With its track record of leveraging cultural power for US gain and barely concealed promotion of coup attempts, the US Agency for International Development will not be mourned among the US’s southern neighbours, write JOHN PERRY and ROGER D HARRIS
Child labour isn't a thing of the past – it props up modern colonialism across the world today
Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says the richest countries still depend on the super-exploitation of the world's children for their wealth
KEITH FLETT looks back 50 years to when the Iron Lady was elected Tory leader…
Social security is lagging further and further behind inflation and our government quite simply does not care, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
RAVISHAAN RAHEL MUTHIAH agues that much as social media are presently guilty of fanning hostilities, the roots of it lie with decades of xenophobic narratives peddled by politicians and the traditional media
ESTHER, from Nordic Model Now! explains how decriminalisation of prostitution, rendering it just another form of ‘work’, would undermine the Equality Act 2010
As a partial successor to the post-war Marshall Plan, USAid is not simply a humanitarian aid programme, but is involved in projecting US power as an instrument of foreign policy, argues NICK WRIGHT
Locals have been let down by procrastination over the upgrade to Ardrossan Harbour, says KATY CLARK MSP
SMALL children are being forced to dig down into the ground with the most rudimentary tools until they find a seam of precious metal. Once they find that seam they then mine it and bring it to the surface in buckets or sacks.
They do all of this so that the people of the global North can continue to live in the manner to which we have become accustomed and already rich companies get even richer.
They do all of this if they are lucky enough to survive the collapse of the tiny mine shafts they have constructed. Even if they do survive with their limbs intact they are not deterred from going back to the mine because they have no choice.
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