JOE BESWICK of the London Renters Union talks to the Morning Star’s new Left on Record programme
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls Gaza situation a ‘genocide’ that can end if the US flow of weapons to Israel stops, while Republican Tim Walberg calls for Israel to nuke Gaza and ‘get it over quick,’ writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Palestinians inspect a vehicle with the logo of the World Central Kitchen wrecked by an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, April 2, 2024
The unnecessarily violent police intervention at a Quaker place of worship is a PR disaster and will only serve to deepen the chasm between them and the public. SYMON HILL reports
ANDREW MURRAY wonders whether recent opinion polling and a fresh local authority by-election result in Ilford are an indication that the time is ripe for the left to make inroads
Due to the actions of this government, the challenges facing those with disabilities, such as spinal cord injuries, are nigh on insurmountable, argus RUTH HUNT
General secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions GAWAIN LITTLE calls for support and participation in the national partnership organised to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the 1926 general strike
After brutal police crackdowns on pensioners and the forced approval of secret IMF deals, trade unions are finally responding to grassroots pressure and fighting back against savage neoliberal reforms, reports BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Bizarrely, Trump’s latest attacks now include the National Zoo, but his real and racist agenda is to strip everything black from the country’s cultural institutions, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
LAST November, Democrat Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, the lone Palestinian-American in the US Congress, was officially censured for publicly expressing support for a ceasefire in Gaza. Of the 234 members of the US House who voted to silence her, 22 were her fellow Democrats.
US public, and even political opinion has since shifted, but firebrand progressive Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York was still asked by reporters to defend her use of the term “genocide” after remarks she made on the floor of the US House of Representatives last month.
“If you want to know what an unfolding genocide looks like, open your eyes,” said Ocasio-Cortez in a March 22 speech. AOC, as she is universally known, has not yet faced the backlash launched at Tlaib last year.
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Student Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and threatened deportation are terrifying — but the moribund Democrats are still failing to mount any meaningful resistance against the slide toward autocracy, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER