Seventeen years after losing her council job due to needing endometriosis surgery, Michelle Dewar’s campaign for paid menstrual leave gained 50,000 signatures in a week, reports ELIZABETH SHORT
Ignoring the light at the end of the tunnel
Instead of cutting wages and ‘tightening our belts,’ the obvious answer to the current crisis is to nationalise the energy market and only ‘squeeze’ corporate profits at the top, writes ANDREW MURRAY in the first of a new regular column
From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE
White racist rioting has many an infamous precedent in Britain, writes DAVID HORSLEY
The SNP might dissemble over the meaning of ‘nationalism,’ but it can’t disguise the fact that it is no left-wing party, says ELAINE SMITH
Castro became one of the first leaders to denounce Israeli genocide against Palestinians at the UN, comparing zionist persecution to Nazi crimes while Cuba trained PLO cadres and awarded Arafat state honours, writes PABLO MERIGUET
The summer saw the co-founders of modern communism travelling from Ramsgate to Neuenahr to Scotland in search of good weather, good health and good newspapers in the reading rooms, writes KEITH FLETT
THE last time this column appeared in the Morning Star living standards were still rising in Britain. Yes, it was that long ago.
When the bankers’ crash of 2008 pulverised Britain’s deregulated, finance-distorted economy, the great and the good spoke of a difficult couple of years.
Then it became a “lost decade.” Now it looks like a “lost generation.” Can a “lost lifetime” be far away?
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