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The Kurds are under attack, so why the silence?
While Kurdish cities are persecuted in Turkey, our state and media says nothing. It’s an affront to us all, writes DEREK WALL
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
WEDNESDAY’S bomb attack in Ankara must be condemned, but it is easy to forget that there is essentially a situation of war in Turkey.
This a war that almost nobody is talking about. Both the European Union and David Cameron are united in silence.
While the mainstream British media debates why Jeremy Corbyn has the audacity to christen his pet “El Gato,” they say nothing about a massacre.
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