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Flamingos fly at Rancho Luna nature reserve, Cuba
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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
“THERE’S been next to no coverage in the mainstream corporate media. That doesn’t surprise me.”
When the Star reported on the launch of anthropologist Dr. Jason Hickel’s Sustainable Development Index (SDI) in November, the fact that Cuba was ranked as the most sustainably developed country in the world, 131 places ahead of Britain, prompted a huge reaction on social media, and the story was picked up by many media outlets across Latin America and the global South.
But it was largely ignored by corporate media at home. Why? For Hickel the reason was clear.
The future does not have to be climate chaos and social breakdown. MARC VANDEPITTE looks at the alternatives offered by the Global Justice Report, co-authored by Thomas Piketty
ROGER D HARRIS and SARA FLOUNDERS challenge propaganda against the blockaded socialist island
CLAUDIA WEBBE says the US is tightening the noose to destroy Cuban socialism — the need for immediate, international solidarity is urgent
As the Global Leaders’ Meeting on Women begins in Beijing, it’s clear that China has fulfilled its commitments set 30 years ago and delivered amazing progress in women's education and equality, writes YU BOKUN