BEN CHACKO reports on fears at TUC Congress that the provisions in the legislation are liable to be watered down even further
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Peace negotiators must be protected
BOB NEWLAND shines a light on the case of Josu Urrutikoetxea, who helped bring about an end to Basque armed conflict but who now languishes in jail facing charges of ‘criminal conspiracy with terrorist intent’
IMPRISONED: Josu Urrutikoetxea
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
JOSU URRUTIKOETXEA was a key figure in the Basque movement Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Eta) and played a major role in ending the armed conflict in the Basque Country and Spain.
He led peace negotiations on behalf of Eta from the 1980s. In 1989 he was arrested in the middle of a truce and spent 10 years in prison.
Urrutikoetxea led further negotiations from 2005 to 2007 in Geneva and from 2011 to 2013 in Oslo.
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