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
To end the crisis in Yemen, stop arming the Saudi dictatorship
Seven years ago Saudi Arabia began a brutal onslaught that has been widely described as causing the world’s worst humanitarian disaster – a crime not possible without at least £6.5 billion of British weapons, explains PAYAM SOLHTALAB
Campaigners from Amnesty International carrying a batch of five giant dummy missiles to Downing Street, to highlight the government's refusal to halt exports of British-manufactured arms to Saudi Arabia, despite the clear risk that they could be used to commit war crimes in Yemen
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 weekend will mark the seventh anniversary of the beginning of the onslaught by a coalition of countries, headed by Saudi Arabia, against Yemen and its people.
It is a war that has exacted a particularly horrific toll on the country and its population and which continues to do so, unchecked as it is by the international community and powers that be.
This bombardment of Yemen by the Saudi-led coalition has utterly devastated critical infrastructure across the country, leaving it in ruins and on the brink of a catastrophe of epic proportions.
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With nearly 700,000 having fled the fighting to nearby countries, the conflict between two sides of the armed forces risks sparking violence across the whole volatile region, warns PAYAM SOLHTALAB
PAYAM SOLHTALAB, of the Committee for Defence of Iranian People’s Rights, issues a call for support following the arrest of a leading teaching trade unionist by the Islamic Republic regime
Hundreds of schoolgirls have been targeted in poison gas attacks in Iran. We need to sound the alarm and be calling for justice as loudly as possilble, says PAYAM SOLHTALAB of the Committee for Defence of Iranian People’s Rights
