Now at 115,000 members and in some polls level with Labour in terms of public support, CHRIS JARVIS looks at the factors behind the rapid rise of the Greens, internal and external
Old, female and up for the fight
We must not concede to an ideology that belittles older women and makes us invisible in public places, argues JULIA BARD
The Hackney Pensioners press team
Witnessing a war of words at a meeting on tackling militarism at The World Transformed, BEN COWLES spoke to a union rep who is organising against war from inside the arms industry itself, to hear about worker-led solutions to ending weapons production
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ, ROGER D HARRIS and JOHN PERRY contrast Trump’s warships and F-35 fighters threatening Venezuela with the $20bn bailout for Milei’s collapsed economy, all enabled by a highly ideological IMF
KAY GREEN explains how the Middle East and colonialism were explored at at last weekend’s FiLiA conference
ROS SITWELL reports from Europe’s largest feminist conference – hosted this year in Brighton
Morning Star campaigns manager CALVIN TUCKER gives an update on the drive to raise £95,000 to see the people’s paper keep fighting the good fight against the rich and powerful
ALL through the 1990s I worked with a group of old people who produced a campaigning newspaper called Hackney Pensioners Press.
I have dithered about using the word “old” in that first sentence. It is such a powerfully pejorative term that I almost censored myself, afraid that it would deter people from reading on.
But that was what the editorial group called themselves, because that was what they were. They would not allow the word “old” to be used to downgrade and discredit them.
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