The Morning Star publishes the speech by writer and editor JULIA BARD of the Jewish Socialists’ Group given at the paper’s annual conference at the weekend
We cannot go back to the way things were when the lockdown ends
Let’s use our trade union structures to support communities as we come together around clear demands for the future, says CWU leader DAVE WARD
CWU leader Dave Ward
Engels’ essay on our origins and distinctiveness built on Darwin’s own exploration of human evolution and has provided a framework for exploration and research which has stood the test of time, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
Long before modern labour movements, England’s farmworkers fought back against their oppression – and for some, like Elizabeth Studham, the price was exile to Australia. MAT COWARD tells the story
As world leaders posture and local politicians bore, voters are left with a grim choice: despair, disengage — or start imagining something better, says MATT KERR
CARLOS MARTINEZ reports on China’s role in helping Cuba develop self-sufficiency in renewable energy, which would shield it from the sort of pain Donald Trump is inflicting with his oil blockade
THERE’S a new mood in this country as a consequence of the terrible pandemic that has killed so many and sent our whole society into lockdown.
We see it every Thursday night as people come to their doors and windows to clap and bang pots in support of the heroic NHS workers risking their lives to save ours.
There’s a new respect too for front-line workers of other kinds keeping the country going: for shopworkers, transport workers, refuse workers who have to keep coming into work and of course for the postal workers who for many vulnerable people form their only regular link to the outside world.
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