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Challenging borders with solidarity
The migrant crisis on the Polish border with Belarus that exploded this winter has particular resonance with Jewish people write JULIA BARD and DAVID ROSENBERG
Migrant families with children found themselves trapped in the freezing forests of Belarus, blocked from entering the EU by razor wire and the Polish army, November 2021
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
Rising temperatures and human activity are making life far harder for these vital pollinators. ALEX DITTRICH explains
Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners co-founder MIKE JACKSON talks to Matt Kerr about the enduring power of Pride, protest and trade unionism
Behind the language of military strategy is a confrontation that risks drawing the wider Middle East into war, says STEVE BISHOP
THE banner of the Jewish Socialists’ Group (JSG) appears on many anti-racist and pro-refugee demonstrations, but one last month felt particularly poignant.
We were protesting outside the Polish embassy in London in response to gross inhumanity by Polish border guards preventing asylum-seekers crossing from Belarus into Poland and into the EU.
This demonstration, called by Stand Up to Racism, was as much a protest about Fortress Europe as against the local enforcers at this particular crossing point.
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