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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Our squalid jails are a national scandal
With privatisation badly failing prisoners and staff, MARK FAIRHURST insists Labour must stick to its insourcing pledge and bring prison maintenance back in-house
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
CHRISTMAS can be a tough time for anyone living or working in our prisons. While others eat, drink and make merry with loved ones in brightly decorated homes and pubs across the country, festive cheer in jail is much harder to find.
Of course, staff do their very best to lift the spirits of those in their care, but the increasingly squalid state of our prisons makes this practically impossible.
From vermin and disease to broken heating systems and overflowing sewage, disgusting conditions drown any spirit of peace or goodwill.
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