The mass movement supporting Palestine represents potential political power that the left must now embrace as central to its strategy, writes HUGH LANNING, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
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Women must build a cross-industry anti-austerity alliance
From education to care sector struggles, Scotland’s women workers must build up a resistance network on all fronts and drive their unions’ demands for transformative change to victory, writes STEPHANIE MARTIN
Health Secretary Wes Streeting taking £53k from Tory-linked recruiter and outsourcer Peter Hearn’s OPD Group is a great example of how Labour’s rich donors shape policies targeting the poor – not their wealth, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
MAT COWARD recalls the communist and pacifist aristocrat whose commitment made a difference in the Spanish civil war, the Blitz and WWII Europe
Two months into Donald Trump’s second run as president, what can we glean about his policies towards Latin America so far, asks TIM YOUNG, ahead of this Saturday’s Socialism or Barbarism day school in London
Xenophobic hysteria over the statistically insignificant number of small-boat crossings deliberately conceals how capitalism manipulates population flows for profit — if we can explain that, we’ll beat the right, argues NICK WRIGHT
JOGINDER BAINS argues that the infamously cruel and calculated mass murder of Indians blocked into a public square and fired upon by the British Indian Army still faces a reckoning
The annual Fenner Brockway Lecture, hosted by Liberation, was delivered this year by Peter Mertens, Chair of the Workers’ Party of Belgium. STEVE BISHOP reflects on some of the highlights of Mertens’ address
MORNING STAR readers are acutely aware of the ways in which capitalism is sustained by the oppression of women. Women’s oppression has intensified in recent years.
We have witnessed a wholesale erosion of women’s rights as the US and Nato-backed genocide in Gaza tears apart the lives and bodies of Palestinian women and children. The National Police Chiefs Council has declared the levels of male violence towards women and girls a “national emergency,” and the reversal of Roe v Wade has seen reproductive rights heavily restricted in some parts of the US.
Furthermore, the Covid-19 Inquiry shows the disproportionate impact that the virus and lockdown measures had on Scotland’s lowest-paid workers, who STUC general secretary Roz Foyer says were “killed by their class.”
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In Scotland, the Morning Star is playing a vital role in providing a space for cross-industry dialogue on the impact of precarious work on women and how to address this, writes STEPHANIE MARTIN
Community Links practitioners are facing slashed budgets — but this recently unionised workforce is not going to accept cuts that will hurt those in the most deprived areas of Glasgow, reports STEPHANIE MARTIN
Housing campaigner STEPHANIE MARTIN explains how her community-led union has fought back against Wheatley Homes’ social cleansing plans to demolish four 26-storey high-rise blocks in Glasgow
Marching on the glass tower that houses energy giant Scottish Power, the people of Glasgow made it clear that the working class will not put up with criminal price hikes and fuel poverty any longer, reports STEPHANIE MARTIN
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