As the Number of Kids Living in Poverty Rockets to 4.1 Million, Corbyn Warns
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PAGE 8 SOLOMON HUGHES: LABOUR RIGHT ARE TAKING THE PARTY BACKWARDS FOR PEACE AND SOCIALISM CINEMA: A WRINKLE IN TIME PAGE 13 £1 Friday March 23 2018 Proudly owned by our readers | Incorporating the Daily Worker | Est 1930 | morningstaronline.co.uk As the number of kids living in poverty rockets to 4.1 million, Corbyn warns May’s government BRITAIN’S HAD ENOUGH Labour launches local elections campaign with attack on damaging Tory austerity by Marcus Barnett ain’s youngsters and represents Mr Corbyn accused the Tories “Labour in government an 100,000 increase on last year. of demanding that voters “pay would do things very differ- The statistics were branded more for less” by imposing a ently. And Labour councils JEREMY CORBYN castigated the “shocking” by shadow work and 6 per cent rise in council tax. across the country are doing Tory government yesterday for a pensions secretary Margaret He pointed out that, since things very differently right litany of failings as official figures Greenwood, while charities and 2010, over 400 libraries, 600 now.” revealed that almost a third of anti-poverty campaigners said youth centres and a fifth of all Mr Corbyn noted the differ- British children live in poverty. they were a sign that government women’s refuges have been ence between Tory and Labour Launching his party’s cam- policies had not been helped. closed. local authorities in Greater paign for the May local elections TUC general secretary Frances On top of that, 1.2 million Manchester, where Salford’s in Tory-controlled Trafford, the O’Grady said: “If you work hard, elderly and disabled people are Labour council pays staff the Labour leader went on the offen- you shouldn’t have to worry not receiving the necessary living wage and Tory-controlled sive against Conservative cuts and about making ends meet, but care they are entitled to. Trafford council does not. tax rises, arguing that privatisa- today’s figures show that, despite “Decent people who have In London, the same is true tion and austerity are destroying rising employment, millions of contributed all their lives have for Conservative-controlled the fabric of the country. people in working households been turned into an item on a Westminster, which Mr Corbyn The latest government fig- are trapped in poverty. spreadsheet, sliced and diced contrasted with the neighbour- ures show that 4.1 million “Unless government reverses into 15-minute units of care ing Labour councils of Lambeth children now live in poverty, its planned cuts to universal because of Conservative cuts and Camden — both living a number which equates to credit, things will get much and privatisation dogma,” Mr wage employers. more than 30 per cent of Brit- worse.” Corbyn said. Turn to page 4 PAGE 6 FRANCE: MASS STRIKES PAGE 11 FROSTY: ON WALTER TULL Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 2 Friday news morningstaronline March 23 2018 @m_star_online ■ SCHOOLS FLAT STACK: The chimney at One in fi ve London kids eat free meals Uniper’s decommissioned, NEARLY one in fi ve London per cent of London children rely ity rules, tabled by Lord Bassam Kingsnorth Power Station, in Hoo, children rely on free school on the programme. (Labour), passed by a slim major- Rochester, Kent, which stands at meals, a GMB study revealed This is well above the ity on Tuesday. twice the height of Big Ben, is yesterday as the union wel- national average of 14 per cent, The motion also called demolished in a controlled comed a Lords vote to postpone with numbers as high as 36 per for a “poverty impact assess- explosion. Green Party MP Caroline legislation that would cut free cent in Tower Hamlets and 30 ment” into the potential harm Lucas commented yesterday: “Ten years ago Climate Camp protested meals provision. per cent in Hackney. wrought by the policy. The vote at Kingsnorth Power Station, saying An alarming study, commis- A motion to postpone the follows the Tory-DUP vote to cut “No New Coal.” Fifteen hundred sioned by GMB, found that 16 change in school meal eligibil- free school meals on March 13. police offi cers tried to stop us. Its demolition shows strength of the climate movement. They told us our demands were impossible. They ■ SCHOOLS were wrong.” Parents win court fi ght to stop forced academisation by Sam Tobin arguing that the school gover- by both parents and staff and at the High Court nors failed to properly consult there was “stress being placed parents or take their views into on non-striking staff ” by account. “insults, booing [and] jeering.” PARENTS battling the forced David Wolfe QC, for Mr He also claimed there was a academisation of an east Lon- Miah, said parents’ views at a “noisy, disruptive and aggres- don primary school success- November 2017 “consultation sive” atmosphere at the Novem- fully halted the process at the meeting” were not recorded on ber meetings, adding that High Court yesterday. a report produced by Cranwell governors were present at the Teachers and support staff Consultancy, adding that “all meeting so that it was not nec- at Avenue Primary School in we are asking for is a pause in essary for it to be recorded in Manor Park, Newham, also the process.” the report. marked their 13th day of strike Mr Wolfe added that the He said the school was action yesterday over controver- report recorded questions and “essentially becoming a war sial plans to make the school answers, but not the “views zone as a result of actions by part of the Eko multi-academy expressed at the meetings parents and staff and the chil- trust. that were not in the form of dren are suff ering.” Despite the fact that 132 par- questions.” But Judge Mark Wall QC ents objected, with just four He said it would be “wrong” granted the interim relief, voting in favour, the school to decide the matter while fi nding that Mr Miah would governors pressed ahead with “people are lawfully protest- only have a “pyrrhic victory” the conversion. ing against the decision.” if he won the case but without Sayesta Miah, on behalf of Andrew Sharland QC, for the academisation having been parents, applied for an interim the governors, claimed there paused. injunction to stop the plan, had been “aggressive action” [email protected] ■ HUMAN RIGHTS Tories taken to High Court over child data scraping by Sam Tobin for the right to privacy of 8.67 and country of birth data col- at the High Court million school-aged children in lected through the school cen- England.” sus, adding that does not have Shu Shin Luh, for ABC, said the “explicit consent from the THE LEGALITY of schools being the information required children and parents.” made to systematically collect “interferes with the children’s The government argues and store census data on chil- right to privacy” and “infringes that the challenge should be dren was challenged in the core data protection princi- rejected as it was fi led nearly High Court yesterday. ples.” 17 months after the grounds ■ DISTANCE LEARNING Against Borders for Chil- Ms Luh also said the policy to make the claim arose, when dren (ABC) is seeking a judicial was “disproportionate and the regulation came into force. review of the Department for unjustifi ed” as it was not “the It also argues that any breach Cuts would reduce OU to ‘digital content only’ Education’s new requirement least intrusive means” of the of data protection laws can be THE OPEN University (OU) cut casts the long-term turning it from a world- for schools to collect informa- government achieving its aim investigated by the Informa- faces cuts which could future of the distance leading university into a tion on students’ nationality of “understanding and moni- tion Commissioner, which has see its courses slashed by learning specialist into digital content provider. and country of birth three toring the scale and impact of “specialist jurisdiction in this one-third and hundreds of doubt. “In the process we risk times a year. migration on schools.” fi eld,” or compensated through lecturers made redundant. A UCU spokeswoman losing the research base The organisation argues that ABC submits that there is “no a private law claim. The government is said: “UCU members that underpins our work the case raises “issues of con- published time limit for reten- The hearing continues. slashing the institution’s are hugely concerned at with the BBC and the per- siderable public importance tion and storage” of nationality [email protected] £420 million budget the cuts that are being sonal tutorial element that by £100m, according to mooted at the Open Uni- supports our students.” leaked fi gures revealed versity. She said 250 to 300 job yesterday. “The proposals under losses were expected over MORNINGSTAR The socialist news hub The University and Col- discussion would destroy the next year, including ONLINE.CO.UK lege Union (UCU) says the the OU as we know it, compulsory redundancies. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline news Friday @m_star_online March 23 2018 3 ■ CONSTRUCTION MET ADMITS IT PASSED BLACKLIST INFO TO FIRMS POLICE COLLUSION: Undercover offi cers worked with Consulting Association — but face no action CALLS for a public inquiry into It adds that “sections of the desk for the past two years! construction industry blacklist- by Sam Tobin policing community through- “When we fi rst talked about ■ MANUFACTURING ing reached fever pitch yester- out the UK had both overt and police collusion in blacklisting, day after the Met fi nally admit- covert contact with external people thought we were con- ted it had passed information to information that appeared on organisations, including the spiracy theorists.