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
A darkening Europe marks the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Eighty years since Jewish rebels made their heroic last stand against the Nazis, DAVID ROSENBERG looks at events and the fight over the meaning of their legacy
Jewish resistance members captured by the Nazis during the Warsaw ghetto uprising
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
IN the Muranow district of Warsaw, once the beating heart of Europe’s largest Jewish community, the Monument to the Ghetto Heroes stands on the eastern edge of a large square.
It depicts defiant Jewish insurgents in the midst of their incredible uprising against the Nazis that began on April 19 1943.
Ironically, the materials used to construct this anti-fascist monument were procured by Nazi architect Albert Speer in 1942. He had planned to erect a monument for the victorious Third Reich on the ruins of Warsaw.
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