SOLOMON HUGHES highlights a 1995 Sunday Times story about the disappearance of ‘defecting Iraqi nuclear scientist.’ Even though the story was debunked, it was widely repeated across the mainstream press, creating the false – and deadly – narrative of Iraqi WMD that eventually led to war
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New thinking needed - not nostalgia for the past
We must go to the warehouses and call centres where modern working class are today, not where yesterdays workers were, writes JOHN GREEN
The final shift leaves Kellingley Colliery on the last day of production at Britain’s only remaining deep coalmine
RUBY ALDEN GIBSON believes Scottish parliament has enough powers to curtail Westminster Labour’s savage attack on welfare
KEVIN DONNELLY reports from Monte Faudo and its annual remembrance of the region’s WWII partisan anti-fascist battles
The Trump government is seizing overseas students from their homes and campuses and even off the streets, with no legal grounds and no due process, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
As global fascism grows, ROGER McKENZIE urges the left to reclaim May Day’s revolutionary roots — not as an act of nostalgia, but as fuel for building a ‘community of resistance’ against exploitation and the rise of fascism
Our unions need to make a firm stand against so-called ‘defence spending’: the boss class say there’s no magic money tree — and there should be no magic mushroom cloud either, argues NATHAN HENNEBRY
KEITH FLETT revisits the 1978 origins of Britain’s May Day bank holiday — from Michael Foot’s triumph to Thatcher’s reluctant acceptance — as Starmer’s government dodges calls to expand our working-class celebrations
WITH the Labour Party leadership election now well underway, the soul-searching and breast-beating will no doubt continue unabated.
In an attempt to learn from recent events, a number of correspondents to the Star have called for the need for “a proper class analysis” of the situation, but none has attempted to define what they mean by this.
There have been many words written in castigating the loss of “Labour’s heartlands,” of the “working classes deserting Labour” but who has attempted to describe the changes that have taken place, not suddenly at the last election, but over decades under our very noses?
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