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RAMZY BAROUD looks at how entire West Bank communities have been shattered, their social and physical fabric deliberately dismantled by Israel to enable its formal annexation
Organise the South! Arkansas workers make the case
Once derided by Farage as a ‘fraud,’ Jenrick has defected to Reform, bringing experience and political ruthlessness to the populist right — and raising the unsettling prospect of a Farage-led movement with a seasoned operative pulling the strings, says ANDREW MURRAY
With US sanctions, military pressure and electoral interference looming, the struggle over Colombia’s sovereignty — and the fate of its fragile peace process — has reached a critical moment, says NICK MacWILLIAM
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
Out of the ashes of Gaza rises the world’s most remarkable graduating class, reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
It is time to stop tolerating the governing elites incompetence which makes our lives a daily misery, argues MATT KERR
FOR decades, the South has been the Achilles heel of the US labour movement.
While unions took root and thrived in places like the industrial Midwest and the north-east, or in the ports and plants of West Coast states in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s, Dixie remained a tough slog.
This is the place where right to work was born over 70 years ago, where reactionary politics have often been the only kind of politics. And where the “colour line” dividing black workers from white ones long defined all aspects of life — including in the workplace. In many ways, it still does.
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