MARY DAVIS says the centrality of the Jewish community and the Communist Party to anti-fascism in the 1930s is too often overlooked on the left
Rosa Parks: the real story
IAN SINCLAIR revisits the events surrounding the organisation of the historic boycott of Montgomery’s municipal buses which lasted 381 days
AGENTS OF CHANGE: Rosa Parks with Dr. Martin Luther King jr (c1955)
A 1936 confrontation with Mosley’s BUF became part of a wider international struggle, with local activists later joining the fight against fascism in the Spanish civil war. TONY FOX tells the story ahead of a 90th anniversary commemoration event
GEORGE WHITE explains why Unite’s Lancashire area activists committee believes co-ordinated recruitment in an area defined by particular kinds of employment and linked by a major transport artery could provide a model for organising the unorganised
Voters have delivered a stay of execution for Labour and exposed limits to Reform’s advance. But will Burnham offer a political alternative rather than just a different face at the top, asks ANDREW MURRAY
Calls for a Universal Basic Income are a red herring, argues the Full Marx editorial team — socialists should fight for Universal Basic Services
SEVIM DAGDELEN warns that Germany’s military resurgence and revival of old hostilities towards Russia have dangerous implications for Europe and beyond
IN December an exhibition about the life of Rosa Parks opened at the Library of Congress in Washington DC.
The same month a new statue honouring the civil rights icon was unveiled in Alabama’s state capital, Montgomery.
Taught in schools in the US and Britain, mythologised on the left and celebrated across popular culture, from Outkast’s 1998 hip-hop single Rosa Parks to the 2018 Doctor Who episode titled Rosa, her story will be very familiar to Morning Star readers.
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