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
Woman, life, freedom…
The struggle for change in Iran has reached the point of no return, argues PAYAM SOLHTALAB of the Committee for Defence of Iranian People’s Rights
OUTPOURING: Demonstrators march towards Piccadilly Circus in London earlier this year, to protest following the death of Mahsa Amini at the hands of Iranian state forces
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
AFTER five months of unceasing protest and activism by tens of thousands of young women and men in Iran, demanding that their fundamental human and democratic rights be respected, the political landscape in the country is beginning to shift dramatically.
Mir Hossein Mousavi, who was prevented from taking office having won the 2009 presidential elections following a hugely popular campaign, has published his manifesto for the rescuing of Iran and a political transition away from the decades-old dictatorship.
Mousavi has been kept under house arrest at his closed-off residence in Tehran for 13 years now, along with his wife Zahra Rahnavard — herself a prominent and well-respected activist.
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Payam Solhtalab talks to GAWAIN LITTLE, general secretary of Codir, about the connection between the struggle for peace, against banking and economic sanctions, and the threat of a further military attack by the US/Israel axis on Iran
With nearly 700,000 having fled the fighting to nearby countries, the conflict between two sides of the armed forces risks sparking violence across the whole volatile region, warns PAYAM SOLHTALAB
PAYAM SOLHTALAB, of the Committee for Defence of Iranian People’s Rights, issues a call for support following the arrest of a leading teaching trade unionist by the Islamic Republic regime
Hundreds of schoolgirls have been targeted in poison gas attacks in Iran. We need to sound the alarm and be calling for justice as loudly as possilble, says PAYAM SOLHTALAB of the Committee for Defence of Iranian People’s Rights
