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STRUGGLE ON THE STREETS KENNY COYLE KEN LIVINGSTONE Protest pics of the week: p8 Why is Japan militarising? p13 15 years on from that Iraq demo: p11 www.morningstaronline.co.uk Jails shunt guards round Britain to fi ll job gaps The great survivor: CON FARE: Eel, pie and mash STAFF CRISIS PRISONS’ £3m TRAVEL BILL

by Will Stone The revelation comes after a damn- ing report into HMP Liverpool found EXCLUSIVE a lack of staff contributed to the “worst MILLIONS of pounds are being squan- living conditions” for prisoners that dered by the government on hotel stays offi cers and nearly £250,000 on rail inspectors have ever seen. for prison offi cers who are being fares up and down the country. Mr Gillan pointed out that the gov- shunted around the country to plug The most expensive month was Octo- ernment has been running detached staffi ng shortfalls at other jails. ber last year, when more than £320,000 duty for four years and that “we can Almost £3 million has been splurged was spent on hotels and over £26,000 only guess” the full cost of the wasteful in the last year on hotel costs and rail on rail fares. scheme. fares to send overworked prison guards Mr Gillan said: “These fi gures high- The POA has argued that health and to understaffed prisons across Britain, light the systematic failings in our safety problems are also created by offi cial Ministry of Justice (MoJ) fi g- prison services and the woeful way in detached duty staff not knowing the ures show. which they are run. prison or prisoners as well as regular Prison Offi cers Association (POA) “I’m astounded that prison staff offi cers. general secretary Steve Gillan told the across the country are being forced to No evidence has ever been given by Star that the government would rather plug gaps at other prisons at the the government to support the scheme’s spend taxpayers’ money on hotels and expense of leaving their own prisons continued operation in terms of its travel than recruit more much-needed under-resourced. effectiveness and value for money, the staff. “It simply robs staff from one estab- union said. Photography book is a The colossal waste in the govern- lishment to prop up recruitment fail- Over the fi rst 13 months of the ment’s so-called “detached duty” ures at another. national scheme, the National Offender scheme was unearthed by a written “Money that is supposed to be going Management Service (now the Prison lovely look at London’s parliamentary question by shadow jus- to prison offi cers in improving pay and and Probation Service) estimated it had tice secretary Richard Burgon. increasing staff is instead going on cost in the region of £63.5m, amounting famous working-class Since December 2016 more than hotel bills. This is no way to deal with to £2,500 per offi cer every month. £2.4m was spent on hotels for prison the crisis in our prisons.” Turn to page 5 dish CULTURE: 17

DISABLED BUS ACCESS KURDISH SYRIA CYRIL REGIS Promised changes vanish: p3 Turkey plans invasion: p6 Premier League tribute: p24 Morning Star 2 NEWS HOME Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018

INDUSTRIAL PARLIAMENT Unite arms workers with Tories will not challenge tool to take on greedy bosses release of rapist Worboys by Lamiat Sabin been kept behind bars while UNITE the union is arming its Parliamentary Reporter the case was reconsidered. shop-fl oor activists with a tool Shadow justice secretary to take on greedy bosses who SERIAL rapist John Worboys Richard Burgon said there claim that there’s not enough could be freed within weeks should be a complete review money in the pot to give decent after the government of the handling of the entire wages. announced yesterday that it Worboys case — from the fi rst The “Pay Claim Generator” will not challenge his release. report to police to the Parole will give union negotiators Justice Secretary David Board’s decision. access to information on com- Gauke (pictured) claimed that He said Mr Gauke’s decision panies’ fi nances within sec- it would “not be appropriate” was “deeply regrettable.” onds to help them draw up to pursue a judicial review of “Many will be very disap- claims on pay and conditions. the Parole Board’s decision to pointed by today’s news,” Mr The information will also release Mr Worboys after less Burgon said. help employees back up their than 10 years in prison for “The government needs to claims for wage increases after attacks on 12 women. take measures that restore being told by bosses that pay The minister had commis- public confi dence in our jus- rises would be unaffordable. sioned legal advice last week tice system. Unite executive offi cer Sha- but told Commons yesterday “It’s clear that there is a ron Graham said: “Unite is that it was not feasible. pressing need for real changes working with members to Lawyers for two of Mr Wor- that will make Parole Board ensure they have the best boys’s victims said that the decisions much more transpar- tools, information and repre- government’s retreat would ent.” sentation to increase their pay not discourage them from Mr Gauke said that the rap- and conditions. launching their own judicial ist will not be released until “[The] generator will help review against the Parole his licensing conditions have stop employers from claiming Board next week. been fi nalised, and victims pay rises are not affordable Mr Gauke’s decision “does mum term of eight years. — one count of rape, fi ve sex- signed up to a contact scheme where they clearly are. not weaken our case at this The 60-year-old, who ual assaults, one attempted have had their say on the “Over the last decade pay stage,” said the women’s solic- drugged and sexually sexual assault, and 12 of restrictions. has shrunk while company itor Harriet Wistrich. assaulted dozens of female administering a substance He also disclosed that a profi ts are up and corporation Earlier this month, the passengers, was jailed indefi - with intent — but police review announced last week tax is down. Workers deserve Parole Board directed the nitely in 2009. believe he had more than 100 will be widened to look at their fair share of the profi ts release of Mr Worboys after He was convicted of 19 victims. whether there should be a they created.” serving just over his mini- offences against 12 victims If the government had been mechanism to allow parole successful in a court chal- decisions to be reconsidered. lenge, Mr Worboys could have [email protected]

LEISURE SERVICES

Swansea Council PRISONS Warnings backtracks on about HMP sports halls sell-off Liverpool

by Felicity Collier replacing those who leave and ‘ignored’ by squeezing employees’ wages and downgrading work- A UNION has blasted the gov- SWANSEA Council is planning ing conditions. ernment for ignoring prison to privatise its leisure services “That means less money in offi cers past warnings about despite previous pledging not the pay packets of people in squalid conditions at HMP to, public-sector union Unison your neighbourhood and less Liverpool, which inspectors revealed yesterday. money spent on Swansea high have now described as Brit- The union says that council streets,” he said. ain’s “worst jail.” offi cials have shortlisted three A spokesperson for the Prison offi cers’ union POA private contractors to run council said it was considering general secretary Steve Gillan Morriston, Penlan and Penyr- options including a not-for- said the justice secretary heol sports centres. profi t trust model, which it needs to listen to staff and In recent years, neighbour- insists is not privatisation. governors before such scan- ing Vale of Glamorgan Council They added that if a third dals are exposed by the media. contracted out some of its party were involved the coun- The damning report by HM services to Parkwood Leisure, cil was “confi dent no jobs will Inspectorate of Prisons, pub- resulting in the closure of one be lost and that that levels of lished yesterday, said the condi- of its leisure centres. access and affordability will tions in the prison were “squalid” Parkwood has also attempted be maintained.” with prisoners forced to live with to block pay increases owed to The union pointed out that rats, cockraoches, blocked toilets leisure centre staff in other leisure centre staff are gener- and pools of urine. parts of Britain. ally low-paid young women Chief Inspector of Prisons The union cited the recent who work around childcare Peter Clarke raised concerns collapse of Carillion as evi- commitments. over the case of one vulnerable dence of how risky and costly It is understood the three man with complex mental privatisation is to taxpayers. private contractors are to sub- health needs who was held in Unison Swansea branch sec- mit bids in April 2018 with a a cell that had no furniture retary Chris Cooze said the view to one taking up the con- other than a bed. council is bowing to pressure tract in October 2018. Mr Gillan said the removal from years of austerity cuts. Unison written to council- of the governor of HMP Liv- He warned a new company lors urging them to support an erpool last October after a would seek to make “quick sav- in-house improvement plan. snap inspection was wrong. ings” by sacking staff or not [email protected] Star comment: p12 Morning Star Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018 HOME NEWS 3

HOLYROOD UNDER-FLOOR HEATING: A disused mine near a village in south Wales will be put to use again — as a source of a hot water to heat homes. Leonard plans Homes in the town of Caerau in the Llynfi Valley, south Wales, will soon be heated by water that has been warmed by the earth in the old Caerau colliery. ‘biggest reform The Welsh governemnt announced the scheme yesterday after it was awarded £6.2 million in EU funds. Cabinet secretary for energy, planning and programme’ rural affairs Lesley Griffi ths said: “This is a cutting-edge model of generating a clean by Peter Lazenby introduce an Industrial source of renewable energy, drawing on the Reform and Common legacy of our coalmining heritage.” Ownership Act to give SCOTTISH LABOUR workers a statutory leader Richard Leonard has preferential right to buy an promised “the biggest enterprise when it is up for programme of social and sale or facing closure. economic reform in the The party will support history of the Scottish the development of co-oper- Parliament” if Labour wins atives, place Co-operative control of Holyrood in 2021. Development Scotland on a Addressing a party statutory footing, and meeting in Dundee yester- create a National Energy day, he said Labour would Company to facilitate and end the Tory privatisation expand community, model that created the co-operative and municipal- Carillion debacle which saw owned energy generation, the construction and Mr Leonard pledged. outsourcing company He also vowed to oppose collapse into liquidation trade deals which would earlier this week. hand public services over to He said: “The Carillion transnational corporations scandal highlights the failure — and said he would take of our creeping reliance on Scotland’s railways back private contractors to deliver into public ownership. public services. [email protected] “It is time to draw a line under this, and look at common-sense ways of bringing these private contracts into public ownership. “Scotland needs to be bold on extending public ownership.” Scottish Labour will work with councils to develop public ownership of services such as buses, social care, building, and TRANSPORT energy, he said. Buses still not fi t It will also Abe Lazarus Society, Oxford ሟሠሡ for disabled people 70th Birthday Greetings to our CPB Comrades Carol and Dave Stavris, and Robert Wilkinson Nothing has changed a year after landmark court ruling (Next ALS Meeting: 7.30pm Tuesday 30th January, Oxford Town Hall. Subject: Historical Materialism.) by Felicity Collier users to give up the space was space but the driver obvi- transfer ticket for the next bus. when needed. ously didn’t want the bother of Campaign for Better Trans- Linda Burnip, co-founder of putting the ramp up.” port chief executive Stephen PEOPLE with disabilities are Disabled People Against Cuts Disability blogger Nina Joseph called for a publicly still being denied proper (DPAC), told the Star that a Childish also claims that the run bus service in rural and access to buses despite a court lack of staff training and ruling has not been put into urban areas that is fully acces- Hold the ruling last year requiring bus awareness among the public practice. sible to people with disabili- drivers to do more to accom- were to blame. “It’s been a year since the ties, including at bus stops. modate wheelchair users, “The only thing that will Supreme Court ruling ... and He said: “Disabled people date! activists claim. make real change is a fully nothing seems to have aren’t well served by the cur- The Supreme Court ruled inclusive education, where changed,” she said. rent system. They last January that drivers must disabled children can get used Ms Childish pointed out that haven’t got buses May 18th, 5.30pm Marx ensure passengers make space to mixing with other children drivers can take several they can get on as for wheelchair users to meet and you’re not seen as some- actions when a passenger the service has been Memorial Library followed obligations under the Equality thing ‘other’.” refuses to move such as play- cut.” by drinks and food in the Act. She highlighted an incident ing an announcement, leav- felicitycollier@ Crown, two days before It followed a discrimination last June, six months after the ing the driving seat to peoples what would have been claim brought by wheelchair ruling, when she tried to board ask the parent or -press. user Doug Paulley against a bus in Whitechapel, London, caregiver to fold com Deano’s 40th birthday. transport fi rm FirstGroup in with a friend who uses a wheel- their buggy or 2012, after he was refused chair. offering a Extracts from fi lm entry onto a bus when a woman While Ms Burnip was London Recruits and with a buggy refused to move. allowed to get on the bus her HAPPIER brief talks from friends Since the decision, disability friend was left waiting by the TIMES: campaigners say the only dis- doors. Doug and comrades. Details to cernible change is on board “The driver deliberately Paulley follow. notices asking non-disabled drove off,” she said, “There Morning Star 4 NEWS HOME Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018

WOMEN Historic inspiration

AN EXHIBITION celebrating the lives of inspirational Leeds women opens in the city today. The display, called A Wom- an’s Place? marks 100 years since women won the right to vote and pays tribute to Leeds activists who contributed to equal rights. It also looks at the struggles and progress of women in achieving equality and recog- nition throughout history. The celebrated fi gures include the 1940s all-female jazz band leader Ivy Benson, who was born in south Leeds in 1913, Olympic cycling cham- pion Beryl Burton, Leeds suf- fragette Mary Gawthorpe and Dr Edith Pechey, one of the fi rst female doctors in Britain. Leeds City Councillor Brian Selby said: “There are some captivating and moving sto- ries, images and objects in this exhibition which combine to illustrate the many different ways that women through the ages have defi ed expectations.” ■ A Woman’s Place? will be running until the end of the year at Abbey House Museum in west Leeds.

PROTEST TRANSPORT Kurds accuse Turkey of war crimes RMT: Get our by Steve Sweeney International Trade Secre- tary Liam Fox visited Ankara last week to oversee an arms KURDISH activists gathered deal struck last January, but freight back outside the Turkish embassy his offi ce refused to confi rm in London yesterday accusing whether human rights issues Ankara of “war crimes” over were raised, saying it would its bombing of Afrin in north- not be appropriate to comment on our tracks ern Syria. on a “private meeting.” Around 50 people took part Kurdistan Solidarity Cam- by Conrad Landin integration as a result of our in the demo, demanding Britain paign co-convenor Mark Industrial Reporter fragmented, privatised railways. stops selling arms to Turkey. Campbell told the Star: “The “The rail freight sector has The People’s Protection border as tension growing over rorists, calling them an off- British government should POLITICIANS and transport taken a battering in recent Units (YPG) reported yester- the role of the YPG in the shoot of the banned Kurdistan cease all arms sales to the bosses should ditch “ego rows” years despite its logistical day morning that Turkey fi red Kurdish enclave of Rojava. Workers Party (PKK). Turkish regime and demand and get freight off Britain’s position and its environmental 70 shells into Kurdish villages Turkish President Recep Protesters chanted: that Turkey adhere to interna- roads and back onto the tracks, credentials. in the Afrin district in north- Tayyip Erdogan threatened to “Erdogan, terrorist” and held tional treaties. rail union RMT said yesterday. “RMT is not interested in ern Syria, while Ankara said “drown the army of terror” in placards with “Hands off “Attacking the democrati- The National Infrastructure rows between various egos and its threatened military assault response to US support for a new Afrin” and “Afrin is not alone.” cally governed and autonomous Commission (NIC) has denied personalities. We are inter- was “de facto” under way. border force of 30,000 troops in They called on international- Syrian province of Afrin clearly speculation that its forthcom- ested in what works.” Turkish forces have been co-operation with Syria’s Kurds. ists to “break the silence” over constitutes a war crime.” ing report on the “future of New fi gures from the Offi ce building up along the Syrian Turkey brands the YPG ter- Turkey’s war on Kurds. [email protected] freight” will be delayed follow- of Rail and Road suggest a ing the resignation of its chair recent up-turn in freight traf- Lord Adonis earlier this month. fi c. But the sector has suffered The former New Labour over the medium term, and the minister prompted anger in decline of Britain’s coal-fi red the rail industry when he said power stations is removing a DOROTHY McLAUGHLIN that “lorry platooning” — once-reliable traffi c stream. In loving memory of Died peacefully, at home, on transporting goods on convoys US businessman Elon Musk 11th January 2018. of Heavy Goods Vehicles has said that his new HGVs DERRICK KING Beloved wife of Bobby, much (HGV) — should take the place will allow for road transporta- loved Mum to Rena and Jim, of freight trains. tion to become far cheaper 6th January 1928–25th January 1997 Gran and Nannie. NIC commissioner Bridget than the railway. Lifelong socialist and poet Funeral service at Linn Rothwell, who will write the But separate analysis in Rail Crematorium on Thursday 25th interim report due in the magazine by engineer and January at 1pm. All family and autumn, was then forced to writer Gareth Dennis argues and friends are respectfully invited. clarify she was keeping an “open that rail freight is unbeatable mind” towards rail freight. in effi ciency terms. JANE KING But freight fi rm Intermodal- A lorry can only haul a 18th January 1921–16th January 2007 ity’s managing director Nick tonne of goods for 35 miles Gallop told Rail magazine that with the energy a freight train Daily Worker and Morning Star IVAN BEAVIS the NIC had “appeared to dis- would use to pull it for 100 miss rail freight.” miles, Mr Dennis argues. dance correspondent for Truly saddened to learn of Ivan’s death, Rail union RMT general sec- He also notes that there over 30 years he will be greatly missed. retary Mick Cash told the Star: have been no freight-caused “The case for moving freight fatalities on the rails since from Tim Love and sympathy to Christiane, by rail is overwhelming. 1996, whereas HGVs killed 273 Naomi and Joseph. “The problem of course is a people in 2016. Jenny and Susie Williams lack of strategic planning and [email protected] Morning Star Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018 HOME NEWS 5

HOUSING PARLIAMENT Leeds mulls taking over ex-miners’ Health of three million homes LEEDS City Council is suff ers from bad homes considering taking 70 former miners’ houses into public ownership to Labour backbencher’s Bill aims to clean up substandard housing protect them from demolition by a property by Lamiat Sabin “I have my heating on 24 rented properties are unfi t to further scrutiny at a later date of what lack of legal provisions developer. Parliamentary Reporter hours a day with another elec- live in, and around 250,000 and stands a good chance of can lead to. As reported in Tues- tric heater and I am always ill, council and housing associa- becoming law. “In Kensington and Chelsea, day’s Morning Star, the THREE million people includ- so is my son. tion homes have a category- Ms Buck put a similar Bill the council is better at keeping houses at Oulton, near ing around 700,000 children “My heating bill for this one hazard under the housing before Parliament in 2015 and, up appearances, sanitising pov- Leeds, were owned by the have their health and safety month alone was £400. My son health and safety ratings sys- with then shadow housing min- erty and sanitising squalor than National Coal Board but “compromised” every day by and I have asthma. We have tem, Ms Buck added. ister Teresa Pearce, tabled it is at addressing it. were sold to Worcester- substandard housing, MPs asthma, arthritis, fi bromyal- She said her Homes (fi tness amendments to the Tories’ “As we know the prime moti- based Pemberton Group heard yesterday. gia, diabetes, Kienbock’s dis- for human habitation and lia- Housing and Planning Bill in vation behind the rain screen when the Tories shut down Labour MP Karen Buck, ease in my hands. I suffer bility for housing standards) 2016 — both were blocked by cladding at Grenfell Tower the coal mining industry. during the second reading of panic attacks and anxiety. Bill would empower tenants to the Tories. was to improve visual appear- The company wants to her private member’s Bill on “I am suicidal and have to “take action” by allowing But seven months after the ance for the conservation demolish the houses to housing standards, described go to St Mary’s Hospital and councils to fi ne landlords up Grenfell Tower fi re, ministers areas nearby. make way for 71 new the plight of her Westminster see a psychiatrist who says I to £30,000 for failing to fi x have been forced to change “We know what happens luxury homes far beyond North constituents. must move to improve my problems and, from April, to tack. when bad landlords, including the fi nancial reach of the She read out a letter from one health conditions. Please, issue banning orders. Emma Dent Coad, Labour local authorities, get away with current occupants. tenant that said: “We are always please help me.” It passed the second read- MP for Kensington, said the ignoring complaints.” Residents, who include sick with the fl u and the cold. Around 750,000 private ing, meaning it will undergo disaster is a “stark reminder” [email protected] former miners and widows, have asked Leeds City Council to take over the homes. HOUSING The council’s decision follows a meeting between housing offi cials and a delegation of residents Ministers ‘must pick up the earlier this week. Resident and teaching assistant Cindy Readman said: “We asked about the tab for cladding removal’ council taking over the estate and they said they by Felicity Collier across the country which A hearing at a property tri- would give it every failed government fi re safety bunal will take place on Febru- consideration but would tests following the Grenfell ary 6 to determine where the have to look into the costs.” MINISTERS should pay to Tower blaze that killed 71 costs should fall on Citiscape remove fl ammable cladding people. residents. from tower blocks to ensure Mr Reed raised concerns The government said it is WHEEZES residents’ immediate safety, last year with Housing Secre- keeping the situation under Labour MP Steve Reed urged tary Sajid Javid, who said he review. yesterday. would urge landlords to “not ■ Campaign group Fuel Pov- Johnson The Croydon North MP’s attempt to pass on costs to erty Action held a meeting on call follows news that resi- leaseholders.” Thursday night calling for derided for dents of a private tower block Mr Reed said: “You’ve got post-Grenfell action on the in his constituency are facing people now afraid to sleep at heating of buildings. Channel a £2 million bill to replace night worried about whether Emma Dent Coad, Labour external cladding similar to they’ll wake up the next morn- MP for Kensington who grew that used on Grenfell Tower. ing or not. The government up in the borough, gave her Bridge idea FirstPort Property Services, needs to get in there and pro- backing to the campaign, say- which manages the 10-storey tect these people.” ing: “I had no heating until I BORIS JOHNSON’S latest Citiscape block, has told resi- Alexandra Blanc, who bought was 17 and that wasn’t good hare-brained scheme, to dents it is likely they will bear her Citiscape fl at in 2014, said: and I did end up in hospital. link Britain and France the brunt of the cost through “We are not asking for a hand- “Living without heating is with a motorway, was higher service charges. out. We are asking for them to miserable.” trashed yesterday. The building is one of 228 fi x a broken system.” [email protected] The Foreign Secretary’s suggestion was met with scepticism by his Labour counterpart as well as the FRONT PAGE shipping and haulage industries. He raised the prospect of STAFF CRISIS JAILS’ £3M TRAVEL BILL a bridge following a summit attended by PM Theresa May and French President FROM P1: The prison manage- “The real solution is for the enough staff to deliver safe 2,500 prison offi cers by the Emmanuel Macron at ment service informed the government to ensure that our regimes in our prisons. end of 2018. Sandhurst on Thursday. justice select committee that prisons are properly staffed “Detached duty is one of the However the POA point Shadow foreign secre- the costs had been absorbed and to tackle the exodus of sensible and proportionate meas- out that this is a drop in tary Emily Thornberry into the MoJ’s staffi ng budget. experienced prison staff who ures we take to cover resourcing the ocean for a service tweeted: “I ignored this Mr Burgon said: “Spending are leaving at three times the pressures and ensure we run that has already lost earlier because I assumed millions on forcing prison rate as when the Tories came safe and decent regimes in pris- 10,000 staff. it wasn’t real. Apparently offi cers to move around the to offi ce. ons as well as being able to news@ it is. I mean … who are country to plug staffi ng gaps “But the Conservatives’ plan respond appropriately to any peoples these clowns claiming to underlines the chaos at the for another real-terms pay cut operational issues that arise. -press.com run our country?” heart of this government’s for prison offi cers will only “When there is a need to Trade body the UK Cham- prisons strategy. make it more diffi cult to recruit accommodate staff in hotels, ber of Shipping tweeted: “This is an expensive short- and retain prison offi cers.” we work hard to ensure the “Building a huge concrete term sticking plaster that A Ministry of Justice best possible value for money structure in the middle of doesn’t resolve the disastrous spokeswoman said: “Prison for the taxpayer and have the world’s busiest shipping Tory decision to axe thousands offi cers do a challenging and restriction in place to help lane might come with some of prison offi cers, which has left vital job to help protect the keep costs to a minimum.” challenges.” our prisons less safe than ever, public and we are committed The government claims it is for both staff and prisoners. to making sure we have on track to recruit an extra Morning Star 6 NEWS WORLD Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018

SYRIA SOUTH AFRICA Unions Ankara prepares the ground for condemn shooting invasion with huge bombardment of activist by James Tweedie two other Kurdish regions — Kobane and Jazira. SOUTH AFRICAN unions Turkish-backed rebels took condemned Thursday THE long-threatened Turkish a 60-mile area during the night’s fatal shooting of a invasion of a Kurdish enclave operation known as Euphrates miners’ leader in the in Syria seemed certain yes- Shield, which separated the troubled platinum belt terday after Turkish troops territories, leaving Afrin iso- yesterday. fi red around 70 shells across lated. National Union of the border in a move it claimed Rumours the Syrian govern- Mineworkers (NUM) was the “de facto start” of a ment would allow YPG rein- spokesman Livhuwani ground invasion. forcements into Afrin via Mammburu said its Turkish Defence Minister Aleppo city seemed unfounded branch chairman at the Nurettin Canikli announced yesterday. Lonmin Eastern Platinum the threats after Kurdish vil- But the country’s foreign Mine near Rustenburg in lages in the Afrin region of minister warned on Thursday North West province was northwestern Syria were that any Turkish attack “will shot, along with his wife, shelled yesterday morning. be considered an act of aggres- at their home in Bapong. Afrin is controlled by the sion” and met with a fi tting Mr Mammburu said that US-allied Kurdish separatist response. the man died later in YPG militia which Turkey He warned the Nato mem- hospital. considers a terrorist organisa- ber: “The Syrian Air Defence The union urged the tion. has regained its full strength police to catch the culprits “The operation has actually and is ready to destroy the and called on residents to started de facto with cross- Turkish air targets in the skies “rally behind” the miner’s border shelling,” Canikli told of the Syrian Arab Republic.” family. the broadcaster A Haber. The ministry also con- Union federation Cosatu “When I say ‘de facto,’ I demned US plans to use the spokesman Sizwe Pamla don’t want it to be misunder- YPG to control Syria’s borders said: “This scourge of stood. It has begun. with Turkey and Iraq, which violence will not be “All terror networks and ele- READY: Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army fi ghters near the border with Turkey yesterday also enraged Ankara this eradicated if the vigilan- ments in northern Syria will week. tes and assassins responsi- be eliminated. There is no artillery fi re into southern Ankara accuses the YPG of The Turkish government’s The Pentagon tried to back- ble for the violence in the other way.” Turkey in retaliation. links to the banned Kurdistan fears over the expansion of track on that on Wednesday, mining sector are still Kurdish news agency Firat Turkey has been positioning Workers Party (PKK), which YPG territory in northern claiming: “This is not a new allowed to prowl the said a six-year-old child was troops and tanks around Afrin has battled against the Turkish Syria prompted it to launch an ‘army’ or conventional ‘border mining sector and roam among the wounded in Afrin. for several weeks while threat- state for 35 years in its bid for operation during the summer guard’ force.” free.” The YPG reportedly returned ening to invade the region. Kurdish autonomy. of 2016 to separate Afrin from [email protected]

UNITED STATES CHILE Charges of anti-Trump ‘rioters’ dropped CHARGES were dropped yes- prosecutors had attempted to yesterday, said: “The mass dis- Pope Francis accuses victims terday against 129 people charge 196 people with six missal of charges is certainly accused of rioting during pro- major and two minor crimes a victory and means that more tests against Donald Trump’s on the grounds of their involve- than 100 people no longer have inauguration as US president ment in the march. serious felonies and decades in of paedophile priest of lying last year. But prosecutors says they prison hanging over our heads. The surprise fi ling leaves 59 will now focus on individuals “However the Trump admin- by Our Foreign Desk people still facing charges out against whom they can build istration is still aggressively of an original 230 “J20” demon- a specifi c case, in particular pursuing politically motivated strators who were kettled and those engaged in black bloc charges against 59 of us and we POPE FRANCIS has whipped arrested en masse at a rally in tactics. will continue to work together up outrage on his trip to Latin Washington DC a year ago today. Andy Switzer, a defendant and fi ght the government’s America by accusing the vic- Bringing the case to trial, whose charges were dismissed attempts to stifl e resistance.” tims of Chile’s most notorious paedophile priest of lying. He said on Thursday, that claims Bishop Juan Barros allegedly covered up the sex crimes of his mentor Reverend WE’RE HIRING Fernando Karadima were “all calumny.” The Pope’s visit was REPORTER intended to repair the image of the church in the eyes of Chileans following the revela- We are seeking a reporter to join the The successful applicant will need… tion of widespread child abuse team at our busy London newsroom. ■ A fl air for the English language and by priests. Regular weekend working is required as nose for news But it was not the fi rst time part of a fi ve-day 35-hour week in order ■ Be a good communicator and a the Pope has offended the vic- to cover the paper’s six publication days. tims of Rev Karadima, with self-starter his decision in 2015 to appoint Wages start at circa £21,100 per annum ■ The ability to operate well as part of Bishop Barros as Archbishop subject to a probationary period. a small team and off er new ideas of Osorno, in the south of the INITIAL WELCOME: Chileans greet the Pope on Thursday Holidays start at 28 days a year rising to ■ An interest in labour movement country, prompting an outcry 30 days, plus bank holidays. and progressive issues of protest. Murillo, Juan Carlos Cruz and from his post in 2010 after they ■ The willingness to work unusual Bishop Barros has been James Hamilton. went public. If you have the skills and you’re ready accused of being present on “This is extremely grave A Chilean judge had to drop to take on a new challenge at a national hours and travel long distances to many occasions when Rev Kara- and we believe that it fi nally charges against Rev Karadima newspaper which isn’t afraid to tell it like get the big story dima touched boys’ genitals and reveals an unknown side of the as too much time had passed, it is, email [email protected] for forced them to kiss him. Pope and the Chilean hierar- but he said there was plenty an application pack. Women and minority ethnic candidates The Pope had met child chy,” said Mr Hamilton. of evidence. are particularly encouraged to apply abuse victims this week, but Rev Karadima’s victims The Vatican sentenced him his support was rejected by reported him to church author- to a lifetime of “penance and CLOSING DATE: three men assaulted by Rev ities in 2002 but weren’t prayer” in 2011. Monday January 22 Karadima — Jose Andres believed. He was only removed [email protected] Morning Star Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018 WORLD NEWS 7

VIOLENCE: Protesters UNITED NATIONS throw stones in Srinagar ‘Creeping return’ of the nazis blasted

RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned on Thursday of “the creeping rehabilita- tion of nazis” by anti-com- munists. Opening a United Nations exhibition commemorating the effects of the Holocaust on the Soviet Union, Mr Lavrov said the world must “do everything in our power to prevent such tragedies in the future.” He called the Holocaust “one of the worst crimes against humanity,” saying it was troubling “that recently we see the creeping rehabilitation of nazis.” The exhibition at the UN headquarters in New York acknowledges 2.7 million Soviet victims of the Holocaust — almost half INDIA PAKISTAN BORDER the total — and that the Red Army liberated Auschwitz and other extermination camps. Violence intensifi es in hotly disputed Kashmir Mr Lavrov said it was “especially immoral” that by Our Foreign Desk blamed the other for initiating responding to Pakistani fi ring past border skirmishes and yesterday evening in most some European Union the violence. and shelling on dozens of bor- causing civilian and military places but still continued at members are destroying Indian offi cials said two civil- der posts and called it an casualties. about half a dozen outposts. monuments to Soviet TENSIONS soared along the ians and a paramilitary soldier “unprovoked” violation of a The Indian offi cer, speaking Islamabad accused Indian soldiers who laid down volatile frontier between India died and at least 10 civilians and 2003 ceasefi re accord. on condition of anonymity, said forces of killing four Pakistani their lives in their millions and Pakistan yesterday in the two soldiers were injured in Angered over the rising vio- yesterday’s shelling came soldiers a few days ago along to rid the world of fascism. disputed Himalayan region of Indian-controlled Kashmir. lence, Pakistan’s Foreign Min- after relative calm overnight the Line of Control in Kashmir, Kashmir, as rival troops According to Pakistani offi - istry summoned Indian Dep- in Jammu following two days where rebel groups demand shelled villages and border cials, Indian fi re killed a civil- uty High Commissioner JP of fi ghting that left at least that Kashmir be united either BRAZIL posts for a third day. ian and wounded nine others Singh and condemned what it three civilians and a soldier under Pakistani rule or as an Three civilians and a sol- in Sialkot in Pakistan’s eastern called “unprovoked ceasefi re dead and several others independent country. dier were killed on both sides Punjab province yesterday. violations” by India. wounded on both sides. India accuses Pakistan of Lula: judges in the latest clash, offi cials in An Indian paramilitary Each country has also The border guard offi cial arming and training the rebels. both countries said, as each offi cer said soldiers were accused the other of initiating said fi ghting had stopped by [email protected] hate me for fi ghting for SOUTH AFRICA the poor

BRAZILIAN ex-president Luis Inacio Lula Da Silva, who awaits his appeal Cosatu: ANC ‘has failed against a corruption conviction, slammed judges at a campaign rally on Thursday. Speaking to a crowd of more than a thousand at a to confront capitalism’ packed auditorium in the fi nancial capital Sao Paulo, Mr Da Silva said last Union federation hopes new leader Ramaphosa will fi nally take on the rich July’s conviction was motivated by his previous by Our Foreign Desk to be ready to confront the ing its national development from its addiction to neoliber- servants win 7.3 per cent. success in lifting millions capitalist system that has con- plan. alism.” On Thursday teaching union out of poverty. demned millions of our fellow The Cosatu leader said that, Cosatu backed Mr Ram- Sadtu general secretary “For this, they started a SOUTH AFRICA’S main union citizens to lives of brutal sur- while it was important for the aphosa’s bid for the ANC pres- Mugena Maluleke, whose case of lies against the federation Cosatu accused the vival.” government to acknowledge idency, to which the SACP gave union rejected the offer last Workers Party and against ruling ANC of having failed He lamented that “neolib- and meet its fi nancial obliga- tacit support by inviting the month, said his members Lula,” he said. to “confront the capitalist sys- eral economic principles and tions in full and on time to vice-president to address its would suffer if the fi nal settle- Mr Da Silva, who rose tem” yesterday. philosophies continue to dom- various lenders, “it is also July congress in place of Mr ment added up to a “negative from the factory fl oor to General secretary Bheki inate the practice and articula- important for it to prove the Zuma. increase.” the presidency, vowed a Ntshalintshali told the New tion of policy in government.” same commitment and ability Several Cosatu affi liates are Unaffi liated Public Servants return to the redistribu- Age daily newspaper that ANC Mr Ntshalintshali said the to meet its service obligations among a dozen public sector Association deputy general tive policies he began if president Cyril Ramaphosa’s ANC “needs to deal with the to the citizens. unions heading for a show- manager Tahir Maepa warned re-elected this year. weekend speech had left many obstructive role that the “It will not be enough for down with government over its of a repeat of the 2010 three- “I want to prove to them South Africans optimistic. national Treasury has played this new ANC leadership to 5.3 per cent pay offer. week strike by 1.3 million state that there is no way to fi x “At last the ANC has a cred- in our economy over the last only rid the country of the The University of Stellen- employees if there was no deal this country if the working ible leader,” he said. two decades.” ‘gangster’ capitalism and cor- bosch’s Bureau for Economic by the March 31 deadline. people and poor people are However, Mr Ntshalintshali He said that there would be ruption that has become Research has predicted infl a- ”They upped the offer but not part of the economy of added that, despite progress no radical socio-economic endemic under the [Zuma] tion rising to 5 per cent this it’s still the same, ridiculous,” this country,” he told the since the end of apartheid in transformation while the ANC administration. It also needs year and 5.3 per cent in 2019. he said. crowd. 1994, “the ANC does not seem remains reticent about review- to rehabilitate its government Last March’s deal saw public [email protected] Morning Star 8 FEATURES Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018

ABOVE: Protesters rally outside the US embassy in Tabarre, Haiti, to condemn US President Donald Trump’s racist comments about Haiti and African nations LEFT: Campaigners outside Leinster House in Dublin, protesting against pension cuts Struggle on the streets The best photos from the week’s protests

around the world ABOVE: People march in Miami, US, in support of two schemes threatened by US President Donald Trump that currently offer protection against deportation to some immigrants living in the US LEFT: Journalists and press freedom advocates protest in Manila, Philippines, against the government’s recent decision to revoke the licence of online news agency Rappler. The site is well-known for its criticism of President Rodrigo Duterte’s violent administration BELOW: Palestinians condemn the US decision to cut millions in aid to UNRWA, a UN body that supports Palestinian refugees, at a protest in Gaza’s Nusseirat refugee camp Morning Star Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018 FEATURES 9 ThisOPINION is not a drill! The ‘event’ in Hawaii only underlines the fallacy of believing that a nuclear conflagration is too horrific to ever be attempted. It is time we woke up to the reality of the threat, writes TOM UNTERRAINER, and acted decisively to eliminate it forever OUR phone vibrates. Stir- ring from sleep, you check the time on the bedside clock. It’s 8.07am. The day is Saturday. The phone vibrates once more, Ydemanding your attention. Bleary- eyed you read the message: “Emer- gency alert” runs the headline. As you rub the sleep from your eyes, the clock changes to 8.08am. Half-awake, you read the rest of the message: “Ballistic missile threat inbound to Hawaii. Seek immediate shelter. This is not a drill.” Having already wasted 60 precious seconds — perhaps your last seconds on Earth — by 8.09am you have gath- ered your family into the one space in the apartment without windows: the bathroom. Half-remembering a scene from some apocalyptic Hollywood block- buster, you fill the bath with cold water, thinking: “Who knows how long we’ll be in here? We’ll need something to drink.” The public address system in your apartment building crackles and a hectoring, robotic voice insists: “This is not a drill.” At 8.10am your youngest child asks: “What’s happening?” Your teen- ager asks: “Are we going to die?” In the frenzied aftermath of read- ing the alert, you have explained nothing to them. You can’t answer them now because the scenarios running through your brain are too awful to say out loud. Dominating your thoughts is the image of a man with his finger edging towards a big, red button. Just a week before, this man claimed to be a genius. Days later, he wrote off half the planet and its peo- ple as a “shithole.” “Some genius!” you mutter as your partner rests their head against the toilet, tears trickling down their cheek. Cartoon: Citizen Chicane “This is not a drill,” barks the robotic voice once again. “Ballistic missile. The message says ballistic missile. That’s not the same as a nuclear bomb, is it?” you think. a nuclear war? With that monster in extremists currently occupying the 60 years since the testing of the hydro- ing attention. The time to start is now. Your heartbeat steadies. “What’s the White House, anything could hap- West Wing. gen bomb and the founding of the Why now? Because while we are happening?,” asks your youngest, her pen,” replies the teenager. “It’s not a The voices of those urging caution Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament told that Britain’s nuclear weapons voice more insistent than before. “I nuclear war yet!” she shouts. “This against overestimating the missile (CND), a little over 55 years since the are merely a “deterrent,” while some think it’s safe to look outside … just is not a drill!” capabilities and actual intentions of Cuban missile crisis and some 40 prominent socialist politicians cau- me though. You stay safe in here.” It took 38 minutes for a follow-up the North Korean government, for years or so after the decade-long con- tion against calling for their aboli- Safe? Safe from what? Safe from the text to reach those huddled in bath- example, are not to be found on the frontation over “tactical nuclear weap- tion, while some people reassure end of the world? You check the time: rooms, cellars, under the stairs and likes of Fox News, CNN and the rest. ons” in Europe. 2017 saw the return themselves that such weapons “will 8.15am. Looking out the window, the who knows where else. By 8.45am the of high-pitch nuclear tensions, but also never be used,” events in Hawaii street is mainly deserted. One or two population of Hawaii got the message ather than rational voices witnessed the first signatories to a serve as a warning. people are wandering around, bewil- that no, they were not about to come the pundits, commentators Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty. In times of heightened tension, irra- dered. “What are they doing? Do they under attack. and think tank analysts 2018 is opening with the US releas- tional aggression, self-serving threats want to die?” You bang on the win- However, the dimensions of the who’ve made a career ing a Nuclear Posture Review and and egoistic approaches to “security,” dow, shouting: “Don’t you know that trauma delivered upon the Hawaiian from escalating threats the country’s pesident talking openly “accidents” such as those delivered this is not a drill?” populace in those 38 minutes is not and promoting aggression about “usable” nuclear warheads. upon a cluster of islands in the Pacific Ten minutes after your phone first something that can be easily reckoned. —R and the military budget that goes The stance of the US on such mat- could have dire consequences. In such vibrated, you switch on the television. The five words concluding the with it — are an everyday feature. ters has an immediate impact on the circumstances, huddling in our bath- Humming steadily into life, the “Emergency Alert” will be etched For the worst of them, a ballistic policies of the British government, rooms will not save us. screen fills with the same message. onto many souls. The memory of missile attack on Hawaii, the island not only as a consequence of the The world is on a knife-edge and “Emergency alert…” You switch it those horrible minutes spent waiting of Guam or a near-miss off the coast longstanding Mutual Defence Agree- it wouldn’t take much for unimagi- off and return to the bathroom to for the worst will be carried to the of Japan would serve their purposes ment but because the process of nable horror to let loose. await your fate. “I don’t think it’s grave. — and the purposes of the “leader of renewing nuclear warheads is This is not a drill. nuclear war,” you reassure your fam- What unfolded in Hawaii must have the free world” — quite well. already or will soon be under way ily. “Most likely a North Korean mis- been all the more terrifying because 2017 saw the commemoration of the in this country. n Tom Unterrainer is a director of sile test.” the idea that US is “under attack” is 75th anniversary of the atomic car- If these are not matters of concern the Bertrand Russell Peace Founda- “What do you mean don’t think it’s stock-in-trade for the gaggle of nage at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It’s for you, you have simply not been pay- tion www.russfound.org Morning Star 10 FEATURES Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018

AGRICULTURE

F the proposed Monsanto-Bayer merger goes through, the new company would control more than 25 per cent of the global supply of commercial seeds and Warning signs over the pesticides. IIt marks a trend towards consolida- tion in the industry with Dow and DuPont having merged and Swiss seed/pesticide giant Syngenta merg- planned Monsanto- ing with ChemChina. The mergers would mean that three companies would dominate the commercial agricultural seeds and chemicals sector. For all the rhetoric that we often Bayer merger hear about “the market” and large corporations offering choice to farm- ers and consumers, the evidence is restriction of choice and the squeez- ing out of competitors. Over the years, for instance, Mon- santo has bought up dozens of com- petitors to become the largest sup- plier of genetically engineered seeds, with seed prices having risen dra- matically. Consolidation and monopoly in any sector should be of concern to eve- ryone. But the fact that the large agri- business conglomerates specialise in a globalised, industrial-scale, chem- ical-intensive model of farming should have us very concerned. Farmers are increasingly reliant on patented corporate seeds, whether non- GM hybrid seeds or GM and the chem- ical inputs designed to be used with them. Monsanto seed traits are now in 80 per cent of corn and more than 90 per cent of soybeans grown in the US. By its very nature, the economic model that corporate agriculture is attached to demands expansion, mar- HERE is little doubt that ket capture and profit growth. we live in challenging It might bring certain benefits to times, whether that be the those farmers who have remained in permanent circus of reac- agriculture, if not for the 330 farmers tion that is the Trump US in the US who leave their land every presidency or the debates week (according to data from the aroundT Brexit and the future of the National Agricultural Statistics Serv- than blaming individuals for lifestyle British economy and our role in the ice). choices and alcohol consumption? world. But in the US, “success” in agri- Corporate monopolies will Among the various statistics Faced with such challenging times, culture largely depends taxpayer Mason provides are those indicating people need representatives that they handouts to oil the wheels of a par- that colon cancer had risen by 200 can trust and who they can relate to. ticular system of agriculture accelerate the globalisation per cent, thyroid cancer has doubled, After years of people losing faith in designed to maintain corporate agri- ovarian cancer is up by 70 per cent “mainstream” politicians, we need business profit margins. and cervical cancer is up by 50 per representatives who we can trust to And any “success” fails to factor of bad food, poor health and cent since 1998. tell the truth and stand firm on their in all the external social, health and Yet, despite the evidence, the cor- promises and principles. environmental costs. It is easy to spin environmental catastrophe, porate media in Britain is largely As the Labour Party enters this failure as success when the param- silent about pesticides. challenging and potentially epoch- eters are narrowly defined. While Mason produces figures to defining year, the forthcoming 15th The main players in the global says COLIN TODHUNTER show the massive increase in a range anniversary of the disastrous Bush agribusiness sector rank among the of agrochemicals over the years, the and Blair war in Iraq should be seen Fortune 500 corporations. highly placed officials to act. ensuring food security.” chief scientist for the Department for as a timely reminder of how trust in These companies are high rollers Mason provides a stark reminder Mason notes that chronic exposure Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, politics got broken, where we are and in a geopoliticised, globalised system of the impacts of the agrochemical/ to pesticides has been linked to can- Professor Ian Boyd, points out that where we need to go from here. of food production where huge com- agribusiness sector, its political cer, Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s once a pesticide is approved there is Few will need reminding that, pany profits are linked to the world- power and its effects on health. diseases, hormone disruption, devel- no follow-up. nearly 15 years ago, the then Labour wide eradication of the small farm She draws attention to a report by opmental disorders and sterility. There is also no follow-up as to the Party leader and prime minister Tony (the bedrock of global food produc- the UN special rapporteur on the right Certain pesticides can persist in the impacts of not just one chemical but Blair advocated the invasion with the tion), bad food, poor health, rigged to food, which states unequivocally that environment for decades and pose a the cocktail of agrochemicals out claim that Iraq possessed nuclear, trade, mono-cropping and diminished the storyline perpetuated by Monsanto threat to the entire ecological system there and how they interact when in biological or chemical weapons of food and diet diversity, degraded soil and Bayer by saying we need pesticides on which food production depends. the human body and within the envi- mass destruction (WMD), capable of and inappropriate models of develop- and (often chemical-dependent) GMOs Mason offers Davies and her col- ronment. being deployed within 45 minutes. If ment. to feed the world is a myth. leagues evidence that suggests rising The impacts of the Monsanto- true, it was a frightening prospect. Britain is a leader in intensive, The report is severely critical of UK mortality rates point to a critical, Bayer deal and the contents of Many of us, of course, believed that corporate-dominated agriculture. But the global corporations that manu- unprecedented health epidemic. Mason’s letter to the chief medical Blair had already taken his decision, is this the model of agriculture the facture pesticides, accusing them of Arguing that the heavy use of agro- officers of the UK are just the tip of entering into a war pact with US world should rely on? the “systematic denial of harms,” chemicals in Britain is a major con- an iceberg. president George W Bush up to a year Let us turn to campaigner and “aggressive, unethical marketing tributory factor, she argues the main- There is a lot more that could and before. environmentalist Dr Rosemary tactics” and heavy lobbying of gov- stream narrative on cancer focuses has been said on the impact of agri- A massive anti-war movement, Mason to appreciate some of the con- ernments which has “obstructed on the role of alcohol and “lifestyle business giants on the globalisation which I was honoured to fully back sequences of this model. reforms and paralysed global pesti- choices” while sidelining the strong of bad food and poor health, ecologi- as then mayor of London, refused to She has just written an open letter cide restrictions.” evidence that agrochemicals are hav- cal degradation, soil health, ocean accept the case for war, but enormous to Professor Dame Sally Davies, chief The authors of the report call for ing. dead zones as well as the chemical pressure was applied inside Westmin- medical officer for England and chief a comprehensive new global treaty If the National Health Service in contamination of our food by the ster to wavering MPs by the Blair medical adviser to the British govern- to regulate and phase out the use of Britain is experiencing a crisis — as handful of food conglomerates that leadership. ment. dangerous pesticides in farming and indeed it is — due to rising rates of now increasingly dominate the supply The build-up to the war in Iraq was Although written to Davies, the move towards sustainable agricul- morbidity (notwithstanding the chain. one of those rare but truly historic letter is intended for the four chief tural practices. effects of poor funding and creeping Alternative approaches and solu- occasions when all eyes are focused medical officers of health for Eng- They say: “Excessive use of pesti- privatisation), surely these spiralling tions exist but the political influence on the affairs of state. land, Scotland, Wales and Northern cides is very dangerous to human rates of diseases must be addressed. and financial clout of transnational The prospect of war was discussed Ireland and Public Health England. health, to the environment and it is And where better to start by shin- corporations means that “business and debated in workplaces, schools Her letter is essentially a plea to misleading to claim they are vital to ing the light on agrochemicals rather as usual” prevails. and colleges, at bus stops and on Morning Star Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018 FEATURES 11

ANTI-MILITARISM

austerity and support for working people’s rights. Above all, it means rebuilding and winning back trust. Fifteen years on from the war on Fifteen years on from Iraq, Corbyn has pledged to put peace and justice at the heart of for- eign policy if he becomes prime minister. As Jeremy has said, “British for- eign policy has long failed to be either the Iraq war, we truly independent or internationally co-operative, making the country less safe and reducing our diplomatic and moral authority.” With Jeremy in No 10, we would have — as a recent north London Stop the War Coalition meeting I spoke at need Jeremy for PM and forthcoming national meeting tour has termed it — the anti-war government Britain needs. for Labour members and voters Such an approach can help restore February marks 15 years since Jeremy across Britain when he apologised on faith in our politics and provide a behalf of the party for its involve- truly ethical framework for our for- ment in the rush to that disastrous eign policy that will be both popular Corbyn was among leaders of our war 15 years ago. on the doorstep and make Britain Ever since Jeremy became leader, safer and more respected in the his opponents in Parliament and the world. biggest ever anti-war media have argued that Labour As we reflect on the 15th anniver- instead needs a leader better able to sary of the Iraq war, the Trump spin, flatter and cajole — a leader presidency has undoubtedly made the demonstration. Now we need him more along the lines of Blair. world a more dangerous place. But these are very different times. Under Theresa May, Britain could to lead an anti-war government, Numerous different shocks to the hold hands with Trump into conflicts system — Iraq, the financial crash, even more disastrous than Bush and the EU referendum and the impact Blair’s. writes KEN LIVINGSTONE of the Trump presidency — mean we We all need to build the pressure need a leader for these times. on a range of fronts against this gov- trains, in pubs, hairdressers and unmitigated disaster. Hundreds of On February 15 2003, I shared a We need a different kind of leader- ernment and force it out. cafes, in living rooms and at kitchen thousands were killed. Millions were platform with Jeremy, who told the ship, both firm in its principles and By electing a Corbyn-led Labour tables. displaced, injured, lost loved ones or largest-ever demonstration in British radical in its approach. government in its place not only People do not soon forget moments had their lives damaged in the chaos. history that war would unleash a To defeat the Tories in the period would we end the misery of millions such as these and the millions of votes The threat of terrorism increased, “spiral of conflict, of misery, of hate, ahead and return to government, caused by failing Tory austerity, we Labour lost in the following years, contributing to the rise of the vile, of desperation that will fuel the wars, Labour needs to build on last year’s would also see the anti-war govern- and thousands and thousands of mem- reactionary group that now calls the conflict, the terrorism, the general election gains to assemble a ment which could help make Britain bers who left in the aftermath, itself the Islamic State. depression and the misery of future winning coalition that unites the and the world a safer place. reflected how Labour’s then leader- The claims that were made to win generations.” young, multiethnic, urban Britain ship lost people’s trust over Iraq. support for the war were proven The years since have proven him that opted for Remain and the post- n You can follow Ken at www.twitter. Despite public opposition, Blair got false, vindicating the anti-war cam- right and the wave of people rejoining industrial and struggling working- com/Ken4London and www.face- the parliamentary votes that he paign. the Labour Party to elect and then class communities, many of whom book.com/KenLivingstoneOfficial. required, including majority backing Over 12 years later, in the summer re-elect him as leader showed that voted Leave. For more information on the Stop the from the Parliamentary Labour of 2015, one of the tribunes of that people had not forgotten. That means opposing disastrous War Coalition’s tour on why we need Party. anti-war movement, Jeremy Corbyn, In the summer of 2016, in response wars, standing up to racism and, cru- an anti-war government visit www. The war on Iraq proved to be an became Labour leader. to the Chilcot report, Corbyn spoke cially, an unambiguous opposition to stopwar.org.uk. Morning Star 12 FEATURES Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018 Star US MILITARISM Comment Scandalous The declining jail conditions DEPRIVATION of personal liberty is the punishment society has agreed in certain circumstances for offend- US remains an ers. Neither Parliament nor the electorate decided that this should be compounded by loss of dignity and threats to health in the shape of living conditions so squalid they would not have been tolerated a century ago. The conditions that private contractor Amey allowed to exist at HMP Liverpool, with prisoner accommodation undisputed suffering rat infestations, leaking or blocked toilets and damp, are unspeakable. These scandalous shortcomings, together with Am- ey’s failure to make good on its commitments on capi- tal investment and maintenance projects, have not transpired out of fresh air. They were raised by the Prison Officers Association, military might but private contractors and government haven’t taken complaints seriously. POA general secretary Steve Gillan is hopeful that SHANE QUINN charts the political decline of the US newly appointed Secretary of State David Gauke will be a new broom and listen to what the union has to say. It would be good to think that Gauke would respond since WWII and its continued squandering of in a different way to his predecessors, but Tory justice secretaries have a tendency to mistrust the POA and astronomic sums on wars it cannot win anyone with an understanding of how prisons could work. HE United States decline can this situation our real job in the com- Communist Party of China, led by Mao be traced as far back as ing period ... is to maintain this posi- Zedong, overran US-backed National- HIH 1949, when the world’s dom- tion of disparity. To do so, we have to ists (Kuomintang) in mainland China. inant power unexpectedly dispense with all sentimentality ... we It was an irreversible rout that saw Imposing cuts in the guise of “efficiency savings” has suffered the “loss” of China. should cease thinking about human many US sympathisers flee to Taiwan, been an article of faith that has seen thousands of It was a monumental rights, the raising of the living stand- an island about 700km east of Hong prison officers, especially the most experienced, quit early blow to US strategic planners, ards and democratisation” and we Kong. the service, leaving many prisons understaffed to a T who were carefully executing dreams must “deal in straight power con- The outcome prompted critics of the dangerous degree. REPEATING OLD of unchallenged global dominance. cepts,” while not being “hampered by Harry Truman administration to Gauke’s shadow Richard Burgon is right to question MISTAKES: The President Franklin D Roosevelt had idealistic slogans” about “altruism and describe it as “an avoidable catastro- why a government that has been so stingy over prison commander of been “aiming at US hegemony in the work-benefaction.” phe.” It was preventable in that they officer staffing and salaries should be so profligate with Nato and US post-war world,” as the prominent Brit- Kennan was considered one of the felt the US military should have been the public purse when it comes to paying Amey for un- forces in ish historian Geoffrey Warner out- moderate “doves” in US planning cir- called upon. fulfilled maintenance commitments. Afghanistan lined. Roosevelt was to die less than cles. This unheralded sphere of con- For, if a country has unscrupulous Coming so soon after the Carillion fiasco where direc- General John W three weeks before Adolf Hitler shot quest was called the Grand Area. aspirations of global dominance, “los- tors and shareholders lived high on the hog while work- Nicholson, at the himself in April 1945, yet such visions Unfortunately for Kennan and col- ing China to Communism” is undoubt- ers lost jobs and pension entitlements, the government’s Shorab military were carried forward with zeal. leagues, by the following year (1949), edly a catastrophe. It is a revealing mollycoddling of Amey reveals the outlines of a pattern. camp of Helmand In 1948, the well-regarded US dip- China removed itself from US control term to “lose” a nation with a popula- Amey has promised to do better in future, but should province, lomat George Kennan said: “We have in an outcome sorely felt to the tion at the time of 550 million people it be allowed the chance to do so? Will there be confi- Afghanistan, 50 per cent of the world’s wealth but present. and whose capital Beijing (then dence in its capacity to turn over a new leaf? on Monday only 6.3 per cent of its population. In It occurred when the resurgent Peking) is more than 11,000 km from Allowing the prison to degenerate by running down staff numbers and degrading the environment by let- ting dirt, litter, rats and cockroaches build up indicates an institution in crisis. HIH With half the prisoners locked in their cells through- out the working day, for lack of officers to supervise them, frustration and anger grow. Overstretched staff cannot be expected to cope with a plethora of drones bringing narcotics and other con- traband into the prison or keep a lid on the constant threat of violence from prisoners. When inmates employed as cleaning orderlies are told not to tackle various infestations because they present a health and safety risk and outside specialist contractors have to be engaged, it is surely time to call it a day for Amey and other privateers. The privatisation scandals coming to light regularly, from the railways to prisons and outsourcing of public services, indicate bankruptcy of an economic model based on the conviction that the private sector is always more efficient than public. Front-bench unanimity behind that false assertion has been shattered by Labour under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership. Burgon’s feet would not have touched the ground un- der Tony Blair or Gordon Brown had he pledged, as he did yesterday, that “Labour in government would look at bring- ing prison maintenance contracts back in house” — even assuming that New Labour would have countenanced a socialist minister advocating a socialist approach. New times demand new solutions or a revival of the old solution of public services publicly financed and publicly run. Morning Star Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018 FEATURES 13

JAPANESE MILITARISM

Washington. It stands as a revealing agated the deadly conflicts in Vietnam insight into imperialist planning, with and the rest of Indochina (1962-75). Japan’s servility to United similar dogmas prevailing to the cur- Furthermore, there was the enor- rent day. mous bloodletting in the mid-1960s As a young man, Truman himself upon gaining control of “the greatest had written about his disregard for prize” that was Indonesia, as described the “Chinaman.” Consequently, China’s by Richard Nixon. States policy raises exit from the US sphere of control These Asian regions are still to grated severely. The US leader later recover fully from the effects of US- wrote: “As long as I am president, if I led aggression and influence. can prevent it, that cut-throat organi- By about 1975, the US share of glo- sation will never be recognised by us bal wealth had dropped to 25 per cent tensions in the region as the government of China.” — still huge — yet it had stood at 50 By the end of World War II, the US per cent a generation before. With had long been the world’s richest coun- Europe and Japanese-centric Asia With military tensions focused on the Korean peninsula, try. The second global conflict finished gradually recovering and becoming off lingering effects of the Great less reliant on US influence, the indus- Depression, with US industry increas- trial world was becoming “tripolar.” little attention has been paid to the militarisation of Japan ing almost four-fold. In 1979, the US was dealt another Critically, rivals like Germany, the hammer blow when Iranian national- by right-wing premier Shinzo Abe. KENNY COYLE reports USSR, Britain, China and Japan were ists overthrew the Western-backed all devastated by invasion, bombing dictatorship of the Shah. It is another T A time when East Asian or loss of life. “loss” that is continually felt, with Iran military tensions have Christopher Tassava, associate enduring almost unremitting US pres- focused on the Korean director at Carleton College in Min- sure ever since. peninsula, very little nesota writes: “American leaders Later, the Soviet Union’s demise in attention has been paid to determined to make the US the centre the early 1990s witnessed much non- the continuing militarisa- of the post-war world economy. Amer- sensical triumphalism from Western tionA of Japan by right-wing premier ican aid or ‘Marshall Plan’ furthered elites. There was talk of “a noble Shinzo Abe. this goal by tying the economic recon- phase” and a final victory for “Western Japan is a key military player in struction of West Germany, France, values” over the scourge of commu- north-east Asia both as a base for US Great Britain and Japan to American nism. military forces and for the much less import and export needs, among other In the post-USSR era, the old US well-known role played by its own Self- factors.” pretexts of global defence from Defence Forces (SDF). With their key rivals further tied “Soviet aggression” could no longer The SDF is in essence Japan’s mil- down to US financial power, the pro- be used to dupe the public. Now, the itary, although, according to Article ceeding cold war was directed against ruse put forward when illegally attack- 9 of the country’s constitution, which the USSR. In the Western mainstream ing other nations was “promoting states that “land, sea, and air forces, ON ALERT: A Japanese this was framed as two equals going democracy” and defending “human as well as other war potential, will soldier stands by a toe-to-toe, with the US defending rights and civilised values,” as Tony never be maintained,” military forces missile battery Earth from communism’s ravages. Blair put it. are in fact illegal. Nonetheless, the In truth, the US was always the The true reasons such as controlling SDF has around 310,00 personnel both much stronger state, enjoying unprec- resources and destroying independent regular and reserve and is equipped some of the installations elsewhere on led to the formation of the Japanese edented wealth, security and scope. nationalism remained unmentioned. with thousands of aircraft, tanks, the island to placate anti-base protests. defence ministry’s Acquisition, Tech- It was a level of power that even Hit- Little attention was paid to the words ships and artillery. It has been estimated that the Jap- nology and Logistics Agency (ATLA) ler, with his wild ambitions for the of those like Harvard professor Sam- Despite the long-term stagnation of anese taxpayer picks up around 70-75 which promotes Japanese arms world, may not have envisaged. uel P Huntington, who said in 1999 of Japan’s economy, where any GDP per cent of the bill for “hosting” US exports to Asian and Middle Eastern The cold war concerned principally the US: “In the eyes of many countries growth in excess of 1 per cent is hailed forces in Japan. nations. efforts by both superpowers to imple- it is becoming the rogue superpower,” as a success, Abe has continually The increase in US military-related At a symposium last November, ment and spread order in their realms and “the single greatest threat to their increased Japan’s military spending spending was mainly due to the rising Hayashi Mitsuko, ATLA international of power. The US would control most societies.” at the expense of social welfare, a key costs of the US military base reloca- affairs chief said that Japan will host of the world while the Soviets had to These views were confirmed by issue for a country with a rapidly tions, which includes the Henoko base more bilateral negotiations so that be content with eastern Europe. various international opinion polls this aging population. construction in Okinawa and the relo- military-industrial corporations can Things were to change before long, century, on the subject of “the great- Last December, Abe’s cabinet pro- cation of carrier-borne aircraft to the have more trading opportunities. however. est threat to world peace.” posed a draft budget of 5.2 trillion yen US Marine Corps Iwakuni base from SDF mouthpiece Asagumo Shimbun- In addition to “losing” China, by the With Western politicians publicly (£34billion). This would make 2018 the its previous base in Atsugi. sha likewise described ATLA activi- 1950s, south-east Asia was sliding appraising themselves for the downfall fourth year in succession where mil- The Japanese government also built ties as “a unique effort made jointly from US grasp too. It eventually prop- of the USSR, it was not long after that itary spending has hit a record high 262 housing units costing 70-80 million by the public and private sectors hop- the US was losing control of Latin and the sixth year of successive yen per unit (about £460,000) for 3,800 ing to expand business opportunities”. America too. Subjected to brutal US- increases. US military personnel and their fam- Japan participated last year, for the initiated conflicts and dictatorships The 2018 budget draft includes costs ily members who will move to Iwakuni. first time, in the Dubai Airshow, where for decades, the Latin American peo- to introduce the Aegis Ashore ground- Akahata also revealed that the ATLA exhibited and promoted a new ple were making serious efforts to rid based anti-missile system, to purchase Defence Ministry’s Okinawa bureau C-2 transport aircraft manufactured themselves of outside control. crash-prone Osprey military aircraft, spent around £165m to counter anti- by Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Some of this US decline has plainly F35 stealth fighter jets, aerial refuelling base protests from August 2014 to Japanese communists have been at been self-inflicted. Estimates suggest tankers and Global Hawk spy drones. October 2017. the forefront of publicising Japan’s the disastrous George W Bush-Barack The Japanese Communist Party While ordinary Japanese taxpayers militarisation. On December 7 last Obama wars in the Middle East cost (JCP) has warned that the Abe govern- are expected to fund the US war year, JCP member of the House of between $4 trillion to $6tn (£2,88- ment is intent on a “game-changing machine, there are some Japanese who Councillors Satoshi Inoue, forced the 4,32tr). Even to the planet’s richest military build-up.” are doing rather well from their own. Defence Ministry to reveal the names nation, no laughing matter. On top of this, Japan also increased Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party has of the companies that had taken part One of Osama bin Laden’s chief annual spending on the US military long been linked with Japan’s major in the bilateral business meetings. aims was to lure the US into drawn-out based in the country to 789.7bn yen conglomerates, which not only fund Those attending included Mitsubishi conflicts, thereby inflicting financial (£5.2bn) in 2017, another record high, the party in general but also channel Electric Corporation, Hitachi Corpora- ruin. Bin Laden continues to score the JCP daily Akahata reported in cash to favoured factions within the tion, military clothing supplier Kura- victories from his watery grave. December. historically clique-ridden LDP. ray, and trading house Marubeni Cor- Now, current President Donald Last year, US Defence Secretary Since Japan’s military does not tech- poration in addition to the key military Trump is upping the ante in Afghani- James Mattis praised Japanese gov- nically exist — it has been described industrial corporations Mitsubishi stan at a continued price. US troops ernment spending as a “model of cost- as the best-camouflaged army in the Heavy Industries, IHI Corporation, and are forecast to remain on Afghan soil sharing” among its allies. world — Japan has never been a major Kawasaki Heavy Industries. for another decade. The Japanese government pays for importer of foreign arms. Instead At the same parliamentary meeting, It is worth remembering that the the US military in three segments: major Japanese corporations estab- Inoue condemned the arms deals, say- US still remains the unchallenged n General expenses for the US mili- lished armament subsidiaries to equip ing that a severe humanitarian crisis military master. No other country tary in Japan the SDF with tanks, ships, planes and has been unfolding in Yemen where comes close to matching the might of n US military relocation projects weaponry. These lucrative government the civil war was heightened and pro- its armed forces. The US military out- n Japan-U.S. Special Action Commit- contracts handsomely paid off their longed due to air strikes carried out lay will increase, by over 10 per cent, tee on Okinawa (SACO). political donations. by Saudi Arabian and UAE-led forces. to $700 billion (£504bn). Its 2016 SACO was set up in the mid-1990s More than four years ago, these The JCP deputy criticised Japanese expenditure was $61bn (£440bn). In after public anger erupted following companies were prohibited from sell- arms exports for “giving a helping 2016, China was second on the global the abduction and rape of an Okinawan ing weaponry overseas at least partly, hand to the attacks, resulting in wors- arms list at $215bn (£155bn). schoolgirl by US servicemen. The with the intention of keeping the vis- ening the humanitarian crisis. The incoming price is unlikely to Clinton administration agreed to ibility of Japan’s military build-up as affect the super wealthy, but tens of reduce the overall total of land occu- low as possible. n Japan should restrict itself to con- millions of US citizens will again bear pied by the bases from 18 per cent to However, Abe’s strident determina- tributing to diplomacy and humanitar- the brunt of a long-held plutocracy. 15 per cent and over time to relocate tion to openly remilitarise the country ian support,” he added. Morning Star 14 FEATURES Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018

11 days COMMIE CHEF The Quizmaster with William Sitwell 1. True or false: pike, luce and jackfi sh are names Test your left for the same creature. FIGHTING general Savoury cheese 2. In which European capital city would you fi nd knowledge the Oxo Tower? with our daily quiz – and see 3. Belarius is a character in which Shakespeare FUND if you can beat and nut cake play? The Quizmaster… NCE again I bring and it’s delicious. Answers on Monday… you a savoury cake, This particular recipe is a treat still rela- adapted from one distributed tively rare in Brit- by Biocoop, a group of inde- ■ Yesterday’s answers YOU’VE RAISED Oain, but very popular here in pendent organic food retail WE STILL NEED France, where I live. co-operatives, as part of a cam- This one has yoghurt, goat’s paign to promote the range of 1. About which bird of prey is the cheese, honey and hazel nuts, yoghurts which they sell. 1969 fi lm Kes? A kestrel (right) £10,916 £7,084 2. In 1937, what was given to the leader of the opposition Ingredients for the fi rst time? An annual WE’RE sent off into the week- in Falmouth who writes: “Keep salary end with a very hearty going, Morning Star. This old ■ standard pot natural powder 3. Which English county is £1,723.18, nearly all of which socialist needs you.” yoghurt ■ ½ tsp dried thyme bordered by Hampshire, was collected at the funeral of We’ve got no intention of ■ 3 eggs ■ Salt and freshly ground Kent and Surrey? Sussex our dear departed Fighting giving up — and with your ■ 180g/6½oz white or black or white pepper Fund organiser Ivan Beavis. support we’ll never have to. brown fl our, or a mixture Regular readers of this col- Recurring online payments umn can imagine how chuff ed * The French recipe Pic: sannse/Creative Commons of £26 (every bit counts!) and of white and wholemeal* Ivan would have been, though £95 in standing orders keep us ■ 100g/4oz goat’s cheese, recommends what is I’d be remiss if I didn’t follow chugging along. chopped into small pieces known here as T80, which in his tradition and urge you And any glimpse at the front ■ 2 tbsp olive or sunfl ower is far from white but well not to let up the pace with just half of our paper will show you oil short of wholemeal. over a week left in the month. just how necessary this paper ■ 1 tbsp liquid honey Wholemeal might be Sudoku Intermediate By all accounts it was a very is — hardly a day goes by with- ■ 50g/2oz shelled somewhat heavy. I touching tribute. And any of you out some shocking revelation hazelnuts, broken into sometimes use T80, and who read John Haylett’s obitu- about the conduct of our so- pieces sometimes a mixture as ary can imagine that there was called betters. no shortage of stories to tell. ■ indicated. This latest wheeze to be 1 level dsp baking So thank you, comrades, exposed, of shuttling prison you’ve done Ivan proud — as offi cers around the country, you always have and we’re paying for hotels but denying sure always will. them a decent pay rise or What to do We’ve also had a separate enough staff to do the job, £20 online donation in Ivan’s would be farcical were it not Preheat the oven to Test with a skewer or memory from a supporter in so serious. 180°C/350°F/mark 4. knitting needle and if it London, a cheque of £10 from Keep the cash coming, com- In a large bowl (or food comes out dry, it’s ready. a comrade from parts un- rades, and we’ll keep telling it processor, if you have one), If not, give it another fi ve known, and £20 from a friend like it is. mix the yoghurt, eggs, fl our, minutes. baking powder, honey, salt, Leave to stand 10 minutes oil, pepper and thyme. before removing from the You can give by… If you’re using a food tin. processor, you’ll need to POST Payable to PPFF to: Fighting Fund, transfer this mixture now to 52 Beachy Road, London E3 2NS a bowl in order to add the PHONE From 10am-5pm on (020) 8510-0815 hazelnuts and cheese. When you’ve done that, ONLINE At morningstaronline.co.uk/support pour the mixture into a greased or kitchen paper- lined cake tin and bake for WEEKEND WEATHER 45 minutes. Sunny max 2°C Solution on Monday… ABERDEEN Sat Sun Cloudy max 4°C BIRMINGHAM Sat Sleet max 3°C Crossword 1,222 set by Alamet Sun Sleet max 8°C CARDIFF Sat Light rain max 5°C ACROSS DOWN Sun Heavy rain max 11°C 1. Pretended to be a bad actor in 1. Do for each run (7) EDINBURGH Sat Partly cloudy max 2°C southern sea (7) 2. Toss caber near to irregularity Sun Light rain max 2°C 5. Confess to keeping one good (9) reason fi nally for endorsement (7) 3. Pest coming up, say, not bright GLASGOW Sat Cloudy max 2°C 9. Improve a fi x (5) (5) Sun Sleet max 3°C 10. Tell niece about customers (9) 4. Decoration of French car Overcast max 5°C 11. Eat purple bananas uninter- includes silver (9) LIVERPOOL Sat rupted (9) 5. Second to destroy art (5) Sun Heavy rain max 7°C 12. Praise note by Old Testament 6. 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Finish off 3, a way to fi nd the SHEFFIELD Sat Cloudy max 4°C 26. Bird gives thanks for painting... world of men (7) (5) 22. King left Cleveland wood (5) Sun Sleet max 3°C 27. ...constructed before start of 23. Longed to have given good SOUTHAMPTON Sat Light rain max 6°C current trend oddly (7) service around hospital (5) Sun Heavy rain max 11°C 28. Fragrant small American heart 24. Tree with more than enough dismissed right to daughter (7) to swap around on top (5) Outlook: Wet weekend for most of the island’s population, save Aberdo- nians and Geordies selected for sunbasking on Saturday. Temperatures Solution on Monday… continue to terrorise relentlessly by droping close to 0°C so wrap up. Morning Star Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018 FEATURES 15

DISABILITY Supreme Court bedroom tax winners taken back to court again HEN Jayson and “It’s as if we are trapped in a legal Charlotte Car- technicality. The outcome means so michael received much for others, that’s the one thing the unanimous that keeps us going. The Human Supreme Court rul- Rights Act is there and people should ing that the bed- be able to access it whenever it is Wroom tax, in their case, contravened applicable — something this govern- their human rights, they thought this ment is now trying to stop.” was an end to their mammoth four- Of course, ideally the bedroom tax year battle. would be abolished — something It was a fi ght the Carmichaels felt Labour has already pledged to do when they had to undertake, as the two elected. This is because the bedroom bedrooms they have are both in use. tax is discriminatory at its core. Charlotte’s disability and the What has also become clear from equipment she requires for sleeping Jayson and Charlotte Carmichael, and means it’s impossible for Jayson to that of the Rutherford family as well share a bedroom with her. as other high-profi le cases, is that this The bedroom tax is a direct charge tax hits those with the most serious against her disability. There is no disabilities particularly hard, despite “spare room” but the blunt tool that what the government might try to is the bedroom tax disregards their claim. individual needs and as a result the Theresa May’s recent reshuffl e has Supreme Court found it was contra- put Esther McVey in charge of the vening their human rights. TARGETED: DWP. She was a minister in the DWP However, the vindictive Depart- Jayson and with Iain Duncan Smith from 2013 to ment for Work and Pensions (DWP) is Charlotte 2015, implementing some of the cruell- now taking a ruling in the Car- Carmichael est and most draconian “reforms,” michaels’ favour from the First Tier including the bedroom tax. Tribunal in 2014 to the Court of By putting her in charge of the Appeal on February 20 and 21, argu- DWP it sends a message that there ing that the tribunal shouldn’t have for something it can try to use against their fi ght against this discriminatory is more pain ahead for the increas- used the Human Rights Act in its by Ruth Hunt them. tax is not just for them, but for the ingly large section of the population judgement. Is this really the best use of the many others who fi nd themselves in hit by the changes made to welfare This tribunal in 2014 said: “There court’s time and public money when a similar situation. benefi ts. was no objective and reasonable justi- charged the bedroom tax. Jayson and Charlotte’s case is so Jayson says: “We’re stressed by the It makes it imperative for those fi cation for such discrimination in deal- This is what the DWP argument is clear-cut? fact they are still continuing to use wanting a fair society for all to take ing with such a seriously disabled per- about: bizarrely Jayson and Charlotte It will make it fi ve years that they the bedroom tax to take us to court, the lead from campaigners like Jay- son regarding their housing benefi t. are being taken to court because the have been fi ghting the government, despite the historic win in the Supreme son and Charlotte, and do all we can “Accordingly the appealed decision council obeyed the ruling of the First which adds an enormous amount of Court when we made legal history. to fi ght against these attacks on dis- is set aside and Section 4 (1) Human Tier Tribunal, which used the Human stress on to a couple who are already “We have an excellent legal team, abled people. Rights Legislation 13 (b) (5) so as to Rights Act in its ruling. dealing with a progressive disability but it still is disappointing that the avoid discrimination in the matter of It feels like the bloody nose the with all the cost and additional pres- government and their top lawyers ■ Ruth F Hunt is author of The Sin- housing benefi t to this discrete group DWP received as a result of the sure this entails. have been able to take us to court on gle Feather (Pilrig Press). of disabled persons.” Supreme Court rulings has meant it However, this doesn’t mean the something that no longer has much The local council obeyed the ruling is now trawling through the Car- Carmichaels are ready to give up and to do with our personal circum- and the Carmichaels were not michaels’ case, desperately searching roll over, as they fi rmly believe that stances.

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surprisingly it really is an entertaining watch. Film SpongeBob and his friend Patrick go on a Drama quest to find the crown stolen from King Saturday Neptune and save his restaurant’s Krabby Patty Saturday Sicario, 9pm C4 secret recipe. Hard Sun, 9.30pm BBC1 Denis Villeneuve manages to breathe life into A Christian traumatised by his work with refugees the over-done drug cartel genre with this and on the brink of losing his faith confesses to a 2015 hit. Rather than the usual focus on the Documentary priest that he wants to do bad things to good big bad Mexican drug bosses, Sicario covers Saturday people. It’s the latest grim storyline in an incredibly in equal measure workplace inequality and Shipwrecks: Britain’s Sunken grim but enthralling pre-apocalyptic drama. the hypocritical US middle-class who fuel History, 7pm BBC4 Sunday their weekends with grams of blood-soaked Vera, 8.10pm ITV coke. Britain’s coastline is home to the world’s largest number of sunken ships. In the 1800s ship- A little boy fi nds his mum dead in the back garden, Saturday wrecks were so common that the Victorians her head cracked open with a rock. Vera is on the case The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, fi nally came up with intuitive ways to prevent to unearth what happened, which isn’t easy as the 11am Film4 ships and their crews drowing in a watery grave. witnesses are all painfully unhelpful and suspicious. Now I know that a film based on the adven- Maritime historian Sam Willis looks at how But diffi cult cases are what Vera does best. tures of an over-excited marine-dwelling shipwrecks drove new seafaring technology Tuesday Sunday sponge isn’t likely to tickle your fancy but including the life jacket. Inside No 9, 10pm BBC2 Call the Midwife, 8pm BBC1 The League of Gentlemen creator Steve Pemberton This show has covered all manner of social MONDAY: Great American Railroad Journeys 6.30pm BBC2 is the top dog when it comes to putting together issues prevalent in 1950s Britain. This week the What Unfortunately Michael Portillo’s dramatic unseating in 1997 wasn’t unpredictable and slightly disturbing comedy. In latest recruit to join Nonnatus House, Lucille the last we heard of the former top Tory. You’d have thought that this one-off play Pemberton plays a self-loathing Anderson (pictured), is a black woman. Some to miss such a humiliating defeat — which even has a phrase named after wedding photographer whose wife is desperate to of her colleagues wonder how patients will it to describe other similar incidents — would have deterred him rekindle their stale two-decade-old marriage. But react in a time when it was legal to discriminate from returning to the public sphere. But alas no, Portillo is still eve- what begins as a tale of domestic sorrow turns into against employees because of their race. rywhere, and now he’s even trying to ruin trains. something completely diff erent... Morning Star 16 CULTURE Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018

PREVIEW DIARY Arts ahead Loud response to purist portrayal of political song early music scene, we are indeed sadly, confused with small cliques My favourite political song is very loud. That’s why we describe of elderly people wearing Aran White Man In Hammersmith Pal- Star critics cherry-pick some of the our music as “roundhead renais- sweaters who like to sing songs ais by the Clash, as it happens. sancecore and baroque rock’n’ about ploughboys with fi ngers in I am currently writing another best on off er in the weeks to come roll. their ears and some indeed com- one of my own, about Carrillion. BOLTON THEATRE We’re supposed to be loud, plain that songs about what’s I always thought there was some- ★ though nowhere near as loud as going on in the world today are thing fi shy about them. I don’t like Jane Eyre most punk bands — you wouldn’t “too political.” Genesis either. Octagon Theatre OVERWHELMED with the be able to hear the crumhorn. In such circles, it’s generally What a bloody rip-off. Why Howell Croft South almost universally positive Listen if you like at soundcloud. only seen as OK to sing about should we keep paying? Let the Until February 10 response to my appeal for gigs com/barnstormer1649 oppression, hunger and exploita- fat cat parasites pay! Corbyn and “I am no bird and no net following the renaissance, in As for not doing the old songs tion if it happened at least 200 McDonnell — pledge that a ensnares me — I am a free every sense, of my early music- justice, in a 17-song set I’ve writ- years ago and the ditty has a Labour government would end human being with an inde- meets-punk band Barnstormer. ten all but two, so it appears that squire and a pregnant farm girl PFI WITHOUT COMPENSATION pendent will.” Thus Jane Eyre who, penniless and Had a wonderful rehearsal last many of my efforts were assumed in it somewhere. Ask living leg- except to small independent pro- alone, emerges from a bleak childhood to make night with crumhorn, cornemuse, to be ancient rallying calls which ends Leon Rosselson and Robb viders and take full state control her way in life as a governess at Thornfi eld Hall, violin, viola, fi ve different record- I have somehow infused with Johnson about this if you don’t over all public sector projects. where she falls in love with her mysterious ers and mandocello in full effect. unseemly noise. I’m fl attered. believe me. And let anyone on the right of employer Mr Rochester. But he is hiding a ter- I’ll be announcing details of our And the “too loud” comment All of this is of course complete the Labour Party doing anything rible secret that could ruin everything and this fi rst British tour soon. brings me to a wider point about and utter bollocks. If a piece con- other than concentrating on new adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s great novel I say almost universally posi- what constitutes political song on tains music and words and the opposing this government please by Janys Chambers and Lorna French is a dra- tive, although even the negative the left. There is defi nitely a latter engage with the actions of remember that new Labour were matic version of how her indomitable spirit, wit comment was quite inspiring strand of opinion which stipulates governments and corporations as much a part of this fi asco as and courage drives her to fi ght for her independ- actually. One Facebook critic said that unless it is couched within and all those things we generally the Tories are. Forward. ence and to follow her heart whatever the obsta- after listening that we were “far the medium of what is generally defi ne as politics then, ipso facto, Gigs next week: Thunderbolt in cles. Jessica Baglow (pictured) takes the title role. too loud and didn’t do the old rebel categorised as folk music and is it’s a “political” song. Bristol on Thursday with the won- octagonbolton.co.uk songs justice.” performed quietly using mainly It may be punk, folk, ska, rap, derful Clayton Blizzard, Friday Thanks. There’s nobody else acoustic instruments then, country, death metal or Latvian at Cardiff Bus Transport Club and ★ GLASGOW MUSIC who sounds like us and it is cer- although a song may be political, experimental hardcore nose-fl ute Saturday at Victoria Hall in Lam- Beth Orton + Blue Rose Code tainly true that, compared to eve- it’s not “political song.” jazz. It may be loud or quiet. It peter with the totally ace Muddy 02 ABC Glasgow rything else I have heard in the To complicate matters further, may be fantastic or unlistenable. Summers and the Dirty Field Sauchiehall Street tiny niche which is the British the term folk music is sometimes, But it’s political song. Full stop. Whores and Hattie Hatstar. February 2

Blessed with one of the most distinctive BOOK REVIEW voices in British music, Beth Orton is noted for pairing her Contrarian cross- inimitable voice to a synthesis of electronic and acoustic instruments. She consistently challenges perceptions of her dressing concepts of music and is able to effortlessly bridge the previ- ously unseen musical gaps between the Chemical Brothers and Bert Jansch. At this gig, which prom- ‘man-made woman’ ises to be a stand-out at Celtic Connections, she’s supported by Blue Rose Code whose repertoire Man-made Woman: The countenanced. mixes folk, soul, pop and jazz. Dialectics of Cross- If Cremin is seemingly una- celticconnections.com dressing ware of these inherent contradic- by Ciara Cremin tions, then she openly acknowl- ★ HASTINGS/TOURING PERFORMANCE edges that she wants to disman- The Lynching (Pluto Press, £16.99) tle capitalism while being sus- White Rock Theatre ceptible to the lure of marketing White Rock FIFTY years after the so-called and pop culture — at one point January 26 sexual revolution, Ciara Cremin she blames the adverting indus- wants to know why “even a minor try for making her a “Dior In this one-woman show deviation from a masculine norm addict.” Jackie Walker shares her causes both fascination and Yet that distrust of marketing life story in what is partly revulsion.” leads to a cursory dismissal of a conversation with her Cartoon: Noel It’s a question that has a very fashion trends in which men adopt mother, an African-American civil-rights activist, personal origin for the author. female accoutrements that, in and she also tackles her suspension from the POETRY Man-made Woman charts other contexts, she espouses. Male Labour Party for alleged anti-semitism. Accord- Cremin’s experience as a cross- vloggers who’ve been sponsored ing to Alexei Sayle, “ it’s a great night... [Walker] dresser who likes to wear wom- by cosmetic companies, for possesses a lovely singing voice and the honed en’s and men’s clothing but, instance, are deemed newsworthy acting skills of a veteran performer… she’s very On Shitholes rather than being merely a mem- because they’re “exceptional” funny and frank.” Can’t say fairer than that. by Janine Booth oir, it analyses gender rather than being potential eventbrite.com politics in the context of outriders for greater main- A place becomes a shithole feminism and sociology, stream acceptance. ★ LONDON EXHIBITION the latter being the subject Such scepticism is per- Fatberg when someone digs a hole and shits in it in which she lectures. haps healthy when consid- Museum of London Someone like you, Donald Trump, Yet the personal nature ered in the framework of London Wall of the book means that it continued sexism within February 9-July 1 and all the rulers and raiders has a liberal Western bias gendered products. and tin-pot dictators and doesn’t consider wider It’s an area in which At your wits’ end the speculators and devastators historical or cultural aspects of Cremin’s argument is particu- with what to do cross-dressing. These sections larly strong and her awareness with the kids as the extractors and the malefactors are nonetheless some of the most of marketing semantics makes half term acerbically funny and revealing, her analysis of the man-bag ver- a p p r o a c h e s ? while also being fraught with sus handbag and video-game Here’s a pretty Shitholes, however unpleasant, contradiction. Her motivations violence particularly incisive. gross solution. at least serve a purpose veer from the personal to the The author is also persuasive The only remaining piece of the enormous fatberg political and she both welcomes in her call for feminist and It is better to bury your shit in them discovered under London’s streets is to be dis- or repels attention from others. LGBT+ groups to work together played at the Museum of London as part of their than to let it fl ow in torrents There’s also a tension between to end patriarchal capitalism, year-long season City Now City Future. The mon- out of your mouth her feminist analysis and the fact especially given the political ster mass of congealed fat, oil, grease, wet wipes that the only women featured in climate in Trump’s America, and and sanitary products weighed in at a colossal every time you open it her narrative are presented in the repeated message that it’s 130 tonnes and stretched over 250 metres. Its superfi cially, either helping to society and not the cross-dresser existence highlights the pressures fat and modern choose her jewellery or marking that needs to change. rubbish are putting on urban infrastructures and her costumes out of 10. The idea Despite its frustrating contra- is a comment on our increasingly disposable soci- ■ This is Janine Booth’s response to Donald Trump, who alleg- that women might not be inter- riness, such valid points make ety. Take breathing apparatus. Free. edly questioned why the US should accept immigrants from ested in such matters for reasons the book worthwhile reading. museumofl ondon.org.uk “shithole countries” like Haiti and some African nations other than radical feminism isn’t SUSAN DARLINGTON Morning Star Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018 CULTURE 17

PHOTOGRAPHY Authentic ambrosia For London’s working class, the eel, pie and mash shops depicted in a marvellous new book of photographs truly serve up the most delicious of foods, says MICHAEL COLLINS HE EEL, pie and mash shop survives, even though sightings are rare these days. Always an alternate collective experience to the pub and, say, the street market,T it’s often a place to eat alone, a refuge for the solitary, and that’s apparent in Stuart Freedman’s The Englishman And The Eel. His photographs sometimes reveal these eateries to be shelters of respite pence during a bleak midwinter in and repose. Those of us who were the 1970s. regulars remember the widows, the How can this meal do that? How widowers, the lone coster or labourer, can something so simple, and born along with the mother with her off- of hard times, on hard streets, be spring. Unlike Prufrock in TS Eliot’s ambrosia to the locals? To an out- poem, whose life is measured out in sider, an interloper, it was simply coffee spoons, theirs were measured congealed liquor with green fl ecks, out in pies, mash, liquor and jellied lumpy mash, burnt pies and eels, jel- eels, dissected by cutlery that was, lied or stewed. And it still is. for a period, plastic. What has changed is that eels no But, whether alone or in company, longer wriggle on trays in the win- have found myself on an infi nite rounded by halal butchers, Polish keen to celebrate it. this is a meal to be eaten and enjoyed dows of these institutions. Condi- number of occasions throughout an supermarkets, curry houses and West Those of us who return here as in silence. ments no longer come in brown tablet infi nite number of years. Indian takeaways. In the wider neigh- ghosts and reach out across the for- Taking a forensic eye to tubs that once housed pre- On the wall behind her, a line-up bourhood, the sound of drilling, dig- mica counter for our meal continue the detail of the photo- scribed drugs. Dried chil- of framed photographs. Unlike the ging and accents from other classes to enjoy it in solitude and silence. Yet graphs in these pages, lies no longer fl oat in black images in this book they are black reveal the extent to which redevelop- our experience of the place that where the small hand rests vinegar in old sarsaparilla and white, amateur and ancient. ment and gentrifi cation are colonising housed our past, where we seek our on the clock and “Stay bottles. What remains, as These tell the story of the subject the area. ambrosia, is not unique. True” is tattooed across 10 is apparent by the various before this book begins and moves In such a setting, the pie and mash Within these pages that silence is fi ngers, I feel myself within settings revealed in The the story so perfectly, so beautifully, shop may seem an anachronism that fi lled with images, stories and lives. them, just out of frame. Englishman and the Eel, into the present. Arment’s has been belongs to a monocultural past and Freedman has chosen a signifi cant When? What day? are the moist ornate tiles, a family-run concern since the begin- those that celebrate it, and other moment to celebrate and share this Well, certainly, that the wooden benches, for- ning of the 20th century. The various aspects of that lost city, are often subject and its history. One day these clearing between infancy mica counters and marble generations and customers are accused of peddling a myth. venues will pass — maybe sooner and adolescence. Perhaps a table tops — and the peo- depicted within the frames, charting This is true, in part, even when you rather than later, along with London momentary pause from ple. the changing times in a changing attempt to recall the past in terms of — no, though London will still exist, growing pains, double biology and the One particular Freedman photo- neighbourhood. history and fact rather than memory London will never be the same city earth-shattering news that Sparks graph pulls me and takes me back. But, equally, this gallery of images and nostalgia. But it is no less a myth again. had slipped down the charts. Such An elderly woman is reaching up to appears to be proudly making a sali- than the multicultural present, with were the concerns when you played a counter and paying for a meal. I ent point — we’re still here and our the tired refrain of diversity and ■ Stuart Freedman’s The Englishman truant and used your bus fare to lap recognise Arment’s, the pie and mash story, our history, is still relevant. vibrancy that has turned the capital and the Eel is published by Dewi up double pie, mash and liquor for 22 shop in south-east London, where I The pie and mash shop itself is sur- into a hackneyed cliche by those so Lewis, price £29. Morning Star 18 LETTERS Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018

GRAHAM STEVENSON explores the Star’s online archives UNITED STATES 80 YEARS AGO TODAY... Khan and Corbyn No chance of a military alliance between Russia and Germany are right to risk the A READER asked whether the conceal its hatred of the Soviet Union abandon their intention of attacking ■Soviet Union could have a and Hitler’s claim to the territory of the Soviet Union” with a gigantic war military alliance with nazi Germany, the Soviet Ukraine was constantly machine built “with a view to an as was being insinuated by the restated. early war,” which must be paid for special relationship reactionary press in Britain, in the Nazi “diplomacy” worked openly to “in the shape of conquered territory.” January 20 1938 Daily Worker. drive a wedge between France and The Soviet Union regarded any war SADIQ KHAN and Jeremy ever and our government JR Campbell said this was devised the Soviet Union, “Japan was as an unmitigated disaster, because it Corbyn, contrary to what Boris should be helping them rather to convince people “they cannot rely engaged in the most provocative would dissipate resources which Johnson thinks, must do eve- than hindering. Which is on the Soviet Union for the defence activity on the Soviet’s eastern would otherwise be used to improve rything in their power to “allow clearly what Boris Johnson of peace” via collective security. frontiers and Italy has sunk Soviet the standard of life of the people. US-UK relations to be endan- and Theresa May do every It was not likely since the Soviet ships in the Mediterranean.” ■ You can read digitised pages from gered” (M Star, January 13). time they defend him, or, of Union was greatly exercised in A military alliance between the the Daily Worker (1930-45) and In fact, every leader in the course, when they say and do “rooting out fascist agents found on its Soviet Union and fascism, as distinct Morning Star (2000-present), as they world should be putting what- nothing, which amounts to territory … hardly a method of seeking from a collective agreement not to appeared in print, at mstar.link/ ever relationship their coun- defending him anyway. a rapprochement with Germany.” attack each other, would require DWMSarchive. Ten days’ access costs tries have with Trump’s gov- We should not have to listen Similarly Germany never tried to Germany and Japan to “miraculously just £5.99 and a whole year is £72. ernment “at risk,” and voicing to Nigel Farage’s opinions their disgust with his racism, ever, but the fact that they are and his threats to world peace. close to those held by the gov- Lenin lived on in the struggles of the oppressed the whole world over It is obscene for our govern- ernment is alarming. ment to be so much in thrall Doesn’t anyone in govern- LENIN’S towering infl uence But, Palme Dutt proclaimed, the movement and its development to the US dollar that it insists ment have any sympathy with ■meant that, 14 years after his “greatness of Lenin lay precisely in through every stage.” the “strong and deep relation- the people of the insulted death, his name was still “a battlecry the fact that he represented and Answering his critics on the ship will endure.” nations? The answer is obvi- and a platform for the oppressed all embodied the world historical signing of the Treaty of Brest-Lito- Things have changed. The ous, and it’s the same as the over the world,” Rajani Palme Dutt movement of our time.” vsk, Lenin said: “If you are not president is a racist, and no answer to this question: Is wrote in the January 21 1938 Daily It was his sense of the creative inclined to crawl in the mud on your country which claims to have there no-one in this Tory gov- Worker. power of human beings to mould belly, you are not a revolutionary, but democracy, freedom and rule ernment with the courage to Palme Dutt lamented the fact that their lives that “gave to Lenin his a chatterbox; and I propose this, not of law as core principles criticise Trump? “had Lenin lived the normal life span, unique strength ... When the world because I like it, but … because should be doing business with A general election cannot he would have been with us today in war laid bare the rottenness of history has not turned out to be so him. Cut off relations, cancel come soon enough. Corbyn is the midst of our present struggles.” imperialism and reformism, Bolshe- pleasant as to make the revolution state visits and insist things right to state that a “clear mes- When Lenin died “world capital- vism alone rode the storm.” ripen everywhere simultaneously.” will only get better when the sage” needs to be sent, which ism breathed a sigh of relief,” Lenin’s “unshakable confi dence His words on how politicians president improves his man- is why Labour should be predicting that the swift disintegra- and optimism” was also combined became “deadly afraid” of “knowl- ners, or changes his policies, demanding a Commons debate tion of the Soviet system would soon with “a completely practical sense of edge coming to the working people” or when there is a new one. on the need to rescind the state follow. the tasks and conditions of the mass still resonated. 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HISTORY A sorry tale of neolib economics Read about ECONOMY: The demise of Carillion is a tale of private profi t and public Churchill’s risk, but beyond that it is also a story of neoliberal- ism. Siege of It is not about Brexit or remain, the ideology is on Sidney St both sides of that equation. Rather the issues here IN PETER FROST’S are austerity economics enjoyable article on and ideological privatisa- Winston Churchill (M Star tion. January 19) he mentions KEITH FLETT the Siege of Sidney Street, London N17 which took place when Churchill was home secretary in Herbert Asquith’s Liberal govern- Trump boosts ment. It is the subject of the Clash sales excellent novel Death out REVOLUTION ROCK: I of Season by Emanuel dare say the Clash hit So Litvinoff. Bored of the USA is However, the Seige of popular in Norway, Haiti Sidney Street, sometimes and El Salvador at the referred to as the Battle of moment. Stepney was essentially a When the US had its robbery gone wrong. revolution it kept slavery What started with a for nearly another century, jewellery robbery in the whereas Haiti abolished it City of London turned into immediately. an armed siege of a PHIL BRAND property in nearby London SW17 Stepney. The police were unable to deal with matters on their own and soon the army was called in. One more for the The culprits were a gang of Latvian anarchists ECONOMY little red song book — although it must be TUNES: The next time pointed out that the term Jeremy Corbyn bumps into anarchist was a loosely Theresa May he should used term at the time, a At least the capitalist fat cats did well start singing: “Who wants label often used by the to be a Carillionaire? You Establishment. did!” The novel goes into out of Carillion’s spectacular collapse DAVE BISHOP detail about the individual Notting- members of the revolution- AMIDST all the gloom and gering £16m across its funds. Carillion? Simple — it’s called 2014, the parasitic hedge funds ham ary group and ends with doom surrounding the collapse UK hedge funds Thunder- short selling. borrowed shares from Caril- Yesterday’s the death of the group’s of Carillion, let us heave a sigh bird Partners were £14m to It works like this: the hedge lion when the the value was Sudoku solution leader George Gradstein. of relief that the capitalist sys- the good and Immersion Cap- fund borrows shares and then high and then bought them The fate of possible tem is still working well for ital stand to make somewhere sells them. If for example a back when the value crashed. remaining member of the those who own and control it. in the region of £11.5m. share is worth £10 and they This only leaves the ques- gang, Peter the Painter Unnoticed by much of the It is estimated that hedge have a hundred then they make tion of how, if the hedge has been a subject of mainstream media there have funds have made around £1,000. When the value of the funds spotted this, how did mystery for many years been some real winners out of £300m out of the demise of shares falls to say £5 they then the government miss it? since, the character even the collapse. Carillion. buy them back which will cost After all our Prime Min- appeared in an ITV I refer of course to a whole How do they do this when £500. They can then return the ister is married to some- adaptation of the Titanic raft of hedge funds. everybody else involved is los- shares to whoever they’ve bor- one who advises hedge story a few years ago. Marshall Wade made a profi t ing their jobs of fi nding that rowed then from and trouser funds on how to minimise BRENT CUTLER of £19.1 million out of the they will only be paid a penny a cool £500 profi t! their tax payments. Southampton crash, while US investment in the pound for monies that Having spotted that the fi rm LAURENCE PLATT bank Blackrock made a stag- are owed for work done for was heading for trouble in mid- Stanton Hill Morning Star 20 GOING OUT Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018

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RACING: YOUR GUIDE TO THIS WEEKEND’S ACTION Stamina will be key at Haydock today Our tipster casts his expert eye over the pick of the weekend’s meets

TAMINA will be at a you could even make a case premium this after- for that canter home being RACING GOING ALL IN: noon at Ascot and very nearly a career best Racers at Haydock even more so at Hay- effort from the 10-year-old. TIPS dock Park where In fact, I don’t even think with heavyS ground is forecast. Brain Power will hit the frame There has been a welter- and feel that San Benedeto is Farringdon weight of money for Brain arguably the better forecast Power in the feature Clarence link as long as he doesn’t take House Chase at Ascot (3.35), on the short-priced favourite but he has a mountain to climb from too far out. three miles is going to take to bridge the gap with the There are some good prizes some getting on the very deep odds-on favourite and last up for grabs in the shoulder Lancashire ground. year’s hero Un De Sceaux. races, none more so than in the That should suit several of The Willie Mullins charge Bet365 Chase at 3.00 and course these dour stayers but none looked as good as ever when specialist Tenor Nivernais has more so than last year’s Eider making a winning return in to be respected on his comeback Chase runner-up Knockan- the Hilly Way Chase and, if despite a 287-day absence. rawley. you go through the form book, But he could find it tough Kim Bailey’s charge has since going giving a lump of weight run very well at Newbury and away to some smart young Ayr and, although he has nothing Farringdon’s horses, the best of which could in hand on the handicapper, doubles well be the hugely progressive there is little doubt that the Northern challenger Forest 10-year-old is the most consist- SATURDAY Des Aigles. ent stayer in the 13 runner entry. From the Grand National Over on the flat Lingfield ZEPHYROS winning team of Lucinda Rus- stages a cracking card and Lingfield 2:00 (nap) sell, this lightly raced gelding Court House looks a shoo-in FOREST DES AIGLES has galloped all over his rivals for John Gosden to follow up Ascot 3:00 on his last two starts, winning his Newcastle success in the off marks of 118 and 125 and, novice event at 12.50, but, if SUNDAY although defying 133 in a bet- you are looking for a better NATIVE ROBIN ter race requires more, I think value wager, then why not con- Fontwell 1:40 (nap) that the son of Balko could be sider Rock Icon at 1.25. up to it. The top weight produced a MELROSE BOY Robinshill is equally pro- career best figure when win- Fontwell 3:10 gressive and along with the ning at Wolverhampton last hat-trick-seeking Acting Lass time out and has little more to Houseman’s is rightly respected. do here despite a penalty. Midnight Tune is going to Old men Karam Albari and choice be mighty hard to pass in the Embankment could both go well OLBG Mares’ Hurdle at 1.50 from either end of the market SATURDAY and can make the most of the in the 2.00, but neither may be LA BAGUE AU ROI weight she receives from the able to deal with Zephyros. very classy La Bague Au Roi, Although yet to score on the Ascot 1:50 while Whatmore is the each- all-weather, he served notice SUNDAY way play at around 33/1 in the that his time was close at hand JACK BEAR big handicap hurdle at 2.25. when running really well Chelmsford 3:25 At Haydock Park, the Peter behind Ban Shoof over this Marsh Chase (3.15) takes cen- course and distance at the tre stage and the extended back end of December.

RACING: YOUR GUIDE TO THIS WEEKEND’S ACTION St Pauli spend winter preparing for play-off push

T PAULI kept them- A training camp and two of the Bundesliga table. They “We’ve worked on football- ond-half of the season. The ent teams with different selves warm during games in southern Spain, and then recovered with a 1-0 win ing things and keeping com- east German club are 11th in ideas.” the winter break with a third game back home in against Chinese side Tianjin pact. the table, just a point behind The ideas of St Pauli’s new three friendly games, Hamburg at the Millerntor, Quanjian in Coin on the out- “We’ll add the final touches St Pauli, and a win for either coach will become evident in before aiming to get should be ideal preparation for skirts of sunny Malaga. back home and ensure the side could propel them into the the second half of the season, backS on track in the league the team under new boss The return to Germany saw players are nice and sprightly. top-half and edge them closer and the winter break was the against Dynamo Dresden next Markus Kauczinski. them draw 1-1 with Bochum on “We have to get into a posi- to the promotion play-off ideal time to drill his team in Thursday. The club’s long-term aim is home turf and Kauczinski is tion where a first-team spots. these new ways. Having gone into the month- return to the Bundesliga and now looking forward to resum- emerges that can gel. “They put a lot of emphasis The club will be hoping they long Winterpause on the back they tested themselves against ing the league campaign. “It’ll be tight in three or on possession and have the help them recover from a poor of their first league victory in top-flight opposition in the first “We’ve taken a big step for- four places, perhaps clearer composure to put moves run of results at the end of nine games — a 2-1 triumph of these friendlies in Marbella. ward at training camp and are in others.” together,” Kauczinski said of 2017, and go into the new year at home to VfL Bochum — the They fell to a 3-1 defeat closer to how we want to play The game against Dynamo his side’s upcoming opponents. with renewed hopes of promo- club looked to keep their spir- against a VfL Wolfsburg side football,” said the 47-year-old Dresden presents the ideal “It’ll be interesting and tion. its high and their bodies warm. who are lodged in the middle head coach. challenge to kick off the sec- exciting. A meeting of differ- JAMES NALTON Morning Star 22 SPORT Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018

WOMEN’S TENNIS: AUSTRALIAN OPEN Sport on TV NEED A REST: Spain’s Saturday Carla Suarez Navarro (right) walks past her BASKETBALL: NBA, Cleveland Cava- Kostyuk’s dream ends as opponent Estonia’s liers v Oklahoma City Thunder — BT Kaia Kanepi Sport//ESPN 8.30pm. CRICKET: Under-19s World Cup, New Zealand v South Africa — Sky she loses to Svitolina Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Cricket 6am; Third one-day interna- by Our Sports Desk ning the junior title 12 months some encouraging words for tional, Australia v England — BT ago and must now focus on Kostyuk, who revealed she Sport 1 3am (Sun). working her way up the profes- was in tears after the match. FOOTBALL: Premier League, FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD sional game from her current “It was sad playing another Brighton v Chelsea — Sky Sports Marta Kostyuk’s run at ranking of 521. Ukrainian girl,” said Svitolina. Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League 11.30am; Manchester City v the Australian Open Asked how much she “She’s a great fi ghter. She has Newcastle, BT Sport 1 5pm; Champi- came to an end yesterday learned, Kostyuk said: “A lot. a great future. We’re going to onship, Sheffi eld Wednesday v Car- with a 6-2 6-2 loss against How much do you have to pay hear a lot more about her.” diff — Sky Sports Main Event 5.15pm; fourth seed and fellow Svitolina to have a one-hour Svitolina revealed after her National League, Sutton United v Ukrainian Elina Svitolina. lesson? I got it for free. second-round struggle against Dagenham & Redbridge — BT Sport Kostyuk’s success, coming “She’s a great player, but Katerina Siniakova that she 1 12pm; Welsh Premier League, Car- through qualifying and reach- what I learned is that you can has not been feeling healthy, diff Met v The New Saints — S4C ing the third round, has been play against everyone. I had but she was strong and focused 5pm; Bundesliga, Hamburg SV v FC one of the stories of the tourna- the chances, but because I against Kostyuk and is a hot Cologne — BT Sport 2 5.30pm; ment, but she found Svitolina thought she is incredible, like favourite to reach the semi- LaLiga, Las Palmas v Valencia — Sky too strong and too experienced she’s a god, I cannot do any- fi nals. Sports Main Event 7.40pm. in her debut on Rod Laver thing against her, that’s the The world No 4 is the only GOLF: European Tour, Abu Dhabi Arena. problem.” seed left in her quarter of the HSBC Championship — Sky Sports Kostyuk was given a wild- The pair shared a warm hug draw and faces Czech qualifi er Golf 8.30am and Sky Sports Main card into qualifying after win- at the net and Svitolina had Denisa Allertova next. Event 8.45am; PGA Tour, The Career- Builder Challenge — Sky Sports Golf 8pm and Sports Main Event 9.45pm. HORSE RACING: Live from Ascot — ITV4 1.30pm. RUGBY UNION: European Rugby Champions Cup, Montpellier v Lein- ster — Sky Sports Action 12.30pm; Saracens v Northampton — BT Sport 2 3pm; Scarlets v Toulon — Sky Sports Action 5pm; Treviso v Bath — BT Sport 2 7.30pm. SNOOKER: The Masters — Eurosport 2 1pm & 6.45pm, BBC One 1.15pm, BBC Two 4.30pm & 7pm. TENNIS: Australian Open — Eurosport 2 6am and Eurosport 1 7.45am; Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2 12am (Sun). Sunday BASKETBALL: NBA, Los Angeles Lakers v New York Knicks — BT Sport 2 8.30pm. CRICKET: International T20, New Zealand v Pakistan — Sky Sports Cricket 2.55am (Mon) and Sky Sports Main Event 3am (Mon). FOOTBALL: Premier League, South- ampton v Tottenham Hotspur — Sky Sports Premier League 3.30pm and Sky Sports Main Event 4pm; Scottish Cup, Fraserburgh v Rangers — Sky Sports Main Event 11.30am; Hearts v MEN’S FOOTBALL: NEWCASTLE Hibernian — Sky Sports Main Event 2pm; Serie A, Atalanta v Napoli — eir Sport 1 11.25am and BT Sport 2 11.30am; Lazio v Chievo — BT Sport Staveley refuses to give up on Toon 1 1.45pm; Sampdoria v Fiorentina — eir Sport 1 1.55pm; Cagliari v AC Milan — eir Sport 1 4.55pm and BT Sport 1 5pm; Inter Milan v AS Roma takeover bid despite talks collapsing — BT Sport 1 7.30pm; Ligue 1, Nice v St Etienne — BT Sport//ESPN 2pm; by Our Sports Desk still interested in buying New- close to him describing the A statement released by the Monaco v Metz — BT Sport//ESPN castle and our bid remains on negotiations as “exhausting, Ashley Out campaign said: “It 4pm; Lyon v Paris St Germain — eir the table. frustrating and a complete is time for him to negotiate UNBAREABLE HEAT: Alize Sport 1 7.45pm. NEWCASTLE found them- “This is an investment, but waste of time.” seriously with Ms Staveley, or Cornet wraps a ice towel GOLF: European Tour, Abu Dhabi selves engulfed in claim and it has to be a long-term invest- Ashley’s decision took other serious interested par- around her neck to cool HSBC Championship — Sky Sports counter-claim yesterday fol- ment. Newcastle would be run Staveley, who sees the reten- ties if they exist, to allow a down during her third round Golf and Sky Sports Main Event lowing the apparent collapse as a business, but we want it tion of manager Rafael Benitez worthy custodian to take over match against Belgium’s 8.30am; PGA Tour, The CareerBuilder of Amanda Staveley’s pro- to be a successful, thriving as key to the club’s future, by Newcastle United to begin to Elise Mertens Challenge — Sky Sports Golf 8pm. posed takeover. business that is an absolutely surprise. rebuild itself as the football GRIDIRON: NFL, New England Patri- Staveley insisted her bid for integral part of the city.” She said: “I’m very con- club we love and know it can ots v Jacksonville Jaguars — Sky the club remains on the table However, it is understood cerned, I’m very surprised and become.” Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Action and described suggestions that while billionaire zero- I’m disappointed about what’s Sources on Tyneside have ZACH MERCER’S hand would 7pm; Philadelphia Eagles v Minne- from the Mike Ashley camp hours baron Ashley does not been said this week. The sug- insisted the lines of communi- tremble every time Eddie sota Vikings — Sky Sports Main that her PCP Capital Partners dispute that the offers were gestion that we were either cation with PCP are currently Jones called during his Event, Sky Sports Action 11pm. group were time-wasters as made, he insists all three wasting time or not serious is closed, although the Magpies apprenticeship but the Bath No RUGBY UNION: European Rugby “hugely hurtful.” included caveats which ren- absurd. It’s hurtful. Hugely are still for sale. 8 said yesterday that is now Champions Cup, Munster v Castres — Sky Sports Action 12.45pm; La Staveley claims to have dered them unacceptable and hurtful.” In the meantime, managing ready to fi ll the vacancy avail- Rochelle v Harlequins — Sky Sports made offers of £300 million it is for that reason that he The news that talks had bro- director Lee Charnley and able in England’s back row. Action 3pm; Wasps v Ulster — BT and £350m, both of which insists there is no credible ken down was greeted with Benitez have been given the Injuries to Billy Vunipola and Sport 2 3pm. included clauses aimed at proposal currently on the fury by fans who had hoped go-ahead to bring in reinforce- Nathan Hughes have ignited SNOOKER: The Masters — BBC Two guarding against relegation table. Ashley’s decision to put the ments on the playing front Mercer’s prospects of making 1pm & 7pm, Eurosport 2 1.30pm & and the impact of any penalty The Sports Direct tycoon club up for sale in October during what remains of the his Test debut, presenting the 6.45pm. imposed as a result of an ongo- pulled out of talks on Tuesday after admitting he could not January transfer window in a 20-year-old with a shoot-out TENNIS: Australian Open — ing HMRC investigation, and evening — it is understood afford to take it to the next bid to stave off relegation with against Sam Simmonds to start Eurosport 2 6am and Eurosport 1 a third of £250m with no there had been no dialogue level would signal a new era the club sitting just three the Six Nations opener against 7.45am; Eurosport 1 and Eurosport 2 strings attached. between two sides since before after more than a decade of points clear of the Premier Italy on February 4. 12am (Mon). She said: “I’m very much Christmas — with a source underachievement. League drop zone. Jones labelled him an Morning Star Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018 SPORT 23

MEN’S RUGBY UNION Key duo return in time for Scots by Our Sports Desk Gloucester player has been out for three months. Hogg’s international SCOTLAND received a teammates Tommy boost for the Six Nations Seymour and Alex Dunbar yesterday when Stuart will also make their Hogg and Greig Laidlaw comebacks in Warriors’ were lined up for come- final pool match at Scot- backs from injury. stoun today, in their last Hogg has been named in chance to build up match Glasgow’s starting line-up sharpness before the Six for their European Champi- Nations opener against ons Cup clash with Exeter Wales on February 3. today. Centre Dunbar has not The British and Irish played this year because of Lions full-back has not a knee injury while wing played since dropping out Seymour will start for the of Scotland’s victory over first time since suffering a Australia in November with foot problem in the first of a hip problem minutes Glasgow’s double header before kick-off. against Edinburgh on Scrum half Laidlaw December 23. could be back in action for All three returning Clermont Auvergne, Glasgow players were following a broken leg, named in Townsend’s before he joins up with the 40-man Six Nations squad Scotland squad next week. on Tuesday along with Laidlaw has not yet Warriors captain Ryan featured for Scotland under Wilson, who misses out Gregor Townsend and has again this weekend with an lost the captaincy to John ankle injury . Barclay, but he will be on The back-row forward the bench when his club has not featured since a take on Ospreys in a European defeat to TENNIS: AUSTRALIAN OPEN European clash today. The Montpellier in mid-Decem- Officials will review heat policy but former Edinburgh and ber. only once the tournament is finished Wales face Scotland in by Our Sports Desk court, while Djokovic believed in the past when conditions perature [WBGT], which com- the conditions were right at the exceeded the threshold. bines air temperature and autumn Test friendly limit of what was playable. “We work closely with our humidity. AUSTRALIAN OPEN officials Djokovic also accused the medical team to ensure play- A WBGT reading of 32.5 by Our Sports Desk executive Martyn Phillips will review the extreme heat tennis industry as a whole of ers are educated on best prac- with the temperature above said. policy at the end of the tourna- not caring enough about the tice in terms of preparing for 40°C triggers a suspension in “We need four interna- ment, insisting yesterday that health of players. the conditions and, as we know, play but the peak yesterday WALES will launch their tional matches in our they take player welfare very Those playing yesterday many of them come to Aus- was only 31.1. 2018 autumn Test series by autumn calendar in order to seriously. seemed to cope better despite tralia early so they can accli- Cornet believes the thresh- tackling Six Nations rivals provide vital funds for the A two-day heatwave has marginally hotter tempera- matise. old is too high. She said: “I Scotland in Cardiff. future sustainability of the seen matches at Melbourne tures, although Frenchwoman “The conditions of play are kind of felt that I could faint The countries open this game in Wales. Park played in soaring tem- Alize Cornet needed treatment established prior to the event at any moment. Playing in this season’s Six Nations with a “Scotland’s visit is the peratures that peaked yester- after lying down on the court and this includes the Extreme condition is of course very Millennium Stadium clash result of some innovative day at 40.2°C. in her defeat by Elise Mertens. Heat Policy [EHP]. We start dangerous for the health of the on February 3. thinking from the national But they were not deemed Tournament director Craig the event with this set of rules player. I think this limit should And they will face each squads, rugby management extreme enough for the tour- Tiley said: “Protecting our play- and policies in place and, in be a little lower because play- other again nine months and marketing teams of nament to implement its policy, ers and the fairness of the com- the interest of fairness, can’t ing in this condition is not nice later with Scotland becom- both nations.” which can see matches on open petition is paramount in these change them halfway through. for anyone.” ing Wales’s first Tier One The Scottish Rugby courts postponed and those on conditions, which we acknowl- “At the end of every Austral- The policy was last imple- northern hemisphere Union has also confirmed a the show courts played with edge can be challenging. ian Open we always review our mented in 2014, when tem- opponents since the three-match summer series the roof closed. “The players compete in hot policies and procedures and peratures topped 40°C for four-match autumn series in the Americas with games Novak Djokovic and Gael conditions around the world. consult with all stakeholders. three days in succession. By began 17 years ago. lined up against Canada, Monfils both complained about The Australian Open is one of The EHP is no exception and yesterday evening conditions The match kicks off an the United States and the conditions they played in the very few tournaments we will again consult with the had cooled significantly and extended November Argentina. Venues are still on Thursday. Monfils said he worldwide that has policies to playing group on it.” were expected to be more tem- campaign for Scotland, who to be confirmed. suffered a small heatstroke deal with extreme heat and The extreme heat policy perate for the rest of the tour- will also play three fixtures Scotland head coach Gre- and felt he was dying on the [we] have implemented these uses the Wet Bulb Globe Tem- nament. at Murrayfield against Fiji, gor Townsend said: South Africa and Argen- “Facing Wales on the road tina. is an exciting prospect for “Scotland will be an our players as we begin the MEN’S RUGBY UNION entirely different pros- final of year of prepara- pect outside of the Six tions for Rugby World Cup Nations Championship, 2019. Mercer ready to be called upon if England need him and this is a rare chance “Four Test matches in “apprentice” when he first “Eddie is pretty sharp on hang up and say: ‘Have a good “You don’t want to be on the for a much broader base four weeks is a very appeared in an England train- the phone. Every time I’d get one.’ phone longer than five minutes of supporters to experi- similar challenge to the ing squad last year, but the a call from him my hand would “I seem to miss his calls because you know it’s going ence a match of this one that we will face in hardness added to his exper- shake,” said Mercer. first time, every time. He OK when it’s shorter than that. magnitude,” WRU chief Japan.” tise as a ball-playing forward “He’s the national head always leaves a voicemail and “Working with him is very has impressed the Australian. coach and you don’t want to I ring back ASAP and say I am special. His shift from being Regular conversations say anything you’ll regret. really sorry. very serious to having a laugh Something to say? Join the debate! between the two placed Mer- “It’s literally a two-minute “The first time I spoke to is just like that (clicks fingers). cer on tenterhooks, but also conversation. He says his him he was very genuine and “You can sit at the dinner Send letters (of up to 300 words) to made him aware of the ele- piece and I nod my head and told me what I needed to work table together having a laugh [email protected] or to ments of his game that needed agree with it or we have a dis- on and was pretty honest with and a joke and that’s why he 52 Beachy Road, London E3 2NS improvement. cussion about it then he will me. He got the best out of me. gets the best out of players.” 24 Morning Star Saturday/Sunday January 20-21 2018 Sport MEN’S CRICKET Weekend football Premier League Brighton Chelsea, 12.30pm Arsenal Crystal Palace Burnley Manchester United Everton West Brom ENGLAND TAKE 2 0 Leicester Watford Stoke Huddersfi eld West Ham Bournemouth Man City Newcastle, 5.30pm Southampton Tottenham, 4pm* Championship Aston Villa Barnsley Bolton Ipswich Fulham Burton LEAD OVER AUSSIES Leeds Millwall Norwich Sheffi eld United Captain Morgan praises bowlers after impressive display Preston Birmingham QPR Middlesbrough Reading Brentford by Our Sports Desk Sunderland Hull Wolves Nottingham Forest OUT: Joe Root celebrates Sheff Wednesday Cardiff , 5.30pm the wicket of Steve Smith ENGLAND cruised to a four- League One wicket victory over Australia Wimbledon Blackpool in yesterday’s second one-day Bristol Rovers Bradford City cricket international at the Charlton Walsall Gabba to take a 2-0 lead in Fleetwood Blackburn their fi ve-match series. Northampton MK Dons Oxford United Bury Joe Root captured two vital Peterborough Oldham wickets to help the tourists Plymouth Wigan restrict Australia to a modest Rochdale Southend total of 270 for nine, then the Rotherham Portsmouth England captain made an Scunthorpe Gillingham unbeaten 46 as his side Shrewsbury Doncaster Rovers reached their winning target League Two with more than 5 overs to Accrington Stanley Port Vale spare to seize control of the Barnet Lincoln City series after Sunday’s fi ve- Colchester United Grimsby Coventry Swindon wicket win in Melbourne. Crewe Wycombe “Our bowlers were excep- Forest Green Rovers Cambridge Utd tional. It puts pressure on the Luton Morecambe Australia batsmen,” England Mansfi eld Cheltenham captain Eoin Morgan said. “We Notts County Exeter did enough to win but it was Stevenage Carlisle United Yeovil Chesterfi eld far from a complete perform- ance, which is exciting for us.” Scottish Cup After crushing England in Aberdeen St Mirren, 12.15pm the Ashes test series, world Albion Rovers St Johnstone Alloa Athletic Dundee United champions Australia now fi nd Ayr United Arbroath themselves needing to win Celtic Brechin City tomorrow’s third match in Syd- Dundee Inverness CT ney just to keep the series alive. Dunfermline Athletic Morton “We’re not playing good East Fife Brora enough one-day cricket at the contributions after Australian balls. He shared a 68-run part- as the home side managed just “Whenever you come off a Kilmarnock Ross County Livingston Falkirk moment,” Australia skipper fast bowler Mitchell Starc took nership with fellow opener 57 runs from the last 10 overs. series loss you want to prove Motherwell Hamilton Academical Steve Smith said. “It’s a qual- 4-59 to briefl y give the home David Warner (35) then joined Root was the pick of the vis- a point, and leading into the Peterhead Dumbarton ity England batting line-up. We team hope of victory. Mitchell Marsh (36) in an iting team’s bowlers, taking World Cup we want to set a Queen Of The South Partick Thistle lost a couple of wickets in a Aaron Finch scored his sec- 85-run stand for the fourth 2-31, including the prized benchmark. We had to stay Fraserburgh Rangers, 12pm* row, we couldn’t get that power ond century in as many wicket before England put the wicket of Smith for 18, while cool in the moment and get the Hearts Hibernian, 2.05pm* going at the back end to get matches for Australia but brakes on Australia’s scoring leg-spinner Adil Rashid also job done.” Scottish League One that 320 we were after.” received little support from by taking 3-7 in two overs. bagged two wickets. Jason Roy, who made a Stranraer Raith Rovers Jonny Bairstow (60) and his teammates with no-one Wicketkeeper Alex Carey, “The form Smith has been record 180 in Melbourne, man- Scottish League Two Alex Hayes (57) both made else making at least 40. one of two players making their in this summer, [it was] very aged only two this time before Berwick Rangers Elgin City half-centuries while Root, Jos Finch followed up his 107 ODI debuts for Australia, enjoyable to see the back of falling to Starc but his early Montrose Clyde Buttler (46) and Chris Woakes from the series-opener in Mel- chipped in with 27 off just 24 him,” said Root, who was dismissal had no impact on the Stenhousemuir Cowdenbeath (39 not out) all made valuable bourne with a brisk 106 off 114 deliveries before he was run out named man of the match. result. 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