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FIRST-HAND VIEW: Flavia Ocampo says Nicaragua has been a victim of deliberate fake news and people should judge for themselves by visiting the country
by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
FLAVIA OCAMPO has a really infectious revolutionary spirit.
I interviewed the young Nicaraguan trade union leader while she was in Birmingham as a guest of the Unison West Midlands International Forum.
As I spoke with Ocampo, I was reminded of the words of the legendary Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara when he said: “If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.”
The Durham Miners’ Gala is a celebration of working-class culture, but also a call to action — to rebuild workers’ collective strength, says KIM JOHNSON MP
Cuba continues to embody a vision of internationalism that imperialism has never forgiven, argues ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
JOHN REES replies to Claudia Webbe
FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ says the US’s bullying conduct in what it considers its backyard is a bid to reassert imperial primacy over a rising China — but it faces huge resistance