Key workers need a pay rise – and they need it now Unions have an opportunity to join together at national level and put in the type of pay claims that could start to raise all key workers and their families out of poverty for good, argues HELEN O’CONNOR
Features | Wednesday 03rd Jun 2020 Class struggle, resistance to police violence and racism run deep in Minneapolis history
Features | Wednesday 03rd Jun 2020 ‘It is absolutely tragic that people have died on Europe’s doorsteps’
Wednesday 03rd Jun 2020 The murder of Romina Ashrafi shows Iran's women are still struggling for basic rights The so-called honour killing of 14-year-old Romina Ashrafi, beheaded by her own father, has brought renewed attention to the situation of Iranian women, writes JANE GREEN
Tuesday 02nd Jun 2020 Health privatisation is wrecking Ukraine's ability to fight Covid-19 Morning Star editor Ben Chacko talks to Ukrainian Communist Party leader PETRO SYMONENKO about the destruction of the country’s healthcare system through ‘the guillotine of medical reform’ and what this means for the people amid the Covid-19 pandemic
Tuesday 02nd Jun 2020 No worker should be made to return to work in unsafe conditions Unions from the Trade Union Co-ordinating Group will come together this Wednesday evening from 6.30pm for a major Zoom event. MICHAEL CALDERBANK invites readers to join the rally
Tuesday 02nd Jun 2020 Science and Society Heads in the clouds Why do the Met Office care what you see out of your window? SCIENCE AND SOCIETY charts the history of amateur weather observations
Monday 01st Jun 2020 Now is the time for a new internationalism, which prioritises global justice and collaboration From the coronavirus pandemic to the climate emergency, the global community is facing increasingly common enemies – a joined-up approach is needed to tackle them, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
Tuesday 02nd Jun 2020 Helping victims of domestic abuse – why I wrote the Freedom Programme PAT CRAVEN describes her work assisting abused women to understand what they have been subjected to amid the confusion caused by a victim-blaming culture
Monday 01st Jun 2020 Challenging the neoliberal onslaught on our children Tireless childhood campaigner SUE PALMER talks to Richard House about her top priorities for improving kids’ wellbeing, the impact of coronavirus and averting a mental health crisis among the young
Monday 01st Jun 2020 Coronavirus, domestic labour and Dominic Cummings LAURA BRIGGS explores how women’s oppression in the form of sex stereotypes serves a dual purpose to capitalism
Monday 01st Jun 2020 VOICES OF SCOTLAND Economic recovery cannot just mean ‘getting back to where we were’ The coronavirus crisis has laid bare fundamental issues at the heart of our economy and democracy, writes DAVE MOXHAM of the STUC
Sunday 31st May 2020 Reopened schools will not mean a return to normal for children As schools reopen more widely from June 1, what will they look like? How will children and staff feel? PHILIPA HARVEY, a primary teacher from Croydon, paints a disturbing picture
