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This week's online activism guide — starting today!
BETHANY RIELLY presents her go-to guide for armchair activists, a virtual Red List: your guide to the next 7 days' housebound events and "confined resistance"
An online protest against Israel's blockade of Gaza by Jewish Voice for Labour
Trump’s Gaza deal is a transient, self-aggrandising spectacle that barely distracts from the West’s outright complicity in the massacre in Gaza and our slide into warmongering, writes MATT KERR
We need a massive change in direction to renew a crumbling health service — that’s why Plaid Cymru has an ambitious plan to recentre primary care by recruiting 500 additional GPs and opening six new elective care hubs across Wales, writes MABON AP GWYNFOR
ANN CZERNIK looks back over the last two years of carnage that began with the unprecedented October 7 operation and considers the rhetoric from both sides in light of the massacre carried out by Israel that has united the world in horror
Plaid Cymru and Reform UK lead the polls — the Caerphilly by-election will be the first stop on the journey to see if our nation chooses union-friendly, progressive, left-nationalism or Farage’s reactionary dead end, writes Wales reporter DAVID NICHOLSON
MAT COWARD looks back to a 1931 protest against mass unemployment featuring a young Ewan MacColl
It’s easy to feel a bit useless stuck indoors while an unprecedented disaster unfolds outside, especially if you’re normally out on the picket lines or waving placards outside parliament. But don’t hang up your megaphones just yet.
Droves of campaigns have quickly adapted to the lockdown, with hundreds of political webinars, digital protests, podcasts and more to keep your activist diary full.
So here it is, the Morning Star’s first guide to the upcoming week’s virtual-lefty events.
To kick off your week, tune in TODAY (7pm) for Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s Webinar: Palestinians in Jerusalem (mstar.link/palestinejerusalem). Unsurprisingly, Israeli apartheid has not been put on hold during the crisis, with one response for its citizens and another for the Palestinians. Today’s discussion on Zoom* will look at the complicated situation in occupied East Jerusalem, hearing from residents living the crisis first-hand.
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