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Ahed Tamimi (left) and Josette Audin
by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
The Tories introduced the 50% strike ballot threshold to make industrial action harder. MATT WRACK argues that a Labour government has no justification for leaving it on the statute book
In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
WHEN Patrick le Hyaric, editor in chief of France’s left-wing daily, opened his paper’s Fete de l’Humanite annual festival in Paris at the weekend, he was flanked by two remarkable female fighters for justice.
From either end of the age spectrum, Josette Audin, now 87, and Ahed Tamimi, just 17, exemplify a determination not to surrender to seemingly omnipotent adversaries.
Audin has battled for 61 years to force the French state to acknowledge that her husband Maurice Audin, a member of the Algerian Communist Party, was murdered by the colonial French army.
The Met Police's refusal to act against British nationals accused of war crimes in Gaza is a green light for Israel's genocide, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
As antisemitism grows, the labour movement must recommit to defence of minorities while navigating the complexities of Gaza and global politics, argues NICK WRIGHT
Bezalel Smotrich’s measures to extend Israeli property law into the West Bank are a continuation of a decades-long project to dispossess Palestinians and preclude statehood, argues HUGH LANNING
On International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, HUGH LANNING warns that the US-led “Comprehensive Plan” entrenches decades of Western complicity in Israel’s domination and denial of Palestinian land and rights