JOE BESWICK of the London Renters Union talks to the Morning Star’s new Left on Record programme
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The Liberation essay: writing for a better world
The Morning Star talks with LIZ PAYNE of Liberation’s education committee about the essay competition launched to encourage children and young people to set out what they think a better world might look like and how to achieve it
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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
Before we talk about the competition Liberation is launching for the first time this year, can you say something about its campaigning work for a transformation of the education curriculum?
Liberation has campaigned for nearly 70 years to end colonialism and all forms of post-colonial domination — the racism and oppression on which they depend and the misery they heap on millions of people.
Central to our work is the fight for an education curriculum in Britain that teaches the truth about our criminal colonial past and that of other colonial powers. The legacy of empires and contemporary neo-colonial domination continues to limit and impoverish present generations across the world.
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