TUC general secretary PAUL NOWAK speaks to the Morning Star’s Berny Torre about the increasing frustration the trade union movement feels at a government that promised change, but has been too slow to bring it about
British complicity in the Nakba continues
It did not end with the British Mandate of Palestine and the Balfour Declaration, writes DR AQEL TAQAZ — today Britain is actively supporting Israel’s increasingly rapid erasure of Palestine
INTIMIDATION TACTICS: Israeli military convoy in Nablus, last week
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
With 12,000 fewer teachers since 2010 and dwindling resources, Scotland’s schools desperately need investment to support diverse learners rather than empty promises from politicians, writes ANDREA BRADLEY
Reversing outsourcing is the pre-election promise the government must honour, says Unison general secretary CHRISTINA McANEA
EMAN ABU ZAYED reminisces about the perilous time her family and neighbours endured in northern Gaza and how they were forced, in fear of their lives, to flee south
The EIS president who defended Marxist politics in the 1980s fought Thatcherite educational policies while organising Teachers for Peace rallies and ensuring Morning Star circulation in Scotland’s pit villages and factories, writes JOHN FOSTER
THIS year, Israel will be celebrating the 75th anniversary of its establishment, while the Palestinian people bear painful witness to yet another year of tragedy — a tragedy set in motion by the criminal abuses of colonialism in the embers of World War I.
British culpability for the Nakba of 1948 is well-documented and rooted in the Balfour Declaration of 1917 in which Britain pledged to establish a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine. The subsequent British Mandate of Palestine precipitated a rapid rise in immigration by Jewish people, mainly from Europe, to Palestine — with the resident population forced from their homes while the colonial authorities watched on.
Zionist terrorist gangs soon turned on their imperialist handlers and committed horrific raids and massacres in Palestinian villages and towns, displacing large parts of the population into exile in neighbouring countries where many continue to live as refugees.
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Dr AQEL TAQAZ of the Palestinian People's Party says global pressure is the only way to end Israel's genocidal assault on the Palestinian people
Protest that could convince world leaders to act in line with world opinion and force peace on Israel is now a matter of life or death for us, writes the Palestinian People’s Party DR AQEL TAQAZ
