The Morning Star publishes the speech by writer and editor JULIA BARD of the Jewish Socialists’ Group given at the paper’s annual conference at the weekend
Old, female and up for the fight
We must not concede to an ideology that belittles older women and makes us invisible in public places, argues JULIA BARD
The Hackney Pensioners press team
Engels’ essay on our origins and distinctiveness built on Darwin’s own exploration of human evolution and has provided a framework for exploration and research which has stood the test of time, declares the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
ANSELM ELDERGILL looks at the legality of the wars in the Middle East and the means used to fight them. It is said that truth is the first casualty of war, so what is the truth with regard to the legality of America’s and Israel’s wars in Iran, Palestine and Lebanon?
Long before modern labour movements, England’s farmworkers fought back against their oppression – and for some, like Elizabeth Studham, the price was exile to Australia. MAT COWARD tells the story
As world leaders posture and local politicians bore, voters are left with a grim choice: despair, disengage — or start imagining something better, says MATT KERR
CARLOS MARTINEZ reports on China’s role in helping Cuba develop self-sufficiency in renewable energy, which would shield it from the sort of pain Donald Trump is inflicting with his oil blockade
ALL through the 1990s I worked with a group of old people who produced a campaigning newspaper called Hackney Pensioners Press.
I have dithered about using the word “old” in that first sentence. It is such a powerfully pejorative term that I almost censored myself, afraid that it would deter people from reading on.
But that was what the editorial group called themselves, because that was what they were. They would not allow the word “old” to be used to downgrade and discredit them.
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