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Let the left embrace a world in mutiny
The Marxist politician who led the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB) during its unprecedented rise from 2008 to 2021, PETER MERTENS, speaks to Ben Chacko about how the European left can regain its vision and its base in the working class
MARCHING FORWARDS: Crowds at the PTB stage on a national demonstration in Brussels against the cost-of-living crisis, December 16 2022
Today’s interconnected conflicts are enriching the arms industry while pushing the entire world towards permanent militarisation, argues ROGER McKENZIE
by Nana Backland, Merseyside Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group
The government’s Pip review looks like a carefully managed exercise in legitimising future cuts to disability support, argues Dr DYLAN MURPHY
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
The word “mutiny” comes from a quote by Fiona Hill, a former staff member of the US National Security Council. For Hill, the fact that 127 countries did not support the sanctions against Russia was nothing less than a “mutiny.” That resonated with me.
I found that very symbolic because for the first time, more than a third of the world’s countries said that what is said in Washington is no longer law. If that’s mutiny, let’s embrace it, as a sobriquet, with a bit of a rebellious character.
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