As food and fuel run out, Gaza’s doctors appeal to the world to end the ‘genocide of children,’ reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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
While Trump threatens to send Haitian gang leaders to El Salvador's terror prison, DANNY SHAW reveals how these paramilitary groups are merely symptoms of US-backed neocolonial rule — the real terrorists are the CIA and international actors arming desperate youth to traumatise an unarmed population
Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER
Mark Harvey pays tribute to a veteran of the days when the London building trade was a hotbed of working-class struggle, a legendary trade unionist, communist and poet
Rather than hoping for the emergence of some new ‘party of the left,’ EMMA DENT COAD sees a broad alliance of local parties and community groups as a way of reviving democratic progressive politics
ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
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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