
29 September 2025
Labour MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy (left) and  Friends of the Earth chief executive Asad Rehman, Liverpool, September 29, 2025
Labour Party Conference 2025 / 30 September 2025
30 September 2025

CEREN SAGIR reports from the CND fringe meeting during the Labour conference, where speakers slammed a system where £99 billion nuclear arsenal replacement costs are ring-fenced while the two-child benefit cap remains

CND general secretary Sophie Bolt speaking at a Fringe meeting in Liverpool, September 29, 2025
Labour Party Conference 2025 / 29 September 2025
29 September 2025
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves makes a speech during the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool. Picture date: Monday September 29, 2025.
Labour Party Conference 2025 / 29 September 2025
29 September 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaking at the Labour Party Conference at the ACC Liverpool. Picture date: Sunday September 28, 2025
Labour Party Conference 2025 / 29 September 2025
29 September 2025
Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, September 27, 2025
Labour Party Conference 2025 / 29 September 2025
29 September 2025
Business Secretary Peter Kyle, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer on stage ahead of Reeves's keynote speech during the Labour Party Conference at the Liverpool Arena, September 29, 2025
Labour Party Conference 2025 / 30 September 2025
30 September 2025

Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE

Defence Secretary John Healey speaking during the Labour Party Conference at the Liverpool Arena, September 29, 2025
Labour Party Conference 2025 / 29 September 2025
29 September 2025
We Own It campaigners and supporters outside the Labour Party Conference at the Liverpool Arena, September 29, 2025
Labour Party Conference 2025 / 29 September 2025
29 September 2025
Kneecap's Liam Og O hAnnaidh, who performs under the stage name Mo Chara, speaks to supporters outside Woolwich Crown Court, London, September 26, 2025
Kneecap / 26 September 2025
26 September 2025

Rapper Mo Chara cleared of all charges due to prosecutors' ‘technical error’

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer delivers a speech to the Global Progress Action Summit, at Methodist Central Hall in Westminster, London, September 26, 2025
Authoritarianism / 26 September 2025
26 September 2025
Raeda Alian, who was evacuated from Gaza City, wipes a tear as she sits next to her belongings after arriving at a camp for displaced Palestinians in Muwasi, an area that Israel has designated as a ‘safe zone’, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, September 23, 2025
Middle East / 26 September 2025
26 September 2025
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament / 26 September 2025
26 September 2025
Jeremy Corbyn calls for a Gaza inquiry during a march for Palestine in central London, May 21 2025
Aw That / 27 September 2025
27 September 2025

It’s hard to understand how minor divisions can come to dominate the process of building a challenge to the rule of the rich when the desperate need for a vehicle to fight poverty and despair is so abundantly clear, writes MATT KERR

Kids on swing
Poverty / 27 September 2025
27 September 2025
WEDDED TO AUSTERITY ECONOMICS: Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks at a business reception in central London as part of US President Donald Trump’s state visit, September 18 2025
Economics / 27 September 2025
27 September 2025

It is the private sector’s failure of investment that is driving the economic crisis – Labour needs to realise that it’s the public sector that holds the key to getting the country back on track, argues MICHAEL BURKE

NASUWT leader Matt Wrack
Britain / 27 September 2025
27 September 2025
Mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham, May 14, 2025
Labour Party / 25 September 2025
25 September 2025
Britain / 25 September 2025
25 September 2025
Police officers detain a protester as demonstrators take part in a Lift the Ban on Palestine Action protest organised by Defend our Juries in Parliament Square in London. Picture date: Saturday September 6, 2025
Britain / 23 September 2025
23 September 2025

More than 100 protesters expected to hold signs opposing Palestine Action ban outside the venue in Liverpool

A general view of the front door of No 10 Downing Street, central London
Labour Party / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025
Members of the House of Lords gather in the chamber ahead of
Workers' Rights / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025
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Britain / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025

Climate, peace and Palestine activists condemn ‘war criminal’ Donald Trump's policies on his second state visit to Britain

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/government-urged-introduce-national-occupational-health-service
NHS / 15 September 2025
15 September 2025
People taking part in a Tommy Robinson-led Unite the Kingdom march and rally in central London. Picture date: Saturday September 13, 2025
Voices of Scotland / 16 September 2025
16 September 2025

Our economic system is broken – and unless we break with the government’s obsession with short-termist private profit, things are destined to get worse, warns Mercedes Villalba

THOUSANDS of people who joined a far-right protest “went on the rampage” in London over the weekend in an attempted repeat of last summer’s violence, campaigners have said.  Around 100,000 supporters of Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephan Yaxley-Lennon, waving St George’s flags, gathered between Blackfriars and Westminster Bridges on Saturday before marching past Parliament to rally in Whitehall.  At least 24 people were arrested and 26 police officers were injured, including four who were seriously
Politics / 14 September 2025
14 September 2025

‘We need more opposition to the far-right threat,’ Stand Up to Racism says

model houses on a pile of coins and bank notes
Economy / 12 September 2025
12 September 2025

TUC hits back at banking boss who suggested public-sector pay should be curbed because the economy falling

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner arrives in Downing Street, London, for a Cabinet meeting, September 2, 2025
Deputy Leadership Race / 12 September 2025
12 September 2025
People take part in a Stand Up to Racism protest in Epping, Essex, entitled Defend Refugees - Stop the Far Right - No to Fascist Tommy Robinson, following protests outside the former Bell Hotel in Epping, believed to be housing asylum seekers, where there have been a number of demonstrations, after police charged 38-year-old asylum seeker Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu with sexual assault following an incident where he is alleged to have attempted to kiss a 14-year-old girl. Picture date: Sunday July 27, 2025
Editorial: / 12 September 2025
12 September 2025
House of Commons House of Commons handout photo issued of Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in the House of Commons, London, during Prime Minister's Questions, September 10, 2025
Aw That / 13 September 2025
13 September 2025

The Prime Minister’s hamfisted promotional video promising to go ‘further and faster’ coincides with Angela Rayner’s resignation over tax dodging and Mandelson’s long overdue departure over Epstein — incredible timing, writes MATT KERR

the Home Office in central London
TUC Congress 2025 / 8 September 2025
8 September 2025
Labour Movement / 9 September 2025
9 September 2025
Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Monday, Sept. 1, 2025
TUC Congress 2025 / 8 September 2025
8 September 2025

Unison leader says international direct action needed to get aid to Palestinians and prevent more Israeli war crimes

Fran Heathcote
TUC Congress 2025 / 9 September 2025
9 September 2025

BEN CHACKO reports on fears at TUC Congress that the provisions in the legislation are liable to be watered down even further

Police officers detain a protester as demonstrators take part in a Lift the Ban on Palestine Action protest organised by Defend our Juries in Parliament Square in London, September 6, 2025
Policing / 7 September 2025
7 September 2025

Campaigners urge new Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood to drop ‘unenforceable’ ban on Palestine Action

Paul Nowak, general secretary of the TUC speaking at the TUC
Workers' Rights / 7 September 2025
7 September 2025
Newly appointed Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood leaves 10 Downing Street, London, following Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer's Cabinet reshuffle after the resignation of Angela Rayner. Picture date: Friday September 5, 2025
Labour Party / 7 September 2025
7 September 2025
People attending the People's Assembly Against Austerity protest in central London. Picture date: Saturday June 7, 2025
TUC Congress 2025 / 8 September 2025
8 September 2025

In the current climate, it is vital to bust the myths and put forward the case for a humane and decent social security system that supports people, argues FRAN HEATHCOTE

People attending the People's Assembly Against Austerity protest in central London. Picture date: Saturday June 7, 2025
TUC Congress 2025 / 8 September 2025
8 September 2025

MATT WRACK issues a clarion call for a rejuvenation of public services for the sake of our communities and our young people

Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner addresses the Local Gove
Politics / 24 August 2025
24 August 2025
Israeli soldiers sit on the top of tank parked on an area near the Israeli-Gaza border, as seen from southern Israel, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025
Editorial: / 18 August 2025
18 August 2025
Palestinians struggle to get donated food at a community kitchen in Gaza City, northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025
Gaza Genocide / 18 August 2025
18 August 2025

Meanwhile, Campaigners raise contempt of court complaint against Home Secretary Yvette Cooper over claims Palestine Action was proscribed due to violence against people

An elderly lady holding a cup of tea at home in Liverpool wi
Cost-of Living Crisis / 18 August 2025
18 August 2025
Jon Farley
Interview / 16 August 2025
16 August 2025

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

RMT members in Manchester, August 14, 2025
Privatisation / 14 August 2025
14 August 2025

RMT demands Labour deliver on its promise to start the ‘biggest wave of insourcing in a generation’

TENDENTIOUS: Illustration of the Cardiff riots from the Illustrated Police News, June 19 1919 - note the depiction of the black man as a knife-wielding assailant / Pic: Public domain
Racism / 15 August 2025
15 August 2025

White racist rioting has many an infamous precedent in Britain, writes DAVID HORSLEY

Eviction Notice Allan Vega / Creative Commons
Housing Crisis / 14 August 2025
14 August 2025
A woman is led away by police officers as supporters of Palestine Action take part in a mass action in Parliament Square, Westminster, central London, August 9, 2025
Activism / 13 August 2025
13 August 2025

Thousands expected to attend next protest against Palestine Action ban, organisers say

A support worker stands in a corridor as the first patients
Workers' Rights / 12 August 2025
12 August 2025

Government urged ‘to tackle the root causes’ of the NHS crisis and improve ‘social care services’

Undated handout photo provided by the Ministry of Defence of vanguard class nuclear submarine HMS Vengeance in Gare Loch, after departing HM Naval Base Clyde in Faslane, Scotland, to go on sea trials
Environment / 12 August 2025
12 August 2025
A tanker from Thames Water,  August 10, 2022
Privatisation / 12 August 2025
12 August 2025
Police officers arrest a demonstrator during a protest in support of the Palestinian People in Gaza, in Parliament Square, in London, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2025
Activism / 10 August 2025
10 August 2025

Meanwhile, Defend Our Juries say the fact that only half of the protesters faced arrests ‘shows how unworkable and unenforceable this ban is’

Israeli ambassador to the UK Tzipi Hotovely arrives at BBC Broadcasting House in London, to appear on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg. Picture date: Sunday June 15, 2025
Gaza Genocide / 10 August 2025
10 August 2025
Anti-fascists stage a counter protest to far-right thugs in Liverpool, August 9, 2025 Neil Terry
Britain / 10 August 2025
10 August 2025