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Young people don’t hate democracy, they hate capitalism
Scotland’s youth face a democratic crisis and the left have to present the answer, writes JOHNNIE HUNTER
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
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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
A PROMINENT study published towards the end of 2020 through Cambridge University made the stark discovery: “This is the first generation in living memory to have a global majority who are dissatisfied with the way democracy works while in their twenties and thirties.”
This has received significant coverage in parts of Scotland’s media and academia.
The study found that “in almost every global region it is among 18 to 34-year-olds that satisfaction with democracy is in steepest decline.”
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