With attacks on industry, healthcare and education intensifying, JAMSHID AHMADI warns of a deliberate drive to cripple Iran and calls for urgent global action
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Make a new year’s resolution to change the world
While millions suffer in poverty and ill-health, the super-rich are getting even richer. It’s only through organising and collective action that we can seek to redress the balance, says ROGER McKENZIE
A woman carries her child after receiving a food donation from a non-governmental organization that works to fight hunger, in the Jardim Gramacho favela of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 2021
Argentinians commemorated the 50th anniversary of the military dictatorship that left 30,000 people killed or ‘disappeared.’ BERT SCHOUWENBURG reports
In Voices of Scotland YANA PETTICREW looks at the crippling deterioration of working-class art provision and support
As weapons return to Suffolk and defence spending soars, London CND is pressing local candidates to oppose nuclear expansion and support the UN ban treaty. SALLY SPIERS explains
One hundred years on from Britain’s only general strike, socialists will gather in London at the Morning Star’s annual conference to discuss how organised labour can once again become the engine of radical change. Editor BEN CHACKO encourages readers to come along and join the debate
In the year following Peterloo a mass strike erupted into armed revolt as Scotland’s workers demanded their rights, yet this uprising remains largely absent from popular history, writes KENNY MacASKILL
IT IS that time of year when thoughts turn to resolutions for the next year. People resolve to get fitter or to change their diets or just to become a better person in some way.
For the vast majority of people across the world it is more a question of survival. Health rather than fitness. Being able to put food of any sort on the table rather than a dietary fashion change.
Afghanistan is a case in point. The misadventures of the US coalition has left 23 million Afghans — that is more than half the population — without enough food.
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