SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests
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LAURA PIDCOCK talks to the Morning Star about Covid-19, the Tories and why we need to keep fighting for socialism
Organising strategy: Laura Pidcock
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
Indian communist leader MA Baby considers the chilling escalation of violence against minorities and increasing impunity for their attackers under the Modi regime
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This strike is about pay and conditions, says CAMERON HARRISON – but it also shows workers have the power to disrupt the mightiest war machine on Earth
“THEIR ideology prevents a recovery.” Laura Pidcock is not convinced that Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s six-month minimum wage placements or £10 eating out discounts are going to stop the scale of post-lockdown damage.
“I’m so sceptical,” the former North West Durham MP, now national secretary of the People’s Assembly, says. “There is huge insecurity because the messages from the government and the schemes it puts in place don’t correspond with the behaviour of employers.
“And all the issues around PPE [personal protective equipment], the inadequate PPE, the inability to manufacture our own, the impact of privatisation meaning we just don’t have the capacity to commission and deliver PPE.
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