

Unions and campaigners condemn Home Secretary after government confirms scrapping of care worker visas

Hundreds travel to Birmingham to join ‘mega picket’ of striking refuse workers and supporters

From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds
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Thousands to join ‘megapicket’ in solidarity with striking refuse workers in Birmingham
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As Birmingham’s refuse workers fight brutal pay cuts, Strike Map rallies mass solidarity, with unions, activists, and workers converging to defy scab labour and police intimidation. The message to Labour? Back workers or face rebellion, writes HENRY FOWLER and ROBERT POOLE

Our groundbreaking report reveals how private rail companies are bleeding millions from public coffers through exploitative leasing practices — but we have the solutions, writes Aslef Scottish organiser KEVIN LINDSAY

Working in a high-risk sector, prison officers’ calls for proper PPE must be heeded – and the POA will be fighting to ensure effective protection at work is delivered, writes MARK FAIRHURST

In his May Day message for the Morning Star, RICHARD BURGON says the call for peace, equality and socialism has never been more relevant

LUKE FLETCHER pours scorn on Labour’s betrayal of the Welsh steel industry, where the option of nationalisation was sneered at and dismissed – unlike at Scunthorpe where the government stepped in

This May Day we reaffirm our commitment to working people and our class and to get trade unionism back on the front foot, says EDDIE DEMPSEY

Delegates call for government intervention to save jobs at Grangemouth

Tackling poverty in Scotland cannot happen without properly funded public services. Unison is leading the debate

Congress can chart a bold course that will force meaningful transformation for the people of Scotland

Educators must fight for an inclusive, creative system that values all children












