Scottish Labour's leaders cannot keep blaming Westminster for the collapse at the ballot box, says VINCE MILLS
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Time for progress on the Kurdish Question
As the largest stateless ethnic group in the world, the Kurds deserve our support — that means opposing their persecution in Turkey and securing the release of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan, writes BERT SCHOUWENBURG
Over 30 years since apartheid was abolished, nasty anti-migrant rhetoric sweeps the corporate media. The Commnunist Party is ready to fight back, says ROGER McKENZIE
Over 100,000 people are expected on Brussels’s streets today. Ben Chacko speaks to Belgian Workers Party’s PETER MERTENS on wage and pensions attacks that have united the fightback
FRED BAYER says the cuts to the congress cycle could be disastrous for the Scottish trade union movement
Berlin’s Soviet war memorials are becoming the latest front in a political struggle to ‘de-Sovietise’ German history. NICO POPP reports
Western Marxism is a particular version of Marxist theory developed in – and acceptable to – the capitalist nations of Europe and North America and largely divorced from political action, argues the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY
BARELY a day goes by without the Morning Star running a story on the latest indignities and atrocities suffered by Kurdish people across the Middle East, particularly at the hands of the Turkish state and its authoritarian President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who recently announced that Turkey was withdrawing from the Council of Europe’s Istanbul Convention for preventing and combatting violence against women.
The move drew rare condemnation from the EU and even a mild rebuke from US President Joe Biden but Erodgan was unmoved, claiming that the convention had been hijacked by people trying to “normalise homosexuality” and was incompatible with “family values.”
The decision prompted widespread protest in a country where over 300 women were murdered last year and where there is little legal protection for female victims of domestic violence.
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