IAN LAVERY MP warns that decades of neoliberal policies have left former industrial communities behind — but a renewed Labour commitment to working people could change the political landscape
We must halt the escalation towards World War III
The Star publishes here a speech by SEVIM DAGDELEN, member of the German Bundestag, at the Conference for World Equilibrium in Havana, Cuba, earlier this week
Emergency workers clear the rubble after a Russian rocket his a multi-storey building leaving many people under debris in the south-eastern city of Dnipro
PAOLO SANTALUCIA reports on how an Italian region defies US pressure to end a Cuban doctors programme
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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
THIS conference turns the spotlight on the key question of our time, namely how can humanity, in all its diversity, achieve balanced coexistence?
In a context of war, militarisation and increasingly bitter bloc confrontation with the potential to escalate into a third world war, this question is of existential importance.
I speak to you today as a member of Parliament from the left-wing opposition in a country that is a warring party in the Ukraine conflict.
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