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
Greenham Common: ‘The women were very brave’
Honorary CND vice-president BRUCE KENT speaks to Daniel Powell on the legacy of the peace movement and the Greenham Common era
Sue Lent with the late Mary Crofton at the end of the 1983 Star March to Greenham
DIANE ABBOTT exposes the misconceptions, rumours and downright lies perpetrated around immigration issues
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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 last week of August this year, a 40th anniversary commemorative march began from Cardiff to the former site of Greenham Common airbase in Berkshire, marking the route taken in 1981 by Women for Life on Earth, against the placement of US nuclear missiles in Britain.
Peace camps established at the base became high profile in press and television reports, noted for their lasting resilience and activism.
A prominent figure in the peace movement at this time was Bruce Kent, now honorary vice-president of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), having been its general secretary and chair during the peak of media spotlight on Greenham.
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