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FOR DIVERSE n FEATURE Drilling into detail: The local elections KEVIN OVENDEN takes a look at the results of Thursday’s polls and considers their meaning for the wider Labour project. INQUIRY FAILS Turn to page 10 Court backs appointment of judge to oversee probe by Sam Tobin In his accompanying legal chal- the appointment of third members to Speaking for Ms May, Julian Milford at the High Court lenge Mr Daniels argued that a diverse the inquiry panel,” which could also said the survivors and relatives of those inquiry panel would “bolster public “help foster good relations” with the who had died were “entitled to great confidence and engender public trust community. respect” but that “public confidence THE bereaved son of a Grenfell fire in uncovering the truth.” But Mr Southey said the Prime Min- does not equate to the subjective views victim has lost his court bid against Hugh Southey QC, for Mr Daniels, ister had found those considerations of any particular group.” Theresa May’s refusal to to appoint a said Ms May had justified her deci- were “outweighed by other factors,” He added that Mr Southey’s argu- diverse panel to the inquiry probing sion on three grounds — that “the including the speed with which the ment amounted to saying “the confi- the disaster. inquiry has the necessary expertise,” inquiry would report its findings. dence of the local community” should Samuel Daniels’s 69-year-old father that “there is a need for the inquiry to He said there was currently a “lack have the power to “trump every other n SPORT Joseph died in flat 135 on the 16th floor report as quickly as possible” and that of belief” in the inquiry process, but factor.” of the tower during the blaze in Ken- she had had regard to the Equality Act. added “we are still in an early stage” Lord Justice Bean yesterday refused O’Grady: Low pay sington, west London, on June 14 last Mr Southey said those grounds “do and any “appointment process can be permission for a judicial review of Ms year — he had lived there since 1983. not address certain key issues” how- relatively quick.” May’s decision, ruling that “the wishes cricket is a scandal The Prime Minister has appointed ever, most importantly public confi- Mr Southey said a public inquiry was of the survivors or the bereaved … retired High Court judge Sir Martin dence in the inquiry. intended to “address public concern” cannot be conclusive” of the inquiry’s TUC leader lays into Moore-Bick as chairman of the inquiry, He added that an expert report by Dr and that “there is no point in inves- composition. county sides offering less but refused to appoint a socially diverse Marie Stewart emphasised the impor- tigating in a way that does not have He added that Ms May “was plainly than the minimum wage panel to sit alongside him. tance of a diverse panel, which was “to public confidence. well aware … of the anger and mistrust to top-flight talent saying Parliament is due to debate whether a large extent based on the experiences And he added that “where public … and the wish of many of the survi- they should be named and to broaden the panel’s membership on of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry.” confidence is in issue … powers have vors and the bereaved to see a diverse shamed. May 14, after a petition received more He said Ms May “accepts that pub- to be used to promote public confi- panel appointed.” Turn to page 20 than 150,000 signatures. lic confidence would be enhanced by dence.” [email protected]

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■ INDUSTRIAL ■ UNITE THE UNION JUBILATION: Labour Party members in Traff ord, Greater College staff Manchester, celebrate the Calamity Coyne fails in his news that the Tories have lost protest over overall control of the council bosses’ paltry Star comment: p8 1% pay off er bid to turf out McCluskey TEACHING staff at Lewi- by Marcus Barnett made a complaint or made the union’s London offi ces. sham Southwark College any objections about any par- In the end, Mr Burke ruled will strike later this month ticular wrongdoing during the that Mr McCluskey and Unite in protest at the falling value UNITE welcomed the failure election. had acted in accordance with of their pay. of a complaint yesterday from Figures from across the its rules during the election The workers, who are mem- right-winger Gerard Coyne, breadth of the labour move- and had no case to answer. bers of colleges union UCU, who called for a fresh election ment heavily criticised the A Unite spokesperson wel- will walk out on May 22 and for the union’s general secre- actions of Mr Coyne and his comed the ruling and expressed 23 after NCG, the private fi rm tary position. campaigning style. the union’s hopes that “Mr that owns the college, refused A ruling by assistant certifi - Many perceived Mr Coyne’s Coyne will accept the to implement a national pay cation offi cer Jeff rey Burke QC campaign, which relied judgement and looks increase of 1 per cent. rejected a complaint by chal- heavily on op eds in forward to the election The union said that the lenger Mr Coyne, a noted politi- anti-union papers like being fully upheld staff had been off ered cal opponent of Mr McCluskey, the Sun, as an attack on following June’s only one pay rise, of just which alleged serious irregu- the politics of Unite and hearing, allowing 1 per cent, in the past fi ve larities and rule breaches in its support for Labour the union to focus years. Even at colleges that the union’s general secretary leader Jeremy Corbyn. unhindered on the have honoured national election last year. His campaign was job of representing increases, the real-term Mr McCluskey beat Mr also marred by alle- its members.” value of salaries has fallen Coyne soundly last April, but gations of physical Mr Coyne, by 24 per cent. the defeated candidate claimed intimidation, with whose leader- UCU regional support offi - that a general secretary elec- several supporters ship bid was cial Jon Bryan said the staff tion was in breach of union – alleged to have supported by had “had enough” of the col- rules because Mr McCluskey’s been members of Progress and lege’s pay freeze. previous term of offi ce had not Blairite pressure the right-wing “Such a strong mandate expired. group Progress – Labour First, for strike action should Mr Coyne’s legal team then having apparently said: “I am focus the minds of NCG demanded that the courts assaulted a female naturally dis- management and they must reject the election result and member of Unite appointed by deal with the pay issue if order a re-run of the contest. staff during a today’s ruling.” they want to avoid serious However, Unite pointed “protest” against marcusbarnett@ disruption later this month.” out that Mr Coyne had never Mr McCluskey in peoples-press.com

■ RACISM ■ INDUSTRIAL

‘Football Lads’ not welcome in London ■ COUNCILS ANTI-RACISTS will rally in elections and Ukip leader Ger- Greater Anglia train central London tomorrow to ard Batten addressed the DFLA oppose a demonstration by rally in Birmingham in March. ‘Solid’ gains the fascist Democratic Football Stand up to Racism co- Lads Alliance (DFLA). convenor Sabby Dhalu said: guards down tools for Labour The DFLA is a breakaway “There is nothing democratic from the equally fascist Foot- about the so-called Democratic in English ball Lads Alliance, and both Football Lads Alliance. to defend service have been described as the lat- “It is simply an attempt by est incarnations of the violent hard right fascists, racists, elections English Defence League. Islamophobes and anti-semites by Marcus Barnett made, such as in Merseyrail, LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn The fascists will assemble in to build a street movement like where bosses conceded last described his party’s local elec- Whitehall at 3pm. the English Defence League. month that they need to tion results as “solid” yesterday Opponents, including support- “Ukip cannot claim it is not a STAFF at train operator review DOO. after it won the biggest share ers of Unite Against Fascism and racist organisation when it sup- Greater Anglia are on strike RMT general secretary of council seats across England. Stand Up To Racism, will gather ports such organisations and this weekend as part of the Mick Cash stressed yester- With the results from 144 out at 2pm at Downing Street. addresses their events. Anti- RMT union’s campaign to day that the union remained of 150 council areas in, Labour The DFLA urged its followers racists have a duty to stand up SIGN OF THINGS TO COME: defend the safety-critical available for genuine and had gained at least 63 seats, tak- to vote Ukip in the recent local to such hatred.” Anti-fascists in Kent role of the guard. meaningful talks with the ing the party’s total to 2,145 – The union said today and company. its highest number since 2014. tomorrow’s action was part However, he said, despite The Tories lost 19 seats, tak- of its long-standing fi ght “strenuous eff orts” to coming their total to 1,305, while for a “safe and accessible promise and reach a settle- Lib Dems gained 62, taking railway for all.” ment, “the vital safety role their total to 492. Ukip suff ered RMT offi cials have of the guard is still under a near-wipeout, losing 123 seats expressed regret that threat and the extension of to be left with just three. attempts to reach a negoti- DOO remains a serious risk. Momentum received praise ated settlement with Greater Mr Cash praised rail for its Unseat campaign, which Anglia, whose services cover workers for their “continu- targeted Barnet, Bromley, Cam- Cambridgeshire, Norfolk, ous show of strength” in the den, Kensington and Chelsea, Essex and Suff olk as well as dispute, which has now Milton Keynes, Portsmouth, London and Hertfordshire, lasted more than two years, Swindon, Traff ord, Wands- have failed to bear fruit. and thanked the travelling worth and Westminster. The union is resisting public for its support. A senior Labour source told the the extension of driver-only Greater Anglia manag- Star: “Momentum’s unseat cam- operation (DOO) across most ing director Jamie Burles paign mobilised huge numbers of rail franchises nationwide, said: “We highly value our activists, many new to electoral insisting that the presence conductors, we’re keeping campaigning, and made a mas- of a safety-trained guard them on our trains, but we sive, positive impact.” must be guaranteed on want them to concentrate Mr Corbyn said Labour had every train. on customer service rather come “within a whisker” of Though the dispute than opening and closing winning Tory fl agship Wands- remains bitter, break- doors.” worth, where it gained seven throughs have recently been [email protected] seats and was just 141 votes short of taking overall control. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline news Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online May 5-6 2018 3

■ ELECTIONS Anti-fascists cheer collapse of hard right Ukip and ilk

by Lamia Sabin tive Nick Lowles said the hard Parliamentary Reporter right’s decline was “down to the hard work of thousands of anti-racist campaigners up and ANTI-FASCIST group Hope Not down the country, as well as Hate celebrated the hard right’s incompetence and defections collapse in the local elections on the part of Ukip and the yesterday but warned that far right.” rejection by the voters could There were also signs of Ukip lead extremists to intensify voters switching to the Tories, campaigning online and on with the Conservatives gain- the streets. ing seats from Ukip in Dudley, Ukip lost 123 councillors West Midlands, and Bideford, and won just three seats across Devon. England. The party’s candidates Stand up to Racism co-con- averaged 13.5 per cent of the venor Sabby Dhalu told the vote, down by more than half Morning Star: “While the Ukip on its 28 per cent in 2014. vote has collapsed, as it did in The BNP lost its main con- last year’s general election, it is tender when Brian Parker going to a Conservative Party refused to stand again in Pendle, that is embracing a racist Ukip east Lancashire, having served agenda. 12 years as a councillor repre- “This is illustrated by the senting the Marsden ward. ‘hostile environment’ policy In Barking and Dagenham, that led to the Windrush where the BNP once held 12 scandal of Black British peo- seats, its two candidates trailed ple being deported. Ukip is in all others, with 3.3 per cent of electoral decline but racism is the vote on average. on the rise.” Hope Not Hate chief execu- [email protected] BRITAIN’S ■ ELECTIONS ROAD TO 1 IN 5 PILOT POLL STATIONS SOCIALISM Read the new TURNED VOTERS AWAY updated draft edition of LABOUR FURY: Fiasco makes it impossible to justify introduction of voter ID, says Cat Smith the Communist Party’s programme by Lamiat Sabin to roll out nationwide, would were only 28 allegations of ment warned that voter ID rules Parliamentary Reporter overwhelmingly aff ect citizens voter fraud out of almost 45 would “aff ect young people, Order now for £3 per copy (incl. p&p) from without offi cial papers — such million votes last year, with older people, disabled people, as those of the Windrush gener- just one conviction. transgender and gender non- CPB, Ruskin House, 23 Coombe Rd., Croydon MORE than a fi fth of polling ation infamously hit by Theresa Their letter to the govern- conforming people, BAME CR0 1BD, offi [email protected], stations involved in Thurs- May’s “hostile environment” communities and the homeless.” Tel. (020) 8686-1659 day’s controversial anti-fraud policies. Electoral Reform Society pilot scheme turned away Shadow minister for voter chief executive Darren Hughes voters because they did not engagement and youth aff airs said: “Today has shown these have required ID, researchers Cat Smith said: “There was trials to be the chaotic, undem- Communist reported yesterday. absolutely no case for introduc- ocratic mess many predicted. Labour is demanding that ing voter ID in the fi rst place There is mounting evidence Party of the government drop the but, after yesterday’s fi asco, it is from the pilot areas that ordi- scheme urgently as it over- impossible for the government nary people have been denied Britain whelmingly aff ects disadvan- to justify rolling it out. their democratic right to vote taged people. “We cannot allow the Con- because of the voter ID require- North London The Democracy Volunteers servative Party to undermine ments. group deployed observers in our democracy, which is why “This is exactly what we Unique opportunity to fi ve council areas — Bromley, Labour is calling on the gov- feared: that this draconian Gosport, Swindon, Watford and ernment to scrap their voter measure would result in see Raoul Peck’s fi lm Woking — where the scheme ID plans as a matter of blameless individuals being was being tested. urgency.” disenfranchised. The Young Karl Marx It found that voters had been In March, a group of 40 “Electoral fraud is a Monday May 14 at 7pm refused a ballot paper in 21 per charities and academ- serious matter, but cent of polling stations, and ics had demanded the government Marx Memorial Library, nearly one in 60 voters across that the scheme is taking entirely 37a Clerkenwell Green, the fi ve areas were unable to be scrapped the wrong London EC1R 0DU vote because they did not have because Elec- approach.” Tickets £10 (waged) and the required documents. toral Commis- lamiatsabin@ £5 (unwaged) from Eventbrite or Labour says the scheme, sion fi gures peoples Andy on 07771612592 which the government wants showed there Pic: Chris McAndrew -press.com Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 4 Saturday/Sunday news morningstaronline May 5-6 2018 @m_star_online

■ INDUSTRIAL IN REMEMBRANCE: Pipe major Neil MacTaggart performs at a service at the Communications union: BT Mull of Oa on Islay to commemorate 700 World War I soldiers who died when two US ships, the job cuts won’t hit members Tuscania and Otranto, sank off the coast of the small Scottish island in 1918 by Sam Tobin to BT fi nancial diffi culties and impact on CWU-represented recent pension discussions and the fallout from an accounting grades.” the securing of a hybrid scheme scandal in Italy. Mr Kerr added that the CWU for CWU grades are completely COMMUNICATIONS union The job cuts, expected to “welcome BT plans to invest separate and not in any way CWU responded bullishly to focus on managerial and back and grow in the frontline linked to the speculation in the reports yesterday that BT is offi ce workers, are estimated areas in which our members press about 6,500 job losses.” preparing to announce plans to eventually save BT around are mainly employed.” Labour shadow business to cut more than 6,000 jobs £500 million from its annual He said that the recent CWU secretary Rebecca Long-Bailey worldwide. £4.7 billion wage bill. success in negotiating a hybrid branded the losses “devastat- The telecoms giant is to BT chief executive Gavin Pat- pensions scheme for its mem- ing.” announce major job cuts next terson is expected to announce bers with BT and the company’s “These job losses will have a week as part of a new corpo- the 6 per cent cut in the compa- plan to invest in engineering real impact on working fami- rate strategy to revive its ailing ny’s global workforce when its pointed towards a bright future lies and the local community. fi nancial position, according to annual results are announced for unionised workers. They raise serious questions the Financial Times. next Thursday. BT has made it clea they over BT’s strategy, whether it’s Following last May’s But CWU deputy general expect major investment in the appeasement of sharehold- announcement that 4,000 secretary for telecoms Andy customer service and front- ers in the short term or invest- jobs were being cut world- Kerr was upbeat about the line engineering, committing ment in the long term.” wide, the FT said that analysts future for CWU members, to recruit over 3,000 fi eld engi- She urged ministers to step had estimated a further 6,600 declaring he was “confi dent neers in the coming year, he said. in to protect jobs. jobs would be cut in response any job losses will have little “As a consequence, the [email protected]

■ HEALTHCARE Kids denied ‘expensive’ cancer drug by Peter Lazenby attacks nerve tissues and families face having to raise ard of care by clinicians inter- mainly aff ects the very young. thousands of pounds to send nationally. The National Institute for their children overseas for the “This is devastating for fami- BABIES and young children are Health and Care Excellence treatment. lies. It takes away hope in the being denied access to a drug (Nice) says it cannot make the Stephen Richards, chief exec- fi ght against high-risk neurob- that could treat a rare cancer drug available because it is too utive of Solving Kids’ Cancer lastoma and it’s immoral to because it is too expensive, expensive, costing between and also speaking for other deny children the chance of an charities said yesterday. £62,300 and £79,900 per treat- children’s cancer charities, essential treatment that could They condemned the government. said that the drug, used with enable them to live longer or ment’s “devastating” decision Nice also said there was other treatments, “represents cancer-free.” not to provide drug dinutuxi- “uncertainty” over the drug’s the best chance of long-term Neuroblastoma aff ects mab beta on the NHS. long-term benefi ts. survival for children diagnosed around 100 children each year The drug is used to treat Cancer charities called the with high-risk neuroblastoma. in this country. neuroblastoma, a cancer that decision “immoral” and said “It is recognised as the stand- [email protected]

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■ COURTS CAMPAIGNERS ALLOWED

TO TAKE ON SAUDI SALES ■ PAY DISPUTE TGI Friday CAMPAIGN AGAINST ARMS TRADE: Judges rule that CAAT has a case over arms transfers staff vote to by Sam Tobin strike over ANTI-ARMS campaigners have been granted permission to tipping row appeal a ruling declaring that arms exports to Saudi Arabia TGI FRIDAY looks set for were lawful. a summer of strife as The Campaign Against Arms workers are set to take Trade (CAAT) has an “arguable” their fi rst ever strike case that the Department for action this month in a International Trade (DTI) has dispute over tips. an obligation to decide whether Unite members at “there had been historic seri- the US fast food chain’s ous violations of [interna- restaurants at Milton tional humanitarian law] by Keynes Stadium and the [Saudi-led] coalition in the London’s Covent Garden Yemen,” the Court of Appeal have voted unanimously ruled yesterday. to take strike action. CAAT challenged the DTI’s Turnout was 75 per cent. failure to suspend arms export They are fi ghting licences to Saudi Arabia in Feb- FRIENDS: Theresa May greets Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman in March a new tipping policy, ruary 2017, arguing that there announced with just was a “clear risk” that arms of the United Kingdom, and and £1.9bn for grenades, bombs Rosa Curling from Leigh two days’ notice, under sold to the kingdom would be potentially for employment and missiles. Day, which represented CAAT, which 40 per cent of used in violation of interna- in the United Kingdom.” CAAT’s Andrew Smith said: said she was “delighted” that waiting staff ’s tips go to tional law. They acknowledged that those “The Saudi-led bombardment of permission had been granted, the kitchen workers in The High Court rejected issues were “matters for the Yemen has killed thousands of adding that it was clear from order to help improve CAAT’s case last July, but the executive and not the courts,” people and created one of the the publicly available evidence retention of these poorly Court of Appeal granted per- but added that those considera- worst humanitarian disasters “that there is a clear risk the paid employees. mission to appeal that judge- tions were “not part of the crite- in the world. arms sold from the UK might Union activists say the ment, which will be heard on ria for the grant or withholding” “Despite this, the Saudi be used in serious violation of waiting staff can lose a date to be fi xed. of arms export licences. regime has been armed and international law. up to £65 per week as a Lord Justices Irwin and Flaux Since the Saudi-led bom- supported every step of the way “Where our politicians have result. said that it was “obvious that bardment of Yemen began in by successive UK governments. sadly failed to follow UK leg- At Milton Keynes and withholding this licence, or March 2015, £4.6 billion of “We believe that these arms islation and policy, our client Covent Garden, strikes renewal of this licence, is likely arms have been licensed for sales are immoral and are confi - hopes the court will ensure the are planned on intermit- to have signifi cant implications export by Britain, including dent that the Court of Appeal will rule of law is upheld.” tent Fridays throughout for the international relations £2.7bn of licences for aircraft agree that they are unlawful.” [email protected] the summer – and, with ballots under way at four more restaurants, the industrial action looks ■ INDUSTRIAL set to spread. Unite regional offi cer Dave Turnbull said that TGI Friday had been sent Broadcast unions urge BBC a “loud message” that workers would not be “bullied and shoved into HAVE YOUR SAY! pay poverty.” workers to accept pay deal Write (up to 300 words) to or The company was not [email protected] available for comment. by Marcus Barnett by post: 52 Beachy Rd, London E3 2NS

THOUSANDS of technicians and journalists at the BBC are Cyfarchion Comrades being urged by their unions to Red Alert Wales accept a pay deal that will raise the corporation’s minimum sal- Mobilisation ary to £20,000. The Unite and Bectu unions are recommending a vote in 22/23/24 May Wales TUC Cymru Congress favour of the agreement. As well as lifting the mini- Unite representative Mike Gerry Morrissey said the agree- 25/26/27 May Merthyr Rising mum rate from the current Eatwell heralded the patient ment was a fresh “updating” of Welsh Communists 07503 168-055 £15,687, the deal also contains work between the BBC and workers’ rights at the corpora- measures that the unions say the unions. tion, calling the union’s off er are major improvements to He said: “For nearly two years to the BBC a “comprehensive working conditions. we have been analysing and dis- examination” of staff needs. Final reminder - book on 07771 612-592 These include enhanced cussing the policies, practices A BBC spokesperson parental entitlements, with and terms of the BBC to bring expressed satisfaction that the Trade Union free day-school for new and 18 weeks of full paid leave per them in line with progressive, unions were recommending young trade union activists. child when shared parental 21st century working practices. acceptance of the proposals in Organising against low pay and zero hours leave, two weeks paternity pay, “Modern media companies order to “modernise” the BBC along with major steps forward are 24/7 operations and employ and ensure “fairness and equal- Marx Memorial Library London EC1R 0DU on weekend and night work. a range of skills. ity” among the workforce. 10.30am-16.30pm Tomorrow Sunday 6th May The BBC has also guaranteed “We are satisfi ed suffi ciently The ballot opens on May 21 Organised by an annual pay rise of between to recommend the agreement.” and closes on June 8. 2 and 2.5 per cent. Bectu general secretary [email protected] CPB and YCL Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 6 Saturday/Sunday world morningstaronline May 5-6 2018 @m_star_online

■ SYRIA ■ SWAZILAND Mswati III’s US freezes funding regime must be crushed, for White Helmets say local reds Controversial humanitarian group left high and dry by Washington THE Communist Party of by Steve Sweeney The group was founded by of Syria held by jihadist mili- Swaziland called for the former British intelligence tants. They claim its offi ces are crushing of the country’s offi cer James Le Mesurier in often found next to those of absolutist monarchy CONTROVERSIAL pseudo- Istanbul in 2013, growing to an groups affi liated to al-Nusra yesterday after King humanitarian group the White organisation of around 3,000 Front, accusing them of work- Mswati III fl aunted a $1.6 Helmets are reported to have volunteers the same year. ing in tandem. million watch and dia- had their funding frozen by Operating from hundreds of Pink Floyd musician Roger mond suit amid growing the US State Department. civil defence centres across the Waters recently hit out at poverty. A statement from the White country, the White Helmets the group after he claimed It blasted the monarch Helmets expressed concern receive funding from the aid they were using Saudi money for a list of expensive over the development, with agencies of a number of west- in lobbying him to publicly “gifts” bought with the US accounting for almost ern governments, including endorse them. During a live public money as presents one-third of its overall fund- the UK Commonwealth Offi ce performance, he accused the to himself and estimated ing. and the United States Agency White Helmets of being a “fake Mswati’s recent 50th The US State Department, for International Development. organisation that exists only to birthday bash to have which had previously pledged They claim to have saved create propaganda for jihadists cost at least $80 million. long-term support for the 70,000 lives during the war and terrorists.” CPS general secretary group, said the arrangement on Syria and a Netfl ix docu- The most recent contro- Kenneth Kunene said is now “under active review” mentary, White Helmets, won versy saw the White Helmets poverty in Swaziland is after President Donald Trump an Oscar in 2017. accused of staging a chemical deepening with around put a $200 million freeze on US State Department attack in the Syrian city of 70 per cent of the popula- funding for recovery eff orts in spokeswoman Heather Nauert Douma last month which led tion surviving on less Syria in late March. recently expressed gratitude to missile attacks from the US, than $2 a day and more In an internal document, for the “incredible work” the Britain and France. than 350,000 of the coun- the US State Department said White Helmets do “on behalf Since then the case appears try’s 1.1 million popula- that without confi rmation of the US government and all to have collapsed with 17 eye- tion needing food aid. from the Trump administra- the coalition forces.” witnesses, including hospital “Money which should tion to continue funding, the However, critics have doctors, testifying that there be spent on social Bureau of Near Eastern Aff airs accused the White Helmets was no evidence of such an development is stolen would initiate “shut down proof aiding terrorist organisa- attack. and misdirected to buy cedures on a rolling basis.” tions, operating only in parts [email protected] riches for Mswati and his family,” he said. “The regime must be crushed. All royal bashes and festivals must be The stopped to save the coun- Annual General Meeting of GLASGOW try’s resources and state 73rd Friday June 8 funds from the loot,” he ■ SOUTH AFRICA 2018 at 7-9pm blasted. STUC, PEOPLE’S PRESS 333 Woodlands Road, ■ N IRELAND Unions demand PRINTING SOCIETY Charing Cross, Glasgow LIMITED G3 6NG Sinn Fein’s action on safety Begley the MANCHESTER Saturday June 9 first woman after mine quake 2018 at 2-4pm Friends Meeting House, 6 Mount Street, for Tyrone by Our Foreign Desk and concerned at the rate at Manchester M2 5NS which mining incidents are SINN FEIN celebrated yester- happening at Sibanye-Stillwater.” LONDON day after Orfhlaith Begley SOUTH AFRICAN unions Research by the union CARDIFF Monday June 11 became the fi rst woman demanded government action showed that nearly a third of Sunday June 10 2018 at 6-8pm elected as MP for West to address the mining indus- mining industry deaths this 2018 at 1-3pm, Unite offi ces, Diskus Tyrone on Thursday night. try’s “deteriorating and poor year took place at Sibanye- Old Market Tavern Room,128 Theobalds Ms Begley won the safety record” yesterday after Stillwater operations. Rd, Holborn, London (upstairs Meeting Room) seat comfortably with an at least four people died in an The NUM demanded “more 20-21 Trinity Street, WC1X 8TN Cardiff , CF10 1BH 8,000 majority ahead of earthquake at a gold mine. serious intervention” by the the DUP candidate Tho- Workers were trapped under- government. mas Buchanan. The seat ground at Sibanye-Stillwater’s A Cosatu statement accused became vacant when Barry Masakhane mine near Johan- the government of being reluc- McElduff resigned earlier nesburg after the 2.2-magni- tant to close mines on health this year after posting a tude quake struck on Thursday. and safety grounds despite a SHAREHOLDERS MAY VOTE receive a Report from the Management video online with a loaf The Congress of South Afri- “scandalous” 25 deaths in the AT ONE MEETING ONLY Committee, elect seats, approve the audited of Kingsmill bread on his can Trade Unions (Cosatu) said sector this year. accounts, vote to reappoint the auditors, and head on the anniversary of it was “alarmed” at the worsen- “Government is sacrifi cing The Glasgow meeting is traditionally consider resolutions and amendments. the 1976 Kingsmill massa- ing situation in South Africa’s workers because it is afraid of followed by a convivial gathering. cre, in which 10 Protestants mines, with the latest incident the mining companies,” the The Annual General Meeting will discuss One-third of elected members of the PPPS the critical political issues of the day, it will Management Committee will be chosen by were shot dead. happening just months after statement said. receive the Minutes of the previous AGM, the AGM. She urged reconciliation more than 1,000 workers were Sibanye-Stillwater spokesman with unionists saying that trapped underground at another James Wellsted said four miners she is “building for the Sibanye-Stillwater operation in had been killed by an earth- (Doors open for registration half an hour before each starting time) future.” Beatrix in the Free State. quake whose epicentre was close Her victory comes in the It urged the government to to where they had been working. Copies of the resolutions and nominations are available from Jimmy centenary year of the elec- take the company’s deteriorating Rescue attempts were con- Macintyre, William Rust House, 52 Beachy Road, London E3 2NS, tion of the fi rst woman to safety record seriously and continuing, with at least two more [email protected], (020) 8510-0815, to whom all AGM Westminister, Irish republi- duct a thorough investigation. workers unaccounted for, as the communications should be directed can Constance Markievicz. 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n TURKEY DEVASTATION: A man tries to clear the damage to his house in the village of Istanbul University Kakua after the roof and walls collapsed during the dust storms students and staff that have ravaged northern India. Winds of up to 80 miles an hour have demolished take on break-up homes, uprooted trees and killed at least 125 people. by Our Foreign Desk ing Mr Erdogan of a “divide and rule” policy aimed at weakening potential chal- HUNDREDS of students and lenges to his authoritarian teachers joined a protest rule. against President Recep More than 5,000 academ- Tayyip Erdogan’s plan to ics have signed a petition break up Turkey’s oldest uni- opposing the plans, saying versity on Thursday night. they “cannot see any aca- Demonstrations have demic, financial or admin- taken place at Istanbul Uni- istrative reasons to split up versity after the Turkish par- our universities.” liament approved legislation The president has also to dismantle the institution, been accused of pushing the with some of its faculties Islamification of Turkey’s being transferred to the new education system. Last year, Ibni Sina University. the president banned the Mr Erdogan has acted to teaching of the theory of reshape a number of the evolution in schools, replac- country’s public universi- ing it with lessons on jihad. ties, claiming that they are Thousands of academics not in line with “Turkish have been purged from their values.” posts for signing another A total of 13 universities petition calling for a peace- will be affected by the plans, ful, negotiated settlement including Gazi University with Kurdish separatists, in Ankara and Andalou Uni- following decades of conflict versity in Central Anatolia in the country’s south-east. where there have also been Mr Erdogan has dis- demonstrations opposing missed that petition and the changes. accused many of the signa- The legislation provides tories of being members of for the creation of 20 new terrorist organisations and universities, but critics have spreading propaganda on branded it an attack on aca- their behalf. demic independence, accus- [email protected] n VENEZUELA

BANKING CHIEFS NABBED n MOZAMBIQUE Ex-rebel leader Dhlakama FOR ECONOMIC SABOTAGE dies after a heart attack MOZAMBIQUE opposition saw him as central to a pos- leader Afonso Dhlakama sible peace accord. HANDS OF PAPER: Eleven picked up in government crackdown on illegal currency exchange died on Thursday after suf- Mr Nyusi said he was sad- fering a heart attack, party dened at Mr Dhlakama’s by Steve Sweeney were held by Banesco, which he lise and boycott the Venezuelan banks, saying that the opera- officials confirmed yesterday. death, praising him as “a cit- accused of “criminal fixation of financial system.” tion was “surgical” — aimed Mr Dhlakama led anti- izen who has always worked the dollar.” Mr El Aissami accused at removing corrupt elements communist rebel group Ren- for Mozambique.” VENEZUELAN authorities He warned that the country “organised crime mafias” without affecting the banks’ amo, which fought a 16-year “The last time he spoke have arrested 11 bankers over faces a “major criminal opera- of pushing the illegal dol- overall functions. guerilla war against Mozam- to me, he said he was not attacks on the country’s cur- tion which aims to leave Vene- lar exchange rate to hurt the “It is only going to solve a bique’s ruling Frelimo party going to miss out anything rency aimed at “demolishing” zuelan families without money, national economy and said criminal action outside the before becoming an official in peace negotiations,” he the economy before elections extracting our the government was setting law, which in this case we have opposition party in 1992. said on state television. later this month. monetary base up exchange houses so that determined,” Mr Saab said. He had been in hiding Mozambique has been ruled Bosses at Banesco, Venezue- to Colombia, families could exchange cur- In an attempt to boost the after violence flared again by Frelimo since the party won la’s leading private bank, were and attempts rency legally. economy, President Nico- in 2013, with the discovery independence from Portugal detained on Thursday as part to create a In a live televised address, las Maduro announced that of mass graves raising fears in 1975. Frelimo identified as of the Hands of Paper opera- speculative Chief Prosecutor Tarek Saab government would open a of a return to civil war. Marxist-Leninist until the col- tion, which is investigating market rate said: “We have determined cryptocurrency bank which But Mr Dhlakama had lapse of the Soviet bloc. groups alleged to be sabotag- to destabi- the presumed responsibility will support projects for young recently been in talks with Elections are due in Octo- ing the economy by taking cash for a series of irregularities, Venezuelans. President Filipe Nyusi who ber 2019. abroad and illegally exchang- for aiding and conceal- The digital bank will be ing money. ing attacks against boosted by an initial 20 mil- The arrests were made the the Venezuelan cur- lion petros, Venezuela’s day after more than 1,000 rency with the aim national cryptocurrency that bank accounts were blocked of demolishing was launched in February, Mr In loving memory of for irregularities following the Venezuelan Maduro announced during a a probe into illegal cur- currency.” visit to a social programme rency exchanges. He sought for young people in the state BILL JONES Vice-President Tareck to reas- of Aragua. El Aissami said that 90 sure peo- Venezuelans will go to the 1929-2010 per cent of the accounts ple with polls on May 20 to vote in presi- On his birthday accounts dential, regional and municipal COME OUT FIGHTING: at Banesco elections. Sal, Chris, Shirl & Cad Nicolas Maduro and other [email protected] Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 8 Saturday/Sunday features morningstaronline May 5-6 2018 @m_star_online Star comment Struggle on the Streets Labour made important gains, but a united party would be racing ahead

LABOUR’S political and media opponents portray the party’s performance in the English local council and mayoral elections as disappointing, but it captured more seats and defended more than any other party. Labour certainly did not capture some of its prime target councils, although its achievements in winning Kirklees or pushing Tory Trafford into no overall control should not be underestimated. Nor should progress it made in Westminster and Wandsworth be downplayed, gaining seats in the former where Labour has never won control and the latter — Tory for over four decades — in which just 150 votes borough-wide kept the Tories in control. Both boroughs are on a political knife edge, representing a triumph for the Labour volunteers, especially those mobilised by Momentum, who stormed Tory strongholds in the capital, giving Labour its best results in a London council election — and the Tories’ worst — since 1971. Labour should learn lessons, looking at where it could have done things more effectively, but neither party nor activists should be downcast. An oft-quoted truism is that divided parties lose elections and, while Labour is united across Britain behind Jeremy Corbyn, a vocal minority, especially in Parlia- ment, opposes the leader and misses no opportunity to put the boot in. A glance at media coverage reveals the usual suspects griping about their party’s alleged political inadequacies. ABOVE: Arizona teachers spend the evening in the Arizona Senate waiting to hear the result of a budget debate following a mass walk-out. Foremost as ever in the media commentary by political The revised budget raises wages but falls short on funding demands opponents and internal critics is anti-semitism, repeating LEFT: Thousands of Puerto Ricans march through San Juan to protest the slander that Labour under Corbyn tolerates this vile against pension cuts, school closures and slow hurricane recovery efforts variant of racism and pointing to the results in Barnet as confirmation. Defeated Labour councillor Adam Langleben, a national executive member of the Jewish Labour Movement, which has worked with the self-appointed conservative Board of Deputies of British Jews and Jewish Leadership Council to stoke the fires of anti-Corbyn allegations of anti- semitism, predictably blamed his own defeat on “Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour leadership.” He told Sky News: “For too many members of the Jewish community voting Labour yesterday was simply impossible, regardless of who the candidate was.” Perhaps he and his group should be self-critical and assess how helpful they have been to Labour’s campaign. As a Jewish Socialists’ Group member has pointed out, Barnet is not the only place in Britain where Jews live. In the east London borough of Redbridge, for instance, which has a notable Jewish population, Labour increased its tally from 36 seats to 51 while the Tory contingent was halved to a dozen. Anti-semitism is a despicable crime that exists throughout society, including in political parties.

It should be be called out and condemned wherever it raises its head and all parties must educate members and supporters about its manifestations, but to wield it as a weapon against the most anti-racist leader of any party in Britain speaks volumes for the motives of those who do so. The Tory Party has a long history of tolerating all forms of racism, including anti-semitism, in its own ranks and those of its allies. It has reinstated a councillor in Pendle, suspended for tweeting a racist “joke,” to turn no overall control into a Tory council gain. Where is the media furore? Similarly, its MEPs sit in the European Conservatives and Reformists group at Strasbourg, which contains some of the worst anti-semites and racists. Again no media concern. That same media and the neoliberal defeatists within Labour will try to demoralise activists into believing ABOVE: Catalan protesters fill the Sant Jaume square in Barcelona in support of imprisoned politicians who have now been in jail for six months. the English elections have been a disaster for the party. The signs read “Freedom for the political prisoners” They haven’t and better still lies ahead. LEFT: Turkish demonstrators attempt to march to Taksim Square for a May Day rally in opposition to government policies, they hold up statements to prove their right to protest morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online May 5-6 2018 9

the best photos from the week’s protests around the world

ABOVE: Swedish people wear colourful costumes and clown noses to protest against the far-right group Nordic Resistance Movement’s march through the town of Ludvika

ABOVE: Pakistani lawyer Jalila Haider rests during her three-day hunger strike. She ended her protest after General Qamar Javed Bajwa vowed to investigate a spate of attacks on the Shi’ite minority. RIGHT: Portraits of journalists killed in the recent past are decorated with candles and ﬂowers in Kolkata, India as part of a vigil paying tribute to media workers killed in the recent suicide bombing in Kabul Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 10 May 5-6 2018 features @m_star_online Labour’s results are being spun by the right, of course – but the party is holding the ground it won last year. A united labour movement ﬁ ghting and winning change between elections is the key to doing even better, argues

TIME FOR A LAUGH: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn lets his down among KEVIN OVENDEN members of the Stockwell Good Neighbours community group ABOUR has made a following. Kensington & Chel- modest advance on sea has been Tory since it was 2014 results that created in 1964, and more than were good enough half of it is home to some of the Lfor many to predict richest people in Europe. a Labour victory at The remarkable thing is not the following year’s general that the Tories held them but election and there was some the advances that Labour made. Tory defensive consolidation, It gained seats in the more work- Radicalising Labour’s off er often out of the collapse of Ukip. ing class wards of Wandsworth. The local government elec- In others, Tory councillors held tion results declared by midday on by their fi ngertips to the Arise — A Festival of Labour’s Left Ideas will be held on July 27-28 yesterday revealed a political extent that just a few hundred map of England little changed more votes going to Labour with the aim of discussing the development and popularisation over the last 10 months since could have tipped the council. Labour’s surge at the general In Westminster, where the election. Tory leader claimed radical of Labour’s programme, says MATT WILLGRESS That picture is of a deep two- left politics had been deci- party polarisation, with Labour sively rejected at the polls, the OME SECRETARY disposable incomes” — but each “regime change” interventions Labour’s left have come together strengthening in the big cities estimated shares of votes cast Amber Rudd week sees more reports of the into Latin America. to organise Arise — A Festival of and making some inroads else- were Conservative 42.8 per cent fi nally resigned devastating human impact of Under Corbyn’s leadership, Labour’s Left Ideas’ on July 27-28. where, but the Tories stubbornly (up 1.1 points) and Labour 41.1 Hthis week, but her the Tories’ ideologically driven despite the pro-bombing Syria Discussions will range from holding on in places with an per cent (up 7.6 points). Labour agenda didn’t go austerity agenda. stance of a minority of Labour explaining Corbynomics to how anti-Labour rather than pro- gained just three councillors to anywhere. The charge sheet against the MPs, Labour’s offi cial stance we end the “hostile environ- government message in these make 19 against the Tories’ 41. The architect of the entire Tories and austerity grows by ment,” to why we need an anti- lower turnout elections. Labour also advanced in votes “hostile environment” to the day. war government and much That is not the impression in Kensington & Chelsea and migrants policy, Theresa May, is We have just had the more besides, including book you would get from concerted gained a seat. still Prime Minister, years after worst NHS winter crisis launches, fi lm showings, a eff orts by establishment fi gures None of that is defeat, but her notorious “Go Home” vans. on record. Poverty and major #JC4PM rally and “audi- — Tory and the narrow cohort it is true that the Tories held Rudd’s replacement Sajid inequality are spi- ence with” events of bitterly anti-Corbyn Labour on there and also in Barnet in Javid has long supported the ralling. The housing with prominent MPs — to spin what are incre- north London. The central rea- government’s policies, includ- crisis is deepening labour movement mental Labour gains as some son is class. ing consistently voting for with shocking levels fi gures. kind of shattering defeat. A Labour activist touched on each aspect of the hostile envi- of homelessness. Prominent par- Labour gained Plymouth it at the Kensington & Chelsea ronment agenda that led to the But the Tories aren’t ticipants already council, for example. The prize count, telling journalists that, Windrush generation scandal. getting a c o n f i r m e d for possibly the most ludicrous in the extremely wealthy south We shouldn’t be fooled by free pass at this early spin to account for a Tory defeat of the borough, “people didn’t this reshuffl e. The government in imple- stage include came from its MP Jonny Mercer. care about the Grenfell fi re as remains as committed as ever to menting their Diane Abbott He claimed it was down to gov- they do” in the poor and multi- its failed scapegoating agenda, ideologically driven MP, Richard Bur- ernment defence cuts. That was cultural northern third. which aims to distract from cuts. Labour has gon MP, Shami reported with a straight face by You don’t say? When Labour the growing cost of living crisis become an anti- Chakrabarti, Lucy commentators who also say that says “for the many, not the few” and problems facing our public austerity party Anderson MEP, Labour is losing votes because there is a considerable minority services. in recent years, Chris Williamson MP, Jeremy Corbyn is seen as “soft on of the better off middle classes What is diff erent and much committed to a Steve Turner of Unite the defence and national security.” and higher who recognise them- welcome though in this situa- progressive alter- Union and representatives Labour’s advance in Traff ord, selves as among “the few” who tion, as opposed to only a few native economic strategy of of a range of campaigning leaving the Tories with no coun- will not gain via policies redis- years ago, is Jeremy Corbyn-led investment not cuts. groups including Stand cil in the Greater Manchester tributing to the many. Labour’s clear commitment to Alongside this, across Britain, Up to Trump, the Stop the area, was largely discounted as In places such as Wandsworth ending the “hostile environ- people are mobilising against War Coalition, Jewish Voice were other gains, including in they might have voted heavily ment” and putting our pros- the cuts both locally and nation- was clear, principled and for Labour, Lesbian and Gay areas Labour has not won seats Remain at the referendum, but perity and respect for human ally, including in support of the chimed with public opinion. Support the Miners and many for 20 years or longer. in class terms they feel closer to rights at the centre of the par- TUC demonstration for a new Labour fi gures, including Lon- others. The biggest inversion of real- the Tories, despite Brexit, than ty’s approach to immigration. deal for working people next don Mayor Sadiq Khan and I hope you will join us there ity is over Labour’s perform- they do to left-led Labour. And just as this reactionary Saturday, May 12, and then of Scottish leader Richard Leon- at what will an inspiring and ance in London. It gained seats, And it appears that the Tories policy on immigration is here course with Trump’s visit to Brit- ard, also spoke up against the interesting weekend of people- including in outer London bor- were successful in getting them to stay as long as the Tories do, ain, which has been confi rmed Trump visit. powered political education, oughs, and probably advanced out to vote in quite high num- so is austerity, despite the gov- for July. Yet while Labour’s position internationalism and solidarity. its overall share of the vote, bers to meet the Labour chal- ernment’s regular spin that sug- We can also be sure that the has transformed in a range which was already very high. lenge. Turnout at the local elec- gests austerity could be eased in Tories will carry on outsourc- of areas, party members have ■ Matt Willgress is the national It was nearly 55 percent at the tions was, as is typical, much the years ahead. ing our foreign policy and a real desire to both develop organiser of the Labour Assembly general election. lower than at a general elec- Not only has austerity failed security to the erratic White further Labour’s alternative in Against Austerity, which is sup- Yet the fact that Labour “did tion. A Tory defensive strategy economically — Philip Ham- House administration, joining a number of areas and deepen porting the Arise festival. not take” fl agship Tory councils focused heavily on getting its mond may have proclaimed: in with military actions such the understanding of Corbyn’s ■ You can book advance discounted such as Westminster, Wands- better off supporters out, who “the light at the end of the as the recent bombing of Syria. position on both domestic and tickets for Arise on July 27 / 28 at worth and Kensington & Chel- tend at local elections to have a tunnel,” yet the reality was No doubt they will also international issues. www.arise-festival.com . You can fol- sea was held up as some mark higher turnout anyway. exposed by the government’s continue supporting Trump’s For this reason, a number of low Arise: A Festival of Labour’s Left of failure. That was certainly the case in own offi cial forecasts predicting agenda of backing up the groups, publications, including Ideas on Twitter via @arise_festival Wandsworth council has Barnet, where there were very “weak growth in real earnings aggressions of Israel and Saudi the Morning Star, campaigns and on Facebook at www.facebook. been Tory since 1978 — remain- high turnouts in the better off and even weaker growth in real Arabia in the Middle East and and prominent fi gures on com/LabourLeftFestival ing so at landslides in 1997 and wards. It is true that in some of morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online May 5-6 2018 11 What do the local election results tell us about Labour’s progress?

sation the Tories do continue to have considerable working-class support. It will not be broken by accommodation to right wing Tory themes, from immigration to defence. In fact, the Wind- rush scandal is evidence for pursing the opposite approach. Electoral campaigning can, of course, make a difference and it clearly did in places on Thursday. But that is not enough in itself either. In the historic surge at the general election this time last year the campaign fronted by Corbyn felt very much like the kind of social movements that had fed into his leadership victory in the first place.

es, there was smart use of online com- munication, but it was deeper than Ythat. The sense of doing politics differently was beyond doing canvassing differently. And it appealed broadly, not only to younger and first time voters but to large numbers of MOMENTUM: Labour councillors in Trafford working-class people in their celebrate as the Conservatives lose overall forties and fifties and older who control of the council had given up voting at the previous three general elections. The average age up to which those there is also a high Jew- only that it has been weaponised to campaign in places such as Claims of a Lib Dem revival Labour too picked up former people were more likely to vote ish population, but they are also by the Tories. It has been adopted Wandsworth and Westminster. are fanciful. They gained about Ukip seats — in Basildon, for Labour than Tory was about 49. more highly middle class and for two years by a hardcore of the Their excitement and effort 40 seats, but after losing 300 example. And it rose during the election. pro-Tory than the national aver- Labour right to attack the left and in fighting to win in Tory in 2014 when the same coun- A lurch towards a Blairite The campaign over school cuts, age of Jewish voters. their own party. strongholds is meant now to cils were up for election. There Remain position in the com- appealing especially to parents, The furore about “Labour And that includes by Labour count against them, despite was no surge for the Lib Dems ing intense months of crisis led to 750,000 people switching anti-semitism” doubtless had an councillors in Barnet — all but gains being made there and from Labour in London, despite for the Tories over Brexit will their vote. impact. How could it not? It is not two of whom backed rivals to also in London and net across the city voting Remain in 2016. do nothing to help Labour. It It is in the stirring of people Corbyn in the leadership elec- the country. would undermine the efforts into campaigns and struggles tions. Far from helping to deal If taken seriously, that would ichmond coun- to win over working-class sup- against the Tory government with the issue, they’ve taken be a recipe for not challenging cil, gained by port in the Midlands and parts — not only when there is an up the claims emanating from the Tories and just trying to hold the Lib Dems, is of the north of England that was election — that enthusiasm is the Tories. on in Labour areas — exactly exceptional. The lost so heavily in the Blair and built, real gains for people won So the leader of the Labour the opposite of what the right- RGreens actually Brown years. now and electoral support for “ group Barry Rawlings says it all wing elements of the Labour lost share of vote Continuing to recover that the Tories broken among work- should have been dealt with two Party say needs to be done. on average where they stood. support remains a major issue. ing class and some middle class Campaigns and years ago, but it was the Labour There are indeed things that They gained a few seats, but It is not helped by the antics of people. general secretary supported by need to be done by the labour often out of an electoral pact some Labour MPs daily attack- That’s not something that struggles against the right over those two years movement to break the Tory- with the Lib Dems — most ing the party and also showing can be whistled up out of thin who failed to do so or to imple- DUP government off the back clearly in Richmond — not by contempt for how people voted air, but it is the critical step the ment the comprehensive recom- of these election results, but taking “disaffected” Labour in the referendum. labour movement can and must the Tory mendations of the Chakrabarti they are the contrary to what Remain voters. It can’t be helped either by deliver to advance upon Thurs- report dealing with the matter. is advocated by those who have Lib Dem gains in Sunderland not just the implementation of day’s result. government build Unsurprisingly, that has not tried to undermine the Corbyn and Hull were simply a slight Tory austerity by Labour coun- It is also the principal way to stopped anti-Corbyn elements of leadership from day one of it restoration of their on and off cils, but often the failure of deal with the sabotage we must the Labour Party, in collabora- being elected by the majority role of being a protest vote those councils to embrace even continue to expect from certain enthusiasm, win tion with the Tories, trying to of a rising party membership. against solidly Labour local rhetorically the radical anti- quarters. use the result not to seek the The claim that Labour should politics and on a right wing austerity message of the front It is not a generational thing. real victories and implementation of that report move further down the road of basis with very low turnouts. bench. In that gap between the It is more than a canvassing but to reheat the political assault. the Lib Dem position of trying The collapse of the Ukip vote message that moved people at thing every April. It is a class From the same quarters to overturn the outcome of the did largely benefit the Tories, as the general election and a con- thing. win voters from comes a ludicrous attack on the referendum is not supported that is where most of the Ukip ventional local reality cynicism The Tories understand that, enthusiastic and often younger by the facts. Labour has not vote had come from four years can spread. which is why they will not give the Tories activists mobilised by the “lost Remain” votes through ago, and it removed them as a But there is a bigger issue. up without a much bigger fight Momentum group and others its stance. vehicle for protest voting. But Thanks to the political polari- even than that mounted so far. 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Commie Chef CROSSWORD 1,237 set by Alamet QUIZMASTER with William Sitwell TODAY’S QUESTIONS Potato salad with 1 According to legend, theodolites both which European capital measure what? eggs and olives was founded by a twin saved by a female wolf? 3 Banzai is a cry of praise in which language? I LOVE new potatoes and I love advantage of this dispiriting 2 Protractors and potato salad, so when spring state of aff airs, which being comes around you can often an old-fashioned Bolshevik I fi nd me tucking into the latter never do. YESTERDAY’S ANSWERS made with the former. This salad is a complete meal Being able to get new pota- and one to ruin salad’s repu- 1. The fl ag of Kazakhstan is toes all the year round spoils tation for helping you to lose in which two colours? Blue the treat, but only if you take weight. and yellow 2. How many offi cial languages are there in the Ingredients Seychelles? Three: English, French and Creole ■ a few leaves of crispy lettuce ■ tbsp red wine vinegar ■ 2 lbs/900g new potatoes, ■ 2 tbsp olive oil 3. True or false: Keemun is chopped into bite-sized pieces ■ tsp mild mustard a non-alcoholic drink. True: if necessary, steamed or boiled ■ small bunch fl at leafed it’s a type of tea (right) ■ 3 hard-boiled eggs, shelled parsley, stems removed, fi nely and chopped chopped ■ 2 red onions, peeled and ■ salt and freshly ground (intermediate) fi nely chopped black or white pepper ACROSS DOWN DAILY SUDOKU ■ 20 black olives, stoned and 5. This place is dark before pub- 1. Engineer, expert eaten by halved lic transport appears (6) brown whale (8) 6. Competitor against going for 2. For each reserve sent out is workers’ association’s ceremony great (6) What to do (6) 3. Underworld pamphlet is 9. Way to get fl yers to initiate trouble (8) Mix together the vinegar, oil enemy attack (6) 4. Seasoning fanatic a stone and mustard. 10. Close confi nement for time up (6) Pour the result- unit by prisoner (8) 5. Catch inconclusive associate 11, 21. Steep concoction of cream getting a raise (6) ing vinaigrette tea (8) 7. In Manila the roofs have foam on to the 12. Messy base for newspaper (6) cooked pota- was fi rst after midnight (10) 8. Silly Charlie Parker hit (4-7) toes while 13. Counting on a mutineer to 14. Note refuge erected as monu- they’re still go wrong (11) ment (8) warm, and add 18. Burn track smooth (10) 15. With written evidence of salt and pepper to 21. see 11 best performance after working taste. want the spuds 22. Access on passage (8) (2,6) 23. Bid to exist and conk out (6) 16. Listen to a dry fi nale (6) Stir well, to break up), 24. Spade Zeus returned, having 17. Pat’s an oarsman (6) but gently and leave to stand principles (6) 19. Suffi cient for opera company (you don’t for about 10 minutes 25. Say river joins river station to make a sound of revulsion (6) before adding (6) 20. Sign soprano up without a all of the other space on top (6) i n g r e d i e n t s (except the lettuce) and stirring again. Serve on a plate covered in the let- Pic: A Ocram/Creative Commons tuce. Solution on Monday… Solution on Monday… morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online features | entertainment May 5-6 2018 13 Activists win three-year battle over epilepsy drug

ONTROVERSIAL campaign group, they tried to epilepsy drug sue Sanofi for compensation. TRIUMPH: Emma sodium valproate, However their case fell through Murphy (left) and which can cause after legal aid was withdrawn. Janet Williams, who Cbirth defects, Taking matters into their founded In-FACT was eff ectively own hands, mothers and chil- banned for women of childbear- Campaign dren formed In-FACT to fi ght ing age last week, giving protec- of the for change. The road has been tion to thousands of mums and a long one. their unborn children. It wasn’t until 2016, after However the fi ght to get week meeting MPs and setting up change has been decades in the the all-party parliamentary making, before two campaign- group for anti-epileptic drugs ing mothers with epilepsy and and linked to over 4,000 child in pregnancy, chaired then by their children with develop- deformities. Labour MP Teresa Pearce and mental disorders caused by the However In-FACT’s Janet now by Lib Dem Norman Lamb, drug launched the Independent Williams, who co-founded the that the fi rst signifi cant victory Fetal Anti-Convulsant Trust (In- group with Emma Murphy, says was achieved. FACT) campaign group in 2012. the true fi gure is closer to 400 Following a lengthy three- During pregnancy they children a year, with as many year battle, the Medicines and had been prescribed the drug as 20,000 aff ected. Healthcare products Regulatory Epilim, which contains sodium Despite these shocking Agency (MHRA) ensured that valproate, and as a result their statistics and evidence of the prominent warnings, similar to children were born with birth drug’s harm, which has been cigarette packaging, would be defects. compared to the notorious printed on all Epilim packaging. Anti-convulsants like Epilim, Thalidomide, it has taken years Now the MHRA has gone which is manufactured by for the campaigning mothers one step further, chang- pharmaceutical giant Sanofi , to see success, including two ing the licence for valproate can cause developmental delay major litigation attempts. medicines, which also include and behavioural diffi culties The fi rst, for clinical negli- Depakote and generic brands, when babies are exposed to gence, began in 1992 before so that they can no longer be the drug in the womb. collapsing with “no case to prescribed to women of child- The offi cial diagnosis of the answer” in 2003. bearing age unless they have disability is foetal anti-convul- And as reported in the a “pregnancy prevention pro- sant syndrome, which is said to Morning Star in 2010, before gramme” in place. harm 175 children every year the mums launched their Every woman and girl of childbearing age who has been at risk of being born with birth drug’s risk to unborn chil- Murphy, who has fi ve chil- prescribed sodium valproate defects because their mothers dren, the mothers who have dren aff ected by the drug, Get involved in this new column will also be entitled to have were unaware of the drug’s been denied the right to vital called it a “national disgrace” their treatment reviewed by a risks.” safety information are reignit- that it has taken so long despite OUR new Campaign of the Week slot is your chance to specialist at least once a year What lies ahead for the ing their battle to be properly the risk being known by regula- keep the movement updated on the political, industrial under the new measures. It’s future of the campaign? Well, compensated. tors in 1973 and “covered up by and social struggles of your local area. a resounding success for the In-FACT is now taking its cam- Williams says: “We have now subsequent governments ever We know we have the most politically engaged and campaign. paign to New Zealand where a reached a crucial part of the since.” active readership of any daily paper and it would be “We’re obviously really similar battle is being waged campaign” as they wait for a She said: “Being a mum of fi ve great if readers up and down the country can share pleased with the latest action,” to protect epileptic mums and response from the Department aff ected children it is challeng- their campaigning experiences – telling us what’s at Williams told the Star. “How- their unborn children. for Health concerning a care ing every single day with the stake where, who’s involved, what’s working and which ever it’s taken eight years for The two campaigners have plan and compensation for disabilities they suff er due to tactics need reviewing. two mothers and housewives to both been invited to speak at those aff ected by the drug. A valproate syndrome, watching Got a campaign to share with us? Just go to morn- achieve what the justice system a conference on the issue in decision is expected in the next them grow up struggling with ingstaronline.co.uk/page/campaign-week and fi ll in couldn’t in 45. Auckland in January next year. four to fi ve weeks. health, education and physical the online form. Each week our news desk will select a “And every year in which And crucially, given that “We have all the warnings disabilities. No mother or father promising campaign and get in touch for further details. authorities dragged their feet the MHRA’s move has left no in place, now it’s time to com- should have to endure this.” meant hundreds more children shadow of a doubt about the pensate mothers,” she added. WILL STONE

TV Weekly Preview with Brett Perkin What to miss Saturday: Who Wants Film Chacko, Cheltenham in fact has facts and monuments during the To Be A Millionaire, a longer history associated with reign of terror. 9.15pm ITV1 its 18th-century spa. Professor Saturday Alice Roberts investigates. Millionaire has never Casablanca, 3pm ITV3 Arts been a particularly pop- Ingrid Bergman is on stellar Sunday ular choice in the Perkin form imploring bar owner The Hunt: Battle in the Sunday household, but ITV has Humphrey Bogart to defy the Countryside, 10am BBC3 Dancing in the Blitz, 8pm outdone itself in fi nding nazis in Vichy Morocco. BBC2 a way to make it truly Head over to iPlayer any time insuff erable. They’ve Sunday after 10am on Sunday and you’ll A ballet-themed evening opens gone and made Jeremy Bram Stoker’s Dracula, be able to enter the world of with the story of dance’s rising Clarkson the host. The 11.15pm Film 4 the hunt saboteurs, those hardy popularity during World War II. mind boggles. souls who take direct action to Gary Oldman grows out his protect foxes from the blood- incisors as literature’s most lust of rich folk on horseback Sport Yesterday’s sudoku famous bloodsucker brings and their hounds. Transylvania to London. Sunday and Monday Monday World Snooker, 2pm and The Road to Palmyra, 9pm Saturday Documentary 7pm BBC2 Gunners. The FA says it’s BBC4 Women’s FA Cup Final, already sold 40,000 tick- At the time of going to press it’s 5.10pm BBC1 ets to the showdown so Saturday Art historian Dan Cruickshank anyone’s guess who will take to expect an electric atmos- Britain’s Most Historic and war photographer Don the baize to battle it out over 35 Chelsea and Arsenal head phere. Lindsey Robinson, Towns, 8pm Channel 4 McCullin take a trip to Palmyra frames for the Crucible crown. to Wembley for a rerun who ran the lines at the to survey the destuction wrought What we do know is that you of the 2016 fi nal, won last two fi nals, takes Although it’s probably best on the Unesco-listed city by two need not make any plans to that time round by the charge of the whistle. known as hometown of the periods of Isis occupation. The go out over the bank holiday Morning Star’s own Ben death cult despoiled ancient arte- weekend. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 14 Saturday/Sunday letters morningstaronline May 5-6 2018 @m_star_online

■ RETAIL ■ BREXIT ■ POLITICS Sainsbury’s boss Bottom line: No What have the Tories done for Britain? was on the money more EU diktats GIVEN that all the media ments have been quietly sold pensions via highly increased of homelessness, deaths and WHILE the chief executive of appear to be castigating Jer- off and the porters work for a ticket prices. suicides. Sainsbury’s singing “we’re in AFTER Brexit, should emy Corbyn, can any one of private organisation. The number of travellers pay- Councils are being squeezed the money” is clearly an aff ront Britain be in a customs them or other persons tell if Over 400 libraries have been ing over £5,000 for an annual causing them to cut back on to the thousandas of workers union with the EU? there is one good thing this shut and similarly schools are ticket has greatly increased, yet many services (for example in whose jobs may be on the line Or a customs partner- Tory government has done to closing with teachers and our state is not allowed to run some areas rubbish bins are in the merger with Asda, it fi ts ship/agreement/deal/ benefi t the everyday people of university lecturers going on the trains and Virgin, which only emptied every fortnight). precisely the defi nition of what pact? this country? strike. has pulled out, is being com- I could go on, but I would like he is supposed to be doing. Who cares what they On the contrary, they have Trains have been privatised, pensated for billions. someone to tell of just one good That is not protecting jobs, call it? ruined just about everything. but are run by state-owned Ger- Social security is being thing this government has done but maximising shareholder The bottom line is that There has been stealth priva- man and French organisations screwed, along with disabled for the ordinary people. value. On the 21st anniversary any deal with the EU tisation of the NHS with hos- — resulting in them obtain- people, resulting in a huge W J CASEY of the election of New Labour must not restrict Brit- pitals, where various depart- ing millions for their state increase in the last few years North Tyneside in May 1997 its worth recalling ain’s right to enter into that a key aim in its plans for trade deals around the company law was to broaden world as it sees fi t. the purpose of companies to MPs should stick to ■ POLITICS include duties to workers and this principle when con- the community. sidering legislation on Is there any role Unfortunately it did not hap- the issue. pen. TONY BRISCOE KEITH FLETT South Ockendon Gove can’t butcher? London N17 WHAT on Earth is wrong with Michael Gove? Is he constitu- tionally incapable of behaving like a decent human being? ■ ROYALS A few years ago he was imposing his blundering theo- Perhaps Harry could show some royal largesse? ries of education on children and teachers, now he’s enabling WHAT a wonderful Chris- unelected and archaic mon- the elimination of defenceless tian gesture it would be if archy divinely ordained by hedgehogs (M Star May 4). Prince Harry donated £1,000 a Christian god of question- What next, a move back to or so to each homeless per- able existence. the Ministry of Justice where son in Windsor on the day But, in our celebrity- he can reintroduce the break- of his wedding. obsessed culture, royalty is ing wheel in accordance with After all, the sole justifi - worshipped by the mindless. the rest of his heartless views? cation for his existence and HAYDN GREENWAY Pic: Hands Optek STAN TALL obscene level of wealth is an Cannock London E7 Fighting We rely on fund you, our readers, to keep the Standing Order, People’s Press Fighting Fund only socialist My name is: ■ FINANCIAL DETAILS voice in the daily British My address is: My account number is: media

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GRAHAM STEVENSON explores the Star archives 80 YEARS AGO TODAY... Sugar shutdown bitter for bosses SERIOUS unrest ■ throughout the West Indies was reported in the Daily Worker of May 5 1938. The incidents were causing big concerns in Britain over reports of huge numbers of arrests, nine workers being shot down and four killed in Westmoreland, Jamaica, ployment, starvation and on the south-west side of abject poverty are rife the island. throughout the island” After building workers the virtual complete creating massive sugar closure of Jamaica was ■ FOOTBALL processing factories had not an isolated event. shown strength by strik- This was the culmination ing for better pay, thou- of three years of unrest Safe standing both possible and needed sands of plantation work- across British Caribbean ers employed by the West territories. I READ with surprise Roy young, BAME and white, male tria, Sweden, the Netherlands, nises that the current situation India Sugar Company, An inquiry was sup- Bride’s letter on “selfi sh” foot- and female, gay/straight/bi/ Australia and the US. isn’t sustainable. The Football a subsidiary of Tate and posed to be carried out ball supporters wishing to trans in favour of safe stand- The new Orlando City Stadium Safety Offi cers’ Association Lyle, earning a “pittance” by the “Captain-General stand at matches (M Star May ing. Even amongst those who in Florida is a shining example wants an informed, evidence- while being “forced to of the island, Sir Edward 3). It’s a shock to fi nd a reader of prefer or who must sit (which of inclusion. The Purple Wall based debate, as do many sen- live in foul conditions”, Brandis Denham” but a progressive socialist newspa- includes myself as a wheelchair safe standing end (pictured) has ior police offi cers. The English shut down everything. he died of a heart attack per taking such an ill-informed user) there was a huge majority two wheelchair platforms with Football League is lobbying for All sugar estates, most within a month. backward looking stance. in favour of a safe choice. perfect sightlines. Those who pre- change. The Premier League is having reported massive In the aftermath, the His position fl ies in the face There is clear evidence that fer to sit are accomodated in the consulting clubs on the issue. profi ts amidst a huge rise British empire would of all the available expert evi- many supporters wish to stand. other three sides of the ground. I hope that Morning Star in the price of sugar, were make signifi cant conces- dence — contrary to Roy’s unsup- Thousands do so every week. The ban could be ended at readers will lobby their MPs to aff ected. sions and initiate consti- ported assertions safe standing There are two ways to deal with the stroke of Sports Minister attend the debate on the issue The brutality of the tutional reforms which promotes diversity and inclusion. this. Coercion or accomodation. Tracey Crouch’s pen to amend on June25. Football supporters police had a contrary lay the basis for the end- A recent study by the Arsenal New 21st-century stadiums the regulations. deserve a safe choice. eff ect, with “few waver- ing of colonialism, if not Supporters’ Trust showed huge off ering a choice to sit or stand The government’s own Sports STEVEN POWELL ers” slinking back to imperialism. majorities of supporters old and can be seen in Germany, Aus- Ground Safety Authority recog- London N1 work. Jamaica’s modern Though the Worker political scene came out noted that the planta- of these events, with the tions, along with the oil emergence of leaders, ■ PALESTINE ■ RACISM magnates, ruled supreme, party politics, and strong perhaps because “unem- trade unionism. Why must we raise the nazis? A handy guide to Helping for no gain? Madness! THE Daily Worker’s giving “a demonstration I AGREE wholeheart- ■ diary column of Bolshevism” which was edly with David Grove’s on May 6 1938 told an not “intended as an unso- comments on the need to silencing bigots “instructive true story” licited testimonial.” oppose and condemn the of Wimpole Street in A row caused by this subjugation of the Palestin- Marylebone, central simple act of courtesy ian people by Israel, but REGARDING your front page London, today associated lasted over a week, cul- I don’t understand how story (M Star April 26) about with expensive private minating when further making comparisons with Primark’s response to one of medical practice and trouble was made for nazi Germany contributes their customers who racially medical associations. the lab worker when the towards this. abused a member of staff , my The event took place esteemed lady suggested The murderous and refl ections on how a manager in a very large house, that he must have been repressive actions of the should behave are as follows. divided into several spa- having an aff air with Mrs Israeli regime are evil in When talking to a customer, cious fl ats and a dental X behind her husband’s their own right — they are they should try to establish practice. In one of the back “and that that was no more or less evil just what has actually been said. fl ats, the butler was away why he carried up the because we compare them If the words spoken were from work which meant coals for her.” with other brutal regimes in clearly racially abusive the his wife was very much The Worker thought history. All this does is cloud customer should be warned overworked. this an example of a the real issue by opening up that he or she may have com- A day or two before, a certain sort of twisted spurious side debates. mitted a crime — incitement woman from one of the thinking that some So at a “political” level, to racial hatred — and if they upstairs fl ats had rung were capable of. Just as whether we think it is anti- do not apologise and leave the down to the tiny butler’s the BBC’s Radio Times’ semitic or not, it is defi - store the police will be called. fl at in the basement and announcement of a pro- nitely counter-productive If the customer using the complained indignantly, gramme on the “failure and we just shouldn’t do it. racially abusive words apolo- at length, and forcibly of the notorious Chartist On a personal level, gises or appears to have been that his wife, “Mrs X”, movement” turned real- although I’m not Jewish, I confused about what was said had not brought up coal ity on its head. can understand why some- and why it was said, it might supplies. one would feel aff ronted be appropriate for the manager Overworked and RACIST INCIDENT: You can by a sweeping statement in addition to explain that the The store in Stratford where a woman allegdly refused harassed, Mrs X was on read editions of directly equating Israel with crime of racial incitement to be served by a black person before being mollycoddled by a manager the verge of tears when the Daily Worker a regime which killed six might have been committed, one of the workers in the (1930-45) million of my co-religionists to suggest to the customer that The above points might uttering words of abuse is a dental laboratory came and Morning Star (200 0-today) including, possibly, mem- they might seek psychiatric apply to managers or ordinary member, they should be warned on the scene. Without , online at bers of my own family. advice. limited companies which have that they will be suspended as thinking twice about mstar.link/DWMSarchive Again, whether or not This might be appropriate to deal with a customer who a member and — unless they it, he simply carried the Ten days’ access costs this is anti-semitism, why because, in some cases, peo- has racially abused a member can off er a satisfactory explana- coals upstairs. just do we need to do it? ple who resort to racial abuse of staff . tion or mitigation — be expelled There, the noble lady £5.99 and a BILL BARNETT suff er mental illness, often Where the company is a con- from membership. “roundly abused” him for year is £72 Devizes undiagnosed and need profes- sumer-owned co-operative or a CHRIS PURNELL sional help. credit union and the customer Orpington Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 16 Saturday/Sunday what’s on morningstaronline May 5-6 2018 @m_star_online

The Red List May 5-12 Readers & nell, plus a visit by a giant CND Nine short films by both young and Avant-garde pioneer Stewart Home 8 SATURDAY 5 symbol to mark the campaign’s 60th established Palestinian film-makers, and Morbid Books founder L “Tum- Supporters March for Windrush anniversary. To join the May Day pa- followed by a discussion. For tickets, bleweed” Parker presents their new rade, assemble in town hall car park priced £9, concessions, £6.80, go to poetry collections. Booking essen- Noon outside Downing Street, at 11.30am for noon departure. showroomworkstation.org.uk/70- tial. For tickets, priced £3.70, which London SW1 years-of-nakba. includes a glass of cheap wine and EVENTS Join Stand Up To Racism on the Reading May Day celebration £3 off a book, go to billetto.co.uk/ march to keep up the pressure Gather from 11.30am in Forbury Book event: A Party with en/e/272977. and demand an immediate end to COATBRIDGE — Lanarkshire Readers NORTH DEVON — Morning Star sale: Gardens, Reading Socialists in It — A History of and Supporters Morning Star sale: Every Saturday: Contact G Sables deportations and the return of all Speakers include local Labour MP the Labour Left Film screening: From Balfour to Every Saturday outside Asda. Call on gerrard.sables@phonecoop. deportees, compensation for all Matt Rodda, Morning Star editor Ben 7pm at Couper Institute Public Hall, Banksy — Divisions and Visions Ronnie on 07906 195-404. coop those affected and an end to the Chacko and John Booth of Justice 84-86 Clarkston Road, Glasgow in Palestine hostile environment policy. 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Racing Guide with Farringdon n NEWMARKET, GOODWOOD AND DONCASTER Murillo to take a wide-open card at Newmarket today GUINEAS: Plenty of choices across the 1,000 and 2,000 Guineas but ANYONE CAN WIN: hard to look past the Aidan O’Brien charge this afternoon at 3.35 Riders at Newmarket

T IS Guineas weekend at I make this between two favourite Sharja Bridge and Newmarket and the 2,000 Aidan O’Brien charges in former Cambridgeshire hero version this afternoon at favourite Gustav Klimt, a game Third Time Lucky. I3.35 looks wide open. winner of his trial three weeks Later on, I couldn’t put any- Expert Eye seems to have ago and sure to be better suited one off having a wager onMabs blotted his copybook on his last by this quicker ground, and Cross in the Palace House Stakes two starts, his last as a juvenile outsider Murillo. at 2.20, while the finale at 5.20 and his first this season as a I am hoping that the latter should go to the highly rated three-year-old, and I fancy he isn’t merely used as a pace- Sam Gold. will need to improve a bundle maker and allowed to run on The last named has report- to win this. his own terms. edly wintered really well and Craven Stakes hero Masar This drying ground is going this is considered a starting was convincing to the eye a to be right up the street of this point for him before going on couple of weeks ago, but on smart juvenile, having won a to better things. the clock he has plenty to maiden and finished placed in Over at Goodwood, the find, while Roaring Lion and both the Coventry and Railway ground is sure to dry out to Saxon Warrior have different Stakes, as will the step up in something like good to soft questions to answer following trip, and he could well be the and that will suit Tiar Na Nog in their battle in the Racing Post joker in the pack this afternoon the opening staying handicap last weekend. as a huge price. at 1.35. The 1,000 Guineas tomorrow The big seven-furlong handi- WEEKEND TIPS looks a really good renewal cap due off at 2.40 looks a deal and, as much as I like the more difficult to dissect, but claims of Soliloquy and Wild you won’t go far wrong in Farringdon’s Doubles Illusion, I think that O’Brien having an each-way punt on Saturday can complete the double with Masham Star who has a lovely sit Happily MURILLO the likely favourite . in stall No 1 for a front-runner Newmarket 3:35 (nap) The selection has report- and could get the better of the edly been working really well likes of hold-up merchants Don- MASHAM STAR at home and, if you cast aside ncha and Taurean Star. Goodwood 2:40 her Breeders’ Cup run, she has The evening card at Doncas- Sunday a superb record in the highest ter looks interesting and, rather ACROSS THE STARS class. like Goodwood, the ground will Newmarket 1:50 (nap) I think the cream on the cake dry out hopefully, with a posi- has to be the better ground as tive weather forecast. HAPPILY she has a lovely smooth action That should certainly be in Newmarket 3:35 and I think could leave even the favour of the well-handi- the best of her smart juvenile capped Watchable in the opener Houseman’s Choice form behind on such a surface. at 5.15 and Stanley at 7.15. Saturday Back to this afternoon and I The last named looked a DONNCHA know that the Les Eyre-trained shade unlucky not to win at Goodwood 2:40 Cote D’azur is expected to run a Kempton Park at the back end huge race in the opening handi- of March and can gain some Sunday cap at 1.50. compensation here at the main WUHEIDA Well handicapped at the expense of October Storm from Newmarket 2:20 moment, the five-year-old gets the in-form yard of Mick Chan- the nod over the likes of the non. n MEN’S FOOTBALL DCMS committee to discuss future of Wembley in July by Our Sports Desk Jaguars in the NFL, has made the stadium for 50 years fol- were concerns “to safeguard the FA an offer of £800 million lowing an injection of £161m the public interest by prevent- to purchase the 90,000-seater from public bodies during the ing the Football Association THE future of Wembley will venue. redevelopment project, which from appearing to profiteer, be discussed in Parliament US billionaire Khan had been was completed in 2007. or destabilising the project, by in the summer after the Dig- hopeful of completing a deal by Those stem from the taking windfall gains, includ- ital, Culture, Media and Sport August, but the proposed sale, National Audit Office’s report ing after refinancing.” (DCMS) Committee called on and just how the FA would rein- of June 2003 into the “English As such, protections were representatives of the Football vest the windfall, has generated national stadium project at put in place stating the FA has Association and Sport England much debate. Wembley,” which goes on to to “retain a controlling interest yesterday to attend a one-off A potential stumbling block, explain how “the public sec- in Wembley National Stadium meeting on July 18 to talk about revealed in a daily newspaper, tor funders have secured pro- Limited for 50 years from com- the national stadium. surrounds measures which tections to safeguard the public pletion of the stadium and its Shahid Khan, the owner of were implemented to guar- interest in the project.” ability to sell a minority inter- Fulham and the Jacksonville antee the FA commitment to The NAO report said there est is limited.” Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 18 May 5-6 2018 sport @m_star_online

INGLE game tick- To put the issue at hand in tion in the hope that two of the ets for the NFL UK perspective, one fan tweeted more recognisable NFL brands International Series me to say they have booked a will interest BBC sport enough Swent on sale on trip for one week at Las Vegas to show the first game at the Tuesday morning, in November for less than the new Tottenham stadium live NFL UK fans via Ticketmaster. price ticket touts are selling for. in prime time Sunday evening. All tickets were sold out I shared this tweet with my Then there was the absurd within the hour, with fans followers, along with my opin- situation of the ticket sale for complaining over the Ticket- ion on the whole debacle. All the New Orleans Saints v Miami master app crashing, and a in all, my opinion was that the Dolphins last year when all the large number seemingly placed resale of tickets with the pur- single game tickets ended up on reseller sites for almost five pose of making profit should sold during the pre-sale. are fed up of times the price. be illegal. It seems the key importance Year on year, the issue gets I feel companies should be for NFL UK is to make sure the worse and we’re told by those braver and remove these from US perception of the British with a close association to NFL sale. It’s not fair on real fans market is that demand is so UK that it is a priority for them and not one person has disa- high and there aren’t enough to fix the issue, but as fans greed. tickets to go around. we’ve heard this all before. We The opinion from fans, and I But there’s always been being priced don’t want words any more. We hope this isn’t the case, is that demand for these games. Going need action. NFL UK only cares about mak- back to the first in 2007, NFL Other industries and compa- ing as much money as possible UK had over 500,000 ticket nies have managed to come up at the expense of fans and that requests for the New York with a plan. The owner of popu- they only care about making Giants v Miami Dolphins. lar music event Warehouse as much PR noise as possible It was the same story the fol- Project regularly cancels tickets around the fact that tickets are lowing year. That’s 11 years to out by touts when he finds them online for sold out to look good and posi- get these sales right and into sale at ridiculous prices. tion London as a future destina- the hands of genuine fans, but Even Glastonbury Festival tion for a franchise. it just hasn’t happened. Liz Fox hits back as tickets for October’s have a plan in printing names But this wouldn’t be the first To blame the situation on the and photographs on tickets, time NFL UK has been seen to popularity and growth of inter- which must match the user act in its own interest and not est in the game on these shores games were sold out within minutes, only upon entry. Something can be the fans’. is at best disingenuous. Of done, yet it looks from the out- For example, Game Pass was course interest in the NFL has side that NFL UK are choosing given a separate platform for increased markedly over the to reappear for ﬁve times the price online to ignore it. European fans with a new sup- last decade, but the demand, We love the fact we get plier, not for the benefit of fans as with almost any high profile know who have bought sea- see when the tickets go on sale musicians and entertainers. games here in Britain. But, if or because the old system was sporting occasion in Britain, son tickets because they want for the Seahawks v Raiders The issue seems to be Ticket- tickets are ending up on resale struggling — it is still used in has always been there. to attend one game and going game at Tottenham in August. master and the fact that tickets sites for £500 a ticket, fans will the US — but so it could mar- Pure greed is what it really down the season ticket route, Currently we’re led to believe end up instantly on their sister opt to save their money and ket and generate extra revenue is. If genuine fans had the tick- as Tuesday showed, is the only 90 per cent of season ticket sites for prices real fans cannot head the United States to see from it. ets and not touts, I wouldn’t be way to guarantee a ticket. holders will get tickets. afford. NFL UK has the chance the real action. Seattle Seahawks v Oak- writing this article right now. This would be alright if With supply so short it’ll the lead the way in using an Genuine fans are being land Raiders is going to be When a ticket that is usually the NFL Ticket Exchange was probably end up an even worse alternative option that puts the priced out by greedy individu- held at Tottenham’s new sta- £40 is suddenly showing at five available so that fans could sell situation on the secondary fans at the heart of all they do. als and businesses. If this con- dium instead of Wembley, not times the price for the same their tickets through legitimate ticket exchanges. The question is, will they tinues, the NFL will see fewer because it will allow the most seats, it’s hardly surprising that channels at face value, but it This isn’t an issue for just take ever it? fans being able to attend games fans to get tickets to watch fans would opt to miss out. Is isn’t and there’s no sign that it NFL UK. We saw similar prob- and in turn fans’ confidence two top 10 British-supported that a price NFL UK is happy will be anytime soon. lems with this year’s NBA game ■ Liz Fox is the managing edi- will be lost when it comes to teams play — it won’t — but to pay? One can only begin to imag- held in London and this is a tor of the Ninety-Nine Yards a franchise. to generate more media atten- There are a lot of fans we ine the fallout we’re going to huge one too for a number of (formerly NFLGirlUK) website morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online sport May 5-6 2018 19

■ WOMEN’S FA CUP SPORT ON TV Saturday ■ BASKETBALL: NBA, play-offs TBC SCOTT AND CHAPMAN CHASING A — BT Sport 1 10pm & 1.30am (Sun). ■ CRICKET: Indian Premier League, Chennai Super Kings v Royal Chal- lengers Bangalore, Sunrisers Hydera- bad v Delhi Daredevils — Sky Sports Cricket 11am & 3pm. HISTORICAL 10TH FA CUP VICTORY ■ CYCLING: Tour de Yorkshire — ITV4 1pm/Eurosport 2 4.15pm; Giro d’Italia — Eurosport 2 11.30am. Arsenal and Chelsea do battle once again, as a player from each side looks to make their own piece of history ■ FOOTBALL: Premier League, Stoke v Crystal Palace — Sky Sports Main by Asif Burhan me to lead this team out again Drawing on that experience Event & Sky Sports Premier League 11.30am, Everton v Southampton — and go and pick up the FA Cup and their win over Chelsea at BT Sport 1 5pm; League One, Roch- would be wonderful.” Wembley two years ago they dale v Charlton — Sky Sports Main THEY’VE won so many FA Cups Chelsea, unbeaten in the will hope to spring a surprise Event 5.30pm; Serie A, AC Milan v between them that neither of Women’s Super League, saw again. Verona — eir Sport 1 4.55pm; Juven- them knows for sure who has their European hopes dashed It is symptomatic of the tus v Bologna — BT Sport 2 7.30pm; won more. last weekend by Germans VfL club’s relative positions that National League, play-off, Tranmere The records show that Wolfsburg for the third season 10 of Chelsea’s Cup-winning v Ebbsfleet — BT Sport 1 12pm; Wom- former Arsenal and England in a row and too many draws in starters in 2015 are still at the en’s FA Cup final, Arsenal v Chelsea teammates Alex Scott and the league mean they could win club and could play today while — BBC One 5.10pm; MLS, New York Katie Chapman have each been each of their remaining league only four of Arsenal’s winning Red Bulls v New York City FC, Los part of a record nine FA Cup games and still miss out on the team from the following year Angeles FC v FC Dallas — Sky Sports winning-sides, Scott appearing title on goal difference. featured in their last league Main Event 8pm & 8.55pm. in seven finals all for Arsenal, Semi-final defeats in the match. ■ GOLF: PGA, Wells Fargo Champion- Chapman representing four Champions League and Con- Their star performer in 2016, ship — Sky Sports Golf 6pm; GolfSixes different sides in six winning tinental Cup mean that today Kelly Smith, has since retired, — Sky Sports Golf 12pm. IN ACTION: Alex Scott (left) ■ HORSE RACING: Newmarket — ITV teams. may represent their only but their match-winner Dan- & STV 1.30pm. Both Chapman and Scott chance of securing a trophy. ielle Carter will feature. ■ MOTOGP: Spain Grand Prix — BT have already had the honour of Arsenal have once more Chelsea manager Emma honour to assistant manager The England striker once Sport 2 7.45am. lifting the trophy at Wembley disappointed in their league Hayes believes “Arsenal of the Paul Green. more missed out as Arsenal ■ RUGBY UNION: Super Rugby, in the three years in which the campaign. last five years have become cup “It wasn’t a difficult decision. beat them in 2016. Waratahs v Blues, Hurricanes v national stadium has hosted Despite some impressive one- specialists. I have to put my pregnancy first For the second time in three Lions — Sky Sports Main Event & the showpiece of women’s off results in the second half of They have won Continen- and I don’t want to agitate any- seasons, she has brought Chel- Sky Sports Action 6am & Sky Sports football and one or the other the season under new coach Joe tal Cups and FA Cups in that thing. I’ve just been advised to sea to Wembley with a semi- Action 8.30am; PRO14, Munster v of them will make history this Montemurro, a goalless draw period because that’s what take it easy and there is enough final winner against Manches- Edinburgh — Sky Sports Main Event evening as the first footballer at Yeovil and a heavy defeat to they’ve been set out to do. stress on days like these.” ter City and will hope to finally & Sky Sports Action 3.15pm; Aviva in the history of the English Birmingham means they are There’s been a bit more con- One Chelsea player with get her winner’s medal this Premiership, TBC — BT Sport 2 3.15pm; game to win the FA Cup on an likely to miss out on a coveted sistency, in terms of results, a point to prove is the newly weekend. Top 14, La Rochelle v Stade Francais — incredible 10 occasions. Champions League place for a for Chelsea over that five-year crowned PFA Player of the Year More than 40,000 tickets Sky Sports Action 7.50pm; Castres v Chapman, who won her first fifth year in a row. period.” Fran Kirby. have been sold for the fourth Oyonnax — Sky Sports Arena 7.50pm. trophy with Millwall Lionesses Yet Arsenal already have Despite the magnitude of the Signed too late to feature in consecutive final at Wembley ■ SNOOKER: World Championship — BBC Two 10am, 4.10pm & 7.30pm/BBC as a 14-year-old admitted: “It a trophy in the cabinet after occasion or perhaps because the 2015 final, she could only Stadium, with the FA confident One 1.15pm/Eurosport 1 10am, 2.30pm would be incredible to lift the overcoming Manchester City of it, a pregnant Hayes has watch from the Wembley of a fourth successive record & 7pm. trophy again. You love to play against the odds in the Conti- decided not to lead out her stands as her teammates lifted attendance to better the mark ■ TENNIS: WTA, Prague Open — BT in this type of game and for nental Cup final. team tomorrow, ceding the the trophy. of 35,271 set last May. Sport/ESPN 10am; Morocco Open — BT Sport/ESPN 3pm.. Sunday ■ BASEBALL: MLB, San Diego Padres ■ MEN’S CRICKET v Los Angeles Dodgers — BT Sport 2 WOMEN’S TABLE TENNIS: The combined 9pm, St Louis Cardinals v Chicago Korean women’s table tennis team Cubs — BT Sport/ESPN 1am (Mon). won bronze yesterday at the world ECB to get a ■ BASKETBALL: NBA, play-offs TBC championships. — BT Sport 1 8.30pm. The three-woman team — two new chair ■ CRICKET: Indian Premier League, players from the south, one from Mumbai Indians v Kolkata Knight the north — lost to Japan 3-0 in the GILES CLARKE’S long Riders, Kings XI Punjab v Rajasthan semi-finals. The tournament has two tenure at the England Royals — Sky Sports Cricket 11am & bronze medallists and no third-place and Wales Cricket Board 3pm. game. is likely to end next week ■ CYCLING: Tour de Yorkshire — North and South Korea joined forces when a restructure of ITV4 12pm; Giro d’Italia — Eurosport on Thursday rather than play against the governing body is 2 10.15am. each other in the quarter-finals. completed. ■ FOOTBALL: Premier League, Man- Clarke first joined the chester City v Huddersfield — Sky ECB as non-executive Sports Premier League 1pm/Sky director in 2004 before Sports Main Event 2.30pm, Chelsea succeeding David v Liverpool — Sky Sports Main Event & Sky Sports Premier League 3.30pm; Morgan as chairman Championship, TBC — Sky Sports three years later. He was Main Event 12pm; Scottish Premier- appointed the ECB’s first ship, Hearts v Celtic — BT Sport 1 president in 2015. 11.45am; National League, play-off But with the ECB TBC — BT Sport 1 2.30pm; Serie A, board shrinking from 13 Lazio v Atalanta — eir Sport 1 1.55pm/ to 12 members and hav- BT Sport & ESPN 2pm, Cagliari v Roma ing increased diversity, — eir Sport 1 7.40pm; Ligue 1, TBC — Clarke is expected to eir Sport 1/BT Sport 2 4pm; LaLiga, stand down, along with TBC — Sky Sports Main Event 7.30pm. a number of other direc- ■ GOLF: PGA, Wells Fargo Champion- tors, at next Wednes- ship — Sky Sports Golf 6pm; GolfSixes day’s annual general — Sky Sports Golf 11.30am. meeting. ■ HORSE RACING: Newmarket — ITV The board will have 1.30pm. ■ MOTOGP: Spain Grand Prix — BT three categories of direc- Sport 2 7.30am. torship: the chair and ■ RUGBY UNION: Top 14 — Sky Sports ex-officio roles — held by Action 11.25am & 3.45pm. the chairman, chief exec- ■ SNOOKER: World Championship utive and chief financial — BBC Two 2pm & 7pm/Eurosport 1 officer — and independ- 1.45pm & 6.45pm. ent non-executives and ■ TENNIS: WTA, Madrid Open — BT FOCUSED: Jihee Jeon of Korea cricket non-executives. Sport 1 10am & 5.15pm. Saturday/Sunday SPORT May 5-6 2018 INSIDE: Women’s FA Cup ﬁnal preview n MEN’S CRICKET WEEKEND FOOTBALL Premier League Stoke Crystal Palace, 12.30pm Bournemouth Swansea City Leicester City West Ham O’GRADY: LOW-PAYING Watford Newcastle West Brom Tottenham Everton Southampton, 5.30pm Man City Huddersfield, 1.30pm* Arsenal Burnley, 4.30pm* Chelsea Liverpool, 4.30pm* Championship COUNTIES MUST BE Birmingham Fulham, 12.30pm* Bolton Nott Forest, 12.30pm* Brentford Hull, 12.30pm* Bristol C Sheff United, 12.30pm* Cardiff City Reading, 12.30pm* Derby Barnsley, 12.30pm* Ipswich Middlesbrough, 12.30pm* Leeds QPR, 12.30pm* ‘NAMED AND SHAMED’ Millwall Aston Villa, 12.30pm* Preston Burton, 12.30pm* Sheff Wed Norwich, 12.30pm* by Our Sports Desk Sunderland Wolvess, 12.30pm* League One TUC general secretary Frances Wimbledon Bury, 5.30pm Blackburn Oxford United, 5.30pm O’Grady slammed counties Doncaster Wigan, 5.30pm failing to pay their players the Fleetwood Walsall, 5.30pm national minimum wage yes- Gillingham Plymouth, 5.30pm terday, demanding they are Northampton Oldham, 5.30pm “named and shamed” imme- Portsmouth P’boro, 5.30pm diately. Rochdale Charlton, 5.30pm The Professional Cricketers Rotherham Blackpool, 5.30pm Association claims to have iden- Scunthorpe Bradford, 5.30pm tified 12 county players who are Shrewsbury MK Dons, 5.30pm being paid or offered terms Southend Bristol Rovers, 5.30pm below the national minimum League Two wage and six counties using Barnet Chesterfield unapproved employment con- Cambridge United Port Vale tracts in the past year. Carlisle Newport County The PCA has hit out at a prac- Coventry Morecambe tice it calls “contract abuse” and Crewe Cheltenham has a powerful ally in the TUC. Exeter Colchester O’Grady, whose organisa- Forest Green Rovers Grimsby Lincoln City Yeovil tion represents over five mil- Mansfield Crawley lion workers from more than Notts County Luton 50 unions, said: “Cricket fans Swindon Accrington Stanley will be shocked that young, exploited by their counties. The PCA, the players’ rep- Living Wage Foundation The Living Wage Foundation Wycombe Stevenage upcoming players are being “It is easy for players, and in resentative body for first-class director Tess Lanning said: “No sets a rate for the so-called liv- Women’s FA Cup treated this way. particular those just making cricketers in this country, says cricket clubs have yet commit- ing wage, which is higher than Arsenal Chelsea Ladies, 5.30pm “Clubs that cheat staff out their way in the game, to feel it will work with the England ted to pay the real living wage. the national living wage. of the minimum wage deserve under pressure to sign deals and Wales Cricket Board “to “Cricket epitomises the The ECB has WSL Two to be named and shamed. This below minimum wage. ensure this is not the case in national sense of fair play and declined to com- Brighton Watford, 2pm* kind of wage-tampering must “They can be influenced that, the county game going for- many fans will feel this doesn’t ment. Sheffield FC Millwall, 2pm* not be tolerated.” if they do not sign, then their ward.” reflect the values of the sport. WPL North The national minimum wage dream of playing professionally Mitchell added: “The stand- “With 5.5 million people DEMANDING Guiseley Nott Forest, 2pm* in the United Kingdom stands will be over. ard contract was negotiated paid less than the real liv- ACTION: Leicester Blackburn, 2pm* at £7.83 for anybody over 25, “This is an area we are work- and agreed to ensure certain ing wage, we need to see more Frances O’Grady Stoke Fylde, 2pm* £7.38 for those aged between ing really hard on to put right minimum terms are adhered to, employers from this and all Wolves Derby, 2pm* 21 and 24 and £5.90 for 18 to and we have achieved some including minimum salary levels. sectors join the movement for WPL South 20-year-olds. positive results so far. “We are also concerned the simple idea Gillingham Lewes, 1pm* PCA chair Daryl Mitchell “However, this should not about the potential impact on that a hard Chichester QPR, 2pm* said: “We need to make sure be an issue within professional insurance provision and other day’s work Coventry Cardiff, 2pm* we protect the players’ rights to cricket and we are fighting to basic employment rights if deserves a Portsmouth Basildon, 2pm* a fair contract and it seems to stamp out unapproved con- counties are not using the fair day’s Scottish Premiership me that some players are being tracts within the game.” approved contracts.” pay.” Dundee Hamilton, 12.30pm Aberdeen Hibernian Motherwell St Johnstone Rangers Kilmarnock n WOMEN’S FOOTBALL Hearts Celtic, 12.15pm* Scot Champ Play-offs Dumbarton Arbroath Bassett has no plans to join Neville as a coach Raith Rovers Alloa Athletic League One Play-offs by Our Sports Desk place — their best-ever finish media attention for women’s move, having spent the past few Peterhead Stirling Albion — in the sheBelieves Cup in football, which we always months in Australia’s W-League Queen’s Park Stenhousemuir March and they remain well strive for. with Canberra United. 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CELEBRATING MARX’S LEGACY AND HOW IT CHANGED THE WORLD

How British capitalism gave birth to Marxism

F HE had not spent the second half of his life in Britain, Marx would not Living in 19th-century Britain put Marx in the best possible have been able to pro- Iduce his magnum opus. position to observe and expose the inner workings of the Marx arrived in London in August 1849 and remained there until his capitalist mode of production, writes DAVID McLELLAN death. British capitalism was at its zenith during this period and Britain was the civil servants that touched however much Britain con- strong roots in nonconform- world’s leading industrial LANDMARK: The on practically every aspect tributed to Marx’s economic ist Christianity and was thus nation. British Museum, where of national life. thought, its political contri- unreceptive to a materialist Marx was thus in the best Marx conducted much Especially cherished by bution was not so successful. and atheist Marxism. possible position to observe of his research Marx were the six-monthly London was, of course, the Most importantly, however, and expose the inner work- reports by the Inspectors seat of the First International it was the very factor that pro- ings of the capitalist mode of Factories concerning the of which Marx was general sec- vided Marx with such a fertile of production. If, as he said, enforcement of the Factory retary, but his thought made ground in which to develop “the country which is more Acts which regulated hours little headway in Britain. his ideas that also impeded developed industrially only and conditions of work in the This was partly because the their political growth. shows, to the less developed, textile industry. British had an ingrained dis- Because Britain was the the image of its own future,” They were the source of trust of any “grand theory,” fi rst nation to industrialise, then his view from Britain some of the most excoriat- as the Marxism systematised it was the fi rst also to produce could be said to be truly global. ing condemnations found in by Engels and later Kautsky organised and eff ective work- It was in Britain too that Das Kapital. was increasingly becoming. ers’ movements. Marx found the theoretical Engels too provided essen- A British trade unionist These were well established tools with which to construct tial information from his leader said that, on being before Marxism arrived on his analysis of the origins, position in the big family tex- given a copy of Das Kapital, the scene. present state, and future tile fi rm of Ermen & Engels he felt that he had been given Thus, paradoxically, demise of capitalism. In his in Manchester. The corre- an elephant and did not know although Britain provided the native Germany, he started out he found the material to com- theory that was essential to spondence between Marx what to do with it. seedbed for Marx’s ideas, it as a philosopher and the infl u- pose Das Kapital. Marx. and Engels contains repeated British insularity, both lit- was Germany and Russia that ence of Hegel never left him. Adam Smith and, more He found in the Library of queries from Marx as to how eral and metaphorical, played harvested them. Emigrating to France, he importantly, David Ricardo the British Museum an unri- the capitalist enterprise in its part. Das Kapital was trans- was impressed by French were the theorists who were valled source of information. which Engels was engaged lated into Russian and French ■ David McLellan is visiting socialist political theory. most important to him. This was particularly the actually worked. And Marx well before an English version professor of political theory at But his materialist concep- His critique of their works case with the famous parlia- incorporated a lot of this was available. Goldsmiths’ College, University tion of history demanded an formed the basis of his own mentary blue books. fi rst-hand information into There was also the fact of London, and president of the economic basis and it was in economic theory. These contained informa- his published work. that the incipient socialist Marx Memorial Library and British economic theory that But it was not only British tion compiled by diligent But it has to be said that, movement in Britain had Workers’ School.

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MARX 200 Marx in context: the beginnings of a critical theory

n the 1950s, when the by Magnus Møller Ziegler Marx’s dissertation, however, French geographer and was not simply a neutral piece political scientist André of research. Instead, it was a Siegfried gave a series of piece of philosophical reason- Ilectures on the history of ing in itself which related to england at the Sorbonne the critique of Christian reli- the philosophical environment in Paris, he began every lecture gion by the left only became and the development of philo- with the same words, “Ladies the more radical the more the sophical thinking in Marx’s and gentlemen, england is an right defended it. the final and time. island.” most radical break, however, the dissertation, there- naturally, Siegfried’s point was political in its nature. In fore, is filled with rhetorical was not the banal assertion 1840, the Prussian king died attacks on organised religion that england is, indeed, situ- and in his stead his son Frie- and wordy proclamations on ated on an island. Rather, his drich Wilhelm IV rose to the the realisation of self-con- point was that it makes a great throne. sciousness in history. not so INFLUENTIAL: difference whether or not one the Left hegelians had had strange, when one takes into GWF Hegel and understands the country’s high hopes of the young crown account that Marx’s supervisor (below) Feuerbach history in light of these given prince, but he turned out to was the leading Left hegelian geographical conditions or not. be a deeply religious, roman- of the day, Bruno Bauer, whose Karl Marx was a German tic, and politically reactionary philosophy centred on precisely philosopher king. these issues. The embarrassment … his youth as a socialist thinker. In the same vein, we must there was no freedom of the these were also classic Left In 1843, Marx, as the edi- to him, it was not simply a always remember that Karl press, no free speech, no free hegelian themes. Apart from tor of the radical democratic question of the removal of some Marx was a German philoso- constitution, and absolutely no some specific theological newspaper Rheinische Zeitung kind of abstract alienation — pher and we must therefore more hegelianism to be had. questions, the fight between first found himself, in his own a social revolution was needed keep the conditions given by Left and Right hegelianism words, “in the embarrassing instead. Marx and engels got what it meant to be a German Spring is in the air was primarily about whether position of having to discuss the concept of the proletariat as philosopher in mind when we this general mood of deep hegel’s philosophy should be what is known as material history’s main character from read his work. reaction dominated the entire understood in a conservative interests.” Recognising his the French, but it was hess who In 1818, the year of Marx’s european continent and it or in a revolutionary way. own deficiency in this regard, gave them the name for this birth, the philosopher GWF erupted in flames in 1848 in he began studying the political historical movement itself, hegel had been summoned by what has come to be known Revolutionary from economy of his time. Communism. the Prussian king to the chair as the european “Springtime the start It was precisely in this in philosophy at the university of the Peoples.” Almost from the beginning, period, around 1844, that Marx The real movement in Berlin. Left hegelians especially, Marx placed himself squarely took over Feuerbach’s ideas “Communism,” write Marx Over the course of the next who since the shift of power in in the revolutionary camp. about species-being and aliena- and engels in the German 15 years, even though the 1840 had been viciously attack- he saw hegel’s philosophy as tion, which he then transposed Ideology, “is for us not a state rumours of his reverence for ing the regime, sensed a possi- the story of the realisation of into the area of economy, talk- of affairs which is to be estab- the Prussian state are highly bility for change. they engaged human freedom in history. ing about “alienated labour.” lished, an ideal to which real- Capital is primarily, as the sub- exaggerated, the Prussian boldly with the revolutionary through a series of historical But soon this was not enough ity will have to adjust itself. title says, a critique of political authorities used hegel’s phi- struggles, both on the barri- epochs, humanity had become for Marx. together with Frie- We call communism the real economy. losophy as a state-legitimising cades and in the freely elected more and more free and now drich engels, he developed a movement which abolishes the that is Marx’s lasting contri- ideology. parliament in Frankfurt. the last task was to make the gradually more radical mate- present state of things.” bution, not only to the labour they promoted hegel and his however, the revolution final push and establish the rialist standpoint and as early thus, a massive critical movement but to the history students at the Prussian univer- was defeated, reaction was realm of freedom. as 1845-46 he rejected Feuer- project emanated from Marx of Western ideas. A critical sities, and soon hegelites were strengthened and the last rem- But, if history is indeed such bach’s notion of a species-being in this period, which focused research programme which working all over Germany.As nants of organised hegelianism a progress of freedom, then in exchange for a concept of on the “ruthless criticism of all begins in his youth but con- such, hegel’s philosophy was, died out. the Right hegelians there has to be a something alienation bound to material that exists” — only through tinues all the way through in Marx’s day, an inescapable withered away in their conserv- or someone in history making and economic conditions. the Communism understood as a the mature economic criti- part of what it meant to be a atism and the left either moved this progress — a main char- new historical actor thus alien- destructive movement could cism, which does not profess German philosopher. bitterly onto other things or acter of sorts. In this period, ated was the proletariat. the old society be abolished and blueprints and utopian ideas emigrated, especially to Paris Marx tested different theo- human freedom be realised, but which gives us the criti- Two camps and London. retical and philosophical ideas Moses Hess Marx believed, having every cal apparatus to understand After hegel’s death in 1831, It is in the context of this about who this main character Marx got this new charac- opportunity to test this theory the world in our time and to however, the hegelians split in historical development that might be. ter from the French socialists during the 1848 revolution. change it. two, the Left and Right hege- we must understand Karl Marx. to begin with, he favoured he had met during his stays After the defeat of the revo- lians. In the beginning, it was Bruno Bauer’s idea of a “self- in Paris in the 1840s, and by lution, however, Marx’s focus ■ Magnus Møller Ziegler is a PhD mainly their conception of the The law student consciousness.” Later, inspired whom he was strongly inspired. shifted from political reforms Fellow in Philosophy at the Aarhus relationship between philoso- Marx began his university by Ludwig Feuerbach, he So was another Left hegelian and philosophy to economic University, Denmark. He holds a BA phy and religion that divided studies as a law student in spoke of a “species-essence” thinker, with whom Marx and criticism and class strug- in Philosophy and an MA in the them and especially the critical Bonn. In 1838, he moved to that became “alienated,” but, engels now entered into alli- gle, but Marx’s critical view History of Philosophy. His work is theologian DF Strauss’s book the university in Berlin and no matter what theoretical ance, Moses hess. remained intact throughout. mainly focused on German 19th cen- the Life of Jesus (1835) fired began studying philosophy prism he used, the fundamen- today, hess is primarily the purpose was not to predict tury philosophy, and his doctoral up the debate. and defended his disserta- tal problem for Marx remained known as one of the intellec- the future but to find the new research centres on the relation- Over the next decade the tion in 1840 at the university the same. how can humans tual predecessors of zionism, world through criticism of the ship between Young Hegelianism divide expanded further as in Jena. become free? but he was mainly known in old one. For the same reason, and Marx’s Capital. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 4 Saturday/Sunday features morningstaronline May 5-6 2018 @m_star_online

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ARL MARX lived permanently in London from 1849 until his death. Happy 200th K London, and to a lesser extent Brussels, was the place of refuge for radicals fleeing repression after the European revo- birthday Karl lutions of 1830 and 1848. The city thus became the hub of revolutionary émigré activity. Britain did not experience similar uprisings to those in Europe at the time. How- Marx, from your ever, this did not indicate the absence of mass struggle. Between the mid 1830s-1850s, Britain, the first industrial nation, witnessed the development of its most significant favourite daughter workers’ movement of the 19th century, Chartism. This was a mass movement ACHEL HOLMES’S of all subdivisions of the work- game-changing ing class affected by industriali- biography of sation. It created, in 1842, the Eleanor Marx world’s first workers’ political R(Eleanor Marx: A party, the National Charter Life, Bloomsbury, Association. 2014) not only restored Eleanor By 1848 Chartism’s politi- to her rightful place as fore- cal orientation was moving mother of socialism-feminism towards socialism under the but raises serious questions leadership of Ernest Jones and about how we understand and George Julian Harney. engage Karl Marx’s legacy. The latter was editor from Eleanor, Karl’s youngest 1843 of the mass circulation daughter and his favourite, Chartist paper the Northern was Marx’s first biographer Star. and, Holmes shows through- Engels, who had had been links with left-wing Chartism moderate form of male-only out in her book, her editorial sent to Manchester in 1842 to and émigré organisations, con- trade unionism. work was crucial in preserving manage his father’s cotton mill, textualised in the harsh real- The slogan of the Engineers her father’s legacy and bring- was a contributor to the North- ity of industrial Britain, was to union (ASE), “defence not defi- ing it centre-stage in the Sec- ern Star and in contact with the prove an important source for ance” characterised their ide- ond International, in which she Chartist leadership. his theoretical work and politi- ological agenda. Surprisingly, was a central figure. In 1845, Harney established cal activity. however, it was these very The work of an editor is a by Dana Mills “Is it not wonderful, when the Society of Fraternal Demo- However, by the 1850s, it was unions that were the impetus thankless job yet, as anyone you come to look things crats, an international organi- clear to Marx that the condi- behind the creation of the First who has ever published any- squarely in the face, how rarely sation composed of left-wing tions that had stimulated revo- International. thing knows, it can make all the we seem to practise all the fine chartists and political refu- lutionary activity in the first After the defeat of the revolu- difference between a brilliant concise form in which she pro- things we preach to others?” gees. half of the 19th century had tionary upsurge of 1848 and the intervention which will change duced it. Eleanor wrote to her older sister Its motto was “all men are now changed. demise of such organisations the world and an inconsequen- Lastly, Eleanor was her Laura — a quote which serves as brothers.” It has been argued Capitalism had entered a as Chartism and the Commu- tial piece of writing discarded father’s first biographer and an epigraph in Holmes’s book. that this organisation, after more stable phase. This was nist League, Marx judged that to the garbage can of history. all works on Marx and Engels I take this calling from it adopted its constitution in particularly true of its most the possibility of further mass The Story of the Life of Lord drew upon her sources. Eleanor to examine how, when 1847, was the prototype of the powerful exemplar, Britain. To insurrection was unlikely. Palmerston, written in 1853, Thinking of Eleanor’s work in we celebrate the birthday of a First International formed 19 a lesser extent, similar condi- He used this temporary hia- published in 1899, Diplomatic the context of her father’s legacy man so eponymous with social- years later. tions prevailed in other Euro- tus to concentrate on writing History of the 18th Century, gains a crucial twist when put ism, an ideology and system of This was the political milieu pean countries. and research especially for vol- written 1856-57, published in in context of Holmes’s reading thought which champions equal- Marx encountered when he vis- By mid-century the volatile ume one of Capital. 1899, and crucially Value, Price of Eleanor’s radical approach to ity like no other, we underwrite ited London in 1845, following boom/slump economic condi- In his view any new form and Profit, written in 1865, pub- feminism-socialism. the labour of love of his favourite his stay with Engels in Man- tions characterising the early of international had to be sol- lished in 1898, are just a few “The woman question is, first daughter that enabled his legacy chester. period of English industrialisa- idly based within the working examples of Eleanor’s editing and foremost, one of econom- to sustain and flourish in his life- In Manchester Marx saw at tion had given way to a new class. Thus he did not dismiss in her father’s archive. ics and one of organisation of time and after. first hand the indescribable phase of stability. the reformist British trade The latter’s worth pausing society as a whole.” It is heartening, though, horrors of the factory system Britain was by now “the unions and was especially on. As Holmes shows, Eleanor She continues: “Women are that, when we celebrate Karl that Engels had described in his workshop of the world.” Its encouraged by their interna- edited it as a response to Edward the creatures of an organised Marx’s 200 birthday, Eleanor Condition of the Working Class manufactured goods, based on tional outlook. Bernstein’s articles in Neue Zeit tyranny of men, as the workers gets fine tributes of her own. in England in 1844. its staple industries — coal, cot- This outlook was displayed that sparked the debate and row are the creatures of an organ- On May Day an exhibition When in London Marx met ton and engineering — domi- by trade union support for such over revisionism. ised tyranny of idlers.” So wrote opened in the British Library the Chartist leaders and, on nated world markets. events as the Italian Risorgi- This debate was the centre Eleanor in her groundbreak- celebrating the links between his return two years later, he This had an impact on Brit- mento, the Union side in the of discussion of the Second ing text The Woman Question Karl’s work and Eleanor’s there attended a meeting of the Fra- ain’s workers. It privileged a American Civil War and the International, when Bernstein, (from a Socialist Point of View). and the legacy of father and ternal Democrats. section of the labour force — Polish rising of 1863. Engels’s student, presented Eleanor theorised how daughter side by side. The following day he was the now higher-paid skilled/ It was this latter affair which the virgin/mocktail version of underwriting and underac- You can still catch the last an invited guest at the Second craft workers in the industries inspired George Odger, the sec- Marxism — socialism without knowledging women’s work week, until May 12, of Lucy Congress of the Communist associated with the 20 or so retary of the London Trades revolution, which, as we know, sustains patriarchal capital- Kaufman’s critically acclaimed League. The newly formed years of “boom.” Council, to propose the forma- is the crucial ingredient of Karl ism, which, she shows, are two play “The Jewess of Jews Walk” League requested Marx write Contemporaries, and later tion of an association to pro- Marx’s writing. systems that need each other in Sydenham, where Eleanor’s their manifesto. Lenin, described these workers mote peace and international We usually consider another in order to sustain themselves. life, work and love gain their Together with Engels this as “labour aristocrats.” Thus in co-operation among workers of Jewess in defending Marx’s leg- Thus, our approach to her rightful place centre-stage. was written and issued in 1848 an observable way, a material all countries. acy against Bernstein, Rosa Lux- work as editor and biographer So, today, when we all cele- in German as the Communist basis was created for a clear This led to the formation emburg’s radical text Reform or through Holmes’s explicitly fem- brate the monumental legacy of Manifesto. It was translated division within the working of the International Working- Revolution (1900) also written inist lens raises serious questions Karl Marx, I will be raising my into English in 1850 by Helen class. men’s Association (IWA) at a as a response to Bernstein. as to how we engage Marxist glass to his favourite daughter McFarlane, a socialist Chartist, This was exemplified by meeting September 1864 in St But without Eleanor’s inter- legacy today and regarding our Eleanor, whose tireless work in and published in Harney’s new the formation of “new model Martin’s Hall, London, attended vention we would have neither own blind spots in understand- her father’s archive and beyond journal the Red Republican. unions.” by over 2,000 people. Marx’s monumental work nor ing the politics of labour from a enables us to have these cele- Thus, before he moved to Compared to the previous In effect this was the found- would we have it in the clear, feminist point of view. brations. 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MARX 200 Marx, London and the First International Marx is mostly remembered as a revolutionary thinker, but, as PROFESSOR MARY DAVIS explains, his theory was rooted in a lifetime of political activity called the First International. port of English trade unions as Its headquarters were estab- vitally important. However, lished in London. as its history shows, the IWA Marx was present at this first was beset by a struggle against meeting although he did not sects, notably, the anti-strike speak. “mutualist” French Proudhon- Nonetheless his reputation ists, the German Lassalleans was such that he was asked to (“iron law of wages”) and the write the inaugural address of anarchists led by Bakunin. the IWA which was adopted at This struggle was played out its first congress in Geneva in in general council meetings 1866. and annual congresses of the IWA from 1866-72. Congresses were not held in 1870-1 due to the Franco-Prussian war, the Paris Commune and its brutal aftermath. The IWA did not survive its move to New York in 1874, so effectively its last Congress was 1872. Marx’s Civil War in France was written and published in many languages immediately after the fall of the Commune. It achieved the highest circulation of any of his writings during his lifetime. The IWA, however, lost momentum after 1870, particularly due to the HISTORIC: waning interest of the English The trade unionists. interior of St Martin’s The address displays a recog- Their declining involvement Hall, where the First nition by Marx that the IWA, had been apparent since 1867 International was due to its politically diverse when they were enfranchised held and (inset left) composition, could not be a by the Second Reform Act and early trade unionist socialist organisation. consequently became increas- Charles Odger The address was thus ingly involved in liberal parlia- adapted to his audience. In a mentary politics. letter to Bolte in 1871, Marx However, until 1870, Eng- lowing questions: bourgeois economics in an surplus value and its relation to letariat had been his politi- described the IWA thus. “The lish trade unionists were by “Can the social and material address to two sessions of the workers’ wages. cal, economic and ideological International was founded in far the most dominant force prospects of the working class general council in 1865. After the collapse of the First inspiration. order to replace the socialism numerically in the IWA. This be in general improved by wage However, the address was International, Marx recognised Marx’s life demonstrated his or semi-socialism of the sects was a strength but potentially increases? Do not the efforts only discovered after Marx’s that the centre of gravity of the engagement with practice and by a real organisation of the an ideological weakness which of the trade unions to secure death by his daughter Eleanor working class movement had theory, but more importantly it working class for struggle.” was revealed at a session of the increases have a harmful effect Marx and was not published moved to Germany. exhibited the unity of the two. He went on to say that sects general council on April 1865. on other branches of industry?” until 1898. Its title is Wages London and the British A rare achievement. exist when the working class One of the influential mem- (Introduction to Wages, Price (Value), Price and Profit. Library remained his base. is not ready, but once it is bers of the council, John Wes- and Profit.) In it Marx elaborates in a Clearly, London as an inter- ■ Mary Davis is visiting professor “mature” (Marx’s word) sects ton, a carpenter and Owenite Marx responded. summary and coherent form national hub, the advance of labour history at Royal Holloway play a reactionary role. socialist, proposed that the He delivered a withering the main argument underlying of industrial capitalism in University of London and a trustee Thus Marx regarded the sup- council should discuss the fol- critique of “citizen” Weston’s Capital, especially his theory of England and its factory proof the Marx Memorial Library. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 6 Saturday/Sunday features morningstaronline May 5-6 2018 @m_star_online

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HE leader of the Communist Party of Germany, Ernst Thael- Does Marxism really help us Tmann, who was murdered in 1944 by the nazis in the Buchenwald concentration camp, said in 1925 that anniversaries are understand the world? for communists and the class- conscious “not vain commemo- ration days, but guidelines for class struggle, manuals for then used to keep babies quiet action.” Darwinism posits natural selection as a driver of animal during the night — and even This is valid also for today. To mature men with carbuncles. honour Marx is to remind us of There was no term for what the most important thinker in evolution. In an analogous way, Marxism posits that he had in mind, so he had to the history of Europe, to study invent or adapt one. his ability, to combine theory If he were writing today, and practice. class struggle is a driver of social and economic change perhaps we might say he could Friedrich Engels, his close just as well have coined the friend and comrade-in-arms, term “psycho-social distress” described this in 1883 in his HE eulogy given by Graham Stevenson instead. speech at Marx’s grave. by Engels at He was well on the way “Just as Darwin discovered Marx’s grave in to understanding what was the law of development or 1883 may be more behind much of what we would organic nature, so Marx discov- Tthan touched by between economic classes — today call toxic behaviour when ered the law of development of grieving. But was class struggle as a driver. he connected this idea to what human history — the simple it over the top? This has become lost to us earlier thinkers about econom- fact, hitherto concealed by an “Charles Darwin discovered since science, behavioural ics had put forward — the idea overgrowth of ideology, that the law of the development of studies and economics, like so that labour (strictly speaking mankind must first of all eat, organic nature upon our planet. many sciences, have become labour power) and capital (also drink, have shelter and cloth- Marx is the discoverer of the detached from each other and carefully defined) are the only ing before it can pursue politics, fundamental law according to from society. two elements in the market. science, art, religion, etc, that which human history moves Contemporary social psy- The supply and “price” of the therefore the production of the and develops itself, a law so chology, which looks at the former is related to population immediate material means, and simple and self-evident that way human behaviour is influ- levels and tends to fluctuate consequently the degree of eco- its simple enunciation is almost enced by others, has been itself around absolute subsistence nomic development attained by sufficient to secure assent.” strongly influenced by the work levels. For Marx and earlier a given people or during a given Those who denigrate evolu- of Muzaffar Sharif, a theorist of thinkers, labour is the only epoch, form the foundation tion say: “But it’s only a theory.” group dynamics. source of value. upon which the state institu- And so it is. Running a US summer camp It’s really a very simple idea tions, the legal conceptions, art But Darwinism, as a work- in the 1950s, he brought a yet proves often to be the idea and even the ideas on religion ing device to understand how group of boys together, allowed most difficult to accept or of the people concerned have species adapt and change over them to make friends, then grasp. For acting out the laws been evolved and in the light of time due to sexual selection separated them into two fac- of economics is largely an act which they must, therefore, be and adaptive benefits, is com- tions to compete for a prize. without comprehension. explained, instead of vice versa, parable to Marxism. The insight He believed they would forget But, much like the way work- as had hitherto been the case.” that labour is the source of all their friendships and start ing people became increasingly There were, naturally, materi- value, that people as a group demonising one another, but a suspicious of New Labour or the alist philosophers before Marx. tend to do what benefits them manufactured end would come EU, most workers emotionally But he was the first to as a group and that the course after a forest fire so that, when divine that there’s something explain and demonstrate that of history is very much influ- faced with a shared threat, the not quite right about the way a the state, ideas or religious enced by these things is just as group would be forced to work boss makes money out of them. faith are not the driving forces powerful. as one team again. The learned professors of of history but rather the dia- A scientific law is thought Sharif believed that com- economics think supply and lectics of productive forces, of as the description of an petition over scarce resources demand, and profit and loss, of technology and man, and observed phenomenon, which could drive people to enmity are key drivers of the economy of production conditions, in does not explain the phenom- but place a common obstacle in What followers of The and rarely speak of Marx, if juridical terms, the conditions enon. That is where scientific their way and they co-operate. Simpsons would today think they do so at all, without dis- of property. theory comes in. Facts, laws, During his youth, he had wit- of as Homer and Mr Burns. missiveness. It was in Brussels that Marx theories and hypotheses are nessed devastating inter-ethnic The system damages every- Any debate about Marx and and Engels fleshed this out in distinct things. One doesn’t violence between Turks, Greeks one, even those with enormous his life always seems to try to their manuscript The German become the other or grow and Armenians. What is known “ power and wealth. Marx the pose the early Marx against the Ideology. It was a revolution in into it. as the “Robbers’ Cave experi- Alienation is a thinker was truly curious about late Marx and that is as point- social science. For the first time Much of Marx’s thinking is ment” is still thought of as humanity and the concept of less as trying to isolate those the internal laws, which form a a statement about an observed one of the best-known exam- alienation that he developed pages of Capital that speak society, were formulated. phenomenon, which in the ples of realistic conflict theory, term rooted in did not come out of thin air. about capitalism’s inevitable But Marx also discovered the minds of most scientists ought although doubts about its sci- Alienation is a term rooted in doom to make a case for how law of motion of the capitalist to make it a law, but scientific entific rigour now apply. the desire to the desire to rationally explain outdated he is. mode of production and the laws are often mathematical Why humans are prone to odd kinds of human behaviour Marx developed himself as bourgeois society it produced — descriptions of natural phe- co-operate puzzles biologists, rationally that can certainly be traced to he tried to understand the surplus value and the economi- nomenon — for example, New- psychologists and economists at least the 12th century BC. world around him and so too cal mechanism of exploitation. ton’s Law of Gravity. alike. Between-group conflict is Early attempts to elaborate can we. He left a legacy of The purchase of labour force The more contested Marx’s even thought to drive within- explain odd a discipline that we might thinking that is focused on by an owner of capital is the thinking has become, the more group co-operation. Altruism call “psychology” saw the old the reality of the here and now. base of this society of private we shy away from using the seems to be hard-wired into kinds of human word “alienist” — a mind doc- The complexities of that proc- property of the means of pro- term “laws,” but Marx more us, even in a commodity- tor — emerge from the Latin ess are not the point. Rather, it duction, because the labour than adequately explained why dominated economy. The evo- behaviour that root word alienare, meaning is where our ideas come from force produces more than the the phenomenon that is capital- lution of co-operation among to make strange. and what we do with them that expense needed to buy it. ism works the way it does. unrelated individuals is a fun- When Marx referred to matters. At the heart of a very This fact is not fading away Arguably, Engels should have damental issue being studied can certainly be opium in the famous pas- human personality lay a very just because many people dubbed Marxism, like Darwin- in the biological and social sage about religion, which he real understanding of what it ignore it. The same goes for ism, a Theory of Exploitation sciences. traced to at penned in 1843, it is highly means to be a human. the class that possesses only and How It Drives History. Marx never aimed to paint a likely that his contemporary its labour force or a little more. Marx never said that full com- picture of the world as divided least the 12th knowledge of the work of alien- ■ Graham Stevenson is Midlands It is still there and the coun- munism would end human con- between the pleasant but stupid ists informed the sketching out district secretary of the Communist terpart to the class of owners of flict, merely that it would end worker and the vicious and evil of his own notion of alienation. Party and a trustee of the Marx the means of production. the systemic political conflict capitalist. century BC And perhaps how opium was Memorial Library. Marx studied intensively morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online May 5-6 2018 7

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in Asia and as the world’s leading exporter of high technology for 150 years, only regaining this in the current epoch. The European counterrevolu- tionary wars of tsarist Russia, the atrocities of Britain in India and in Ireland, the “blood and iron” politics of Prussia showed that capitalism and war are two sides of the same coin. In 1853 Marx wrote in the New York Daily Tribune, where he published more than 500 articles in 10 years as London correspondent: “The profound hypocrisy and inherent barbarism of bourgeois civilisation lies unveiled before our eyes, turning from its home, where it assumes respectable forms, to the colonies, where it goes naked.” One could say almost the same in 2018 about Nato and the EU, repeating Marx’s 1859 denun- ciation of “the great lie.” “Si vis pacem, para bellum — if you want peace, prepare for war.” So begins in Europe “every one of those wars of civilisation which belong with their frivolous barbarism to the best times of robber barons, which, however, with their perfidiousness are exclusively part of the modern period of the imperialist bourgeoisie.” wrote years later that Marx of repression and surveillance. Right now we witness the followed his aim with “energy, They had learnt nothing and “perfidiousness of the imperi- power of will and rigid convic- forgotten nothing. alist bourgeoisie” — there is a tion.” A fascinating person for The same went for the ruled, risk of nuclear war. Philosopher, his contemporaries. the people. The demand made by Marx Philosophy, economy, class They remained apparently in the article I quoted above struggle and politics were for silent, because they had suf- is more urgent today than Marx a unity. fered 25 years of nearly perma- in his time. “The bourgeois Lenin wrote in 1913, 30 years nent war, raging from Lisbon to period of history has to cre- after the death of Marx, that Moscow. Engels wrote in 1880 ate the material basis of the economist, these were the “three sources on the era of enlightenment new world — on the one hand and three ingredients of Marx- before the revolution of 1789: universal intercourse founded ism.” “The promised eternal peace upon the mutual dependency Theory without practice is was turned into an endless war of mankind, and the means of foolish, practice without theory of conquest.” that intercourse, on the other is blind, eyeless. But on the other hand, after hand the development of the revolutionist – Besides, Marx was together 1789 Europe had witnessed productive powers of man and with Martin Luther and Johann uprisings, rebellions and the the transformation of material Wolfgang Goethe one of the first national war of partisans, production into a scientific best writers in the German the “little war,” the guerilla. domination of natural agencies. language. Germany saw the biggest “Bourgeois industry and being up-to- Many notions of his are now mass unrest since the peasants’ commerce create these mate- common parlance, like the war 300 years earlier. And like rial conditions of a new world famous first words of the Com- a thunderclap came the revo- in the same way as geological munist Manifesto, “The history lution of slaves in the richest revolutions have created the of all hitherto existing society French colony, Saint Domingue, surface of the Earth. is the history of class struggles.” today’s Haiti. “When a great social revo- date with Marx From his youth Marx was The revolution reclaimed the lution shall have mastered the looking for an answer to the human rights of all people. It results of the bourgeois epoch, question, under which condi- was a unique successful slave the market of the world and the development of sciences, by Arnold Schölzel sible only in another society, a tions can human beings live uprising in world history. the modern powers of produc- of technology. socialist one. freely — as far as labour and It foreshadowed the broader tion and subjected them to the Today we are in a new indus- This perspective is nature allow? liberation of the oppressed common control of the most trial revolution, based on a unchanged. Engels said in His answer was that there after the next great revolu- advanced peoples, only then scientific and technological be a similar development in the his speech pf 1883: “Marx was cannot be freedom for the tion in Russia in 1917 and after will human progress cease to revolution. future or if we shall have a sim- above all else a revolutionist. working class under capitalism. World War II in the libera- resemble that hideous, pagan The internet and social ilar increase of productivity. “His real mission in life was I want to demonstrate this with tion wars of the colonial and idol who would not drink the media are not the core of this But it is certain that the to contribute, in one way or an example. It’s about the causes oppressed peoples of Africa, nectar but from the skulls of revolution, they are precursors struggle has begun to dominate another, to the overthrow of of war in capitalist society. Asia and South America. the slain.” of a revolution in the produc- this field of new technology — capitalist society and of the We have to imagine Marx and This period after 1815 is simi- Marx knew what capitalism tion processes itself. in the US, the EU and China. state institutions which it had Engels as they were born 200 lar to the time we have lived means. He could not know that A philosopher in Germany Around 1900 the technological brought into being, to contrib- years ago, when the impact of in since 1990. The progressive it would become a danger for calls it the revolution of the base of monopoly capitalism, of ute to the liberation of the mod- the Great French Revolution of movements are internally sup- the existence of all human tools of thinking after the imperialism, came into being. ern proletariat, which he was 1789 still shook the continent. pressed. And there’s a second beings. His conclusion in this revolution of the tools of instru- Today we face new forms of the first to make conscious of It did so in a double respect. similarity — war remained a text, to master the results of ments, which we had in the social production in private its own position and its needs, Nobody had forgotten the part of this social “order.” the bourgeois epoch in a new previous 250 years. ownership. That means the conscious of the conditions of revolution, not the victorious The French invasion of Alge- society, describes the only Since around 1900, chemis- technological revolution will its emancipation. Fighting was kings and emperors who ruled ria, the so called Opium Wars chance for mankind. try and electrical industry, and be used to harm the working his element.” the roost after the victory over of Britain, the wars in South later car production, have been class by reducing wages and Pavel Annenkov, a Russian the “monster” Napoleon I. America are subjects of many ■ Arnold Scholzel is a former edi- the leading branches. increasing poverty. Another revolutionary who visited Marx This was an epoch of resto- writings by Marx and Engels. tor of the German newspaper Junge We don’t know if there will direction of development is pos- in Brussels in 1845 or 1846, ration and counterrevolution, China lost its leading position Welt. 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ILLIAM MOR- RIS, who was already a poet, painter, Two ‘companions of Wdesigner and translator of medieval Icelandic sagas, began to read the work of Karl Marx, whom he never met, early in Marx’ who fought for the 1882, when he was in his late forties and Marx himself was approaching his 64th birthday, having one more year to live. Studying Marx was crucial to Morris’s becoming a socialist people of Luxembourg journalist, thinker and educator. RADICAL: William Morris Morris was a man of intense feelings, burning with a desire and never acquiring another. OR many decades by Ali Ruckert and it was followed by a wave eyewitness stated that she had to understand better how the Then war drums began to Luxembourg was of arrests throughout Belgium. seen him at his window with a world worked. He was already beat for Britain to intervene in named the For- Together with 43 comrades, loaded musket, as if he wanted an enemy of the processes of conflict between Russia and Tur- est Department, a Tedesco was accused of high to defend the barricade in front industrial capitalism, having key. Although Britain ultimately Fdenomination it held joined the Liberal Party, where treason, tried in Antwerpen and of the house. originally considered these, as a went no further than drumming under French rule he was part of the radical wing, sentenced to death. But it was not possible to prove child of the romantic movement, and diplomatic opportunism, in from 1795 to 1814 which denoted which stood for basic improve- Three months later, the death direct participation in the insur- by situating himself notionally 1879 came war on Afghanistan its supposed backwardness. ments of the working and liv- sentence was commuted to 20 rection and he had to be released in medieval times in order to and in 1882 came the shelling But Luxembourg in the mid- ing conditions of the working years imprisonment. During his on November 3 after which he judge the era in which he lived. of Alexandria. These imperial- dle of the 19th century was not a people. incarceration in the infamous returned to Luxembourg. In doing so he had taken the ist adventures appalled Morris. country without class struggles, Some time later, he joined Huy fortress, Tedesco wrote his In the following years, Leib- same path as had his early influ- Born rich as the son of a Lon- even taking note of the fact that the communist correspond- Catechism of the Proletarian, in fried was especially active as a ences, Thomas Carlyle and John don banker and rich in his own they were overlain for a long ence committee and then the which he explains by questions financial sponsor of the social- Ruskin. right as a manufacturer and period of time by the struggles League of the Just, which at the and answers the economic situ- democratic movements in Ger- Political understanding devel- vendor of products enjoying the about the national question. beginning of June in London was ation in Belgium and denounces many, Austria and Luxembourg. oped through Morris’s increasing benefit of his remarkable skills, At that time, many Luxem- renamed League of Communists the disastrous working and liv- This was mainly after the participation in public debate Morris’s main place of abode had bourgers of bourgeois origin and changed its slogan from All ing conditions of the workers, so-called Law on Socialists of from 1876 onwards in person since 1878 been Kelmscott House studied at Belgian, French and People are Brothers to Working- but his work became buried in 1878 and the ban on the Social- and by pen. in Hammersmith. German universities and many men of all Countries, Unite! oblivion after a short time. Democratic Party in the German This was in regard to both He lived there with his wife Luxembourg workers, craftsmen After the Communist Mani- Tedesco was released from empire, but also after 1890, when international politics and to Jane and daughters, often spend- and day labourers went to work festo was published in London in prison after five-and-a-half it was necessary to finance the the systematic “restoration” of ing time weaving on a loom in for a time to Liège, Brussels or 1848, Tedesco began to translate years, but his imprisonment participation of social democrats medieval buildings, which he his bedroom. The deterioration Paris, where they first made it into French. The manuscript, did not pass without a trace. He in elections, and then in Lux- opposed, considering it mis- of his daughter Jenny’s health in contact with revolutionary and which was captured by the police lost his revolutionary enthusi- embourg when a public limited guided to go beyond “preserva- 1882 caused him much anguish. even communist ideas. when he was arrested in June asm and his energy. He became company was founded in 1899 to tion.” Crom Price, a friend of Mor- Some weeks before the first 1848, was never found. a registered lawyer in Arlon, was create a first House of the People) In January 1876, he resigned ris, wrote in his diary on April posters and leaflets against Tedesco, who already worked elected for the Liberal Party to in the city of Esch/Alzette. from his copper mines company 22 that year: “Top [ie Morris] absolutism — the Grand Duchy as lawyer, was arrested for the Arlon city council and the pro- Furthermore, it is said that he directorship and from wearing to breakfast at Ned’s [ie artist was ruled in a personal union first time in Brussels on February vincial council of the Province participated as observer in the top-hats to sitting on his own Edward Burne-Jones] — extra with the Kingdom of the Neth- 26 1848 and imprisoned for 12 of Luxembourg. second congress of the Socialist erlands by Dutch King Willem days after an insurrection of the He was able to render finan- International in Brussels from II — appeared in Luxembourg in workers, who wanted to follow cial support to many citizens August 16-22 1891. 1848 and the workers for the first the example of the successful who were in danger of poverty, When Leibfried died on March time raised demands for legal revolution in Paris, was broken but he departed finally from the 1 1905 an epitaph appeared in reductions to working hours and up by the army. revolution and from his Marxist the social-democratic paper a legal minimum wage, the Man- But the industrial unrest con- friends. Der Arme Teufel (The Poor ifesto of the Communist Party tinued. Another attempt to bring We should also remember Devil) saluting him as a model An easily had been published in London. the French revolution to Belgium Wilhelm Leibfried. He was born of “imperturbable loyalty and On behalf of the Paris district by 2,000 armed Belgian revolu- on July 15 in Trier, Karl Marx’s readiness to make sacrifices in committee of the Union of Com- tionaries was smashed by the birthplace near the Luxembourg the struggle for freedom and the munists, Friedrich Engels had Belgian army on March 29 1848 border, and at 19 he left Trier and rights of the people.” elaborated the Fundamentals settled with family relatives in Just 70 years after the revolu- accessible of Communism as a draft pro- Remich in southern Luxembourg. tionary events of 1848, a new rev- gramme. Leibfried participated actively olutionary movement rose up in In a letter dated November in the revolutionary develop- Luxembourg under the influence 23-24 1847, he asked Karl Marx ments in Luxembourg between of the October Revolution in Rus- to think over the “statement of March and July 1848 and later sia and the November Revolution beliefs.” found himself in September in Germany, in which miners introduction Some days later Marx and 1848 as part of the revolution- and steel workers played a deci- Engels were mandated by the ary insurrection in Frankfurt sive role and where they were second congress of the Union am Main, Germany. able to enforce important politi- of Communists, meeting from When Prussian troops occupied cal and social achievements, November 29 to December 8 in Frankfurt on September 17 1848, such as a general right to vote London, to work out the new more than 40 barricades were and the eight-hour working-day. to Marxism programme. erected the following day at many Anyhow there was no revolu- One of the delegates from Bel- “ points in the city. Hardware shops, tionary overthrow and it was not gium to that congress, together weapons depots and arsenals were possible to achieve the socialisa- with Marx and Engels, was Vic- Leibfried attacked and the main part of the tion of the capitalist means of JONATHAN WHITE reviews tor Tedesco from Luxembourg. Frankfurt militia went over to the production. He had known Marx, who participated side of the revolutionary workers The Communist Party of Lux- most probably was never in and craftsmen. embourg (KPL) was founded on a new book by Robert Luxembourg, since 1846, when actively in the Leibfried was arrested before January 2 1921 — the only party, he established contact with the the Prussian troops began to which until our day is based on communist correspondence storm the barricades. Under the programme of the Com- Griffiths on Marx’s Das committee in Brussels that had revolutionary police questioning he denied munist Manifesto by Karl Marx been founded in spring 1846. any participation in the armed and Friedrich Engels and strives Kapital and Capitalism Today Tedesco was born in 1821 in developments in insurrection. for the abolition of the capital- the Paschtoueschgaass (priests’ But when he was searched, ist order of exploitation and its street) in the city of Luxembourg. Luxembourg in they found two loaded pistols, replacement by socialism. At the age of 21, a law stu- gunpowder and a dagger in dent, he became member of his bag. In his apartment, they ■ Ali Ruckert is president of the Com- the Masonic Lodge and later he 1848 also found a loaded musket. An munist Party of Luxembourg. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online May 5-6 2018 9

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from Nowhere, a utopian novella which remains today both highly readable and relevant. Thompson commented that The crucial impact of Marx half the latter’s purpose was a criticism of capitalist society and the other half “a revelation of the powers slumbering within men and women and distorted on William Morris or denied in class society.” Morris did not underestimate the mountainous task of trans- successors, played a vital part in the happiness or misery of the At the end of 1884 Morris forming society. He wrote: “It is JOHN ELLISON explains Morris’s evolution into a rounded greater part of humanity … with others left the Federation not a small change in life that and profound socialist thinker. What business have we with and set up the Socialist League. we advocate but a very great A symbolic date was Janu- art at all unless all can share it?” Soon after, he became editor one … Socialism will transform how the great philosopher ary 13 1883, when he joined the His understanding of the vital of the League’s weekly publica- our lives and habits and leave Social Democratic Federation, connection between capitalism tion, Commonweal. For the next the greater part of the political owned by as much as led by and imperialism was captured five years he edited the paper, social and religious controversies convinced Morris that a Alfred Hyndman, who inap- in another early lecture, in contributing many remarkable that we are now so hot about for- propriately regarded his own which he said of imperialism: pieces of political journalism. gotten, useless and lifeless like top hat, as well as his own dis- “It is simply the agony of capi- In this final but enormously wrecks stranded on a seashore.” different way of ordering tortions of Marxism, as assets to talism driven by a force it cannot fruitful socialist period of Mor- His conviction that a dif- the working-class movement. resist to seek for new and ever ris’s life, he delivered powerful ferent way of ordering society Edward Thompson, in his new markets at any price and insights through his articles and from that in which he lived had society was possible magnificent life of Morris, esti- any risk.” lectures into the relationship grown, in part, from his own mated that Morris was one of In 1885, his poem The Pil- between art and society, past personal investigations into the brilliant after overcoming some age of 62 in 1896. perhaps a total of 200 people grims of Hope, told of how he and present. pre-industrial capitalism work- drooping spirits on account of Stating this more robustly, who became socialists in Britain had experienced the satisfaction Edward Thompson pinned shop system present a century Jenny … was full of Karl Marx Capital was an essential element around that time. of joining the ranks of socialists. down this contribution with earlier. which he had begun to read in in his conversion, in enabling Morris’s life continued to be I was one of the band. razor-edged definition, saying: It was because of this, he French — praised Robert Owen and encouraging him “to cross multifaceted. During 1882 he And now the streets seem gay and “Where Ruskin had jabbed an declared in an 1884 lecture to highly.” the river of fire” to committed established a new work base the high stars glittering bright; indignant finger at capitalism the Society opposing the fashion The first English edition of socialist convictions and cam- for the firm of Morris and Co, And for me, I sing amongst them, and had often — guided by Car- for medieval building restora- Capital was not to appear until paigning. Its lessons informed where painted glass, embroidery, for my heart is full and light. lyle’s wrath at the ‘cash-nexus’ tion, that it was, “with a ready 1887, and Morris did not read and were to drive the artistic tapestries, carpets, wallpaper, I see the deeds to be done and the — indicated, in the worship sympathy that I read the full German. and literary work that was yet wall-hangings, curtains and fur- day to come on the earth, of Mammon, the source of its explanation of the change and So Capital, for Morris, had to to come. niture were produced for sale to And riches vanished away and degradation and horror, Morris its tendencies in the writings of be in French. Working his way Other serious reading of the well-off. sorrow turned to mirth; was able in page after page of a man, I will say a great man, through it and deriving from it Henry George, Robert Owen On March 6 1883 he gave his I see the city squalor and the coun- coherent and detailed histori- whom, I suppose, I ought not an understanding that crucial to and the socialism-sceptical John first explicitly socialist lecture in try stupor gone. cal exposition to reveal in the to name in this company, and human historical development Stuart Mill, and discussions with Manchester. The subject was Art, And we a part of it all — we twain very processes of production the who cleared my mind on several was the struggle between classes others, were parts of the process Wealth and Riches. He wrote no longer alone economic root both of capitalist points, also unmentionable here, was revelatory. too, but Marx’s analysis of capi- about this soon afterwards: “I In the days to come of the pleasure, exploitation and of the corrup- relating to this subject of labour It assisted Morris substantially talism past and present, and his specially wanted to point out in the days that are of the ﬁght — tion of art.” and its products…” to define the outlook that was to conclusion that socialism and that the question of popular art I was born once long ago: I am In 1886 his A Dream of John He was referring, of course, be his until his own death at the communism were its necessary was a social question, involving born again tonight. Ball appeared and in 1890 News to Karl Marx.

AST year saw the by productive and unproduc- in value theory. The discussion position of women in capitalist and one of the most valuable at of the current political crisis. At 150th anniversary tive labour, how do values of the reserve army of labour society. this particular time, discusses such a time, it’s vital to have of Das Kapital, oth- transform into prices, how do shows that the current anxiety Capitalist industry, as Marx how Das Kapital sheds light on the case for examining these erwise known as the crisis tendencies in capital- about precarious work is, in fact, shows, sucks women workers 20th century and contemporary experiments with a slightly LVolume I of Capital, ism work? All these questions symptomatic of the reassertion into industrial production, into attempts to build socialism. more sophisticated conceptual coinciding with a are addressed here and in a way of capital’s tendency to create a the factory system and into the Marx was always seeking to armoury than is used in main- period in which the systemic that explains to the reader what reserve army of labour in the domestic putting-out system as uncover the germinal forms stream political discourse. crisis tendencies of the capital- exactly is at stake in each case. advanced capitalist world “after part of its endless struggle raise of the possible socialist future In a short book, designed to be ist system are only too apparent. Particularly valuable is the the freak period brought on by the rate of exploitation bringing within capitalism and Griffiths easily accessible, hard choices have The work of Marx and Engels discussion of whether Marx’s world war and the destruction horrific conditions and lower picks out these passages well. to be made about what to stress. is receiving renewed attention. general law of capitalist accu- of value on an epic scale, capi- wages in its wake. This is important because it Personally, I’d have liked more Crowds of people from all back- mulation meant that workers talism has returned to normal,” reminds us that Das Kapital is discussion of the centrality of grounds have queued up to would be absolutely or only Griffiths says, “complete with et at the same not simply a critique of political alienation and estrangement to attend lectures and discussions relatively immiserated. its reserve army of labour, its time Marx never economy but a scientific attempt Das Kapital. Perhaps inevitably at the Marx Memorial Library Griffiths argues convinc- migrant worker battalions and lost sight of the to uncover the forces working too, Marx’s dialectical material- in London. ingly that the immiseration of its temporary, casual, flexible dialectics of his- to bring about the possible tran- ist methodology and historical New editions of classic works the working class envisaged in and zero-hour contracts.” Ytorical develop- scendence of capitalism. materialist approach are only have appeared and new works Marx’s theory is both absolute Similarly, the discussion of ment. Just as The book makes a trench- lightly referred to in passing. have hit the shelves. Most of — for the industrial reserve capital’s tendencies to concen- capitalism brought into being ant and invaluable defence of But these are minor quibbles. these are academic works and army in particular — and rela- tration and centralisation is massive forces of socially organ- Soviet and Chinese socialism The real force and great value some of them are deservedly tive and that the tendencies to brought bang up to date with ised production, so capitalism but critically it does so not by of the book is its resolutely con- revered. create both are always at work. a discussion of the dominance began laying the basis for a tallying up their achievements temporary focus and the way But Robert Griffiths’s new As he points out, a look at the of transnational corporations in higher form of relationship but by doing what Marx would it helps us to see immediate book for Manifesto Press current immiseration of the the global economy. between men and women. have done, looking at the funda- issues on the left and in the deserves to be widely read, not actual working class across Marx’s theory of the emer- He quotes Marx thus: “How- mental relations of production labour movement in relation to just by students but throughout the globe reinforces this view. gence of interest-bearing capi- ever terrible and disgusting the at their basis. the dynamics of the capitalist the left and the labour move- Widening inequality and the tal dealing in proliferating dissolution, under the capital- As he argues in relation to the mode of production. This will ment more widely. erosion of the quality of life are fictitious capital is applied to ist system, of the old family Soviet Union, “political deficien- make it a great teaching and Marx’s Das Kapital and Capi- coupled with stark examples of the financial crisis, together ties may appear, nevertheless cies in the ways in which state discussion text. talism Today couples great absolute pauperisation across with a fair discussion of Marx- modern industry, by assigning power was exercised can be Coming at a time when the clarity of exposition with an the global working class. ist debates about whether this as it does an important part of combined with selected quo- labour movement needs to absolutely contemporary focus The book’s greatest merit was a crisis of overproduction the process of production, out- tations from Marx to question rebuild its political education, on what Marx’s great work tells lies in the way the author has or something more nuanced in side the domestic sphere, to whether this new system was that’s a really good thing to have us about our world. Das Kapital worked to show exactly how which financialisation inter- women, to young persons and indeed ‘socialism.’ But economi- around. is explained in clear, simple lan- reading Das Kapital sheds light acted with falling rates of profit. to children of both sexes, cre- cally, from the standpoint of guage which does not shy away on the immediately obvious In a particularly valuable ates a new economic foundation capital, it most certainly was.” ■ Marx’s Das Kapital and Capital- from the great controversies in appearances of capitalist crisis section, Griffiths takes time to for a higher form of the family It’s no accident that the record ism Today (88pp, pbk, £8) is avail- Marxist thought. today. show that Das Kapital contains and of the relations between of actually existing socialism able from Manifesto Press, Ruskin The great debates are all The discussion of self-employ- far more discussion than Marx the sexes.” is under renewed attack at the House, 23 Coombe Road, Croydon here — what did Marx mean ment, for example, is located is often given credit for of the The final section of the book, moment. 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MARX 200 n BOOK REVIEW n POETRY Much to gain from Mayakovsky on Marx Extracted from Lenin by Vladimir Mayakovsky, translated by Rosy Carrick, published by Smokestack Books, smokestack-books.co.uk

A World to Win Marx! His portrait’s grey-framed sternness grips one. A new book on Marx draws some tendentious conclusions, but it’s But what a gulf between impressions an invaluable addition to the literature, says CARLOS MARTINEZ and his life! What we see A World to Win: The Life and The book’s greatest at any summation of leveraged them towards a pro- immured in marble Works of Karl Marx achievement lies in its his work, much less gramme of political action. The or in gypsum by Sven-Eric Liedman compelling demonstra- any system.” alternative was humble accept- seems a cold old man (Verso, £28) tion of the continued The -ism was added to ance of a vicious imperialist long since past care and strife. relevance of Marx’s cri- Marx by followers after status quo. But when the workers took — tique of capitalism. In a his death. This insight Consistent with his disdain uncertain yet in earnest — VEN-ERIC LIEDMAN’S post-Soviet era, where is helpful as a warning for systematising Marx, Lied- the first short steps new biography of capitalist liberalism is against dogma and as a man has no time at all for the along their revolutionary path, Karl Marx aims to supposed to have tri- reminder that Marx’s socialist experiments in the into that giant, Sprovide the reader umphed once and for work was not complete Soviet Union, China or Cuba blazing furnace with a nuanced and all and where bourgeois econo- and that socialism is not a closed — Vietnam, Laos, Korea, Gre- Marx detailed account of the intellec- mists and politicians routinely book but a living science in need nada and elsewhere don’t get fanned up his mind and heart! tual giant’s life and thought. label Marxism as obscure and of constant development. a mention. As if he’d drudged whole shifts Beyond the biographical antiquated, Liedman is able to Yet Liedman’s objections to The USSR from the 1920s in every factory outline and the coverage of the show that the contradictions of “system-building” come across onwards “had no connection himself best-known aspects of Marx’s capitalism identified by Marx as being rooted in a rather with Karl Marx,” he contends, and, work in Capital and The Com- are as present as ever. stuffy academic perspective while Cuba showed some early callousing his hands, munist Manifesto, Liedman The working class — those that has limited interest in the promise but “gradually became each tool and job had handled, also gives a fairly detailed who rely on selling their labour practical, real-world application more and more like other Marx caught description of Marx’s explora- power in order to survive — of Marx’s analysis. Soviet-supported regimes, with the pilferers tions in philosophy and the tra- continues to grow, exploitation After Engels and Kautsky, food shortages and political dis- jectory of his theoretical ideas. and poverty are rampant and Lenin is the chief culprit in sidents in prison.” There are no of surplus value This, along with an examina- crises are acute. terms of turning Marx into words about the island’s extraor- with their pelf, tion of the intellectual relation- Marx didn’t prescribe the Marxism and elaborating a dinary social welfare, highly red-handed. ship between Marx and Engels dimensions of a new society, clear ideological system. Was educated people or inspiringly Where others quailed, and an interesting analysis of the but he concluded that the lib- he wrong to do so? Lenin’s selfless internationalism. eyes dropped too low fate of Marxist thought in the eration of humanity would Marxism incorporated Marx’s Marx analysed the two- in awe decades after his death, mean come through the liberation most important formulations month Paris Commune in great to peer up that Liedman’s book can justify of the working class. Liedman and synthesised and simplified detail, drawing lessons from it even as high a place in the crowded shelf demonstrates that this conclu- them such that they could form that he incorporated into his as a profiteer’s umbilicus, devoted to the study of Marx. sion is still valid. a firm ideological basis for a overall political understand- Marx The author is nothing if not Another key point that he mass political party capable ing. Would he really have dis- undertook erudite and his meticulous emphasises is that Marx didn’t of establishing working-class missed workers’ states that had to lead the proletariat coverage of Marx’s chang- really set out to build “Marx- power and building a new to make compromises in order into class war ing opinions on philosophy ism.” He delved into numer- social order. to defend themselves from old to slay the golden calf, is interesting and important, ous areas of knowledge and Lenin — and other great ruling classes and relentless by then a bull, although it makes for slow and developed several important Marxists after him — took external pressure? immense and bellicose. difficult reading for anyone not theses, but he “never arrived Marx’s ideas and method and Into the bay of communism, well-versed in the subtleties of odern China is still fogged Hegelian logic — this reviewer dismissed by the with blinding mystery, included. author as “the we thought For the newer reader, A most expansive M the waves of chance alone World to Win usefully explains capitalist econ- many of the key ideas and omy of the 21st century,” a “more could bring us phrases of Marxism such as the than 60-year dictatorship” with a from our hell. dictatorship of the proletariat, “neoliberal economic policy.” For Marx the transformation of quantity Marx, apparently, “it would have disclosed the deepest into quality and commodity been inconceivable that a country laws of history, fetishism and it describes the that quotes him would drive capi- put the proletariat evolution of these ideas over talism to its utmost extremes.” at the helm. the course of Marx’s life. It’s generally best not to No, project one’s opinions onto the Marx’s books deceased Marx, but it’s not so aren’t merely print and paper, difficult to imagine him being not dust-dry manuscripts cheered and astounded by the with dull statistic figures. emergence of China — a coun- His books try that during his lifetime brought order endured the most awful pov- to the straggling ranks of labour erty and colonial humiliation and led them forward, — as an advanced industrial full of faith and vigour. power at the cutting edge of He led them science and technology, with an and he told them: enormous working class and a standard of living approaching ‘Fall in battles! that of Western Europe. The proof Defects notwithstanding, of theories Liedman’s book is a thorough, are concrete deeds. TRUTH IN JEST: Images by Stefan well-researched and valuable He’ll come Siegert (above) and (right) Olivier contribution to the literature one day, Siersma from the new cartoon on Marx’s thought. It will the genius of practice, book I’ll Have the Last Laugh Yet! surely inspire readers to go and guide you on available from the Morning Star at direct to the source and study from books shop. morningstaronline.co.uk Marx for themselves. to battlefields!’ morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline culture Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online May 5-6 2018 11

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N THE 36 years Martin Rowson has been car- Ben Cowles tooning professionally, interview his work has appeared Iregularly in the Guard- ian, The Times, The Mir- ror and, of course, the Morn- ing Star which, he laughs, “has Marx’s critical friend managed to exploit my surplus value very eff ectively.” When Rowson and I meet in a Greenwich eel and pie shop to discuss his extraordinary new MARTIN ROWSON tells the Star what inspired him to create comic-book adaptation of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels’s The Communist Manifesto, I a comic-book version of The Communist Manifesto want to know what inspired him to create the book. eight years in this country has “I found The Communist just been about making money. Manifesto completely expli- It’s treating this country as a cable when I was 16. It all salvage operation, making made total sense. It made me more money for the already look at history diff erently,” he rich but also the cost in human explains. misery. So you have these toi- “I was a public-school proto- lets that treat people like shit. punk and I’d had a lifelong I just went for the obvious gag. obsession with the Soviet And they’re just great to draw. Union, I think because my “The basic sense of humour father, who was a scientist, can be typifi ed by this noise,” went to a lot of scientifi c con- he says and mimics a farting ventions there when I was very sound, “which is the noise small and it was this other shit makes when it comes out place which you couldn’t go of your body. “ Any child over to, which was mysterious and the age of one will laugh at that strange.” because if you didn’t laugh at Marx’s greatest achievement that, you’d go mad with existen- in The Communist Manifesto, tialist horror at the stuff pour- Rowson maintains, “is not who shits and wanks and pisses ing out of your body on a daily about dialectical materialism, and what’s wrong with that?” basis. And that’s what humour it’s about human beings being Where did the brilliant is about. Humour is laughing at commodifi ed, which is still rel- idea of drawing Big Ben as the the dark side. evant, which is why it’s worth robot’s penis come from? Row- “My whole career as a satirist doing the book.” son quotes Marx. “ ‘The execu- is based on the notion of laugh- Rowson had toyed with sev- tive of the modern state is but ing at the crimes committed by eral ideas to depict Marx in a committee for managing the these arseholes because, when comic-book form before, but, common aff airs of the whole you laugh at them, as Orwell for one reason or another, they bourgeoisie.’ said, every laugh is a tiny revo- never came to fruition, but, “The words are Marx’s, the lution. when graphic novel publishers drawings are mine. He would “It’s the wonderful Jewish SelfMadeHero approached him have approved of this.” gag — he thinks he’s better with the idea of adapting The Along with the giant Modern than you, but he shits and he’s Communist Manifesto, Rowson Industry, another fascinating gonna die. That’s true of Donald realised that this was the book aspect of the book is the toilets Trump, Theresa May, Margaret he should always have done. with Victorian cash registers Thatcher, Karl Marx, Vladimir Its fi rst part sees Marx for heads, which scoop people Lenin, Kim Jong Un and every- and Engels journey through up and fl ush them out behind. body. They’re basically just the a beautifully grotesque and These, Rowson tells me, are same as you or me. They shit darkly satirical 19th century the means of production. “Capi- and they’re going to die.” landscape past rivers of blood talism is about making money, and clunking machinery as the that’s all it is. It’s a brilliant owards the end bourgeoisie gains power over way of wresting power from of the book, Row- the landed aristocracy and the landed aristocracy by say- son has Marx and proceeds to brutally exploit ing that money doesn’t even TEngels charging the working class. exist. It’s about future money. forward from a bar- “I got it in my head straight It’s a kind of spiritualism. It’s ricade into a storm of bullets, a away — this massive tectonic about something that hasn’t la Butch Cassidy and the Sun- clash of classes and history happened yet. As Marx says, dance Kid, shouting: “Working which, as it turned out on the everything melts into air. men of all countries, unite!” page, became this massive “I wanted to get some way of On the next page, a statue of clunking steampunk thing suggesting that, fi rst of all, the the pair is covered in bird shit, building up to a crescendo. making of money is just about which grows to consume the “I was trying to get mental making money, that the last pair and form the face of Joseph images of Marx’s words. So, Stalin, then melts away into when he talks about ‘the his- Leonid Brezhnev’s face before tory of all hitherto existing the bulldozers tear it down to “My beef with Marxism, as “People say to me: ‘You must they can give us is Theresa May society is the history of class make way for the bourgeoisie’s much as I’ve got one, is because be the most cynical person and Donald Trump. struggles,’ you need an image glass towers once again. it was so brilliantly simple, it alive because you do these hor- “None of them is here for- of that. “Of course you mustn’t be lent itself to the simplifi cation rible drawings of politicians.’ ever. This idea that these “And I got the idea of the an uncritical friend of Marx,” of things that are slightly more “No, I’m one of the most ide- people are insurmountable, ‘acme dialecticalator.’It’s the Rowson says when I ask him complicated. But also that it alistic people I know, but I’m indestructible and that we grinding wheels of history and about the end of the book. “The was hierarchical, which is why permanently disappointed. will always strain under their we see how the class system is Soviet Union was not as Marx you got Stalin and a society “I’ve been almost insanely fatuous hegemony — no we created by a mixture of molten would have envisioned it. As far where everybody is being told optimistic because it seems won’t, things will change. iron and blood.” as I believe, he just hated the what to do all the time. so mad to be optimistic at the “They shit and one day will When Marx talks about exploitation of people. Leninism “But surely, the human strug- moment. die. Fuck ’em.” manufacturing being replaced in practice was this hierarchical gle for freedom over the last “But I think this repulsive by the giant of modern indus- system and also dependent on 5,000 years has been to stop emergence of neofascism ■ The Communist Manifesto, try, Rowson thought: “OK, let’s using the bludgeon of the state. having people telling you what may be a busted fl ush because adapted by Martin Rowson, is have a giant called Modern And so I had to make some com- to do and to agree together to do they’re so useless at it. They’re published by SelfMade Hero, price Industry,this enormous robot ment on the Soviet Union. things together. That’s the point. so comprehensively crap, so all £12.99. Thanks for the contribution towards socialism “There must be something Communist Party and effective trade unionism made by rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth of Britain Karl Marx without diminishing its misery” Merseyside Branch born 200 years ago today ‘Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the from activists in the TSSA same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, Cad & Regi at the opposite pole’ Karl Marx

Communist Party Communist Party Communist Party of Britain of Britain of Britain Greater London East Newcastle & Gateshead West Dunbartonshire salutes the eternal memory of Sends greetings to friends and comrades KARL MARX Putting the Marxism back on the bicentenary of Karl Marx whose Revolutionary, internationalist, theoretician and ideas are as relevant as ever. co-founder of scientiﬁ c socialism. into Clydeside He remains an inspiration and a guide to this day.

Communist Party Cangen Pontypridd/ Communist Party of Britain Pontypridd of Britain Northern District Branch CPB Glasgow Branch celebrates the life and outstanding achievements of KARL MARX Anrhydeddwn ac efelychwn Marx You interpreted it, born this day 200 years ago. We are going to change it “The philosophers have only interpreted the world We honour and seek to emulate Marx - the point is, to change it.”

Communist Belfast Shorts and Party of Northern Ireland Technical & Britain Engineering Branch Oxfordshire & Berkshire Sends Revolutionary greetings on the Sending greetings Solidarity bicentenary of Karl Marx on the 200th Come to an Abe Lazarus Society anniversary of to all discussion ‘Karl Marx 200’ on Tuesday May 22, at 7pm in Oxford Town Karl Marx’s birth

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