inside: full coverage of the general election results and reaction nationwide

for Peace and Socialism

£1.50 Saturday/Sunday December 14-15 2019 Proudly owned by our readers | Incorporating the Daily Worker | Est 1930 | morningstaronline.co.uk after a brutal nigHt at tHe POllS uniOnS SaY it StraigHt

n FEATURE we lost – so how do we start winning? PAUL O’CONNELL argues that REMAIN despite appearances, the Tories are vulnerable, and the left has opportunities to turn disaster into forward motion again. Turn to page 10

n ALGERIA mass march decries IS OVER ‘sham’ elections FORMER deputy prime minister takes power after disputed polls which were boycotted. Labour’s Brexit fudge a major factor in horror show Turn to page 7 by Bethany Rielly said that Labour “have to learn lessons” said he had hoped other issues “would from their losses. cut through to voters” during the cam- He stressed that this does not mean paign. LABOUR was urged to accept that the party should move away from its But he admitted that this had not it “got it wrong” on Brexit and that readiness to confront capitalism under happened, with the Tories’ simple “Remain has been defeated” yesterday leader Jeremy Corbyn but “it does mean “Get Brexit Done” message overriding following Thursday’s devastating elec- accepting that the battle for Remain Labour’s pledges to save the NHS and tion result. is over.” restore our public services. Over the course of the long and bru- Mr Courtney continued: “Remain Labour went into the election last tal night, dozens of Labour constituen- has been defeated in a referendum month campaigning for a second ref- cies turned blue for the first time in and now it looks like it has been com- erendum on EU membership. decades — most of them Leave-voting. prehensively defeated in a general It came after 25 MPs — many in This included the former mining election. Leave-voting areas — wrote a letter n FEATURE town of Blyth Valley and Workington “The movement needs to move on.” to Mr Corbyn urging him to back a where Labour had held the seat with The results finished rolling in yes- Brexit deal because a second referen- Back to kicking off only one interruption since 1918. terday with the Tories up on 364 seats dum would be “toxic to our bedrock Communications union CWU’s gen- and Labour on 203 — the party’s worst Labour voters.” everywhere again eral secretary Dave Ward said the rea- uniOn CritiC: CWU leader Dave Ward defeat since 1935. On Thursday this appeared to prove sons for the disappointing defeat were Facing calls to step down, Mr Cor- true. Signatories of that letter were ZOLTAN ZIGEDY looks over clear: “Labour got it wrong on Brexit. betrayal and the final straw,” he said. byn announced that he would move also among the MPs to lose their seats, the global wave of street-level “Millions of people who know the Mr Ward’s view was shared by teach- on after giving time for a “period of including Caroline Flint who had stood rebellions which have been economy, the world of work and politics ers’ union NEU joint general secretary reflection” by the party. in Don Valley for over 20 years. taking place this year — and in general isn’t working for them saw Kevin Courtney. Responding to the exit poll result, Turn to page 3 their implications. the move to a second referendum as a Writing in a personal capacity, he shadow chancellor John McDonnell Star Comment: p8 Turn to page 12

PAGE 22 japan: ‘recovery olympics’ isn’t going down well near fukushima Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 2 Saturday/Sunday news morningstaronline December 14-15 2019 @m_star_online n communist partY statement n General election General election PM HAS ‘OVERWHELMING result a defeat for the working class MANDATE’ FOR BREXIT DEVASTATING: Heavy defeat for Labour due to referendum policy, says PM’s senior adviser by our news Desk economic and social policies. He said: “The disunity pro- by lamiat sabin moted by those fanatically pro- THE urgent task now is to build EU elements who manoeuvered mass campaigning movements, the party into a position where it BORIS JOHNSON claimed yes- Communist Party (CP) general was seen by many working-class terday he would heal the divi- secretary Robert Griffiths said electors as a ‘Stop Brexit’ party sions of Brexit after a string of yesterday. also played a major part. Labour strongholds fell to the The CP’s political committee “In this new political situa- Tories. will meet on Monday to assess tion, the CP will be redoubling During a speech outside the threats posed by the outcome its efforts to strengthen the Downing Street, the Prime Min- of the general election. labour movement, including ister said that his majority of In a statement, Mr Griffiths the trade unions, many of which 80 gives him an “overwhelming said: “Undoubtedly, the result played a splendid role during the mandate” to take Britain out of was a defeat for class politics and six-week general-election cam- the EU by the end of January. for Labour’s left and progressive paign. All 650 seats were declared programme. “Now is a time for rebuilding, by the afternoon, showing the “It changes the political land- extending and developing Brit- Conservatives’ strongest elec- scape in England, Scotland and ain’s extra-parliamentary mass tion performance since 1987. Wales. A majority Conservative movements in working-class Labour supporters were left government will now seek to roll communities. In particular, we in shock on Friday, having seen back rights, including the right look forward to working even their pro-Brexit heartlands self-reflection of why they mis- the Liberal Democrats lost one, A sliver of hope could be seen to strike, and to recommence more diligently with and in the turn blue and their pro-Remain understood what was going on while the SNP gained 13 in Scot- in Putney, a historically Tory the ruling-class programme of People’s Assembly Against Aus- vote split with other parties. in the country. land. seat that was taken by Labour. privatisation. terity, the peace and anti-racist Mr Johnson’s controversial “But instead a lot of people Emma Dent Coad, the only Meanwhile, all the MPs who “But equally, despite the hos- movements, the National Assem- chief adviser Dominic Cum- just doubled down on their Labour MP that Kensington switched from both Labour and tility of powerful forces in the bly of Women and the LeFT Cam- mings criticised “educated own ideas and fucked it up has ever had, lost the seat she the Conservatives to the cen- establishment, big business and paign for a People’s Brexit. Remainer campaigner types” even more.” won in the 2017 election to the trist Independent Group for the mass media, millions of peo- “We should also note one who failed to read the mood “MPs need to reflect, the Tories after 18 months in office. Change lost their seats. ple have voted for Labour’s radi- important lesson from the gen- of the country. media needs to reflect and they Lib Dem Sam Gyimah split the Two former Labour MPs cal manifesto. This must now be eral-election result and its main Mr Cummings is credited need to realise that the conver- anti-Tory vote, receiving 9,312 turned Lib Dems – Chuka built upon.” causes — the urgent need in Eng- with organising the Vote Leave sations they have in London are votes in what was described as Umunna and Luciana Berger – Mr Griffiths said there were land, Scotland and Wales for a campaign in the 2016 referen- a million miles away from real- a failure of tactical voting. failed to secure seats in London. a number of factors behind much stronger, more influential dum. ity,” he added. Ms Dent Coad was just 150 Pro-Corbyn independent can- Labour’s defeat, including the CP and a much wider readership He said: “After the shock Results on Friday showed votes away from retaining the didates George Galloway and “relentless state-sponsored and of Britain’s only daily socialist of the referendum, MPs and that Labour lost 59 seats, most constituency ahead of the sec- Chris Williamson both lost media attacks” on Jeremy Cor- paper: the Morning Star.” journalists should have taken notably in ex-mining commu- ond phase of the Grenfell tower their deposits.” byn’s character and on Labour’s [email protected] a deep breath and had a lot of nities in the north of England, inquiry in the new year. [email protected]

n beast of bolsover Sign up to our newsletter and get your daily dose of the Morning Star direct to Dennis skinner loses seat to a tory by lamiat sabin your inbox each morning.

Select ‘newsletters’ from the home page DENNIS SKINNER was one of the highest-profile casualties of the Morning Star website or scan this QR in this week’s general election after he was unseated by a Tory code with your mobile phone and sign up. who worked for a company pro- viding privatised NHS services. In a shock result, the “Beast of Bolsover” – a permanent fixture on the Labour benches for 49 years who rarely missed a Com- mons session – was unseated by Mark Fletcher, the former com- TEL: 020 8802 4855 FAX: 020 8826 5076 munications director for “digital 73 GRAND PARADE, GREEN LANES, HARINGEY, LONDON N4 1DU healthcare company” Synergix. Bolsover was one of many OPEN 7 DAYS A WEEK Leave-voting seats that Labour 9AM — 12 MIDNIGHT lost. Pro-Brexit Mr Skinner (pic- NHS SERVICES PRIVATE PGD SERVICES tured), an ex-miner and staunch • NHS & Private Prescription • ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION socialist, was not present during • Prescription Repeat, Collection SERVICE the campaign or vote count – & Free Delivery • WEIGHT LOSS • Screening Services MANAGEMENT having caught a serious infec- • Free Blood Pressure Monitoring • SERVICE (ORLISTAT/XENICAL) tion after a hip operation. • Free Blood Sugar Monitoring • SMOKING CESSATION During his time as MP he had • Minor Ailment SERVICE (CHAMPIX) refused to accept a parliamen- ing of Parliament and for direct- cocaine and called most Con- • Medicine Usage Review • CYSTITIS TREATMENT tary salary in excess of miners’ ing his sharp tongue towards servative MPs “crooks.” • Emergency Hormonal • PODIATRY/CHIROPODY Contraception • CHOLESTEROL wages and donated his wages the Tory benches. His refusal to retract these • Smoking Cessation MONITORING to the National Union of Mine- He referred to former Tory comments resulted in being • Supervised Administration workers during the 1984-85 min- PM David Cameron as “dodgy temporarily kicked out of the ers’ strike. Dave,” accused former chancel- Commons at least 10 times dur- Ali Gul Ozbek MRpharmS (Eczaci) Mr Skinner was well-known lor George Osborne of being ing his long tenure. Dr. Orhan Eskici Ent Surgeon FRCS (Kulak, Burun, Bogaz Doktoru) for his heckles at the state open- partial to racking up lines of [email protected] morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline news Saturday/Sunday 3 @m_star_online December 14-15 2019

■ POLITICS ■ FRONT PAGE REMAIN IS Corbyn: Labour’s OVER, SAY Brexit policy cost UNION LEADERS

FROM PAGE ONE: Critics of party the election Mr Corbyn attempted to place the blame for by Lamiat Sabin Labour’s defeat squarely at the leader’s feet. But Mr Ward said LABOUR yesterday acknowl- that the party should edged that its huge general “acknowledge that for election losses were down to a variety of reasons the its “neutral” stance on Brexit. party leadership was a A string of Leave-voting factor in this result,” but Labour strongholds fell to the “the truth is, a prolonged Tories for the fi rst time since assault from the media their inception, while Labour’s has assassinated the char- pro-Remain vote in some con- acter of a man who has stituencies was split by the SNP devoted his whole life to and Liberal Democrats. helping others,” he said. The shock results included stand down. Loach said that Mr Corbyn had The union leader added pro-Brexit socialist MP Den- Mr Corbyn added: “This elec- received “torrents of abuse” that the role of trade nis Skinner losing his Bolsover tion was taken over ultimately that were “off -the-scale” com- unions over the next seat, one that he had held for by Brexit and we as a party rep- pared to other Labour leaders fi ve years will be “more 49 years. resent people who voted both to tar him as a racist since day important than ever.” Jeremy Corbyn said he was Remain and Leave. one of his leadership, which A spokesperson from “very sad” over the results and “My whole strategy was to intensifi ed ahead of elections. campaign group Trade that he would not be leading reach out beyond the Brexit Shadow justice secretary Unionists Against the EU Labour into another general divide to try and bring people Richard Burgon also insisted suggested that the Tories election. together, because ultimately that Labour mainly lost over could face challenges He said the general election the country has to come Brexit. from the public after results showing a Conserva- together.” He said: “In 2017 with the pushing through Brexit. tive majority of 80 were “dis- Labour MP Margaret Hodge, same leader and a similar “A Johnson govern- appointing” but that he has who has long accused the manifesto we gained three ment is a Brexit govern- “pride” in the manifesto of party and Mr Corbyn of anti- million votes. What changed? ment, defi ned by Brexit, progressive policies that his semitism, denied that the This became a Brexit election. elected to deliver Brexit; party put forward. defeat was due to Brexit and “Winning back the voters we it has a single purpose: to The Labour leader indicated claimed the result represented lost and rebuilding will require get Brexit done; it has no that he will quit “in the early the rejection of the entire careful analysis. Just as it did other mandate,” it said. part of next year” after a “proc- socialist project under Mr Cor- when we lost fi ve million votes “It legitimacy ceases ess of refl ection” as he came byn and his popularity ratings. from 1997-2010 by backing aus- once we leave the EU.” under pressure from some On the BBC Election pro- terity and war.” [email protected] Labour MPs to immediately gramme, fi lmmaker Ken [email protected]

■ FAR-RIGHT RESURGENCE ■ EQUALITY join the Communist Party I would like to join the Communist Party Tommy Robinson joins the Three seats Please add me to your mailing list in four had Name Address Tories after election victory no women  Phone Postcode by Marcus Barnett candidates Email Age if under 30

FAR-RIGHT businessman A RECORD of 220 female MPs Return to: * CP, Ruskin House, 23 Coombe Rd, London CR0 1BD
(020) 8686-1659 8 offi [email protected] Stephen Yaxley-Lennon – infa- were elected to the House of mous as “Tommy Robinson” Commons as the general-elec- – has announced that he has tion results arrived into the joined the Conservative Party early hours of yesterday. following its general election The previous record was in Marx’s Das Kapital and victory. 2017, when 208 were elected. In a message to his subscribers Women accounted for 34 per on Telegram, an online messag- cent of all candidates this year, ing service popular with the far up from 29 per cent in the 2017 capitalism today right, Mr Yaxley-Lennon wrote: Defence League, an anti-Islam to have Brexit, so yeah, go Boris!” snap election. “OK, I have just joined the Con- street organisation, and was In the same interview, he said But more than a tenth of con- by CPB general secretary servative Party. also an adviser to Ukip’s Gerard he was “so happy” at Brexit Party stituencies had no female candi- “Good work everyone that Batten when the latter led the leader Nigel Farage’s campaign- dates, with 75 seats dominated Rob Griffi ths went out and voted for the Con- hard-right party. ing for Britain’s withdrawal by the opposite sex. servatives today. He was a supporter of Mr from the EU, adding: “He should Labour was the only party 2nd edition with an even “We have just thwarted our Johnson throughout the elec- attack the Labour heartlands.” with equal, or better-than-equal clearer vision of what country becoming a socialist tion campaign. The Tories were backed by representation for women, with dump.” Speaking in November outside other far-right fi gures, such as more than half of its candidates Marx’s seminal work The anti-Islam activist has the High Court, where he was anti-Islam commentator Katie being female. tells us about our world also praised Prime Minister awaiting a trial for libelling a Hopkins and the Britain First Boris Johnson’s adviser Dominic Syrian child refugee, Mr Yaxley- group, which is known for its HAVE YOUR SAY Star review: mstar.link/CapitalismToday Cummings, telling him: “Your Lennon said: “Everyone should uniformed marches and “direct Write (up to 300 words) to country salutes you.” vote for Boris Johnson. action” attacks on halal butch- [email protected] or Mr Yaxley-Lennon was a “If we want Brexit … if we ers’ shops. Just £10 plus p&p 52 Beachy Rd, London E3 2NS founder member of the English believe in democracy, we have [email protected] (020) 8510-0815 shop.morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 4 Saturday/Sunday news morningstaronline December 14-15 2019 @m_star_online

■ LIBERAL DEMOCRATS Jo Swinson steps down after losing seat to the SNP

by Niall Christie “I am proud that in this cam- paign, the Liberal Democrats have stood up for openness, gen- LIBERAL DEMOCRAT leader Jo erosity and hope. We were hon- Swinson has been forced to step est about what we believe in and down from her role after losing what we were trying to achieve.” her seat in a shock defeat in the Meanwhile, Ms Callaghan told general election. BBC Scotland she was “delighted” The former coalition minister to have unseated the Liberal lost out in a close fi ght in East Democrat leader - who at the Dunbartonshire to the SNP’s Amy start of the election campaign Callaghan, who said her local had declared she was running campaign got her over the line. to be the next prime minister. Early on election night sug- The new MP said: “It’s quite a gestions began to emerge that momentous achievement, both the SNP could take a prominent for me personally but also in scalp. In the end, they took the terms of the people of East Dun- seat by just 149 votes. bartonshire, completely rejecting Just hours later, Sir Ed Davey the politics of austerity and also and Baroness Sal Brintonacting giving the people a chance to were announced as acting Lid- choose their own future, I think Dem co-leaders, with Ms Swin- that is incredibly important.” son maintaining she was proud Across Scotland, the Liberal of her party’s eff orts. Democrats remain on four She added: “Tonight’s result is seats, gaining North East Fife obviously disappointing, in East from the SNP, and holding Dunbartonshire, and across the elsewhere with an increased whole country with Boris John- overall vote share. son winning a majority. [email protected]

■ SCOTLAND ■ SCOTLAND Fife win by suspended ex-SNP candidate A NATIONALIST candidate FORCED TO A large number of SNP who was suspended by the INTERVENE: activists continued to sup- WIPEOUT LINKED TO SNP following a row over Nicola Sturgeon port Mr Hanvey following anti-semitic social media his suspension, including a posts has won a seat in Fife. member of the party’s com- Neale Hanvey will initially plaints committee who has sit as an independent MP for since stood down. Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath First Minister Nicola Stur- ‘DOUBLE SQUEEZE’ following his victory over geon was forced to inter- Labour’s shadow Scottish vene, urging SNP members secretary Lesley Laird. in the area to campaign in He won with 16,568 votes which will decide his party neighbouring constituen- to his Labour opponent’s membership. cies. OF NATIONALISM 15,325. But as his suspension came Ms Laird claimed Mr Mr Hanvey, who apolo- too late for a candidate change, Hanvey continued to use SNP LABOUR LOSSES: Ian Murray now sole party member north of border gised over the alleged use he was listed as an SNP can- branding in his campaign, of an anti-semitic trope, is didate and was announced as despite being dropped as a by Niall Christie ference to people’s lives. Matt Kerr, who was contest- awaiting an investigation such at the count. candidate. “I think there is no doubt we ing Glasgow South West con- said we wanted to get through stituency, said a concentration LABOUR has been all but wiped the din of Brexit and the con- on constitutional questions out in Scotland after a disas- stitutional issue in Scotland from other parties muddied trous election result for the and I just don’t think we were the waters of class politics. Glasgow Morning Star party north of tthe border. able to do that suffi ciently and Mr Kerr added: “I’m disap- Shadow Scottish secretary eff ectively enough.” pointed for the people who are Campaign Committee Lesley Laird was among six Mr Leonard said his party is going to wake up to a Tory gov- Labour casualties, with Ian “going to need to have a look at ernment that will continue to Murray in Edinburgh South what we said about Brexit, what make the poor poorer and the now the party’s sole representa- we said about the whole consti- rich richer — it is devastating. Grand Christmas Bazaar tive in Westminster. tutional question in Scotland.” “Labour are about class poli- Scottish Labour leader Rich- He added: “I don’t think it tics. Unfortunately, right now with tearoom, tombola, big wheel, ard Leonard was in North Lan- is so simple as to say if only nationalism is in the ascend- crafts, books, toys and games, Xmas arkshire during the election we had an absolutely cast-iron ancy. That is not ground that count, where Labour had hoped message, that would have made people with class-based politics gifts and more! to win as many as three seats. all of the diff erence. feel comfortable on. Speaking following the “Because parties that have “Our challenge is to build Saturday December 14, Noon to 3pm result, Mr Leonard said: stood in this election with what class politics from the ground “These are deeply disappoint- people described as clear, cast- up, and that will take time. It The Annexe, Stewartville St, ing results.” iron, absolutist positions have will take community work, Partick, G11 5PE “More than that I am sorry also been swept aside by the political education and chap- for all those kids in all those SNP juggernaut.” ping doors. Admission just 50p, includes a £25 cash draw families who are going to live Many Labour politicians have “We are in this for the long- for another fi ve years in pov- said they were “squeezed by haul. They don’t call it the erty when we had a chance in two kinds of nationalism” in struggle for nothing.” this election to make a real dif- Scotland and across Britain. [email protected] morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline news Saturday/Sunday 5 @m_star_online December 14-15 2019

■ TORY ATTACKS ■ ELECTION Tories more Trade unions than double seats held and social in Wales WALES was yet another region devastated by the dominance campaigns of Tory votes in this week’s general election, with several Labour seats ripped apart by the Brexit chaos. ‘will resist’ The Conservatives more than doubled the number of seats won, up from six during the by Bethany Rielly anti-racist campaigners held a last election to 14. “Not my Prime Minister” pro- This included Wrexham, a test outside Downing Street traditional Labour stronghold CAMPAIGNERS vowed yes- yesterday evening. since the 1930s. terday to fi ght tooth and nail “We must now prepare to However, Labour remains against Tory attacks on Britain’s build a movement against a the highest seat holder with public services, the welfare Prime Minister who has used 22 out of 40. state and workers’ and women’s racist and dehumanising lan- Plaid Cymru held onto its rights. guage to describe Muslim, Afri- four seats while the Lib Dems The chorus of resistance can and Caribbean communi- lost their only seat, Brecon and came as the country plunged ties and the racism that will Radnorshire, while the Brexit into another fi ve years of bru- almost certainly accompany Party failed to win a single seat. tal Conservative rule yester- the forthcoming attacks on Wales voted by 52.5 per cent day with the party winning a living standards for working to Leave the European Union in majority of 361 seats to Labour’s people,” Stand Up to Racism 2016, yet the country’s Labour 203. co-convener Sabby Dhalu said. THREATS: Labour’s candidate in North-West government backed Labour’s Hands Off our NHS vowed Hashtags #notmygovern- Norfolk came home to fi nd graffi ti from the UK-wide call for a second refer- to continue their campaign ment and #notmyPM were extremist Jewish Defence League on her home. The endum and went further when against privatisation plans of trending on Twitter yesterday far-right racialist group often targets Palestinians or First Minister Mark Drakeford the health service in future with users rejecting Mr John- those it considers as showing solidarity with them said he would campaign to trade deals with the US. son as their representative. and is classifi ed as a terrorist organisation by the FBI Remain in any such vote. The group’s co-chair Dr Trade unionists highlighted Tony O’Sullivan said: “We now the importance for all workers resolve to continue to cam- to join a union, with the TUC’s paign, lobby and fi ght to ensure Frances O’Grady warning: “Now that our voice is heard and our more than ever, working people ■ INDUSTRIAL demands are met to fund the need to stand together in their NHS fully and to return the unions and get ready to fi ght to NHS to 100 per cent public protect our livelihoods and our duty and provision as soon as communities.” SWR strike to save guards resumes possible.” Communication union Abortion Rights chair Kerry CWU’s leader Dave Ward by Marcus Barnett don and south-west England. “SWR are making this dis- Abel warned that the new gov- shared Ms O’Grady’s call but In a message to members, pute about the doors and if we ernment poses risks to women’s also stressed that the TUC itself Mr Cash off ered his congratu- accept their optimal method right to choose. must also “step up like never A MONTH-LONG strike to lations for their “magnifi cent of operation, the company will “There’s no doubt, if we more” to protect jobs and work- defend the role of the guard on show of solidarity” during the eradicate the role of the guard don’t see a signifi cant step [for] ers’ rights. South Western Railway (SWR) dispute, which began earlier and extend ‘driver open, driver change, our reproductive rights The unions are up against Mr services started up again yes- this month. close’.” are under threat,” Ms Abel said, Johnson’s promise to ban all- terday after a 24-hour break. “The industrial action taken Mr Cash added that the RMT highlighting that the Tories out rail strikes and negotiations Rail workers belonging to to date has been solidly sup- was willing to talk about “the have remained suspiciously with the US which could see the RMT union have resumed that the union will be balloting ported and proves how deter- best ways we can improve and silent on the issue of abortion. privatisation extended in the their strike and are demand- the members for a sixth round mined our members are to provide a safe and accessible The Peace Pledge Union also NHS and US companies allowed ing that SWR management of strike action. defend the role of the guard railway system for our mem- chimed in, promising “con- to raise medicine prices. The abandon any commitment to Talks between company and stand against SWR plans bers and the travelling public.” tinuous resistance” against GMB warned that Mr Johnson’s driver-only operations (DOO) management and workers at to extend DOO,” he said. The union has stressed that Mr Johnson’s plans to end Brexit deal would be damaging on their trains. conciliation body Acas fell “This dispute is and always it is available for negotiations trials for veterans accused of for workers. The union’s general secre- apart a fortnight ago, leading has been about DOO and the to bring the dispute to a close. human rights violations, while [email protected] tary Mick Cash also announced to large picket lines across Lon- role of the guard. [email protected]

■ MEDIA John Mann threatens Canary with probe AN INDEPENDENT adviser for manufacturing claims to the government launched that Labour’s Jeremy Corbyn an attack on the Canary and risked “a hard Brexit and other news websites yester- fi ve more years of Johnson.” day, blaming them for the A user responded to Ms growth of anti-semitism. Mendoza’s comment by accus- John Mann tweeted that ing her of spreading racially he will be instigating an charged conspiracy theories investigation this January, about Jews, which brought it setting a disturbing prec- to Mr Mann’s attention. edent against the freedom Jewish Voice for Labour of left-wing media. said it was “disturbing” The former Labour MP’s that the fi rst act of the new tweet included an attach- government was to “attack ment of a post by Canary opposition media.” editor-in-chief Kerry-Anne The group described the Mendoza calling out Guard- move on its Facebook page ian columnist Jonathan as “the characteristic act of NEW PROBE: John Mann Freedland, who is Jewish, all authoritarian regimes.” Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 6 Saturday/Sunday world morningstaronline December 14-15 2019 @m_star_online

n UNITED NATIONS Greece continues to violate rights of prison inmates

by Our Foreign Desk interpreters and legal help, and reports that migrants trying to cross the Turkish A GROUP of United Nations border into Greece had been experts on arbitrary deten- arbitrarily pushed back. tion said yesterday that Greek prisons have suf- Greece was still in violation fered from overcrowding for of certain international obli- years, but a recent change gations on how and where to the penal code reduc- people are imprisoned. ing the length of custodial The UN working group sentences and encouraging on arbitrary detention the use of alternatives such presented a preliminary as community service “are report following visits to 20 positive steps forward,” the detention facilities across group said. the country this month. However, the experts It noted several areas of added that “there is still concern involving both the considerable scope for their criminal justice system and implementation,” noting migration. that the conditions in pris- A final report will be be ons and police cells “do not issued in several months. generally meet international The group, which visited standards.” Greece following an invita- The preliminary findings tion by the six-month-old criticised the widespread government, said Greek use of pre-trial detention. ministers had given unre- The report also said that stricted access to facilities holding people awaiting and full co-operation from trial together with convicts Greek officials. runs contrary to the Inter- The group’s concerns national Covenant on Civil included prison overcrowd- and Political Rights and was ing, the non-segregation “contrary to the presump- of suspects held in pre- tion of innocence that all trial detention from those persons are entitled to prior already convicted, the to conviction.” access of asylum-seekers to [email protected] n NORTHERN IRELAND Nationalists score first ever majority in Westminster poll

IRISH unity moved a step closer to reality yesterday after nationalists in the north of Ireland won a majority of the six counties’ n YEMEN WAR Commons seats for the first time since partition in 1921. Sinn Fein president Mary Lou McDonald said: “We NGOs press for prosecution are heading towards a bor- der poll. I can’t give you a definitive date, but we need to do the spade work now of Saudis’ arms suppliers and prepare ourselves.” Her party held seven of its LOSER: The DUP’s Nigel Dodds seats, while the Social Demo- by Our Foreign Desk They ask the ICC “to inves- “everybody involved in sell- led to worldwide condemnation cratic Labour Party won two DUP deputy leader Nigel tigate whether high-ranking ing weapons to Saudi Arabia/ and accusations of war crimes, seats. The results put parties Dodds lost his Belfast North officials, from both European UAE-led Coalition bears some with infrastructure, including favouring Irish unity ahead seat to Sinn Fein’s John Finu- THE International Criminal companies and governments, responsibility for how those schools and hospitals, targeted of the Democratic Unionist cane in one of the most cel- Court has been asked to con- could bear criminal responsi- weapons are used.” by coalition missiles. Party (DUP), which fell from ebrated results of the night. sider prosecuting European bility for supplying arms used Yemen has been subjected It is alleged that in Septem- 10 seats to eight. Irish Taoseach Leo Var- business and government offi- by members of the Saudi Ara- to more than four years of ber 2016 “US-made white phos- Ms McDonald added: “We adker warned against any cials for supplying arms used bia/UAE-led Coalition in poten- Western-backed bombing from phorus munitions” were used need to, in an orderly fash- move towards a united Ire- in alleged Saudia war crimes tial war crimes in Yemen.” a Saudi-led coalition aiming to during the bombing campaign, ion, structure the conversa- land yesterday, claiming in Yemen. Amnesty International, one restore the country’s ousted which the Saudis denied. tion about a new Ireland that the priority must be The European Centre for of the six NGOs, said the open- president Abed Rabbo Man- The US, British and French and constitutional change. I to get the Northern Ireland Constitutional and Human ing of investigations would be sour Hadi. governments have continued don’t think unionism should Assembly functioning again. Rights (ECCHR) is one of six a “historic step towards hold- He was forced out after a to sell arms to Saudi Arabia, be alarmed or frightened — If Stormont remains non-government organisa- ing arms company executives popular uprising over politi- despite being warned they are this is a huge opportunity suspended, fresh assembly tions that have submitted a accountable for their business cal and economic grievances used against Yemeni civilians. for everybody who lives on elections will take place by 300-page file to the ICC pros- decisions.” led by Houthi rebels. British and US military per- this island.” January 13. ecutor’s office. A spokesman warned that The military intervention sonnel have been deployed to morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline world Saturday/Sunday 7 @m_star_online December 14-15 2019

n algeria iNDia: Protesters in Gauhati (main picture) and New Delhi (below right) voice their opposition to the government’s sectarian Citizenship Amendment Bill yesterday, while THOUSANDS MARCH TO CONDEMN (below left) army vehicles stand parked behind a bus torched by demonstrators in Gauhati ‘SHAM’ PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION stitch-up: Former prime minister secures top job in poll boycotted by opposition groups who said they weren’t fair

by Steve Sweeney known as an anti-government bastion. Private TV station En Nahar THOUSANDS took to the streets and TSA online news put Mr across Algeria yesterday as Tebboune ahead on 64 per cent opposition groups vowed to of the vote, but there was no continue the fight for “a second official response. revolution” after the disputed He was considered the presidential elections. favourite due to his close ties Former Prime Minister to the powerful head of Alge- Abdelmadjid Tebboune was ria’s armed forces Gaid al Salah. elected in a poll that was boy- Algeria has been rocked by cotted by the opposition groups a growing protest movement who deemed the vote a sham. known as the Hirak, with oppo- All five candidates were asso- sition forces seeking to remove ciated to the corrupt former all of those associated with the regime of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Bouteflika regime. who was ousted in April after In a bid to quell the move- 20 years in power. ment, Mr Salah led an anti- On polling day thousands corruption campaign from took to the streets in the capi- which he said nobody would tal Algiers while protesters be protected, no matter how forced voting stations to close high-profile they were. in Bouira and the Berber region It has seen leading figures of Tizi Ouzou, where police from the regime jailed, includ- used teargas to disperse the ing Said Bouteflika, the presi- crowds. dent’s younger brother and Nine million Algerians were chief counsellor, who was sen- reJectiON: Demonstrators on believed to have taken part in tenced to 15 years in prison in the streets of Algiers yesterday the poll, with election authori- September for “plotting against ties stating that turnout was 41 the state.” Opposition leaders, including per cent, compared with 52 per But protesters have also revolutionary civil-war leader cent in 2014, the last election demanded the resignation of Lakhdar Bouregaa, have been under Mr Bouteflika. Mr Salah, seeing him as part of jailed, with Gen Salah accused But many boycotted the the system. The army chief has of “leading a counterrevolution.” vote, deeming the elections led a clampdown on opposition Protestors insisted the move- corrupt and designed to keep leaders, targeting the country’s ment will continue. the former regime in power. Berber minority. Riad Mekersi said: “We have Video footage from Jijel, in Many have been jailed for toppled Bouteflika, and we will Kabyle, showed people voting displaying the Amazigh flag, topple all the system’s men. We “as expected,” placing their which has been banned in won’t give up.” votes in a garbage can. Kabyle is public by Gen Salah. [email protected]

n weSt africa n turkey isis admits Niger attack US resolution on Armenian that left 71 soldiers dead ISLAMIC State (Isis) has Katambe claimed that “a claimed responsibility for an large number of terrorists” genocide infuriates Ankara provide tactical support for the attack on a military base in had been “neutralised” fol- bombing missions. Niger that killed at least 71 lowing a “fierce battle” with by Steve Sweeney of [the] genocide industry” but yer Raphael Lemkin in response In Britain, the government soldiers earlier this week. several hundred jihadist it uses history as a means of the to the atrocities perpetrated went to court to ensure it could The jihadists said in a fighters. policy based on lies. against the Armenians. continue the deadly trade, statement on Thursday The security situation is TURKEY condemned the US “It is of a nature that will It took until 1946 for the despite being advised by three night that its fighters held said to be deteriorating as Senate recognition of the Arme- prevent the normalisation of United Nations to officially influential parliamentary com- the camp for several hours Isis and al-Qaida attacks nian genocide yesterday, warn- Turkish-Armenian relations,” recognise the term, which was mittees to halt arms sales pend- before seizing weapons and increase, despite the pres- ing that the move “poisons the he said, condemning the move finally adopted after the 1948 ing war crimes investigations. ammunition along with 16 ence of international forces. climate of Turkish-American as irresponsible – blaming a so- Genocide Convention. As many as 200,000 people are vehicles. Around 100 Malian troops relations,” as the government called “genocide economy” run The Armenian genocide was estimated to have been killed in The attack near the have been killed since continued to deny the century- by Armenian fanatics. used by Hitler as a blueprint for the four-year campaign. border with Mali was the September, forcing them to old atrocities. Turkey has consistently the Holocaust and extermina- Much-needed aid and medi- deadliest in the region for retreat from the border area. Ruling Justice and Develop- denied the events of 1915 in tion of the Jewish people. cal supplies were stopped number of years. A three-month extension ment Party (AKP) spokesman which between 1.5 and 1.9 mil- In a speech to nazi generals from entering Yemen during a Niger’s military said 12 to a state of emergency that Omer Celik warned: “We do lion men, women and children ahead of an offensive against blockade of the strategic port other soldiers were wounded has been in force for two not accept by any means and were systematically extermi- Poland, he urged them to “kill of Hodeidah. in Tuesday’s attack, which years was granted earlier strongly condemn the US Sen- nated by the Ottoman state. without mercy men, women As much as 80 per cent of the was followed by the govern- this week. Niger’s army ate resolution which is based It claims that the events were and children of the Polish race population relies on humanitar- ment declaring three days of is struggling to halt the on false claims on the events “a tragedy” in which both sides or language. ian aid. Yemen stands on the mourning. growth and influence of that took place in 1915 in the suffered casualties. But evidence “Only in such a way will we brink of the worst famine in a Defence Minister Issoufou jihadist groups. Ottoman state, and which poi- of the mass killing of Armeni- win the lebensraum that we century, with the United Nations sons the climate of Turkish- ans, branded “a dangerous fifth need. Who, after all, speaks estimating that 14 million peo- (020) 8525-6995 American relations.” column,” is overwhelming. today of the annihilation of ple are at risk of starvation. advertise here [email protected] He said the passing of the res- The term genocide was first the Armenians?” [email protected] olution may please “the lobby used in 1933 by the Polish law- [email protected] Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 8 December 14-15 2019 features @m_star_online Star comment Labour is taught Making sense of a shattering defeat a class lesson AS SOON as the scale of Labour’s shattering defeat transport, water and utilities and a tougher stance began to emerge on Thursday night, pundits began on corporations. to push the line that this was not just about Brexit Canvassers confirm that Labour’s policies were In the aftermath of Labour’s defeat but about Jeremy Corbyn, and more broadly the popular — the problem is that few voters trusted Labour Party’s significant shift towards socialism the party to deliver them. BILL GREENSHIELDS under his leadership. That lack of trust was inextricably connected to explains why No election is just about one issue — but the the party’s position on Brexit. evidence backs up the argument strongly made by Twinned with that narrative is the idea that Cor- it happened, cautions against rushed Labour MPs like Ian Lavery and Richard Burgon byn personally lost the election. There are reports that Brexit was the defining factor. of hostility to Corbyn on the doorstep, though most Labour’s collapse was overwhelmingly in Leave- canvassers report Brexit as a far bigger problem. judgements and shows the way forward voting areas: the Midlands, Wales and northern Eng- The idea that four years of character assassina- land. The dynamics in Scotland were different, and tion by the print and broadcast media, bombarding N the day following the general Not unnaturally people with a deep dis- equally disappointing, but it is a fact that Labour’s an unusually honest, principled, courageous, kind election dominated by the Brexit trust of manifestos, platforms and of all collapse there happened at the 2015 election — this and sharp — for Corbyn was consistently more issue, there are those on the left politicians and parties — born out of bitter week’s result marked a failure to recover more than alert to the risks of Labour’s Remain drift than his Owho will be seen as again saying experience over many decades, and reflect- a sudden reverse. colleagues — politician with smears and slanders to working class people: “You’re ing the experience of the working class since Political has-beens like Alan Johnson, loudly almost every day, could be connected to a lack of too stupid to know what you’re doing” — just they fought and won the vote — were not demanding that Corbyn take responsibility for the personal popularity was sneeringly dismissed by BBC as we were told following the EU referendum. convinced that the transformative promises defeat and hasten his departure, cannot be allowed attack dog Andrew Neil. “Is that the best you can do, It seems almost designed to alienate anti-EU of the Labour manifesto would be delivered. to obscure the central fact: Labour was perceived as the media?” he jeered at Burgon on election night. working class people from left organisations The Corbyn phenomenon of an honest a Remain party, going into the election promising But it was connected, and it was reinforced by the Look at it like this. politician is very new, and not recognised a second referendum and with many of its shadow disgraceful connivance in those attacks by many In the European Union elections in May the by most voters. They assume all mainstream cabinet promoting an unambiguous Remain mes- MPs, whose personal contact with Corbyn meant Brexit Party won the most votes in Britain politicians are liars and tricksters. sage over months and months. they knew the accusations they threw at him were and became the largest single national party The backstabbing and smears of the Labour Labour had various reasons, some good, some untrue. in the European Parliament. Does this show right, the scare stories and sustained venom bad, to oppose Brexit deals put to Parliament by the MPs who have spent the years since 2015 attack- that working-class people “supported” the of the media against Corbyn, the ganging Theresa May and Boris Johnson governments, but ing Corbyn have a greater responsibility than he Brexit Party? If they supported it then, why up of the religious leaders to put their holy the impression these parliamentary antics gave the for Thursday’s disaster. did they dump it yesterday in the general boots in, the Tory lies about the impossibility public — not inaccurately — was of a party seeking And the attacks were inspired by Labour’s social- election, in favour of the Tories? of a socialist economy and cries of “where’s to frustrate Brexit entirely. ist policies. Those imagining that Labour would They voted for the Brexit Party in the EU the money coming from?” and the threats by Labour was warned that this approach would be have benefited from a different leader are kidding elections because they saw it as the best vehi- the exploitative filthy rich to leave the coun- disastrous in the two-thirds of British constituen- themselves. cle to achieve what they wanted, what had try in event of a Labour win (because they cies that voted to Leave the EU in 2016; tragically, The full-throated war waged by the British Estab- already been voted for in the referendum. recognised where the money was to come some of those who sounded that warning are among lishment against the prospect of change will be To get Britain out of the EU, they voted from!) — all these added to people’s lack of MPs who lost their seats in Thursday’s terrible rout, waged against any and every politician who genu- for the most unequivocal “Leave” Party. If confidence in Labour to deliver. and include some of the most impressive socialists inely offers it. they weren’t persuaded to boycott the EU Better then, many thought, to focus on in the country — Laura Pidcock, Dennis Skinner, The right are pushing for a rapid leadership con- election, it was a rational thing to do. They the one issue where there was some sort of Laura Smith. test in a bid to take advantage of panic and despond- used rather than supported the Brexit Party. guarantee — “Get Brexit done.” Journalists determined to pin the blame on Cor- ency on the left as a result of the shocking defeat. Then six months later they dumped it in the To contemptuously brush all this aside byn (backed up by long-term enemies of the leader general election. It was no longer as useful and to condemn these people as stupid will like Alastair Campbell, who was heavily involved a tool as the Tories, which seemed to offer only confirm how out of touch “the left” is in campaigns to drive Labour towards a Remain a more reliable, direct and speedy route out with working-class people — as is the pro-EU position) ignore the fact that Labour’s leader was Corbyn’s decision to step down may have been of the EU. policy of the Labour Party. the first to call for Article 50 to be triggered after inevitable, but the left must resist all calls for the The voters did not and do not “sup- Of course no Tory PM is “our PM.” They the referendum result in 2016, and long resisted process to be sped up. port” either of these parties — they simply never have been, and never will be — but the efforts to trap his party in a Remain box. Had A period of reflection is essential if the party is attempted to use each of them at different this one has been chosen as a best-bet vehi- Labour paid more attention to its leader, it might to learn the right lessons from defeat. times to achieve an end which was being cle to get Britain out of the EU — because not have suffered such devastating losses this week. Already there are those claiming, in the face of denied them undemocratically. Labour refused to! The damage this choice overwhelming evidence, that Labour should adopt Many people clearly wanted to take “first will cause is huge, but it is easy to see where an even more pro-EU stance. things first” – they were and are determined it came from. Such a development would all but kill the party to “get Brexit done” – and would use any party Could Brexit alone deliver such a catastrophe for outside London and also act as proxy for abandoning that promised this to achieve it. And there ow we have to develop deep Labour? Its real impact rests on what it came to the radical socialist policies the party has developed was Boris Johnson apparently staking his defence against the Tories, stand for. Communities abandoned and betrayed since 2015, which remain both popular and essential. whole political career on one promise – “to against what will be a ramping by successive governments, Tory and Labour, since The social and environmental crisis will not go get it done.” From the day the Labour confer- Nup of privatisation, more poverty, the 1980s were right to feel disenfranchised by the away because we failed to elect a Parliament pre- ence forced the leadership to allow Labour to a growing wealth gap, further long Thatcherite domination of both main political pared to do anything about it. be identified as a Remain party, it had very precarious work, more economic and politi- parties from the 1990s to 2015. The left needs to keep its head. Labour’s 10.3 little chance of winning the general election. cal attacks on the working class — includ- Labour’s loss of five million votes in the Blair years million votes were more than the party received Anyone who did serious campaigning will ing of course further anti-union legislation showed how long this loss of trust in the party has in 2005, 2010 or 2015, though far less than in 2017. know – as was quite widely acknowledged in and action. been building. Its vote share was higher than in 2010. This can- the news coverage last night – that Labour We need to work against the exploitative The Brexit vote was above all a vote against the not mask how comprehensively it has been beaten, policies against austerity and for public serv- neoliberal trade deals with the EU and US. Establishment, against the status quo, and it was but it is important because it can inform strategies ices, jobs and public ownership were very We need to build a broad alliance against a simple, two-option question with a very clear to resist the savage attacks on working-class people popular – and indeed millions of people the monopoly corporations that pull the poli- answer. we know will be in the pipeline now Boris Johnson enthusiastically voted for the radical and ticians’ strings, and against their interna- The refusal of the political class to accept that has a large parliamentary majority. transformative “for the many” manifesto. tional economic and political organisations. answer was clearly the final straw, and engendered A mass membership Labour Party will be a huge But we failed to establish these vital issues We need to attack “divide and rule” on the bizarre illusion that an Eton-educated Tory offer- part of that resistance, as will many on the revolu- as priorities – and achievable ones – in enough race, sex and all other issues, and as well as ing more of the same policies we have seen for a tionary left and the trade unions. people’s minds. working-class unity here, we need interna- decade was the “anti-Establishment” candidate. Its growth and its clear socialist message are sig- tional unity with workers worldwide fighting There is a strong risk, with swathes of tradition- nificant achievements for which Corbyn’s leadership the same things. ally Labour constituencies going blue, that England deserves immense credit. We need to rebuild confidence that social- and Wales could move towards a “culture war” poli- We head into the winter with soaring home- ism can be achieved — and that it is working- tics akin to that of the United States. lessness, rising child poverty, underfunded public class people themselves who can “get it done.” The eclipse of class politics by the identities of services threatened with further fragmentation We need to make these issues the real, nationalism and unionism in Scotland is a step along and privatisation. practical issues of the day and for this we that road, though the support for genuine social Britain is a country of hungry children and cold, “ need a mass movement of resistance by the and economic change among many independence- isolated pensioners. It has a government which mar- people in workplaces and unions, in com- backing Scots should not be underestimated even ginalises and abuses disabled people, scapegoats and Now we have to munities and political and social organisa- if it is not reflected in SNP policy. mistreats refugees. tions. Such unity will not be built through That risk must be headed off by a rejection of the These people need solidarity and practical help. develop deep defence recriminations about the election, or by left- false narrative that Labour lost because its manifesto Community organising is our first responsibility, ist demonstrations, but by day-to-day agitat- was too far to the left. and may lay the groundwork for building a more against the Tories ing, educating and organising… as it has Big majorities support nationalisation of public resilient and stronger left. been right through history. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online features December 14-15 2019 9 Beware narratives of loss

GAWAIN LITTLE looks in detail at the different aspects of Labour’s electoral defeat

n Thursday erendum to eventually calling night, Labour for a second vote would cost the suffered a party dearly. They were proved stunning elec- right and, in a cruel twist of tion defeat, fate, many of them lost their TIME FOR O REFLECTION: losing seats in seats as a result. its traditional heartlands and The blame for this lies Labour leader handing a substantial majority squarely with the liberal-right Jeremy Corbyn to a hard-right Tory govern- of the party, who forced the left arriving for the ment. leadership, against their will, count at Sobell Cue the multitude of voices to adopt a stance closer and Leisure Centre clamouring for Jeremy Corbyn closer to Remain, culminat- to resign, holding him solely ing in the conference motion responsible for the result, call- which tied Labour to a second ing for a shift to the back to the referendum, and yet these are “centre ground” (for which read the very people now calling for the dominant narrative that Jeremy’s head. At the time, Jer- only neoliberal market solu- emy and the left were criticised tions and mass privatisations for being unwilling to adopt a can gain any traction with the Remain policy, for being out of electorate) and for a new leader step with the membership; now from the liberal-right Remain they are being blamed for the wing of the party. results of that policy. The problem with this analy- This is not an accident, or sis is that the facts of the elec- merely a move to shift the tion simply don’t support what blame for a misguided policy. effectively amounts to a call for It is a deliberate attempt to use more self-harm by the Labour the crisis to reverse Labour’s Party. shift to the left, to undermine Labour’s defeat was funda- the radical programme put for- mentally about Brexit – and ward at this election. if you don’t believe me, just It should be clear to all that look at the seats Labour lost the overt aim of the Remain and the marginals it failed to gain in the Midlands, in Wales, in northern England. And for campaign, led by Alastair civil servants, Labour MPs and democracy for the rich – and fear, it’s you!” We must prove anyone arguing that there was Campbell and other remnants Labour Party staff, and constant establish democracy for the that correct by defending the a drop in the Labour vote in of Blair’s cronies, is a dead end, newspaper smears, including poor, that is, make the bless- leftward shift in Labour and Remain-supporting constituen- but it must not be allowed to false accusations that Corbyn ings of democracy really acces- ensuring that any leadership cies as well, albeit a less pro- succeed in its other objective condones anti-semitism and/or sible to the workers.” transition is a managed proc- nounced one, yes, there are “ – to smash the Labour left and supports terrorism. So what conclusions can we ess of succession, not a lurch Leave voters in these constitu- return Labour to the centre- Yet the scale of media draw for the future? to the right. encies too! The sustained right policies of New Labour. manipulation and lies in the Firstly, the immediate battle Finally, we need to recognise The fact is that working-class However, Brexit was clearly few weeks of the 2019 election within the Labour Party will that the electoral arena is only Leave voters (by no means all attacks the party not the only factor in this elec- has been unprecedented, from be the battle to retain Labour’s one part of the class struggle. of the working class, as many tion. From the moment Corbyn false websites and social media transformative manifesto, Engaging with working-class also voted remain in 2016, but faced from the became leader, every element accounts spreading deliberate which provides an alterna- communities to build a trans- a significant section none the of the state, the media, and the falsehoods to multiple cases of tive to the rule of the market formative programme is not less) felt entirely ignored and entire political edifice has been prime-time news footage being and puts society before profit, something that should simply betrayed by Labour’s position media were involved in an unrelenting war manipulated to advantage the whilst resisting an attempt to be done by the Labour Party at on the EU. These are people to try to destroy “Corbynism” Conservative Party. continue or deepen the Remain election time. We need a much whose communities have been a recognition and the shift to the left in This is an important line within the party. If Labour broader movement, with much destroyed by 40 years of ram- Labour. reminder of the limited, dis- is to re-engage working class deeper roots in our diverse pant neoliberalism, while for of the danger We have had senior mili- torted and precarious nature voters, it needs to start by lis- communities, and the strug- most of that time, the Labour tary personnel threatening of our capitalist democracy. tening to them, by offering a gle needs to continue all year Party simply stood by and said “mutiny” in the event of a Cor- As Lenin argued almost 100 transformative programme round. there was no alternative to the a radical Labour byn victory, threats of foreign years ago to the day, how which they have ownership We need to be building effec- market and progress must run intervention by the US govern- can freedom of assembly and of and which takes account of tive union and political groups its driven course. programme posed ment, anti-Corbyn briefings by freedom of the press truly be their priorities, including the in workplaces and communi- Rightly, they hold the Euro- democratic rights when the result of the 2016 referendum. ties right across Britain, led pean Union partly responsible capitalists, exploiters, land- Secondly, we must acknowl- by workplace and community for this, as an integral element owners and profiteers own the edge that the sustained attacks reps who see their role as bring- of the neoliberal framework meeting halls and the printing the party faced from the media ing together workers to build that enforced privatisation, the presses? “Freedom of assembly and the state were not specific power, both to win the defen- export of jobs and the finan- and of the press is false and to Corbyn, they were not a sive battles we will need to fight cialisation of economy, which hypocritical [under capitalist reflection of a weakness of per- against the Tory onslaught, and destroyed Britain’s mining and ‘democracy’], because in fact it sonality or an inability to lead. to extend their rights and their industrial sectors. is freedom for the rich to buy Quite the opposite, they were control over their workplaces Finally presented with and bribe the press, freedom a recognition of the danger a and their communities. a Labour leadership which for the rich to befuddle the peo- radical Labour programme We need a return to whole claimed to stand for the many, ple with the venomous lies of posed to the status quo of neo- worker organising, across not the few, which put forward the capitalist press, freedom for liberal capitalism. Any leader workplaces and communities, a radical programme to rebuild the rich to keep as their ‘prop- of the Labour Party committed to build an integrated move- Britain in the interests of work- erty’ the landowners mansions, to a similar transformative pro- ment, not based simply on a ing people, they expected to be the best buildings etc.” gramme would face the same. core of politicised activists listened to. And they weren’t. Our job, argues Lenin, is to The rich and powerful in our but on deep roots within the Many former MPs in Leave- “emancipate humanity from society think that, by attacking class which can mobilise organ- voting constituencies argued the oppression of capital, from Corbyn, they can neutralise the ised workers, in elections and that the gradual shift from the lies, falsehood and hypoc- movement but, as Jeremy him- on the streets, to defend their respecting the result of the ref- risy of capitalist democracy – self has said, “It is not me they communities. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 10 Saturday/Sunday features morningstaronline December 14-15 2019 @m_star_online

“INTELLIGENCE enough to conceive, courage enough to will, power enough to compel. If our ideas of a new society are anything more than a dream, these three qualities must animate the majority of the working-people; and then, I say, the thing will be done” Why we lost, — William Morris.

hy Labour has lost the elec- tion despite Wthe immense efforts of thousands of committed activ- ists and the most progressive how we win manifesto in years is a cru- cial question to orientate the next phase of socialist politics and class struggle in Britain. Indeed, the battle of interpre- tation over the result will be a determining factor in the ongo- ing internal fights within the labour movement, the strategy and tactics moving forward for the radical left and for the les- sons drawn by the wider work- ing class. On the central issue of Brexit, Corbyn’s Labour One interpretation which is already being pushed by the liberal left is that Labour (read chose to side with its enemies, at the expense Corbyn) were too slow to articu- late the politics of Remain. As such, the argument goes, of its base — and the election. But the Tories’ Labour ended up electorally betwixt and between, when it should have embraced the vir- apparent strength is a temporary illusion, tues of Remain, while bringing recalcitrant Leave-voting work- PAUL O’CONNELL ing-class voters with it. writes This argument is being pushed by groups like Another Europe is Possible and the usual coterie of liberal commentators it shifted from being a party this was the key issue for many concerted campaign led by the “Brexit election” and large in the Guardian and elsewhere. committed to respecting the voters in the election, formed the worst remnants of the Blair numbers of working-class Leave But this analysis draws all the result of the Brexit referendum, the core of the Tory election years (Mandelson, Campbell, voters (as well as many work- wrong conclusions from the to being a party of Remain in message (dutifully parroted by Blair, Watson and co.), with the ing-class Remain voters) bought last five years and would set all but name. the media) and is reflected in support of most in the media into the empty rhetoric and the left up for further failure There were, of course, a the Leave-voting constituencies and the wider political class. promises of Johnson and co, if it gained traction. number of other important which Labour lost to the Tories. “ Once Labour was success- and voted for what they hope Another view, pushed by reasons, ranging from the Indeed, part-way through the fully manoeuvred into back- will be an end to the Brexit elements on the right of the undisguised bias of the main- election campaign it’s clear the ing a second referendum, the uncertainty (it won’t be), but Labour Party, is that Labour stream media, the pessimism Labour leadership recognised The shift in electoral logic of this position they have also voted against lost touch with the “socially ingrained by more than 30 that this issue was hurting was to try to capture the dis- the perceived contempt in conservative” or “traditional” years of neoliberalism, and a the campaign and pivoted to Labour’s gruntled middle classes, who Labour’s disingenuous offer working class — this is as concerted campaign of char- Leave-voting constituencies form the social base of the to Leave voters. The election, mistaken and detrimental an acter assassination against in the North and Midlands, second vote/Remain bloc, and then, was lost because Labour approach as that advanced by Corbyn, carried out over the while keeping arch-Remainers position was to hope that working-class com- chose to privilege the politics the liberals, and both should last four years, often with the like Emily Thornberry and munities that had voted Leave of the middle class, over that be rejected by the socialist left support of many Labour MPs Keir Starmer out of the media brought about in the referendum could be of large sections of the work- going forward. and disgruntled Blairites in spotlight. This, unfortunately, won over with promises of a ing class on the defining issue In truth, the decisive rea- the media. proved too little, too late. by a concerted brighter material future under of Brexit. son Labour lost the election is But Labour’s changed stance The shift in Labour’s posi- a Labour government. In order This was also crucial because that over the last three years on Brexit proved decisive as tion was brought about by a to pursue this strategy, Labour of the core issue of trust and campaign led by had to try to make the election integrity. While the Brexit about everything but Brexit, vote is complex, the majority the worst but this was a naïve strategy of working-class people that that never stood a chance. voted for it (which was a major- remnants of the While working-class people’s ity of the working class that lives are blighted by austerity, voted) are from areas that have the effects of public-sector witnessed industrial decline, Blair years cuts, job insecurity and falling poverty and marginalisation wages, and the spectre of cli- for decades. (Mandelson, mate catastrophe have increas- These are areas were peo- ingly come to the fore in recent ple have been told for years, Campbell, Blair, years, politics (in the narrow explicitly and implicitly, that sense the frames the terrain there was nothing they could of electoralism) in Britain has do to change their lot. With Watson and co), been dominated by Brexit for the Brexit vote, they got a say almost four years. on a crucial issue of national with the support It has become the terrain on policy, a once-in-a-lifetime say. which a bizarre but entrenched But when they voted for Brexit, of most in the culture war is fought out, and the establishment reacted in the weeks before the elec- immediately with efforts to tion was called Labour had de-legitimate and overturn media and the twice refused to vote for a the result. general election, on the basis of In the 2017 general election, wider political wanting to secure guarantees Labour promised to respect the about a “no deal” Brexit. Brexit vote, and fight for the class In the end, this remained, best possible Brexit — mar- as it was always likely to be, ried to its radical manifesto, morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday 11 @m_star_online December 14-15 2019

attack against workers’ rights, migrants, public services and the environment. Given that we have likely already entered the early stages of the next recession, the austerity and inhumanity of the last decade of Tory-Lib Dem rule “ In the 2017 will be redoubled and the working class will, as ever, be at the sharp end of this class general election, warfare. As such, we have to reject the entirely understand- Labour able impulse to mourn this loss, and instead move swiftly promised to to organising ourselves for the fights ahead. But in moving forward we respect the have to take stock of the expe- riences of the last few years, Brexit vote, and to understand how we got to where we are now, and to ori- fight for the entate ourselves for our next steps. To do this we must refo- cus on the central principles best possible of socialism. Socialist politics is grounded Brexit on the central divisions in soci- ety between the tiny minority that owns the wealth of society, and the rest of us who have to work for the scraps off their the Brexit vote to a manifesto manifesto are in line with fight-back against the burgeon- tite for serious change, and table. Socialism is about class, that promised radical change the interests of working-class ing far right and confront the this election does not change class interests, class struggle, for working-class communi- people, but the fundamental threat of climate catastrophe. that. The Tory Party may now, and understanding the dizzy- ties. In this election, Labour problem is that because of This will mean many dif- at least, deliver on Britain for- ing, confusing mess of modern advanced even more radical how it approached the issue ferent things. We will need to mally leaving the EU (this won’t society through the lens of policies, but was not able to of Brexit, Labour ended up, in develop organised networks be “Brexit sorted,” as Brexit is a class analysis, so as to make convincingly present itself as many working-class communi- of activists and trade union- complex process and not a for- sense of it, and work to trans- the party of radical transforma- ties, appearing as an outsider, ists both within and outside mal event), and that opens the form society. tion, while at the same time offering to advance socialism the Labour Party to advance space for the socialist left to re- In this election, and over the being committed, in effect, to for the working class, but not a genuine, socialist analysis focus all our efforts on fighting last four years marked by the disregarding and overturning with it. of the problems that confront to fundamentally transform Brexit conjuncture, Labour and the Brexit vote. This stems from the fact our communities (in an other- and shape post-Brexit Britain. many on the left have lost sight While the Brexit conjunc- that while the Corbyn moment wise barren landscape, some For while the Tories have of the centrality of class when ture is complex, it is in the reflected a reinvigoration of local Momentum groups, Help- held together around Brexit for it comes to Brexit. As such, it first instance a rejection of the loosely socialist ideas, it was ing Hands in Edinburgh, and this election, they are a party this allowed Labour to present has been possible to dismiss status quo. not grounded in working-class Acorn provide some templates riven with division, reflecting itself as a genuine insurgent Brexit as a mere racist endeav- In this way it overlapped communities and workplaces. to build on). the crisis of the British state force. In this election, having our, to imagine that the vote with the growing support for The recently formed com- Political education has and ruling class, and their capitulated to the demands to leave could be dismissed, Corbyn, this is why it is no munity organising unit pres- to be a priority within the apparent strength at present of reactionary liberalism and and the mob who voted for it mere coincidence that those ages some of what can and movement, far more so than is an illusion. committed itself to a second could be won around with the most fervently opposed to should be done on this front, it has been to date — nota- As we face up to these new referendum, Labour could not promise of what’s better for Brexit are also those most but this sort of work has been a ble celebrity commentators challenges, we must learn from consistently present itself as a them — this is the politics of hostile to Corbyn and the Cor- peripheral element of the Cor- imparting bland slogans are the mistakes of recent years: party of insurgent change and arrogant Fabianism, and is not byn project in Labour. In this byn moment, and the broader no substitute for organised, too much time has been spent transformation, while playing the basis for building a radical election Labour sided, on a movement around it, to date. educated cadres of committed on the minutiae of Labour the part of restoring the status alternative. crucially defining issue, with In the weeks, months and socialists in our communities Party proceduralism, and not quo ante on the Brexit issue. At the general election in its opponents, and as such was years ahead, we have to expand and workplaces. In doing this, enough on building in commu- Labour could not be partly 2017, a Corbyn-led Labour Party rejected by many of our efforts to build a serious, we will need to develop media nities and workplaces. radical, partly on the side of secured the big- those who should socialist movement grounded platforms that break with the Going forward, we need to the working class in Leave vot- gest increase in be its natural in, led by and responsive to individualism and narcissism take the inspirational energy ing areas, it had to be whole- the party’s vote base. working-class communities. of the current sea of podcasts, demonstrated during the hearted, and it wasn’t. since World War The great We have to make clear, as the Patreons and niche publica- election and carry it over into The election result leaves II by accepting shame of it is Tories unleash even more sav- tions. organising and mobilising to us facing up to five more the result of the that the poli- age class warfare, that only the Recent years, marked both transform our trade unions, years of Tory rule, and we can referendum and cies on almost working class itself can resist by Brexit and the Corbyn to build alternative models of be under no illusions that in connecting the everything else austerity, defend workers’ moment, show that in these democracy and community this time they will go on the ruptural energy of in the Labour and migrants’ rights, lead the turbulent times there is appe- empowerment on issues from public transport, to schools, health care and the environ- ment. Crucially, we need to reo- rientate our politics to the cen- trality of class (of the working class in its entirety, not some mythical traditional or white working class). This has to be the focus, because without the working class there is no socialism: in the absence of empowered, protagonistic working-class communities and organisations there is no rupture with the status quo. We have to take the best that has emerged from the Corbyn moment but break with the errors that have brought us to where we are now. We have suffered a defeat, but the battle of our lives begins now.

■ Paul O’Connell is a member of the Leave Fight Transform (LeFT) Campaign Working Group. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 12 Saturday/Sunday features morningstaronline December 14-15 2019 @m_star_online

ILL we remem- ber the victory in Syria as a ’Cause London long overdue Wturning point in the strug- A decade end gle against imperialism and, perhaps, capitalism? Does the is drowning defeat of US and Nato machi- nations and their surrogate combatants in Syria inspire …And I live by the river. the people of the Middle East to transcend the divisive lim- it leave a lega its of sectarian grievances Philosophy Football’s and cultural manipulation? Are we seeing the decline of artifi cially stoked and cruelly Ten years ago it was ‘kicking off everywhere’ - an MARK PERRYMAN fuelled national and religious divisiveness and a turn towards economic justice? the Middle East to Latin America. What has hap recalls an epic album, Certainly some respected, insightful commentators such it leave the spectre of socialist revolution, asks Z as Patrick Cockburn and Conn 40 years on Hallinan believe that the Mid- dle East is experiencing unex- pected, major realignments and PEOPLE POWER: ORTY years ago today, front too. Sound familiar? a decline in sectarian confl ict. Protesters in Bolivia December 14 1979, Two tracks in particular Cockburn suggests that and (right) Sudan the year of Thatcher’s stand out. Not only as unfor- the decline of sectarianism Felection was seen gettable when fi rst heard but is accompanied by “uprisings out with the release uncannily prescient four dec- against corruption,” though of London Calling — widely ades on too. he says far too little about the regarded as the fi nest of all “We’re working for the clamp- connection. Clash albums. down / We will teach our twisted In fact, the US and Israel Four decades later, December speech / To the young believers / have used sectarian divides to 14 2019, another Tory night- We will train our blue-eyed men combat progressive, national- mare begins. So it seems timely / To be young believers ist, secular, and even socialist- to look back, in hope. A clampdown that mixes oriented governments in the The Clash had burst on to the authoritarianism, race hatred Middle East since the 1950s. fast-emerging punk scene in ’77 and economic power. This was Secular Arab nationalism, with their debut album. what The Clash railed against Nasserism, Ba’ath socialism, The band’s second long- in 1979, it remains the shape of Palestinian liberation all posed player, Give ’Em Enough Rope, Johnson’s and Trump’s resurgent a threat to Israeli apartheid and was released to mixed reviews. right-wing, racist populism today. expansionism and US and Euro- Overproduced, the tracks’ raw And then of course the album’s pean oil imperialism. energy edge was somewhat title track, London Calling. By stirring the pot of tribal, blunted. All this was to change, “London calling to the religious sectarian, and however, with London Calling. faraway towns / Now war national diff erences, they were From double-album length, is declared and battle come largely successful in reducing weighing in with an astonish- down.” the Middle East to a cauldron of ing 19 tracks across four sides, This was the era of a winter disunity, endless confl ict, and to the stunning cover pic of Paul of discontent, the Special Patrol social backwardness. For most Simonon doing some serious Group, war in Ireland, and soon of the latter part of the twenti- damage to his bass guitar, this enough war in the south Atlan- eth century social questions of was to become an instant classic. tic too, the neonazi National economic wellbeing and class The rich mix of sounds Front on the march, Brixton justice were defl ected. Instead showcased the foursome’s and Toxteth ablaze, civil diso- of addressing the basic needs ever-expanding musical infl u- bedience against Reagan and of the people, Middle Eastern Algeria, Lebanon, Iran, and As welcome as these devel- (like Ukraine yesterday, Hong ences — jazz, reggae and dub, Thatcher’s nuclear arms race, rulers were drawn into tragic Iraq are a response to the long- opments are, they bring many Kong today) is recognised. the blues, rockabilly, ska. This, the year-long miners’ strike. confl icts over religious, tribal, ignored class and democracy potential problems. No popular However, solidarity with by and large, wasn’t what was “War is declared” — they and national identity. Exploit- issues that have been overshad- and clear-sighted leadership the people, confi dence in the expected of 1970s English punk weren’t far wrong. ing these confl icts were the owed by sectarianism. Sparked has emerged. The demands that masses, and critical vigilance bands. Despite that, both fans “The ice age is coming, the foreign imperialist powers. by aloof policies and fuelled by spring forth are often simple should be the stance of the and critics loved it. sun is zooming in / Meltdown But matters may be diff er- both government indiff erence and negative: “Down with the revolutionary. All signifi cant On their debut album Joe expected, the wheat is growin’ ent now. and massive poverty and want, existing government!” There change is fraught with risks, Strummer had belted out the thin / Engines stop running, With the Saudis — the millions are fi ghting to depose is no overarching ideological laden with uncertainty. Revo- anthemic I’m so Bored with the but I have no fear / ’Cause Lon- well-heeled missionaries of those who hold power. outlook, little programmatic lutionaries unwilling to ven- USA, yet two years later The don is drowning, and I / I live religious, social, and politi- While Cockburn writes of development, and too few ture on an uncharted course Clash appeared to have fallen by the river.” cal backwardness — smart- corruption, it is more than sim- acknowledged leaders. are hardly worthy of the name. hopelessly in love with the place. The meteorology might be a ing from energy rivalry with ply bad government that stokes While there have been The infl uences were obvi- tad skewiff , but a frightening their US sponsor and bloodied these rebellions. People are he success of the recent setbacks to social dem- ous, from Montgomery Clift to vision of the future four dec- by a losing war in Yemen, their opposed to rulers selected by movement in ocratic and anti-imperialist Cadillacs, a wholesome embrace ades on has become the vivid infl uence in the neighbourhood systems designed by the great Sudan shows the projects in Central and South of Americana minus the shrill reality of the present-day cli- is reduced. Israel, likewise, is powers to legitimise a sectar- importance of a America (and staunch resist- anti-Americanism of the band’s mate emergency. mired in a political crisis and ian balance or to install rule by Tcommunist party ance in Cuba, Nicaragua, and more obvious politics. A melting polar ice cap, now facing a nearly unifi ed those trusted by outside forces. broadly and deeply Venezuela), impressive people’s The band were emerging record-breaking heatwaves, Syria with a powerful ally in They are tired of the concentra- embedded in the popular move- risings in Haiti, Colombia, as fulsome internationalists agricultural growing seasons Russia, an ally seemingly com- tion of wealth in the hands of ments. Communists are engaged Chile, and Ecuador have shaken too. Every bit at home belting in crisis, rising seal levels. mitted to being a counter to US elites or the raging torrent of in all of the other risings as well. governments and ruling elites. out their tribute to inner-city “Live by the river” is no dominance of the region. And wealth channelled to Western There is a basis for hope that Like their counterparts in resistance The Guns of Brixton longer such good advice, mind, Turkey is racked with its own corporations. these movements will evolve in the Middle East, they often lack as their very particular account when the entire planet is on the political instability and increas- They are weary of food and an anti-capitalist direction. a clear and decisive leadership, of the battle against Franco’s verge of drowning. ingly tenuous membership power shortages, underem- Objections have been raised but they nonetheless refl ect fascists, Spanish Bombs. And we can rest assured The of Nato. ployment and unemployment, that the anti-government ris- deep-seated and profound class For many listeners these Clash of yesteryear would have These factors, along with US sectarian patronage, and poor ings may weaken the anti-impe- antagonisms and a yearning for would be their fi rst introduc- been playing Extinction Rebel- and Nato imperialism’s defeat infrastructure and housing. rialist movement, particularly real democracy. tion to either subject. The Clash lion benefi t gigs today. in Syria, disrupt decades of They are reacting to the widen- where existing governments A bitter distrust of the largely were a genuinely educative, as Revolution Rock? ’79 vintage, senseless, internecine confl ict ing class divide in these socie- take anti-imperialist positions corrupt parliamentary systems well as innovative, outfi t, a key play it loud, 2019 keep the faith. and are allowing neglected ties. These insurgencies are all against the US and Israel or peddled as “liberal democracy” infl uence shaping a generation questions of the people’s well- suggestive of an emerging class include anti-imperialist forces also spurs the upsurge in direct whose politics were framed ■ Philosophy Football’s 40th anni- being and living standards to consciousness, a growing anger within a government coalition. and militant mass action. by being anti-Thatcher on the versary London Calling T-shirt is rise to the forefront. at those hoarding the wealth These concerns are especially Interestingly, this distrust is home front, and soon enough, available from www.philosophy- The recent and current anti- and monopolizing undeserved apt when the long history of shared with millions of work- against Reagan on the global football.com. government risings in Sudan, political power. US manipulation of movements ing people in the advanced morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday 13 @m_star_online December 14-15 2019 Meanwhile in Scotland ds: does … it’s still 2015 acy? The general election was deja vu all over again and now it is again, from north of the border, writes STEPHEN LOW appened, and where does OR Scottish Labour activists there was a hideous sense ZOLTAN ZIGEDY of deja vu as we Fwatched the SNP tide fl ood across the country. It was 2015 all over again — Labour having just a single seat and the people of East Dunbar- tonshire returning Jo Swinson to the private sector again. 2015 — Jo Swinson apart — wasn’t any fun either. That’s not to say the situation is lack- ing in irony. Indeed, it abounds with it. The SNP swept Labour aside with the slogan “Lock Boris out of No 10 and stop Brexit.” People voted for that but of course, having won almost everything possible, they are incapable of delivering on either pledge. They are — surprise, sur- prise — keen to start proce- dural wrangling about another independence referendum. The reality, which the SNP leadership is well aware of, is SNOW DIFFERENCE: A man that not every SNP vote (45 per clears snow outside the polling cent incidentally, another irony) station at the village hall in is a vote for independence. Dalwhinnie in the Cairngorms in Nicola Sturgeon and her col- the Highlands of Scotland leagues don’t want a referen- dum right now. A fi ght about an indyref with the Johnson government, though? That convince the electorate, who Not least from Richard Leon- have some sort of “anti-Tory” capitalist countries who have, the way forward. Old, diffi cult would be a fi ne distraction opted for Scottish rather than ard. Unlike in 2015 when Jim equivalence. out of desperation, cast votes debates over how national from their domestic failings British nationalism. It seems Murphy had to go from the Scotland voted against out- for demagogic “populist” poli- independence, secular unity, in government. that while Murray appeals to count to the jobcentre, Scot- lawing bogus self-employment, ticians opportunistically herd- and class struggle intertwine In a further parallel with the douce burghers of Morn- tish Labour isn’t looking for a against a publicly owned ing dissatisfaction away from are now, again, relevant, urgent 2015, Scottish Labour’s sole ingside, much like a mediocre new leader. national grid, against hav- bankrupt mainstream parties. and central. It is vital that mili- MP is again Ian Murray. Some wine, his politics do not travel Leonard was clear that he ing a publicly owned railway, Though they both spring from tants see the fi ght against impe- might be reminded here of well. will lead the party into the against having full employ- similar causes, the “populist” rialism and for a better, more Marx’s famous aphorism That Scottish Labour MPs 2021 Scottish Parliament elec- ment rights from day one. answer will prove as futile as anti-capitalist and democratic about history repeating itself have gone, once again, from tions. Scotland voted for a nation- continued support for the tra- life as one and the same. “the fi rst time as tragedy, the being a group to a solo act does While he was in no way alist party that does not sup- ditional parties that chain the In addition, lessons must be second time as farce” — but of course beg the question of downplaying the seriousness port any of these things. people’s fate to capitalist accu- drawn from the recent treach- such comparisons elevate the where we go from here. of the results, he pointed out The hope of Scottish Labour mulation. erous coup against Evo Morales return of a member for Edin- This will require a degree that while there were ele- in this election was that by By any measure there is in Bolivia, lessons that raise burgh South to the status of a of refl ection. Which in turn ments of nuance to Scottish off ering to change people mass dissatisfaction through- the enduring questions of the “world historical event,” which requires the capacity to refl ect. Labour’s positions on Brexit lives rather than the fl ag they out the world. In some places, nature of the state, reform, and is patently not the case. To suggest that this is some- and another indyref, parties salute, we could make an it is transforming into direct, revolution. Murray is of course being thing Scottish Labour’s right with absolute positions on appeal that would break the physical confrontation with the In our time, reform and held up by the Labour right as has shown little capacity for these issues had also been stranglehold of the two nation- state and its organs. The fre- socialism-oriented movements the model of politics to which is something of an understate- rolled over by the SNP. alisms on politics in Scotland. quency and militancy of these have proven fragile, especially the party should aspire — he ment. In addition, while Labour Our programme was imagi- actions is striking. Today, it is while facing the determined is after all, a winner. This was amply illustrated had a clear constitutional off er, native and moreover met the the remarkable national strikes hostility of the powerful US This overlooks a number of by Anas Sarwar MSP. In a pre- it tended not to talk about it, needs of the diffi cult times we to deny Macron’s destruction of and its allies. As the Guaido factors. Murray was a relent- vious incarnation as an MP focusing rather on matters live in. We need to rethink pensions in France. debacle in Venezuela shows, less critic of the Corbyn leader- he resigned as deputy leader we deemed more important how we communicate our In other places, the fi ght the US will go to any lengths to ship, fi xated on a relentlessly to facilitate Jim Murphy’s lead- — meaning the £10 per hour ambitions for society. is less developed; people are create and support anti-reform, unionist (rather than simply ership bid, which is perhaps an minimum wage, ending zero- That is a substantive discus- struggling to identify the anti-socialist elements. anti-independence) position indicator of judgement. hours contracts, public owner- sion and one outside the scope enemy; their eff orts are con- For over 100 years, Marxist- and a long-time advocate of a Last night, however, he ship etc. of this brief summary. There is fi ned to narrow electoral space Leninist theory has been the second Brexit referendum. simultaneously bemoaned And there’s the rub. In post- one observation, however, that or misdirected towards “fake” anchor of debates over the He was hardly alone in the divided nature of our post- indyref Scotland the central- is worth making. solutions. path to revolutionary change this among Labour candi- Brexit referendum politics and ity of constitutional issues Thinking that the correct Nonetheless, capitalism is and for its defence. It would be dates — Martin McCluskey in appealed for more unity. He has closed off any prospect of response to the eclipse of the presented with an impressive a good place to begin in order Inverclyde and Kate Watson in then criticised the party for social radicalism. politics of class by national wave of resistance as we enter to refresh today’s debates. All Glasgow East were similarly not coming down more fi rmly It is not the case — what- identity is to embrace nation- the next decade. If that wave signs point to 2020 becoming active in undermining the UK on one side of that divide. ever progressives in the rest of alism — of whatever stripe is to swell, it must be driven an interesting, even promising party’s eff orts. Thankfully, there are more the UK might hope or believe — and is almost certainly an by a deeper understanding of year for revolutionaries. They, however, failed to substantive opinions available. — that SNP and Labour votes error. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 14 December 14-15 2019 info | entertainment @m_star_online

WEATHER OUTLOOK Fighting Fund with Keith Stoddart days 17left TODAY NEXT FEW DAYS Further rain or show- Unsettled and rather YOU’VE RAISED: WE NEED: ers aff ecting the north windy tomorrow with and west of the UK with some hill snow in some snow on hills. central and northern Rain for a time across areas. Drier and quieter £11,304 £6,696 southern England ac- for many from Monday, companied by strong although rain may aff ect winds. Dry elsewhere. the south on Tuesday. LIKE the rest of you, I’m gutted are the basis of our resistance £100 accompanies: “Best wishes page on 10/12/19, just what North at what happened and what we movement. to all staff .” South Yorks RSG Dorset campaigners needed” – now face. It’s been diffi cult to take The anti-austerity message send £311 – the £11 from money that’s what we’re here for. it all in as our positive message that was lost in the electoral donated while giving away the I need to acknowledge cheques CONTACT US of change was squeezed between process still needs to be pro- election issue. for £30, £10, £200, £25 and £200 two rival nationalisms. What’s moted and heard, and it’s the In a similar vein two tenners from Cambridgeshire simply “to not so diffi cult to grasp is that Morning Star that will take that come from donations received fund your newspaper.” GENERAL ENQUIRIES CIRCULATION the fi ghtback must start now. message to our activist base. during distribution of the elec- Thanks to all, but remember William Rust House Bernadette Keaveney As you read this, I’ll be head- Thanks to the following we’ll tion special in Oxfordshire, in – this paper is all of ours, and 52 Beachy Road, [email protected] ing out to the People’s Assem- be able to do so. thanks for producing it. will continue to be as long as London E3 2NS bly then on to the Morning £150 arrived courtesy of the A North Dorset reader sends you support it. Our month’s [email protected] CAMPAIGNS Star Bazaar. Two events that Leicester dinner organisers and £50 in thanks for “the front total now stands at £11,304. (020) 8510-0815 Calvin Tucker (Mon-Fri 10am-5pm) [email protected]

ADVERTISING Tell us what you’d like to see Give by post... phone... and online Moshfi qur Noor more of in your paper! Email [email protected] [email protected] Payable to PPFF to: From 10am-5pm on morningstaronline.co.uk/ (020) 8510-0815 ext. 205 with your ideas Fighting Fund, 52 Beachy Rd, London E3 2NS (020) 8510-0815 pages/support-us

Commie Chef CROSSWORD 1,321 set by Alamet QUIZMASTER with William Sitwell TODAY’S QUESTIONS Roasted Christmas 1 Which part of the body Site in 1987? is measured using a vegetables Brannock Device? 3 Ayesha is the name of the title character in I AM very fond of parsnips, mas dinner. 2 The whole of which city which work by Rider which come into their own at We do have a turkey on the in western England was Haggard? this time of year, when they’ll table; it’s just that she’s fl uff y made a World Heritage likely have had some frost on and brightly coloured and has them. now sat on our festive banquet This vegetable mix or some- for 20 years or so. YESTERDAY’S ANSWERS thing very similar always forms Seeing as you asked, she’s called 1. Who is the author of The part of our vegetarian Christ- Tabitha. Handmaid’s Tale? Marga- ret Atwood Ingredients 2. Where would you fi nd the Stone of Scone? ■ 220g/8oz parsnips, cut ■ 2 tbsp olive oil Edinburgh Castle, following lengthwise into sticks about ■ 2 tbsp maple syrup or its return to Scotland in the thickness of a pencil and agave syrup 1996 (right, a replica) 3”/5.5cm in length ■ 10cl white wine 3. What does a luthier ■ 220g/8oz carrots, cut ■ dsp lemon juice make? Guitars

lengthwise into sticks about ■ tsp mixed dried herbs (eg Pic: Aaron Bradley/Creative Commons the thickness of a pencil and herbes de Provence) 3”/5.5cm in length ■ good pinch cinnamon (expert) ■ 220g/8oz Brussels sprouts, ■ salt and freshly ground ACROSS DOWN DAILY SUDOKU 7. Produce spores for educated 1. House colour (6) trimmed and halved black pepper person (9) 2. A strong fast bend held to be ■ 25g/1oz melted butter 8. see 16 prosperous (8) 9. Attack is set to take place, kill- 3. Took action after middle of list ing without hesitation (9) was distributed (6) 10. Canvas restricting new slow 4. see 11 What to do mover (5) 5. Pub sets out the German meal 12. Was fi rst to accept informa- (6) Preheat the oven to 200°C/ pleads should be last week’s tion on celebrity (6) 6. Citizen expels one for love that 400°F/mark 6. mushroom pie. 13. Wandering to get a drink with is ideal (8) no energy for bombast (8) 11, 4. It’s a question of whether Toss the root vegetables in 14. It’s true whether it starts or hesitant owl can fl y (4,7) the melted butter, olive oil, not (7) 15. Cultivate a Laotian peninsula syrup, white wine, lemon 17. Stalks good person over debris (8) juice, mixed herbs and season- without resistance (7) 16, 8. Romania is becoming ing in an oven proof dish and 20. A spear I’d waved in heaven (8) known as 15 (4,5) cover it with a lid or tin foil. 22. Catfi sh after company for all 18. Run a body ragged on edge (8) Roast for 30 minutes. to see (6) 19. Many cut city up (7) At the same time, steam or 24. Principle makes part of 21. Respect adult starting to dish stream go directly backwards (5) the dirt (6) boil the Brussels sprouts, leav- 25. Decadent erotic den is hidden 22. Musical companion at exami- ing them tender but not soggy. (9) nation (6) Remove the tin foil or lid 26. Hot expression of disgust on 23. Complete regular lab titration and stir. lines (5) (6) Return to the oven and 27. Clumsy mother with boy roast a further 20 minutes backing alternative object (9) before adding the drained sprouts. Cook a further 10 minutes and serve with your main dish, which Tabitha the Turkey Solution on Monday… Solution on Monday… morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online features | entertainment December 14-15 2019 15 Staying in tune with grapevines Pic: domdomegg/Creative Commons The plant’s leaves gladden the eye as much as they tickle the palate. MAT COWARD has the details

ROWING vines for Of course, they don’t have to the pickled vegetables crisp. grapes can be dif- get stuff ed. You can use very For use through the rest of fi cult, depending young grape leaves in salads, the year, vine leaves freeze Gon what part of and slightly older ones in place or dry well, and the internet these islands you of spinach. details several other ways of live in, which way your garden Vegetables steamed on a bed storing them, including the faces, and whether you have a of the leaves take on a subtle almost shockingly simple plas- greenhouse. But growing them fl avour, slightly grapey and tic bottle method. for vine leaves is easy, produc- slightly lemony. Plant your vine, which is a tive and highly ornamental. Large, older leaves are a use- long-lived climbing perennial, I don’t know of any variety ful addition to pickles and fer- any time from late autumn of grapevine available in this ments, their tannin keeping until early spring. country which is specifi cally The plant must still be dor- bred for the purpose of pro- mant, and the soil neither viding home-grown dolmades, frozen nor waterlogged. A although Pinot Noir is some- position in full sun or partial times recommended as suit- shade will suit. able. A rich, deep soil will encour- But any variety will do, so age lush foliage, but grape- when going through cata- “ vines will usually manage logues or websites to choose reasonably well even in dry, a plant look for one that is Plant your vine, sandy soils. considered fully hardy in your To grow a grapevine in a area, and which has an autum- container, choose as big a nal foliage colour that you fi nd which is a long- pot as you can, and if possi- attractive. ble stand the pot itself in the The whole month of June lived climbing shade while the vine grows is peak harvest time for my into the sunshine. vine leaves. From late spring perennial, any Vines grown for leaves to early summer, a period of shouldn’t be fed, unless they’re up a wall, or you can just let as a well-grown vine in mid- at any time while the plant is seven or eight weeks, the new time from late looking particularly feeble, it ramble. It’ll climb through summer can be impressively growing, remove any length leaves are both plentiful and but they do need plenty of neighbouring shrubs, appear- vigorous. of growth that is where you tender. Further into the sum- watering during any dry spell ing and disappearing here But even if it does get out don’t want it to be. mer, they become chewy and autumn until throughout the growing sea- and there, which can be very of control, pruning a vine For the most part, just pick- blander, and also less pliable son. attractive. grown purely for foliage is as ing vine leaves for eating will which makes them harder to early spring You can persuade a vine to Just be sure that it’s not easy as it could be. Using fi n- be all the pruning you’ll need stuff . grow neatly over an arch or overwhelming nearby plants, gernails, scissors or secateurs, to do.

TV Weekly Preview with Archie McCoy What to miss Tuesday: The Brexit Film Documentary Entertainment Storm Continues: Laura Kuenssberg’s Inside Saturday Monday Saturday Story 9pm BBC2 Rogue One, 7.30pm ITV Three Identical Strangers, Strictly Come Dancing: the Well Kuenssberg is 10pm Channel 4 Final 7.05pm BBC1 certainly inside many In the run up to the third and stories at the moment. fi nal instalment of the most The true story of three men My mum will be glued to She hangs out with recent Star Wars trilogy, this – Robert Shafran, Edward this, of that I am sure. From “senior sources” to get spin-off prequel to the very Galland and David Kellman an original coterie of 12 a sneak peek at Brexit’s fi rst fi lm, A New Hope, follows – who, at the age of 19, made “celebrities,” who will claim backstage — confi rming a motley band of Bothan spies the astonishing discovery the disco ball of glory? that the issue can indeed as they steal the plans for the that they were triplets sepa- There’s only one way to fi nd get more tedious. infamous Death Star. rated at birth. out.

Wednesday Wednesday Yesterday’s sudoku Hampstead, 9pm Film4 Paul O’Grady: for the Love Sport of Dogs, 8pm ITV This harmless fi lm is about a Sunday Friday Lucy Worsley, who recreates north London lady who strikes Probably the sort of telly Sports Personality of the A Merry Tudor Christmas Christmas as it was 500 years up an unlikely relationship with one needs right now: uplift- Year, 7pm BBC1 with Lucy Worsley, 9pm ago – in the age of Henry VIII. a local, grumpy hermit played ing stories of our four-legged BBC2 Expect a roasted hog, much by Brendan Gleeson, who lives friends who repay their rescu- Logan, Lineker and Balding wassailing and some good old in a hut on Hampstead Heath. ers with unending loyalty and will surely hand the team Well, after last week’s disaster, fashioned mince pies – the ones Based on a (kind of) true undying love. The legend that honours to England’s women it’s time to do all you can to get with actual meat in them. Not story, this fi lm quite rightly is Paul O’Grady spends time footballers while the likes of in the festive spirit. many vegans in the Tudor didn’t win any Oscars, but is at the Battersea Dogs Home Lewis Hamilton, Dina Asher- Step forward the ever-aff able court, it seems. nonetheless a pleasing enough giving us just that. Just have Smith and Raheem Sterling watch. the tissues at the ready. will be eyeing up the big prize. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Monday morningstaronline 16 December 14 2019 culture @m_star_online

MAT COWARD I BEST OF 2019 CRIME FICTION

I caught up with a classic Jewish and partly communist, MW Craven, Sherri Smith BEST this autumn, after picking up who is wholly “below the salt.” PLOTTER: a second-hand copy of one of the The stately home itself is and Cyril Hare make the cut MW Craven most celebrated of all country- crumbling, with its owners house whodunnits. expecting any moment to be First published in 1951, Cyril dispossessed by the unstoppa- POLICE start panicking when his absolute certainty that chef a delightfully chewy puzzle Hare’s An English Murder (Faber & ble march of the socialists. And murder victim Elizabeth walks Keaton is a ruthless, intelligent which keeps its flavour through Faber, £8.99) took all the trap- now it’s cut off from the world up to a cop in Cumbria and killer. every page. To present it, he has pings of the inter-war murder by a snow storm. And there’s a declares herself alive in Black The DNA test doesn’t leave one of the most enjoyable detec- story but set it in the new body in the drawing-room. Summer by MW Craven (Consta- any room for doubt that Eliza- tive teams since Reginald Hill’s Britain of egalitarianism, the For a particular reason which ble, £7.99). The man convicted beth is who she claims to be. heyday. by her two oldest friends and welfare state and a working- I will attempt not to hint at, so of her killing, an egomaniacal But, whatever the lab says, Poe Katie used to be a child star her brother’s New Age fiancee, class which no longer knows as not to give anything away, I celebrity chef, has already spent knows that Keaton is up to on US television and now, in will fix her? As it turns out, its place. feel that most Morning Star read- six years inside. something. An impossible crime her late 20s, all she is is an in The Retreat by Sherri Smith Thus the guests assembled ers will be able to work out the DS Washington Poe of the has taken place and, unless Poe ex-child star. When websites (Titan, £7.99), it’s more likely for Christmas at Warbeck Hall motive for the murder sooner Serious Crimes Analysis Sec- and his colleagues can prove it ask:”Whatever became of her?” to kill her. include the leader of a revived than the average crime fan. tion is horrified, and not just within a few days, the evidence the answer is nothing much — One of the best fun thrillers fascist movement, an aristo- But that didn’t spoil my pleas- because he might have been will be gone forever. and none of it good. of the year but at the same time cratic but nominally socialist ure at all. The writing is crisp, involved in a miscarriage of Craven has devised the best Perhaps a transformative sinister enough to create real Chancellor of the Exchequer the plot clever and the satire justice. His greater worry is pure mystery plot of the year, therapy retreat, accompanied shocks. and a refugee historian, partly spot-on.

THEATRE I GYPSY HHHHH I ROyAL ExCHANgE THEATRE MANCHESTER everything comes up roses PAUL FOLeY sees a stunning production of a Sondheim classic

ASED very loosely on the memoirs of Gypsy Rose Lee, the Bone-time “Queen of Burlesque,” Stephen Sondheim and June Styne’s musical follows Gypsy’s mum ON A JOURNEY: The Snow Queen cast Pic: Dan Tsantilis Rose as she drags her kids, Lou- ise and June, from state to state I with their dreadful vaudeville THEATRE The SnOW QUeen act. Rose is determined to make HHHHI I PARk THEATRE LONdON 10-year-old June a star. But eventually it’s the neglected older sister, Louise, who suc- Dazzling production of classic children’s ceeds. Like most of Sondheim’s story the perfect seasonal treat work, Gypsy is packed with delicious songs that are laced NORTH LONDON’S small but parts of the world during with extremely funny and elegant Park Theatre seems the different seasons Gerda often savagely biting lyrics. Jo an unlikely venue to carry encounters on her epic jour- Davies’s deft direction is right such a visually spectacular ney with ease. on the button as she skilfully show as this adaptation of Perhaps most spectacular keeps the show zipping along, Hans Christian Andersen’s of all is the Snow Queen’s while Andrew Wright does a The Snow Queen. Ice Palace, symbolised by great job in shaping Jerome But director Abigail the huge broken-mirror Robbins’s original choreogra- Anderson manages to pull pieces dangling on the wall. phy to fit the Exchange’s com- off another successful There are universally pact round space. Christmas show to add to strong performances from Yet it’s the fabulous ensem- the theatre’s impressive list. the cast, with Esmonde Cole ble cast that make this such Charles Way’s version and Ayesha Casely-Hayford a joyful show. Dale Rapley is brings life to Andersen’s playing the equally charm- tremendous as Herbie, the classic about a young girl’s ing Cei and Gerda respec- downbeat theatrical agent and battle to save her best friend tively. They’re never too Rose’s lover, who realises too from the evil Snow Queen over-the-top childish, while late that Rose will never marry and the world from eternal Frances Marshall’s Snow him — there’ll always be one winter, with plenty of orig- Queen is as icy and fiendish more show. inal and punchy songs — as you would expect. The transformation from far more understated than There’s a wonderful mix Louise into Gypsy is wonder- the usual brash Christmas of fantasy, horror and won- fully realised by the excellent musicals or pantomimes — der which makes Andersen’s Melissa James, emerging from maintaining momentum. classic so timeless and this the shadows of her ”more tal- In a relatively small space, adaptation is a heartwarm- ented” sister to blossom into SUPERLATIVE: Ria Jones as Rose Pic: Johan Persson with the actors only feet away ing and fun treat which, the most successful striptease from the audience, set and unlike many Christmas artist in the world. naive, awestruck Louise. Yet heartbreaking and I doubt is going on in the world, for costume designer Gregor shows, will entertain kids There are superb cameos it is Ria Jones who stands out there will be a better leading three hours at least, “every- Donnelly deploys few props and grown-ups alike. from Suzie Chard, Rebecca as a superlative Rose — ballsy, performance in a musical for thing’s coming up roses,” as but has managed to create Runs until January 4, box Thornhill and Kate O’Donnell funny, tender, vulnerable and some time to come. the song has it. an imaginative design which office: parktheatre.co.uk as three seasoned troupers with a voice to die for. A beautifully uplifting Runs until January 25, box office: transforms into the various INDIANNA PURCELL explaining the business to a Her final song is achingly evening and no matter what royalexchange.co.uk morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Monday 17 @m_star_online culture December 14 2019

PICTURE THIS I French new wave: a revoLUTIon In DeSIGn

TONY NOURMAND, GRAHAM MARSH AND CHRISTOPHER FRAYLING I REEL ART PRESS £49.95 CREST OF THE NEW WAVE: (Left to right from top) A Woman is a Woman (Jean-Luc Goddard) by Hans Hillman, 1961; The Fire Within (Louis Malle) by Hans Hillman, 1963; Alphaville (Jean-Luc Goddard) by Andrzej Krajewski, 1965; THE “NEW wave” in French The new vision was deliv- calisation of its day. from France via Eastern Lift to the Gallows (Louis Malle) by Jan Lenica, cinema between 1958-1968 ered by an array of astonish- Eventually it led to the Europe to Japan and Latin 1958; Last Year in Marienbad (Alain Resnais), revolutionised the medium. ing new actors, from Jean-Paul momentous rebellion of May America. Constantin Films, 1961; Model Shop (Jacques Instantly attracting the Belmondo to Jean Seberg, 1968 which reverberated Like the film-makers Demy) by Franciszek Starowieyski, 1969; attention of the entire film Jean-Pierre Leaud to Anouk around the globe. themselves, they shifted the Contempt (Jean-Luc Goddard) by Georges Allard, world, it produced film-mak- Aimee. French New Wave: A Revolu- imperatives of cultural infor- 1963; Testament of Orpheus (Jean Cocteau) by Jean Cocteau, 1960; ers whose legacy is admired, They were the faces of the tion in Design is an engross- mation towards the popular, Alphaville (Jean-Luc Goddard) by Pino Milas, 1965; Contempt if not revered, to this very day. single most important move- ing work, which charts the rebellious, philosophical and (Jean-Luc Goddard) by Janusz Rapnicki, 1963; My Life to Live The work of directors Jean- ment in cinema history, which new graphic language poster irreverent. (Jean-Luc Goddard) by Jacques Vaissier, 1962; Pierrot the Madman Luc Goddard, Jean-Pierre anticipated and engaged with designers employed to pro- The breadth of expression (Jean-Luc Goddard) by Junji Aino, 1965; Zazie in the Metro (Louis Melville, Francois Truffaut — the social and political radi- mote these fascinating films revealed in the book is hugely Malle) by Jolanta Karczewska,1960; A Man and a Woman (Claude the author of the new wave impressive, from the painterly Lelouch) by Rene Farraci, 1966 manifesto — Agnes Varda, adaptation of stills and realist Eric Rohmer, Costa Gavras, photo collages to the intrigu- Jacques Demy, Robert Bresson, ingly esoteric. Louis Malle or Alain Resnais They are art forms in their ushered in an uncompro- own right, worthy of adorning mising “new realism” that living or bedroom walls, as destroyed the outmoded edi- indeed many of these posters fice of ossified convention, have. conservatism and general Three engaging essays by stagnation of the French film Tony Nourmand, Graham industry. Marsh and Christopher Fray- From choice of subject mat- ling, along with Jack Cunning- ter to narrative editing, cin- ham’s adept design direction, ematography to music, verve bring those years to life in a and innovation ruled the day book celebrating the spirit of as established canons were momentous times. ruthlessly dispensed with. MICHAL BONCZA Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 18 Saturday/Sunday letters morningstaronline December 14-15 2019 @m_star_online

■ ELECTION RESULT Are you extremist if you defend public services?

DESPITE it being painful to Pic: BBC watch and listen to, I stayed with the BBC coverage of elec- tion night. The commentators WANTING OUT: The SNP is likely to make a fresh bid for independence seemed delighted that the awful Marxist Jeremy Corbyn and his extreme policies were ■ ELECTION RESULT getting a good kicking. If extremism is wanting to Weakening capitalist ideology’s ensure that public services are run for the benefi t of the grip may take several elections public, rather than sharehold- ers, that hospitals have enough THE result of this election has capitalist incessant production staff , there are enough police been obvious to me for some for profi t over human need will offi cers, that people can see time. The massive social condi- have to be superseded by co- their GP within an adequate tioning of our class plus Labour operation to produce items for time, schools have enough bottling it on Lexit. use and recyclability as climate resources, energy companies Labour needs to keep the change hovers like a behemoth cannot continue to bleed the hundreds of thousands of of planetary vengeance and public dry and that people mainly young members and retribution over the billions of on benefi ts are not allowed double and quadruple its mem- humanity, threatening people to freeze or starve to death, bership to reach the lost mil- of every political, economic and then most of us on the left are lions of those who think that social stripe. indeed extremists. their closed and boarded towns The SNP as a centre -left party Those people in former min- and cities means that they are will now make its case for seces- ing communities in the north no longer a class. sion from the UK and individual of England and on council Boris Johnson’s lies and fab- Prepare for the wholesale is claiming welfare benefi ts. I say again that it may take entry to the EU anti- democratic estates across the north who rications will be found out over privatisation of the NHS, a We must never give up. We several general elections to capitalist bureaucracy. voted Tory will come to rue the next few months, but he jamboree of public services must carry on fi ghting. make severe dents in capital- W J BRUNT that decision sooner rather and his government of toff s outsourcing and the continuing DAVE PULLER ist ideology. The nonsense of Manchester than later. will not care. demonisation of anyone who Wythenshawe

Just £5 A MONTH gives you the opportunity to win the £501 JACKPOT. Increase your chances of winning by taking out membership in multiples Signup form of £5. The club pays out 17 prizes each My name is: My address is: month, from £25 to £501. Postcode Telephone: Email: Please pay the Cooperative Bank PLC, Islington Branch, sort code 08-92-99 for the credit of the THIS IS A GREAT WAY TO PPPS – 501 Club, account number 6510-7317 the sum of: £ in words: each month until further notice and debit my account accordingly. SUPPORT YOUR PAPER. My account number is: My sort code is: By Standing order start date: Signature To the manager (include bank name, address and postcode): becoming a 501 Club member you are helping the Morning Star cover its DON’T SEND THIS FORM TO YOUR BANK. PLEASE MAIL IT TO: 501 Club, William Rust House, 52 Beachy Road, Bow, London E3 2NS printing, distribution and staff costs. You must be 16+ to join. Registered Small Lottery London Borough of Tower Hamlets Reg No. 2708. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online letters | history December 14-15 2019 19

■ RETAIL SECTOR GRAHAM STEVENSON explores the Star archives Shopworkers deserve proper 80 YEARS AGO TODAY... break at Xmas Chamberlain tries to duck blame CHRISTMAS is a special time for rejection of anti-nazi alliance which should belong to us, the proletariat, as a whole — not THE Daily Worker just the elites. ■of 14 December 1939 In Germany, Boxing Day is reported that, in response more accurately called “Sec- to intense pressure on the ond Christmas Day” and there government to publish is an extremely cogent case for its account of the failure nationwide retail closure on of talks to produce an this day. After all, Christmas is alliance between France, about friends and families chill- Britain and the Soviet ing out, getting together and Union against German enjoying the traditional pas- aggression, Prime Minis- missed out the fact that it times, NOT the soulless sales. ter Neville Chamberlain been much warmer to the There is also a prima facie had announced a white Soviet proposals. case for early closure on Christ- paper, but that it would Soviet foreign minister mas Eve – around noon, perhaps not be ready for “some lit- Vyacheslav Molotov had – so that retail workers can take tle time.” The paper was already revealed that a part in community get-togeth- suppressed, but in the mutual assistance pact ers such as Christingle services. meantime Chamberlain would only have been of The retail sector would ben- sought to put the blame use if Britain had agreed efi t hugely from a two-and-a- on the Soviet Union. on “defi nite military half-day closure, as more goods France opposed publi- measures against an would be brought beforehand. cation because, however attack of the aggressor.” My challenge to MPs and much trimming and men- But nothing had come of peers alike is to legislate for dacity was applied, inevi- tripartite talks with the longer Christmas breaks. tably the pace of events military of each nation, JOHN BARSTOW and their true circum- since British politicians Usdaw executive council stances would show that held them back. The core the Soviet side had made problem was that the serious proposals with Soviet proposal for the precise, reciprocal under- three powers to jointly ■ HG WELLS takings which the British guarantee the integrity of government was simply Poland had been rejected The Outline of not willing to accept. outright by the latter. Its entire diplomatic It was Molotov’s belief History inspired and military outlook that Britain feared a real depended on encouraging pact of mutual assistance Jose Figueras belligerence against the would strengthen the USSR by all countries that USSR, which “does not PETER FROST’S article on bordered it. The French answer their purpose,” HG Wells (M Star December government was particu- and that Poland had been 6) was as informative and larly aggrieved, because acting on the instructions illuminating as his pieces the white paper simply of Britain and France. always are, but I would like to add another item to high- light Wells’s global infl uence. Persecuted for fi ghting fascism In 1985, I interviewed Jose ■ LABOUR LEADERSHIP Figueras, the three-time VICTOR BARR had Having been born in president of Costa Rica. ■appeared in a local 1916 in Belfast, where he He was the leader who court charged with joined the Irish YCL in famously abolished the breaching an expulsion 1933, he had served in country’s army after a Corbynista MPs order made by the home Spain with a machine- bloody civil war in 1948 secretary under the Pre- gun company for 15 — and Costa Rica is still, I vention of Violence Act, months. After fi ghting believe, the only country in being remanded in cus- in the battles of Teruel, the world without a standing tody for eight days, the Belchite and Calcite, he army, and it has never been must rally around Daily Worker reported was declared missing attacked or invaded. Dur- on December 15 1939. in action on the Aragon ing his fi rst term of offi ce, Yet, when expelled, Barr front after being taken Figueras also nationalised had been member of the prisoner by the fascists. It the banks and granted worthy successor Young Communist League was certainly a concern women and Afro-Costa (YCL) and the Connolly of the British army to Ricans the right to vote. Association in Birming- exclude recruits who had In the interview, he told THIS is a time for refl ection, not other left party in Europe has they must decide on one can- ham, both organisations fought on the republican me that in his ideas he had ranting. As Labour member and managed over the past decade; didate who is prepared to stand not being in support of side. The following year, been strongly infl uenced by committed Corbynista, I feel the Spanish “Socialists” only got up and say that the project will the IRA’s resort to armed he was dismissed from the writings of Wells, par- my party is in a very dangerous 29 per cent in November and continue, against the various violence. the military as an unde- ticularly the latter’s Outline place. If the wrong decision is the German SPD is currently fudgers and trimmers who will A former International sirable and forced back of History. made, it could prove disastrous. polling at 14 per cent. That is also be in contention. The mem- Brigader, Barr appeared to Belfast, where he was JOHN GREEN Too many people seem to because Labour is Europe’s only bership will deliver a landslide in court in Northern unemployable and living London W5 believe our defeat was due to party committed to real change. to such a candidate. Ireland army uniform on benefi ts. Jeremy, rather than Brexit – This is Jeremy’s legacy and the What we need now is for and that explained he and the liberal press will ped- membership, me included, will all who support the project to “detested the views of You can dle that myth. This means that not settle for anything less. make that clear to their Labour the IRA,” but had come read editions of ■ ELECTION RESULT there is a genuine risk that his There are around 40 to 50 MP, if they still have one. Only to Britain to say farewell the Daily Worker (eventual) successor will seek MPs left who still support the then will Labour still have a to his brother Billy, with (1930-45) to abandon the Corbyn project. project (to varying degrees) future and not be marginalised, whom he had previously and Morning Don’t give up Star (200 0-today) To these people, I say look at which means, given that 31 like the Liberal Democrats. lived from 1934 in Victo- , online at WE are all shattered by these the fi gures. The 32 per cent we nominations are required to IAN MACKILLOP ria Road, Aston, since he mstar.link/DWMSarchive election results. My message polled is still higher than any run for the leadership, that Ilminster expected that Billy would Ten days’ access costs to all is to dust yourself down soon be sent to France. just – the struggles begin TODAY. [email protected] Barr would be impris- £5.99 and a Socialism will prevail. HAVE YOUR SAY oned for one months for year is £72 PAUL DORAN Write (up to 300 words) to... 52 Beachy Rd, London E3 2NS breaching the order. Dublin, Ireland Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 20 Saturday/Sunday what’s on morningstaronline December 14-15 2019 @m_star_online

The Red List December 14-19 Readers & Stop the Plastic Tide — Illus- Princess Street, Manchester  SATURDAY 14  SUNDAY 15 trated Talk The scale of rough sleeping is a scan- Supporters dal in one of the richest countries Victorian Music Hall Screening: Born in Flames 7.30pm at Water of Leith Conservation Trust, 24 Lanark in the world. But rough sleeping is 7.30pm at the Epicentre, West 7pm at the Cowley Club, 12 London Road, Edinburgh just the tip of the iceberg. Nearly Road, Brighton Street, London E11 Scotland conservation offi cer for one in 200 people in Britain is now EVENTS Lizzie Borden’s intersectional femi- John Cain talks about the develop- the Marine Conservation Society homeless, with many more in over- nist and dyke classic Born in Flames ment of this mainly working-class Catherine Gemmell will off ers a priced, overcrowded and inadequate COATBRIDGE — Lanarkshire Readers GLASTONBURY — 90th Anniversary (1983), set 10 years after a peaceful form of entertainment, interspersed whistlestop tour of her journey to housing. Meanwhile campaigners & Supporters Morning Star sale: Every Celebration: 3pm at the King Arthur socialist revolution in New York, with songs from the era of Harry help Scotland #STOPThePlasticTide. have been busy opposing plans by Saturday outside Asda. Call Ronnie pub, Benedict Street, BA6 9NB. Free where social fractures are starting Champion, Harry Wincott, Gus From citizen science, to personal Manchester City Council for a Public on 07906 195-404. entry, collection, exhibition, mince to appear and women plot a revolu- Elan, etc. Free entry but donations plastic-free journeys, to campaign- Space Protection Order (PSPO) that pies. Speakers: Liz Payne, Hugh Kirk- tion within the revolution. The fi lm DERBY — Meeting: With William Paul invited. Organised by the News ing for change at government level would criminalise rough sleepers. bride (PPPS). Contact Adam Godfrey is followed by a social. Society. Fourth Sunday in the month, From Nowhere Club. there have been some fantastic suc- Join Stacie Martindale (talking about 2-4pm at the Alexandra Hotel, 203 [email protected]. cess stories over the last few years. her experience of homelessness), Siddals Road, Derby DE1 2QE. Email GLOUCESTERSHIRE — Meetings: At Bring It! Fundraiser for Catherine will bring some Ocean Ben Clay (Tenants Union UK and a [email protected]. The Alehouse, Johns Street, Stroud, Kurdistan Solidarity Network  MONDAY 16 Optimism to the conversation about Manchester City Councillor) and DUMFRIES — Morning Star sale: on the fourth Wednesday of the 8.30pm at the Cowley Club, 12 what we can all do to help #STOP- a speaker from Acorn to discuss month at 7.30pm. We discuss topical Photojournalism and move- Every Saturday from noon at Mids- London Road, Brighton ThePlasticTide for good. the housing crisis and how we can teeple. Call Stuart on 07780 804 561. events. Contact: Steve Hunter 07799 Full-force tunes. DJs and producers ments of activism and protest secure decent homes for all. 812 633 or steveh48a’tiscali.co.uk. today DUMFRIES — Readers & Supporters playing live breaks, drum and bass, LONDON — Regular readers and sup- 6.30pm at The Invention Room 68 meetings: New members welcome. heavyweight jungle and mash-up The Debrief: what’s next? porters meetings: Contact secretary Wood Lane, London W12  TUESDAY 17 Email [email protected]. style. Tickets: £5 suggested dona- Discussion, drinks and dancing Paul Clyndes by phone on 07969 321- Exploring today’s form of rebellion, uk for details. tion. Post-election debrief 8pm at DINA Venue, 32 Cambridge 657 or email [email protected]. resilience and resistance through DUNDEE — Morning Star sale: First 7pm at The George, 40 Parkholme Street, Sheffi eld MANCHESTER — Entertainer: If any photojournalism as part of a series of Social organised by Sheffi eld Trans- Saturday of every month from Rolling picket: Brixton protest Road, London E8 11.30am at Brooksbank Clock, Mur- readers’ groups run fundraisers and events from the Photojournalism Hub. formed, open to all Labour members against the Climate Emergen- Whatever the result on Thursday raygate. Ring Raymond Mennie on need a performer, they can always cy! we need to discuss our strategy for and supporters. 07483 296-535. contact Dave Puller on 07815 006- 671 or email: [email protected]. 12.30pm on the the corner of building in the new climate. What EDINBURGH — Regular Morning Star Brixton High Street and have we learned from our activity in sale: Every Saturday from noon to NORTH DEVON — Morning Star sale: Coldharbour Lane, London the election period? What openings  THURSDAY 19 2pm at the bottom of the Mound. Every Saturday. Contact Gerrard exist for us to generalise struggle? Sables on (01271) 373-338 or 07848 SW2 EXETER & DISTRICT — Monthly What potential is there to build Crafting Circle: Join the art of 007-826. Capitalism has led to a meetings: At Exeter CND peace world of deepening on the UCU strikes and how can gentle protest SHEFFIELD — Regular Star sales pitch: 11am at Midlands Arts Centre, shop, plus occasional paper sales global inequality, we support the CWU? Hosted Thursdays and Saturdays, city centre by East London rs21 Cannon Hill Park, B129 Birmingham and social events. Contact Vincent where underdevel- Anon. Email: VincentRedStar@hot- — [email protected]. Throughout new exhibition Craft- oped countries Stop the War’s mail.com. SHROPSHIRE — Monthly RSG social ing for a Better Future, Janet Collins for discussion and drinks: First Friday are facing the Christmas Fundraiser is inviting people to join her craft- GLASGOW — Morning Star sale: Every brunt of the Dinner Saturday at Buchanan Street stall of every month from 7pm in Shrews- ing circle in the Terrace Gallery. bury. Contact for venue (below). climate crisis. 7pm at Urfa Ocakbasi Come along to these FREE drop-in from 1-4pm. “Solutions” Restaurant, 85 Stoke sessions, and fi nd out more about GLASGOW — Morning Star Grand Christ- SHROPSHIRE — Paper sales: Call Andy 07368 229-774. Email shrop- pursued in the Newington Rd, London the project, its work with homeless mas Bazaar: Saturday December 14, [email protected]. rich countries N16 charities in Birmingham and how 12-3pm, help from 10am. The Annexe, continue to Tonight With special guests you can make a diff erence through Stewartville Street, G11 5PE. Pledges SWINDON — Paper sale: Every Satur- replicate this Alexei Sayle and Tariq Ali. crafting. of goods and help to Jim at 07787 day. If you can help, contact Pete at relationship — Join the festivities with 707-755 and [email protected]. [email protected]. survival for the Turkish food, wine and Advertising Sh*ts In Your Head rich, fl ames, fl oods Grenfell Silent Walk good company. Whether our 6.30pm at Freedom Bookshop, and famines for hearts are high or low from 84b Whitechapel High Street GROUPS’ CONTACT DETAILS the poor. This rolling 5.30pm at Kensington Town Hall, the election results, we will (Angel Alley), London E1 picket in Brixton will Hornton Street, London W8 come together for an evening of Film screening of Subvertisers for AYRSHIRE — Ring Arthur 07826 127-759 LIVERPOOL — Please contact Regi at call out companies that solidarity and celebration. Alexei London (Dog Section Films, 21mins) or Jim 07787 707-755. [email protected]. Extended event marking 30 Sayle will be the after-dinner enter- are responsible for creating followed by a discussion with the BATH — Ring Robert 07801 700-307. months since the tainer performing a short stand-up LONDON (LAMBETH) — Call 07858 261- the conditions that have re- authors of Advertising Shits In Your fi re set. His recent Radio 4 series, Alexei BELFAST — Ring Greg Sachno on (028) 354, email [email protected]. sulted in climate change. Organised Head (PM Press) on the theory and Sayle’s Imaginary Sandwich Bar, 9023-2381 ext 50764. by Earth Strike South London. practice of subvertising. LONDON (WANDSWORTH) — Regular has been setting the airwaves BIRMINGHAM — Email graham_steven meeting: Call 07747 714-063. alight. NEU general secretary Kevin [email protected] Grenfell Silent Walk: 30 Featuring Angela Christofi lou, Chris King and Talia Woodin. Tickets £5. Courtney will be hosting this year’s BRIGHTON — brightonmorningstar50@ LUTON — 07713 163-078 or email gwheat- Months On auction and renowned writer Tariq gmail.com [email protected]. 5.30pm at Kensington Town Hall, What Next? Ali will also be saying a few words. BRISTOL, BATH AND GLOUCESTER — MANCHESTER — Regular meetings: Ring Hornton Street, London W8 7pm at Housmans, 5 Caledonian There will be more prize-winning Telephone (01749) 870-078. 07504 314-815. Extended silent walk to pay respects Road, London N1 opportunities with a fundraising and honour the 72 lives taken that CALDER VALLEY — Email geltpete @ MERSEYSIDE — Meets regularly. Ring Post-election discussion about raffl e. Tickets: £40 or £50 Solidarity, gmail.com. night. the general election and the way proceeds to Stop The War. Call (020) Regi on 07876 034-352 or email mersey- CHELTENHAM — Contact 07896 606- forward for the left. Organised by [email protected]. 7561-4830 006. Another Europe conference anti-Brexit group Mutiny. NEWCASTLE — North-east England 2019 COVENTRY & WARWICKSHIRE — monthly meeting: Ring Martin on 07799 Email [email protected] 11am SOAS University of London, What next after the General CONTACT US 040-570 or email martin@levytyneside.  WEDNESDAY 18 DARLINGTON — Ring Desmond on 07951 Thornhaugh Street, London WC1 Election? Promote your events! eclipse.co.uk. Digest what has happened, plan 7pm at Friends’ Meeting House, 6 Housing, Homelessness and 106-204. NORFOLK AND SUFFOLK — Contact what we are going to do next. Mount Street, Manchester the Public Space Protection redlist@peoples DERBY — email williampaulsociety@out- Organised by Another Europe is Debrief from Labour for a Socialist Order -press.com look.com for details. Sean Meleady on 07758 145-671 and email Possible. Europe. 7.30pm at Mechanics Institute, 103 DEVON (NORTH) — Ring Gerrard Sables [email protected] on (01271) 373-338 or email gerrard. PETERBOROUGH — Regular meetings: [email protected] Ring (01733) 262-338. DUMFRIES — Email stuart.hyslop1@ PLYMOUTH — Call 07800 508-261 or hotmail.co.uk for details. email [email protected] Community Listings small ads | [email protected] EASTBOURNE — Email Scott at [email protected]. PONTYPRIDD — Email Dominic BRISTOL: Bristol, Bath & Gloucester CP Derby CP. Fourth Sunday in the Leeds. All welcome. Contact 07866 553-493. All performers welcome. MacAskill: [email protected]. EXETER AND DISTRICT — Contact Vin- Branch. Meets second Wednesday month, 2-4pm, at Alexandra Hotel, 479489 or 07787 575570 MERSEYSIDE: Merseyside Branch CP. cent Anon. Email: VincentRedStar@hot- RICHMOND & KINGSTON — Regular of the month. For details ring Mike 203 Siddals Road, Derby DE1 2QE. LEICESTER & DISTRICT: Communist Meeting on the fi rst Thursday of the mail.com. group: Ring (020) 8979-6091 or email on (0117) 9633-164 or email [email protected]. Party. Meets every second Thursday month. Contact Tony on 07450 275 [email protected]. EDINBURGH: Edinburgh Branch CP. of the month at 7:30pm in Leicester 208 for details. FORTH VALLEY — Covering Falkirk, Ster- [email protected]. ling and Alloa: Call Colin Finlay on 07837 CAMBRIDGE: Cambridgeshire CP. Branch meeting on fi rst Wednesday Secular Hall. cpleics@ yahoo.com, OXFORD: CP branch. Meets monthly SHROPSHIRE — Regular paper sales: of each month. 6-8pm in the VCR (01780) 238-463. 305-619 or email fi [email protected]. Meets each month, with politics, — for details of dates and venue, Call Andy on 07368 229-774 or email Room, Central Library, 7-9 George LONDON: South East London CP. Meets contact 07769-557664 or oxford@ HARPENDEN — Email Marxist education and campaigns. [email protected]. IV Bridge, Edinburgh EH1 1EG. monthly. www.selcp.org-southeast communist-party.org.uk. [email protected]. For information contact Phil on SOUTHAMPTON — Regular group: Con- FILIPO FAHEY: Esperanto Language [email protected]. SHEFFIELD: South Yorkshire CP HASTINGS & SUSSEX — Email tact Glynn Tudor, msactionsouthampton [email protected]. Movement = www.lernu.net LONDON: Ruskin House Folk & Blues Branch. Meets second Monday of the [email protected], 07950 DERBY: William Paul Society – the LEEDS: West Yorkshire Branch CP. Club. folkandblues.org Garry Davis: month. Ring Carrie on 07531 079- 138-971. @gmail.com to get involved. Educational, Social & Cultural bit of Meets 11am Saturdays in central Every Sunday, 8-11pm. Tel 01737 268 or Bryan on (0114) 2334-758. KENT (EAST) — Call 07976 943-514, SHEFFIELD/SOUTH YORKSHIRE — [email protected]. R&S group: Call Steve 07851 753-711. Email KENT (NORTH) — Email northkent [email protected] [email protected] or call Ryan on SWINDON — Email jackobadenski@ 07549 733-739. yahoo.com. LANARKSHIRE — Ronnie 07906 195- CLASSIC POLO ADVERTISE HERE 404. WALES NORTH (SHOTTON) — Regular meetings: Call Glyn: 07980 538 813. LEEDS — Email westyorkmorningstar- SHIRTS at the best rates of any national paper [email protected] WATFORD — Phil Brown: leveller@ LEICESTER — Ring (01780) 238-463. myphone.coop. Tel: 01923 239 512 Book your size now LEIGHTON BUZZARD — Email martyn_ YORKSHIRE — ryedalesocialists @gmail. Available M, L, XL for £7+ £3 p&p [email protected] or phone 07852 838-448. com. Go to shop.morningstaronline. Full page £2,000 • 1/2 page £1,000 co.uk or call (020) 8510-0815 1/4 page £500 • 8x8cm £120 • 8x4cm £60 Promote Morning Star events for free: to order [email protected] | (020) 8525-6995 (020) 8510-0815 | [email protected] morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online sport December 14-15 2019 21

Racing Guide with Farringdon ■ CHELTENHAM Clondaw Castle worth a fort for December Gold Cup glory

HELTENHAM once That afternoon the selec- again takes centre tion jumped well out in front, stage with the fea- but — in a way — his young Cture betting race jockey shot himself in the foot being the Caspian by setting too slow a pace on Caviar Gold Cup at 1.55. I am his partner which meant he going to go out on a limb was a sitting duck out in front. here and nap the improving That scenario duly came CLONDAW CASTLE. to pass when the speedier Le Trained by Tom George, I Precieux basically outpaced think that this son of Oscar has him from the last obstacle and been crying out for a step up pulled clear for a decisive two- to an extended two-and-a-half and-a-quarter-lengths success. miles and that should enable Several times since then, him to make the step forward Clondaw Castle has looked as to be right in the mix here at though the minimum trip was around the 14/1 shot. simply too sharp for him and Ever since I saw the selection now he fi nally gets the chance run over an extended two miles to bring his stamina and indeed at Ludlow at the beginning of sound jumping to the track. the year I have thought he In such a competitive and needed a stiff er test of stamina. valuable contest there are of course quite a few contenders WEEKEND TIPS with strong claims, the best of which are probably the unex- posed Good Man Pat trained Farringdon’s Doubles by Alan King, Haydock winner Saturday Keeper Hill and the very well handicapped Not That Fuisse. CLONDAW CASTLE Cheltenham 1:55 (nap) The novice chase due off at 12.45 looks a fascinating race SCARLET DRAGON with several high-class fencers Doncaster 1:35 in operation. Sunday Perhaps the most interesting He ran well for a long way Leech charge is a useful tool. However, I strongly fancy I know that he has been sat- is the Nicky Henderson-trained before backing out from the He has already showed that ELIXIR DE NUTZ to lay down isfying his astute handler at BLACKFINCH Southwell 1:45 (nap) Champagne Platinum who was home turn and eventually these fences hold no fears for his Champion Hurdle claims home and this is a must-win so impressive when winning a fi nishing 25 lengths off the him when he fi nished second here by making a winning project if the fi ve-year-old has SKY MARSHAL pair of novice hurdles at the impressive Klassical Dream. It to the smart Slate House at the comeback. any aspirations of making the Navan 12:30 back end of 2018. will be interesting to see how Showcase Meeting. Colin Tizzard’s charge had to grade at Championship level He then had a few niggling strong he is in the market here The International Hurdle at miss the Cheltenham Festival next March. Houseman’s Choice problems which meant miss- and a saver may well be war- 3.05 looks wide open and the through injury last year, having A few others that are worth Saturday ing the Cheltenham Festival, ranted behind my selection likes of last year’s Triumph chalked up a hat-trick of vic- a second look this weekend WARTHOG but you could tell he was held GARO DE JUILEY, who is much Hurdle winner Pentland Hills, tories culminating in a strong include KAJAKI (11.50) and Cheltenham 1:55 in high esteem by his trainer better than his run last time along with the more experi- running success in the Grade SCARLET DRAGON (1.35, nb) when the fi ve-year-old was out suggests. enced Ch’tibello and La Patri- One Tolworth Hurdle at Sand- both racing at Doncaster, Sunday allowed to take his chance in The deep ground on that ote (simply didn’t get home over own where the testing ground while I feel that MAJESTIC SAINT FREULE the Herald Champion Novice occasion didn’t really suit two and a half mile in deep may not have been to his taste STONE has some very solid Carlisle 1:55 Hurdle at the Punchestown him, but on anything like ground at Ascot last time out), (his previous victories having each-way credentials in the Festival. good-to-soft going the Sophie all have claims. come on good going). Newcastle 2.00.

■ HORSE RACING Race favourite misses out on start due to admin mistake by Our Sports Desk ing was the clear leader to events that led to the out Riders Onthe fl exibility. Mistakes shouldn’t The British Horseracing follow up at Cheltenham. But mistake, the Naun- Storm. We knew happen, but they do — [the sec- Authority said in a statement: Weatherbys confi rmed him a ton handler said: straight away retary] just pressed the wrong “Once a horse is declared a non- ANTE-POST favourite Riders non-runner just after 9am yes- “In the wind, I and we rang the button. She was in fl oods of runner a notifi cation is imme- Onthe Storm will miss Satur- terday, with an infection put was ringing up BHA and they tears and I don’t think she will diately published on the BHA day’s Caspian Caviar Gold Cup forward as the reason for the my secretary and said there is noth- recover for a long time. website and the racing admin after being declared a non-run- withdrawal. said, ‘can you take ing they could do. “The horse is fi ne and will site and distributed to numer- ner in error yesterday. But in a twist, Twiston-Dav- out Rocco’ [due “There should go to Ascot next week for a ous data feeds including the Formerly trained in Ireland ies later confi rmed that he to run at Bangor be a bit more £50,000 race. The owners have betting markets. by Gold Cup-winning handler had actually been mistakenly yesterday], but she taken it brilliantly. You do need “Reversing a non-runner Tom Taaff e, the six-year-old declared a non-runner. And misheard and took an understanding owner, but after it has been notifi ed can made a successful debut for though the yard attempted to WIND UP: screaming and shouting isn’t lead to signifi cant confusion Nigel Twiston-Davies in a valua- contact the relevant authorities Twiston-Davies going to make it any better.” and this is why it is written ble event at Aintree last month. to rectify the error, he could blamed a Several bookmakers into the rules of racing that a Despite a 13lb hike in the not be reinstated. blustery phone announced they would void all non-runner declaration cannot weights, the Scorpion geld- Explaining the sequence of call bets on Riders Onthe Storm. be withdrawn.” Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 22 December 14-15 2019 sport @m_star_online

PITCH: A Tokyo 2020 banner stands in front of the Azuma Baseball Stadium in Fukushima — the northern prefecture devastated almost nine years ago by an earthquake, tsunami and meltdown of three nuclear reactors. Schools (below left) and streets (below right) in its near no-go town Futaba remain abandoned shortly before the event

Japan’s ‘Recovery Olympics’ PR a tough sell for destroyed town by Mari Yamaguchi “This recovery Olympics is in The town has been largely town evacuation centres. Their “It was so sad to see the town coastal area. The radioactive and Stephen Wade name only,” Toshihide Yoshida decontaminated and visitors representatives fi led criminal destroyed and my hometown waste from decontamination says. He was forced to abandon can go almost anywhere with- complaints and eventually sent lost,” he said. surrounding the plant and Futaba and ended up living out putting on radiation suits, former Tokyo Electric Power “My heart ached when I had from across Fukushima is kept HE torch relay for the near Tokyo. “The amount of though they must carry personal Company executives to court. to leave this town behind.” in thousands of storage bags 2020 Tokyo Olym- money spent on the Olympics dosimeters and surgical masks They were acquitted. Standing outside the Futaba stacked up in temporary areas pics will kick off should have been used for real are recommended. The main When Tokyo was awarded station, mayor Shirou Izawa in Futaba and Okuma. Tin Fukushima, the reconstruction.” train station is set to reopen in the Olympics in 2013, Prime described plans to rebuild a They are to be sorted and northern prefecture Olympic organisers say they March, but residents won’t be Minister Shinzo Abe assured new town. It will be friendly to most buried at a medium- devastated almost nine years are spending £9.4 billion on the allowed to return until 2022. International Olympic Commit- the elderly and might become term storage facility for the ago by an earthquake, tsunami Olympics, using about 60 per On the fi rst fl oor of the tee members that the nuclear a major hub for research in next 30 years. For now they and the subsequent meltdown cent public money. But an audit vacant town hall, a human- disaster was “under control.” decommissioning and renew- fi ll vast fi elds that used to be of three nuclear reactors. report by the national govern- size “daruma” good-luck fi gure But critics say the govern- able energy. The hope is that rice paddies or vegetable farms. They’ll play Olympic baseball ments says that overall spend- stands in dim evening light at a ment’s approach to recovery those who come to help in Fuku- One large mound sits next to a and softball next year in one ing is about twice that much. reception area. A piece of paper has divided and silenced many shima’s reconstruction may stay graveyard, almost brushing the part of the prefecture, allow- The Olympic torch relay will that fell on the fl oor says the people in the disaster-hit zones. and be part of a new Futaba. stone monuments. ing Tokyo organisers and the start in March in J-Village, a doors must be closed to pro- Under a development plan, “The word Fukushima This year, 4 million tons Japanese government to label soccer stadium that was used as tect from radiation. It warns: Futaba hopes to have 2,000 has become globally known, of those industrial container these games the “Recovery an emergency response hub for “Please don’t go outside.” The people — including former but regrettably the situation bags were to be brought into Olympics.” The symbolism tries Fukushima plant workers. The words are underlined in red. residents and newcomers such in Futaba or (neighbouring) Futaba and another million to recall the 1964 Tokyo Olym- relay goes to 11 towns hit by the “Let us know if you start as construction workers and Okuma is hardly known,” tons sent to Okuma, where pics, which showcased Japan’s disaster but bypasses Futaba, a feeling unwell,” former town researchers — eventually liv- Izawa said, noting that Futaba’s part of the Fukushima plant reemergence a short 19 years part of Fukushima that Olym- spokesman Muneshige Osumi ing in a 550-hectare site. recovery won’t be ready by the stands. after the second world war. pic visitors will never see. told visitors, apologising for the Yoshida is unsure if he’ll Olympics. Yoshida says the waste But tens of thousands still “I would like the Olympic musty smell and the presence return. But he wants to keep “But we can still show that a storage sites and uncertainty haven’t recovered in Fuku- torch to pass Futaba to show of rats. ties to Futaba, where his son town that was so badly hit has over whether they will stay shima, displaced by nuclear the rest of the world the real- About 20,000 people in inherited a fi lling station on come this far,” he said. in Futaba or be moved is radiation and unable to return ity of our hometown,” Yosh- Japan’s northern coastal prefec- the main highway connecting To showcase the recovery, discouraging residents and to deserted places like Futaba. ida said. “Futaba is far from tures died in the magnitude-9.0 northern Japan to Tokyo. government offi cials say J-Vil- newcomers. Time stopped in the town recovery.” earthquake and resulting tsu- Osumi, the town spokesman, lage and the Azuma baseball “Who wants to come to live of 7,100 when disaster stuck The radiation that spewed nami. Waves that reached 16 said many former residents stadium were decontaminated in a place like that? Would sen- on March 11 2011. from the plant at one point meters killed 21 people around have found new homes and jobs and cleaned. But problems ior offi cials in Kasumigaseki Laundry still hangs from displaced more than 160,000 Futaba, shredding a seaside and the majority say they won’t keeping popping up at J-Vil- government headquarters go the second fl oor of one house. people. Futaba is the only one pine forest popular for picnics return. He has his own mixed lage, with radiation “hot spots” and live there?” he asked. Vermin gnaw away at once inti- of 12 radiation-hit towns that and bracing swims. feelings about going back to his being reported — raising ques- “I don’t think they would,” mate family spaces, exposed remains a virtual no-go zone. Nobody perished from the mountainside home in Futaba. tions about safety heading into Yoshida said. “But we have through shattered windows Only daytime visits are allowed immediate impact of radia- The number of residents regis- the Olympics. ancestral graves and we love and mangled doors. The deso- for decontamination and recon- tion in Fukushima, but more tered at the town has decreased The baseball stadium is Futaba — and we don’t want lation is deepened by Japanese struction work, or for former than 40 elderly patients died by more than 1,000 since the located about 45 miles west Futaba to be lost. The good old tidiness with shoes waiting in residents to check their aban- after they were forced to travel accident, indicating they are of Futaba. J-Village is closer, Futaba that we remember will doorways for absent owners. doned homes. long hours on buses to out-of- unlikely to return. about 12 miles away along the be lost forever, but we’ll cope.” morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online sport December 14-15 2019 23

SPORT ON TV ■ WOMEN’S FOOTBALL ■ DRUG RULES Saturday BASKETBALL: NBA, Phoenix Suns v Ferns and Matildas MLB to start tests San Antonio Spurs — Sky Sports Mix 10pm. BOXING: Golden Contract — Sky Sports Action 7.30pm. for opioids but will DARTS: PDC, World Championship submit joint bid to — Sky Sports Arena 12.30pm and 7pm, Sky Sports Main Event 3pm and 8pm. allow use of weed FOOTBALL: Premier League, host the World Cup Liverpool v West Brom — BT Sport 1 by Our Sports Desk equation recognise that there 12pm; Southampton v West Ham JOINT FORCES: Antipodean teams hoping to stage fi rst 32-team event was an opportunity to take a — Sky Sports Main Event, Sky leadership role here in this Sports Premier League 5pm; by Asif Burhan They had vowed to bid alone scale World Cup using eight MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL discussion,” union head Tony Championship, Birmingham v West but now view a collaboration stadiums, 32 training bases will start testing for opioids Clark said. “Players aren’t Brom — Sky Sports Main Event as “a logical and compelling and 42 referee camps. and cocaine, with only those immune to issues that aff ect THE race to host the 2023 Fifa who do not cooperate with 12pm; Bundesliga, Fortuna response to the expanded “Fifa requested a tournament all of us and so the situation Women’s World Cup intensifi ed 32-nation format that will be with eight venues and add- their treatment plans subject this year only heightened that, Dusseldorf v RB Leipzig — BT Sport this week, as Australia and New introduced in 2023.” ing one more would increase to discipline, as part of a new brought it even closer to home.” 1 5.15pm; A-League, Melbourne Zealand submitted a joint bid Australia’s Sam Kerr, a new costs signifi cantly,” admitted union-brokered agreement to “It is our collective hope that Victory v Wellington Phoenix — BT to host the tournament. Chelsea signing, admitted that JFA president Kozo Tashima. protect players. this agreement will help raise Sport 2 6am; Sydney FC v Central South Africa ended its “hosting the Fifa Women’s “We’re a small country and can Cannabis will be removed public awareness on the risks Coast Mariners — BT Sport 2 attempt to bring the fi rst Wom- World Cup in Australia would take advantage of our transit from the list of drugs of abuse and dangers of opioid medica- 8.30am; Perth Glory v Western en’s World Cup to the African be a dream come true for me.” system, including the bullet and will be treated the same tions,” deputy baseball commis- Sydney Wanderers — BT Sport/ continent, while South Korea — And New Zealand striker train and air routes. With eight as alcohol as part of changes sioner Dan Halem said. ESPN 10.45am; W-League, which had planned a joint bid Rosie White, currently playing stadiums we can run a smooth announced on Thursday to the MLB players referred to the Newcastle Jets Women v Sydney FC with its northern neighbours — for Reign FC, said: “If New Zea- tournament and keep our costs joint drug agreement between treatment board and who failed Women — BT Sport 2 5am (Sun). made a similar announcement land and Australia were to host down.” MLB and the players’ associa- to comply with their treatment GOLF: PGA Tour, Presidents Cup just hours before the deadline a World Cup it would change It is also proposing that the tion. plan for use or possession of — Sky Sports Golf 10pm, Sky Sports yesterday. football in our region forever.” tournament start earlier than Talks to add testing for opio- cannabis, hash or synthetic Main Event 11pm; QBE Shootout — But the chances of an Antipo- The countries are promising the dates reserved for it in the ids began following the death THC had been subject to hefty Sky Sports Golf 5pm. dean World Cup were strength- to stage the tournament across Fifa Women’s international of Los Angeles Angels pitcher fi nes. But now cannabis-related HORSE RACING: Cheltenham — ened as Australia and New Zea- 13 stadiums in 12 cities and match calendar — between Tyler Skaggs, who was found conduct will be treated the ITV4 1.30pm. land joined forces to submit attract a record attendance of July 10 and August 23 2023. As dead in a hotel room in Texas same as alcohol-related issues the fi rst-ever co-confederation 1.5 million over the 64 matches. during the summer. A medi- and players will be generally RUGBY UNION: Champions Cup, Tashima explained: “It’s not attempt to host a major football The fi nal would be played at the good to ask players to rest for cal examiner’s offi ce said the referred to mandatory evalua- Connacht v Gloucester — BT Sport 2 tournament. 75,000-capacity ANZ Stadium two months and then play a 27-year-old died after choking tion and voluntary treatment. 12.30pm; Saracens v Munster — BT With the backing of both in Sydney. World Cup in July. With most on his vomit with a toxic mix “It was a part of a larger con- Sport 2 2.45pm; Leinster v governments, the countries — Due to their relative remote- of the world’s top players in of alcohol and the painkillers versation that was refl ective of Northampton — Channel 4 4.35pm, which also combined to host ness, they are also committing European leagues, we think fentanyl and oxycodone in his the attitudes changing in many BT Sport 5pm; Challenge Cup, the 1987 men’s Rugby World to “scheduling kick-off times to that holding the tournament body. parts of the country,” Clark said Stade Francais v Bristol Bears — BT Cup — promised “to amplify maximise broadcast exposure” in June will help players stay “Players from our side of the of the decision. Sport 2 7.45pm; Scarlets v Bayonne women’s football in Asia and and make “a commitment to in peak condition.” — S4C 7.30pm; Rugby 7s — Sky Oceania like never before, as equitable team travel” across The 32 board members of the Sports Action 9am. the two culturally and geo- the two countries. Fifa council will vote in May HAVE YOUR SAY SNOOKER: Scottish Open — graphically aligned nations Japan — which will host the 2020 on who will host the cup. Write (up to 300 words) to Eurosport 1 1pm and 6.45pm. work as one to deliver a truly 2020 Olympic football tourna- Argentina, Brazil, and Colom- 52 Beachy Rd, London E3 2NS UFC: Kamaru Usman v Colby inspired celebration of women’s ment across seven venues in six bia are also bidding to stage the or email [email protected] Covington — BT Sport 1 3am (Sun). football.” cities — is off ering a smaller- fi rst 32-team tournament. Sunday ■ DARTS: PDC, World Championship — Sky Sports Arena 12.30pm and 7pm, ■ MEN’S FOOTBALL Sky Sports Main Event 7pm. ■ FOOTBALL: Premier League, Man- chester United v Everton — Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Premier LENNON HOPES RESTED HOOPS League 1pm, Arsenal v Manchester City — Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Premier League 4pm; Scottish Premiership, Motherwell v Rangers — Sky Sports Football 11am; Bundesliga, Wolfsburg v Borussia Moenchengla- STARS RUN RINGS AROUND HIBS dbach — BT Sport 1 2.30pm, Schalke v Eintracht Frankfurt — BT Sport 1 GAMBLE: Celtic boss says ‘calculated risk’ of Cluj defeat without big players was designed to protect domestic hopes 4.45pm; Ligue 1, St Etienne v Paris St Germain — BT Sport 1 7.45pm; Bun- by Our Sports Desk from the side which started the that some players got some the club and I really enjoyed head, Lennon said: “I took that desliga 2, Sandhausen v Hamburg Scottish League Cup fi nal win rest while others got some this on my shoulders.” calculated risk, if you want — BT Sport 1 12.30pm; A-League, over Rangers at Hampden Park game time. The 23-year-old Frenchman, to call it that, on Thursday Newcastle Jets v Melbourne City — CELTIC boss Neil Lennon is last weekend and lost their Olivier Ntcham who joined Celtic from Man- because I have to think about BT Sport 2 7.30am. hoping his decision to fi eld a fi rst group game through relished the chester City in the summer of the squad as a whole. I can’t ■ GOLF: PGA Tour, QBE Shootout — makeshift side against Cluj second-half goals from role as stand-in 2017, said: “It is a big challenge keep running the players into Sky Sports Golf 5pm. on Thursday night will pay defender Andrei Burca skipper along- and that is the game.” the ground in pressure games.” ■ GRIDIRON: NFL, Houston Rockets v dividends against Hibernian and midfi elder Damjan side 18-year-old “The whole team played “Hopefully that will work in Tennessee Titans — Sky Sports Action tomorrow, saying that he “can’t Djokovic. debutant Scott quite well. Maybe sometimes our favour and come Sunday we 5pm, Los Angeles Chargers v Minne- keep running the players into It was the Scottish Robertson in we needed to be more clever in will be ready to go. sota Vikings — Sky Sports Main Event, the ground in pressure games.” champions’ fi rst defeat Romania. front of goal but it was a good “[Hibs] had a great win at the The Hoops had already won in 13 games in all compe- He said: “It game to show the spirit of the weekend, beating an in-form Sky Sports Action 1.10am (Mon). their Europa League group to titions, but Lennon was the fi rst time team,” he said. Aberdeen team. ■ MOTORSPORT: World Touring Cars secure a last-32 spot before was pleased I captained Star players including “[Manager Jack Ross] has — Eurosport 1 7am and 10am. the before the trip to Roma- Brown, Fraser Forster, Callum been a great appointment for ■ RUGBY UNION: Champions Cup, nia, and the Parkhead boss McGregor, Odsonne Edouard, them, slowly but surely getting Exeter Chiefs v Sale Sharks — BT left a clutch of key players in Tom Rogic, Ryan Christie and the best out of the players. Sport 2 12.30pm, Clermont Auvergne Glasgow, along with suspended Frimpong are available again “I know the players very well v Bath — BT Sport 2 3pm; Rugby 7s — skipper Scott Brown and right- having missed the Europa there and they can be a threat. Sky Sports Action 9am. back Jeremie Frimpong — who RAINY DAY: Lennon says League tie. “It’s a game we are looking ■ SNOOKER: Scottish Open — is not registered for European he’s saved his best for And as he turned his atten- forward to, we will assess all Eurosport 1 12.45pm and 6.45pm. competition. tomorrow’s crunch tie tion to the Premiership match the players on Friday and get Lennon made nine changes against his former club at Park- them ready for Sunday.” Saturday/Sunday SPORT December 14-15 2019 INSIDE: Antipodeans team up for World Cup bid

■ MEN’S FOOTBALL WEEKEND FOOTBALL Premier League Liverpool Watford, 12.30pm Burnley Newcastle United Chelsea Bournemouth Leicester City Norwich City Sheffi eld United Aston Villa KLOPP SIGNS NEW DEAL Southampton West Ham, 5.30pm Man Utd Everton, 2pm* Wolves Spurs, 2pm* Arsenal Man City, 4.30pm*

Scottish Premiership Aberdeen Hamilton Academical TO STRENGTHEN SQUAD Hearts St Johnstone Ross County Kilmarnock St Mirren Livingston Reds manager extends contract to 2024 to reassure any incoming signings Motherwell Rangers, 12pm* Celtic Hibernian* by Our Sports Desk EFL Championship Birmingham West Brom, 12.30pm JURGEN KLOPP has signed a Barnsley Queens Park Rangers new contract with runaway Brentford Fulham Premier League leaders Liv- Bristol City Blackburn Rovers erpool, announcing the long- Derby County Millwall term deal as “a statement of Leeds United Cardiff City intent.” Notts Forest Sheff Wednesday Preston North End Luton Town The German has agreed a Stoke City Reading new deal which extends his Swansea City Middlesbrough current one, due to expire in Wigan Athletic Huddersfi eld 2022, to 2024. And while it was not a priority for him he felt EFL League One it could be a key factor when AFC Wimbledon Doncaster it came to persuading new Accrington Stanley Portsmouth recruits to join. Fleetwood Town Gillingham Klopp is looking at the long- Ipswich Town Bristol Rovers term picture and while secur- Lincoln City Tranmere Rovers MK Dons Oxford United ing Red Bull Salzburg play- Peterborough Bolton Wanderers maker Takumi Minamino for a Shrewsbury Town Coventry City bargain £7.25 million — a deal Southend Rotherham which is virtually done aside Sunderland Blackpool from his medical — appears to Wycombe Burton Albion have been relatively straightfor- ward for the reigning European EFL League Two champions, there will come a Carlisle United Grimsby Town Cheltenham Town Cambridge time when the manager’s infl u- SURE SIGN: Klopp had sealed Minamino for the ence will be key. Crawley Town Port Vale Reds before extending his contract, but hopes his Crewe Alexandra Mansfi eld Town “For me personally this is a stable presence will encourage more talent to join Leyton Orient Bradford City statement of intent, one which Newport County AFC Stevenage is built on my knowledge of Northampton Town Forest Green what we as a partnership have Plymouth Argyle Morecambe achieved so far and what is still ‘How long is the manager going the top of the Premier League “There are a lot of exciting knows the club helps solve Salford City Exeter City there for us to achieve,” the to be here?’ that extending his contract is things coming up with the them than another guy hav- Scunthorpe United Colchester Swindon Town Oldham Athletic 52-year-old Klopp said. “We all wanted to avoid that a no-brainer. new academy (and fi rst team ing to do that. Walsall Macclesfi eld Town “The club was asking for so it’s done and I am really The club is still on an training base) and maybe a new “Four-and-a-half years from a while already if we could happy about that. upwards curve but such has stand. now sounds like forever in FA Women’s SL talk about an extension and I “I thought it was positive and been the way the manager “But there will be cloudy football. It would be then nine Everton Arsenal, 12.30pm* thought it makes sense before good that people know I will has become embedded in every days as well and you have to years, the longest spell I’ve ever Man City BHA, 12.30pm* things are getting a bit intense be here a bit longer. It gives us aspect of life inside and outside be there and make decisions been at a club. Birmingham Man Utd, 2pm* — not now, I was completely stability.” Anfi eld, he wants to be here for and I feel very responsible for “It was not too bad till now Liverpool Chelsea, 2pm* calm — but maybe in the sum- Since arriving in 2015 Klopp those times when things are all the things here. but we don’t feel that it could Reading Spurs, 2pm* mer we would have started has played such a key role in not going so well. “We know there will be prob- not be better, so let’s try to Bristol City West Ham United* again,” he said. Liverpool’s development and “I feel the club is in a good lems in the future like there make the best time of our “With new players when you the assembling of a squad place and we have the chance were in the past, but I think lives. Enjoy the ride, enjoy the FA Women’s C’ship want to bring them in they ask: which is eight points clear at to develop,” he said. it makes sense someone who journey.” Crystal Palace Durham, 1pm* Leicester City Sheff Utd, 2pm* Lewes Charlton Athletic, 2pm* Bees Blackburn Rovers, 2pm* ■ MEN’S FOOTBALL Aston Villa London City* FIFA Club World Cup Al-Hilal ES Tunis, 2pm Troubled Silkmen to play today as wages are paid Monterrey Al Sadd, 5.30pm Welsh Prem by Our Sports Desk And the EFL is satisfi ed that issued in respect of regulation league side won 4-0 against a Cardiff Met Aberystwyth, 2.30pm the club are in a position to breaches for late payment of makeshift Macc line-up. Newtown Carmarthen, 2.30pm fulfi l today’s fi xture. wages and non-fulfi lment of They have since fulfi lled MACCLESFIELD’s League Two An EFL statement read: “This last weekend’s game against three league fi xtures but prob- Women’s Friendly game with Walsall will go weekend’s League Two fi xture Crewe, the club will face an lems arose once more and the Brazil Mexico, 9.30pm* ahead today after the EFL con- between Walsall and Maccles- independent disciplinary com- Crewe match was suspended fi rmed the Silkmen’s players fi eld will go ahead as originally mission later this month.” after the players cited issues of All kickoff s 3pm unless noted had been paid. scheduled on Saturday at 3pm. Macclesfi eld said in a club “mental well-being” in a squad * denotes Sunday game The club’s players refused to “As a result of ongoing dis- statement: “Macclesfi eld are statement. play against Crewe last week- cussions between the EFL, the pleased to confi rm that tomor- end over unpaid wages. club and the PFA during the row’s game at Walsall will go Published by Peoples Press MSTAR 2019-12-14 SAT 1.5 But Macclesfi eld are on the course of the last seven days, ahead as scheduled. Printing Society Ltd (12750R), brink of being taken over after the league has ensured out- “We really need your support William Rust House, 52 Beachy 5 0 Road, Bow, London E3 2NS. a deal was agreed in principle standing payments owed to tomorrow and look forward to Telephone: (020) 8510-0815. with local businessman Joe Sea- players have now been paid challenges currently faced by seeing as many people cheering Email: enquiries@peoples-press. ley, who hopes to complete the and the club has confi rmed the ownership and will con- us on as possible.” com. Printed by trade union buyout ahead of Wednesday’s they will be in a position to tinue to off er whatever prac- Macclesfi eld’s senior players labour at Reach. latest HM Revenue and Cus- fulfi l the fi xture. tical assistance is available in went on strike for November’s toms hearing over a winding- “The EFL remain in dialogue accordance with its regulations. FA Cup fi rst-round tie against up order. with the club over the wider “Further to the charges Kingstonian, which the non- Saturday/Sunday December 14-15 2019 9 770307 175466