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
Nicaragua and Palestine: an enduring, mutual solidarity
The Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group's HELEN YUILL tells the story of solidarity between two small nations, that despite geographical distances, that have united in their struggle against imperialism and colonialism
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
THE roots of these links extend back to the anti-imperialist struggle led by Augusto Sandino from 1927 to 1933. Sandino, considered a revolutionary hero in Latin America, led a rebellion against the US occupation of Nicaragua.
A Colombian-born Palestinian named Ghadeer Abu Sneineh joined Sandino’s guerilla army, recognising parallels between the oppression by colonial powers in Latin America and Palestine. Following Sandino’s assassination by the US-backed Somoza, Abu Sneineh travelled to Palestine to join the 1936 Arab revolt against British colonial rule.
Three years after the Establishment of the Sandinista National Liberation Front, (FSLN) in 1961, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) was founded. The FSLN sent combatants to Lebanon to train alongside PLO fighters: one notable figure was Patricio Arguello, a Nicaraguan US, who trained in Palestinian camps in Jordan and was killed during an internationalist mission to free Palestinian prisoners.
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