As weapons return to Suffolk and defence spending soars, London CND is pressing local candidates to oppose nuclear expansion and support the UN ban treaty. SALLY SPIERS explains
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Celebrating Chavez and the power to transform lives
25 years on from his becoming Venezuela’s president, Chavez should be remembered as a spark for 21st-century socialism, writes MATT WILLGRESS
President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez addresses crowds of supporters at the Camden Centre, London, May 2006
One hundred years on from Britain’s only general strike, socialists will gather in London at the Morning Star’s annual conference to discuss how organised labour can once again become the engine of radical change. Editor BEN CHACKO encourages readers to come along and join the debate
In the year following Peterloo a mass strike erupted into armed revolt as Scotland’s workers demanded their rights, yet this uprising remains largely absent from popular history, writes KENNY MacASKILL
The language of war obscures what genocide scholars describe as a sustained project of erasure, enabled by global power, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
The sheer number present on the day, estimated at half a million, points to organisational acumen and bodes well for developing the movement, says DIANE ABBOTT
A packed fringe meeting at the National Education Union conference heard from Iranian teachers, campaigners and journalists
THIS month marks 25 years since Hugo Rafael Chavez Frias became president of Venezuela.
Chavez died just over 15 years later on March 5 2013, but his legacy lives on in the burgeoning anti-imperialist — and, in many places, anti-capitalist — movements that receive increasing support not only in Latin America, but across the global South.
In this sense, he stands with other giants of national liberation and socialist movements of past decades such as Thomas Sankara, Patrice Lumumba and, of course, Che Guevara.
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