ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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In the first of two articles, DANIEL POWELL investigates the causal aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war as Britain commemorates 80 years since VE Day
TOMORROW’S special edition of the Morning Star, of which over 200,000 copies will be printed and distributed free of charge, might well be the first copy you’ve come across — it’s nearly 20 times our usual print run.
We’re making the special effort to get our message out because most of the media in this country is hostile to socialism and the labour movement. Most printed newspapers sold daily in Britain are owned by a handful of billionaire tycoons — Rupert Murdoch, Lord Rothermere, the Barclay brothers.
The super-rich have done very well out of the status quo — their fortunes keep growing, even as poverty stalks our country, foodbanks multiply and the “greed is good” capitalism that’s been king in Britain ever since Thatcher’s day poisons our natural environment.
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