Morning Star
Unions warn Starmer: stop the stitch-ups
UNIONS and Labour MPs warned Sir Keir Starmer against trying another “stitch-up” yesterday, amid reports the PM is trying to block Andy Burnham’s potential return to Westminster. Britain’s biggest union Unison called for an end to Labour...
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FURY AT TRUMP’S BOARD OF WAR
DONALD TRUMP’S Board of Peace was slammed as a “board of war” by campaigners yesterday as the US president launched it at Davos. With the US president in exclusive control and member- ship mainly comprising despots and farright leaders, the board’s...
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PM blusters back at Trump threats
BRITAIN will not “yield to pressure” from Donald Trump to abandon its values, Sir Keir Starmer pledged yesterday as the transatlantic row over the US president’s attempt to grab Greenland intensified. This came as Mr Trump ruled out the use of force...
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JOB WOES DEEPEN AS UNEMPLOYMENT NEARS 5-YEAR HIGH
UNEMPLOYMENT rose to its highest rate in nearly five years with government intervention needed to prevent high regional rates spreading across the country, unions and experts warned yesterday. As 21,000 Job Centre staff began balloting for strikes,...
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Shock report into soaring political inequality
BILLIONAIRES must be “taxed out of existence,” campaigners have demanded as new data found that their wealth grew to the highest peak ever in 2025. In a report published by Oxfam yesterday at the start of the World Economic Forum (WEF), the British...
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BLOW TO NHS AS RAAC WOES FORCE DELAYS ON HOSPITALS
FURTHER delays in replacing hospitals built with Raac concrete are a “blow” to NHS staff, with campaigners calling for swifter action to prevent the “severe risk of collapsing floors and ceilings.” The government’s spending watchdog announced...
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LEFT TO DIE: CORRIDORS CRISIS IN NHS
NURSES have shared harrowing accounts of a “broken system” of corridor care that “tortures” patients, with people left in chairs for days and one patient choking to death, unnoticed. Publishing new findings on the practice today, the Royal College of...
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IRAN ACCUSES US OF USING ISIS TO STIR UP VIOLENCE
ISRAEL and the United States have sent Islamic State (Isis) terrorists to take part in the mass uprisings, Iranian authorities alleged yesterday. This comes as more observers call out the hypocrisy of nations who slam Iran’s clampdown on protests but...
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BRITONS RALLY TO DEFY COMPLICITY IN US WAR DRIVE
PEACE protesters joined demonstrations around the country this weekend, calling for an end to Britain’s complicity in the US war machine. Solidarity groups, campaigners and union leaders led rallies on Saturday in Edinburgh, London and Leeds, where...
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DROP LAWLESS TRUMP OR RISK GLOBAL OIL WAR
PEACE campaigners have warned Sir Keir Starmer to break with US President Donald Trump now before Britain is embroiled in a “full-scale conflict” over “oil and empire” as Britons join protests around the country on Saturday. The Prime Minister’s tepid...
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HUMILIATION
BRITAIN’S so-called special relationship with the US was branded a “humiliation” yesterday as PM Sir Keir Starmer cosied up to Donald Trump’s aggression over Venezuela and Greenland. The Labour leader faced a barrage of criticism after he declined to...
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ONE YEAR ON AND BIN STRIKERS STAND FIRM
BIRMINGHAM’S bin workers remained defiant as they marked a year of strikes yesterday. Labour’s failure to settle has cost the taxpayer £18 million and is set to see Europe’s largest authority fall to the far right, Unite warned. Union members began a...
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TRUMP’S WAR ON THE WORLD
BRITAIN’S peace movement called an emergency picket today in solidarity with Venezuela following the shocking abduction of President Nicolas Maduro by US special forces. US President Donald Trump said on Saturday that Mr Maduro and his wife, Cilia...
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KICKING OFF 2026 WITH A RENEWED FIGHT AGAINST GAZA OPPRESSION
PALESTINE protesters kicked off the new year by smashing up Israeli-linked weapons factories, with Stop the War Coalition warning the government yesterday of a “very large riposte” against its repression. Activists broke into a Scottish aerospace...
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TOP LAWYERS BRAND JURY TRIAL SCRAP ‘DANGEROUS’
SCRAPPING jury trials will “undermine confidence in our criminal justice system” with “no evidence” it will bring down court backlogs, top lawyers have warned. The bodies representing barristers in Britain and Ireland published a rare joint statement...
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HEALEY TO PUT BRITISH YOUTH IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH
NEW gap year-style schemes by the Ministry of Defence (MoD) are a step towards military conscription, peace campaigners warned yesterday. The two-year placements are said to be part of a new “wholeof-society” approach to defence. Defence Secretary...
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ANOTHER DARK DAY FOR JUSTICE
GRETA THUNBERG was arrested in London today at a demonstration in support of hunger-striking prisoners in what campaigners called “another dark day for Keir Starmer’s genocidesupporting government.” The Swedish climate activist was taken by Met police...
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INSTANT RELEASE URGED AS TWO HUNGER STRIKERS SENT TO HOSPITAL
EDUCATION union leaders called for the “immediate release” of hunger-striking prisoners yesterday after two Palestine Action-linked detainees were taken to hospital. Thirty-year-old Amu Gib, held at HMP Bronzefield in Surrey while awaiting trial, is...
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PATIENT SURVIVAL ‘CLEARLY LINKED’ TO NURSING NUMBERS
A LANDMARK study into excess patient deaths across NHS hospitals has found a “very clear and consistent” link between nurse staffing and patient mortality — and that replacing them with lower-paid workers makes no difference. Dramatic variations in...
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CORPORATE ABUSES RUN RAMPANT AMID HEALTH & SAFETY LAW’S COLLAPSE
WORKPLACE and environmental abuses may be going unpunished as a study published yesterday reveals that enforcement has fallen to new lows this year following a “catastrophic” weakening of rules. Regulators across most British industries have seen the...
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Starmer slammed as new migrant plans set to make things worse RACISM IN THE WORKPLACE ON THE RISE , FINDS NEW SHOCK POLL
MIGRANT workers experience appalling levels of racism and bigotry, a damning new union study found yesterday as PM Sir Keir Starmer was slammed for sticking to draconian plans to make Indefinite Leave to Remain (ILR) harder to obtain. Unite is calling...
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SHOW SOME COMPASSION, MR LAMMY
APALESTINE ACTION hunger striker was rushed to hospital some 24 hours after she reported needing urgent medical attention on her 46th day without food at HMP Bronzefield yesterday. Supporters including Zarah Sultana MP, doctors and trade unionists...
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HUGE MANDATE FOR FIVE-DAY DOCTORS’ STRIKE
HOSPITALS face nearly half the medical workforce going out on strike during the busy winter period after resident doctors in England overwhelmingly rejected the government’s latest offer on jobs yesterday. British Medical Association (BMA) members...
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DEATH ON THE BEACH
GUNMEN attacked a Hanukkah celebration on Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia, yesterday, killing at least 12 people in an “evil, anti-semitic, terrorist attack.” The shooting began at about 6.47pm local time at the Archer Park area of the beach, where...
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STOP THE TIRADES START THE TALKS
WES STREETING “has far more power to prevent NHS strikes than he gives himself credit for,” said the British Medical Association (BMA) yesterday. The Health Secretary was warned his “irresponsible” public tirades won’t avert plans for a five-day...
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LAMMY DISMISSES HUNGER STRIKER MEETING PLEAS
DAVID LAMMY sparked outrage yesterday with a refusal to meet MPs worried their constituents on hunger strike in prison may come to serious harm. The Justice Secretary and Deputy Prime Minister was asked by former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for a...
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