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Is the West’s war on migration about protecting ‘Western civilisation’ – or something else? - PRABHAT PATNAIK looks at how the development of capitalism from the start divided the world into unequal segments
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Is the West’s war on migration about protecting ‘Western civilisation’ – or something else?
THE United States has reportedly asked European countries to restrict immigration in order to preserve “Western civilisation.” Many in the Third World would find the term “Western civilisation” laugha...
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December 5, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Mental illness as a capitalist disease: work and exploitation - Labour, like the Tories, sees rising mental ill health simply as a spending problem — but it reflects a diseased society, argues DR DAVID MATTHEWS
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Mental illness as a capitalist disease: work and exploitation
IF A sliver of optimism remained, when elected last year, that Labour was genuinely concerned for the working class, this has now been superseded by bitter resentment.The party’s enthusiastic desire t...
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December 5, 2025 at 11:09 AM
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Hands Off Haiti – foreign intervention is heavily implicated in its current crisis - RUBEN BRETT of Liberation explains why the narratives we hear about the poverty-stricken Caribbean nation are deeply misleading
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Hands Off Haiti – foreign intervention is heavily implicated in its current crisis
THERE is a civil war in Haiti. The conflict can be dated to the assassination of president Jovenel Moise on July 7 2021, and has claimed more than 16,000 lives since that time including at least 4,384...
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December 5, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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As the new party emerges from its founding conference with a bold socialist identity, its future hinges on whether it can provide the organisational clarity needed to turn class sentiment into class power, argues NICK WRIGHT
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Your Party’s crucial test: can Britain’s new socialist force harness working-class power?
LET US hope that Your Party — now emerging more or less intact from its founding conference — will swiftly establish local structures, develop a lively internal democracy alongside an active intervent...
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December 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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How Greek International Brigaders forged a lifelong anti-fascist legacy - ALI BASSAM ZAHID tells the story
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How Greek International Brigaders forged a lifelong anti-fascist legacy
BETWEEN October 30 and 31, the Universitat de Barcelona hosted a conference on the research and memory of the International Brigades.What fate had in store for the Brigades after the Spanish civil war...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Bold cost-of-living action is needed – and can stop the far right - RICHARD BURGON MP argues the left must build on recent victories and urgently unite around a bold cost-of-living programme
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Bold cost-of-living action is needed – and can stop the far right
EVERYONE who fought to scrap the two-child cap, and everyone who pushed for measures to make the wealthiest pay more, can take real credit for the steps made in the Budget on those areas.There are tim...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Britain’s biggest hunger strike in decades – and the media won’t touch it. ELIZABETH SHORT reports
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Britain’s biggest hunger strike in decades – and the media won’t touch it
THE Palestine Action hunger strike is on track to become the largest since the 1981 Irish republican protest led by Bobby Sands, yet campaigners say it has faced a “mainstream media blackout.”So far, ...
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December 4, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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A movement rises: the socialist answer to Britain’s reckoning - Your Party can become an antidote to Reform UK – but only by rooting itself in communities up and down the country, says CLAUDIA WEBBE
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A movement rises: the socialist answer to Britain’s reckoning
THE initial announcement of Your Party’s formation in July 2025 was greeted with huge enthusiasm, with more than 800,000 people signing up to support it in a clear confirmation that large parts of the...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Prostate cancer – to screen or not to screen? - Decisions about mandatory testing for prostate cancer have proved controversial. Can too much knowledge be a bad thing?
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Prostate cancer – to screen or not to screen?
The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) is an enzyme produced by cells in the prostate. One of its roles is to break down the main protein component of semen, making it more liquid after ejaculation.
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December 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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The angry tide of the Latin American far right - Far-right forces are rising across Latin America and the Caribbean, armed with a common agenda of anti-communism, the culture war, and neoliberal economics, writes VIJAY PRASHAD
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The angry tide of the Latin American far right
THE far right in Latin America is angry. Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro and Argentina’s Javier Milei always look furious, and they always speak loudly and aggressively. Testosterone leaks from their pores, a...
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December 3, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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US power play in the Caribbean: Washington’s new Monroe Doctrine - As the Trump administration escalates military pressure on Venezuela, a growing number of Caribbean governments are lining up behind Washington’s show of force, writes ROGER McKENZIE
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US power play in the Caribbean: Washington’s new Monroe Doctrine
WE HAVE grown used over the years to client regimes in the Middle East and parts of Africa doing the bidding of the various colonial rulers.Sadly, these “misleaders” are not restricted to those region...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Florida’s new teaching standards rehabilitate the anti-communist Red Scare - The daughter of a legendary blacklisted Hollywood screenwriter has spoken out against the reactionary move, says MIKE SCHNEIDER
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Florida’s new teaching standards rehabilitate the anti-communist Red Scare
THE daughter of a Hollywood screenwriter who was imprisoned and blacklisted during the anti-communist Red Scare has decried Florida’s new social studies teaching standards that other critics have warn...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Claiming to be under arrest, president Embalo has left the country while his opponents remain in custody after a military coup a day ahead of the announcement of the final results, argues PAVAN KULKARNI
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Guinea-Bissau: A coup staged to protect the neocolonial order?
THE military coup in Guinea-Bissau on November 26 was not directed against the outgoing president, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, but orchestrated by him to thwart the return to constitutional order, oppositio...
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December 1, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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These asylum reforms must be opposed - DIANE ABBOTT warns that Shabana Mahmood’s draconian asylum proposals fuel racist scapegoating and risk demoralising Labour’s base – potentially paving the way for Farage to No 10
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These asylum reforms must be opposed
THE Labour Party is in dire straits in the polls, and yet there are some in the Cabinet who clearly feel that the answer is still chasing Reform UK into the sewer on immigration and asylum. Unfortunat...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too
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Jeremy Corbyn: it’s time for a party to empower the people
JEREMY CORBYN says the Palestine solidarity movement is a game changer in British politics.“The Palestine movement is absolutely huge. And like the movement against the Vietnam war of the 1960s, which...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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‘We are socialist, anti-imperialist, anti-Nato’: Zarah Sultana is up for the fight - Morning Star political reporter Andrew Murray speaks to ZARAH SULTANA on the mass party of the left holding its inaugural conference this weekend
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‘We are socialist, anti-imperialist, anti-Nato’: Zarah Sultana is up for the fight
ZARAH SULTANA is up for the fight. After a bruising few months which would have broken many a political veteran, the young Muslim socialist is still brimming with hope for the new party she has co-fou...
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November 30, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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The forgotten radicalism of Sir Richard Acland - MAT COWARD tells the story of the eccentric founder of a short-lived but striking experiment in ‘vital democracy,’ who became best known for giving away his estate to the nation
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The forgotten radicalism of Sir Richard Acland
DURING World War II there was an electoral truce between the main British parties. When a by-election arose, only the party already holding the seat would put up a candidate. The others would stand as...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Fears mount for life of US teenager held in Israeli prison - Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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Fears mount for life of US teenager held in Israeli prison
FEARS are mounting for the safety and even the survival of a Florida teenager who has now been held in a notorious Israeli prison for more than nine months.Mohammed Ibrahim, a 16-year-old Palestinian-...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Despite new European arrests, the evidence presented so far fails to explain the sabotage of the undersea pipelines – and veteran investigative journalist Seymour Hersh’s allegations of US responsibility cannot be easily dismissed, writes ROGER McKENZIE
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The Nord Stream mystery: why the official story still doesn’t add up
WE ARE no nearer the truth seeing the light of day for those actually responsible for blowing up the Nord Stream pipelines in September 2022.Any rational observer knows the United States was responsib...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
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A November 15 protest in Mexico – driven by a right-wing social-media operation – has been miscast as a mass uprising against President Sheinbaum. In reality, the march was small, elite-backed and part of a wider attempt to sow unrest, argues DAVID RABY
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Destabilisation fails in Mexico
IF YOU rely on the mainstream media you will learn that Mexico is in chaos and that many thousands protested on November 15 in the capital and other cities against the prevalence of criminal violence,...
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November 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Cuban education for the many not the few - On a recent NEU delegation, STEVE HANDFORD’s eyes were opened to the educational achievements of the socialist island and the need for Britain to take a leaf out of its book
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Cuban education for the many not the few
AT THE end of October, I and 18 other members of the NEU including its current president Ed Harlow and former general secretary Kevin Courtney,  travelled to Cuba as part of an international soli...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Battle lines drawn in Argentina as unions prepare to fight for their rights - As President Javier Milei is set to unveil a radical rollback of Argentina’s labour laws, unions warn of an unprecedented assault on workers’ rights, says BERT SCHOUWENBURG
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Battle lines drawn in Argentina as unions prepare to fight for their rights
BUOYED up by his Liberty Advances (LLA) party’s unexpected successes in October’s midterm elections, Argentina’s right-wing president, Javier Milei, has said that he intends to table what he euphemist...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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As figures from Tucker Carlson to Nigel Farage flirt with neofascist rhetoric and mainstream leaders edge toward authoritarianism through war and repression, the conditions that once nurtured Hitlerism re-emerge, writes ANDREW MURRAY
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Hitler’s shadow resurfaces
HITLER, it seems, is back centre stage amid the rapidly progressing collapse of bourgeois centrist politics.Those who follow US politics will have noticed that the country’s numerous and powerful righ...
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November 26, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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As Saudi Arabia is hailed abroad for its ‘reforms,’ the reality for women inside the kingdom grows ever more repressive. MARYAM ALDOSSARI argues it is time to stop applauding the illusion – and start listening to the women the state works hardest to silence
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Saudi Arabia’s violence against women isn’t culture – it’s policy
WHEN Donald Trump declared that Mohammed Bin Salman had done “incredible things for human rights,” Saudi women could be forgiven for wondering what country he was talking about. But that’s hardly new....
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November 25, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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With violence against women and girls reaching unprecedented levels – particularly in the north of England – Unison North West is driving a union-wide push for education, prevention and trauma-informed support, writes JOANNE MOORCROFT
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Tackling violence against women and girls – a Unison priority
AS UNISON North West regional convener, in a union of over a million women members, tackling violence against women and girls is an absolute priority for me.This is particularly due to the unprecedent...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:52 AM