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Faversham: a local battle in the international migration crisis

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Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 8h

Once again, our broad-based coalition outnumbered the anti-migrant protest in Faversham, but tackling the sentiment behind this wave of anger requires explaining the real reasons pushing millions into leaving their homelands, argues NICK WRIGHT
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LAST SUNDAY Faversham Against Racism campaigners — gathered outside a small facility housing refugee children — outnumbered anti-migrant marchers who had threaded through the deserted streets of the K...

Red goes green: witnessing the truth of China’s ‘ecological civilisation’

Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 8h

One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
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SUSTAINABLE development is one of the world’s biggest challenges — can we raise living standards while protecting the environment and reducing emissions?In Britain as in the United States, the answer ...

Storm Amy: low-pressure damage

Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 1d

Losing the atom-level buzz that keeps us held safe in the balance of internal and external pressure releases dangerous storms, disorientation and pain, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and MIRIAM GAUNTLETT
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STORM AMY battered Ireland and Britain — especially Scotland — this weekend, felling trees and powerlines, causing floods, destroying structures and leaving 33,000 people without electricity.This was ...

Your Party launch conference: the sortition of the 13,000

Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 1d

EDMUND GRIFFITHS makes a robust defence of sortition, the chosen method of picking attendees for the new left party’s inaugural conference from the membership at random, but sounds the alarm on the eye-watering number of suggested delegates
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HOLLYWOOD no longer even tries to bring out an old-fashioned summer blockbuster each year. In 2025, we did not need one. The British left has been producing all the thrills and heartbreak, all the com...

Ofer Cassif: ‘I don’t accept that Israeli society is lost’

Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 2d

ASSAF TALGAM talks to an Israeli Communist lawmaker about the need to use every tool of democratic and non-violent struggle; how Israeli society has changed since October 7 2023; and the persecution of the left in the parliamentary arena
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“I DO not accept the claim that Israeli society is lost and that there is nothing to fight for within it. We must not give up.” That was the point emphasised by Ofer Cassif, a member of the Israeli pa...

Turning the page on SNP failure: Labour’s moment to lead

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Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 2d

Turning the page on SNP failure: Labour’s moment to lead - As Holyrood elections approach, BRIAN LEISHMAN MP argues that Labour’s time has come — to open a new chapter which puts an end to the years of managed decline
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THERE has long been a single truth to Scottish politics — trust must be earned close to home.With the Holyrood elections fast approaching, Scottish Labour had a clear strategic choice to make.The part...

The unfit Metropolitan Police’s racism and misogyny is not a ‘hidden culture’

Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 2d

The appalling bigotry and bias of London’s police force has been obvious for years – and the police leadership does not appear inclined to do anything about it, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
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LAST WEEK, the BBC in its headline reported a “hidden culture” of racism and misogyny in the Metropolitan Police. In its article announcing its findings, the BBC said that “Serving Metropolitan Police...

Labour Party conference 2025: where do we go from here?

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Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 3d

Apart from a bright spark of hope in the victory of the Gaza motion, this year’s conference lacked vision and purpose — we need to urgently reconnect Labour with its roots rather than weakly aping the flag-waving right, argues KIM JOHNSON MP
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THIS year’s Labour Party conference in Liverpool should have been a moment of unity and renewal. After 14 years of Tory rule, we are a government with over a year back in power. People are desperate f...

Why we need the return of women’s centres

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Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 3d

In the face of funding cuts, closures and a shift into women’s centres providing criminal justice-only services rather than a holistic approach, RUTH HUNT urges women to protect existing resources, volunteer and build new networks of support
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PROFESSOR Linda Gask, whose latest book, All in Her Mind: How We Are Failing Women’s Mental Health and What Must Change, shares the personal testimonies of women who have been failed by mental health ...

58th congress of Britain’s communist party: renewal and change in a dangerous time

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Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 3d

The CPB's congress aims to build the united front against monopoly capitalism, utilising the YCL’s promising new generation of militants — but our party remains far from the strength history requires of it, despite recent progress, writes JOHNNIE HUNTER
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HISTORY has shown us in the clearest possible terms that when the Communist Party is strong, Britain’s labour movement, left and working class are strong — the struggle for socialism is strong.Around ...

Liberty and justice for Iran, not war, not sanctions

Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 6d

Liberty and justice for Iran, not war, not sanctions - As war between Iran and the West looms once more, NAVID SHOMALI sounds the alarm bell and calls on the peace movement in Britain and internationally to mobilise for action before it is too late
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AMID the continuing disorienting cacophony of war in the Middle East, and the horrific toll being exacted upon the Palestinian people in particular, while the international community and its represent...

Justice over Colombia’s civil war takes shape

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Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 6d

With the ceasefire and peace process now firmly in place for almost a decade, Colombia’s peace court has begun issuing its first sentences against both sides over human rights violations during the armed conflict, reports NICK MACWILLIAM
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IN a long-awaited development, Colombia’s transitional justice court, the Special Jurisdiction for Peace (JEP), has issued its first sentences for crimes committed during the armed conflict. Crea...

Buying the bubble: a Labour conference love-in with AI

Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 6d

The new angle from private firms shmoozing their way into public contracts was the much-trumpeted arrival of ‘artificial intelligence’ — and no-one seemed to have heard the numerous criticisms of this unproven miracle cure, reports SOLOMON HUGHES
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MY experience of artificial intelligence (AI) feels like the big tech firms are following the “junk food model,” where the food industry promoted superficially attractive super-processed products load...

Meloni’s Gaza challenge: the people v Netanyahu’s cronies

Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 6d

By refusing to recognise a Palestinian state and continuing to supply Israel with weapons, Meloni has provoked an uprising that is without precedent in the history of solidarity with Palestine — and it could change Italy profoundly too, writes RAMZY BAROUD
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WHAT is happening in Italy regarding Gaza is unprecedented in the history of solidarity between the country and any other international cause anywhere. A popular uprising is under way, the consequence...

The United Nations needs a radical overhaul

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Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 7d

The United Nations needs a radical overhaul - The UN is not only in need of structural change, a fundamental mindset revolution is also required – and it’s China that points the way with its Global Governance Initiative, argues ROGER McKENZIE
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THE fact that the United States gets to effectively decide who attends the United Nations is proof, if ever it was needed, of why a new system of global governance is urgently required.Towards the end...

The ‘Golden Age of nuclear’ deal is all a veneer

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Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 7d

The ‘Golden Age of nuclear’ deal is all a veneer - Once again, working people have been betrayed with false promises about jobs in an industry that is actually making climate change worse, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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AT THIS point there is no need for any of us who are inclined toward commentary to further point out the utter dereliction of the Keir Starmer government. It is doing a perfectly fine job on its own.O...

French prepare to ‘block everything’ all over again

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Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 7d

French prepare to ‘block everything’ all over again - A day of strike action is set to be unleashed today, against tax injustice, attacks on pensions and the anti-democratic manoeuvrings of Macron, writes BILL GREENSHIELDS
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TODAY the French people will celebrate the inability of the state and its increasingly unstable governments to hold back their anger and opposition to yet more pro-Big Business, anti-worker imposition...

Why education is key to combating the far right

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Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 8d

My time working on the Stephen Lawrence campaign taught me a lot about how racism festers in alienation and ignorance — I know first-hand why educators, especially people of colour, must lead the fight against race hate, argues MARC WADSWORTH
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DEFEATING fascists is personal to me. When I helped set up the Justice for Stephen Lawrence campaign and led the Anti-Racist Alliance’s successful action to close down the “nazi bunker” headquarters o...

Starbucks workers’ struggle goes global as victory nears

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Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 8d

Organised workers at Starbucks are scoring victory after victory, and now international bodies are pitching in to finally force this figurehead of corporate capitalism to give in to unionisation, writes EMILIO AVELAR
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MASS organisations representing some 85 million workers around the world announced in a public letter late last week their commitment to support unionised Starbucks baristas and uphold picket lines in...

The far right’s current confidence levels are disturbing

Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 8d

The far right feels comfortable openly saying the most racist, extreme things imaginable and harassing events in ways unseen in living memory — we desperately need an anti-fascist Labour Party to replace the current appeasement regime, writes ANDREW MURRAY
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SOME demonstrations have a significance way beyond their numbers.Thus, a few hundred far-rightists assembling menacingly outside the Labour Party conference may not seem very significant. They posed n...

Justice for the Cammell Laird 37

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Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 9d

Justice for the Cammell Laird 37 - KIM JOHNSON MP explains why, just like Orgreave and the Shrewsbury Pickets before it, justice today is so important for the struggles of tomorrow
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WHEN 37 shipyard workers from Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead were sent to a high-security prison in 1984, their only crime was fighting for their jobs, the survival of their sector and their com...

The nuclear choice: a people’s economy or the bosses’ bomb?

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Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 9d

CND’s Stop the Nuclear Nightmare conference in Glasgow will be an important step towards destroying the false arguments that weapons and war spending will lead to job creation and prosperity, rather than bringing Armageddon closer, writes SIMON BARROW
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IN a month’s time, trade unionists, environmentalists, community organisations and political activists will gather in Glasgow to push back firmly against the British government’s drive towards rearmam...

What does real security look like? Campaigners push Labour to rethink defence

Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 9d

CEREN SAGIR reports from the CND fringe meeting during the Labour conference, where speakers slammed a system where £99 billion nuclear arsenal replacement costs are ring-fenced while the two-child benefit cap remains
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BRITAIN needs a new understanding of security — one that invests in communities, tackles climate breakdown, and dismantles racism, instead of pouring billions into nuclear weapons and military expansi...

Labour is still failing us on social security

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Morning Star @mstaronline.bsky.social · 9d

Labour will find increases in the state pension age are unacceptable, just as cuts to the Winter Fuel Allowance, personal independence payments and universal credit are — it needs to change direction immediately, writes PCS general secretary FRAN HEATHCOTE
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WHAT has defined this Labour government? For many, it happened early on, when one of the new government’s first decisions was to cut winter fuel payments for nearly 10 million pensioners.We all knew L...