AQEL TAQAZ looks warily at the implications of Western states’ proposed recognition of the Palestinian state
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The Covid-19 outbreak will lead to untold misery and death in besieged Gaza
The international community must say clearly that Israel's denial of medicines and resources to Gaza is a form of collective punishment and illegal under international law, writes HUGH LANNING
A Palestinian child wears a face mask as a precaution for the new coronavirus as he plays outside his home in Shati refugee camp, west Gaza City
PCS members face dangerous working conditions in crumbling buildings while the Common Platform IT system obstructs rather than streamlines operations — and Labour’s promised wave of insourcing has not materialised, writes SHARON McLEAN
LAURA PIDCOCK and PAUL O’CONNELL introduces Rise, a political platform for working-class activism
From anonymous surveys claiming Chinese students are spying on each other to a meltdown about the size of China’s London embassy, the evidence is everywhere that Britain is embracing full spectrum Sinophobia as the war clouds gather, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ
Morning Star editor Ben Chacko speaks to JON FARLEY – the retired headteacher whose arrest in Leeds exposes the grim absurdity of the Palestine Action ban
As apple trees blossom to excess it remains to be seen if an abundance of fruit will follow. MAT COWARD has a few tips to see you through a nervy time
OVER the weekend, the devastating news broke for the people of Palestine of confirmed Covid-19 cases in the densely populated Gaza strip.
It is important for everyone in the labour and solidarity movements to understand why this is truly a nightmare situation for the people of the besieged Gaza strip, and why these 1.8 million people are particularly vulnerable.
The UN has previously warned that Gaza would be uninhabitable by 2020, and now 13 years of an illegal blockade mean that Gaza’s fragile healthcare system is already stretched to a point that it is hard for us to imagine. Covid-19 means it will now be placed under a simply unbearable strain.
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