The UN has shamefully empowered the occupation of Gaza rather than ending it – we must redouble our efforts to build the movement required to establish a true peace, argues BEN JAMAL
‘When the looting starts, the shooting starts’: Trump revives segregationist war cry
Whether he did so subconsciously, by quoting a segregationist police chief who opposed the 1960s civil rights movement, Trump has picked up the mantle of US white supremacism once again, writes CJ ATKINS
A man rides past Fiesta Mexicana Y Mas along Lake Street, Saturday, May 30, 2020, in Minneapolis
On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights
Morning Star political reporter Andrew Murray speaks to ZARAH SULTANA on the mass party of the left holding its inaugural conference this weekend
DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too
In part V of a serialisation of his new book, JOHN McINALLY argues that to confront capitalism’s escalating crises, unions must reorient toward class politics and help build a united, explicitly socialist alternative capable of representing the working class and its material needs
ON the day following George Floyd’s lynching by officers of the Minneapolis Police Department, President Donald Trump announced an FBI investigation into what happened. Facing a mass public outcry against the backdrop of incontrovertible video evidence of Officer Derek Chauvin’s killing of Floyd, even Trump was compelled to say he’d do something. The charade of concern didn’t last long. By Friday morning, he was reviving the war cries of the segregationist South on Twitter.
Early on Friday, Trump returned to publicly showcasing his racist instincts. In a series of tweets, he derided Minneapolis protesters as “THUGS” using all caps to type out the code word often preferred by white supremacists who can no longer get away with using the N-word in public. As the 3rd Precinct’s police headquarters burned on television, the president threatened to send in the military to “get the job done right” if the “radical left” mayor didn’t “get his act together.”
And what “job” did Trump want Mayor Jacob Frey to get done right? Apparently, the gunning down of black protesters.
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