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HEROES & VILLAINS OF 2024
The Morning Star sorts the good eggs from the rotten scoundrels of the year
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Join the traditional march from Clerkenwell Green, which will bring together countless international workers’ organisations in a statement against the far right
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Heroes
Julian Assange
Free at last, the WikiLeaks founder should never have had to strike a plea bargain to be granted his liberty — and in the judiciary’s connivance at a blatantly political extradition bid, and determined blind eye towards outrages such as the US considering assassinating him on British soil, we learned almost as much about the way so-called British justice works as we did about the crimes of US and British imperialism from the invaluable revelations on war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan.[[{"fid":"72658","view_mode":"inlineleft","fields":{"format":"inlineleft","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Julian Assange","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Julian Assange"},"link_text":null,"type":"media","field_deltas":{"2":{"format":"inlineleft","field_file_image_alt_text[und][0][value]":"Julian Assange","field_file_image_title_text[und][0][value]":"Julian Assange"}},"attributes":{"alt":"Julian Assange","title":"Julian Assange","class":"media-element file-inlineleft","data-delta":"2"}}]]
A happy new year to Julian and his family from us at the Morning Star — we won’t forget what you’ve taught us.
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