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AMBITIOUS UNIONS FOR PEACE AND SOCIALISM COULD BE KEY TO LEFT’S REVIVAL CWU LEADER DAVE WARD WRITES: P8

£1 Tuesday April 10 2018 Proudly owned by our readers | Incorporating the Daily Worker | Est 1930 | morningstaronline.co.uk Councils ‘could ban protests outside abortion clinics’ Ealing fi rst to vote on buff er zones to end ‘harassment and intimidation’ of women by Ceren Sagir and to mimic Ealing council’s proposed this isn’t just about providing informa- plans if necessary. tion, however inaccurate that informa- Council documents said: “Those who tion might be. This is about making ANTI-ABORTION protests outside clin- wish to campaign to restrict women’s people feel shame and fear for the ics could be banned by councils across reproductive choices have plenty of decision they’ve made. England following a local authority’s opportunities and locations in which “People come into our consultation proposals to implement a buff er zone. to do so. The area outside a clinic need rooms crying and shaking. Sometimes Ealing Council cabinet will vote this not and should not be one of them.” we have to wait to take their blood evening on whether to ban protests Birmingham City Council discussed a pressure because they’re so anxious outside a Marie Stopes clinic in the similar motion in December, proposed having been through that.” London borough through a public by two female Labour councillors. SisterSupporter’s Anna Veglio-White space protection order (PSPO). The council described demonstra- said the fact there had been no arrests It is one of the options being tions outside a clinic in Edgbaston as was a “huge signifi er” that change was explored on how to prevent “intimi- “street harassment” and “a form of needed as harassment law was clearly dation, harassment and distress” of sexism against women.” not suffi cient. women using the clinic following a In a Portsmouth City Council meet- Counter-protesters from SisterSup- petition signed by 3,500 people. ing, one patient said: “It made an porter have been attending the clinic London Mayor Sadiq Khan has extremely diffi cult decision even more every Saturday since Easter last year backed the motion and said behav- horrendous than it could have been.” to try to create a “human shield” to iour that “seeks to deliberately target Ealing Council’s vote follows a protect the women. women for harassment and intimida- period of heightened anti-abortion Ms Veglio-White said she had seen tion should not be tolerated.” activity over Britain, with the interna- protesters misdirect women away Authorities in Birmingham, Man- tional, religiously based group 40 Days from the clinic so they miss their chester, Portsmouth and the London for Life holding vigils throughout Lent. appointments and afterwards follow boroughs of Lambeth, Richmond and Clinical operations manager John them to their cars and try to jam leaf- Southwark have also discussed action. Hansen Brevetti said that “pavement lets through the windows. Manchester City Council passed counsellors” were outside the clinic She said it was done “under a veil of a motion in January to investigate every day, approaching every client on ‘we care about women’,” which she said reports of intimidation and harass- the way in and out. was a dangerous and false narrative. ment outside a clinic in Fallowfi eld He said: “That’s how we know that Turn to page 2

PAGE 6 ORBAN TARGETS SOROS PAGE 16 CAN LIONESSES RULE? Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 2 Tuesday news morningstaronline April 10 2018 @m_star_online n SYRIA Campaigners call for peace after poison gas attacks by Lamiat Sabin “This escalation of war is highly dangerous. The only solution in Syria is a ceasefire ANTI-WAR campaigners urged on all sides and a political set- the government yesterday not tlement — military interven- to use attacks on civilians tion has already been proved as justification for planning to have failed.” increased military interven- Labour leader Jeremy Cor- tion in Syria. byn called for the United The Stop the War Coali- Nations to investigate the tion (StWC) said it condemned attacks and hold those respon- the bombing of people in the sible for them to account, add- town of Douma, including the ing that peace negotiations alleged use of poison gas, but should be restarted. also Britain, the United States, A Downing Street spokes- France, Russia, Turkey, Israel man said the attack on Douma and Iran for their continued must be investigated urgently involvement in the eight-year- and, if there was clear evi- long Syrian civil war. dence of chemical weapons Prime Minister Theresa May use, the government would is under pressure from Defence look at the “range of options.” Minister Tobias Ellwood and Home Secretary Amber Foreign Secretary Boris John- Rudd refused say whether son to expand current military the government would order operations in Syria after the military action without a par- suspected poison gas attack, liamentary vote. which reportedly killed dozens There is no legal require- of people, including children. ment for the government to Mr Johnson said in February seek parliamentary approval, that Britain should consider but it has become convention military action against the for MPs to be consulted, except government of Syrian Presi- in an emergency. dent Bashar al-Assad if there David Cameron lost a his- was new “incontrovertible” toric Commons vote in 2013 evidence that his forces had over plans for air strikes on used chemical weapons. Syrian government targets. StWC said in a statement: “We However, MPs voted to for such SHORTLISTED: Ania condemn [the action] of our own attacks in 2015 and military Hobson’s painting A Portrait government and its allies … It intervention has continued of two Female Painters is sometimes claimed that the since then. depicts the artist and her bombing by Assad is the result [email protected] sister-in-law, and was of the West’s failure to intervene. announced as one of four “Nothing could be further shortlisted works in the BP from the truth. The West has MORNINGSTAR Portrait Award 2018. The artworks will appear in an been intervening directly and ONLINE.CO.UK exhibition at the National through its proxies throughout Socialist news hub Portrait gallery this summer this war. with the first prize portrait artist awarded £35,000.

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Councils ‘could ban protests n SCOTLAND outside abortion clinics’ FROM PAGE 1 “The very core will not remove the photos SNP vote through cuts to union posts of this is that they do not and would not listen to my believe in abortion and by complaint. by Conrad Landin union convener posts from ity blocked the motion from cient and more expensive for any means necessary they “If there is any way you the full-time equivalent of passing, putting forward an management. want every single person can remove these people/ 3.4 to just two. amendment backing the lead- Mr Morrison said of the coming through to keep group from standing SCORES of trade unionists Trade unionists believe the ership position. meeting: “Only two SNP that child, no matter what outside, please make it hap- picketed the West Dunbar- move is designed to weaken Clydebank TUC secretary councillors spoke, the rest sat the circumstances,” she pen. This is unacceptable tonshire SNP council yester- their muscle in resisting Tam Morrison told the Star on their hands. They looked added. and wrong.” day, as it voted through cuts future staffing cuts at the that the plan was the brain- grey — they were obviously A log book of entries by The clinic provides to facility time. local authority. child of the council’s paid very uncomfortable, but they patients and staff cata- around 7,000 medical and At an extraordinary full Around 60 council workers officers rather than politi- voted it through.” logues some of the encoun- surgical abortions a year council meeting, council- protested outside the council cians. A council spokesman said: ters and one woman wrote: and medical professionals lors from the Labour and meeting in support of a mor- “It’s the senior officers driv- “Facility time will continue “I felt very traumatised say one in three women Community parties sought atorium. So many workers ing this, but they’re going to to be protected for our trade seeing photos of babies’ will have an abortion in a moratorium on the leader- wanted to attend the meeting make it difficult for workers to union representatives in embryos outside of this their lifetime. ship’s plans. itself that it had to be moved attend disciplinaries,” he said. line with our facility agree- clinic. The lady outside [email protected] Nationalist councillors are to a larger room. He argued this would make ment.” cutting the number of trade But the council’s SNP major- employment relations less effi- [email protected] morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline news Tuesday @m_star_online April 10 2018 3

n EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS Unions demand full details on blacklisting scandal

by Marcus Barnett more than 3,200 people work- clean about their part.” ing in construction, which the Scotland Yard has stated GMB describes as the “greatest that police involvement with TRADE unionists called on employment scandal” of the blacklisting will be “fully Scotland Yard yesterday to past 50 years. explored” in the ongoing pub- come clean about the full The union’s national officer lic inquiry into undercover extent of the police role in Justin Bowden demanded that policing. the blacklisting of thousands the full information see the The scandal emerged in of construction workers and light of day. 2009 when the Information environmentalists. “Workers and environ- Commissioner’s Office seized Leigh Day solicitors, on mentalists deserve to know a database from an organisa- behalf of the GMB, have filed exactly what role the police tion called the Consulting a Freedom of Information played in supplying informa- Association. request demanding the Met- tion about them to the con- A list containing 3,213 ropolitan Police’s full report struction companies,” he said. names of construction work- about the role of the police “They have a right to know ers and environmentalists was force in blacklisting. who, what, where, when and discovered on the database. The firm is also demand- why information was shared Forty-four corporations ing the release of emails and between the police and the and companies were also details of meetings between construction companies. found to have been using police officers and blacklist- “There is a clear public the database when vetting ing firms, following revelations interest in this information new recruitments, includ- that coppers and special branch being provided. ing Carillion, Balfour Beatty, officers spied on trade unionists “It is now time for Scotland Laing O’Rourke and Sir Robert and passed on information. Yard to make public every- McAlpine. ONGOING BATTLE: Union leaders and workers protest against the blacklisting of construction workers in 2013 Bosses kept secret files on thing that they did and come [email protected] n FBU n KNIFE-CRIME SHAMBLES n TRANSPORT Firefighters’ RMT warns proud century RUDD IGNORED ADVICE ON safety board of history on about ‘gravy new website CONSEQUENCES OF CUTS train of greed’ A NEW website was launched RAIL union RMT accused by the Fire Brigades Union Home Office research linked rise in violent street crime to Tory reductions in police mbersnu the rail safety board of (FBU) yesterday to mark 100 political bias yesterday years of the union’s history. by Lamiat Sabin following the publica- In celebration of its cente- tion of its business plan nary year, the FBU launched for the year ahead. the special website to exam- LABOUR criticised Home Sec- The Rail Safety Stand- ine key turning points in its retary Amber Rudd yesterday ards Board (RSSB) busi- history. for turning a blind eye to her ness plan for 2018-19 An historical timeline high- own department’s correlation lays out the priorities of lights major events in FBU his- between increased violent the railway industry. tory since 1918 as well as the crime and policing cutbacks. Chief executive union’s response to some of the Leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mark Phillips particu- most devastating fires in Brit- Britain is going through “one larly emphasised that ain, including Grenfell. of the most violent periods “constant vigilance” The union’s many cam- in recent times” when he will be maintained in paigns for pay, conditions, launched Labour’s local elec- three areas — ecologi- safety and equipment are also tion campaign with London cal sustainability, the explored. Mayor Sadiq Khan yesterday. uncertainties surround- FBU general secretary Matt Mr Corbyn is expected to ing Brexit and raising Wrack said: “Far fewer peo- hold a roundtable meeting workplace awareness of ple die in fires today than with police officers, bereaved mental health issues. 100 years ago. This is not a families, and organisations UNITED: Sadiq Khan and Jeremy Corbyn’s local election campaign focuses on policing levels However, RMT general happy accident. It is a result today to help shape Labour’s secretary Mick Cash of the union and its members approach to the sharp rise in She said: “This morning They include Barnet, which have brought in landlord said there was nothing campaigning relentlessly for street attacks and murders. the Home Secretary claimed has a reputation for outsourc- licensing to tackle rogue vigilant about the RSSB changes over the last century. London has seen more than to be launching ‘a fact and ing services, Wandsworth, landlords who push up rents plans and accused the “When the union was first 50 killings this year so far, a evidence-fuelled’ strategy Westminster, and Kensing- and carry out revenge evic- organisation of being in formed, firefighters had the higher rate than in New York but then admitted she hadn’t ton and Chelsea where the tions on dissatisfied tenants. the bosses’ pocket. most primitive protective for the first time in modern even bothered to read the charred Grenfell Tower stands Mr Corbyn also praised “There is nothing equipment, were forced to history. evidence her officials have after the fire on June 14. Westminster North Labour independent in the live on stations full time, had Mr Corbyn’s meeting fol- compiled.” Mr Corbyn said it was the MP Karen Buck for her cam- way they operate. They no access to pensions and lows Ms Rudd’s insistence Mr Corbyn said that com- Labour-led Croydon Council paign for rental homes to be fit are sucking finances were paid less than unskilled that she had not seen the munity cohesion cannot be that committed to installing for human habitation, and his from the rail industry labourers.” leaked Home Office research maintained with less fund- sprinklers in tower blocks Islington council for building to deliver answers the The FBU wants the cente- papers that show reducing ing and 21,000 fewer police in the aftermath of Gren- council housing. employers desire,” he nary website to become a hub police numbers has contrib- officers. fell and Labour-run Camden He pointed out that Con- said. for fire service history and the uted to more violence. The Tories’ policing failures removed dangerous cladding servative-run councils Barnet, “It’s a gravy train of site will be updated with new Shadow home secretary was at the heart of Mr Corbyn from exteriors of buildings Wandsworth and Westminster greed, as we have seen content frequently. Diane Abbott said in response and Mr Khan’s local election and invested £80 million on do not pay the living wage to from their continued Discover the people, inci- that the Home Office’s Seri- campaign to get more Labour fire safety. employees but neighbouring support for the removal dents and stories behind ous Violence Strategy appears councillors elected in at least He also paid tribute to Labour-led Brent, Lambeth of safety-critical guards the 100-year FBU journey at to provide no new money or four Tory strongholds in Lon- Labour-led Newham and and Camden do. from our trains.” fbu.org.uk/centenary. extra police officers. don on May 3. Southwark councils which [email protected] Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 4 Tuesday news morningstaronline April 10 2018 @m_star_online

■ EQUAL ACCESS FLYING CARPET: One of the world’s most Deaf and disabled spectacular carpets is being loaned to a New York gallery by a Glasgow museum gig-goers ‘often while it is closed for refurbishment. It is among works face discrimination’ from the Burrell which are being shown elsewhere in by Ceren Sagir While 37 per cent said the world while the they felt the situation for Glasgow museum is deaf and disabled customers closed for a £66 mil- DEAF and disabled people while booking access for live lion refurbishment. often feel discriminated music events had improved, The carpet is con- against when trying to book one out of 10 had considered sidered to be one of tickets for live music events, legal action. the three earliest sur- according to a survey by Attitude is Everything viving Persian garden the Attitude is Everything suggested that music fans carpets in the world charity. need a simple, universal and will be going on The charity works to help system that off ers more display outside of audiences with hearing choice and fl exibility when Great Britain for the problems and disabilities booking tickets. fi rst time since it was gain access to live music They said that wheelchair- acquired by Sir Wil- and it announced a new accessible spaces and step- liam Burrell in 1939. coalition to tackle the issue free seating are among the It has rarely been yesterday. options that must be made seen on display due to A survey of 349 deaf and available when booking its size and previous disabled people found that tickets online. restrictions on lend- 80 per cent had experienced Attitude is Everything ing. problems while booking founder Suzanne Bull said The museum in tickets, while 79 per cent that, in 2018, “every large- Glasgow will reopen had been put off by non- scale music event should be in late 2020. accessible booking systems. all-inclusive.” The research also found She insisted: “Disabled that 73 per cent felt dis- customers should be able criminated against because to buy a ticket online, they of their disability. should be encouraged to attend shows with their friends, and not have to jump through undigni- fi ed hoops when things go wrong. “As a disabled music fan ■ RETIREMENT myself, I’d urge ticket sellers, venues and festivals to under- stand that all disabled people HAVE YOUR SAY! must enjoy the same experi- Pensioners urge Labour to Write (up to 300 words) to ences as any other fan.” [email protected] [email protected] or by post: 52 Beachy Rd, London E3 2NS plan a national care service

by Sam Tobin Laugh along at Congress House with Marx THE Labour Party needs to I’ll have the last laugh yet! launch a fully costed plan for Karl Marx cartoon and caricatures a new national care service, An ideal present for the Marx the National Pensioners Con- bicentenary. £11.49 including p&p vention (NPC) said yesterday. NPC deputy general sec- cheques to PPPS, 52 Beachy Road, London E2 2NS, phone (020) 8510-0815 or online at shop.morningstaronline.co.uk retary Dot Gibson told those gathered at the TUC London, East and South East Pension- ers’ Network annual seminar to demand “a care system free at the point of delivery to all A vivid account of how those in need.” But she added: “There’s no the power of local point in continually exposing government has been the crisis in care and simply reduced by central reporting examples of the government and eff ects of this on individuals system,” with local authorities modernisation programme for Gibson asked: “Is there any rea- hollowed out by the and their families as well as “cutting back on what they pay residential homes and the end son why we can’t have this kind private sector’ care workers. for the care of those people who of private provision. We want of system in this country?” Prof. Jane Lethbridge “We have to promote a policy haven’t got those kind of sums” nationalisation of that whole She said the NPC was “call- and fi ght for it. We can’t go on needed to fund their own care. system.” ing on the Labour Party to saying that we need this and She called for “a national In addition, Ms Gibson called actually put forward a policy Don’t miss Peter we need that. We have to have care service with free domi- for “improved terms and condi- which is costed and is not Latham’s probe a policy to fi ght for.” ciliary and residential care tions and training of care staff afraid to say that the whole of She said that means-test- for all existing users, the ones and improved regulation and society will pay for social care into the death of ing social care meant that who pay for themselves, and it monitoring.” in the same way that we pay for council power “between 30,000 and 40,000 should be free.” She said the total cost would the National Health Service.” family homes are lost every The campaigner also be “£12bn a year on top of what Ms Gibson added: “They year to pay for a place in a nurs- demanded “the provision of is already paid through local weren’t afraid in 1945 and To get your copy call the £7.50 ing home.” services for the 1.2 million authorities and government.” ever since then we’ve had that Star shop on (020) 8510-0815 + P&P Ms Gibson said that this older people who are currently Pointing to similar systems National Health Service.” had also created “a two-tier excluded from the system, a in Germany and Sweden, Ms [email protected] morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline news Tuesday @m_star_online April 10 2018 5

NEU (ATL SECTION) CONFERENCE 2018

■ STRESS IN SCHOOLS 90% OF TEACHERS SAY MINISTERS HAVE FAILED TO CUT WORKLOADS MARY BOUSTED: ‘It’s no surprise that teachers believe the government and Ofsted are the biggest drivers of the crisis’

NINE out of 10 teachers believe by Conrad Landin the government’s trumpeted in Liverpool “workload challenge” has failed to make any diff erence at all, a new study has shown. could be spending interacting A National Education Union with very vulnerable students,” (NEU) survey of 8,000 teachers she added. in England, published at the A junior school teacher union’s ATL section confer- talked about having to mark ence yesterday, was described “90 or 120 books in a night.” as a “damning indictment” of But half of teachers (49.9 per government education policy. cent) said it was not clear how Three-quarters of teach- the data they collect would be ers said pressure to increase used and 43 per cent said they pupil test scores and exam didn’t believe the informa- grades was driving workloads tion would help pupils make to unsustainable levels. progress. Fifty-two per cent of respond- NEU joint general secre- ents blamed government tary Mary Bousted said: “It is changes to the curriculum and a damning indictment but no exams and 46 per cent cited surprise that so many teachers Ofsted inspections. believe that the government be adding to their burnout.” last year to create the NEU. counterpart Kevin Courtney One teacher said she spent and Ofsted are the biggest driv- The conference in Liverpool, Activists hope that greater said teachers needed “actions a “vast amount of time ... col- ers of their workload. They are. which runs until tomorrow, unity among the profession not just words” to address the lecting evidence of progress, “We know that teachers are will be the last held separately will help the fi ghtback against workload crisis. taking photos, writing detailed leaving the profession in droves by the ATL (Association of increasing teacher workload He vowed: “We are going observation reports” on a regu- due to pressures from workload. Teachers and Lecturers), which and school marketisation. to succeed. Our young people lar basis. Teachers are a priceless resource merged with the National In a welcome address yes- really need us to succeed.” ■ TRANSPORT “This is time that I and staff and the government should not Union of Teachers (NUT) terday, Ms Bousted’s NUT [email protected]

Disabled to ■ PRIVATE-SECTOR EDUCATION ■ EMPLOYMENT CHECKS protest at Criminal record errors ‘ruining careers’ removal of Rising school fees CRIMINAL RECORD blunders a pig” at an undercover police Delegates raised concerns are destroying careers, teachers offi cer — in her university days, that the Disclosure and Bar- warned yesterday. Josie Whiteley, president of the ring Service, which checks the train guards The National Education ATL leadership section, told the criminal records of those apply- DISABLED campaigners will ‘add to stress from Union’s ATL section confer- conference. ing for certain jobs, such as with hold a rally in west London ence heard that one woman The woman was later told children, was not fi t for purpose. next week to protest against had been told she could no she had “acted dishonestly” by Redbridge delegate Graham South Western Railways (SWR) pushy parents’ longer work as a childminder failing to acknowledge the pen- Edwards told the Star that the threats to train guards’ jobs. because her nephew had been alty when starting her “dream system was “getting worse” as The “Save Access at Brentford convicted of rape. job” of working with children cuts to police resources led to Station” group will protest at by Conrad Landin get them through exams with Another committed suicide in care. delays in checks. 10am on Wednesday April 18 in Liverpool very good grades and to a top after losing her job for fail- “She felt her career was in “That is not a criticism of against lack of SWR assurances university.” ing to disclose that she had tatters and two weeks later she the police. It’s a criticism of to keep a guard on all trains. The union recently won an been fi ned for a public disor- took her own life,” Ms Whiteley the system they are working Sally O’Connor, a disabled SOARING private school fees employment tribunal case der off ence — “snorting like said. in,” he added. campaigner from Brentford, have led to “insane” conditions against Malvern College, which has been using the station since for teachers, National Educa- had argued that a boarding it became wheelchair accessible tion Union joint leader Mary mistress’s evening should be nearly a decade ago. Bousted said yesterday. classed as her own time rather However, she warns that The National Education than paid hours. DON’T BE LEFT plans to remove the guard will Union is expected to debate a Ms Bousted said a recent deny disabled people the ability motion today which warns that surge in private school fees to travel freely and easily. increasing demand on teachers’ had exacerbated the problem. WITHOUT US She said: “I will not be able to time is leading to “increasing Teachers face “constant emails, use the station without being sure anxiety levels” among the pri- constant communication with I can get on the train, so soon vate sector workforce. the parents,” she said. NOW HALF PRICE! it will no longer be an option, Speaking at the union’s ATL “The issue is that money is 2 discs with 34 tracks from great which makes me very sad.” section conference, Dr Bousted doing the talking and [parents RMT general secretary Mick said a “sense of entitlement are eff ectively arguing] ‘I’m bands and artists - a wealth of Cash said that no-one knows the among parents” added to the paying this money, so in eff ect talent, consciousness and an reality of the guard’s removal stress. I am looking to buy the results.’ egalitarian spirit of resistance in better than disabled people. “[Teachers] are fi nding that “[This is] missing out the fact words and music He said: “It is frankly scan- they are working insane hours, that actually, in the end, this dalous that members of our often late into the evening, and may not be doing your child £10 £5 + £2 postage communities are set to be that’s just not being accounted any good. and packaging denied the same rights as the for [in pay] and making their “Because there are impor- FEATURING: Attila the Stockbroker, rest of us — the right to turn life extremely diffi cult.” tant life lessons to be learned, All proceeds go to the Thee Faction, The Hurriers, up and go on our trains.” She said parents believe they one of which is if you don’t do Morning Star Fight Rosa Fight! Argonaut, The protesters will then go are “paying all this money for the time, you won’t get the shop.morningstaronline.co.uk Joe Solo, Wimmins Institute, to Waterloo to join a national our children to be educated” results.” Phone: (020) 8510-0815 Minotaurs and many more! RMT rally to defend the guard. and therefore “expect you to [email protected] Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 6 Tuesday world morningstaronline April 10 2018 @m_star_online

■ BRAZIL Supporters: We won’t shift from jail until Lula is freed by Our Foreign Desk points ahead in the polls.” Landless Workers’ Movement co-ordinator Roberto Baggio HUNDREDS of supporters of said that, following “cowardly” Brazil’s former president Luiz police attacks, the protest- Inacio Lula da Silva are camp- ers would remain outside the ing outside his prison, saying prison perimeter and predicted they will not be moved until their numbers would grow. he is released. “We are expecting people Crowds did not disperse from southern Brazil to arrive after being attacked by riot here today. We are not leaving police at the weekend as they until Lula is freed.” gathered to show support for Gleisi Hoff mann, leader of Lula while he was transferred Lula’s Workers Party, which to the jail. governed Brazil until the His supporters say impris- country’s last elected president oning him before the appeals Dilma Rousseff was removed by process against his corruption senators in 2016, told the dem- conviction — itself based on the onstrators that it was now their testimony of a single convict duty to be “his voice, that we — is unconstitutional and they be a million Lulas.” are calling for an international The party is calling for a campaign for his release. national mobilisation in Lula’s France Unbowed leader defence tomorrow and protests Jean-Luc Melenchon tweeted at Brazilian embassies around his support for the ex-presi- the world. It plans to turn May dent, writing: “Lula has never Day into a nationwide demon- become corrupt. That’s a lie. stration calling for his release. It’s a judicial coup. He was 15 [email protected]

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■ SYRIA IRANIANS AMONG CASUALTIES AS ISRAELI JETS HIT SYRIAN AIRBASE TENSIONS RISE: Trump threatens ‘big price to pay’ after alleged chemical weapons attack on rebel-held eastern Ghouta

by Our Foreign Desk The rebel-linked White Hel- mets organisation says that more than 40 people died in FOURTEEN people were killed the attack and has provided by an Israeli missile strike on photographs of the dead and a Syrian airfi eld yesterday as dying to international media. tensions rose over an alleged But the claims contradicted chemical weapons attack reports from the Observatory on the rebel-held enclave of that deaths were from ordi- Douma in eastern Ghouta. nary air strikes, while Syria Two F-15s fi red missiles at has rejected them as a “fabrica- the T4 airfi eld in Homs prov- tion,” coming almost exactly a ince from over the border in year after US President Donald FRANCE: Environmental Lebanon, avoiding Syrian air- Trump ordered missile strikes activists clashed with space, over which one of Isra- on Syrian soldiers in revenge police at Notre-Dame- el’s bombers was shot down in for an alleged chemical weap- des-Landes, near the city February. Lebanon confi rmed ons attack on Khan Sheikhoun. of Nantes yesterday. that four Israeli war planes had Russia’s military said it had JOY AND GRIM DEATH: (above) Syrian state media reported that a bus with scores of abductees on board Some 2,500 French violated its airspace. sent offi cers to interview hospi- headed out of Douma bound for Damascus on Sunday night — most of the abductees were kidnapped by police tore down fl am- Israel claims the right to tal workers in Douma and they jihadists from Adraa in 2013; (below) a gruesome image from the White Helmets, the aftermath of an ing barricades and fi red attack Iranian forces as well had not confi rmed reports of apparent chemical weapons attack in Douma on Saturday tear gas at tenacious as those of the Lebanese Hez- a chemical attack. squatters as they evacu- bollah movement, which is But the United States and ated a protest camp fi ghting alongside the Syrian European Union both blamed erected nearly a decade government in its war with Damascus, with EU spokes- ago to block construc- jihadist rebels. woman Maja Kocijancic say- tion of an airport. Iranians were reported ing it had “several sources” among the dead by the Brit- on which to base its conviction ain-based Syrian Observatory that “the Syrian regime … is for Human Rights, which also responsible.” said that three Syrian military Mr Trump was due to meet offi cers were killed. Iran con- military chiefs and his war- fi rmed three of its citizens had mongering national security been killed. adviser John Bolton last night with Mr Orban having won The bombing raid added to discuss what he said would re-election on a pledge to take to international furore over be a “big price to pay” for the measures including levying claims by Jaish al-Islam, the Syrian authorities. a 25 per cent tax on foreign dominant jihadist organisa- At the same time, hundreds donations to charities and tion occupying the town of of Syrians took to the streets bans on activists approaching Douma in eastern Ghouta, of Aleppo celebrating the Hungary’s external EU border, that Syrian forces launched a defeat of rebel forces in east- where many have tried to help chemical weapons attack on its ern Ghouta. refugees fl eeing war and geno- residents on Saturday. [email protected] cide in the Middle East. Mr Orban has accused the EU and the United Nations of planning to turn Hungary into ■ GAZA ■ YEMEN “an immigrant country.” His xenophobic rhetoric was shared by the far-right Jobbik 15 killed as Saudi raiders party, which came second in Union condemns photographer’s killing the election with 20 per cent strike house in city of Taiz of the vote and 26 seats. A THE International Federation social-democratic coalition, of Journalists (IFJ) backed its AT LEAST 15 people were era outbreak and famine, MSZP-Dialogue, was shunted affi liate the Palestinian Jour- killed in a Saudi Arabian were reported as Saudi into third place. nalists Syndicate yesterday air raid yesterday on the Crown Prince Mohammed Mr Orban’s victory was in condemning the killing of Yemeni city of Taiz, local bin Salman was feted by welcomed by hard-right Euro- Yasser Murtaja. offi cials said. French politicians. pean governments in Warsaw Mr Murtaja, a photojournal- They said the strike hit Protests were planned and Vienna, as well as by Ger- ist working for the Gaza-based a house in Dimnat Khadir in various French cities man Interior Minister Horst news agency Ain Media, was district, an area that as human rights organi- Seehofer, who has previously shot dead by an Israeli sniper has seen heavy fi ghting sations called on Presi- clashed with Chancellor Angela on Friday while covering the between Saudi-backed dent Emmanuel Macron Merkel over the number of ref- Great Return March rally in government forces and to stop arms sales and ugees allowed into the country. which Palestinians demon- Iran-allied Houthi rebels. put pressure on the des- Mr Seehofer, chairman of the strated peacefully for the right They spoke on condition potic monarchy to end Christian Social Union, which of return to homes they were of anonymity, fearing the war. replaces Ms Merkel’s Christian driven from in the “Nakba” reprisals. Saudi Arabia also Democrats in the Bavarian (catastrophe) of 1948. The latest victims of the ramped up threats Free State, warned the EU not IFJ general secretary GRIEF: Mourners carry the body of 30-year-old photographer Yasser Gulf kingdom’s three-year against Qatar yesterday, to respond to Mr Orban with Anthony Bellanger said the Murtaja during his funeral in Gaza City on Saturday war on its southern neigh- with media reports that “arrogance and paternalism.” union federation “condemns bour, which has seen it planned to dig a “mari- But Luxembourg Foreign this inadmissible targeting of Murtaja’s death — unlike the Court suggested on Sunday that more than 10,000 civil- time trench” along the Minister Jean Asselborn said journalists and press freedom deaths of 30 other unarmed Pal- the recent massacres in Gaza ians killed in bombing border and turn its rival the victory showed “a taste in Gaza by the Israeli forces” estinians killed at the border could constitute war crimes runs and sparked a chol- into an island. for undermining values and and demanded an “open and on consecutive Fridays. but named Hamas alongside scaremongering” and it would transparent” investigation. Mr Bellanger said that kill- Israel as a potential perpetra- be “up to Germany and France” The Israeli army says it does ing journalists was a war crime tor, despite the violence com- (020) 8525-6995 to “neutralise this tumour.” not intentionally fi re on jour- under international law. ing exclusively from the Israeli ADVERTISE HERE [email protected] [email protected] nalists and will investigate Mr The International Criminal military. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 8 Tuesday features morningstaronline April 10 2018 @m_star_online Star comment The only way to confront t Bombing Syria is Israel’s way to distract from attacks on Corbyn is by p its Gaza massacres

ISRAEL’S bombing of Syria is a classic “dead cat” ploy to switch attention away from slaughter of unarmed Palestin- own positive agenda in re ian protesters in Gaza to unproven charges of chemical warfare by Damascus. “Don’t look at this. Look at that,” is the message as Tel FTER the excite- Aviv slings the dead cat of retribution for alleged use of ment of the People responded enthusiastically to Labour’s v chlorine gas onto the stage. Labour surge in The scenario was well prepared by its Nato allies, with the general elec- government, media, security experts and NGOs accepting Ation last year it Britain — it’s time to press these progressive idea unquestioningly the “evidence” served up, at the behest would be easy of the Jaish al-Islam jihadists, by their “civil defence” to feel disheartened by politi- White Helmet cohorts. cal debate recently and the the wider movement and beyond, says DAVE W The White Helmets are financed largely by Nato coun- renewed attacks on Jeremy tries and Japan, operating only within areas of Syria where Corbyn. jihadists hold sway. At a time when we have a They release heartstring-tugging videos of their volun- once-in-a-generation opportu- teers rescuing children from destroyed buildings, splash- nity to secure a transformative ing water over alleged chlorine gas victims and speaking Labour government, parts of from hospitals under attack. the party seem to be relishing They provide scripts to Western TV networks so that the opportunity to attack not reporters can read out the approved message from Bei- the Conservatives but their rut or even London newsrooms to convey the one-sided own leadership. picture that Nato governments, autocratic Gulf states And, of course, the right- and Israel wish to project. wing media is all too ready to At no time do Western media houses explain that they amplify this while showing don’t report directly on the heroic resistance to Assad little concern for the effects of in western Aleppo, Khan Sheikhoun or eastern Ghouta eight years of Conservative-led because past experience teaches them that journalists, government across the country. charity workers and NGO staff risk having their heads But while many of us are sawn off by the brave jihadist resisters. right to see the political oppor- tunism at play here, we must not lose sight of the prize at stake or indeed of our own val- Western powers accept that Damascus uses chlorine ues on the left. and other chemical weapons because it suits their agenda When it comes to anti- of justifying efforts to overthrow the Assad regime. semitism, this means dealing The regime did possess such weapons, but Moscow made with all accusations swiftly, military backing conditional on their disposal and such transparently and robustly. has been the scale of Russian support that Bashar al- It means treating it with the Assad would have had to be away with the fairies to use seriousness that it deserves chlorine gas, especially when the military balance has but which is denied when it’s turned significantly in the regime’s favour. used as nothing more than As George Galloway has often said — aware of Assad’s an attempt to undermine the authoritarianism and record of recourse to torture and project Corbyn is leading. repression — “Everyone knows they’re bad enough to do This does not mean the it, but is he mad enough to do it?” left stops talking about inter- No-one should be surprised that Israel has acted as national issues, injustices or it has. causes we believe in. Apart from shifting the spotlight from Gaza, it has con- But we only have credibility sistently succoured jihadist groups opposed to Assad, to the on these if we are consistent in extent of providing air cover and taking wounded fighters being true to our fundamen- across the border to be patched up and returned to the fray. tal principles within our own For Tel Aviv, the threat posed by Syria’s alliance with movement. Iran and Lebanese resistance group Hezbollah supersedes As the media narrative any danger from al-Qaida affiliates or other jihadists. unfolds, we increasingly see It beggars belief, however, that Britain, the EU and the opportunities for the reasoned ing your own positive agenda It was a poor offer that was fighting for political change US may be preparing for further adventurist attacks on debate we need to have as a in response. then easily trumped with the but delivering it industrially Syria on the desperate say-so of a terrorist group on the country about international We can’t let go of the public Tories’ so-called “living wage,” as well. brink of military defeat. issues and our position in the response to Labour’s manifesto, far lower than any wage you We also need to focus on the world being shut down. the most widely read and dis- could decently live on. fight for workers’ rights here. If you’re trying to make a cussed programme for British So, when we are now talking I’m not trying to diminish reasoned argument, as Corbyn government in generations. about far bolder moves with the the importance of Brexit, but Moscow warned months ago, as the Syrian government did on the Skripal poisoning, People responded enthusias- repeal of anti-union legislation, we cannot talk about this with multi-pronged offensive began rolling, that the opposition they try to shout you down. tically to that vision for Brit- sectoral collective bargaining, credibility in the trade union would stage a chemical weapons stunt to inveigle further But I reckon there are lots ain and people are still aware new models of corporate gov- movement and expect to get a military interference by US imperialism and its allies. of people who see through the that this country is broken and ernance and ownership and a hearing when we talk about Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov insists that noise and think: “Maybe there’s needs fixing. genuine living wage, it serves putting jobs first unless we are Russian specialists and aid workers entering Douma have a bit more to this.” Labour’s radicalism reso- to underline just how far we changing the balance of forces found no evidence of a chemical weapons attack there. Smearing Corbyn serves the nates with ordinary people who have shifted under Corbyn’s in the workplace ourselves. They could be lying and so could he, but it’s fair to say obvious direct purpose of try- know they have lost a tenth of leadership. The world of work is a ter- that Lavrov is generally viewed as more truthful than, ing to muddy his reputation their real-terms income over This agenda is what is at rifying, insecure, poverty- say, Boris Johnson. and his consistent anti-racist the last decade. stake with the attacks on the stricken world — in-work pov- If Nato-state experts and the Organisation for the Pro- record, but it has another One of the most depressing Labour Party we are seeing erty is higher than ever. Those hibition of Chemical Weapons genuinely believe that effect. things I remember from the and it’s why we cannot blink are issues we need to ensure chlorine was used, they could ask to visit the area to The last thing the Tories time Ed Miliband was Labour and must believe in what we stay high on the agenda and verify the facts. want is people talking about leader was the pledge that are doing. that’s why I continue to push If they choose instead to reprise Israel’s piratical exam- what Labour is actually doing Labour would provide a mini- As general secretary of the our plan to deliver a New Deal ple, this will confirm their obsession with prioritising or proposing for the country, mum wage of £8 an hour by CWU, I’m also clear that in for Workers, starting with the regime change in Damascus over international law. so the only way to confront the 2020, seemingly thinking this the trade union movement TUC demonstration taking attacks on Corbyn is by push- was somehow bold. our responsibility is not just place on May 12. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Tuesday @m_star_online April 10 2018 9 nt the Voices of Scotland with Keith Stoddart INCE the Peo- ple’s Assembly Scotland (PAS) last met for an Help to grow the Sannual general meeting, much y pushing our has changed in the political landscape at Scottish, munici- pal, UK and international lev- Scottish People’s els. What has not changed is the unrelenting attacks on working n response people and their families’ liv- ing standards. Assembly Cuts are implemented at local level because of the Scot- vision for tish government’s inadequate allocation of funds that would allow councils to both provide eas out into appropriate services and pro- tect jobs. Every day we see the unem- WARD ployed and those suffering from disability as well as peo- ple with caring responsibilities having to face the iniquitous maze of Department of Work and Pensions regulations, with sanctions and demonisation of benefit claimants accompany- ing the introduction of univer- sal credit. Many of those “fortunate” enough to be in work find themselves in zero-hours con- tracts, trapped in the gig econ- omy on minimum wages, with tips either not being handed over or regarded as part of their income. All of this has led to the PAS developing and changing the way we campaign and organise against all the above. When the PAS was estab- lished in 2014, it was with the For me this rally — and fourth industrial revolution following key demands: engaging trade union mem- and amid this revolution of n A Fairer Economy bers in the run-up to it — is technology and artificial intel- n More and Better Jobs our chance to reassert trade ligence Labour has been doing n High Standard Homes for All union values in this country. much more hard thinking than n Protect and Improve Public later renege on any guarantees further cuts. People’s Assembly. A very appro- we in the unions have. Services they offer their electors. One unintended consequence priate choice as Fife epitomises he left has seen Credit to Labour, it is think- n For Fairness and Justice Prior to elections, be they of this was West Dunbarton- all that a local PA should be, a big revival in ing about the future of work n For a Secure and Sustainable for local councils, Holyrood or shire Council’s decision to end with regular leafleting outside recent years. The and our industries, not just Future. Westminster, we have produced facility time for trade union jobcentres offering advice and Labour Party has writing off, for example, the These are still our core “manifestos” in conjunction shop stewards on the basis that support for claimants and regu- Tgrown enormously postal industry because we’re principles and they are no less with affiliates offering both “they did not engage positively lar campaigning alongside trade and attracts young up against a changing commu- relevant today, encompassing alternatives to cuts and sup- with the budget process.” unionists against bank closures people to politics in record num- nications world. the areas of most concern to port to those willing to pro- What the trade unionists did and unfair working conditions in bers, but that hasn’t been accom- Labour’s thinking about working families. vide leadership and stand up do was say they opposed the the likes of Sports Direct. panied by a resurgence of the solutions that would expand Since we launched, in many for working people. cuts in an SNP minority coun- As well as this, Fife PA regu- trade union movement, which the role of the postal worker respects, the impact of auster- These were sent to every cil that had a surplus and no larly works with councillors continues to shrink in terms of instead of assuming delivering ity has only worsened and yet councillor, MSP and MP in Scot- economic reason to make cuts. and shows the true effect of overall membership. letters is always going to be at our resolve to fight for a better land. This proved fruitful, with Ironically this was their decision-making on the The demonstration must also the heart of it. future has increased. PAS local groups being invited announced the day before an poorest in society. be a launch pad for a broader Previous Labour regimes As a body with affiliates that to address councils on our pro- STUC joint statement with the By far the most active local strategy to tackle insecurity wrote off old industries, but include the SNP trade union posals to produce parallel budg- Scottish government stating group in the country, they have at work and start growing the many old industries still have group and the Labour Party ets illustrating the real need for that workers will only be able even taken on the multination- movement. strengths and the current Campaign for Socialism, in services combined with local to combat unfair practices if als and succeeded in shutting In the CWU we are calling Labour leadership sees the addition to the major trade economic impact statements they stand together and join a down the Dunfermline Ama- for unions to work together by value of the services provided unions, trades councils and on the true cost of job losses trade union. zon distribution centre on two developing a common bargain- and wants to innovate rather community groups, the PAS to their constituents. Developing and strengthen- occasions in protests against ing agenda so we all move for- than leave them to rot. can correctly identify itself We provided concrete direc- ing local People’s Assemblies zero-hours contracts and the ward industrially, a trade union It is ready to have conversa- as the broadest representative tion for councils such as refi- was aided by the film I, Daniel very poor working conditions manifesto on the world of work tions about natural monopolies. organisation in the country. nancing the debt book by taking Blake, which was shown in over for the mostly migrant workers. and, ultimately, that we start Maybe it’s a step too far to say When first established, much advantage of low interest rates. 80 locations. People’s Assemblies led by thinking about further forms “we’ll renationalise BT,” but of the public work was around Even when unsuccessful in This raised the PAS profile local TUCs are the basis for of action we can take. there are natural monopolies large-scale public rallies such getting them to change course, and raised a huge amount restoring the links between In the face of unprecedented that ought to be in public hands. as those we held in Glasgow’s rallies and demonstrations for local foodbanks, but the the unions and local commu- challenges it’s not the time for All these conversations are George Square in conjunction were held outside budget meet- most significant development nities, galvanising support for us to become less assertive or happening on the left and they with the STUC. ings which strengthened local was after a showing at Drum- both through struggle and next less confident about our beliefs. provide a great opportunity for Now our focus is on building groups and forced councillors chapel in Glasgow where the week’s STUC in Aviemore is an It’s the time for us to make big- trade unionists to help shape more locally based groups and to try to explain the reasons question was asked, “What if opportunity for the movement ger demands and back this up a solution to the deep-rooted producing materials that these for the cuts and why they were Daniel lived here?” leading to to mobilise in support of the with a proper strategy. crisis in the world of work. groups can use to debate with reluctant to fight back. the publication of a booklet on People’s Assembly in its fight This for me is the lesson we By fighting on our own those seeking elected positions. Local authority trade unions how to find your way through against austerity. Join the union. can learn from Labour in recent behalf for a new deal, we open These materials allow local made use of both the informa- universal credit and details of Join the People’s Assembly. years and what impresses me now up another flank in the battle groups to identify those most tion and figures contained in how to appeal decisions. is how it is thinking about the and will help Corbyn and the likely to stand up for working our documents to challenge Our revised document In Place n Keith Stoddart is secretary of the most serious questions we face. Labour Party in the excellent people and record their com- assertions by elected members of Austerity was launched last People’s Assembly Scotland steering We’re in the throes of the work they are doing. mitment to do so should they that there was no alternative to month by Tam Kirby from Fife committee. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 10 Tuesday features morningstaronline April 10 2018 @m_star_online

I G H T - W I N G Chris Searle hack Rod Liddle ...on jazz decided to give his extreme per- Iro Haarla Rsonal views in Northbound the recent edi- (ECM) tion of the Sunday Times on the A marvel of musical naming of the second bridge across the river Severn linking IRO HAARLA was born in 1956 Wales with England. in Tampere, Finland, 70 miles The background to the story north of Helsinki. After school is that First Minister of Wales she studied classical piano and transmigration Carwyn Jones and Tory PM composition at Helsinki’s Sibe- Theresa May decided jointly lius Academy, where she also to name the crossing as The discovered an empathy with Prince of Wales Bridge in hon- great jazz pianists like Thelo- our of Prince Charles. nious Monk, Bill Evans and the Many people in Wales are Canadian Paul Bley. unsurprisingly annoyed and She identified strongly with angry at this decision and feel Bley’s “silence and dissonance.” the Welsh people should have Haarla met the Finnish jazz been consulted and perhaps a drummer, later her husband, choice of names submitted and Edward Vesala, in 1978 and put a public majority vote made. aside her classical ambitions, The days of people doffing joining his ensemble Sound their caps to royalty are long and Fury as arranger and self- gone and it irks proud Welsh taught harpist, bringing a new people the bridge is being architecture to his music. named after the heir to the They made several albums English throne when we could for the Munich-based ECM have named the bridge after the label, the last being Nordic Gal- last real Welsh prince Owain lery in 1994, five years before Glyndwr or perhaps someone Vesala’s death. like the inspirational Aneu- The tracks are sonically rin Bevan, father of the NHS, sculptured by Haarla with or distinguished writer Dylan unusual jazz instruments like Thomas. Some people suggested accordions, harp, cello and bass Tom Jones and Shirley Bassey flute. would be much higher on the Tracks like Bird in the High list than Prince Charles. Room have a mournful beauty Deciding to capitalise on the with Versala’s powerful, almost growing discontent and peti- funereal drums and Fulflandia tions being started in Wales has a quasi-Indian sound. to change the bridge’s name, The Quay of Meditative Liddle wrote in the Sunday STIRRING THE Future has some evocatively Times: “The Welsh, or some POT: Rod Liddle Nordic harp sequences from of them, are moaning that a Haarla. It is as if the European motorway bridge linking their north is reflecting both south rain-sodden valleys with the and north in surprising union. First World is to be renamed So long as it allows people to In 2005, Haarla led a new soft tone of Seim’s tenor saxo- trumpet in angry waters, Chris- were back in the same Oslo The Prince of Wales bridge in get out of the place pronto, quintet on the album North- phone alongside Haarla’s piano tensen’s drums beat down on studio again in 2011, record- honour of the venal, grasping, should we worry about what bound. It was a Finnish-Norwe- in Barcarole and Krokfors’s tun- the Waterworn Rocks and Veil ing the album Verspers, and, deranged (if Tom Bower’s new it’s called?” gian band with compatriot Uffe nelling bass notes. of Mist has a haunted fanfare as soon as you hear the harp/ biography is accurate) heir to Liddle is straight out of the Krokfors on bass and Norwe- Haarla’s tenderly ruminative by Seim with Light in the Dark- horn colloquy of Haarla, Eick the throne. 1970s Jim Davidson book of gian trumpeter Mathias Eick, keys introduce With Thanks- ness an anthem of nature with and Seim on the opening A Port “That Plaid Cymru woman casual racism that died a death saxophonist Trygve Seim and giving and the horns harmo- Seim’s tenor exalted. on a Distant Shore, you realise who is always on Question back in the era with good reason. veteran drummer Jon Chris- nist with affecting beauty after There is nothing fast in how complete their union has Time, has been leading the The Irish were always the tensen. It was recorded in Oslo. Krokfors’s deep prologue to Northbound, as if speed were grown. protests. They would prefer it topic of such jokes, as were the I remember, after hearing Time for Recollection. an irrelevance. Slow is sublime The title tune is a song of to be called something indeci- Scots and the Welsh, portrayed this ensemble at the London Thought is sacrosanct along in this album and never a mes- evening dedicated by Haarla pherable like Ysgythysgymlng- as “Paddies, Jocks and Taffs.” Jazz Festival nearly a decade with sound all through this sage of dejection. Haarla’s harp- to her father. gwchgwch Bryggy. Never the English. The ago, how the radiance of the album, as if the pondering strings are of both snow and Her piano strikes are like “Let them have their way. 1970s were also a time of racist horns resonated with Haarla’s mind can hear too. sun in Yarra, Yarra … — you bells beside Krokfors’s earthen “humour” against black people, harp strings. Hear Eick’s neo- Then the music takes in can hear them quivering in bass and Seim blows with a pul- with comedians mocking the Arctic trumpet in the opener Finnish land and sea. On the your ears. sating beauty, still slower than accents of Caribbeans. Avian Kingdom or the deeply Crest of A Wave has Eick’s The same five musicians slow, as are The Warm Currents But these too became tired of the Sea below the warm ice and shoddy. Regionally, people of Eick’s notes. from Birmingham have been SONIC PicL Hreinn Gudlaugsson In Doxa the pace suddenly portrayed as slow, people from SCULPTURES: quickens, with a sense of men- Liverpool as thieves, people Iro Haarla ace in the timbre and Seim from the north-east as inco- turns to his soprano saxophone “ herent, people from London in Satoyama and plays it as if as wide boys. the studio walls could break His allusion to But Liddle and his ilk of mid- with his sound and open on to dle-class, middle-aged white men the Scandinavian lands. Wales as some need to grow up and understand The senses are fused and that this form of casual regional crossed over all through this prejudice fuels an undercurrent album. backward of social media abuse that can In The Shimmer of the Stars then take the form of physical you see the serenity of the Arc- country behind attacks out on the streets in 21st tic night sky with sounds which century Britain. cast a beguiling night on your There is a moral duty not to ears, then your eyes. the supposed print racist remarks in news- As you listen to Vespers you papers and the Sunday Times wonder how the New Orleans First World is culpable by allowing this pioneers marching down Canal diatribe to be printed. Street or Basin Street 100 years country of We all know the sick and ago could ever have anticipated disgusting online remarks this music and musicianship in that spew forth from the likes a faraway country of dreams England reeks of of failed Apprentice applicant and snow — a marvel of jazz Katie Hopkins, who tries to transmigration, indeed, in for- imperialism shock simply in order to gar- ever formation. ner headlines. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Tuesday @m_star_online April 10 2018 11

ALTERNATIVES: Other suggestions for Welsh icons to name the bridge after have been Owain Glyndwr No place for any (left) and Shirley Bassey anti-Welsh bigotry BERNADETTE HORTON takes Rod Liddle to task over his latest column which is insulting to the people of Wales

But she crossed the line so that is entrenched in the far- out there who see emblazoned to learn there is no place for far even the Daily Mail got rid right political parties he prob- headlines about Muslims, refu- his casual racism in modern of her as a columnist, as did ably admires. gees and immigration and are Britain. The Sun. Liddle obviously knows noth- acting out assaults, murders Here in Wales the issue of Liddle crosses a few lines in ing about Wales, Welsh people and hate crime because they the naming of the second his piece. His sexism is blatant, or Welsh history and should are being psyched up to do so bridge will not go away. Welsh as he well knows the name of refrain from public comment by our right-wing media. people have a right to be part Plaid Cymru leader Leanne until he is better informed. Some people will laugh and of a process to name such land- Wood but refers to her as “that I contacted North Wales say Liddle’s article isn’t casual marks and, as online petitions Plaid Cymru woman” in order Police and Crime Commis- racism but a light-hearted skit are racking up large numbers to belittle her in print. sioner Arfon Jones about Lid- on Wales and the Welsh. Well, of signatures, the hope is the Wood is a serving assem- dle’s article and he is looking we don’t see it quite that way bridge can be renamed. bly member and leader of her into it, alongside North Wales in Wales and think attacks in In future when new build- party and should be referred Police. print by national newspapers ings and structures are built, to as such. We have to report newspa- should not go unpunished. people should be fully included His allusion to Wales as some pers and their reporters who I sincerely hope the Sunday in the naming of them and backward country behind the think casual racism towards Times acts and issues a public not have some royalist name supposed First World country of a country and its people is OK apology for allowing this arti- imposed upon us simply England reeks of imperialism because it quite frankly is not. cle to be printed and that Liddle because our government’s lead- and a Little Englander attitude There are some warped idiots apologises and makes an effort ers say so. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Tuesday morningstaronline 12 April 10 2018 info | entertainment @m_star_online

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Solution tomorrow… Back-to-school parents quickly realise the reality of exam culture pressures QUIZMASTER with William Sitwell BACK in 2013, a GP from a workshop. The focus was on Last week, the Star reported TODAY’S QUESTIONS market town in Somerset had people socialising and breaking on the National Union of Teach- enough of seeing over-medical- that familiar cycle of isolation. ers’ (NUT) decision to fi ght base- ised patients come through her The miracle lies in the line testing and prepare for a 1 True or false: by law, items surgery. Helen Kingston decided results, a study three years on SATS boycott in 2020 (M Star made of palladium must be to take action and set up Com- revealed that hospital admis- April 3). New show Class of Mum hallmarked in Britain passionate Frome, a project that sions in Frome fell by 17 per cent and Dad (8pm Channel 4) is a prescribed socialising with oth- in comparison to a national rise welcome and gentle reminder 2 Which is the only chess piece ers. of 29 per cent. of just how distressing, and dis- in the shape of an animal’s She pulled together council Another radio treat is Meet- criminatory, tests can be. Sev- head? and NHS staff to form com- ing the Man I Killed (8pm BBC enteen adults agreed to join a munity groups where talking Radio 4). Jonathan Izard acci- year 6 class at Blackrod Primary 3 Why must Melling Road in was encouraged. And people dentally ran over and killed School in Bolton. Aintree be closed for a while came and talked. This project Michael Rawson, 72, in a road In this fi rst episode, the par- every April? is explored in BBC World Hacks: traffi c accident on New Year’s ents attempt a maths test along- The Town Trying to Cure Loneli- Eve 2015. side pupils. It results in tears, ness (3.05pm, 8.05pm BBC World For a while, he tried to deal perhaps unsurprisingly, from Service). with the guilt alone but then one of the adults. YESTERDAY’S ANSWERS Compassionate Frome decided to make a documen- Lastly, if you have the radio employed “health connectors” tary where he meets Michael’s on in the evening, Free Thinking 1. The bells of which northern English town’s has been dark green with a white Scandina- who could highlight existing friends to learn more about (10pm BBC Radio 3) is exploring town hall, with chimes similar to Big Ben, vian cross? Barra (pictured) local groups or discover what someone described as a “lov- the Woodfall Films company have been used by BBC Radio while the real 3. If you tot up all its FA Cup goals over the was missing and help create able rogue,” even discovering a who produced classic British Big Ben is being repaired? Rochdale years, which team comes top: a) Arsenal, b) them, whether that was a choir, number of similarities between New Wave fi lms like Look Back 2. Which Hebridean island’s fl ag since 2017 Spurs or c) Kettering Town? Kettering Town an exercise class or a cooking them. It’s an emotional ride. in Anger and The Knack. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Tuesday @m_star_online culture April 10 2018 13

n BOOK REVIEW Lyrical search for meaning in an unknowable world

Fireflies refreshingly experi- war while serving as a Adelir de Carli. According to unusual events and actions. It fleeing from us from the very by Luis Sagasti mental in its structure Luftwaffe pilot to Lit- Sagasti, after administering never quite finds them. beginning. Every night they’re (Charco Press, £8.99) as it weaves through tle Prince author Anto- holy communion in his city The book’s title is perhaps further away, though they give stories and anecdotes ine de Saint-Exupery, of Paranagua, attached 1,000 key to understanding its mean- the impression of being in the of the famous and the Soviet cosmonaut Yury balloons filled with helium ing — that of the ungraspable same place. “THE WORLD is a ball of wool. infamous. Gagarin, philosopher to a cushioned chair, strapped understanding of the world in “But we shouldn’t feel lonely A skein of yarn you can’t find Initially they do not Ludwig Wittgenstein himself in, and flew up into the which we live. Fireflies, after as a result. No. Not at all. As the end of.” That’s how Luis seem to have anything and US photographer sky. De Carli, who wanted to all, guide us through the night long as there’s fire there will be Sagasti’s ambitious novel Fire- in common but slowly Richard Drew who break a world record, was never and seduce us into believing a story waiting to be told. And flies, a quest to find meaning in and cumulatively they took the notorious seen again. their existence and then dis- then we’ll open our mouths literature and life, begins. allow us to discern picture of the “falling This is a work of wonderful appear without explanation. wide and swallow all that we Retelling a fantastical history unexpected connections. man” during the 9/11 attacks in analogies and disparate his- As the author beautifully can of the night. of the world, the book, trans- We move from German artist New York. torical footnotes, one that con- explains in the last para- “And, for the first time, the lated by Fionn Petch, is written Joseph Beuys surviving a plane A stand-out story is the stantly tries to find answers to graph of his book, “If we stop same song will begin.” in a highly lyrical form and it’s crash during the second world adventure of Brazilian priest the unspoken questions about to think, the stars have been LEO BOIX

n OPINION TRIUMPHANT: (Left to right) Rhian Lois, Thomas Oliemans, Janis Kelly, Keel Watson Not for the likes of us? Oh yes, they are LYNNE WALSH takes issue with the idea that the arts aren’t for ‘ordinary people’

UGBY union is I reviewed for the Morning David, who tells me: “He didn’t a middle-class Star a few months ago. The like the ‘working class’ label. sport,” a leftie bleak lives of its working-class He told me ‘an artist has no “Rfriend told characters seemed played for class’ and he didn’t want to me recently. laughs and it felt cartoon-like. ally himself with any school I should prefer football, he I came away, grumpily look- of thought. He just did what Pic: Alastair-Muir insisted, which is “working- ing up a quote from writer Tim he did, popular or not.” n OPERA REVIEW class opera.” Lott, who’d used, in the Guard- Discovering Sillitoe’s work Now, apart from repudi- ian, an extraordinary phrase was for me an entry point to ating his daft claim — as a which stuck with me. Ponder- many more novels and films. This Figaro hits all the right notes rugby fan, I’m an old Arms ing on working-class writers, Reading The Loneliness of the Park groundling, rather than he’d said: “There are no writers Long Distance Runner, aged a Twickers toff — he got me out there any more to bring about 10, was a revelation — An excellent production that brings out all the thinking. Why isn’t opera us bulletins from the lives of this voice resonated even more “working class”? what is probably the largest than Dylan Thomas’s had. Vox pops on the topic were single group in society.” In more recent years — my class and gender issues as well as offering an called for, so I stood out- Who, in the name of arse, is Welsh bias showing — I’d look side the Lidl supermarket in the “us” in that statement? Is to the works of Rachel Tresize, impressive staging, writes JOHN GREEN Feltham, my regular choice for it the middle and upper classes whose stories are harrow- such journalistic groundwork, who consume and enjoy the ing and witty. Last year, she The Marriage of Figaro Figaro and Susanna’s wed- seriousness of the issues. The where you get a decent cross- arts and rely on “bulletins” to wrote We’re Still Here, about English National Opera ding plans are threatened when macho Count is not let off the section of the public. Remarks inform on the lives of others? the threatened closure of Port London WC2 Count Almaviva seems bent hook and our sympathies are like: “It’s never about real life, In the same piece he cited Talbot steelworks, basing it on seducing Susanna before with the two servants who sim- is it? It’s always royalty” and the late novelist Alan Sillitoe on interviews with workers, HHHHH her marriage. Along with the ply want to be allowed to marry “No-one writes operas and (pictured), thereby hammering union reps and local people. deceived Countess, Figaro and and lead their own lives. The plays about ordinary people,” home the old stereotype, when And then there’s playwright OzART’S most rev- Susanna create a scheme to out- final scene obliges the arrogant seem to sum up the resistance in fact the writer rejected Gary Owen — Welsh, too — olutionary comic wit the Count and teach him and womanising Almaviva to to what’s on offer in our thea- labels. I check with his son, the author of Killology, with Mopera tackles tradi- a lesson. take his bow in his underpants, tres. its victims of an exploita- tional gender roles It is almost impossible to sin- his dignity completely stripped. Those views are not true, tive economy and Iphigenia and class society. But packages gle out particular individuals The opera oscillates between of course. Reviewing shows in Splott, a scream of anger it in scintillating orchestral as all the voices are excellent. heart-breaking arias on love over the last year, I’ve seen against the impact of auster- writing and vocal fireworks. Lucy Crowe, with her velvet, and betrayal and comic ensem- performances about friends ity. Its unlikely heroine was It is based on the play by Beau- powerful but sensitive tone, ble numbers. The mellifluous falling out, lovers cheating played by Sophie Melville, a marchais first performed in stars as the deceived Countess, music can sometimes threaten and teenagers struggling to fine young actress, who says 1784. At the time the play was opposite bass-baritone Ashley to mask the subversive content, find their way. True, there was she didn’t think theatre would banned in Vienna due its sub- Riches as the philandering but Jeremy Sams’s inventive one about Napoleon but even be her calling because it might versive subject matter. Count. Rhian Lois plays the English version of the origi- that reminded me of my first be too posh and she wouldn’t As a result of the ‘#MeToo’ ever-resourceful Susanna, nal libretto is witty, lively and editor at the Rhondda Leader. understand it. I’m glad she got movement, situations where with Dutch baritone Thomas brings out the underlying class Still, negative stereotypes over that idea. wealthy and powerful men Oliemans as Figaro and Katie and gender issues. are enough to keep us from Owen studied at Cambridge. sexually harass women have Coventry sings Cherubino. The accelerating complex- trying an experience. Is there “I’d never really moved outside become a key issue, so Mozart’s Peter MacKintosh’s superb ity and symmetrical resolu- a class divide, tainting people’s a working-class context before, 200-year-old opera is as rel- pared-down scenery of white, tion which is at the core of expectations of the arts? Some it wasn’t a place I fitted in with evant as ever. translucent flat screens rotat- Mozart’s style enabled him to social commentators would very well,” he tells me. “Now I This revival of Fiona Shaw’s ing on a revolving stage, like find a musical equivalent for have us believe that few define work in a very ‘rarefied’ profes- 2011 production brings all the a merry-go-round of life, pro- the stage works that were his themselves as working class, sion but the work isn’t, because fun, sharp class satire and vides the setting for the vari- dramatic models. His Figaro is now that we’re all fooled by I write about real people.” subversive content to the fore. ous rooms in the palace as the dramatic equal of Beaumar- social bloody mobility. Is this He’s currently working on As an actor and theatre direc- well as the Goyaesque outside chais’s play. a class question at all? a new play, also set in Splott. tor, she is able to tease out the scenes. Performances: March 29 and I recall my response to the Judging by his previous out- innate theatricality and full It has its share of slap-stick April 4,6,10,12 and 14. Box office theatre version of the film put, I think my neighbours in comic potential. humour, but doesn’t dodge the www.eno.org/ and (020) 7845-9300. Rita, Sue and Bob Too which Pic: Ian Brown LRPS/Creative Commons Feltham would like it. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 14 Tuesday letters morningstaronline April 10 2018 @m_star_online

n ISRAEL n ANTI-SEMITISM Noisy Blairites oddly silent on Netanyahu How NOT to tackle a vital issue PETER KIRKER’S article on though that is of any politi- accept that anti-semitism OVER Easter weekend, when “zionist frenzy” (M Star April cal significance. These classic is a problem in parts of the the Israeli military shot dead 4) and, he claims, false alle- tropes are all supplemented left and needs to be loudly 16 Palestinians and wounded gations of anti-semitism in by a most unfortunate use of denounced while also accept- hundreds of others, not one the Labour Party, was a text- language, including the term ing that some of Jeremy Cor- Tory or Blairite condemned book example of how not to “brethren Jews.” byn’s political opponents are the war criminal Netanyahu address this important issue. But the worst aspect of opportunistically using this or his military. The piece was full of con- this unhelpful article is the issue as a way to undermine John Woodcock et al were spiracy theories about “this author’s apparent inability his leadership. nowhere to be heard. murky world of British zion- to comprehend that two “However, the actions of These charlatans have all ism,” use of the word “zion- separate truths can coexist others do not reduce our condemned Russia over the ism” as a self-evidently derog- alongside each other. responsibility to challenge Skripal poisoning without a atory term (without a satisfac- As Momentum’s national anti-semitism whenever and shred of evidence. tory definition) and details of co-ordinating group put it wherever it occurs.” STEVEN McNAMARA the financial impropriety of in its recent statement on JIM DENHAM Middlesbrough one individual “zionist,” as this issue: “It is possible to Birmingham

n PALESTINE Anti-Israel clearly does not equal anti-semitic n SALISBURY ATTACK I CANNOT understand the media furore about Jeremy JAILED: Teenager Corbyn not being more strin- Ahed Tamimi, locked City’s workers facing gent against alleged anti- up for protesting semitism in the Labour Party against an Israeli when the Israelis have, since attack on her family, drastic cuts in hours 1948, committed thousands of has come to represent inhumane, criminal acts and Palestinian resistance I’M GLAD Lesley Docksey is Landlords are then looking to totally ignored various UN keeping Morning Star readers evict these people who are still resolutions. updated on the situation in technically in work. Unfortunately, the vast Salisbury (M Star April 7), but On her visit to Salisbury, the majority of people mistakenly the effect on the working class Prime Minister talked about conflate anti-Israel with anti- of Salisbury needs a bit more the impact of the crisis on local semitic. discussion. businesses, but most businesses Recent demonstrations by As a recent Unite officer cov- in the city centre are national the Palestinians on their own ering south Wiltshire, I was or multinational chains (includ- border have resulted in 18 peo- very aware of the gap between ing the pub and the restaurant ple being killed and more than the well-organised workplaces the Skripals visited) and they 400 injured while all still on such as Porton Down and the have protected their margins the Gaza side. district hospital and the precar- by making their precarious One 14-year-old girl, who ious situation of young work- employees pay the price. was simply waving a flag sev- ers in retail and hospitality in A Labour councillor made eral hundred metres from the a tourist-dependent city. this point to the PM but got Israeli border, was shot and My contacts in Salisbury no reaction. The Morning Star seriously injured. The major- say that young workers in therefore needs to raise this ity of those killed have been these sectors are having their argument to help the workers shot in the back. hours drastically cut, with- of Salisbury. A farmer working on his out compensation, and so are HUGH KIRKBRIDE farm two kilometres away her young cousin in the head, unable to rebuild the hundreds taken since 1948 and our struggling to pay their rents. Bristol was killed by Israeli tank mis- causing him to lose part of his of homes that the Israelis have media barely cover any of siles. A four-year-old boy was skull. When a soldier spat in bombed because they will not them. Anyone who criticises HAVE YOUR SAY arrested and detained for alleg- her face she slapped him back, allow building materials to be the Israelis is wrongly classed edly throwing stones. Four was arrested and then jailed imported to Gaza. Unemploy- as anti-semitic, which is totally Write (up to 300 words) to children playing on a beach for eight months. ment runs at about 60 per cent. wrong. Anti-Israel is not anti- 52 Beachy Rd, London E3 2NS were killed. A 16-year-old girl Gaza is an open prison, These are mere snippets semitic. or email [email protected] was protesting to Israeli sol- with water and electricity fre- of the thousands of heinous WJ CASEY diers about their having shot quently being cut off. They are actions that the Israelis have North Tyneside

n RACISM Strive for more open governance in Labour IT IS important that we keep up the struggle against anti- semitism and all forms of racism. Important, too, that we work for truly open and democratic governance in the Labour Party and elsewhere. I’m also glad you gave pub- licity to Kate Osamor’s policy announcement (M Star March 26). CHRIS PURNELL Orpington morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Tuesday @m_star_online sport April 10 2018 15

n FORMULA ONE n WOMEN’S CRICKET Dominant duo Mechanic doing OK down India after broken leg CAReeR-best bowling from spinners Sophie ecclestone and Danielle hazell carried by Our Sports Desk Raikkonen, who was england to a series-levelling pitting for a second eight-wicket win over India time, was not at fault yesterday in the second one- The Ferrari mechanic for the collision. he was day international at Nagpur. mowed down by Kimi instructed to leave his The hosts opted to bat Raikkonen in the Bah- marks after a green light first but were skittled in rain Grand Prix posted a was signalled by his Fer- less than 38 overs, making picture to Instagram yes- rari team but his left-rear just 113 as ecclestone and terday giving the thumbs tyre was yet to be fitted. hazell ran riot. up following an operation In the confusion, ecclestone took four for 14, on his broken leg. Raikkonen mowed down as well as adding a run out, Francesco Cigarini was Cigarini as he pulled away with hazell (pictured) claim- taken to a nearby Bah- at speed. ing the prize scalp of Mithali raini hospital on Sunday The mechanic was laid Raj in her four for 32. night with a fractured flat out on his back in Smriti Mandhana’s 42 and tibia and fibula on his left obvious agony. Raikkonen an unbeaten 26 from Deepti leg following the dra- stopped in the pit lane Sharma were the only bat- matic pit-lane incident on seconds later and retired ting contributions which lap 36. from the race. reached double figures. Sitting upright in his Formula One’s sporting england openers Dani hospital bed, Cigarini federation, the FIA, later Wyatt and Tammy Beau- said: “Surgery OK. I have fined Ferrari €50,000 mont put on 73 for the to thank all of the people (£45,000) for “releas- opening wicket, ensuring worried. Nothing else, ing the car in a manner the chase would be nerve- just a big thanks.” endangering team person- free. The post was “liked” by nel and causing injury.” Wyatt fell three short of Raikkonen. Ferrari revealed they her half-century, stumped Sebastian Vettel will launch a full investi- on the charge against ekta executed a miraculous gation into the harrowing Bisht, who also picked off one-stop strategy in pit-lane incident. Amy Jones for a duck. Bahrain to move 17 points In a statement released Captain heather Knight clear of Lewis hamilton on Sunday night, Sergio (26no) then joined Beau- in the championship Marchionne, the Ferrari mont (39no) to finish the job race but his triumph was chair, said: “I wish our with 21 overs remaining. marred after teammate mechanic a speedy recov- Raikkonen ran over the ery and hope to see him mechanic. back on track soon.” n MEN’S CRICKET COUNTY CHAMPIONSHIP RETURN A BREAK FROM A WINTER FULL OF CONTROVERSY by Our Sports Desk With the England and Wales around the grounds from April bringing in Sam Northeast Cricket Board’s new franchise 13 to September 27 for a com- from Kent and bagging Hashim Twenty20 competition set to petition that was established in Amla and Dale Steyn for over- THE start of the County launch in two years time and 1890 and underpins the cricket seas spells. Championship this week is an coexist alongside the T20 Blast, calendar. Surrey can never be written opportunity to return to some fears will only heighten over Essex are the team to beat off and their ambitions will be semblance of normality after how the red-ball game will be after romping to last year’s strengthened if they manage to a winter beset by controversy further affected. Division One title although land India captain Virat Kohli and rancour. Indeed, there was mild they were unable to hang on for a portion of the campaign, From the Ben Stokes saga to panic that the decisions of Adil to influential head coach Chris while there will be many cheer- an Ashes series replete with Rashid and Alex Hales, two reg- Silverwood, who left to join ing on Somerset as they seek gaffes and ill-feeling to the Aus- ulars in England’s shorter-for- England over the winter, with their first pennant. tralian ball-tampering scandal, mat line-ups, to sign white-ball- Anthony McGrath stepping up Nottinghamshire and headlines have been made for only deals with their counties from No 2 to take the reins. Worcestershire are the pro- all the wrong reasons. recently could lead to a talent McGrath, of course, spent moted teams, taking the places But while those who simply exodus, not least because of the the entirety of his playing of Middlesex and Warwick- wish to focus on leather mak- vast sums of money that can be career at Yorkshire and his shire, both of whom are heavy ing contact with willow will get earned in the various domestic old club will be breathing favourites to immediately their wish as the county sea- Twenty20 leagues around the down the neck of Essex after bounce back from relegation. son gets under way on Friday, world. adding the prodigious batting Durham will start on a level it would be remiss to ignore the It has not yet materialised, talents of Cheteshwar Pujara playing field in the 10-team sec- English domestic scene’s issues. but several of this country’s and Kane Williamson to their ond tier after last year’s size- The principal concern once brightest stars will be con- ranks as the pair share over- able points penalty as part of again revolves around the spicuous absentees from the seas duties. their punishment for their first-class game being pushed county circuit over the forth- Last year’s runners-up financial problems, although towards the periphery of the coming weeks, as Hales joins Lancashire shrewdly signed the north-east county did at season. international teammates Keaton Jennings and Graham least avoid the wooden spoon. Most of the 14 championship including Stokes, Moeen Ali, Onions from Durham and For the fourth time in five games will be played before Chris Woakes and Jos Buttler should be there or thereabouts, campaigns that went to Leices- mid-May and in September, as in plying his trade at the Indian while Hampshire, who avoided tershire, who will no doubt be the limited-overs formats take Premier League instead. relegation by two points last hoping to avoid another rock- centre stage in the traditional However, there will still be season, will aim to be more bottom finish when it is all said summer months. plenty of recognisable faces combative this term after and done in a few months. ONES TO BEAT: Essex’s Alastair Cook Tuesday SPORT April 10 2018 INSIDE: County Championship returns Friday

■ WOMEN’S FOOTBALL TONIGHT’S FOOTBALL Champions League Man City Liverpool Roma Barcelona NEVILLE CALLS ON CITY Championship Aston Villa Cardiff Bristol City Birmingham Burton Hull Fulham Reading Ipswich Barnsley Nottingham Forest Brentford AND CHELSEA TO RULE Preston Leeds QPR Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield United Middlesbrough Sunderland Norwich Bolton Millwall, 8pm League One EUROPEAN FOOTBALL Wimbledon Charlton Blackpool Northampton Gillingham Blackburn Rovers by Our Sports Desk “Maybe two years ago with Oxford United Fleetwood Rochdale Wigan City playing Lyon, Wolfsburg WANTS WHAT’S BEST FOR playing Chelsea, you’d have HIS PLAYERS: Phil Neville League Two PHIL NEVILLE said yesterday probably said: ‘You know what, Morecambe Chesterfield that he wants England’s Lion- they’re both going to go out’,” Stevenage Mansfield esses to dominate Europe under Neville said. Swindon Yeovil his reign and he would love “Do you know what? It Chelsea and Manchester City wouldn’t surprise me if we have Scottish Champ to point the way to glory. an all-England final. Dundee United St Mirren The powerhouse sides from “And that’s what we need Inverness CT Falkirk the Women’s Super League because the WSL is getting Morton Dumbarton are through to the Champions better and better and the best Scottish League Two League semi-finals and face two players are now coming to the Berwick Rangers Stenhousemuir of the continent’s established WSL. They are big games those Cowdenbeath Montrose leading lights later this month. semi-finals and hopefully Manager Neville’s immediate our girls can do themselves All kickoffs 7.45pm unless noted priority is to ensure his Eng- proud.” land team rediscover their scor- A host of players from within ing touch and beat Bosnia and his England camp will line up SPORT ON TV Herzegovina in Zenica tonight. for City and Chelsea in the Friday’s World Cup qualifier semi-finals and Neville will ■ BASEBALL: MLB, Chicago White against Wales in Southampton take a keen interest. Sox v Tampa Bay Rays — BT Sport/ ended in a frustrating goalless He was in Spain last month ESPN 7pm, Boston Red Sox v New draw so nothing less than three to see Lyon edge out Barcelona York Yankees — BT Sport/ESPN points this week will do for in their quarter-final, bolster- 12am (Wed). Neville. ing his rapidly-developing ■ BASKETBALL: NBA, Washington But beyond that the former knowledge of the women’s Wizards v Boston Celtics — BT Sport Manchester United defender game and watching England 1 1am (Wed), Los Angeles Lakers v wants England’s leading domes- stars Toni Duggan and Lucy Houston Rockets — BT Sport 1 3.30am tic sides to prove their growing Bronze in action. Both left (Wed). strength on the biggest stage in Manchester City last summer, ■ COMMONWEALTH GAMES: Further the women’s club game. striker Duggan moving to Bar- coverage from Australia’s Gold Coast So when Chelsea play Ger- celona and right-back Bronze “I was sat with the Barcelona there and my two players are bench against Wales, “has a big — BBC 2 6am and 1pm, BBC 1 9.15am man side Wolfsburg and Man- joining Lyon. women’s president, we had the the best players. future” at international level if and 11.55pm; swimming — Eurosport chester City tackle France’s That game took place at Lyon president there as well. “You say Lyon are like the she continues to impress him. 2 10.30am. ■ CRICKET: Indian Premier League, reigning European champions the Miniestadi, in the shadow And you know what? Their best Harlem Globetrotters of wom- Arsenal striker Mead could Chennai Super Kings v Kolkata Knight Lyon over two legs on April 22 of the Nou Camp, and with a two players are Lucy Bronze en’s football. And my girl’s one land a second cap tonight. Fran Riders — Sky Sports Main Event, Sky and 29, Neville will be willing host of the Barcelona men’s and Toni Duggan,” Neville said. of the best.” Kirby and left-back Demi Stokes Sports Cricket 3pm. the WSL teams to make it an team present along with head “Valverde’s there, half the Neville said Beth Mead, who have missed the trip due to ■ Champions League quarter-final all-English final. coach Ernesto Valverde. Barcelona [men’s] team are made her England debut off the injury and illness respectively. second leg, Manchester City v Liver- pool — BT Sport 2 7pm; Champion- ship, Aston Villa v Cardiff — Sky Sports Main Event 7.30pm; International, ■ MEN’S FOOTBALL Republic of Ireland Women v Neth- erlands Women — eir Sport 1 6.30pm. ■ TENNIS: WTA, Claro Open Colsani- McCall: Old Firm Derby title-decider is a ‘powder-keg’ tas — BT Sport 1 4pm. by Our Sports Desk keen to avoid the title being up potential title party is asking worked at over the years and I TODAY’S TIPS for grabs when the two Glasgow for trouble. think is getting better. giants meet for the final time “I saw Brendan’s comments “But will it ever get to where FORMER Rangers boss Stuart this term at Parkhead. and I get what he’s say- everyone wants it to be? That’ll Farringdon’s Doubles McCall hopes common sense That long-held ing, but, if you look at be a long time coming if we’re BIRDETTE will prevail as he cautioned stance has been the bigger picture, honest. Wolverhampton 5:45 (nap) yesterday against making the in place ever there is no doubt “There’s going to come a AARDWOLF final Old Firm fixture of the since violence it would be a stage when Celtic will win it Hereford 1:40 season a title decider. marred Gers’ powder -keg,” and obviously Celtic would Celtic need just one more 3-0 win said McCall. love to do that against Rang- Houseman’s Choice win to claim their seventh at Celtic “We all saw ers, so it’s a big decision, but I COUNT OCTAVE straight league title. Park back what happened can understand the arguments Wolverhampton 8:15 Hoops manager Brendan in 1999 as HAVE YOUR SAY! the last time against it without a doubt.” Rodgers believes league chiefs Dick Advo- Write (up to 300 words) to Rangers won should give the Scottish game caat’s side [email protected] it at Celtic Park 52 Beachy Rd, Published by the People’s Press MSTAR 2018-04-10 TUE 1.0 a high-profile boost by arrang- reclaimed the or by post: and, if they could Printing Society Ltd, William Rust ing for the Glasgow giants to crown. London E3 2NS avoid it, I think it’d House, 52 Beachy Road, Bow, 1 5 London E3 2NS. Telephone: (020) face off in the first game after As well as the be common sense to 8510-0815. Fax: (020) 8986- the split. league’s broadcast part- do so. 5694. Email: enquiries@peoples- The Scottish Professional ners, Police Scotland will have “Everyone knows up here the press.com. Registered with Companies House as Morning Star Football League are expected to sign off on the post-split massive divide and aggravation (incorporating the Daily Worker) to confirm the final five rounds match-ups, but McCall reckons that comes between Rangers No N5559. Printed by trade union of league action at some point sending Rangers to the home and Celtic. labour at Trinity Mirror. over the next 48 hours but are of their bitter rivals before a “It’s something that has been Tuesday April 10 2018 9 770307 175220