Lebanon’s President Aoun calls for international action to force Israel to ‘stop targeting civilians, paramedics, civil defence, and humanitarian’ workers
COMMUNISTS laid flowers at the International Brigades memorial statue in Belfast following a May Day solidarity meeting at the weekend.
Communist Party of Ireland (CPI) incoming chair John Pinkerton called, in the year of Karl Marx’s 200th birthday, for an “all-Ireland anti-imperialist alliance” to develop “a new type of national political and economic sovereignty” and build “a future in which the needs of the people, the planet and peace come before greed for profits.”
Tudeh Party of Iran international secretary Navid Shomali warned that a “powerful coalition” of forces was gathering around US President Donald Trump with “very dangerous designs for Iran, within the scope of ‘regime change.’ Its agenda is to exert crippling pressures on the Iranian people.”
MOHAMMAD OMIDVAR, a senior figure in the Tudeh Party of Iran, tells the Morning Star that mass protests are rooted in poverty, corruption and neoliberal rule and warns against monarchist revival and US-engineered regime change
A new group within the NEU is preparing the labour movement for a conversation on Irish unity by arguing that true liberation must be rooted in working-class solidarity and anti-sectarianism, writes ROBERT POOLE
JIM JUMP looks forward to the International Brigade Memorial Trust AGM taking place in Belfast later this week where the spirit of solidarity will be rekindled



