The campaign against the Bank of England’s ongoing theft of Venezuelan gold is gaining support across the labour movement and beyond, writes MATT WILLGRESS
This letter was submitted to the Morning Star having been refused publication in the Guardian
THE decision of the Labour Party to expel Jackie Walker for ‘“prejudicial and grossly detrimental behaviour” is both unfair and dishonest. Jackie was suspended over two years ago because of accusations of anti-semitism yet her expulsion was for “misconduct” (Labour expels Jackie Walker for leaked anti-semitism remarks, March 27th)
Jackie’s original remarks, such as not having found a definition of anti-semitism she could work with, were obviously not anti-semitic. Jackie’s real offence was being an anti-zionist. Because of the difficulty of making a charge of anti-semitism stick, Jackie’s alleged offence was changed to the subjective catch-all one of “misconduct.”
TONY FOX reports from a commemoration of the legendary Battle of Jarama in which four Stockton-on-Tees volunteers fell
ANDY CROFT welcomes the publication of an anthology of recent poems published by the Morning Star, and hopes it becomes an annual event
JAN WOOLF is beguiled by the tempting notion that Freud psychoanalysed Hitler in a comedy that explores the vulnerability of a damaged individual



