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£1.20 Tuesday November 12 2019 Proudly owned by our readers | Incorporating the Daily Worker | Est 1930 | morningstaronline.co.uk McDonald’s strike: ‘Join a union and improve your life’ Workers to walk out at six outlets today in demand for £15 an hour by Marcus Barnett option of having guaranteed hours of BFAWU general secretary Ronnie She also criticised McDonald’s CEO up to 40 hours a week and an end to Draper said: “McDonald’s workers are Steve Easterbrook, who was given a youth rates of pay. showing the way. “golden goodbye” in the form of a MCDONALD’S workers have said they They also want shift patterns to “They’ve challenged and defeated $42 million (£33 mil- will “stand together and win” as a be given to workers four weeks in bullying by managers. They’ve won lion) pay out strike of low-paid employees today will advance, union recognition in the changes making life at work more when he disrupt business at the corporation. workplace and the right to be treated bearable. was sacked Employees in six of the global food with respect by management, as part of “My message to every worker is this: for having chain’s London branches, who are a “New Deal” for McDonald’s workers. if you want to improve your workplace an affair members of the Bakers, Food and Numerous senior Labour figures and your life, join a union. Participate. with an Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU), will and parliamentary candidates are Stand together and win.” employee. be manning picket lines across the expected to join the protest, includ- Former TGI Fridays striker Lauren Turn to city today. ing shadow chancellor John McDon- Townsend, who will be joining strik- page 2 The strike is expected to close the nell and Streatham prospective parlia- ers in Wandsworth, said: “Going on Balham, Catford, Crayford, Deptford, mentary candidate Bell Ribeiro-Addy. strike for the first time is terrifying, Downham and Wandsworth Town The strike will take place on a glo- outs in McDonald’s branches across and having support from the wider branches of the corporation, while bal fast food workers’ day of action by the country related to fair pay and labour movement and public is crucial. huge numbers of community pickets the International Union of Food work- workplace dignity caused widespread “If we are ever going to balance the are expected to pop up in solidarity ers (IUF), which will see huge demon- damage to the company’s reputation, forces at play in the world of work then across the city. strations in Brazil, Chile, France and and led to large demonstrations and we need more people to feel empow- Among the workers’ core demands New Zealand. gestures of solidarity from trade union- ered to stand up against bad bosses ‘STAND TOGETHER AND WIN’: BFAWU are a £15 an hour minimum wage, the In 2017 and 2018, a series of walk- ists and other precarious workers. and exploitative working practices.” leader Ronnie Draper’s call to arms

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■ SCANDAL-HIT MP Vaz quits before he’s pushed by Lamiat Sabin suspend Mr Vaz in line with he had expressed a willing- Parliamentary Reporter the committee’s recommen- ness to buy cocaine for a dation, which meant that third prostitute. He was he would have faced an heard complaining that LEICESTER East MP Keith automatic reselection proc- he had previously “had to” Vaz will retire from Parlia- ess and possibly a recall engage in unprotected sex ment after 32 years follow- petition by constituents with another sex worker ing calls for his suspension if he had chosen to stand because the man did not by the Commons standard again. bring condoms. committee, he said on Sun- Three years ago Mr Vaz In the committee’s report day night. was involved in a scandal last month, Mr Vaz’s claims The announcement came when it emerged that he that his drink had been just weeks after the com- had off ered to buy cocaine spiked and that he had only mittee recommended that for male prostitutes. The wanted to discuss interior he receive a six-month sus- Labour MP pretended to design with the men, who he pension for causing “signifi - be an industrial washing said were decorators, were cant damage” to the house’s machine salesman called dismissed as “ludicrous.” It reputation. Jim during a Saturday night concluded that Mr Vaz had Mr Vaz was reselected as encounter with two male paid for sex. Labour’s candidate in Leices- prostitutes at his London The report also condemned ter East a few weeks before fl at, according to a secret him for claiming that he had the publication of the com- recording passed to the amnesia to avoid question- mittee’s report. Sunday Mirror. ing over the incident. MPs subsequently voted to The recording revealed that [email protected]

■ ARTS SPONSORSHIP ■ FRONT PAGE ‘A massive win’ against TOGETHER oil fi rm’s greenwashing WE’LL WIN, SCOTLAND: The family of the decision. and those of others who Sheku Bayoh feels “betrayed” Yesterday the family has have died in custody. ENVIRONMENTAL activists “massive win” for campaigners. over the decision not to met the Lord Advocate at the They will meet First praised the National Galleries She said: “It sends a clear mes- SAY MAC-D prosecute any police offi cers Crown Offi ce in Edinburgh, Minister Nicola Sturgeon of Scotland yesterday for sever- sage that it is no longer socially over his death. who told them the decision and Justice Secretary Humza ing its portrait award funding acceptable to have links with WORKERS Mr Bayoh, 32, died in 2015 not to prosecute has not Yousaf at the Scottish Parlia- ties with oil giant BP. the fossil-fuel industry because after being restrained by changed. ment today. Trustees decided that links to of their continued role in driving FROM p1: In a video offi cers responding to a call The family believes a the fossil-fuel company were “at the climate crisis and human- recorded last week for in Kirkcaldy in Fife. Scottish government-ordered SEEKING JUSTICE: Solicitor odds” with the galleries’ commit- rights abuses across the world. the Morning Star, striker In October last year the full public inquiry – not a Aamer Anwar arrives at the ment to combat climate change. “We hope that the few Melissa Evans said: Crown decided against fatal accident inquiry as is Crown Offi ce in Edinburgh with The organisation, which over- remaining institutions that “£15 is what economists bringing any prosecutions typically held into deaths in family members of the late sees several arts institutions, allow themselves to be used say you need to live in over his death but the family police custody – is needed to Sheku Bayoh, including his is the latest to distance itself as greenwash for the industry London. invoked the right to review get answers about his death mother Aminata (left) from oil giants after Shell was join the National Galleries on the “The whole country is snubbed by the National Thea- right side of history.” being underpaid right tre and the Royal Shakespeare A BP spokesman claimed that now. Something has to be Company dropped BP. “attempts to exclude companies changed at the base level. Alys Mumford of BP or not committed to being a part of the “This is a global fi ght BP? Scotland called the decision energy transition are exactly – we are all getting “extremely signifi cant” and a what is not needed.” together as McDonald’s ■ POLITICS workers around the world. We are going on strike and we will ■ THINK TANK REPORT win.” Mr McDonnell said: BREXITEERS WILL “Low pay and insecure Politicians and press eagerly work is endemic in the fast food industry. ‘swallow business’s myths’ “That’s why I helped launch the fast food STEP ASIDE FOR 300 A REPORT aiming to debunk sary. Such claims are used campaign and support political myths about how to deny proper rights for these young workers doing what businesses want workers and to reduce the in their campaign to is good for the economy has infl uence of working people secure decent wages and been published. in politics, the report found. conditions. Titled The Mythology of The report’s author David “A Labour government TORIES IN ELECTION Business, the report by the Whyte said: “If there is one will take on the big Institute for Employment thing business organisations corporations such as Dangers for Labour as Farage remains true to form and ‘bottles it’ Rights and the Centre for are particularly good at, it is McDonald’s to stop them Labour and Social Studies deceiving us into thinking from paying out poverty by Peter Lazenby Party will still stand in every general secretary Rob Griffi ths (Class) addresses commonly that they are indispensable wages.” Labour-held seat. said: “It is entirely in keeping held notions that businesses to a healthy and developed The party has Labour shadow education sec- with Nigel Farage’s right-wing know best for a healthy econ- society. also committed to a BREXIT PARTY mouthpiece retary Angela Rayner tweeted: political history that he wants omy. “But the social contribu- £10-an-hour real living Nigel Farage declared yester- “Nigel Farage has bottled it and the Tories to win the general The labour movement tions that businesses make wage and an end to day that more than 300 Tory now morphed into the hard- election. think tanks take on com- are always surrounded by in-work poverty, helping candidates will be given a free right Tory Party. Like the Prime “But his decision also mon assertions by business propaganda claims and millions of low-paid run in the December 12 general Minister, the Brexit Party is all exposes the vulnerability of leaders such as their criti- myths that are swallowed workers across the election. full of bluff and bluster. Labour’s move towards an cisms of “red tape” safety too easily by politicians and country. He abandoned his previous “On one hand Farage says anti-Brexit position, having restrictions and how priva- repeated ad nauseam in the [email protected] commitment to standing Brexit the PM’s deal is no good, but dropped its pledge to honour tisation is sometimes neces- press.” candidates in 600 British con- then says his party won’t stand the EU referendum result and stituencies; his party will not against the Tories. The Brexit adopted a second referendum (020) 8525-6995 oppose 317 Tory MPs elected Party is now the proxy Tory instead. ADVERTISE HERE [email protected] in 2017. 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■ LABOUR PLEDGE Free education and training for adults to tackle skills gap

by Lamiat Sabin of study would include under- lion on maintenance grants in of capacity and staff expertise.” graduate degrees as well as 2023/24. National Education Union diplomas and foundation Mr Corbyn suggested that joint general secretary Dr ADULTS will be entitled to degrees, fostering employment this would be paid for by higher Mary Bousted said that access six years of free study under a in areas such as engineering, taxes on the “ultra-rich” and to higher education has been Labour government, the party nursing and accounting. reversals to big-business tax made diffi cult over the last will announce today. Currently, only adults with- giveaways. decade of Tory government During a visit to Blackpool out GCSEs in mathematics and University & College Union by the removal of education with Labour leader Jeremy English can study these courses general secretary Jo Grady wel- maintenance allowances for 16 Corbyn, shadow education for free in colleges. comed the proposals, which she to 18-year-olds and the tripling secretary Angela Rayner will If Labour wins the December said would “break down the of university tuition fees. propose free A-level access for 12 general election their poli- practical and fi nancial barri- She welcomed Labour’s pro- adults without such qualifi ca- cies will “throw open the door ers to education.” posals for free “cradle to grave” tions and vocational higher edu- for adults to study,” Ms Rayner “For too many years, adult education as the “right thing cation grants for low-earners. is expected to say, adding that learning has been a sorely to do” but added that the “nar- Labour expects that its £3 “people have been held back for neglected part of our education row” focus on “knowledge that billion proposals will aid its too long.” system,” she added. is easy to test” should be wid- “green industrial revolution” The spending proposals are “The failure of successive ened to include creative think- and prevent people being put estimated by Labour to come in governments to invest properly ing, communication skills and out of work by automation. at £2.6bn on education entitle- in it has led to steep falls in stu- co-operation. The entitlement to six years ment, and a further £573 mil- dent numbers and a huge loss [email protected]

SCOTLAND: Police are investigating after unauthorised excavation was reported at an Iron Age structure in the outer Hebrides. Stone has been removed from the site of Dun Torcuill, a broch on an uninhabited island in a North Uist loch. The dun, a scheduled monument, is considered to be the fi nest and best-preserved example of its type across both Uists and Benbecula. The damage was reported to police on October 22 and offi cers are liaising with Historic Environment Scotland (HES) to establish the full circumstances. Sergeant Gavin McDevitt of Lochmaddy police station said: donate “Damaging or removing any part of a scheduled monument policies will end austerity ONLINE is a criminal off ence. In this and privatisation, although it instance, there is the potential would quickly discover that morningstaronline for destabilisation of the EU rules on competition, state .co.uk/page/ monument, and/or the loss aid, public procurement, the of archaeological deposits corporate right of establish- support-us previously protected by the ment and the free movement tumbled stone.” of capital will be used in attempts to sabotage Labour’s programme.” Mr Farage said he took the ■ LABOUR PLEDGE decision because he feared that standing anti-Tory can- didates could have led to a hung parliament with sig- Mental-health counsellors for secondary pupils nifi cant gains for the Liberal Democrats. Hope Not Hate campaign The party said it hoped that do incredible work, but our have experienced a mental- director Matthew McGregor by Lamiat Sabin the talk-therapy proposals, society is fuelling mental ill- health problem or are close said: “There is a real threat announced ahead of the gen- ness on a huge scale and our to someone who has. that Nigel Farage could win a eral election, would help iden- young people are not getting It has also uncovered data handful of seats and become UNDER a Labour government tify early onset of psychologi- the support they need. that shows that in the past a kingmaker in the next par- every secondary school would cal issues such as depression “As a country, we have to year NHS England cancelled liament. have an in-house qualifi ed and anxiety. start treating mental health 175,000 appointments in child “We will redouble our counsellor to assist pupils in Labour also vowed to as seriously as physical health. and adolescent mental-health eff orts to tell voters about what becoming happier, the party establish a network of drop- “If we don’t help our young services — an overall increase makes Nigel Farage unpopular announced yesterday. in “mental-health hubs” to people, we are not only failing of 25 per cent compared with in the seats he is targeting: his Labour has pledged to enable 300,000 more chil- them but storing up problems the previous year. dangerous and divisive politics recruit almost 3,500 on-site dren access support under for the future for a whole gen- Shadow health minister and his support for Thatcher- secondary school counsellors its Healthy Young Minds plan, eration.” Barbara Keeley said that the ite policies like privatising the and said it would also ensure estimated to cost £845 million According to a survey of “government is failing chil- NHS and cutting taxes for mil- primary schools receive a a year. more than 12,000 young peo- dren” and that “our young lionaires.” drop-in visit from a coun- Leader Jeremy Corbyn ple this year by mental-health people deserve better.” [email protected] sellor at least once a week. said: “Mental-health workers charity Mind, three in fi ve [email protected] VOW: Barbara Keeley Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 4 Tuesday news morningstaronline November 12 2019 @m_star_online

■ RETAIL Union: workers abused over 20 times a year on average by Peter Lazenby Paddy Lillis said: “Violence, tackle this growing problem. threats and abuse against “So we were disappointed to workers continue to increase. hear on the fi nal day of Par- SHOPWORKERS are abused, The statistics are shocking liament that the government threatened or assaulted more and show that urgent action is still analysing the evidence than 21 times a year on aver- is required. received, has not yet published age, an Usdaw survey revealed “Many UK workers are on its response and is still consid- yesterday. the front line of dealing with ering next steps.” The retail union was launch- the public and that can mean Individual experiences in ing its annual Respect for they end up on the wrong the report included a computer Shopworkers Week. side of a verbal or physical being thrown at a shopworker About two thirds of shop- assault. by a customer because a pie workers have experienced “We have consistently dem- he had bought was not hot verbal abuse, 41 per cent have onstrated the full extent of enough. been threatened by a customer violence, threats and abuse Other incidents included and nearly 5 per cent have against shopworkers. Five sexual abuse, workers being been assaulted, amounting to months ago we and the retail threatened by customers about 400 assaults every day employers responded to the wielding knives and syringes, across all shopworkers, the Home Offi ce ‘call for evidence’ and staff being headbutted and survey found. — and with one voice — when kicked. Usdaw general secretary we jointly called for action to [email protected]

TWO MINUTES’ SILENCE: Jeremy Corbyn stands with Islington’s mayor Rakhia Ismail outside Islington Town Hall as they commemorate Armistice Day, the anniversary of the end of the fi rst world war

■ SOLIDARITY Corbyn condemns Bolivian army coup against Morales

by Bethany Rielly

JEREMY CORBYN decried the forced resignation of Bolivian President Evo Morales as a coup UP THE SWANNY: It is feared that as many as 60 swans may have been aff ected after severe yesterday, condemning the fl ooding caused a barge to overturn on the Sheffi eld and South Yorkshire Navigation canal. The army’s demand for the socialist incident, which happened where the canal connects with the River Don in Rotherham, led to leader to step down as “appall- oil being spilled and potential contamination of the swans’ feathers, the RSPCA said. ing.” Mr Morales announced his resignation on Sunday night shortly after calls from the head ■ PNEUMONIA of Bolivia’s army to step down. In a televised address the presi- dent said he made the decision for Report: six children hospitalised every hour the “good of the country,” which has seen violent anti-government PNEUMONIA hospitalises six decade ago. only really old people.” protests since Morales’s election children every hour in Eng- Rates of admission were About 96 per cent of the win on October 20. land, a report reveals today. highest in poorer parts British public do not know He added that he had been In 2018, 27 children in of the country, the report that pneumonia is the big- ousted in a coup attempt by “dark OUSTED: President Morales resigned from offi ce yesterday England died from pneu- found. gest child killer globally, forces.” Mr Corbyn is a long-time frightening examples of what monia, according to the Mother of eight-year-old the poll found. The Labour leader voiced his supporter of the ousted leader, happens when the military forces global report by charities Edward, Catherine Sage, The charities are urging support for Mr Morales and wrote who became the country’s fi rst out progressive presidents.” Save the Children and said her son woke up in the future British govern- on Twitter: “To see Evo Morales indigenous leader 14 years ago, Support for the leader among Unicef. the night “gasping for air.” ment to increase the pro- who, along with a powerful move- since which he has nationalised some Bolivians has decreased Hospitals across the She said: “He was mak- portion of its overseas aid ment, has brought so much social Bolivia’s resources, alleviated pov- over recent years due to his deci- country recorded 56,000 ing a sound I’d never heard spent on healthcare and progress, forced from offi ce by erty and championed indigenous sion to seek a fourth consecutive child emergency admis- him make before. It was step up the fi ght against the military is appalling. peoples’ rights. term despite this violating Boliv- sions for the disease last really scary. I knew people malnutrition as the most “I condemn this coup against His outrage was shared by ia’s constitution. year, a jump of more than were hospitalised for pneu- signifi cant driver of child- the Bolivian peoples and stand shadow justice minister Rich- Earlier on Sunday, Mr Morales 50 per cent compared to a monia but I thought it was hood pneumonia. with them for democracy, social ard Burgon who tweeted: “Latin said he would call another vote justice and independence.” America’s history off ers many after an audit by the Washington- morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline news Tuesday 5 @m_star_online November 12 2019

n fAir pAy n tory MAnifEsto TfL cleaners must work JOHNSON’S PLAN PUTS 20 years for boss’s salary FORCES ‘ABOVE THE LAW’ CLEANERS on London Underground have to worrying: Peace Plege Union says PM has fallen for myth of former soldier ‘witch-hunts’ work for 20 years to be paid the amount by Bethany rielly ongoing human rights abuse throughout the world.” scruffily-dressed Boris Johnson forked out annually to allegations. “In a democracy, everyone laying a wreath upside down a Transport for London This would dash any pros- must be subject to the same during Sunday’s remembrance (TfL) executive, union PRIME MINISTER Boris John- pect of justice for the families law,” Mr Hill said. ceremony at the Cenotaph with research revealed yester- son was accused of trying to of victims of Bloody Sunday, “We all have the right to a a video of the PM from 2016. day. put British soldiers above the when soldiers opened fire fair trial and we can all expect Grassroots rebuttal Twitter Staff who keep the law yesterday by pledging to on civilians during a protest to be investigated if accused of account Tory Fibs claimed the Tube clean would have give veterans immunity from march in 1972. a crime. Whether someone is footage was switched to save Mr to work even longer — prosecution. Amnesty International North- prosecuted should be about the Johnson from ridicule. for 246 years — to be Mr Johnson revealed his ern Ireland campaign manager evidence, not about who they The BBC denied accusations paid the salary of the proposals to amend the 1998 Grainne Teggart said: “All vic- work for.” of a cover-up, saying: “This was boss of the profiteering Human Rights Act, which tims have the right to an inde- Meanwhile, the BBC was a production mistake and we private contractor which would prevent former soldiers pendent investigation — that is accused yesterday of a cover- apologise for the error.” employs them. being investigated over issues a cornerstone of the rule of law up after switching footage of a [email protected] Cleaners, who are that took place before October members of rail union 2000 — when the act came into RMT, are balloting on force. strike action over pay. British-based pacifist network TfL’s highest paid exec- the Peace Pledge Union (PPU) utive receives £374,000 condemned the move, saying in a year, RMT research a statement that it “threatens has found. The boss of a basic principle of democracy: ABM, the United States- that everyone should be subject based outsourcing firm to the same law.” employing the cleaners, The network accused Mr is paid £4.5 million. Johnson of having “bought into RMT general secretary the myth” that former soldiers Mick Cash said: “We are have been subjected to witch- balloting our cleaner hunts under the act. members on the London PPU campaigns manager Underground employed Symon Hill said: “The mili- by ABM and are cam- tarist lobby have spent years based Organisation of American paigning for a strong Yes promoting their fantasy of a States (OAS) alleged it had found vote for industrial action ‘witch-hunt’ against armed “clear manipulations” of the vot- in their fight for equal forces personnel. There is no ing system ahead of October 20. treatment at work with evidence of a witch-hunt.” However Mr Morales still regard to travel facilities, Very few army personnel remains popular among Bolivia’s sick pay and a decent have been prosecuted for war working class, and, even among pension.” related crimes, the PPU pointed critics, the military’s intervention out. rings alarm bells for the future HAVE YOUR SAY Under the proposals, British of Bolivia’s democracy. soldiers who served during the Write (up to 300 words) to Friends of Bolivia, a British- Troubles in Northern Ireland [email protected] or based solidarity group, told the would be granted immunity 52 Beachy rd, London E3 2ns Star that Mr Morales’s forced from prosecution despite tHuMBs up? Boris Johnson touts his military credentials on the campaign trail in Wolverhampton yesterday resignation was “clearly a coup attempt” backed by the White House. “The Trump administration n industry has made its opposition to the Morales government clear on a number of occasions and this has hardened recently,” a spokesper- Unions welcome possible British Steel rescue son from the solidarity group said. “Nobody denies that Evo by Marcus Barnett Mr Ganpo added that Jingye and Unite will not be raising Morales won the presidential would be making job offers any false hopes without seeing election last month with 47 per “to as many employees across detailed plans for the entire cent of the vote. TRADE unions cautiously the business as possible” but business and [until] the ink is “Yet now the military, backed welcomed news announced refused to confirm job security dry on the contracts. by Washington’s OAS, have yesterday that a Chinese firm for all workers. “If and when a formal forced him out.” will invest billions in a bid to British Steel had been in the announcement is made, the The group expressed fears rescue British Steel. hands of the government via workforce will begin to breathe that Mr Morales’s social gains, Unite said that they are seek- the Official Receiver since May, a collective sigh of relief.” including reducing national ing urgent meetings with the when it went into administra- Labour’s shadow business illiteracy, unemployment and Chinese steel company Jingye tion. secretary Rebecca Long Bai- extreme poverty, will now be after it was announced that Unite assistant general secre- ley welcomed the “reassuring “dismantled by the coup gov- it intends to invest £1.2 bil- tary Steve Turner said: “Unite news” for the thousands of ernment.” lion into British Steel, which welcomes the news that it workers — while the govern- The World Peace Council employs about 4,000 people in appears we are close to a deal ment fails “to provide the sup- (WPC) also denounced the Scunthorpe and Teesside. being concluded that ends the port our steel sector urgently “long-desired and planned” coup The company’s chairman anxiety felt by thousands of needs.” attempt which they claimed was Li Ganpo said that the money workers, their families and [email protected] “sponsored and supported by the would go towards upgrading communities and finally brings US imperialists, hand in hand machinery and infrastruc- desperately needed stability to with the local oligarchy and ture at the steelworks, as well a world-class business. adverTiSe Here their well-known instrument, as raising the company’s envi- “However, there have been (020) 8525-6995 sAVEd? British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant, which employs 4,000 people. the OAS.” ronmental performance and a series of false dawns in find- [email protected] Chinese company Jingye have plans to invest billions in the company [email protected] boosting energy efficiency. ing a buyer for British Steel Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 6 Tuesday world morningstaronline November 12 2019 @m_star_online n France eViDence oF BrutaLitY: A man receives attention from volunteer medical workers after being badly Melenchon defends his role beaten by demonstrators yesterday in anti-Islamophobia march by our Foreign Desk mitted “treason” by marching National Rally party, as she has with “Islamists.” rebranded the National Front. Mr Melenchon said Ms Le The march attracted further A MARCH of over 13,000 people Pen had “turned her back on controversy after some par- against Islamophobia in Paris France because she does not ticipants donned yellow stars on Sunday split the French left understand that this is a march accompanied by yellow cres- as the Socialist and Communist for the republican unity of the cents, a reference to the Star of parties declined to participate French,” he said. David that Jewish people were because of concerns over the He said he stood by previ- forced to wear to identify them- involvement of some Islamist ous remarks that it was as selves under nazi occupation. organisations. legitimate to be anti-Islam as A councillor from Saint However, France Unbowed anti-Catholic but added: “When Denis, Madjid Messaoudene, leader Jean-Luc Melenchon has our Muslim compatriots, who argued that the gesture was rejected the idea that protest- represent the second religion “precisely a form of homage to ing against Islamophobia con- of this country, are singled out, this collective memory of the tradicts France’s secular politi- insulted, threatened, it is our Shoah, a way of saying: ‘Never cal tradition and hit back at duty to come to the rescue.” again’.” accusations from fascist leader He added that Ms Le Pen But critics, who included Marine Le Pen that he had com- ought to be careful about con- Bordeaux mosque imam Tareq demning others, given that the Oubrou, said comparisons with HAVE YOUR SAY suspected shooter who seri- the Holocaust were inappro- ously injured a 74-year-old and priate and showed “an igno- Write (up to 300 words) to a 78-year-old when firing at a rance of the history of Jews in [email protected] or 52 Beachy rd, London e3 2ns mosque in Bayonne on October France.” 28 is a former candidate for her [email protected]

n uniteD states ukraine oil deal won by two Perry n hong kong supporters TWO political supporters of US Lam vows to stand Energy Secretary Rick Perry secured a lucrative oil and gas exploration deal in Ukraine after Mr Perry attended Ukrain- firm as protesters’ ian President Volodymyr Zelen- sky’s inauguration. The revelation comes as US Democrats seek to impeach President Donald Trump for violence escalates asking Ukraine to investigate Democratic presidential nomi- by our Foreign Desk nation hopeful Joe Biden over his son Hunter’s appointment to the board of Ukrainian HONG KONG Chief Executive energy firm Burisma Hold- Carrie Lam vowed yesterday to ings in 2014, of which Mr Biden “spare no effort” in bringing an senior was then vice-president. end to violence that has rocked Hunter Biden joined Burisma the Chinese city for months. n sPain just after the US had helped “If there is still any wishful facilitate the Maidan coup that thinking that by escalating overthrew the elected govern- violence the Hong Kong spe- Sanchez heads poll but falls ment of Viktor Yanukovych. cial administrative regional Mr Perry recommended government will yield to pres- far short of working majority Ukrainian-American busi- sure to satisfy so-called politi- nessman Michael Bleyzer, a cal demands — that will not SPANISH Prime Minister with the conservative Popu- long-standing supporter, as happen,” she declared. Pedro Sanchez’s Socialist lar Party gaining 22 seats to an energy adviser to Mr Zel- She spoke out after a day in Workers Party (PSOE) came make 88 and the fascist Vox ensky. Mr Bleyzer’s joint bid which rioters set fire to a man first in the country’s general winning 52, 28 more than in with Alex Cranberg, a Repub- trying to remonstrate with election on Sunday but with the April election and mak- lican donor, led to a 50-year them in the Ma On Shan dis- heLL-Bent on Destruction: Opposition rioters vandalise a branch fewer seats than in April, ing it larger than UP for the contract for oil and gas explo- trict. Footage shows that when of the Bank of China in Hong Kong’s business district yesterday leaving a working majority first time. ration being awarded by the the man exclaimed: “We are all even further out of reach. Mr Sanchez declared Ukrainian government weeks Chinese,” he was doused in a reacted angrily to the death of suspended as obstacles were The PSOE won 120 of 350 victory and said he would later, despite their offer being flammable liquid and set alight. 22-year-old student Chow Tsz- strewn on tracks and parts of seats, down three, and its work “to obtain a progres- millions of dollars less than He fled the scene on fire and his lok on Friday. Mr Chow died in the network were set on fire. favoured coalition part- sive government,” but it is that of a Ukrainian competitor. condition remains unknown. a fall from a multistorey car Windows of the state-owned ners Unidas Podemos (UP), unclear how he will muster Mr Perry denies trying to A protester shot in the stom- park. Protesters say he was flee- Bank of China were broken. a socialist alliance includ- the required 175 seats for a influence the awarding of the ach while rushing a police ing from police tear gas. Last week, a pro-Beijing ing Podemos and the Com- majority. Co-operation with contract. officer was taken to hospital Rioters stormed through member of the Legislative munist-led United Left, lost Catalan separatist parties Mr Bleyzer said the process and remained in “critical” con- shopping arcades, smashing Council, Junius Ho, who is the seven seats to end up with has suffered after Spain’s “will hopefully serve as an dition, authorities said follow- shops owned by mainland Chi- elected representative of the 35. imposition of lengthy jail example of how the Ukrainian ing another weekend of torched nese companies. The Sha Tin New Territories West constitu- The parties of the right terms on many of their energy market can be opened Metro stations and smashed railway station was damaged ency, was stabbed by a protester and far right made gains — leaders. for new investments.” shopfronts as demonstrators and train services were partly who had stopped him pretend- morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline world Tuesday 7 @m_star_online November 12 2019

n ecuador in brief Health staff vote MORALES SLAMS ‘RACISTS’ to strike over pay NORTHERN IRELAND: Unison members in health and social services have voted 92 per cent in favour of WHO FORCED HIM TO QUIT strike action over pay and staffing. message of defiance: Opposition supporters riot but ousted president says he’ll defeat coup The union said waiting lists and waiting times for by Ben chacko tary government and that Mr patients across Northern Morales would be given safe Ireland were now at “crisis ouTBursT haven there if he needed it. level.” BOLIVIA’S ousted president Evo oF HaTred: However, Mr Morales said Regional secretary Patri- Morales struck a defiant tone A picture of he would stay in Bolivia’s cia McKeown said: “Health yesterday as he denounced Evo Morales Cochabamba region “to work workers do not take indus- opposition leaders Carlos Mesa lies on the with the people.” trial action lightly, but they and Luis Camacho as “racists floor of his Spanish Foreign Minister have been pushed to the and coup-plotters” whose ransacked Josep Borrell said Spain was brink. Responsibility for orchestration of mass violence home concerned at the power vac- averting this critical situ- had forced him from office. uum and that “it was the inter- ation lies with the Depart- Mr Morales resigned, along- vention of the army” that had ment of Health, the head of side Vice-President Alvaro Gar- forced Mr Morales to step down. the NI Civil Service and the cia and senate president Adri- “The world and Bolivian coup. It is a coup because the Supporters of the elected Department of Finance.” ana Salvatierra, late on Sunday patriots repudiate the coup. army requested the resignation president set up barricades in night after being told to do so We will come back and we will of the president and that vio- roads leading to the main air- by the head of the army, Gen- be millions, as Tupac Amaru II lates the constitutional order.” port and erected signs declar- Berlusconi refuses to eral Williams Kaliman. said,” Mr Morales declared, in He said he would demand an ing “Evo, we need you.” He said he was seeking a way a reference to the 18th-century emergency meeting of the US- World Peace Council presi- testify on mafia ties to end the violence mounted by leader of an Andean uprising dominated Organisation of dent Socorro Gomes called for opposition supporters follow- against Spanish colonial rule. American States and ask how democratic and peace move- ITALY: Former prime min- ing his emphatic re-election as Mexico’s Foreign Minister it could remain silent at the ments to redouble their vigi- ister Silvio Berlusconi president last month. Marcelo Ebrard said his presi- “military pronunciamento. lance “for the security of brave declined to testify yester- But hooded rioters stormed dent, Andres Manuel Lopez “What happened is a step resistant militants against the day at the appeal trial of his home after the announce- Obrador, continued to recog- back for the whole continent. persecution of the reactionary, an adviser and ally who ment, smashing and burning nise Mr Morales as the legiti- We are very worried,” he said, conservative and fanatical was convicted of collu- his belongings. His sister’s house mate president and “what hap- adding that Mexico would forces behind the coup.” sion with the mafia. was also burned to the ground. pened yesterday we consider a refuse to recognise any mili- [email protected] Ex-senator Marcello Dell’Utri, who founded the Forza Italia party with Mr Berlusconi, was n venezuela n syrian war convicted last year of collusion between Cosa Nostra and state institu- eu extends tions after deadly mafia White Helmets’ co-founder bombings in Florence, sanctions on Rome and Milan in 1993. Mr Berlusconi became caracas for prime minister for the discovered dead in Istanbul first time a year later. He told the court that further year by Ben chacko than any other country. his lawyers had advised EU FOREIGN ministers decided The White Helmets group him not to any answer yesterday to extend sanctions was founded in 2013 and any questions on those on Venezuela for another year. THE former British army officer describes itself as a humani- matters. They also extended an asset who helped found Syria’s White tarian organisation, frequently freeze and travel bans against Helmets rebel organisation releasing footage of its opera- 25 Venezuelan officials. was found dead in Istanbul tives rescuing people from Highway to france The EU and most of its mem- yesterday. rubble following reported air ber states recognised the self- James Le Mesurier’s body was strikes by Syrian or Russian blocked by sit-in proclaimed presidency of oppo- discovered in the street outside bombers. reFusinG To Be cowed: Hong sition figure Juan Guaido at the his home in the Turkish city’s Critics say the group is SPAIN: Hundreds of sup- Kong Chief Executive Carrie Lam start of the year — in defiance Beyoglu district. aligned with terrorist organisa- porters of Catalan inde- of diplomatic norms — and has The Istanbul governor’s tions such as al-Qaida, in whose pendence have forced the ing to want a selfie. blamed clashes between right- office said that “comprehen- territories it has mostly oper- closure of a major road The city has already with- wing militants and the police sive administrative and judi- ated, and it has been accused crossing the border with drawn the controversial extra- on the elected government of cial investigations” have been of faking footage and chemi- France. dition Bill that kicked off the Nicolas Maduro. initiated into the death, but cal attacks. Some of its workers Yesterday’s sit-down protests. The legislation would The US-based Centre for Pol- that police have established have been identified in other protest halted traffic along have allowed Hong Kong to icy Studies concluded in April that no-one entered or left his footage as armed militants stretches of the road in extradite criminal suspects to that sanctions on Venezuela home at the time of the “inci- belonging to rebel formations. southern France and north- mainland China, Taiwan and have cost tens of thousands dent,” to which there are no It received $123 million (£96m) ern Spain as demonstrators some other jurisdictions under of lives as the population face reported witnesses, and that in funding from the British and sat in the road, listened certain circumstances. food and medicine shortages. officials believe he may have US governments shortly after to music and ate food that The man whose case The foreign ministers’ fallen to his death by accident. its foundation. they had brought with prompted it — Chan Tong-kai, meeting also discussed Iran’s During his time in the Brit- Turkey has extensive links them. who murdered his girlfriend decision to enrich uranium ish army, Mr Le Mesurier’s roles to Syrian jihadist organisa- Police on each side of the Poon Hiu-wing in Taiwan to higher levels than it is per- included serving as intelligence TerrorisT linKs: Ex-British tions, some of which have border stayed at a distance. before fleeing home to Hong mitted under a 2015 nuclear co-ordinator in Pristina, Kos- army officer James Le Mesurier been organised into the Free France’s Vinci Autoroutes Kong, from which he could development agreement with ovo, following the Nato bom- Syrian Army units involved in said there had been clo- not be extradited due to the the US, EU, France, Germany, bardment and dismemberment entered Iraq following the US- the current Turkish invasion of sures in both directions on lack of a treaty — was quietly Britain, Russia and China, a of Yugoslavia in 1999. led invasion of 2003, including northern Syria. It is unknown the A9 since the morning. released in October. He says he retaliatory move after the US He later worked for the mer- construction giant Bechtel. It to what extent Mr Le Mesurier, is prepared to go to Taiwan to walked away from the deal and cenary Olive Group organisa- was among the private armies whose White Helmets report- face trial for the murder, which imposed renewed sanctions. tion as “vice-president for spe- identified by the War on Want edly worked with some of the MORNINGSTAR he admits, but the territories Luxembourg Foreign Minis- cial projects.” The group, which charity in 2016 as making Brit- same organisations, was privy cannot agree on a mechanism ter Jean Asselborn said Iran’s mainly recruits ex-SAS person- ain the “mercenary kingpin” of to sensitive information on ONLINE.CO.UK to permit that. behaviour “was to be expected” nel, was active in providing pri- the world, with a greater role these links. Socialist news hub [email protected] in light of the US action. vate security for US firms that in the private military industry [email protected] Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 8 Tuesday features morningstaronline November 12 2019 @m_star_online Star comment Farage the faker chooses The Bolivian coup his class over his ‘politics’

The pretence that the Brexit Party straddles the class what the mainstream divide — that it stands for an imagined national com- munity united across ideological divisions and bound together in the defence of national sovereignty and the implementation of the popular will — has evaporated. The Brexit Party — an ephemeral expression of Nigel Farage’s overweening ambition to occupy a permanent media will not tell you position in the limelight — is rendered viable as a elec- toral vehicle only by the failure to give effect to the referendum result. As Labour’s radical policy programme gains traction, and the polling gap with the Tories closes, the possibility Bolivia’s oligarchy launched an orgy of racist and fascist violence that a bifurcated Brexit vote might aid the election of a Corbyn government has forced the contending factions of our ruling class to close ranks. to oust president Morales, explains FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ Fearing for their futures in Parliament the still substan- tial Remain tendency in the Tory Party at Westminster has backed Johnson’s Brexit-lite deal. HE Comite Ciu- OUTRAGE: A dadano (Citizens supporter of Evo Committee), a right- Morales is arrested Twing coalition led by Bolivia’s ex-vice- Where yesterday Farage condemned this bodge job president, Carlos Mesa, and and “would rather accept extension and election than Luis Fernando Camacho, a THIS deal” today he says that Johnson’s claim that his multimillionaire entrepreneur, free trade deal with the EU would not include regula- leading the extreme right-wing tory alignment is a “significant change” that warrants pressure group Comite Civico a complete U-turn. (Civic Committee) of Santa His suggestion that it was an overnight revelation Cruz, jointly launched a brutal occasioned by clear signalling from Johnson that led wave of violence in many areas him to change his position rather suggests that this was of the country aimed explic- a shared PR pitch. Either that or Farage the Faker has itly at ousting democratically access to some seriously strong mind-altering substances. elected president Evo Morales. Farage remains the standard bearer for a particularly The violence is carried out by virulent strain of national chauvinism that has cloaked paid, armed thugs whose main its reactionary class character in the language of popular target has been public build- sovereignty. ings, organisations associated Electoral support for a continued policy of austerity with the government (trade economics is diminished and the management of the unions, co-operatives, poor present day Conservative Party has departed from tradi- communities and neighbour- tional Tory tactics to focus on capturing a strategic slice hoods suspected of being pro- of Labour voters. They calculate that with a package of Morales bastions, community spending promises and a promise to get Brexit done they radio stations and such like), Senate. The right-wing opposi- delay in Bolivian elections to to egg on the racist thugs to can squeeze into office. individuals linked to the gov- tion refused to recognise the give the definite results, due conduct a nationwide witch- This strategy looked somewhat beguiling when huge ernment (ministers, mayors results and, in typical Latin to the time it takes for the hunt against MAS supporters. percentages piled up for the Brexit Party in the European etc), and especially persons of American right-wing fashion, mainly indigenous, rural vote Social media has been full elections. But with the launch of the election campaign indigenous origin who have alleged fraud. to be counted and its outcome of horrible images of racist it was inevitable that broader issues would gain salience endured the brunt of their Elections in Bolivia are to be sent to La Paz for the vote violence against indigenous and this vote would fragment along class lines. racism. They have targeted entirely manual. So the right aggregation by the Supreme women and men, such as the indigenous women the most. wing seized on the normal Electoral Tribunal (TSE), as case of the MAS Mayor of Vinto, This is a re-enactment of evidence of foul play. in Cochabamba, Patricia Arce, the racist wave of violence The right wing launched an who was detained by thugs launched in 2008, aimed both intoxicating media campaign who shaved her hair, doused The strategy of the Tory Party dovetails with that of at ousting democratically (with full support of the world her with red paint (the colour their erstwhile partners in David Cameron’s austerity elected Morales and the parti- corporate media) that fraud of the right wing in Bolivia), coalition government. The Tory tactic to make this elec- tion of the state into two, seek- had been committed. tion exclusively about Brexit is shared with the Lib Dems. ing to set up a non-indigenous Then the coup offensive DEFIANT: Morales has And in signing up to a so-called Remain Alliance the country in the territory’s east- began in earnest and by Octo- denounced his forced Greens and Plaid Cymru have fallen into a Tory trap. ern region, exactly where the ber 22, right-wing thugs went resignation as a ‘coup’ In many constituencies it will not be a Remain Alli- rich gas and oil deposits lie. “ on the rampage and, among ance confronting Labour but a reactionary one united in At the time, US ambassa- Victor Borda, other barbarities, set fire to deflecting attention away from the neoliberal consensus dor Phillip Goldberg played a three electoral offices across which Jo Swinson exemplified as a minister in the Tory- central role in the operation. president of Bolivia claiming “vote rigging.” Lib Dem government. The US, as with the oil in Ven- Their violence massively For the Greens this is a spectacular own goal. At pre- ezuela, has not abandoned lay- Bolivia’s intensified when the TSE cisely the point at which voters are paying especially ing its hands on such riches, announced Morales’s victory sharp attention to policies which convincingly tackle with the additional incentive on the constitutional principle climate change the Greens have diluted their core mes- that Bolivia has the largest Congress, that if any presidential candi- sage and downgraded it to prioritise breaking Brexit. deposits of lithium in the date obtains over 40 per cent Probably one in five Green voters voted Brexit in the world. resigned his and at least 10 points above the referendum and presumably their leadership thought What prompted this was the runner-up there is no need for this could be discounted without considering that in electoral defeat Bolivia’s right post because a second round. doing so they placed a big barrier to them engaging in wing suffered at the national In order to defuse the tense a productive conversation with more than half the adult election on October 20 2019. situation Morales asked the TSE population. This is where the party’s lack of roots in the The results gave the victory to armed to invite the Organisation of working class has led it. Morales’s Movement for Social- American States (OAS) to con- Farage thinks he has played a masterstroke but a key ism (MAS) with 47.08 per cent, oppositionists duct an audit on the election. effect of his surrender to the Tory Party is to make the against Carlos Mesa with 36.51 Mesa, Camacho and their fol- differences between Labour’s progressive policy portfolio per cent and another candidate kidnapped his lowers rejected this outright, with its Green New Deal and those of the newly minted who got 8.78 per cent. Addition- and instead demanded new Reactionary Alliance even more stark. ally, MAS won absolute majori- elections and the resignation ties in both the Congress and brother of Morales, whilst continuing morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Tuesday 9 @m_star_online November 12 2019

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BETRAYAL: Police defected to the right-wing opposition

forced her to walk barefoot house of Esther Morales Ayma, the civilian population at the through the city, kneel down Evo Morales’s sister, in the city mercy of racist thugs going on by and ask for forgiveness for of Oruro, was also set on fi re. the rampage. Communities and supporting Morales’s govern- Right-wing mobs violently Morales supporters have organ- ment. occupied the premises of ised their own defence, thus She, bravely, refused to Bolivia TV and Nueva Patria increasing the tension. apologise, stood her ground Radio, both pro-government Most of the worst outrages and was eventually rescued media, where they forcibly have been carefully omitted Labour’s people-powered campaign is off to a by law and order forces. In the expelled all the workers. Not by the world’s corporate media meantime, other armed racist a whisper from the corporate who are presenting the crisis thugs set the Vinto Town Hall media about this blatant attack as a rebellion against Morales’s fl ying start, writes MATT WILLGRESS on fi re. on freedom of the press. government for the defence of Similarly, the Town Hall of In another act of aggres- democracy, a far cry from the NE OF the most And Labour’s campaign — as well as promote local can- Oruro was also set on fi re by sion, right-wing demonstrators reality on the ground. positive news and string of policy announce- vassing groups on Facebook opposition thugs, so was the took Jose Aramayo, director of The government has cor- stories since my ments — haven’t just inspired and WhatsApp. house of Victor Hugo Vasquez, the Peasant Confederation’s rectly characterised it as a coup Olast column was more people than ever to make They are also running phone Oruro governor, and the same radio station, hostage after attempt led by the country’s that in its fi rst 10 small donations to help out. bank parties where you can fate met the house of Esteban occupying the Confederation right wing with racist and fas- days since the general election They have also already meet up and call voters in mar- Urquizo, MAS governor of premises. He was brutalised cist thugs perpetrating wanton was called, Labour’s campaign inspired incredible levels ginals using Labour’s calling Sucre in Chuquisaca. and tied to a tree in the street. violence with the sole aim of received small donations total- of canvassing, social media app; are training new activ- Additionally, Victor Borda, he wave of violence ousting Morales. ling more than £1 million. The activity, street campaigning ists in canvassing and brought president of Bolivia’s Congress, is almost identi- On November 10 Morales average donation was £26. and more. together what they call a dig- resigned his post and even his cal to the US-led called for fresh elections with And despite claims in much All over the country, peo- ital army so that thousands of position as an MP because Tcoup attempts and a totally renewed TSE aimed at of the Tory-supporting media ple are reporting to me that us together can use our social armed oppositionists in the extreme right-wing bringing an end to the racist that Labour wouldn’t be able to they have more volunteers media accounts to amplify key city of Potosi kidnapped his violence unleashed in Vene- violence, and called the opposi- get people active and support- than ever, packed out launch content and make big political brother. zuela in 2014 and 2017 — and tion to a dialogue. ing the campaign like in 2017, events and a real interest from moments go viral. He resigned to preserve his in Nicaragua in 2018. However, Carlos Mesa in a in fact in the fi rst two days of people not just to campaign in And like the offi cial Labour brother’s life and to contribute What made it easier for the public statement said that both the campaign, the party raised their own areas, but also in key campaign, Momentum has also to the country’s peace. This is a thugs to operate freely and Morales and his vice-president, almost as much as it did in the marginal seats. had a great response to its calls technique that has been used with impunity is that impor- Alvaro Garcia Linera, cannot fi rst two weeks of the 2017 elec- At our own #JC4PM Labour for support with more than against other prominent mem- tant sections of the police continue in their positions and tion campaign. Assembly Against Austerity 11,000 people donating since bers of MAS, hence a number force, in what appears to be must resign — nor can they be Like so many other develop- rally on Saturday afternoon, the election began, and more of resignations, presented as a coordinated action, raised a candidates in any fresh elec- ments in this general election Emma Dent Coad MP reported volunteers stepping forward a crisis inside of MAS. Even number of economic demands tion. campaign, this story illustrates amazing levels of activity every than ever. Bolivia’s right-wing media are (equalisation of salaries to the He also encouraged the oppo- a stark contrast between the single day in her marginal seat, As I’m writing this column, reporting this method. armed forces’ level), retreated sition to continue and intensify Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour and Cities of London and West- news is breaking of Farage’s In another racist outrage, the to their barracks, and left the pressure in the streets that Party and Boris Johnson’s hard- minster PPC Gordon Nardell pact with Boris Johnson. As has already infl icted so much right Tories. said that they expected to be the Labour Party Chair Ian pain — primarily on the Whilst Labour is funded able to canvass the entire seat Lavery has said: “This is a indigenous majority — and by hundreds of thousands of in record time. Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson has brought the nation to the people who want to transform As part of this surge of alliance with Donald Trump verge of a civil war. our country to put wealth and activity, there is also great to sell out our country and send This was the real game power in the hands of the interest in some of the work £500 million per week from plan. Not since 2008 has Boliv- many, the Tories are the party Momentum is doing to amplify our NHS to US drugs compa- ian democracy been so much of the privileged few. Indeed, Labour’s message and get peo- nies,” and we must “urge voters under threat. Then the army’s the Conservatives have taken ple out campaigning. to reject this Thatcherite 1980s commander-in-chief called on £1,106,700 from just one person This Saturday alone, they tribute act, which would lead Morales to resign. Now Morales this year. reported that thousands of you to more savage Tory attacks on and vice president Alvaro Gar- As Andrew Gwynne, Labour used MyCampaignMap.com working-class communities.” cia Linera have gone on TV and campaign co-ordinator put it, to knock on doors across the We are in the fi ght of our tendered their resignations, “People know that a Labour country, and that this element lives. The Tories may be able to seeking to bring about peace. government will be on the side of the campaign is already so count on support from hedge The coup has been consum- of our NHS, not Donald Trump much bigger than in 2017. funds and bankers — and now mated. and on the side of millions of Alongside canvassing ses- Nigel Farage — but we can We call upon the British workers who pay their taxes sions, this impressive map beat them collectively. People labour movement to condemn and serve our communities, will host phone bank parties, power really can make a dif- the right-wing coup and sup- not the wealthy few who fund street stalls, campaign HQs, ference and we are all Labour’s port democracy in Bolivia the Conservative Party. rallies, socials and campus secret weapon. Let’s win this and Morales’s call for fresh “Our movement is powered events, and you people are able together. elections as a democratic and by people and volunteers mak- to upload your own events. peaceful means to resolve the ing small contributions they It will also send you event ■ Matt Willgress is the national crisis the coup has thrown the can aff ord, because they want RSVPs and the contact details organiser of the Labour Assembly country into. No more Pinoc- to change the country for the of attendees so you can plan Against Austerity and editor of hets in Latin America! better.” local events more eff ectively, Labour Outlook. 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premises in Lanarkshire, let- ting out the estate to rich indus- Voices of Scotland trialists. Some distance north of the estate today lies the site of the old Kinneil coal mine. LAUGHABLE: Jo Swinson, now party In 1858, workers from the pit leader, speaks in front of a liberal fantasy formed their own brass band, backdrop in 2012, devoid of the real lived using their own savings. Min- history of liberalism for the working class ers emerged from the hard slog of underground toil to don ele- gant uniforms and play beauti- ful music. In 1894, the Kinneil Band led a march of striking miners. The mine owners were affronted at the gall of those miners and banned them from practising in a hall belonging to the own- ers. The miners shook the coal dust from their feet and built their own hall. More than a century earlier, James Watt came to Bo’ness to work on improving the steam engines used to pump water from the mines in the town. One mine was known as “The Schoolyard Pit,” for obvious rea- sons. The pupils used to com- plain about steam coming in through the school windows. Real life history like this can be found across Scotland and the rest of Britain. This history demonstrates that the most sig- VER since Jeremy nificant factor influencing the Corbyn was first nature of society is the question elected as leader of of who holds the major share of Ethe Labour Party, wealth and power, a question so-called “centrist” Back to a liberal that is still highly relevant. columnists and politicians in Bo’ness today, like many Scotland and across Britain areas up and down Britain, have sneered at the very idea has a busy foodbank serving of an avowed socialist holding people on inadequate benefits that position. and those in paid work but on In 2018, a columnist in The unfair contracts with low pay Herald denounced Labour as future or forward to and limited employment rights. the “fruitcake opposition” with- Centrists like the Liberal out any apparent need to justify Democrats are culturally inca- this. Jo Swinson, the new Lib- pable of grasping the fact that eral Democrat leader, recently there are poor people because deployed the term “socialist” there is a division between against Jeremy Corbyn as an progress with Labour? those with the majority of insult and declared that the wealth and power and those left-right divide is no longer without it. relevant. Those without include not There is a persistent reflex just people in crisis now but from the centrist tendency to So-called ‘centrism’ and the rhetoric of the Lib Dems not the mass of people who depend deny the legitimacy of the very on a salary or whose seemingly expression of socialist thought. reasonable income would be History, from this perfunctory only ignores but erases the history of injustice and class wiped out if they had to pay glance, is an “Eraflix” platform for health services. with passing fads through the The heirs of the old Liberals, ages. The old tales of strug- struggle that surrounds us, writes THOMAS LEWIS RUSSO whose mine-owning financiers gle and socialism are so passe suppressed any radicalism in when the Lib Dems have a the party, cannot perceive flashy new drama to sell. tinuing struggle and the con- town, leaving behind evidence wall of the Roman empire was neil. All that remains of the this divide. They are prepared Even a passing acquaintance tinually renewed relevance of of how we reached the present. made up mainly of soil held in village now is a gable end of to tinker with late and modest with the real world shows that socialist ideas to support us The central point of this tempo- place by turf so the wall has its 12th-century church. The offerings to the workers after history, on the contrary, is through this. ral vortex is the Kinneil Estate long since returned to the earth Hamiltons were profiting from colluding with the Conserva- embedded in the social land- The town of Bo’ness in east in the town. from which it came. What’s developing the nearby Bo’ness tives in coalition to impose the scape which is the constant central Scotland is a classic The route of the Antonine left of a global empire built on from a once sparsely inhabited extremism of austerity. backdrop to our lives. The example of this. The timelines Wall runs right through the conquest and held together by area to a major harbour town. Labour’s programme of legacy of that history is con- of history converge on the estate. This northern border force is trampled underfoot. Much of the population of making wealthy individuals Nearby a section of the old the village had already been and corporations pay a greater wall stands the grand Kin- pushed to move to Bo’ness share of tax, giving all workers neil House. The Kinneil Estate for work but the road to what the right to a £10 an hour mini- was granted to Sir Walter Fitz was left of the village was a mum wage now, giving workers Gilbert as a reward for switch- frightful impediment to the improved rights and a share of ing sides to Robert the Bruce. landscaping of the grounds in the wealth of their companies, The bold Walter was great at front of the house. public ownership and invest- social climbing, a skill that was In the latter half of the 17th ment in public services and passed down to his descend- century, the Hamiltons enlisted infrastructure is about giving ants who became the dukes Parliament to put an end to the all of us a share of wealth and of Hamilton, a title harking parish of Kinneil and incorpo- power. back to their ancestral plot rate it into a new united Bo’ness Such a programme is not down south. parish. By 1691, the village was worthy of a centrist scream of The family built a small formally at an end. The road horror but, rather, three cheers tower house on the estate in to Kinneil was closed and the from the people and a celebra- the 15th century. The building Hamiltons could landscape to tory blast from a brass band. was improved on by subsequent their hearts’ content. And they generations until it reached also had the old church as their ■ Thomas Lewis Russo is a public- palatial proportions in the 17th private chapel. sector worker who has assisted com- TIRED LIES: Today’s centrist rhetoric is indistinguishable from liberals empty anti-socialism in the 1920s century. Behind the stately pile The Hamiltons eventu- munity projects across the Central lay the humble village of Kin- ally repaired to even plusher Belt of Scotland. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Tuesday 11 @m_star_online November 12 2019 Labour activists launch declaration on women’s sex-based rights We need to defend women’s legal sex-based rights clearly as we go into this crucial election, argue the LABOUR HARD WON RIGHTS: Sylvia Pankhurst in a WOMEN’S RIGHTS DECLARATION GROUP polling booth, 1910

HREE HUNDRED cussion in any of the political ”Women have a right to giving voice to all those fight- Labour Party activ- parties or trade unions. Few respond to these proposals, ing for a better future.” Labour Women’s Declaration ists and supporters conversations have been held and anything that affects us, The group behind the dec- Tincluding three at branch and constituency without censure. We’d like to laration acknowledges the We are signing this declara- 4. Women have the right to MSPs and 24 Labour level. Where they have, such as reframe the conversation to status of women’s sex-based tion in a personal capacity. maintain their sex-based councillors have launched a in Tottenham and Totnes CLPs, ensure that women’s sex-based rights is a cross-party issue — We are Labour Party sup- protections, as set out in declaration on women’s sex- members have voted to support rights are protected and given as evidenced by the recent SNP porters, members, activists, the Equality Act 2010. These based rights — and are calling women’s sex based rights,” said due consideration when for- women’s pledge. trade unionists and include include female-only spaces for more signatories. Paula Boulton, a spokeswoman mulating future Labour policy, In Scotland the SNP gov- nationally and locally such as changing rooms, The declaration, which is for the team behind the dec- particularly with respect to any ernment has said it will push elected representatives and hospital wards, sanitary and being made in the form of a laration. reform of the GRA or the Equal- through reforms as quickly as officers. sleeping accommodation, petition, is in response to moves She added: “We are passion- ity Act.” possible, although the party is The Labour Party and refuges, hostels and prisons. which many fear threaten to ate Labour supporters, includ- Tottenham Constituency not in full agreement on this trades union movement has erode and water down rights ing MSPs, councillors, constitu- Labour Party chair Nick Rog- and there has been no proper a proud history of struggle 5. Women have the right that women campaigned long ency and branch chairs, wom- ers said: equality impact assessment. against the exploitation of to participate in single- and hard to achieve. en’s officers and secretaries and “It is important that both Former Scottish Labour women. It has stood for the sex sports, to ensure fair- Concerns arose after Labour many of us are activists work- men and women in the labour leader Johann Lamont, MSP for rights of women in work and ness and safety at all made commitments in its 2017 ing flat out for a Labour victory movement make clear their Glasgow said: “I have fought all public life and for the safe- levels of competition. general election manifesto to in the December general elec- support for women’s sex-based my life along with my sisters guarding of girls. We, the reform the Gender Recognition tion to end the cruel policies rights and the right of women in the Labour and trade union undersigned, declare that: 6. Women have the right to Act (GRA). of this Tory government which to self-organise by signing movement to ensure that wom- organise themselves, as a Many believe the proposals are causing so much pain and the declaration. We will only en’s voices are heard, that our 1. Women and girls are sex, across a range of cul- would have a detrimental effect hardship. advance the interests of the needs and rights are addressed, subject to discrimina- tural, leisure, educational on women’s sex-based rights — However — this issue working class as a whole — and to end the inequality women tion and oppression on and political activities. particularly the right to single- requires an evidence-based succeed in moving towards a face and to change women’s the basis of their sex. sex facilities such as hospital approach and wide discussion socialist society — when we lives. The progress made by 7. We condemn all attempts wards, toilets and changing before any specific proposals stand in solidarity with all women has come from women 2. Women have the right to to undermine or limit the rooms and also services for for GRA reform are made.” oppressed groups, including organising together and refus- freedom of belief, freedom rights of women to self- survivors of domestic violence Concerns have also been the female half of the popula- ing to be silenced. That is as of expression and freedom organise and call on the and rape. raised about accusations of big- tion. necessary now as it ever was.” of assembly (Articles 18, Labour Party and the trades “All proposals should be otry and hate crime directed “This declaration makes a MSP for Central Scotland 19 and 20 of the UN Decla- union movement to actively audited for their effect on at those trying to respectfully start in promoting the kind Elaine Smith said: “It is impor- ration of Human Rights). support these essential women and girls — but this raise the issue and defend wom- of discussion we need on this tant to ensure that debate freedoms. one hasn’t been. In fact, there en’s sex-based rights. issue to allow the labour move- and different views are not 3. Women have the right to has been very little open dis- Paula Boulton added: ment to play its proper role in silenced in the Labour Party discuss policies which affect ■ Contact labourwomensdecla- and the wider labour move- them, without being abused, [email protected] or follow on ment. Women and girls deserve harassed or intimidated. Twitter: @labwomendec. the best we can do, investing in services, tackling violence against women and girls, chal- lenging harassment and dis- crimination on the grounds of sex. Good laws require thor- ough scrutiny, and as a Member of the Scottish Parliament I will continue to ask questions and listen to women’s concerns.” The group say the declara- tion is their attempt to progress the conversation within the Labour movement. The declaration can be signed at: https://www.ipeti- tions.com/petition/labour- womens-declaration. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Tuesday morningstaronline 12 November 12 2019 info | entertainment @m_star_online

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BON APPETIT! Rick Stein tucks into a tarte fl ambee Alamet’s crosswordsare fi endish fun on Saturday

Yesterday’s sudoku

Celebrity chef pigs out on cheese – it’s Solution tomorrow… a tough job but someone’s got to do it

QUIZMASTER with William Sitwell THE second episode of Rick based dishes. Come on, man, would carry the language Stein’s Secret France (9pm BBC2) do you want to have a heart around the world. TODAY’S QUESTIONS takes the amiable chef through attack? His life insurance pre- The story is comparable to ART INSTALLATION: Part of the eastern regions of Alsace miums must be sky high. that of Latin, which became Ai Wei Wei’s Sunfl ower Seeds and Jura, which are somewhat Scuffl es, Swagger and Shake- the international language 1 A chemophobe is afraid of off the beaten track in compari- speare: The Hidden Story of English of ancient times through the what? son with Paris, Provence and (10.15pm BBC4) off ers an inter- Romans’ military conquests. the Riviera, for example. esting but all too brief account English gained the same sta- 2 ‘Got no mansion, got no yacht Here the infl uence of nearby of how our language came to tus largely by the same means. Still I’m happy with what I got’ Germany and Switzerland be spoken by 450 million peo- Millions of fraud victims are is a lyric from which Irving is clearly felt in the regional ple around the globe, with a being failed by the justice sys- Berlin song? cuisine, with the most famous further one billion using it as tem, if File on 4 (8pm Radio 4) is Alsatian speciality being a second language. anything to go by. 3 Who was the jackal-headed choucroute garni (that’s gar- Apparently, William Shake- The programme looks at the god of ancient Egypt? nished sauerkraut, if you trans- speare is often given the credit case of Cynthia Tuck, a retired late word for word). Curiously, for this, but the notion that the nurse in her 80s who lost her Pic: DaringDonna/Creative Commons Stein says this is his favourite spread of English stemmed life savings after a man phoned French dish, which might sug- solely, or even mainly, from her off ering to help put her gest that he actually prefers the Bard’s creative genius is grandchildren through uni- YESTERDAY’S ANSWERS German food, but no matter. obviously false. versity. She just had to make a He’s clearly having a great As language historian Dr small initial investment… 1. What is made in a darkroom? Manchester and Birmingham time as he packs in visits to John Gallagher shows, it was Three years on, Ms Tuck’s Photographs or prints 3. Seeds of which plant were featured in a bars, restaurants and wineries. in Shakespeare’s time that the fi ght for justice has hit a dead 2. If you were going by train from Piccadilly display at London’s Tate Modern in 2010? He packs in plenty of nosh, too discoveries of English explor- end, with no charges brought to New Street, between which two English The sunfl ower (Sunfl ower Seeds by Ai – at one rustic eatery, he orders ers were laying the foundations against the people involved in cities would you be travelling? Wei Wei) no fewer than eight cheese- for the British empire, which the scam. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Tuesday @m_star_online culture November 12 2019 13

FILM I DAVID CROSBY THEATRE I SHOOK HHHHI I Directed by AJ Eaton HHHHI I SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE LONDON No-holds-barred biopic of 1960s icon of the counterculture Criminal waste “I’M AFRAID of dying. I’m close, and I don’t like it,” US singer- songwriter David Crosby admits HE PAPATANGO in this new documentary about New Writing Prize MAYER WAKEFIELD sees a timely indictment of his life. “Every minute you get is never fails to precious. Time is the final cur- Tdeliver a stimulat- how young offenders are failed by prison system rency, so how do you spend it?” ing work and this The 78-year old countercul- year’s winner is no exception. tural icon has certainly been Samuel Bailey’s timely busy in his sunset years, releas- that you haven’t thought of yet.” debut play takes us behind ing four solo albums since 2014. But rather than being boast- the peeling walls of a young Yet while this creative resur- ful, he is full of regret for the offender institute where three gence is welcome, it is his music partners and friends he hurt 16 to 17-year-olds — Cain (Josh and life during the rebellious with his selfish and destructive Finan), Riyad (Ivan Oyik) and 1960s that he will always be behaviour and for the women he Jonjo (Josef Davies) — are tak- known for and which makes up helped get dangerously addicted ing “shit parenting classes” to the core of this film, directed by to the cocaine and heroin he escape the menacing monot- AJ Eaton and produced by Cam- himself was hooked on. ony of prison life. eron Crowe. His painful memories of the New prison instructor Grace Finding fame with folk-rock death of his long-time girlfriend (Andrea Hall) is tasked with pioneers The Byrds, Crosby Christine Hinton in a car crash trying to teach nappy chang- remembers how the group’s in 1969 are particularly affecting. ing and CPR, but keeping the version of Mr Tambourine Man By the end of the film Crosby boys’ focus proves to be her spurred Bob Dylan on to go explains that all the people he greatest challenge. electric. The band sacked him played music with — Roger All three are facing long in 1967, with Crosby describing McGuinn in The Byrds, Stills, sentences and although they himself as “difficult” during this Nash and Young — all now have dreams of making lives period: “Big ego, no brains, goofy, “really dislike me — strongly.” for themselves outside, their stoned.” Health-wise, it seems like his hope is being drained by a Moving to Laurel Canyon, he two heart attacks, eight stents, system only concerned with fell for Joni Mitchell and pro- copious drug use, liver transplant short-term discipline rather duced her debut album. Within and diabetes is about to catch up than lasting reform. a year he had formed the super with him. Bailey’s writing slowly group Crosby, Stills & Nash with Stubborn, charismatic and but surely unearths the rot- Stephen Stills and Graham Nash. brutally honest, Crosby cuts a ten core of our youth justice Later joined by Neil Young, they magnetic, though often sad and system, while projecting the produced classic songs like lonely figure. humanity of its victims. Guinevere, the hippie paranoia That’s a real surprise to see Cain bounces off the walls of Almost Cut My Hair and the when one considers the shal- like a trapped fly with a turbo- gorgeous Lee Shore. low, sensational nature of many charged and often hilariously There are fascinating stories music documentaries. foul motormouth, Riyad main- ‘SHIT PARENTING’: Andrea Hall (Grace) with Ivan Oyik (Riyad) Pic: The Other Richard about an intense bathroom tains a calm authority while encounter with jazz great John ■ The British premiere of David Jonjo’s vulnerability is evident ances under George Turvey’s That’s the only real down- eting violence and self-harm, Coltrane, playing Woodstock and Crosby: Remember My Name is on in his every expression. well-paced direction. side to an otherwise engross- this play serves as a quietly being the inspiration for Dennis November 17 at Curzon Soho in Lon- These are three boys in Though it’s no fault of her ing evening. devastating reminder of the Hooper’s character in the 1969 don. The screening is part of music desperate need of love and own, the same can’t be said Opening in the same week criminal waste of young life cult classic film Easy Rider. documentary festival Doc’n’Roll, attention, but with very little for Hall’s character, who isn’t that Feltham, Britain’s most occurring in such places on a Noting that he had sex with which runs until November 17, details: in sight. given enough of a hearing to infamous young offender daily basis. hundreds of women, he says: docnrollfestival.com The trio are vividly brought really establish herself within institute, reopened its doors Runs until November 23, box “There were boundaries I crossed IAN SINCLAIR to light with flawless perform- the play. to new inmates despite rock- office: southwarkplayhouse.co.uk

ALBUM REVIEWS I MICHAL BONCZA

Boo Hewerdine Show of Hands Los Piranas Before Battlefield Dance Floor Historia Natural (Reveal Records) (Proper Records) (Glitterbeats) HHHHH HHHHI HHHHI

BOO HEWERDINE’S warm FOLK-ROCK duo Show of TEN years ago three Bogotani- and unadorned voice makes Hands is augmented to a ans, who messed around musi- every one of these songs sim- quartet on this album with cally together as kids, were reu- ply beguiling, with each a first Miranda Sykes on double nited to continue the carefree draft that retains that imme- bass and vocals and inimi- abandon and naivete of their diacy. table percussionist Cormac younger years. Hewerdine’s masterstroke Byrne. The result, whole- Hence the instrumental trio was to ask Danish multi-instru- Akhmatova’s poignant poem some and tight, has immacu- ties, with a haunting chant projects an unmistakable “cum- Alvarez’s wailing guitar mentalist Gustaf Ljunggren to The Smell of Gold: “Gold has lately measured arrange- by Shahid Khan weaved in, bian” joie de vivre, with Eblis shapes El Venado Triste (The react to and augment the songs no perfume/ … but we have ments delivered with envi- are outstanding. Alvarez crystalline guitar’s Sad Deer) and its cadences intuitively, with the resulting found out forever that blood able instrumental mastery. Sykes leads impressively meandering riffs sitting on the continue beautifully through linking interludes creating a smells only of blood.” Sykes and Steve Knightley in Make the Right Noises, a remarkably polyphonic rhythm Todos Tenemos Hogar (We mesmerising homogeneity of His melancholy, poetic lyrics are in good voice, while Phil castigation of fake concern, section of Mario Galeano on All have a Home), while they serene sound. are gently reflective: “When you Beer delivers some delight- and Beer excels in the moving bass and Pedro Ojeda on drums. become neurotically feverish Hewerdine refers to the just can’t remember/How you fully subtle multi-instru- My True Love. Dreckley — a It is all laced with a surreal on Infame Golpazo (Infamous inspiration of the 18th-century should be/When all that you mental ornamentation. “Cornish reggae” — provides sense of humour. Ojeda’s work Coup). Japanese artist Maruyama have/Is a faint memory/When The epic Mother Tongue, some light-hearted tongue-in- on Te Regalo Una Licuadora (I By contrast, Quedar Bien Okyo’s remarkable Cracked shadows are your only/Com- written by Knightley with check banter over regional Gift You a Liquidiser) would Con El Oyente (To Please The Ice as the utmost distillation pany/Then you’re a silhouette.” Johnny Kalsi, is a response rivalries and the upbeat No almost certainly draw admira- Punter) has an endearing timid- of form he himself pursues and Remarkably immersive and to the Brexit referendum of Secrets aptly closes this ebul- tion from the recently departed ity about it. A taste most cer- in the cover notes he cites Anna uplifting. 2016 and its layered tonali- lient offering. Ginger Baker. tainly worth acquiring. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 14 Tuesday letters morningstaronline November 12 2019 @m_star_online n EDUCATION One in three pupils let down by obsession with exam ratings

HOW refreshing to read the third of school pupils who ing “one nation” status, to interview with Sir Tim Brig- are unable to gain a grade- rethink both its examina- house and be able to find four GCSE in maths and Eng- tion and inspection poli- agreement with so many lish every year. cies. ideas on education (M Star The general secretary of Judging schools almost October 29). the Association of School & entirely on their exam Naturally I liked his College Leaders described results has forced most ideas that exams should be the fact that 190,000 young of our underfunded state “nationally set, internally people fall short of grade schools to devote totally marked and externally fours as a “tragedy,” but insufficient resources to moderated,” especially in the real sadness lies in pupils unlikely to gain grade view of the way the private them being regarded as fours. schools are avoiding the “failures.” Labour has much to write newly reformed GCSE and With so much attention in its election manifesto on A-level exams. on results and so much education, but remember- Brighouse’s views on the publicity given to success- ing the forgotten third and curriculum, that it should ful students, the depth of funding a suitable curric- affect the “hearts and hands” despair and demoralisa- ulum for them should be as well as the minds of the tion experienced by this high on the list of priori- young, were spot on, espe- forgotten third should be ties. cially as governments appear sufficient for any govern- BERNIE EVANS to have forgotten about the ment, especially one claim- Liverpool

Cartoon: Richard Cole

n GREEN MIS-STEPS Where’s the common sense in Greens chumming up with Swinson?

BACK in 2014 the Green Party gave tacit support to the fascist coup in the Ukraine. Since 2016 the party has shown manic support for the European Union, despite that body’s common agricultural policy doing great harm to many bird and insect spe- cies across Europe. Now the Greens have en- tered into an election pact with the Liberal Democrats led by Jo Swinson, who has voted against banning fracking and been funded ENERGY POLICY by fracking interests. n Is it that personal career ambitions have regularly overcome principles and common sense within the Hinkley Point C Green Party? BRYN ROWLANDS ECO-SOP: Jo Swinson at the wheel of a battery powered green needs a rethink Malmesbury energy car built and designed by Bournemouth College students

AT PRESENT the proposed Flamanville in France not leave an energy “gap” 3.2gw nuclear plant at Hin- • Brexit problems exist in its In sum, while it is annoying kley Point C (HPC) in Somer- construction that money would have been set is in its early construction Apart from the many objec- wasted by EDF on HPC, that is stages. EDF (the utility company tions to nuclear power in gen- no reason to continue with a largely owned by the French eral — high costs, dangerous facility that will cost consum- state) is pressing ahead, appar- nature, radioactive emissions, ers far more than the cost of ently in the hope of persuad- weapons proliferation, nuclear abandoning it. ing politicians not to abandon waste, and poor carbon reduc- The current government’s a partly completed project. tion — additional objections policy of allowing HPC’s con- But the HPC project remains apply specifically to Hinkley struction to continue has more highly controversial and its Point C: to do with avoiding loss of face completion remains in doubt • Recent large construction cost than with any technical or for political, financial and tech- increases and delays financial merits. nical reasons: • Future electricity bills would Instead, sound arguments • It could be cancelled by be increased roughly by an exist for it to be cancelled — French or British governments extra £50 billion and the sooner the better. • It could be cancelled by EDF • Abandoning HPC would cost The Labour Party should as it is in severe financial dif- taxpayers much less than that establish a working party to ficulties • Construction at HPC is still examine the option of aban- FUNNY FRIENDS: • Severe technical problems at an early stage and could be doning HPC. Green members launched the party’s election campaign in Bristol last week, but the exist at the identical nuclear cancelled, and IAN FAIRLIE party’s decision to prioritise opposition to Brexit over other issues has led to an awkward pact with the plant under construction at • Abandoning Hinkley would London N5 Liberal Democrats morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Tuesday @m_star_online sport November 12 2019 15 n men’s football ‘WHO WANTS TO BE FIRST IN EARLY NOVEMBER?’

by James nalton This game felt similar to at Anfield the first leg of the Champions League tie between the two on Merseyside back in 2018 when “Show them the way to go Liverpool ran out 3-0 winners. home,” sang the Liverpool Guardiola referenced it in his fans as they filed out of the Kop post-match press conference several minutes after the final and admitted it had been on whistle. It’s a song reserved his mind. for convincing, important vic- He also discussed ways to tories, and one which lets the beat a Jurgen Klopp side, con- opposition know they have cluding that the best way for been on the end of a hiding. his side is to “try to play the With the quality they have in game, to create chances as we their ranks, even without first- created today. We decided to do choice goalkeeper Ederson and it that way because it’s the way star central defender Aymeric we won two Premier Leagues in Laporte, Manchester City fans a row and seven titles in two, may not have expected to hear three seasons.” created by Andy Robertson Jordan Henderson started the hope when Angelino’s cross — this organisation is going it sung in their direction. Anfield may have had that and finished by the head of second half where he had left found Bernardo Silva to make it to help us to grow, and these But as City manager Pep Champions League win in Mohamed Salah. off in the first, finding space 3-1 but, despite City’s late surge, games are part of life.” Guardiola looked first to the mind too. It roared as if this Klopp said he’d never seen a down the right and sending in Liverpool battened down the City sit fourth, nine points fourth official Mike Dean and were a European night and, goal like it, but Liverpool are a perfect cross for Sadio Mane. hatches and saw the game out. behind Liverpool, with Chelsea then to the heavens in search at this time of year, late after- getting used to this kind of A late rendition of “where’s Guardiola was gracious in and Leicester ahead of them. of a penalty after the ball hit noon games can feel like night world-class interplay between your famous atmosphere” from defeat and refused to be drawn They face Frank Lampard’s side Trent Alexander-Arnold’s arm games. The home crowd were their two full-backs. the City fans showed their into speaking about the offi- after the international break in the box for the second time as lively as their team, who Aside from his goal, some sense of humour even at 3-0 cials. in what now feels like a very in the game, he and the fans wasted no time asserting their of Salah’s play was sumptu- down, as said atmosphere had “It’s uncomfortable for me important game and one in knew the game was over, and superiority. ous. Anfield cheered as if the helped Liverpool just as it had because [if I discuss decisions] which they will need to reas- the game was lost. Ilkay Gundogan’s poor clear- Egyptian had found the net for hindered the visitors in those it would look like ‘Pep com- sert their dominance, not just City remain the last team to ance following a Liverpool a second time when his skill intense early moments. plains.’ Congratulations Liver- in the title race, but in the top defeat Liverpool in the Premier counter-attack fell to the feet of and movement left Gundogan “I loved the atmosphere,” pool,” he said. four. League when Sergio Aguero Fabinho who lashed home his and Raheem Sterling chasing said Klopp. “We are a club who only For Liverpool it’s the fairy- and Leroy Sane helped them second goal for the club. This his shadow. “It was incredible, just amaz- started to be in the elite in the tale start, but as Klopp says: to a 2-1 win at Eastlands in was followed up by a ruthless City created chances but ing, and against an outstand- last decade, not like Liverpool “Who wants to be first in early January, but they haven’t won counter-attacking goal insti- Liverpool found a third before ingly strong opponent.” — You’ll Never Walk Alone, 30, November? You want to be first at Anfield since May 2003. gated by Alexander-Arnold, their opponents found a first. City fans were given some 40, 50, 60 years [in the elite] in May.” n men’s football n men’s golf scotland without duo for qualifier double-header Pelley: Hong Kong Open will go ahead LIAM COOPER has withdrawn and San Marino in October despite ongoing city protests from the Scotland squad for the with a groin issue. upcoming Euro 2020 qualifiers Scotland boss Steve Clarke by our sports Desk an independent investigation the area [of the protests] but against Cyprus and Kazakhstan also looks almost certain to into alleged police brutality. Fanling is not in that area. with a groin injury. be without Scott McTominay Several sporting events We’ll monitor it on a weekly The Leeds captain picked after the Manchester United EUROPEAN Tour chief execu- have been cancelled due to the basis but we’re comfortable up the problem in Saturday’s midfielder suffered an ankle tive Keith Pelley is adamant unrest, including the PGA Tour- with the tournament going Championship win over Black- injury close to the end of Sun- that players competing in the China’s Clearwater Bay Open ahead.” burn and a scan has revealed day’s 3-1 Premier League win Hong Kong Open will be safe, and the Hong Kong Open tennis Former Masters champion a small tear in his groin area. over Brighton at Old Trafford. despite the ongoing protests in and squash tournaments, but Patrick Reed will contest the The Elland Road club said Having been helped off the the city. the first event on the European event for the fourth time and that Cooper’s injury is “not pitch after treatment, he was The protests began in early Tour’s 2019-20 season is set to said he had no concerns. thought to be major and he taken down the tunnel on a June over a now-shelved extra- go ahead from November 28 to “No, not at all,” Reed said. “I will work with staff at Thorp stretcher after several minutes of dition Bill that critics claimed December 1. talked to the European Tour, Arch with a view to being fit attention in the technical area. would expose Hong Kong resi- “There are some events that the tournament director and to be a bad spot. Just be mind- following the international McTominay was able to walk dents to potential political per- are continuing and some that it’s completely safe to go over. ful of where you’re going at all break.” out of Old Trafford, albeit with secution in violation of the “one aren’t, ours is one of the events “Of course our team’s watch- times and when you do that Capped twice, 28-year-old a bit of a limp, and the sever- country, two systems” policy that is continuing,” Pelley said. ing it closely but at the end of you don’t have to worry about Cooper also missed the last ity of the issue was assessed agreed when the former Brit- “The only thing that we the day I feel completely safe. anything. double-header against Russia yesterday. ish colony returned to China have checked with our secu- I absolutely love going to Hong “I’ve been going to Hong in 1997. rity advisers is the safety of the Kong and you get protests eve- Kong for years and every time The movement has since players and the safety of our rywhere. it’s been an absolutely amazing get a new take on the latest expanded to include other staff, and neither are at risk. “It doesn’t matter what city experience and I look forward flicks with fridayfilm reviews demands, including direct elec- “There are a couple of events you’re in, what state, what to getting back there and play- tions for the city’s leaders and that were happening right in country, there’s always going ing some good golf.” Tuesday SPORT November 12 2019

■ men’S fOOTball TONIGHT’S FOOTBALL FA Cup Yeovil Town Hartlepool United EFL Trophy TAISON TELLS RACISTS: Gillingham Tottenham U21, 7pm Walsall Forest Green Rovers, 7pm Bradford City Rochdale, 7.30pm Colchester Ipswich, 7.30pm Northampton Arsenal U21, 7.30pm Peterborough Cambridge Utd, MY ROLE IS TO FIGHT 7.30pm Burton Albion Mansfield Town Cheltenham Newport County Brazilian was sent off after receiving vile abuse from Dynamo Kiev fans Crawley Oxford United Crewe Everton U21 by Our Sports Desk The 35-year-old, who has Exeter City West Ham U21 won 92 caps for ukraine, said Grimsby Town Leicester City on his club’s website: “everyone Lincoln City Rotherham United SHAKHTAr DoneTSK captain is somewhat shocked by what MK Dons Wycombe Taison insists he will never has happened in the stands. I’ve Morecambe Carlisle United remain silent in the face of seen that for the first time ever. Port Vale Newcastle U21 such an “inhuman and despi- I’ve never thought that people Scunthorpe Sunderland cable act” after suffering vile can behave like that. Tranmere Rovers Salford City racist abuse during his side’s “We discussed the incident match against Dynamo Kiev. with the Dynamo players in the FA Trophy Taison was sent off after tunnel. They also have repre- TBC Paulton Rovers, 3pm reacting to alleged racism from sentatives of other nationalities Barwell Redditch United spectators during Shakhtar’s in the team. Bedfont Hitchin Town 1-0 home victory in the ukrain- “I saw that [Dynamo mid- Biggleswade Metropolitan Police ian Premier League on Sunday. fielder Gerson] rodrigues was Carshalton Athletic Frome Town The Brazil international also shocked, because this, as Hartley Wintney Westfield made an offensive gesture it turns out, concerned him as Nantwich Town Coalville Town towards the away fans and well. The referee had said he Prescot Cables Runcorn Linnets then kicked the ball into their would stop the game if this Stourbridge Lancaster City section of the stand before the happened again.” Whitehawk Hastings United referee led all the players off everton forward Bernard, the field in the 77th minute. who spent time at Donetsk, sup- Women’s Friendlies Video footage shows Tai- ported Taison on social media. Australia Chile, 9am son and Brazilian teammate “unfortunately, this is a Argentina Colombia, 1.30pm Dentinho leaving the field in very backward country when Czech Republic England, 7.15pm tears after both had been tar- it comes to this, brother, but geted, while they were consoled head on, never stop fighting Scottish League Two by several Dynamo players. and doing what you know very Annan Athletic Brechin City Taison was shown the red DiSTRaUGhT: Shakhtar’s Brazilian player Taison (right) reacts as he leaves the pitch after he was red-carded well, which is playing soccer. I card by the referee immedi- for his reaction on racial abuse, while Dynamo Kyiv Mykola Shaparenko (centre) calmed him down love you.” All kickoffs 7.45pm unless noted ately after the match — played Dynamo said in a statement at Shakhtar’s temporary home terday morning: “I love my race, strong and to fight! Fight for “Thank you all for the sup- that the club would not toler- at the oSK Metalist stadium in I fight for colour, whatever I do our rights and for equality! port messages!” ate racism and that they would SPORT ON TV Kharkiv — had resumed. is for us, for love … I will never “My role is to fight, to beat Shakhtar condemned the co-operate fully with any inves- The 31-year-old midfielder shut up in the face of such an my chest, to lift my head and alleged racism in a statement tigation. ■ DARTS: Grand Slam of Darts — Sky has said he was crying tears of inhuman and despicable act! keep fighting always. after the match, while their They also added: “We con- “indignation, repudiation and “My tears were of indigna- “In a racist society, it is not goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov sider hasty the allegation of Sports Main Event and Sky Sports helplessness” after the incident tion, repudiation and helpless- enough not to be racist, we admits the players were left a pre-determined guilt of the Action 7pm. but promised he would not stop ness, helplessness that I could must be anti-racist! Football shocked by the incident and fans, when the investigation fighting against racism. do nothing at that moment! But needs more respect, the world said he had never experienced into the circumstances of this ■ FOOTBALL: Women’s international He wrote on social media yes- we are taught very early to be needs more respect! anything like it before. case has not even begun.” friendly, Czech Republic v England —

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— Eurosport 1 12.45pm & 6.45pm. Bronze believes England will reach Euro final ■ TENNIS: ATP World Tour Finals — BBC Two 2pm. by Our Sports Desk been able to perform at a high although the showing on Sat- level in tournaments which urday was better, it did not last means now we have that fan- 90 minutes. TODAY’S TIPS Lucy Bronze wants more base who want to come and england have produced good special occasions for england watch us. football in patches, but each of like Saturday and despite suf- “I like to look towards the their five recent defeats have Farringdon’s Doubles fering a fresh defeat in front of future and think this [a huge been by a 2-1 score. STRaw fan jack a bumper crowd, still believes crowd at Wembley] will be Bronze added: “We played Hereford 2:30 (nap) they can return to Wembley for something that can happen here five years ago against Ger- jakOby the euro 2021 final. again. many and got whitewashed in Fairyhouse 12:55 Phil neville saw his team “The [euro] 2021 final is at the first half. lose for a fifth time in their Wembley, I would love to be “We showed a better viewing Houseman’s Choice last seven matches after Klara playing in that in an england of ourselves [on Saturday], but ballyhill Buhl hit a 90th-minute winner shirt lifting the trophy, but still not quite what we hope for Hereford 3:00 for Germany in a 2-1 victory for looking to the future this is from this england team.” the visitors. something that can continue to A record-breaking crowd of happen and that as an england Published by Peoples Press MSTAR 2019-11-12 TUE 1.2 77,768 — the highest ever for second in the world, are likely “Hopefully playing a top player I would love.” Printing Society Ltd (12750R), an england Women’s home fix- to be one of the key chal- team like Germany, we can When Germany and the William Rust House, 52 Beachy 4 6 Road, Bow, London E3 2NS. ture — was in attendance and lengers to neville’s side at look at this and see what we Lionesses last played in this Telephone: (020) 8510-0815. a wonderful atmosphere was the euros in england in two did good and bad and it can country, a crowd of 45,619 Email: enquiries@peoples-press. created at the national stadium, years’ time and produced a be a turning point to say if we watched the hosts lose 3-0 com. Printed by trade union but the Lionesses continue to slicker display at the week- want to beat these top teams, under then-head coach Mark labour at Reach. struggle for form since the end to show there is work to we need to be better to com- Sampson in 2014. World cup. be done for the ex-Manchester pete,” said full-back Bronze. It was a disappointing Wem- Germany, who are ranked united player. “We’ve been a team that has bley display that time and Tuesday November 12 2019 9 770307 175329