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  • | The British government on Friday June 17 2022 ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States to face spying charges | MR Online

    Mexico to offer Assange sanctuary as Amlo calls for charges to be dropped

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2022 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    MEXICAN President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has offered sanctuary to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and will raise the case with US President Joe Biden when they meet next month.

  • | Alexander and Mikhail Kononovich with their lawyer | MR Online

    Ukrainian communists pictured alive but face pressure to admit to trumped-up charges

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

    Alexander and Mikhail Kononovich were detained on March 3 following the Russian invasion, part of a crackdown on left and opposition groups.

  • | Kelly Stokes Kathy Webb LaKisha Scott and Brenda Flemons picket outside Kellogg Co | MR Online

    Some striking Kellogg’s workers call for boycott of company products in U.S.

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on November 2021 by Morning Star Online (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Dec 01, 2021)

    Union negotiators said they were prepared to meet the company for another round of negotiations next week but their offer was rebuffed by bosses, who claimed they were left with no choice but to permanently replace those on strike.

  • | Climate activists protesting during the official final day of the Cop26 summit in Glasgow | MR Online

    COP26 was a failure. But the people’s alternative can still be a success

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

    Has COP26, which has wound up in Glasgow after two weeks of political showboating and grassroots protest, been a failure?

  • | Cihan Erdal | MR Online

    Protest works! Turkish political prisoner is freed on bail but still faces trial with over 100 other leaders and activists of the left-wing HDP

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on October 2021 by Peter Tatchell and Eric Lee (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Oct 16, 2021)

    PETER TATCHELL and ERIC LEE shine a light on the case of Cihan Erdal, a trade union, peace and LGBTI+ campaigner, who faces trumped-up charges in one of Turkey’s biggest mass trials.

  • | Anticoup protesters flash the threefinger salute holding banner read Yangon Strike will defeat all enemies during a demonstration against the military coup in Yangon Myanmar on Monday April 26 2021 | MR Online

    The Myanmar coup and Aung San Suu Kyi

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on April 2021 by Kenny Coyle (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Apr 30, 2021)

    In this second part of the Morning Star’s exclusive interview with a spokesman from the Communist Party of Burma, KENNY COYLE asks how they analyse the roots of the conflict between the military elite and the National League for Democracy

  • | Protesters against the February coup have faced brutal and often deadly state violence | MR Online

    Myanmar’s communists speak out on the coup

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on April 26, 2021 by Kenny Coyle (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Apr 29, 2021)

    In the first of a two-part series KENNY COYLE interviews the Communist Party of Burma about the social and economic mismanagement of the military regime.

  • | A Key Worker from North Shields receives the Pfizer BioNTech Covid19 vaccine at a mass vaccination hub at the Centre For Life in Newcastle | MR Online

    Health professionals issue dire warning that NHS faces biggest crisis since its inception

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on January 10, 2021 by Peter Lazenby (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Jan 12, 2021)

    THE NHS is facing its biggest ever crisis, medical professionals and unions warned today, with hospitals at risk of being swamped by coronavirus admissions.

  • | Against the witchhunt | MR Online

    Against the witch-hunt

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on December 2020 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    Veteran of the fight against Apartheid RONNIE KASRILS warns that the IHRA is being used to suppress left-wing supporters of Palestine, just as anti-communist hysteria was used against the national-liberation movement in South Africa

  • | THE END OF WORK Labour leader Keir Starmer meets a fleet of Starship delivery robots at a Coop in Milton Keynes during a visit to discuss technological innovation during Covid19 | MR Online

    Does automation spell the end of capitalism?

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on December 4, 2020 (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Dec 14, 2020)

    Capitalism will not ‘automatically’ morph into some ‘postcapitalist’ or socialist system due to technology replacing the human workforce. As the MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY explains, ending capitalism will require a conscious, collective action on the part of ‘the many’—the working class.

  • | Men stand alongside vehicles lined up to enter a petrol station during a nationwide fuel crunch in Caracas Venezuela | MR Online

    Exposing Trump’s deadly sanctions on Venezuela

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on October 13, 2020 by Ken Livingstone (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Oct 14, 2020)

    KEN LIVINGSTONE looks in-depth at the story of U.S. sanctions on Venezuela.

  • | A mobile advertising board with a Dont Extradite Assange message outside the Old Bailey London | MR Online

    Wikileaks helped end secret U.S. killings, Assange extradition hearing is told

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on September 1, 2020 (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Sep 10, 2020)

    REVELATIONS published by Wikileaks helped to end a secret U.S. assassination programme and freed unlawfully detained prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, the Julian Assange extradition hearing was told today.

  • | Venezuela brands USbacked Citgo sale an act of modern piracy | MR Online

    Venezuela brands U.S.-backed Citgo sale ‘an act of modern piracy’

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on May 25, 2020 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    Venezuelan Vice-President Delcy Rodriguez last year branded the move an “organised crime that violates international law.

  • | The old effective slogan | MR Online

    Refusing to die for a confusing slogan

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on May 10, 2020 (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted May 11, 2020)

    THE government’s latest injunction–Stay alert, Control the virus, Save lives–has come under instant criticism as providing ineffective advice.

  • | President Donald Trump listens during a briefing about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House yesterday | MR Online

    Trump was given ‘realtime updates’ over Covid-19 as the pandemic developed

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on April 21, 2020 (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Apr 24, 2020)

    More than a dozen health experts working for the WHO in Geneva relayed regular information to Mr Trump about COVID-19, U.S. and international officials have confirmed.

  • | What is the metabolic rift | MR Online

    What is the ‘metabolic rift’?

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on March 29, 2020 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    The MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY takes a look at how Marxists can explore the relation between capitalism, socialism and the environment.

  • | An empty looking platform at Edinburgh Waverley station | MR Online

    Unions welcome government’s decision to renationalise rail services

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on March 23, 2020 by Peter Lazenby (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Mar 26, 2020)

    However it should not have taken a pandemic to bring rail back into public ownership, trade unionists say.

  • | Pedro Ribeiro Simões Follow Democracy Museu do Aljube Resistência e Liberdade Icons Lisbon Portugal DEMOCRACIA Possible definitions US president Abraham Lincoln 18091865 defined democracy as Government of the people by the people for the people | MR Online

    What is ‘social democracy’?

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on March 15, 2020 (more by Morning Star Online)  |

    GOOD question! Look up the term in a dictionary and you’ll find a definition something along the lines of “an ideology that advocates or supports political, social and economic interventions to promote social justice within the framework of a representative democracy and capitalist economy.”

  • | Lexit would have won Part 2 | MR Online

    Lexit would have won. Part 2: Class, Remain, and the commentariat

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on December 18, 2019 by George West (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Dec 28, 2019)

    We lost. In Part I the archaeology of our defeat was made clear: Remain killed us. But to fully realise how this happened we need to look at the deeper political substrate on which the rot of left Remainism has grown: the ongoing collapse of the political centre, writes GEORGE WEST

  • | Lexit would have won Part I | MR Online

    Lexit would have won. Part I: How Remain lost the election

    Originally published: Morning Star Online on December 17, 2019 by Alex Birch (more by Morning Star Online)  | (Posted Dec 28, 2019)

    In Part I ALEX BIRCH charts our defeat and how we could have won. See Part II for an examination of the politics that engineered our failure, and how to fight them.

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