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Honouring the Windrush generation
As well as paying tribute to those who arrived in Britain from the Caribbean, African and Asian regions to work and to build a better future for themselves, we must recall the ongoing injustices they and their families still face, says ZITA HOLBOURNE
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
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
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
I AM the daughter of the Windrush generation. My mother arrived in Britain from the Caribbean in the early 1960s.
Like many others of the Windrush generation arriving in the ’50s and ’60s from the Caribbean, African and Asian regions, they came to work, to build a better future for themselves and loved ones.
Instead of being greeted by welcomes and opportunities, they were greeted by signs of “No blacks, No Irish, No dogs,” by colour bars in housing and in the labour market and more — by fascist attacks and police brutality.
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by Henry Fowler, General Strike 100 project co-ordinator
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