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  •  | A cardboard cut out of Sir Keir Starmer on a nurses picket line in London today Photo Momentum | MR Online

    Labour leader finally appears on a picket line…

    Originally published: Morning Star on January 18, 2023 by Peter Lazenby (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Jan 20, 2023)

    … in the form of a life-size cardboard cut-out.

  •  | What is the history of Cuba if not the history of Latin America And what is the history of Latin America if not the history of Asia Africa and Oceania And what is the history of all these people if not the history of the most ruthless and cruel exploitation of imperialism in the entire world   Fidel Castro in 1962 Photo Public Domain | MR Online

    Cuba’s non-alignment: A foreign policy of peace and socialism

    Originally published: Morning Star on June 1, 2022 (more by Morning Star)  |

    In Cuba, ‘non-alignment’ has never meant being neutral, and has always meant being opposed to attempts to divide humanity, writes MANOLO DE LOS SANTOS

  •  | USB union with banner reading Lower your weapons raise your wages | MR Online

    Italian workers strike over military spending on war in Ukraine

    Originally published: Morning Star on May 20, 2022 (more by Morning Star)  |

    Trade unions are angered over the government’s military spending on Ukraine which they say would be better spent on raising workers’ wages at a time when the economy is predicted to slide into recession.

  •  | A watercolour depiction of British and Chinese soldiers facing each other at Zhenjiang in July 1842 by military illustrator Richard Simkin 18401926 | MR Online

    Damning imperialism: Marx’s writing on China

    Originally published: Morning Star on January 2022 by Nick Mathews (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Jan 17, 2022)

    Working for the ‘New York Daily Tribune’, Marx excoriated the British empire’s opium trade that brought China under its influence with a staggering human cost, writes NICK MATTHEWS.

  •  | Corbyn | MR Online

    Why I’m hoping Corbyn launches a new party

    Originally published: Morning Star on January 2022 by Chelley Ryan (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Jan 14, 2022)

    After the damage Starmer has done, the left would need decades to rebuild from within the party – and we don’t have decades. The crises facing working people are already urgent, argues CHELLEY RYAN

  •  | HMS Cardiff anchored outside Port Stanley at the end of the Falklands War in 1982 | MR Online

    Argentina warns of legal action after documents reveal Britain shipped nukes to Falkland Islands during 1982 conflict

    Originally published: Morning Star on January 2, 2022 by Morning Star (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Jan 11, 2022)

    ARGENTINA warned that it may take action after leaked documents revealed that Britain shipped 31 nuclear weapons to the Falklands during the 1982 conflict.

  •  | Cuban volunteer doctors visit a slum in Caracas Venezuela April 2020 | MR Online

    Cuba now exporting Covid vaccines

    Originally published: Morning Star on December 2021 by Andreas Knobloch (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Dec 22, 2021)

    After immunising its own population, Cuba’s own developed vaccines are to be marketed internationally, says ANDREAS KNOBLOCH

  •  | A Chinese Sinopharm vaccine preparing for use in Peru | MR Online

    China plays a crucial role supporting progress and sovereignty in Latin America

    Originally published: Morning Star on December 2021 (more by Morning Star)  |

    In the last two decades, economic links between Latin America and the People’s Republic of China have been expanding at a dizzying rate.

  •  | Teachers on strike in Iran | MR Online

    Teachers across Iran take strike action demanding jailed trade unionist is freed

    Originally published: Morning Star on December 2021 by Morning Star (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Dec 15, 2021)

    Thousands of protesting teachers assembled in front of the Majlis, or Iranian parliament building, in central Tehran today demanding justice and the release from prison of a leading teacher trade unionist.

  •  | Kids putting up Cuba flag | MR Online

    Friends of Cuba: oppose U.S. intervention

    Originally published: Morning Star on November 2021 by Natasha Hickman (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Nov 15, 2021)

    Seizing on small protests over shortages on the island in July, the U.S. is now trying to build anti-government feeling with worldwide protests against socialist Cuba, including one in London—we must show our support instead, writes NATASHA HICKMAN

  •  | A protester flies a Palestinian flag at Israeli troops during a demonstration in support of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails at the entrance of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus Monday September 13 2021 | MR Online

    Labour members overwhelmingly back motion in solidarity with Palestine

    Originally published: Morning Star on September 27, 2021 by Matt Trinder (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Sep 29, 2021)

    The move comes as another grassroots rebuke to the party leadership and marks the first time a major British political party has aligned itself with the UN definition of Israel as an apartheid state.

  •  | A worker takes a breaks on the tracks of the Central Railway Station in Havana Cuba | MR Online

    U.S. blockade on Cuba causes record losses during coronavirus pandemic

    Originally published: Morning Star on June 18, 2021 (more by Morning Star)  |

    CUBA’S economy lost more than $9 billion (£6.5bn) amid the coronavirus pandemic last year, due to the impact of the six decade-long U.S. blockade, government officials said on Thursday.

  •  | Gultan Kisanak co mayor of Diyarbakir | MR Online

    DP details systematic oppression in Erdogan’s new Turkey as show trial reopens in Ankara

    Originally published: Morning Star on May 20, 2021 (more by Morning Star)  |

    The Kobani case is the biggest political trial in modern Turkish history with 108 leading HDP officials and parliamentarians facing multiple life sentences as a 3,350-page case file indicts them on 38 counts of homicide.

  •  | A COVID 19 patient waits to receive oxygen outside an emergency ward of a hospital in Kathmandu Nepal | MR Online

    Doctors in Nepal warn people could die on streets amid Covid crisis

    Originally published: Morning Star on May 2021 (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted May 10, 2021)

    Nepal reported 9,070 new confirmed cases on Thursday, compared to 298 a month ago.

  •  | Environmental activists wearing a mask of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga and protective suits perform to denounce the Japanese governments decision on Fukushima water near the Japanese embassy in Seoul South Korea | MR Online

    Grave concerns raised as Japan announces release of radioactive water into the sea

    Originally published: Morning Star on April 2021 (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Apr 15, 2021)

    JAPAN has come under fire after its government announced today that it would release more than a million metric tonnes of radioactive water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the ocean.

  •  | A Chinese paramilitary police officer stands guard outside the British Embassy in Beijing | MR Online

    Britain and China: Trading sanctions and the new cold war

    Originally published: Morning Star on March 2021 (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Mar 29, 2021)

    IAIN DUNCAN SMITH sees the Chinese sanctions applied to him and other politicians yesterday as a “badge of honour.”

  •  | A supporter of Bogazici University students talks to police officers outside a courthouse in Istanbul Thursday Feb 11 2021 | MR Online

    Bogazici resistance is about more than liberal notions of academic freedom, it is a fight against the whole system of oppression

    Originally published: Morning Star on February 17, 2021 (more by Morning Star)  |

    TURKEY’S revolutionary forces said today that protests centered on Bogazici University must remain a fight against fascism and oppression—not for “liberal ideas of academic freedom.”

  •  | World Health Organisation team members prepare to board a plane marking the end of their WHO mission in Wuhan China | MR Online

    Scientists on WHO mission to Wuhan accuse media of biased reportage

    Originally published: Morning Star on February 14, 2021 (more by Morning Star)  |

    The U.S. government and many media outlets have queried WHO findings that do not corroborate theories promoted by Washington, such as the virus escaping from a Chinese laboratory.

  •  | Riot police officers push back supporters of Bogazici University students during a protest in Istanbul Thursday Feb 4 2021 | MR Online

    Turkish authorities arrest 65 revolutionaries in a bid to break the backbone of the growing anti-government resistance

    Originally published: Morning Star on February 7, 2021 (more by Morning Star)  |

    Sixty-five people were detained in Istanbul last week after a press conference announcing the launch of a new opposition alliance, the United Fighting Forces (BMG).

  •  | Bidens Secretary of State for regime change indicates no change in US foreign policy | MR Online

    Biden’s ‘Secretary of State for regime change’ indicates no change in U.S. foreign policy

    Originally published: Morning Star on January 20, 2021 (more by Morning Star)  | (Posted Jan 22, 2021)

    The new secretary of state served as a senior foreign policy official in the Obama administration–a period marked by increased global conflict and wars in the Middle East.

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