With attacks on industry, healthcare and education intensifying, JAMSHID AHMADI warns of a deliberate drive to cripple Iran and calls for urgent global action
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Land of the free (but only if you’re rich and white)
The US has pushed through 40 new pieces of legislation to restrict voting rights since 2021 - so how can it claim to be a beacon of democracy, asks ROGER McKENZIE
People cast their ballots at Coit Arts Academy in Grand Rapids on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022.
Argentinians commemorated the 50th anniversary of the military dictatorship that left 30,000 people killed or ‘disappeared.’ BERT SCHOUWENBURG reports
In Voices of Scotland YANA PETTICREW looks at the crippling deterioration of working-class art provision and support
As weapons return to Suffolk and defence spending soars, London CND is pressing local candidates to oppose nuclear expansion and support the UN ban treaty. SALLY SPIERS explains
One hundred years on from Britain’s only general strike, socialists will gather in London at the Morning Star’s annual conference to discuss how organised labour can once again become the engine of radical change. Editor BEN CHACKO encourages readers to come along and join the debate
In the year following Peterloo a mass strike erupted into armed revolt as Scotland’s workers demanded their rights, yet this uprising remains largely absent from popular history, writes KENNY MacASKILL
WE HAVE always been led to believe that the United States is the leader of the free world. They are, after all, allegedly, the “land of the free and the home of the brave.”
Of course this has only ever really applied to people who were or are white and Anglo-Saxon.
The indigenous population of the land now known as America or the millions enslaved onto the plantations of North America would find it hard to believe in the freedom and democracy proposition.
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