Morning Star Scotland

11/11/2023

International law: there is a right to armed resistance to occupation, Israel has no "right to defend itself". A crucial article in today's Morning Star, speaking to Marjorie Cohn, professor emerita at Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego and a former president of the US National Lawyers Guild.

Ian Sinclair speaks to legal expert MARJORIE COHN about what international law says in regard to Israel’s right to self-defence, and Israeli actions against Palestinians more generally

10/11/2023

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/yo-starmer-return-void

VINCE MILLS on the yawning gulf between Labour’s position and public opinion on Gaza

04/10/2023

We must memorialise more of the important events of the workers' movement with real-world events, writes TAM KIRBY, as a new miners’ gala in Fife takes shape

03/10/2023

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/by-election-reveals-a-scotland-in-stasis

As Labour optimistically eyes a victory that could herald its return in Scotland, MATT KERR asks how much longer the electorate will accept a two-party race that sidelines its deepening poverty

01/10/2023

Final session with Mercedes Villalba MSP, Ryan Morrison STUC, and the excellent Vijay Prashad. Good audience participation throughout. Excellent day.

01/10/2023

Second session of today's conference just about to start and the zoom is up and running.

01/10/2023

Morning Star conference in Glasgow today at the STUC.

01/10/2023

Despite all travel disruption in Glasgow, the Morning Star Youth Conference is underway with a welcome from Roz Foyers STUC General Secretary. Zoom link will be up shortly, apologies for the delay.

29/09/2023

Strathclyde is by far the most populous part of Scotland – home to 2.2 million people, with the largest number of bus users. Our expensive, unreliable and uncoordinated public transport network is holding us back – it’s a disaster for our economy, society and our environment. Transport is by f...

29/09/2023

Thanks to everyone who came to the campaign launch rally at Offices this morning! 🚍🥰 Please make sure you sign & share the petition: ✍️https://t.co/Ot4bHMLJcQ We want to reach 1,000 signatures by the end of the day!

22/09/2023

The Left Media and the Battle of Ideas, Matt Kerr of the Morning Star
How do we equip ourselves to challenge the dominant narratives to show that another world is possible?

How do we equip ourselves to challenge the dominant narratives to show that another world is possible.

22/09/2023

Friday's editorial: maximum solidarity with Diana Abbott in her treatment by Starmer's Labour Party apparatus:

Thursday, September 21, 2023 Editorial: The unjust treatment of Diane Abbott demands our solidarity Labour's Diane Abbott in the Central Lobby of the House of Commons, October 2019 × This is the last article you can read this month You can read more article this month You can read more articles thi...

06/09/2023

Today's editorial: Capitalism's ongoing suicidal role in the climate crisis:

As the rich flee Burning Man, our burning planet cannot be ignored Flames burn a forest during a wildfire in Giannouli village, in the northeastern Evros region, Greece, Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023 IN the US, torrential rain has washed out the Burning Man festival of hedonistic excess. Few tears will be...

05/09/2023

Today's editorial, on the limits of bourgeois democracy:

The next election will allow no radical changes — in either direction THE battle lines are being drawn for the next general election — but guess what? There is no real battle. The British people are living through a masterclass in the nature of bourgeois democracy — that is, a system with demo...

01/09/2023

Today's editorial:

Editorial Amid more manoeuvring at the MoD, the left should be calling for peace Grant Shapps arrives in Downing Street, central London, ahead of an expected Cabinet reshuffle. Picture date: Thursday August 31, 2023. GRANT SHAPPS’S principal qualification for his promotion to secretary of defence ...

31/08/2023

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/snp-government-running-scotlands-nhs-ground

A focus on ‘service redesign' to solve issues in health and social care won’t address the core problems of understaffing and underfunding, warns STEPHEN LOW

31/08/2023

Today's editorial:

Editorial: Cleverly's Beijing mission a welcome contrast to backbench warmongering Foreign Secretary James Cleverly THE Foreign Secretary’s visit to Beijing is a welcome attempt to keep communications open with an economic, scientific and technological giant. James Cleverly is spot on when he says...

30/08/2023

Today's editorial on the obvious causes of the housing crisis. We need to fund social housing owned and controlled by local councils and built by those councils' direct labour organisations:

Editorial Poisoning Britain's rivers will not solve the housing crisis Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, Michael Gove, Minister for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (right) and Jennie Daly (left), CEO of Taylor Wimpey during a visit to the Taylor Wimpey Heather Gardens housing development in Norwich,...

29/08/2023

Today's editorial:

Editorial The real significance of Dorries’ attacks on Sunak Nadine Dorries has resigned her parliamentary seat with a scathing attack on Rishi Sunak ROCKED by a barrage of criticism in Nadine Dorries’s long-awaited resignation letter, the Conservatives have reached for familiar propaganda lines...

17/07/2023

Film—“The Big Lie”
Weds 26th July, 7.00pm, Harbour Arts Centre, Irvine, KA12 8PZ. The film about the treachery against Jeremy Corbyn. Organised by Ayrshire Morning Star Readers and Supporters Group. Book here for free:

The film that the current Labour leadership doesn't want you to see. Produced by Platform Films.

17/07/2023

Today's editorial:

Editorial: It's Labour's conservatism that is out of touch in our crisis-ridden world Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer leaves BBC Broadcasting House in London, after appearing on the BBC One current affairs programme, Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, July 16, 2023 KEIR STARMER says that “if we si...

07/07/2023

28/06/2023

Wednesday's editorial:

Wednesday 21st Jun 2023 Editorial Race, class and empire: how the Windrush saga can inform the left THE story of the Empire Windrush, which docked 75 years ago tomorrow, should be a cause for celebration as well as for anger.

27/06/2023

Tuesday's editorial—the sidelining of pay review bodies:

Editorial: Pay review bodies sidelined in the drive to slash our wages further Prime Minister Rishi Sunak leaves the Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch annual party at Spencer House, St James' Place in London, June 22, 2023 IT is not a good look. When Parliament’s richest man, Rishi Sunak, tells us to hol...

27/06/2023

Pauline Bryan from the Red Paper Collective discusses constitutions:
https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/constitutions-and-socialist-change

26/06/2023

Today's editorial:

Editorial: Prigozhin’s stunt may have put a negotiated peace further out of reach Face masks depicting Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) and owner of private military company Wagner Group Yevgeny Prigozhin are displayed among others for sale at a souvenir shop in St Petersburg, Russia, Sund...