As food and fuel run out, Gaza’s doctors appeal to the world to end the ‘genocide of children,’ reports LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
Boris Johnson’s government is a government for the 1%
This week offered even more evidence of the nature of the Prime Minister’s minority Conservative government, writes DIANE ABBOTT MP
While Trump threatens to send Haitian gang leaders to El Salvador's terror prison, DANNY SHAW reveals how these paramilitary groups are merely symptoms of US-backed neocolonial rule — the real terrorists are the CIA and international actors arming desperate youth to traumatise an unarmed population
Having endured 14 years of Tory austerity followed by Starmerite cuts, young voters are desperate for change — but Anas Sarwar’s refusal to differentiate from Westminster means Scottish Labour risks electoral catastrophe, writes LAUREN HARPER
Mark Harvey pays tribute to a veteran of the days when the London building trade was a hotbed of working-class struggle, a legendary trade unionist, communist and poet
Rather than hoping for the emergence of some new ‘party of the left,’ EMMA DENT COAD sees a broad alliance of local parties and community groups as a way of reviving democratic progressive politics
ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
The obfuscation of Nazism’s capitalist roots has seen imperialism redeploy fascism again and again — from the killing fields of Guatemala to the war in Ukraine, writes PAWEL WARGAN
I WROTE in my last Morning Star column how Boris Johnson’s government signals every day that will put the interests of the 1 per cent first — and this week has given us ample more proof of this.
As Jeremy Corbyn said, this is a government with “no mandate, no morals and no majority.”
We have seen again this week how Johnson and his divisive hard-right Cabinet are willing to gamble with people’s jobs and living standards, both in the debate around a no-deal Brexit and in Wednesday’s Spending Review, which shadow chancellor John McDonnell rightly termed a “grubby electioneering stunt.”
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