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MICHELLE STANISTREET, who is stepping down from leadership of the National Union of Journalists after 13 years, speaks to the Morning Star on what's wrong with the media industry – and how to address it
Michelle Stanistreet
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
MICHELLE STANISTREET is stepping down as leader of the National Union of Journalists, a role she has held since 2011.
It’s been, as she frankly acknowledges, “an extremely challenging time” for the industry.
As soon as she was in post evidence that Rupert Murdoch title News of the World had hacked the phones of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler spurred a national conversation about media ethics — and the corrupting influence of ownership by a handful of plutocratic press barons, concerns that led to the Leveson Inquiry.
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