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Findings come amid mounting evidence that the poorest people in the UK are paying a ‘poverty premium’ for basic services
Millions of households will be paying almost a third of their income in fuel costs this spring, amid warnings that a “black hole in provision” remains for Britain’s poorest (...)
The death of Queen Elizabeth II and the ensuing national mourning resulted in the suspension of strike movements which had remained dynamic since the beginning of the summer of 2022. Would the struggles manage to recover, once the moment of national genuflection was past?
And what was to (...)
Morning Star writer Ian Sinclair reckons he’s uncovered “the top under-reported story of 2022 ... the news the British government worked to prevent a negotiated settlement to the Ukraine war in March-April 2022” (12-13 November).
In fact, this story has been circulating for months and the (...)
Exclusive: walkout over pay due to take place before Christmas
The biggest nursing strike in NHS history is set to take place before Christmas after union officials said that “large swathes of the country” had voted for industrial action.
Patients who are already facing record waiting lists are (...)
While the climate crisis is deepening and households are falling into poverty, inflation and soaring energy bills, fossil fuel firms are enjoying their tax breaks and reporting quarterly record profits. Market analysis on energy prices predicts continuing high prices of gas for the next two (...)
HOW A RESURGING LABOR MOVEMENT IS RESHAPING THE UK’S POLITICAL LANDSCAPE
The Tory government collapsed on October 20, 2022 after sinking the pound, triggering a rise in government borrowing. Their budget, set to be implemented on November 17, will hammer indebted families already struggling (...)
Jamie Gough argues that the Truss/Kwarteng’mini-budget’ and the next Sunak/Hunt budget are only the most recent examples of a fundamental conflict for capital on fiscal policy, namely how the state is funded and how much it spends.
The bourgeois media and the Conservative and Labour parties tell (...)
Dave Kellaway examines the prospects for the latest Tory regime.
Sunak has become the first Indian-heritage Prime Minister (PM). We cannot deny this represents a change from the 1960s, when leading Tory politician Enoch Powell made his viciously racist Rivers of Blood speech. Sunak was born (...)
What has this long Tory leadership contest been about now that Rishi Sunak has won? Will Tory MPs’ factional feud continue? Liz Truss, Kwasi Kwarteng, and Suella Braverman’s right-wing “populist” agenda has been rejected by the financial markets and most Tory MPs. Who were the important players in (...)
A statement from the steering commitee of anti*capitalist resistance.
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Tories Out! On the picket lines, on the streets, at the ballot box!
The collapse of Truss’s short-lived administration has only added to the crisis overwhelming Britain. The Tories have no solution to (...)
Only months into the job, Prime Minister Liz Truss is on her way out already, leaving her government in search of a new leader and a way to regain public trust.
The U.K. government is in tatters after Prime Minister Liz Truss resigned on Oct. 20, 2022 – the second leader to be forced out in (...)
We must back the provision of humanitarian and military support for the defence and reconstruction of a sovereign nation invaded by a larger neighbour, argues GMB general secretary Gary Smith
The unpredictability of war is its only constant. As I write these lines the Russian offensive (...)
Dave Kellaway argues that challenging the dominance of capital requires economic acumen on the part of those engaging in anti-capitalist struggle.
Like many socialists over the last two weeks, we can take some pleasure in the Tories’ meltdown. It makes it unlikely they will win the next (...)
Nick Wright is a frequent contributor to the Morning Star and prominent member of the Communist Party of Britain. Back in the 1980’s, he was one of the unreconstructed Stalinists grouped around the Straight Left newspaper in opposition to the then leadership of the Communist Party. The Straight (...)
The defeat of free market ideology will be worthless if it results in a fear of public spending and an unquestioning faith in the markets
How should Labour and progressives react to the astonishingly rapid collapse of Liz Truss’s economic agenda? The temptation will be to rejoice. Rejoice at (...)
Andrew Murray is an unlikely figure for any Peace in Ukraine movement to promote, though not, it will surprise anybody, a Stop the War one. Murray, at the time a member of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB), was prominent at the launch of the infamous Solidarity with the Anti-Fascist (...)
A word that has come back into use recently is ‘campism’: “referring to the notion that the world is fundamentally divided into two camps, one imperialist and the other anti-imperialist.” Originally it referred to those who took the stand of the ‘Socialist’ states against the Western Imperialism. It (...)
Leading media freedom organisations call for libel action against ‘public interest’ journalism to be dropped
A group of influential rights organisations have signalled their strong support for openDemocracy’s “public interest” journalism in the face of legal threats, in a joint statement calling (...)
Dave Kellaway evaluates the relative strengths of two of the movement’s current leaders
All of us have been able to observe two different leaders of the labour movement in the last few weeks. On the one hand, we have Sir Keir Starmer, leader of the Labour party, who delivered the keynote speech (...)
A delegation of Ukrainians and their British supporters gave a loud call at the annual Labour Party Conference for more arms to be provided to end the war in Ukraine. Speaking at the conference, one Labour Member of Parliament said no other country had experienced three separate genocides in a (...)
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