Cuba Solidarity Campaign secretary BERNARD REGAN says the inhuman blockade of Cuba not only continues, but the Donald Trump administration is ratcheting up aggression against both Havana and Latin America more widely
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Western foreign policy and the dangerous ignorance gap
The enormous distance between the reality of Western foreign policy and the Western public’s understanding of what their governments do in their name is dangerous, writes IAN SINCLAIR
JOE GILL looks at research on the reasons people voted as they did last week and concludes Labour is finished unless it ditches Starmer and changes course
TONY BURKE says an International Labour Conference next month will try for a new convention to protect often super-exploited workers providing services such as ride-hailing (taxis) such as Uber as well as fast food and package delivery
In his May Day message for the Morning Star, RICHARD BURGON says the call for peace, equality and socialism has never been more relevant
This May Day we reaffirm our commitment to working people and our class and to get trade unionism back on the front foot, says EDDIE DEMPSEY
DIANE ABBOTT looks at the whys and hows of Labour’s spectacular own goal
When it comes to extreme weather events, from wildfires to flash floods, it’s firefighters who are on the front line of defence, but services have been cut to the bone, and government is not taking seriously its responsibility for the environment, says STEVE WRIGHT
WHILE the mainstream media’s self-serving obsession with so-called fake news and Russian interference in elections looks set to continue for a long time, a far more serious problem with Western journalism is conveniently ignored.
This could be called the dangerous ignorance gap of Western foreign policy, the often huge gulf between the reality of what the US and Britain do in the Middle East — painfully understood by the populations on the receiving end of Western interference — and the woeful level of awareness the US and British general public and commentariat have about these interventions.
The aggressive and illegal 2003 invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq is a key site in understanding this divergence.
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