Morning Star Lanarkshire Readers and Supporters Group

29/11/2025

The chancellor has picked a side!

Health workers, engineers, and tanker drivers will pay by stealth taxes, while city bankers and billionaires are unscathed.

29/11/2025

Monday 1st December

29/11/2025

Important – change of venue for Morning Star Scotland supporters' autumn conference

29/11/2025

For more information, visit: https://morningstarsubs.co.uk/

29/11/2025

November 28th marks the birthday of Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx's close collaborator and socialist.

130 years after his death, his writings still remains relevant and of huge importance to Marxists and those fighting for a better world.

29/11/2025

So there we have it!

Those with the broadest shoulders have once again kept their burgeoning wealth in tact while ordinary working people and families are hit with a plethora of stealth taxes.

Rachel Reeves has put the final nail in the coffin of any chance of The Labour Party being successful at the May elections.

29/11/2025

THIS SUNDAY 🔗 Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/morning-star-scotland-autumn-conference-2025-tickets-1902263032939

Bi-annual Morning Star Conference focused on women's liberation!

PLEASE NOTE LAST MINUTE VENUE CHANGE

Join us for our Autumn Morning Star
Conference focused on women's liberation at Unity Books in the Southside of Glasgow. Unfortunately, circumstances outwith our control has meant we are unable to host the conference at the STUC. We will return there in 2026.

Coinciding with the UN led 16 days of activism against gender based violence, which begins on 25 November, this conference is open to all Morning Star supporters, irrespective of gender.

We are seeing is escalating violence against women and girls both in the UK and worldwide. 85,000 women and girls were killed at the hands of men in 2023; and one in three women worldwide were victims of male violence. In the UK, rising violence against women and girls has been described by a police chief as a “national emergency”.

The conference will have three sessions as follows:

Session 1: Fighting the rise of prostitution with Nordic Model Now

Session 2: Women's Rights and the Equality Act. Where do we stand in 2025?

Session 3: The Far Right and Violence against Women and Girls

Lunch will be provided to those attending in-person at Unity Books.

A zoom link will be circulated the day before the conference for those attending online.

29/11/2025

In his initial response to Chancellor Rachel Reeves’ Budget today (26 November), Communist Party General Secretary Robert Griffiths commented:

“Desperate to appease Britain’s super-wealthy capitalist class and the bond markets, Chancellor Reeves has squandered an historic opportunity to invest in public services, productive industry, low-cost Green energy - and to launch a war on poverty.”

“Limited steps on energy bills, ex-miners’ pensions, neighbourhood healthcare centres, the two-child benefits cap, infected blood compensation, corrupt COVID contracts and family farm taxation are welcome but do not add up to the fundamental change of direction needed for working people nor enough to save this Labour government’s skin.”

“There is no Alternative Economic Strategy as called for by the Communist Party to build millions of council houses and flats, harness the enormous potential of solar and tidal power and create more than a million well-paid jobs backed by well-funded training programmes for young workers.”

“Instead, the OBR is now downgrading its UK economic growth forecasts for the next four years.”

“Nor do modest tax increases on income from wealth and property begin to reduce gross inequality across Britain and fund extra public spending without more costly borrowing charges.”

“Instead of freezing personal tax thresholds until 2031, costing working people more than £35bn a year, the Chancellor could have raised corporation and windfall taxes on big business profits and the top rates of income and council tax.”

“A 1% Wealth Tax on the richest 1/10th of the population would yield more than £55bn. Taxing the funds stashed illicitly by UK citizens in overseas tax havens - many of them under British jurisdiction - would raise another £65bn.”

“And a 0.1% levy on financial speculation in the City of London’s foreign currency and derivatives markets would wipe out the public sector fiscal deficit in less than a week!”

“The Communist Party is clear we need a united working class fight back to achieve immediate gains on the cost of living crisis - and to build a mass movement for socialism in Britain.”

29/11/2025

26/11/2025

This St Andrew's Day, join the Autumn Morning Star Scotland Conference, held in the STUC in Glasgow.

This year's conference centres on the fight for women's liberation, and coincides with the UN led 16 days of activism against violence against women and girls. This conference is open to both women and men.

85,000 women and girls were killed at the hands of men in 2023; and one in three women worldwide were victims of male violence. The far right use growing violence against women and girls to target migrants, despite the evidence that more than 90% of perpetrators of r**e and sexual assault are known to their victims.

Meanwhile, detrimental attitudes towards women continue to be pervasive, with growing access to online pornographic content, and increased prevalence of prostitution playing a particular role.

Coupled with wider attacks on women's rights under the law, the fight for women's liberation has never been more important than it is today.

Opened by Johann Lamont MSP, the conference will have 3 sessions as follows:

Session 1: Campaigning to end prostitution with Nordic Model Now!

Session 2: Women's Rights and the Equality Act. Where do we stand in 2025?

Session 3: The Far Right and Violence against Women and Girls

Lunch is provided to those attending in person and tickets can be bought here:

Bi-annual Morning Star Conference focused on women's liberation!