JOE BESWICK of the London Renters Union talks to the Morning Star’s new Left on Record programme
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Communist Party international secretary KEVAN NELSON delivered the main report to the party's political committee last Tuesday. He casts his eye over the challenges facing the movement
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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
RECENTLY, French President Emmanuel Macron visited Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin. Ahead of his trip, the Times reported Macron as saying that “the geopolitical goal of Russia today is clearly not Ukraine but to clarify the rules of cohabitation with Nato and the EU.”
What a contrast with Britain’s Foreign Secretary Liz Truss who, on the same day and using the rhetoric of war, stated that “the depths of Russian attempts to subvert and threaten Ukraine are clear. Russia’s actions show their claims to have no plans to invade are false. We and our allies stand united in support for Ukraine and our resolve to raise the cost to Russia if they take further action.”
The belligerence of Truss echoes and mimics that of US imperialism which continues to ratchet up the tension and is pouring vast quantities of arms and military forces into Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic states.
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