Ministers say scrapping Ofwat will toughen oversight of scandal-hit water firms. But merging environmental and economic regulation and openly courting private investors suggest the failures of privatisation are set to continue. SOLOMON HUGHES reports morningstaronline.co.uk/article/labo...

Milei fiddles while Argentina burns - The president is steering Argentina toward ever-deeper dependence on US capital, while slashing budgets at home – with calamitous results for the environment and the economy. BERT SCHOUWENBURG reports morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mile...

After 58 fishermen were lost in the so-called ‘Triple Trawler Tragedy,’ four women led a grassroots revolt that forced the government to overhaul Britain’s deadly deep-sea fishing industry. MAT COWARD tells the story morningstaronline.co.uk/article/how-...

‘I doubled down and started my full fledged advocacy for Palestine’ - CHRISTOPHE DOMEC speaks to CHRIS SMALLS, who helped set up the Amazon Labor Union, on how weak leadership debilitates union activism and dilutes their purpose morningstaronline.co.uk/article/i-do...

Arundhati Roy refuses silence: why artists must speak out on Gaza - In times of genocide, art is not a refuge from politics but a weapon against injustice, says ROGER McKENZIE, highlighting three of his own favourite political truth-tellers morningstaronline.co.uk/article/arun...

In the fifth and final part of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG explains how the Communist Party of China’s approach demonstrates how Marxism, rooted in concrete conditions and mass participation, can shape history morningstaronline.co.uk/article/chin...

Rev Jesse L Jackson, tireless civil rights champion, dies aged 84 - John Wojcik pays tribute to a black US activist who spent six decades at the forefront of struggles for voting rights, economic justice and peace morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rev-...

Amid the latest US attack on the island, over 100 Cuban artists, intellectuals, dancers, musicians, and writers have called on cultural workers across the world to stand in solidarity with Cuba against the blockade. A report by People’s Dispatch morningstaronline.co.uk/article/over...

Keir today, gone tomorrow? Please stop trying to reboot this broken PM - ANDREW MURRAY says switching the prime minister on and off again is no substitute for new political approach we need morningstaronline.co.uk/article/keir...

Regime cleavage: how the United States is splitting into two - The language of humiliation is a step towards a second civil war, argues RAMZY BAROUD morningstaronline.co.uk/article/regi...

As Beijing gathers for its annual ‘Two Sessions,’ all eyes are on China’s technological blueprint that will steer the world’s second-largest economy forwards in the coming period, says ZHANG HE morningstaronline.co.uk/article/why-...

Twice elected in Battersea, ‘Comrade Sak’ devoted his life to the twin causes of working-class struggle and Indian independence – a legacy now honoured 90 years after his death, write DAVID HORSLEY and JEANNE RATHBONE morningstaronline.co.uk/article/red-...

£200 million for Send training: a headline to hide a crisis - LEIGH SEEDHOUSE looks at why special educational needs is in crisis — and why the government’s pledge of Send training for every teacher is a poisoned chalice morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ps20...

Dignity beyond empire - Sinn Fein’s CHRIS HAZZARD MP addressed the closing rally at Latin America 2026 earlier this month. The Star republishes his speech here morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dign...

If parties are serious about rebuilding trust, as the elections approach, they must embrace bold redistribution, invest in public services and put working people, not the wealthy few, at the heart of Scotland’s future, argues ROZ FOYER morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scot...

As capitalism lurches from crisis to crisis, more and more workers are ‘superexploited’ – they receive less than the minimum deemed ‘socially necessary’ to support themselves and produce the next generation of workers, writes the Marx Memorial Library morningstaronline.co.uk/article/what...

Opinion: One party, two alternative visions: a turning point for the socialist left - Mel Mullings, Riccardo la Torre and Chloe Braddock of the Grassroots Left slate set out their case morningstaronline.co.uk/article/one-...

Storming the Heavens: introducing China’s peasant revolution - In the first of a series of articles, Storming the Heavens author JENNY CLEGG introduces the key themes of her book on the Chinese revolution morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stor...

Unions are battling an all-out assault on working-class education - DR GLYN ROBBINS ties fights at universities and sixth-form colleges to the consequences of the market system that began a generation ago with tuition fees morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unio...

Starmer’s whole team follow Mandelson’s grubby example of taking favours from the rich - The PM says Mandelson 'betrayed our values' – but ministers and advisers flock to line their pockets with corporate cash, says SOLOMON HUGHES morningstaronline.co.uk/article/star...

Standing at the crossroads of institutional authority and working-class political memory - TOM GALLAHUE argues that asking what role Irish diaspora educators can play in shaping Irish unity is to ask a deeper question about democracy itself morningstaronline.co.uk/article/stan...

Internationalist Victor Grossman laid to rest in Berlin - Hundreds in Berlin gathered on January 15 to honour the US-born socialist who made East Germany his home. Florentine Morales Sandoval reports morningstaronline.co.uk/article/inte...

The far right thrives on division, but denying racism within the left only strengthens it. As we mobilise for the All Together March, real solidarity demands honesty about our own failures, argues ROGER McKENZIE morningstaronline.co.uk/article/conf...

Breaking the ice: Starmer’s pragmatic turn to China - The British Prime Minister’s Beijing visit marked the end of a long diplomatic hiatus and produced tangible, if limited, economic results, says KEITH BENNETT morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brea...

Dockers from Italy, Greece and beyond will stage co-ordinated port blockades on February 6, declaring ‘we don’t work for war’ – in a call in solidarity with Palestine. ALFIO BERNABEI reports morningstaronline.co.uk/article/medi...

The shadow of Mussolini: Italy alarmed as students encouraged to report ‘left-wing’ teachers. FEDERICA ADRIANI reports morningstaronline.co.uk/article/shad...

Keir Starmer’s small-stick diplomacy - In reopening relations with China, the PM showed an uncharacteristic grasp of power, proportion and Britain’s diminished place in the world – a lesson many in Westminster still refuse to learn, says ANDREW MURRAY morningstaronline.co.uk/article/keir...

A civics lesson on the streets - Schoolchildren who joined a nationwide anti-Trump walkout learned more outside the classroom than in it but could still be penalised, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER morningstaronline.co.uk/article/civi...

The suicide of Tamara Jade Logon after her disability benefits were wrongly withdrawn is the latest in a series of deaths in which coroners have cited DWP failings, exposing a pattern of preventable harm, says DYLAN MURPHY morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dwp-...

Glasgow has some of the most expensive, fragmented and unreliable buses in Britain – the case for bringing buses back into public ownership has never been stronger, says GRACE STEVENS morningstaronline.co.uk/article/glas...

Nurses’ union demands abolition of Ice - The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti, a registered nurse and union member, has sparked nationwide protests and renewed calls from National Nurses United to dismantle Ice and related agencies, says MARK GRUENBERG morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nurs...

In an age of strategic fragmentation, Britain and China should choose co-operation - YUBIN DU explains why Britain and China should be natural partners in a restless world morningstaronline.co.uk/article/age-...

Washington’s decades-long blockade of Cuba is eroding not only the island’s economy but Britain’s own sovereignty, Fidel Antonio Castro Smirnov tells the all-party parliamentary group on Cuba morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fide...

Andrew Rosindell and the politics of selective Christianity - A Vatican photo-op, a hard-right donor and a rhetoric of mass deportations reveal how appeals to ‘Christian values’ are being reshaped by Reform and Tory MPs, says SOLOMON HUGHES morningstaronline.co.uk/article/andr...

One hundred years after 1.7m workers shut the country down in defence of the miners, the struggles that sparked the 1926 General Strike are still with us – and will be honoured on London’s May Day march this year, writes MARY ADOSSIDES morningstaronline.co.uk/article/gene...

Megapicket: the third dimension is union power - HENRY FOWLER and ROB POOLE explain the significance of today’s Megapicket morningstaronline.co.uk/article/mega...

Scabbing on the bin strike? No chance! - Labour prospects in May elections may be irrevocably damaged by Birmingham Council’s costly refusal to settle the year-long dispute, warns STEVE WRIGHT morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scab...

Minneapolis and the deadly cost of dehumanisation - A society that grows accustomed to ‘undesirable’ people also grows accustomed to undesirable deaths. Minneapolis serves as a wake-up call, including for our own refugee policies, writes MARC VANDEPITTE morningstaronline.co.uk/article/minn...

US turns sanctions on Cuba into an oil siege - By pressuring Mexico to halt oil shipments, Washington is escalating its blockade of Cuba into a direct bid for economic collapse and regime change, argues SEVIM DAGDELEN morningstaronline.co.uk/article/us-t...

As the government quietly upgrades the role of Britain’s special forces, their growing global footprint and near-total exemption from democratic oversight should alarm us all, says ROGER McKENZIE morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...

As Labour plans a centralised National Police Service, the resignation of a chief constable over the Maccabi football ban reveals how policing, technology and narrative management converge when public order and class power are at stake, says NICK WRIGHT morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...

Sudan civil war spills over into neighbouring Chad - Sudan’s paramilitary attacked a Chadian military garrison, killing seven soldiers and prompting the government to issue a “final warning. PAVAN KULKARNI reports morningstaronline.co.uk/article/suda...

Cave art and the age of humankind - Recent research pushes back the date of the earliest cave art by several thousand years. ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT look into the science applied morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cave...

Bolivian government removes TeleSur from national television programming, reports PABLO MERIGUET morningstaronline.co.uk/article/boli...

From the radical promise of early land reform to today’s cautious Community Wealth Building Bill, Scotland’s Parliament has lost sight of its founding ambition to shift power and ownership, writes RICHARD LEONARD MSP morningstaronline.co.uk/article/last...

The US ‘peace board’ for Gaza is in reality a council of gangsterst, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE morningstaronline.co.uk/article/us-p...

The Guardian’s Starmer blindspot - As liberal commentators puzzle over the Prime Minister’s record-breaking unpopularity, the reasons remain glaringly obvious to everyone else, says IAN SINCLAIR morningstaronline.co.uk/article/guar...

Why Jury Trials Must Be Protected - The government’s case for abolishing most jury trials doesn’t stand up to scrutiny, argues KIM JOHNSON MP – and it must be stopped before it does lasting damage to democracy morningstaronline.co.uk/article/you-...

Why The Many matters: rebuilding trust in politics through organisation and democracy - Former Labour MP LAURA SMITH makes the case for The Many slate in the elections to Your Party’s new executive morningstaronline.co.uk/article/why-...

How Wapping shaped today’s media and industrial relations - Strike veterans and trade unionists found many parallels between Rupert Murdoch’s attack on the print unions and today’s democratic struggles, reports BEN CHACKO morningstaronline.co.uk/article/how-...