Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
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Gypsies, Roma and other travellers are at risk from Covid too
PETER FROST finds travellers are even more at risk from the coronavirus than the rest of us — but not enough is being done to monitor and address the impact of Covid on their communities
MISUNDERSTOOD: Travellers in Brough, Cumbria, make their way to Appleby, for the annual Horse Fair. Picture date: Wednesday August 11 2021
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
Karl and Eleanor Marx – father and daughter – share the credit for a pamphlet which was widely read as an introduction or alternative to his longer Capital and is still relevant today, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
With US sanctions, military pressure and electoral interference looming, the struggle over Colombia’s sovereignty — and the fate of its fragile peace process — has reached a critical moment, says NICK MacWILLIAM
RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
Out of the ashes of Gaza rises the world’s most remarkable graduating class, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
TWENTY odd years ago, for about two decades I was the editor of the world’s largest circulation camping and caravanning magazine. One of the key issues of the time was the fact that more and more of what had been holiday static caravans were being used as low-cost permanent housing.
My wife Ann and I had a small canal boat at the time and our favourite weekend away was a trip along the Grand Union Canal from our home near Watford to Camden Market in London. On every trip we saw more and more permanently moored boats again being used as floating low-cost housing.
More recently I have watched as more and more people are using towed caravans, motorhomes and campers, not just as they used to, for holidays, but as permanent — if movable — places to live.
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