There have been penalties for those who looked the other way when Epstein was convicted of child sex offences and decided to maintain relationships with the financier — but not for the British ambassador to Washington, reveals SOLOMON HUGHES
Mariam and Ashok Dhawale: organising in the millions
Representing a combined membership of around 25 million workers and women in India, the two leaders spoke to ROGER McKENZIE about how all organising must begin face to face at the grassroots
Ashok Dhawale and Mariam Dhawale
Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
ORGANISING doesn’t have to be all about the global North. We can learn much from the remarkable work taking place among nearly 18 per cent of the total world population.
Mariam Dhawale and Dr Ashok Dhawale from India, are two of the world’s most important organisers — and many of you reading this may never have heard of them.
After talking with them for an exclusive interview with the Morning Star, it is clear that both would run a million miles from such a description.
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