DYLAN MURPHY looks at how Labour is breaking its pledge to protect the disabled and vulnerable
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
STEPHEN ARNELL on how US power politics is seeping into British broadcasting
The belief that leadership removal can dismantle Iran reflects a flawed reading of history, write RAMZY BAROUD and ROMANA RUBEO
Behind the smoke clouds over Beirut lies a radical vision of a “Greater Israel.” The tactics from Gaza are now being deployed to depopulate south Lebanon, clearing the way for a permanent occupation and the reshaping of the Middle East, says MARC VANDEPITTE
Beneath the folklore of leaping salmon lies a stark reality: the River Wye is under siege from industrial agriculture – but locals aren’t letting water polluters off the hook, says MARK SEDDON
A centenary tour of north-west England uncovers powerful exhibitions and archives connecting the history of the 1926 General Strike with the fights facing workers today. General Strike 100 national co-ordinator HENRY FOWLER reflects on his recent visit to partners in the region
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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