JOE BESWICK of the London Renters Union talks to the Morning Star’s new Left on Record programme
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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
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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
TOWARDS the end of last month, independent US online radio station Women’s Liberation Radio News broadcast an interview that merits considerable further attention — particularly for those involved in the peace movement and other progressive politics.
The interviewee will be a name that’s familiar to Morning Star readers from the height of the battle against the murderous crimes being committed by the US and Britain in Iraq as part of George Bush and Tony Blair’s so-called “war on terror.”
Cindy Sheehan hit the news in the mid-2000s after her son Casey was killed while serving in the Iraq war. Following his death Sheehan became a staunch anti-war and anti-imperialism activist, setting up a protest camp, dubbed “Camp Casey,” outside Bush’s Texas ranch, which garnered media attention from around the world.
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