While international actors discuss governance and reconstruction, Netanyahu has made it clear that Israel has no intention of ending its military occupation, says RAMZY BAROUD
THIS year’s International Women’s Day strikes a more sombre tone due the disproportionate impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic consequences on women, with women in black, Asian and minority ethnic (Bame) communities especially left worse off than others.
The Covid crisis has thrown backwards the position of women and Bame communities and underlines the importance and intersection of the struggle for women’s liberation and the fight against racism.
The year-long crisis has been a choice of the governments of major Western economies, as they prioritise profits of the 1 per cent above the majority of people, and represents a qualitative sharpening of the attack on the working class, with women and Bame communities hit hardest.
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the horrific price British patients will pay for this NHS deal is now clear — and there’s time to get out of it, if MPs will only force the issue
The pioneering activist understood that freedom could only be won through solidarity across communities. Her legacy offers vital lessons at a time when progressive politics risks losing that shared purpose
The Morning Star republishes PRAGNA PATEL’s speech at the annual commemoration of Claudia Jones on February 22 2026
May elections will soon be upon us and SABBY DHALU calls for a maximum mobilisation, across Britain, to defeat Reform UK and the right at the ballot box


