From Palestine, to racism, to fiscal rules and migrant rights, DIANE ABBOTT surveys some of the main themes of Labour conference this week
Hunger striking Kurdish MP Leyla Guven now critical
MARK CAMPBELL reports on a protest against the brutality and denial of democratic rights employed by the Turkish state to subdue the Kurdish opposition
UNITY OF PURPOSE: The hunger strikers at Manor House
We must remember how the CPGB led anti-fascist movement defeated Mosley’s BUF in September 1936 and apply the lessons of mass mobilisation and open, unapologetic confrontation to the rise of the far right today, writes DYLAN MURPHY
On the anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, DAVID ROSENBERG reflects on his encounters with those who were there that day in 1936 – and suggests two urgent tasks for the anti-fascists of today
The basic human requirement of having a roof over one’s head is being undermined by West Northamptonshire Council – but local anti-cuts campaigners are rising above the divisive Farageist rhetoric to build unity and fight back, reports DAVID CONWAY
BEN CHACKO hears from a variety of speakers at Labour conference about the broken political system, the hatred propagated by super-wealthy tycoons, the importance of physically mobilising against the far right and the role of unions and working people in fighting back
Morning Star campaigns manager CALVIN TUCKER encourages readers to get behind our five-year plan to keep the Star shining brightly as the paper approaches its 100th anniversary
If you think Brexit is dramatic, you should be watching what is happening to the Kurds at the hands of the Turkish regime at the moment.
Turkey’s “political genocide” of the Kurds continues apace, with this week being a particularly busy week as Erdogan gets ready for the Turkish local elections at the end of March.
He has already said that, if the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) win municipal elections, he will ignore the vote and instal his own cronies, but that has not stopped him continuing to jail HDP activists and Kurdish elected MPs.
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