There’s no return to the ‘old normal’ Despite what some commentators might contend, Biden’s election represents no return to the liberal Third Way consensus, writes KEVIN OVENDEN
Features | Thursday 21st Jan 2021 FROSTY’S RAMBLINGS From Whitehall, Kent’s lorry parks to Santiago de Compostela
Friday 22nd Jan 2021 Light at the end of the nuclear tunnel The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), comes into force today. For the first time ever the production and possession of such weapons has been ruled illegal. KATE HUDSON reports
Friday 22nd Jan 2021 Fighting back in 2021: next steps for Labour’s left The ARISE FESTIVAL team argue now is the time for us to look ahead, fighting together for socialist solutions to the crises we face and to oppose the Tory agenda
Friday 22nd Jan 2021 Johnson unchained by Kwarteng’s cartel? SOLOMON HUGHES asks: does the new ‘free marketeer’ Business Secretary’s appointment mean the PM is abandoning his tilt to the former ‘red wall’?
Thursday 21st Jan 2021 80 years ago today the Daily Worker was banned. Are there lessons for us today? EIGHTY years ago today, the Morning Star’s forerunner the Daily Worker was banned by ministerial fiat.
Thursday 21st Jan 2021 Banned but unbowed – how the Daily Worker was suppressed 80 years ago PHIL KATZ relates how the Morning Star’s forerunner was banned and the massive struggle to restore press freedom to unban the people’s paper
Thursday 21st Jan 2021 Trump hysteria ends in anti-climax Under Biden, as before, we need the broadest possible class-conscious coalition against the capitalist machine that intends to march the US and the world into more war and poverty — singling out Trump as a 'fascist' aberration only hinders that task, writes NICK WRIGHT
Thursday 21st Jan 2021 Covid-19 shows how important health and safety culture really is Research by the Institute of Employment Rights has revealed that health & safety inspectors have been prevented from visiting workplaces the government has deemed 'Covid-secure.' This disregard for workers cannot go on, writes PROFESSOR PHIL JAMES
Wednesday 20th Jan 2021 The vaccine rollout plans are too important to be left to Tory cronies Amid the pandemic it is falling on the labour and the trade union movement to build power to hold this negligent government to account, says HELEN O’CONNOR
Wednesday 20th Jan 2021 SCIENCE AND SOCIETY Only skin deep? New research shows how alpha particles form in the ‘skin’ of an atom’s nucleus, write ROX MIDDLETON, JOEL HELLEWELL and LIAM SHAW
Wednesday 20th Jan 2021 There is no ‘acceptable’ level of virus transmission Ian Sinclair asks ROY WILKES from the Zero Covid campaign to explain what ‘zero-Covid’ actually means, whether other nations have had success following this strategy and what concerned citizens can do to support the campaign