The media present Starmer as staying out of Trump’s war — but we’re already deeply involved in a conflict that sees the US and Israel kill civilians on a huge scale, argues IAN SINCLAIR
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JOHN ELLISON explains how the textile industry in Western countries was hollowed out by low-cost outsourcing at the behest of transnational companies
Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
RAMZY BAROUD looks at how Western media are being forced to kowtow to the Establishment’s war narratives
MARC VANDEPITTE says AI is driving the pace of destruction to unprecedented speed
ADRIAN WEIR looks at the positives and negatives in the Employment Rights Act as delivered, and explains why the Campaign for Trade Union Freedom and Strike Map are rallying for a second Bill this weekend
The public recognise the corrosive influence of the rich over our democracy, argues MIKE COWLEY — it’s a shame the Labour Party doesn’t
HALF-BURIED in the Guardian in late January last year was a “long read” entitled Behind the Label. It was an edited extract from Worn: A People’s History of Clothing by Sofi Thanhauser.
This extract — though you might not guess it from the title — is lucidly revealing and insightful about the workings of post-colonial, globalised, neoliberal imperialism with regard to textile production and trade between the Caribbean Basin and the US from the 1980s onwards.
One outcome of the changes that had taken place is illustrated by the fact that 40 per cent of all clothing bought in the US in 1997 had been produced at home, while in 2012 the figure was less than 3 per cent.
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