ALAN SIMPSON offers a few pointers on dealing with the ongoing, Trump-led destruction of the norms of a rules-based international order established post-WWII
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‘My wife, my sons and my daughter all drowned. They left because life here is so bad with no electricity, no jobs and no salary’
The family of Rizgar Hussein attempt at the perilous crossing from France to Britain last month ended in tragedy. STEVE SWEENEY, who had met them, looks at the political background that leads tens of thousands to escape poverty and oppression
LEFT TO DROWN: Rizgar Hussein’s wife Khazal and children, daughter Hadia and son Mubin; location screen grabs
The Morning Star publishes an edited transcript of a speech by NICOLAS MADURO GUERRA, a Venezuelan MP and son of Venezuelan President Maduro. The speech was given at the recent Voices from Venezuela event marking two months since Trump’s attack on Venezuela and kidnapping of President Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores on January 3
From the hills of the England–Wales border, our new fortnightly nature columnist MARK SEDDON reflects on rebellion, faith and the small dramas of rural life — from medieval fugitives to the quiet rescue of a bucket of tadpoles
While public outrage has focused on the abuse committed within Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit, key questions remain unresolved, says JOHN GREEN
KEITH FLETT argues that we need to stand up to those in power every single time they transgress
Gloucestershire’s phlebotomists have brought their historic strike to a close after almost a year of action, leaving a legacy of determination – and a clear lesson about the power of solidarity in the face of anti-union laws and austerity, says FBU general secretary STEVE WRIGHT
“THEY were trying to escape from them,” Mohammad says as the Kurdistan Regional Government announced that the bodies of 16 people who drowned in the channel in November were being returned home.
“Now it is the Barzanis that are bringing them back. Even in death they cannot get away from them,” he tells me, his voice tinged with sadness.
His best friend is one of the thousands who have fled Iraqi Kurdistan in recent months, desperate to escape a brutally oppressive regime and deepening poverty that has blighted the region.
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