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Liz Payne
camp meal
Features / 24 December 2024
24 December 2024
If we want to take on war in 2025, we must take on our own governments in the West, and most of all, take on Nato, writes the convener of the British Peace Assembly, LIZ PAYNE
lanterns
Hiroshima Day 2024 / 6 August 2024
6 August 2024
LIZ PAYNE draws the parallels between 1945’s atomic horrors and today's conflicts, calling for mass resistance to Western aggression and a renewed push for global disarmament
This image taken from a video released by the Ukrainian Tsun
Features / 19 June 2024
19 June 2024
LIZ PAYNE explains that the only valid political demand over the conflict in Ukraine is that it is brought to an end as quickly as possible
Iran
Features / 7 July 2022
7 July 2022
Workers have always been at the forefront of resistance to the religious dictatorship in Iran, and now teachers have taken up the struggle to to redirect the nation's ample resources from militarisation to education, writes LIZ PAYNE
british colonialism
Features / 18 March 2022
18 March 2022
The Morning Star talks with LIZ PAYNE of Liberation’s education committee about the essay competition launched to encourage children and young people to set out what they think a better world might look like and how to achieve it
lithium
Opinion / 7 September 2021
7 September 2021
Natural resource grabbing and political destabilisation of the region are the crux of US medium-term ‘game’ in Afghanistan, argues LIZ PAYNE
Khaing Zar Aung
Features / 9 July 2021
9 July 2021
KHAING ZAR AUNG, president of the Industrial Workers Federation of Myanmar, speaks to Liz Payne on the situation in her country and the role of the labour movement and people of Myanmar in the struggle against the military regime
Global women
Features / 30 April 2021
30 April 2021
LIZ PAYNE introduces the women who will speak in the international section of next Saturday’s conference, Sisterhood, Socialism and Struggle — Communist Women Rising
Ali Khavari
Features / 24 April 2021
24 April 2021
Remembering a titan of Tudeh Party of Iran and the international communist movement
Pablo Picasso
Features / 12 November 2020
12 November 2020
LIZ PAYNE looks back 70 years to when the World Peace Council came to Sheffield – against the best efforts of Attlee’s Labour Party 
Spanish civil war
Features / 16 October 2020
16 October 2020
LIZ PAYNE shines a light on communist attitudes to global class struggle
Cable Street mural
Features / 3 October 2020
3 October 2020
The famous victory in 1936 is still felt today far beyond the East End, says LIZ PAYNE
Palestine protester Morocco
Features / 20 September 2020
20 September 2020
Communists discuss the future of peace in the Middle East and call for increased solidarity with the Palestinians in their quest for justice and statehood. LIZ PAYNE reports
International Women's Day
Features / 4 March 2020
4 March 2020
LIZ PAYNE previews an event where we can learn first-hand from international speakers about women’s struggle to end sex-based injustice across the globe
Nato has a long record of crimes, of military interventions
Features / 28 November 2019
28 November 2019
Liz Payne, convener of the British Peace Assembly, interviews THANASSIS PAFILIS, general secretary of the World Peace Council for the Morning Star
Dove
Features / 19 April 2019
19 April 2019
LIZ PAYNE pays tribute to the WPC and its struggle against imperialist aggression as it enters its eighth decade this weekend
nato
Features / 3 April 2019
3 April 2019
The US-led imperial cabal is as reactionary and as dangerous today as it has ever been - we need to get out, and fast, writes LIZ PAYNE
memorials
Features / 22 March 2019
22 March 2019
On the eve of the 20th anniversary of Nato’s treacherous attack on Serbia, LIZ PAYNE outlines the hidden facts behind this, the first instance of new imperialist tactics that were to be replicated throughout the Middle East as she addresses the World Peace Council
Red woman
Features / 6 March 2019
6 March 2019
Left parties and women’s organisations come together for a celebration of International Working Women’s Day that is truly international — in its politics, cultural items and cuisine, writes LIZ PAYNE
HISTORY / 7 November 2017
7 November 2017
Issued a day after the Revolution, the Decree on Peace was a supremely revolutionary act of internationalism, writes LIZ PAYNE