ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
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The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
From Workers’ Memorial Day to May Day rallies, TOM MORRISON examines the real challenges facing the labour movement as Reform UK’s glossy literature exploits legitimate grievances in traditional left strongholds
Calls have been made for the return to Venezuela of a two-year-old girl currently being held in the US, after being separated from her family by immigration officials, reports SUSAN GREY
In the first of two articles, DANIEL POWELL investigates the causal aspects of the Russo-Ukrainian war as Britain commemorates 80 years since VE Day
TWO months ago as the Morning Star implemented remote working I outlined some of the challenges that the lockdown would pose for the Morning Star.
With people advised to stay at home, shop sales of the paper have fallen sharply as they have across the print industry. Hundreds of publications are making cuts and many have furloughed large numbers of staff.
The crisis hits a sector already in decline: newspaper sales have been falling for years and many proprietors have responded by cutting quality journalism, especially at local papers, where many have closed entirely and others have seen news teams merged into regional hubs, each producing a number of different local papers – denying many areas a genuinely local media voice with a serious impact on democracy at town and county level. The loss of local media jobs has also removed a route into national journalism for working-class people, meaning the editorial staff and opinion writers at national papers are more than ever drawn from the richest sections of the population.
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