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‘A laboratory of cruelty’
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation's aid distribution sites are sites of ‘orchestrated killing and dehumanisation’ that must be shut down, MSF says in new report
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Reparations, resistance and African sovereignty
@cerenkardelen sits down with the Morning Star’s international news editor @RogerAMck to talk about his new book, The Rebirth of the African Phoenix: A View from Babylon youtube.com/watch?v=TuRhTxb-…
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A week after David Lammy announced the suspension of free trade agreement negotiations with Israel, Keir Starmer's trade envoy to Israel, @LordIanAustin, tweets about being in Israel to "promote trade with the UK".
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"The government's arguing that suspending F-35 exports will be a risk to national security…
"What could be more of a risk to peace and security than supporting a genocide?” says @CAATuk's Emily Apple as Britain heads to court over arms sales to Israel
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Government claims there's “no serious risk of genocide” in Gaza as it defends F-35 exports in court
"We say that's an absolutely shocking argument to make given that... they have [seen] evidence of children being shot in both feet” says @GLAN_LAW's Charlotte Andrews-Briscoe
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Interesting that Starmer has big plans for people to learn English. Where? Who? How? FE colleges have been decimated over the last few years. Where can people go to get cheap or free English lessons, that are near to their homes, taught by experienced, well-trained teachers?
“Why are you protecting a US military base?” Fair question to ask a British policeman!
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Activists blockade RAF Lakenheath — Europe’s largest US airbase — over the return of nuclear weapons and its role in facilitating Israel’s genocide in Gaza
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🇬🇧 Meta's Sinister Exploitation Of Refugee Crisis
▫Tech used to target migrants with terror ads and dodgy products
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#frontpagestoday #UK @M_Star_Online
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In the 1970s, 95% of spending on housing policy went on building new council homes
Now, the same amount is spent on rents and going into the pockets of private landlords
Joe Beswick from @LDNRentersUnion on the government’s shift from supply to demand
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The Morning Star's @Cowlesz speaks with @AntiRacismDay co-convenor Sabby Dhalu about organising resistance against the latest surge of far-right politics
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Livv Housing workers on Merseyside are striking for a fair wage after years of real-terms pay cuts
The social housing provider recorded a £14m operating surplus last year, while its CEO took home £250k
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"On Saturday I'll be marching alongside many Ukrainian friends and members of the labour & trade union movt. We'll be calling yes for peace - but a just peace determined by the Ukrainian people, not one imposed on them by Trump or Putin" - @johnmcdonnellMP
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Join us at the Russian embassy on 22 February - with a coalition of Ukrainian community + UK labour movt organisations.
As the 3rd anniversary of the full-scale invasion nears we say: RUSSIAN TROOPS OUT! SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE
(Ukrainian poster below)
#StandWithUkraine
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21st Century Poetry: The Beach On The Med, by Michael Rosen
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“People who expose a flawed ideology are seen as the most dangerous of them all”
Tim Crosland from @DefendourJuries speaks to Morning Star’s deputy news editor @cerenkardelen about the criminalisation of peaceful protest
Full episode: youtube.com/watch?v=fJFq8zli…