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Building workers pay tribute to George Guy Remembering a legendary trade unionist and inspirational leader morningstaronline.co.uk/article/buil...
Building workers pay tribute to George Guy
Billy Parry, chairperson of Unite’s national industrial sector committee for construction pays tribute to the late GEORGE GUYThe North West region of the construction section of Unite has received man...
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What we can learn from worst volcanic eruptions in history ALEX BROWN explains how medieval Europe was plunged into sunless years, with widespread crop failures and devastating famines morningstaronline.co.uk/article/what...
What we can learn from worst volcanic eruptions in history
EUROPE was plunged into darkness and suffered from intense crop failures and famines in the years AD536 and AD1258, after massive volcanic eruptions.When many people think of volcanic eruptions, they ...
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Red threads still connect us to the Calton Weavers Glasgow will remember the martyrs of the 1787 strike this weekend in speech and song, their spirit is sorely needed today, writes JIM LISTER morningstaronline.co.uk/article/red-...
Red threads still connect us to the Calton Weavers
“IF IT wasn’t for the weavers…” (Lyrics from a traditional Scottish folk song)Across these islands it can be hard work to trace our working-class history and, like other cities, Glasgow is littered wi...
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Brazil’s election is the next front line in Washington’s war against a multipolar world Sovereignty and the rule of law are under threat from Trump’s attacks on Lula’s administration, argue CARLOS MARTINEZ and SARA VIVACQUA morningstaronline.co.uk/article/braz...
Brazil’s election is the next front line in Washington’s war against a multipolar world
THE Financial Times reports that the Trump administration is considering fresh Magnitsky sanctions on Alexandre de Moraes, the Brazilian Supreme Court judge who presided over the case that sent former...
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Nine years after Grenfell, Kensington & Chelsea council hasn’t learned a thing - EMMA DENT COAD explains why she is stepping down from the council after 20 years and how the legacy of the fire still haunts the area morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nine...
Nine years after Grenfell, Kensington & Chelsea council hasn’t learned a thing
MY 20 years’ service as a councillor at “the Grenfell Council” ended on May 7. I could no longer bear to be seen as complicit with the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea Council’s ongoing failu...
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Reform UK: Farage’s Phoney Pitch to the Working Class - KEVIN COURTNEY explains why Reform UK is no friend to workers or trade unions, but just another party of the super-rich morningstaronline.co.uk/article/refo...
Reform UK: Farage’s Phoney Pitch to the Working Class
NIGEL FARAGE has invited trade union leaders to attend Reform UK’s annual conference and claims he will lay out routes for unions to affiliate to his party. Reform, he insists, is now “the party of th...
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‘Opportunities in politics’ – how lobbyists tell ministers who to meet - From Global Counsel to Arden, SOLOMON HUGHES finds firms linked to discredited politicians are still calling the shots in Britain morningstaronline.co.uk/article/oppo...
‘Opportunities in politics’ – how lobbyists tell ministers who to meet
Pivot from Mandelson: the advice from Global CounselA TOP consultant from Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm Global Counsel suggested Business Secretary Peter Kyle was acting too like Peter Mandelson and...
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Green Party deputy leader MOTHIN ALI, who will speak at the International Anti-War Conference in London on June 20, says Britain needs to rethink its priorities – and its allies morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mili...
Military spending isn’t the path to security — in the Green Party we take a longer view
MY INTRODUCTION to politics came in 2003, when I marched against the Iraq war alongside a million people in Britain and 36 million others around the world.The anti-war movement was right. The war was ...
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We must not lose revolutionary Cuba - Cuba continues to embody a vision of internationalism that imperialism has never forgiven, argues ZOLTAN ZIGEDY morningstaronline.co.uk/article/we-m...
We must not lose revolutionary Cuba
TINY CUBA — the Jewel of the Caribbean, the Isle of Freedom, the Beacon for the Oppressed — is clinging by a thread to its independence and its vision.Revolutionary Cuba — defiant of the world’s most ...
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Call for evidence: the Labour Together Parliament - Researchers PAUL HOLDEN and JESSICA MURRAY are calling for whistleblowers and documentary records to uncover how Labour Together helped build the parliamentary majority that now dominates the Labour Party morningstaronline.co.uk/article/call...
Call for evidence: the Labour Together Parliament
SHADOW World Investigations (SWI) and Paul Holden, author of The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney and the Crisis of British Democracy, are today announcing a new investigative project about the t...
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The Mladenov distraction: behind the screen, Netanyahu is annexing Gaza step-by-step - While international attention focuses on ceasefire frameworks, Israel is openly advancing plans for a permanent expansion of its control over Gaza, writes RAMZY BAROUD morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mlad...
The Mladenov distraction: behind the screen, Netanyahu is annexing Gaza step-by-step
GAZA requires urgent international attention.What is happening in the besieged and devastated Strip at the moment by far exceeds an unfolding humanitarian disaster; it is a calculated geopolitical res...
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Chery in Sunderland: why co-operation with China is in British workers’ interests - CARLOS MARTINEZ explains the sound case for car manufacturing co-operation with China morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cher...
Chery in Sunderland: why co-operation with China is in British workers’ interests
THE Sunderland car plant is the largest of its kind in Britain. It employs 6,000 people directly, supports tens of thousands more in its supply chain, and is one of the few remaining anchors of high-q...
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The far right turns crime into culture war - As protests erupt over Henry Nowak’s murder, ANDREW MURRAY argues that anger is being exploited to advance a wider racist and anti-immigration agenda morningstaronline.co.uk/article/far-...
The far right turns crime into culture war
WHAT do those protesting long and loud about the police handling of Henry Nowak’s murder actually want?After all, the murderer, Vickrum Digwa, has now been convicted and will serve more than 20 years ...
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Peace is a trade union issue - PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE explains why opposing war is inseparable from defending jobs, wages and public services – and why readers should come to the London Peace Conference on Saturday June 20 morningstaronline.co.uk/article/peac...
Peace is a trade union issue
SOMETIMES members in the union say to me, “Fran — why is PCS commenting on Palestine or Iran or Ukraine? Focus on the members.”I say this: “Because it’s the right thing to do so. Injustice has to be c...
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Kanya King CBE – she built the stage the industry refused to - Claudia Webbe pays tribute tribute to KANYA KING CBE, February 12 1964 to June 3 2026 morningstaronline.co.uk/article/kany...
Kanya King CBE – she built the stage the industry refused to
KANYA KING CBE died on June 3 2026. She died peacefully, surrounded by her family and close friends, after a courageous battle with colon cancer. She was 62 years old.She should have had decades more....
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Fresh strikes threaten ceasefire and peace talks - The Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights warns of escalation danger in Iran war morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fres...
Fresh strikes threaten ceasefire and peace talks
THE Committee for the Defence of Iranian People’s Rights (Codir) has issued a warning that the exchange of missile strikes between Israel and Iran could result in a dangerous escalation of the conflic...
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Silencing dissent in Portsmouth - Campaigners say criticism of Labour MP Stephen Morgan’s position on Gaza has been met with police intervention and cancelled opportunities for debate. HESTER WOLFE reports morningstaronline.co.uk/article/sile...
Silencing dissent in Portsmouth
SINCE being first elected in 2017, Portsmouth South MP Stephen Morgan has shown little tolerance for those who disagree with or challenge him.On and off for more than a year, pro-Palestine activists w...
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The National Emergency Briefing outlines the need for urgent action to address environmental crisis, says PAUL DONOVAN, warning that there’s no time to indulge the arguments of the fossil-fuel-funded climate-change deniers morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...
Britain faces a climate reckoning
EXTREME weather with fires in the summer and floods in the winter, food shortages, with harvests failing every other year, poor health and growing poverty are all consequences of the climate crisis th...
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Class war by other means: the Milburn review and the neoliberal assault on disabled youth - The Milburn review presents itself as a plan to help young people into work, but Dr DYLAN MURPHY argues it is laying the groundwork for a harsher benefits regime morningstaronline.co.uk/article/clas...
Class war by other means: the Milburn review and the neoliberal assault on disabled youth
THE publication of the interim report of the Milburn review into young people and work represents a sinister milestone in the ongoing neoliberal assault on the British welfare state.
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European protest targets rearmament drive - Campaigners from across the continent will gather in Brussels on June 14 to oppose Europe’s accelerating militarisation and cuts to public services, write MAGGIE SIMPSON and BOB ORAM of No Cold War Britain morningstaronline.co.uk/article/euro...
European protest targets rearmament drive
FACED with mounting military expenditure in Europe, cuts in social spending to finance it, and political attempts to whip up war fever spreading across Europe to justify it, a major European internati...
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Fownhope’s Heart of Oak Society traces its roots to the age of friendly societies, when communities provided their own safety net. Its anniversary celebrations reveal a tradition still very much alive, says MARK SEDDON morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bann...
Banners, brass bands and a 150-year legacy
THIS year marks the 150th anniversary of the Fownhope Heart of Oak Society, rooted — excuse the pun — in that very fine tradition of friendly societies, an early collectivism that protected people in ...
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When progressive ideas elsewhere take a beating Cuba’s revolution keeps evolving - ANGUS REID explains the significance of Cuba’s egalitarian in letter and spirit Family Code and the pertinent lessons it holds for democracies anywhere in the world morningstaronline.co.uk/article/when...
When progressive ideas elsewhere take a beating Cuba’s revolution keeps evolving
IN 2019, after a new constitution was approved by an overwhelming majority public vote, the Cuban government legalised independent international co-production for the first time. In 2022 I took two ca...
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Culture and the class war in Italy — from the Venice Biennale to Berlinguer’s legacy - NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cult...
Culture and the class war in Italy — from the Venice Biennale to Berlinguer’s legacy
GIORGIA MELONI’S demand for an apology from Israel after Italian Palestinian solidarity activists were arrested on the multi-nation Gaza aid flotilla is a breach in the European Union’s wall of suppor...
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Siege socialism or barbarism: why we must stand with Cuba - CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak morningstaronline.co.uk/article/sieg...
Siege socialism or barbarism: why we must stand with Cuba
A FEW weeks ago, Donald Trump told reporters that he expects the Cuban government to be gone by the end of the year. He called Cuba “a failed country” and added: “Other presidents have looked at this ...
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Knesset conference on settler violence is itself violently disrupted - AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right morningstaronline.co.uk/article/knes...
Knesset conference on settler violence is itself violently disrupted
LIKUD and other nationalist members of the Knesset violently disrupted a parliamentary conference organised by Hadash’s communist lawmakers against ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities — only t...
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A new McCarthyism? The US threat to Cuba solidarity groups - Special report by PEOPLE’S WORLD morningstaronline.co.uk/article/new-...
A new McCarthyism? The US threat to Cuba solidarity groups
FEDERAL investigators at the Justice and Treasury Departments have reportedly launched a sweeping inquiry into Cuba solidarity organisations, raising the danger of a revival of McCarthyite tactics to ...
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The tale of two Cedrics: the CEO, the GMB and the pig that upset British Gas - When gas company bosses gorged on assets, the GMB union fought back with the help of a 20-stone saddleback sow. MAT COWARD tells the story morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tale...
The tale of two Cedrics: the CEO, the GMB and the pig that upset British Gas
WHEN British Gas held its AGM in London on May 31 1995, its top boss, Cedric Brown, faced an unusual protest. Members of the GMB union had engaged the services of a 20-stone saddleback sow named Cedri...
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The Palestine solidarity industry - RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pale...
The Palestine solidarity industry
IT ALL started with a call to my family in a displacement camp in northern Gaza.Since internet lines rarely stay connected, I managed to send a message to the widow of my cousin, who was killed along ...
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Hands off Raul Castro! - Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hand...
Hands off Raul Castro!
RAUL CASTRO was born on this day in the small Cuban village of Biran in Holguin Province in 1931.If there was ever a time when we needed to celebrate the life and contribution of this heroic revolutio...
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Trade union renewal will not be delivered by Parliament alone - New workplace rights are welcome, but the survival of the trade union movement will be determined not in Westminster but in workplaces across the country, argues JOHN CARSON morningstaronline.co.uk/article/trad...
Trade union renewal will not be delivered by Parliament alone
TRADE unionists have every reason to welcome the new Employment Rights Act 2025. After years of anti-union legislation, restrictions on industrial action and attacks on workplace rights, measures that...
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