Summer of Heroes – Morning Star’s Massive Campaign For a Future of Growth
From the bowl-makers of Sheffield to the street-sellers of Scotland — the Morning Star, the only daily English language socialist newspaper, needs you. Star Organiser, David Peel, outlines the Summer of Heroes fundraising drive to secure a future of growth for the only paper that’s on the side of working people day in, day out:
Scotland On The Breadline
In this article Young Communist League General Secretary Zoe Hennessy examines the devastating impact of the austerity agenda in Scotland. This article first appeared in the Morning Star 01/04/2014. During the last three decades neoliberalism has triumphed across Scotland and the rest of Britain. Our trade unions have been repeatedly undermined and humiliated by anti-union legislation and workers […]
CP General Secretary on the Budget and the Peoples Alternative
Chancellor Osborne’s budget on Wednesday confirmed that the ruthless Tory-LibDem assault on the poor, the low paid, the unemployed, the sick and the disabled not only continues but will escalate. There will be no reversal of the austerity drive against public services, welfare benefits and the employment terms and conditions of public sector workers. l […]
Liverpool Marches to Defend Public Services
On Saturday 15th March, unperturbed by the recent loss of two of its giants, the Labour movement in Liverpool turned out to show it’s support for the public sector which has been cut by nearly 30% in Merseyside compared to 2% in the Tory heartlands in the south. Led by the unions Unite and Unison, the […]
Communist Party Executive Committee Report: ‘Tories boost profits and poverty’
Speaking at the Communist Party executive committee at the weekend, vice chair Liz Payne accused the Tories of representing the interests of ever fewer big business corporations. She said they were the ‘bought and paid for creatures’ of the City of London’s financial institutions which control key enterprises and sectors of the British economy. ‘Chancellor Osborne […]
Support the Women’s Assembly Against Austerity!
Anita Wright, Secretary of the National Assembly of Women and Communist Party Executive Committee, member calls for women to attend the Women’s Assembly Against Austerity in this article from the Morning Star. The YCL welcomes this initiative as ruling class austerity is hitting women, and even more especially young women, particularly hard. Cuts in legal […]
Communist Party General Secretary Rebukes Scapegoating Tactics of Politicians & Mass Media
Communist Party general secretary Robert Griffiths spoke out on BBC Radio Cymru yesterday against the use of ‘scapegoats’ by politicians and the mass media. } He criticised attacks on the unemployed, long-term sick, disabled and immigrant workers which falsely hold them responsible for unemployment, the public spending deficit, hospital waiting lists and Britain’s chronic housing […]
Communist Party Political Committee Report 22/01/2014
Communist Party vice chair Liz Payne accused the the Liberal Democrats of ‘sinking in a swamp of opportunism’ at her party’s political committee on Wednesday. / ‘They no longer defend civil liberties and they certainly don’t stand up for the rights of women in public life’, declared Ms Payne, who is also CP national women’s […]
On this day . . . 1929: Scottish NUWM Contingent Sets Off For London
The “On This Day” series is slowly but surely building up and forming an interesting and diverse collection articles. This latest contribution is from our YCL General Secretary Zoe Hennessy and seeks to draw from the lessons of the National Unemployed Workers Movement (NUWM) in the interwar period. 85 years ago; on the morning of Wednesday, […]
No2EU Pours Scorn Over Osborne’s Empty EU Threats
Tory threats to leave the authoritarian neoliberal bloc are “hogwash”. This article first appeared as a feature in the Morning Star 16/01/2014. Chancellor George Osborne raised the prospect of Britain leaving the European Union yesterday if the 28-nation bloc fails to undertake fundamental reforms. Mr Osborne said more needed to be done to improve competitiveness, create jobs and […]
