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Monty Meth: Daily Worker industrial reporter, campaigner and organiser
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
Chris Kaufman writes:
IT TAKES a special sort of journalist to work for such polar political opposites as the Morning Star’s predecessor, the Daily Worker, and the Daily Mail, and still keep your friends.
But nobody who knew Monty Meth, who died two weeks ago aged 95, could doubt his knowhow as an industrial reporter, integrity and commitment to working-class causes.
I knew him first when as an official of the Transport and General Workers Union, I saw how general secretaries Moss Evans and Ron Todd were able to trust and confide in Monty and his longtime journalistic colleague Geoffrey Goodman.
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