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
Labour needs a national food strategy to tackle hunger
We need a ‘right to food’ enshrined in law and universal free school meals, as 7.2 million households face food insecurity after years of devastating failed Tory policies, writes ANNETTE MANSELL-GREEN
Pupils eating school dinners, March 2007
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
IN 2022-23, 7.2 million households were food insecure in Britain. Currently, 30 per cent of children in England — 4.3 million — are living in poverty. Recent surveys conducted by Survation for the National Education Union reveal that 52 per cent of struggling parents in England are cutting back on their food shopping due to rising costs. Furthermore, 37 per cent of children in England know someone at school who doesn’t have enough to eat.
Globally, we produce one-and-a-half times more than enough food to feed every man, woman, and child on the planet. People go hungry because they are poor and don’t have enough money to buy the food being produced.
There is no scarcity of food. In reality, the scarcity narrative was produced by corporate food regimes to serve their interests through capitalism. Food has transformed from a necessity to a commodity solely for profiting from its high demand. Any resulting detriment to health appears to be collateral damage in favour of corporate greed.
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