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Can we stop Britain enabling the bloodbath in Yemen?
The Tories said they'd support Saudi aggression 'in every practical way short of engaging in combat' and our arms companies are central to the slaughter —so why isn't Yemen a priority for the British left, asks IAN SINCLAIR
Placards prepared for people taking part in a protest over Yemen
CHRIS HOOFE calls for support for GMB’s Potters’ Pledge campaign, aimed at making sure the historic pottery industry based in Stoke-on-Trent is supported over cheap, low-quality imports and counterfeits
Investing the £75 billion slated for defence spending on a green new deal, healthcare and education would create jobs and help communities far more than weapons spending, argues UCU general secretary JO GRADY
Speaking to the Morning Star’s Ceren Sagir, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists LAURA DAVISON outlines the threats to journalism from Palestine to Britain, and the unique challenges confronting the industry through the rise of AI
We must organise broad-based counterprotests and celebratory local community events to rebuild class consciousness and challenge the far-right’s divisive lies, writes KEVIN COURTNEY, ahead of this Saturday’s big demo in London
Artists should not be consigned to a life of precarious working – they deserve dignity and proper workers’ rights, argues ZITA HOLBOURNE
AS WE approach the seventh anniversary of the beginning of Saudi Arabia’s ongoing military intervention and blockade in Yemen, the horror continues.
By the end of 2021 the UN Development Programme estimated 377,000 people had been killed in Yemen, either directly through violence or indirectly through hunger and disease. This follows 2018 analysis from Save the Children that estimated “85,000 children under five may have died from extreme hunger since the war in Yemen escalated” in March 2015 with the Saudi involvement.
More broadly, in September 2021 the UN World Food Programme warned that 16 million Yemenis — over half the population — were “marching toward starvation.” And in 2018 Mark Lowcock, the UN under-secretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief co-ordinator, said Yemen was dealing with “what most people think is the biggest epidemic of cholera outbreak the world has seen.”
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