Trump’s escalation against Venezuela is about more than oil, it is about regaining control over the ‘natural’ zone of influence of the United States at a moment where its hegemony is slipping, argues VIJAY PRASHAD morningstaronline.co.uk/article/why-...

From the workhouses of the 1840s to today’s market capitalism, A Christmas Carol remains a sharp critique of charity rationed by class, says KEITH FLETT morningstaronline.co.uk/article/why-...

Evidence suggests Lammy’s proposals would come at a high cost: reduced fairness, diminished trust and greater racial inequality in the criminal justice system, argue TARA LAI QUINLAN and KATHARINA KARCHER morningstaronline.co.uk/article/limi...

SOLOMON HUGHES finds the government went along with a US scheme to distract from Israel’s lethal Gaza blockade with an impractical floating pier scheme – though its own officials knew it wouldn’t work morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pier...

Unconquerable Will: Palestine Hunger Strikers in British Prisons - VICTORIA HOLMES salutes the brave stand being taken by Palestine Action hunger-strikers in British prisons, and explains their demands morningstaronline.co.uk/article/unco...

What history tells us about the Palestinians’ fate - Historically the framework of that expulsion of Palestinians was predicated on the use of war as a pretext, as opposed to war as a response to Palestinian resistance, writes RAMZY BAROUD morningstaronline.co.uk/article/if-g...

News, not slop: how US journalists are organising to counter the AI threat to real journalism morningstaronline.co.uk/article/news...

Why would Rayner back Streeting? Downing Street is within her reach morningstaronline.co.uk/article/why-...

A searing scrutiny hearing has uncovered thousands of undelivered appointments, vanishing data and a system in chaos – galvanising councillors, patients and activists to demand urgent reform and an NHS dentist for all, writes SIMON BRIGNELL morningstaronline.co.uk/article/toot...

Scotland’s left is outmanoeuvred and outpaced - Fuelled by economic abandonment and a collapsing faith in politics, Farage’s party is transforming grievance into momentum north of the border, warns COLL McCAIL morningstaronline.co.uk/article/scot...

Ten days after right-wing destabilisation attempts, Mexico’s leadership has emerged strengthened, securing historic labour and wage agreements, while opposition-backed protests have crumbled under scrutiny, says DAVID RABY morningstaronline.co.uk/article/shei...

The radical who invented Robin Hood morningstaronline.co.uk/article/radi...

A fairer Scotland: A Christmas call to protect our public services morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fair...

Global outcry as US escalates military threats against Venezuela morningstaronline.co.uk/article/glob...

Is the West’s war on migration about protecting ‘Western civilisation’ – or something else? - PRABHAT PATNAIK looks at how the development of capitalism from the start divided the world into unequal segments morningstaronline.co.uk/article/west...

Mental illness as a capitalist disease: work and exploitation - Labour, like the Tories, sees rising mental ill health simply as a spending problem — but it reflects a diseased society, argues DR DAVID MATTHEWS morningstaronline.co.uk/article/ment...

Hands Off Haiti – foreign intervention is heavily implicated in its current crisis - RUBEN BRETT of Liberation explains why the narratives we hear about the poverty-stricken Caribbean nation are deeply misleading morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hand...

As the new party emerges from its founding conference with a bold socialist identity, its future hinges on whether it can provide the organisational clarity needed to turn class sentiment into class power, argues NICK WRIGHT morningstaronline.co.uk/article/your...

How Greek International Brigaders forged a lifelong anti-fascist legacy - ALI BASSAM ZAHID tells the story morningstaronline.co.uk/article/how-...

Bold cost-of-living action is needed – and can stop the far right - RICHARD BURGON MP argues the left must build on recent victories and urgently unite around a bold cost-of-living programme morningstaronline.co.uk/article/bold...

Britain’s biggest hunger strike in decades – and the media won’t touch it. ELIZABETH SHORT reports morningstaronline.co.uk/article/brit...

A movement rises: the socialist answer to Britain’s reckoning - Your Party can become an antidote to Reform UK – but only by rooting itself in communities up and down the country, says CLAUDIA WEBBE morningstaronline.co.uk/article/move...

Prostate cancer – to screen or not to screen? - Decisions about mandatory testing for prostate cancer have proved controversial. Can too much knowledge be a bad thing? morningstaronline.co.uk/article/pros...

The angry tide of the Latin American far right - Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD morningstaronline.co.uk/article/angr...

US power play in the Caribbean: Washington’s new Monroe Doctrine - As the Trump administration escalates military pressure on Venezuela, a growing number of Caribbean governments are lining up behind Washington’s show of force, writes ROGER McKENZIE morningstaronline.co.uk/article/us-p...

Florida’s new teaching standards rehabilitate the anti-communist Red Scare - The daughter of a legendary blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter has spoken out against the reactionary move, says MIKE SCHNEIDER morningstaronline.co.uk/article/flor...

Claiming to be under arrest, president Embalo has left the country while his opponents remain in custody after a military coup a day ahead of the announcement of the final results, argues PAVAN KULKARNI morningstaronline.co.uk/article/guin...

These asylum reforms must be opposed - DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10 morningstaronline.co.uk/article/thes...

With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too morningstaronline.co.uk/article/jere...

‘We are socialist, anti-imperialist, anti-Nato’: Zarah Sultana is up for the fight - Morning Star political reporter Andrew Murray speaks to ZARAH SULTANA on the mass party of the left holding its inaugural conference this weekend morningstaronline.co.uk/article/we-a...

The forgotten radicalism of Sir Richard Acland - MAT COWARD tells the story of the eccentric founder of a short-lived but striking experiment in ‘vital democracy,’ who became best known for giving away his estate to the nation morningstaronline.co.uk/article/forg...

Fears mount for life of US teenager held in Israeli prison - Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER morningstaronline.co.uk/article/fear...

Despite new European arrests, the evidence presented so far fails to explain the sabotage of the undersea pipelines – and veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s allegations of US responsibility cannot be easily dismissed, writes ROGER McKENZIE morningstaronline.co.uk/article/nord...

A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY morningstaronline.co.uk/article/dest...

Cuban education for the many not the few - On a recent NEU delegation, STEVE HANDFORD’s eyes were opened to the educational achievements of the socialist island and the need for Britain to take a leaf out of its book morningstaronline.co.uk/article/cuba...

Battle lines drawn in Argentina as unions prepare to fight for their rights - As President Javier Milei is set to unveil a radical rollback of Argentina’s labour laws, unions warn of an unprecedented assault on workers’ rights, says BERT SCHOUWENBURG morningstaronline.co.uk/article/batt...

As figures from Tucker Carlson to Nigel Farage flirt with neofascist rhetoric and mainstream leaders edge toward authoritarianism through war and repression, the conditions that once nurtured Hitlerism re-emerge, writes ANDREW MURRAY morningstaronline.co.uk/article/hitl...

As Saudi Arabia is hailed abroad for its ‘reforms,’ the reality for women inside the kingdom grows ever more repressive. MARYAM ALDOSSARI argues it is time to stop applauding the illusion – and start listening to the women the state works hardest to silence morningstaronline.co.uk/article/saud...

With violence against women and girls reaching unprecedented levels – particularly in the north of England – Unison North West is driving a union-wide push for education, prevention and trauma-informed support, writes JOANNE MOORCROFT morningstaronline.co.uk/article/tack...

Why Labour’s sanctions system is cruel, harmful and often unlawful - DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families morningstaronline.co.uk/article/why-...

What now for the future of Colombia? - With Petro, Colombia has been making huge strides towards peace — but is all that at risk with the elections next year? MARK ROWE reports back after joining a delegation to the Latin American country morningstaronline.co.uk/article/what...

Glasgow’s hospitality workers once again causing waves along the Clyde - NICK TROY lauds the young staff at a hotel chain and cinema giant who are ready to take on the bosses for their rights morningstaronline.co.uk/article/glas...

Opinion: Iran – heading towards an existential crisis morningstaronline.co.uk/article/iran...

The Quiet Plot to End Progressive Government in Honduras - JOHN PERRY examines the forces seeking to use the end of Xiomara Castro’s term to return Honduras to Washington’s camp, with this month’s elections at risk of interference morningstaronline.co.uk/article/quie...

Academics or consultants? - There are multiple avenues for governments and corporations to ensure academia and think tanks serve their agendas, explains IAN SINCLAIR – and we need to expose that morningstaronline.co.uk/article/acad...

Sinking into the mire: the endless descent of Trump’s United States - From a “basket of deplorables” to “imbecilic morons,” US officials have ramped up their ad hominem rhetoric towards their own citizens, writes Linda Pentz Gunter morningstaronline.co.uk/article/sink...

The UN occupation plan for Gaza does not reflect the will of the international community morningstaronline.co.uk/article/un-o...

Join our Eve of Budget Protest on November 25 at Downing Street - Austerity in a red tie is still austerity, warns RAMONA McCARTNEY of the People’s Assembly – rally with us to demand different choices morningstaronline.co.uk/article/join...

Manufacturing Consent for the Military: Labour’s plans for schools and universities - CONOR BOLLINS looks at the sinister moves to entice young people towards military and arms industry careers morningstaronline.co.uk/article/manu...

A rupture with the system? - While the Greens have won popularity for their call for a wealth tax, it’s unclear whether they’d be willing to break with the most powerful forces of capitalism, argues NICK WRIGHT morningstaronline.co.uk/article/rupt...