Economists estimate extreme poverty could be drastically reduced for a fraction of global defence spending, yet military budgets continue to expand year on year, says JON TRICKETT MP, ahead of the Stop the War International Conference on Saturday
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A lone sailor in the South Pacific with no compass or sextant still plots a leftward course. PETER FROST has a Eureka moment
REMOTE: Palmer Station in Anvers Island, Antarctica, where Lewis visited in 1973
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As Unison launches its Year of Women Workers, ANNIE COGAN-THOMAS argues that stronger organisation and collective bargaining are essential to winning equality
Trade unions, trades councils and community organisations must work together to build lasting solidarity and resistance to the far right, argues DREW GILCHRIST
Recent violence in Belfast was not spontaneous — it was built on years of failure and political neglect, argues STIOFAN O NUALLAIN
As delegates meet in Brighton this week, Unison faces pressing questions about pay, organising, workers’ rights and political representation, explains ANDY CHAFFER
Andy Burnham’s growing stature has fuelled hopes of a Labour revival – but ALAN SIMPSON warns that Britain’s crisis runs far deeper than just its leadership and traces its roots to decades of financialised capitalism
A RECENT edition of the Morning Star (Thursday January 7) carried a letter from Tony Conway reminding readers about West Indian communists like Claudia Jones who founded the Notting Hill Carnival and Jamaican RAF pilot Billy Strachan who earned an equally important position as a leader of the anti-imperialist struggle all across the Caribbean and went on to assist and advise Caribbean leaders like Cheddi Jagan of Guyana.
Over the last few years I have written Morning Star features on both Jones and Strachan.
Looking over my notes on Strachan again I had one of those Eureka moments. Suddenly a bright light flooded into my lockdown-clogged brain.
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From 35,000 troops in Talisman Sabre war games to HMS Spey provocations in the Taiwan Strait, Labour continues Tory militarisation — all while claiming to uphold ‘one China’ diplomatic agreements from 1972, reports KENNY COYLE