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PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY COURT WIN NATIONAL DEMONSTRATION FOR RIGHT DON’T MISS THIS BUMPER TO PROTEST EDITION! Peace campaigners vindicated as judges throw out bid to ban activist roadblocks by Ceren Sagir tre in Docklands as it hosted to disruption to ordinary life, The protesters also urged the the 2017 Defence and Security including disruption of traffic, public to join demonstrations Equipment International (DSEI) caused by the exercise of the planned for September’s 2021 THE Supreme Court quashed arms fair. right to freedom of expression or DSEI arms fair, when arms deal- the convictions of four anti- They were initially cleared freedom of peaceful assembly.” ers from around the world will arms trade protesters yester- of high obstruction at a trial Following the ruling, Mr once again descend on London day, with judges accepting before a district judge after Cole said they were delighted to promote their lethal prod- that protests that block the arguing that they had lawful with the ruling, particularly ucts. road are lawful in certain cir- excuse in the circumstances. given attacks on the right to Andrew Smith of Campaign cumstances. But the Director of Public protest in the Policing Bill. Against Arms Trade (CAAT) said Anti-arms and protest rights Prosecutions appealed the Ms Cullinan added: “That that while the verdict sets an campaigners welcomed the acquittal, and the protesters our simple protest, which important precedent, it “should judgement as setting a vital were subsequently convicted lasted only a few minutes, never have gone this far. It was precedent, especially as the at the High Court. though possibly disruptive, led yet another case of totally inap- Policing, Crime, Sentencing Hearing their appeal against to four years of legal toing and propriate policing and over- and Courts Bill is being debated conviction at the Supreme froing, illustrates very well the reach against protesters. in Parliament. Court yesterday, Lord Hamblen power of non-violence. “It is an important verdict, Nora Ziegler, Henrietta Cul- and Lord Stephens upheld the “Our government, like many especially now when the gov- linan, Joanna Frew and Chris conclusion of the original trial governments, sees any protest ernment is trying to crack SPECIAL FEATURES FROM STEVE TURNER, Cole were arrested after form- judge. as a threat to its authority, as down even further on the right ing a blockade using “lock-on” They said: “There should be well it might. Selling arms is to protest. DIANE ABBOTT AND MICHELLE STANISTREET devices outside the ExCel Cen- a certain degree of tolerance a rotten, dangerous business.” Turn to page 5 Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 2 June 26-27 2021 news @m_star_online n TRANSPORT INDUSTRY Unions call on PM to aid beleaguered travel industry by Derek Kotz The TSSA accused the gov- Industrial reporter ernment of putting thousands of jobs at risk and called for support to get the industry UNIONS led calls yesterday for through the summer. proper financial support for the The transport union’s gen- transport sector and a science- eral secretary Manuel Cortes led approach to the safe reopen- said: “In the fight against coro- ing of the travel trade. navirus, it’s vital that we follow In the wake of the expan- the scientific advice and open sion of the green list of coun- up safely.” tries from which travellers Transport Secretary Grant will not have to automatically Shapps insisted that the expan- quarantine on their return to sion of the green list offered “a Britain, GMB national officer little bit of relief for the travel Nadine Houghton said that the industry,” while many trans- HEAVY HANDED: The Met was aviation industry “desperately port bosses lobbied for further criticised for the policing of the needs sector-specific furlough easing of travel restrictions, event in the wake of Sarah arrangements.” accusing the government of Everard’s killing In a sector ravaged by the being overcautious. pandemic, GMB members have Shadow home secretary faced pay cuts and continuing Nick Thomas-Symonds said: n SARAH EVERARD MEMORIAL uncertainty over their jobs, “Boris Johnson’s failure to act she said. let the Delta variant take hold Demanding that the gov- and held back our reopening, Woman arrested at vigil to launch legal bid against Met ernment end its “stop-start” with the British people paying THE woman who was seen land Yard’s policing of the other and I feel violated that approach, RMT general secre- the price.” arrested at the Clapham vigil against male violence male officers used physical tary Mick Lynch said: “Work- Professor Adam Finn, a mem- Common vigil for Sarah in March this year. force to do so. ers in the international travel ber of the Joint Committee on Everard is preparing to start Hundreds of people “I will not be silenced by sector have been one of the Vaccination and Immunisation, legal action against the Met- turned up throughout the such actions and I am pre- hardest hit groups … and they warned that British travellers ropolitan Police. day, despite the Met saying it pared to robustly challenge deserve certainty and security posed a greater risk to green- Patsy Stevenson (pictured) should not go ahead. the police for their conduct on as they will have a vital long- list countries than they do to called on Scotland Yard to Officers did not intervene for that day until there has been term role to play in rebuilding Britain itself. withdraw the fixed penalty the first six hours but in the an acknowledgement and apol- the UK economy.” [email protected] notice she was issued or she evening several attendees were ogy for their wrongdoing.” would start proceedings violently arrested, with officers Rachel Harger, a Bind- against the force. bundling them to the ground mans solicitor representing The 28-year-old is also ask- after they refused to leave. Ms Stevenson, said the Met ing for an acknowledgement Ms Stevenson said the vigil maintained a position that Scotland Yard confirmed of wrongdoing and an apol- was an important space for participation in the event it had received a letter from ogy. Images of the physics women to grieve together, was a criminal act, which an individual in relation to student being handcuffed but she was “angry that the was “wrong in law… seri- its policing of the vigil, but and held down by two male police shut down our space ously ill-advised and entirely said it will not be discussing officers sparked anger at Scot- to mourn and comfort each unnecessary.” the matter further.

n SOCIAL CARE Labour MP slammed after ‘free care too pricey’ claim by Matt Trinder attack it, losing Labour the next meeting, made no mention of conference calling for the Parliamentary reporter general election. free social care, DNS charged. introduction of proposals put The party has failed to deny One disabled party member forward by the National Inde- that she made the comments. who attended said that Labour pendent Living Support Service LABOUR has betrayed its promise Ms Debbonaire was speaking had betrayed and silenced its (NILSS), according to DNS. to introduce free social care after at a meeting to discuss how to members, adding the party NILSS, drawn up by Disa- a shadow cabinet member alleg- combine various proposals from was now run by “cowardly, bled People Against Cuts and edly said the move would be “too local Labour groups into a sin- unprincipled careerists” who Reclaiming Our Futures Alli- expensive,” party members say. gle motion to be voted on at the “wouldn’t know solidarity if it ance, wants a universal right Shadow Commons leader party’s women’s conference tak- hit them with a big stick.” to independent living to be Thangam Debbonaire told ing place online this weekend. She told DNS: “Right now, enshrined in law and free women party members at a Several CLPs have passed many of us are stuck fighting the social care introduced in Eng- virtual meeting last weekend motions calling for free social [Department for Work and Pen- land, funded by national and that the policy would “give the care, and a draft composite sions], the government and local progressive taxation. Tories a stick to beat Labour motion included two references authorities just to survive. But Labour did not comment on with,” the Disability News to the policy, including a call apparently promising us hope the party’s social care policy. Service (DNS) reported on for Labour to make the provi- that we won’t always have to A spokesperson said last week- Thursday. sion of all social care “free, fight like this is too expensive.” end’s motion was “democrati- The Bristol West MP alleg- needs-based, publicly funded During his Labour leader- cally agreed” by all CLPs who GROUND TO A HALT: Unions are calling for proper financial support for edly claimed that the move [and] free at the point of use.” ship campaign last year, Sir attended the meeting. the transport sector and a science-led approach to the safe reopening would cost £100 billion and that But the final version of the Keir Starmer backed a motion [email protected] of the travel trade right-wing newspapers would motion, prepared just before the passed at the party’s annual Star Comment: p12 morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online news June 26-27 2021 3 n AFFAIR RUMOURS n COURTS Men accused of shooting BLM HANCOCK ‘MUST GO’ AFTER activist to deny guilty charge FOUR men charged over the Brown, 18, of Southwark, are shooting of Black Lives Mat- all charged with conspiracy ter campaigner Sasha John- to murder. BREAKING OWN C-19 RULES son indicated they would Lawyers representing the plead not guilty yesterday. men indicated they would LABOUR CALL: But Johnson defies critics and accepts Health Secretary’s apology The 27-year-old mother deny the charge against of two was left in a critical them, although formal pleas by Matt Trinder down and am very sorry. condition in hospital after were not entered. Parliamentary reporter “I remain focused on work- being shot in the head dur- Ms Johnson is a found- ing to get the country out of ing a silent disco in the gar- ing member of the Taking this pandemic, and would be den of a house in Peckham, The Initiative Party and had LABOUR has called for Health grateful for privacy for my fam- south London, last month. been a prominent figure in Secretary Matt Hancock to ily on this personal matter.” Yesterday, four men the Black Lives Matter move- be sacked, after he admitted Labour chairwoman Anne- appeared before Judge ment last summer. breaking social distancing liese Dodds said: “If Matt Han- Mark Lucraft QC at the Police have said rules with an aide he is accused cock has been secretly having a Old Bailey by video previously they do of having an affair with. relationship with an adviser in link from Belmarsh not believe she was Mr Hancock said yesterday his office — who he personally jail. Prince Dixon, 25, the intended victim he was “very sorry” that he appointed to a taxpayer-funded of Gravesend, Kent, of the shooting. had let people down, but he role — it is a blatant abuse of Troy Reid, 19, of South- refused to resign, claiming he power and a clear conflict of wark, Cameron Deriggs, CRITICAL remained focused on tackling interest. 18, of Lewisham, NOTHING TO SEE HERE: Gina Coladangelo and Matt Hancock CONDITION: the Covid-19 pandemic. “The charge sheet against and Devonte Sasha Johnson Labour said that his position The images — reportedly The West Suffolk MP has Matt Hancock includes wast- had become “hopelessly unten- taken from CCTV footage at been married to his wife Mar- ing taxpayers’ money, leaving able,” and demanded Prime the Department of Health and tha for 15 years and they have care homes exposed and now Minister Boris Johnson fire him. Social Care (DHSC) — were cap- three children. Ms Coladangelo being accused of breaking his Mr Hancock was already under tured on May 6, the newspaper is the marketing and commu- own Covid rules. huge pressure due to multiple claimed, ahead of the relaxa- nications director at British “His position is hopelessly failures over care home deaths tion of rules on closer physical fashion and homeware retailer untenable. Boris Johnson and the test-and-trace system contact outside of household Oliver Bonas, founded by her should sack him.” during the pandemic. bubbles on May 17. husband, Oliver Tress, and also However a Downing Street Pictures of the married Cabi- Mr Hancock allegedly hired has three children. spokesman said that Mr John- net minister appearing to kiss his Ms Coladangelo as an unpaid Mr Hancock said: “I accept son had accepted Mr Hancock’s employee and close friend Gina adviser in March 2020, before that I breached the social dis- apology and “considers the mat- Coladangelo were published in appointing her as a non-execu- tancing guidance in these cir- ter closed.” yesterday’s Sun newspaper. tive director at the DHSC. cumstances, I have let people [email protected] n BURSARIES n NO TO NEW NORMAL Scotland Communists in Ireland and ‘facing crisis People’s Assembly to lead their newspaper Unity shortage of stand in solidarity with the mass protest against Tories People’s Assembly in Britain on paramedics’ by Ceren Sagir #NotFitToGovern.” mate emergency. SCOTLAND could face a criti- Former Labour leader Jeremy The protest has been sup- the day of their demonstration cal shortage of paramedics in Corbyn, who will be speaking ported by unions such as the against austerity. future if students in the pro- THOUSANDS of people from at the rally, urged the public to Communication Workers fession are not given the same all across Britain will gather in join the demonstration. Union, Aslef, Unite and the bursaries as those training to London today in a national dem- He said: “We’re calling for National Education Union, as become nurses and midwives, onstration calling for the Tories real action to save our schools well as campaign and commu- And our demands most unions and campaigners to be booted out of government. and end marketisation of edu- nity groups. moderate are, we only warned yesterday. A statement from protest cation and NHS.” A Unite statement said: “Our Unison Scotland called on organisers the People’s Assem- The demonstration is communities have suffered the want the earth. the SNP government to provide bly said: “The Tories have crimi- demanding the renationalisa- greatest hits from Covid in the student paramedics with equal nally failed us during the pan- tion of key industries, sacking world. The loss of lives, and funding following concerns demic. Their corruption and of corrupt politicians, ending jobs, the economic pain, have about the economic burden dangerous incompetence has bosses’ attempts to fire and been horrific. on individuals. been irrefutable. rehire workers, decent housing “People have given and are A recent survey by the Pay “And the consequences have for all, combating institutional still giving so much in this time Student Paramedics Campaign been devastating. They are racism and action on the cli- of crisis, they deserve so much showed that more than eight in better than this government.” 10 were experiencing burnout, And We Own It said: with more than half saying they “Throughout the pandemic, were likely to leave their course we’ve seen clearly just how due to financial pressures. damaging privatisation really is. Unison Scottish ambulance “Enough is enough. We The Workers’ Stately Home branch steward Gary Henry demand our services are 567 said: “Student paramedics brought back into public own- are our future colleagues and ership.” Supports the objectives of it is vital that they are given Speakers will also include the best possible start to their Labour MPs Barry Gardiner the demonstration organised careers, especially given the and Richard Burgon, Kill the impact of the pandemic.” Bill official Delia Mattis, artist by the People’s Assembly Lisa Tainsh of the Pay Stu- Lowkey, Stop the War Coali- dent Paramedics Campaign tion’s Lindey German and trade and looks forward to when said: “The brutal reality is that union representatives. unless support such as a bur- Protesters will gather outside we can celebrate their sary gets put in place, Scotland the BBC in central London at 12 could be facing a critical short- FIGHTING BACK: A People’s Assemby demonstration in 2019 noon and march to Parliament. achievements age of paramedics.” [email protected] North West Sends solidarity to all those marching today and all those working to build a better post-pandemic society

Lynne Morris Lynn Collins Regional Chair Regional Secretary

INDIAN WORKERS’ ASSOCIATION (GB) ASSOCIATION OF INDIAN COMMUNISTS (GB) Solidarity with brothers and sisters in struggle against this corrupt, racist and anti-working class Tory government. Solidarity with Indian farmers who are fighting Indian government for its crony capitalist and fascist policies sitting on Delhi borders. Unite and fight for peace and justice.

DYAL BAGRI JOGINDER KAUR BAINS HARSEV BAINS National president General secretary Secretary AIC morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online news June 26-27 2021 5 n ELECTION GALVANISING: Sculptor Peter Walker with his bronze statue Anti-racist rally to oppose of St Chad, first Bishop of Lichfield and the founder of fascist gathering in Batley Lichfield Cathedral, as it completes its journey from a by Peter Lazenby foundry in Wales to Lichfield Cathedral, Staffordshire ANTI-RACISTS will mobilise today against a demonstration by racists and fascists who are attempting to cash in on public- ity surrounding the Batley and “ It’s a disgrace Spen parliamentary by-election in West Yorkshire. Five far-right candidates are that fascists and standing in the election, which takes place on Thursday July 1. racists are using Among them is Anne Marie Waters of the fascist For Britain the by-election Movement. Fascist and convicted fraudster Tommy Robinson, to promote the real name Stephen Yaxley-Len- non, will attend a rally in her kind of division support in Batley today. Stand Up To Racism (SUTR) TARGETED: Murdered MP Jo Cox has called a counter-demonstra- and hate that tion and activists will meet at not allow fascist and racists to the steps of Batley town hall march or gather unopposed. brought the from noon. Batley is a multicultural town Batley and Spen’s Labour MP with people from many back- tragic death Jo Cox was murdered in the grounds and faiths — we can’t street by far-right extremist let the far right divide us.” of Jo Cox Thomas Mair in 2016. SUTR West Yorkshire’s n EQUALITIES Mick Fitzpatrick of Batley Rashida Islam said: “We SUTR said: “It’s a disgrace that urge all communities to Jo Cox’s sister Kim Lead- fascists and racists are using stand together, unite against beater is Labour’s candidate the by-election to promote the hatred, racism, fascism, in the election following the kind of division and hate that Islamophobia, anti-semitism resignation of Labour MP Tracy brought the tragic death of Jo and join us on Saturday. As Brabin, after she won the West ‘BOSSES MUST BE Cox MP to this constituency.” Jo Cox said, we have more Yorkshire mayoral election SUTR national co-convenor in common than that which in May. Weyman Bennett said: “We will divides us.” [email protected] MADE TO REPORT n EIS-FELA n FRONT PAGE Forth Valley ARMS ACTIVISTS ETHNIC PAY GAP’ dispute wins UNITING CAUSE: Unions, businesses and rights watchdog make joint call protections by Derek Kotz The joint letter says: “We help to open businesses’ eyes GET VINDICATION Industrial reporter believe the report’s recom- to what is happening in their mendations, in particular organisations. for lecturers FROM PAGE ONE: “If the tis said that the charges those related to pay dispari- “Large employers are already SCOTLAND’S largest teaching current proposals become against the protesters A JOINT call for the govern- ties, could go further in order used to the gender pay gap reg- union has welcomed a ruling law, they will give even were ridiculous. ment to introduce mandatory to effectively increase the ulations, and reporting on the which will protect the pay and more powers to the Ms Mattis warned ethnicity pay gap reporting was participation and progres- experience of employees from conditions of lecturers at Forth police, while making it that the Policing Bill is issued yesterday by the TUC, sion of ethnic minorities in ethnic minority backgrounds Valley College. even harder for people to “attacking our rights to the Confederation of British the workplace and create a will increase understanding of The Educational Institute of make their voices heard.” peacefully protest and in Industry (CBI) and the Equality fairer Britain.” the factors that contribute to Scotland’s Further Education Mr Smith said the DSEI doing so are attempting and Human Rights Commission The three bodies urged min- pay disparities and inform the Lecturers Association (EIS-FELA) arms fair brings all of the to silence our voices.” (EHRC). isters to provide a timeframe changes that need to happen.” has been in a long-running dis- biggest arms dealers and She added: “Protest In a letter to Michael Gove, to introduce mandatory report- CBI chief UK policy director pute over proposed job down- many of the world’s most has been the way many Chancellor of the Duchy of ing in order to help minority Matthew Fell said that compa- grading by Forth Valley College repressive regimes to Lon- marginalised groups Lancaster, the three organisa- ethnic workers “reach their full nies wanted to see the introduc- management, which would have don and that such events have challenged systemic tions say that the move would potential in the workplace.” tion of mandatory reporting seen many changes to so-called have “real consequences.” issues for hundreds of “transform our understanding Ms O’Grady said: “The sad “because closing the gap is not “instructor-assessor” posts. He said: “They years but now the state of race inequality at work and, reality is that even today race just the right thing to do: the In a move to resolve the dis- strengthen Britain’s ties wants us to ask permis- most importantly, drive action still plays a significant role in business case is watertight.” pute, which included indus- to dictatorships and sion and wants to moni- to tackle it where we find it.” determining people’s pay and derekkotz@ trial action short of strike and entrench the govern- tor the volume of noise Signed by TUC general sec- career progression. peoples-press.com strike action, a joint referral ment’s role as a global we make at protests, retary Frances O’Grady, CBI “This problem isn’t going was made to the National Joint arms dealer. It is no won- which is quite frankly director general Tony Danker to magic itself away: with- TACKLING Negotiating Committee, which der that so many people absurd. and EHRC chairwoman Baron- out robust and urgent INEQUALITY: found that the posts were lec- are moved to protest “A Tory government ess Kishwer Falkner, the letter action many black and TUC general turing posts and therefore against it. that makes it their busi- was sent in response to recent minority ethnic work- secretary subject to lecturers’ terms “Unfortunately, the arms ness to interfere with recommendations made by the ers will continue to be Frances and conditions. dealers are set to return, other countries for what Commission on Race and Eth- held back. O’Grady EIS-FELA branch convener and many of us will be they call human rights nic Disparities (Cred). “Unions stand ready Anne Marie Harley commended taking to the streets in abuses is attempting Cred’s highly controversial to work with employers, the staff’s resilience. She said: opposition. It’s time for to inflict with the most report, published in March, was regulators and government “This determination vindicates arms fairs like DSEI to be draconian human rights widely condemned for denying on practical steps to tackle the branch’s campaign and shut down for good.” abuse in their own back the existence of institutional inequality and discrimination industrial action in protecting Kill the Bill Official yard.” racism in Britain and did not in the workplace.” the role of lecturers at Forth campaigner Delia Mat- [email protected] recommend mandatory ethnic- Baroness Falkner said: Valley College.” ity pay gap reporting. “Reporting data can VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED OUR CLASS, OUR CULTURE SERIES People’s Assembly Demo LEFT-WING YOUTH ORGANISATIONS: WHY PEOPLE JOIN The Star needs your help with paper distribution and stalls today, Saturday June 26, at the People’s Assembly national Tuesday July 6, 7pm, Edinburgh, via Zoom demonstration in central London. 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Visit: mstar.link/shop morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online news June 26-27 2021 7 n POLITICS n WESTMINSTER PROBE Labour ‘gutting its Members ‘not consulted’ on own activist base plans to sell off LV mutual by Matt Trinder ceded that friendly soci- Parliamentary reporter “some form ety, origi- of discus- nally set up from within’ – JVL sion” about to help work- MPs and peers have expressed demutualis- ers avoid a by Matt Trinder communications shut down, Labour was “dramatically concern after it emerged that ing the insurance giant had pauper’s funeral, to US private Parliamentary reporter agendas censored, selection overstated for political reasons” financial regulators met Liver- taken place during the virtual equity giant Bain Capital. processes interfered with, and after the Equality and Human pool Victoria (LV) bosses multi- appointments between bosses Urging ministers to inves- elected post-holders sacked. Rights Commission (EHRC) pub- ple times to discuss selling off and the bank’s officials from tigate, the Harrow West MP LABOUR’S activist base is being Fellow grassroots groups the lished its report on the matter. the friendly society without the Prudential Regulation warned that Mr Cook, Post gutted from within as local Labour In Exile Network and A decision to readmit Mr Cor- consulting its owners — the Authority (PRA). Office managing director dur- branches face “what appears to Labour Activists for Justice, byn to the party was made less customers. The PRA would also not ing the wrongful prosecution be deliberate anti-democratic as well as legendary left-wing than a month later by a panel In his reply to a letter revisit LV’s conversion of subpostmasters, could make action” from party leadership, film-maker Ken Loach, have of Labour’s national executive from a cross-party group into a company limited millions from the deal. Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) accused Sir Keir Starmer’s committee. led by Labour Co-op MP by guarantee and there- He told the Morning Star warned yesterday. leadership team of attempting But Sir Keir has since refused Gareth Thomas, Bank fore without sharehold- yesterday: “LV members are The grassroots group said to purge the party of support- to restore the whip, ignoring a of England governor ers in 2019, Mr Bailey at the mercy of rogue manag- that the party’s survival is now ers of his predecessor Jeremy warning by the EHRC against Andrew Bailey con- said — a move some ers who assume all the rights at stake, and published reports Corbyn. political interference in such firmed that officials had fear was a step towards of ownership with none of its from rank-and-file members The Islington North MP was cases. not sought to consult privatisation. responsibilities. across the country detailing suspended by party officials Accusations of undemo- members despite In the Commons “Following LV’s failure to moves by Labour’s national last October for claiming that cratic practices in constituency meeting LV last month, Mr consult and communicate and regional bureaucracy to the scale of anti-semitism in Labour Parties (CLPs) cited by management Thomas said that with its consumer owners we disenfranchise activists. JVL include a hostile takeover more than 35 LV chairman Alan might expect regulators to In addition to dozens of in Bristol West by supporters of times during Cook was driv- stand up for them rather than suspensions directed from Sir Keir after the local party’s the Covid-19 ing the sale of act as facilitators for well-paid the office of Labour general co-chairs and secretary were pandemic. the 178-year-old managers.” secretary David Evans, paid suspended for allowing mem- In his let- LV said it would not be regional officers are interven- bers to discuss the national ter dated FOLLOW THE appropriate to comment on the ing “arbitrarily” to undermine leadership’s treatment of Mr June 1, Mr MONEY: MP correspondence. rank-and-file organisation, JVL Corbyn. Bailey con- Gareth Thomas [email protected] charged. It also notes that members of The group noted that meet- Chingford and Woodford Green ings are being cancelled, “ CLP in north-east London had a “freedom to debate” motion With our allies in rejected earlier this year after three branch members were sus- KEEPING the trade union pended on unspecified charges. WATCH: JVL said: “Our party is in cri- Sir Keir movement, we sis. Members are under attack, Starmer our freedom to debate and have to fight organise are under the great- est threat since the party was back — and now. created. “With our allies in the trade union movement, we have to … The very fight back — and now. This is not the time to leave. The survival of our very survival of our party is at stake.” party is at stake Labour was contacted for comment. Jewish Voice for Labour [email protected]

n WELFARE SNP urged to mitigate impact of benefit cap GREEN MSPs are calling Green social security on Scottish ministers to spokeswoman Maggie n CURRENCY guarantee the full mitiga- Chapman MSP said: “The tion of a UK-wide cap on cap takes over £200 a benefits which limits month out of the pockets Scottish note features the amount of financial 7,000 of our poorest families, support that a house- The number of Scots and we cannot meet Scot- woman for the first time hold can receive. families losing an land’s challenging child The Tory policy caps average of up to £50 a poverty reduction targets A WOMAN features on the face She was involved in organis- the amount of social week due to the Tory without reversing this of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s ing schools for poor children security one can receive, benefit cap injustice. new £50 note for the first time. and was a strong supporter of regardless of the level of “Parliament has An illustration of Scottish education for girls. need. requested the Scottish education pioneer Flora Ste- This included pressing for Child poverty cam- government examines venson is on the bank’s new university education to be paigners have previously plans to end this inhu- polymer note. opened up to women, and she said that scrapping the of up to £56 per week mane policy and it must The design was unveiled at was at the first course of lec- cap would move 150,000 through the cap. act, and quickly.” Edinburgh’s Flora Stevenson tures for women by Edinburgh children out of poverty Earlier this month, Primary School (pictured). University Professor David Mas- across the UK. Holyrood backed Scottish Born into a merchant family son in 1868. The latest call came as Green Party proposals MORNINGSTAR in Glasgow and later settling She was one of the first new figures showed that committing to “exploring ONLINE.CO.UK in Edinburgh, her first educa- women in Britain to be elected 7,000 families are cur- funding options to end tional project was an evening to a school board and thousands rently losing an average the benefit cap.” Socialist news hub literacy class for “messenger of children are said to have lined girls” in her own home. the streets for her funeral. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 8 June 26-27 2021 world @m_star_online

n LEBANON UNREST REIGNITES AMID GROWING POLITICAL CHAOS by Steve Sweeney, based on sectarian quotas. tried to control it and steer it AUTHORITARIAN: in Beirut, Lebanon But the initial radical away from its original aims. President Erdogan at a Nato demands were sidelined as the “I have no optimism or hope. summit in Belgium, on June 14 movement was co-opted and Many of of friends and family sim- PROTESTS have reignited in the demonstrations faded away. ply left Lebanon. I will stay maybe Lebanon as the continued politi- “The NGOs turned up and another year and see how the situ- n MIDDLE EAST cal deadlock raised fears that the then the protests in Martyr’s ation is then. I want to stay, this country is on the verge of collapse. CRISIS: Protesters burn tires Square became a joke. They put is my country, my home. But we Roads were blockaded in south- to block a road, in Beirut, up a stage and there were belly cannot go on like this,” she said. ern Beirut on Thursday night as Lebanon, on Thursday dancers,” Mohammad said. But there seems to be no end hundreds of protesters in the poor, “They tried to turn it into a to the political deadlock which Erdogan’s son in predominantly Shia neighbour- carnival, gutting it of radical has gripped the country since hoods burnt tyres and banged content and depoliticising it. the government resigned in the pots and pans in anger over the They obviously had lots of cash. aftermath of the Beirut port the frame for deepening economic crisis. “But where did it come from? explosion nearly one year ago. They chanted slogans con- You have to ask questions,” he said, French Foreign Minister Jean- demning US imperialism for insinuating that it was a deliberate Yves Le Drian announced yester- its continued sanctions which effort from external forces. day that Paris and Washington stealing Syria’s oil are crippling the country’s A lecturer at a university in will “move together to put pres- economy and pushing people the Lebanese capital said that she sure” including sanctions on into starvation. posed an increase in taxes on had given up hope for Lebanon those responsible for the crisis. by Our Foreign Desk Deutsche Welle on Thursday Local journalist Mohammad the WhatsApp messaging ser- after initially joining “the revolu- Prime Minister designate Mr Jaafri said that the Syrian told the Morning Star that the vice, the most popular form of tion” with enthusiasm, believing Hassan Diab extended partial government has sent 108 letters country has been “a tinderbox communication in Lebanon. it would lead to change. subsidies on fuel for a further SYRIAN Deputy Foreign Minister to UN secretary-general Anto- waiting to explode,” saying that They soon developed into “People started shooting three months yesterday in a bid Bashar Jaafari claimed that the nio Guterres and other bodies he had been expecting “riots” broader demands for politi- us. Many people lost eyes, to stave off the crisis, however Turkish President Recep Tayyip about “thousands of terrorists for some weeks. cal change and an end to the legs and injured limbs. Then motorists face shortages and Erdogan’s son was involved in coming in from Turkey.” Protests started in October confessional parliamentary the movement was co-opted electricity is becoming scarce. stealing the country’s oil and “I’d like to express that I con- 2019 after the government pro- system that allocates seats by the political factions who [email protected] colluding with Isis on Thursday. firm, affirm and verify what Mr Mr Jaafari also said that the Sedat Peker said is completely Turkish state and intelligence true,” he said. services had been sending weap- “What Mr Sedat Peker said n COLD WAR ons to jihadist groups including about the involvement of the al-Nusra via the shady Sadat pri- Erdogan regime — including his vate security company, whose family members — in the theft China angry founder Adnan Tanriverdi is an of our oil, natural gas, mines adviser to Mr Erdogan. and grain,” Mr Jaafari added. at US Hong The Syrian official was con- “Because we witnessed in firming allegations made by 2015 and 2016 that Erdogan’s Turkish mafia boss Sedat Peker, son managed the theft of our Kong claims whose weekly YouTube videos oil and natural gas by Isis.” CHINA’S foreign ministry have gripped the nation as he The Syrian official also claimed urged the US to respect the rule reveals dark secrets about the that Turkish intelligence agent of law yesterday in response to country’s leading politicians. Heysem al-Kassar, who died in a President Joe Biden’s comments The exiled mobster said in an suspicious road accident in Febru- on the closure of Hong Kong’s instalment released on May 30 ary, smuggled two litres of sarin Apple Daily newspaper. that billions in the illicit oil trade gas into Syria under the guise of Mr Biden claimed that the was being organised by Turkey’s humanitarian aid. recent move was an indication director of presidential adminis- The chemical agent was of intensified repression by Bei- trative affairs Metin Kiratli and given to al-Nusra, which used jing, branding it a “sad day for that Sadat had been providing the chemical agent to carry out media freedom.” arms to “terror groups.” an attack killing Syrian soldiers Mr Biden’s comments raised In an interview with the and civilians in Aleppo. eyebrows as they came just days German media organisation [email protected] after Washington shut down and barred dozens of Iranian news organisations, claiming that they were spreading disinformation. Foreign ministry spokesman Zhao Lijan described Mr Biden’s CHINA’S PATH TO comments as factually baseless. “Officials in Hong Kong and China have repeatedly said that ZERO POVERTY media freedoms are respected but not absolute, and cannot endan- TODAY: JUNE 26, 2PM ger national security,” he said. Apple Daily editor Jimmy Lai, a billionaire media tycoon The CPC’s elimination of extreme poverty is known as “the Rupert Murdoch unquestionably among its most impressive of Asia,” was jailed in Decem- and historically significant achievements. ber for participating in unau- thorised rallies and inciting for- This webinar will explore how China has been eign intervention during Hong able to carry out the most extensive poverty Kong’s 2019 anti-China riots. alleviation program in history and what China yesterday promoted lessons there are for humanity. Hong Kong’s top security offi- SRI LANKA: Death-row inmates of Sri Lanka’s Welikada prison protest holding banners from the roof of the prison cial John Lee to become chief in Colombo, Sri Lanka, yesterday. About 150 death row inmates in Sri Lanka began a hunger strike to demand their secretary, a post second only to sentences be commuted after the nation’s president pardoned a former lawmaker who had been condemned for an Register on Eventbrite: Chief Executive Carrie Lam, in election-related killing. Banners read: ‘treat all inmates equally,’ ‘grant bail on appeal applications,’ ‘Minister! Stop a sign of continued fears over bit.ly/ZeroPoverty bogus promises,’ ‘Grant pardon to us like you did to terrorists and notorious politicians’ opposition unrest. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online world June 26-27 2021 9

n UNITED STATES Tobacco farmers call for global solidarity TOBACCO farm workers accuse BAT of refusing to Network accused BAT of in North Carolina have recognise the union and helping finance jihadist called for international not acknowledging its groups in Mali using a solidarity over “union- own union-busting opera- number of mechanisms busting” operations by the tions in the supply chain. including oversupply, British American Tobacco The company is based which allowed billions of (BAT) company. in London and its pre- cigarettes to be smuggled They have united in the tax profit rose in 2020 to out of the country. Farm Labour Organising £8.67 billion — compared The AFL-CIO Farm Committee in their cam- with £7.91bn in 2019. Labourers Committee paign for the right to organ- It has been embroiled vowed to “speak out for ise and bargain collectively in a number of scandals, all workers, documented to improve their working and earlier this year the and non-documented and living conditions. Organised Crime and workers,” and gave its full The farm workers Corruption Reporting backing to the campaign.

n SWAZILAND RAGE: Angry demonstrators start fires, block the streets of the city centre and clash with riot police following the Communists set to defy protest ban death of Nizar Banat, an outspoken critic of the Palestinian Authority, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on Thursday The Communist Party of Swa- a return to democracy in the have marched and delivered ziland (CPS) called for mass country, now known as Eswatini. petitions with at least 16 more n PALESTINE action yesterday in defiance Citizens have been calling expected to take place this of a ban on protests issued by for the “unbanning of political weekend. the country’s absolute monarch parties” which were outlawed The CPS called for “mass defi- King Mswati III. in 1973 and an end to the auto- ance of the regime’s directive.” Resistance groups join to Acting prime minister cratic rule of King Mswati who “The regime is opposed to Themba Mask made the order exercises full control of the any move, peaceful or otherwise, at a time when mass demonstra- judiciary and executive. meant for the democratisation of tions have been held calling for More than 20 communities Swaziland. The attacks against demand justice for Banat the people will only intensify with the passage of time,” it said. “The CPS will continue to by Our Foreign Desk for Human Rights (ICHR) said. President Mahmoud Abbas. organise the people towards a Governor of Hebron Jibreen Many Palestinians are still ADVERTISE HERE nationwide mass uprising for al-Bakri said that Mr Banat’s angry over the scrapping of the [email protected] the total overthrow of the Mswati PALESTINIAN resistance forces “health deteriorated during the presidential and parliamentary : autocracy, for freedom,” it said. yesterday demanded justice for arrest” which took place at his elections initially planned for slain parliamentary hopeful home in Dura in the West Bank July 31, the first polls for 15 years. Nizar Banat, who they say was district of Hebron. Mr Abbas pinned the blame “assassinated” by the security But Lawyers for Justice on Israel, but critics said that he n IRAN services of the Palestinian spokesman Muhannad Kara- postponed the elections with Authority (PA). jah said that the PA security Hamas expected to do well, Thousands attended Mr Banat’s services were responsible for which would damage relations funeral prayers at Wasaya al- his demise. with US President Joe Biden. Workers gear up for Rasool Mosque yesterday. “What happened with Nizar Hamas were joined by The prominent critic of the Banat is an assassination,” he lslamic Jihad and the Popular PA was killed soon after he was said. Front for the Liberation of Pal- taken into custody on Thursday “By killing Nizar Banat, the estine in demanding justice where he was allegedly beaten [Palestinian] Authority con- for Mr Banat and criticising 7th day of strike and tortured. firms today that it is a repres- the 1993 Oslo Accords signed “The autopsy showed inju- sive authority that threatens between the Palestine Libera- ries represented by bruises any human rights defender tion Organisation and Israel. and abrasions in many areas of and every person is subjected Samidoun Palestinian Pris- action over low pay the body, including the head, to a process of political arrest.” oners Network urged “Palestin- neck, shoulders, chest, back, Security forces attacked hun- ians, Arabs and international- by Our Foreign Desk ery have been fired. challenge of dealing with and upper and lower extremi- dreds of protesters with tear ists to protest and organise to Those on strike are employed crippling US sanctions which ties, with binding marks on the gas and batons in Ramallah demand justice, accountability by subcontractors who weaken have halted most of Iran’s oil wrists and rib fractures,” the on Thursday as they demanded and the liberation of Palestine.” IRANIAN petrochemical work- the workers’ ability to organise and gas exports. PA’s Independent Commission the resignation of Palestinian [email protected] ers were told to “believe in your by employing them on rolling They were initially imposed power” and stay at home as short-term contracts. by former US president Donald strike action against low wages Conditions in their accom- Trump after he withdrew from continued for the seventh con- modation are poor and work- the Joint and Comprehensive secutive day yesterday. ers are often underpaid and Plan of Action (JCPOA), known “The screws are tightened by their employment status as the Iran nuclear deal. our hands and the pipes welded deliberately misclassified Earlier this week Mr Raisi with our sweat. No project can so bosses avoid pension and said that he would not meet continue unless we assemble, other contributions. with President Joe Biden while weld, or scaffold. UMMI activist Maziyar the sanctions remain in place. “Believe in your power and Gilaninejhad said workers Mr Gilaninejhad said he did stay at home – let’s see if the scaf- hoped the pressure pushed not expect the new president folding erects itself,” the Union the government to recognise to make a difference. of Metalworkers and Mechanics workers’ right to organise as “Governments come and (UMMI) said in a statement. guaranteed by the Interna- go. But the rentier economic The action, which started on tional Labour Organisation. system in Iran has never June 19, has spread to include Last year similar action saw changed,” he said, noting that thousands of workers at 22 more than 10,000 workers stop Mr Raisi had started his term refineries and projects includ- work for a month in the South with vows to “eliminate” policy ing Jahan Pars, Gachsaran Pet- Pars oil and gas fields forcing that “slows down the private rochemicals, Tehran Refinery bosses to improve wages and sector” in Iran. and Abadan Refinery. conditions. IndustriALL assistant gen- Workers at the National Ira- The industrial action accom- eral secretary Kemal Ozkan nian Oil Company (NIOC) will panies last week’s election of said that the union salutes the join the strike and hold nation- hardliner Ebrahim Raisi as the workers and “stands in solidar- wide protest rallies on June 30. country’s next president, a post ity with their struggle and just At least 700 workers are he will take up in August. demands.” believed at the Tehran refin- He faces the immediate [email protected] Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 10 June 26-27 2021 features @m_star_online

Struggle on the Streets the best photos from the week’s protests around the world

ABOVE: Protests rally a new condition for government monthly aid payments outside the National Assembly in Panama City. Aid will now be given only in exchange for social work or study. LEFT: Demonstrators protest outside a South Carolina police station against the arrest of two men by officers in Rock Hill who were recorded on a Facebook video throwing punches with the two.

ABOVE: Protesters against the July opening of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics gathered outside the Tokyo metropolitan government building during a demonstration.

ABOVE: Windrush campaigners protest outside the Home Office in London, England, to demand that a programme designed to compensate them be taken out of the hands of the agency that violated their rights. LEFT: Cuba supporters condemn the US decision to uphold an embargo against it in Havana, Cuba. The United States voted against a UN resolution that overwhelmingly condemned the embargo, maintaining the Trump administration’s opposition. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online features June 26-27 2021 11

Struggle on the Streets the best photos from the week’s protests around the world

ABOVE: A pro-democracy protester during a demonstration in Bangkok, Thailand, to mark the 89th anniversary of the overthrow of the country’s absolute monarchy by renewing demands that the government step down, the constitution be amended and the monarchy become more accountable. BELOW: An Indigenous woman stands in front of a formation of riot police blocking a road, outside Congress in Brasilia, Brazil as campaigners protest againt a proposed Bill they say would limit recognition of reservation lands.

ABOVE: Protesters rally in front of the US Supreme Court in Washington, highlighting the right to vote and living wages. BELOW: A protester holding a rainbow flag runs onto the pitch in front of the Hungarian team before the Euro 2020 soccer championship group F match between Germany and Hungary at the football arena stadium in Munich, Germany, after UEFA’s rejected the request to light up the stadium in rainbow colours. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 12 June 26-27 2021 features @m_star_online

Star comment Diane Abbott MP for Hackney North We march for the radical change Westminster Tory policies make

politics won’t offer

THOUSANDS will join this weekend’s People’s Assembly demonstration in London and other rallies around the country. this government not Our sleaze-ridden, race-baiting government and the so-called Labour opposition have both shown us why. Rather than acknowledge the impact of their own policies in undermining working-class children’s start in life, Conservative MPs claim that anti-racism hurts white kids. Rather than reward our heroic NHS workers with a pay fit to govern: we rise, they prefer to splurge billions on gunboat diplomacy and nuclear warheads. The British government has among the worst records worldwide on Covid. The staggering death toll is the result of policy choices made in Downing Street, as many trade unions, left campaigns and the Morning Star were pointing out long before Dominic Cummings gave us the inside story. should resist them all This government must go. Yet we cannot look to today’s Labour to show it the door. Bristol West MP Thangam Debbonaire’s dismissal of free social care for disabled and older people this week shows us Rather than fighting the divisive ‘culture wars,’ we must several reasons why. focus on resisting every part of the Tory agenda and

One is its dishonesty. Keir Starmer pledged support for free social care when standing for the leadership. Like most of his proposing truly transformative economic policies instead other pledges, this promise seems to have bitten the dust. Another is its anti-democratic character. Free social care had formed part of a draft composite motion for the party women’s HE DEMONSTRA- We are an international and Black Lives Matter that dumped exceptions, there has also not conference. But it has been edited out of the motion that will TION today is a internationalist movement. So Trump. been much parliamentary lead- get to the conference floor. great opportunity I make no apology by focusing In this country and despite ership opposing the increas- Debbonaire will be comfortable with this. Her Bristol bailiwick to bring together first on the horrific treatment an 80-seat majority, various ingly authoritarian drive of has been among the worst areas for purging and silencing left- all the strands of of black people and other peo- campaigners have also shown this reactionary government, wing party members. How well this works electorally we saw the movement, ple of colour in the US. Because that this government is for which is removing itself and last month when Labour lost 12 seats locally to the Greens. Tboth long-established and we are also inspired by the turning. This is true on Free many arms of the state from But worst of all is Labour’s stultifying lack of ambition. newly emerging, in the fight resistance to those attacks. School Meals, on visa charges any democratic accountability, Free social care would be as expensive as the NHS — and for a better society and against It is important to register a for NHS staff, on A-level test- including for the most serious therefore “a stick for the Tories to beat us with.” the policies of this government. great triumph and a triumph ing, on the reopening of crimes, torture, rape and mur- Imagine if Labour in 1945 had shown such utter cowardice. We are united against the of the Black Lives Matter schools in January and many der. The right to protest and to The NHS was an extraordinarily ambitious project — and the Tories. But we should also be movement in particular. One other issues. vote are under threat. Tories fought a ferocious propaganda campaign against it, clear that we are not fighting person who will not at all be This shows that all that is There is a myth in this coun- claiming it was both unaffordable and a threat to individual the individuals that comprise happy with the events of the required is real opposition to try that Biden’s economic pol- freedom. But Labour made the case for a radical new normal, this government, or even Tory past year is Donald Trump. this government. But all of icy was not radical and we in and it won. rule. We completely oppose Trump was defeated fair these U-turns were forced by Labour should limit our ambi- We are grappling with a public health crisis, but one which the entire reactionary agenda and square at the polls and Joe great campaigners operating tions to achieve electoral suc- has underlined longer-term problems which make it clearer of this government. Biden is now the President of outside Parliament and they cess as a result. than ever that the status quo is unsustainable. This means opposing it root the United States. achieved their victories without It is impossible to say Our politics are crooked. Our economy is rigged. And the and branch in terms of all its Trump tried to run on much parliamentary support. whether Biden can or will endless accumulation of super-profits by a tiny minority is attacks, coming to the defence a “law and order” ticket, Scandalously, the govern- implement his policies, he poisoning the planet itself. of all working people and those threatening the black and ment has not yet been properly is already being thwarted suffering discrimination and Latino communities and other held to account for the 150,000 on major public-sector counterposing progressive ethnic groups in the country dead from Covid, for the 2 infrastructure investment. policies of our own to the with the full force of the state. million with long Covid, the But a massive investment to This is a crisis that calls for the kind of transformative vision Tories’ extreme right-wing In effect it was an attempt at hundreds of thousands made tackle climate change, infra- Labour did articulate in the recent past. agenda. creating a civil war atmosphere unemployed, or the fact that structure spending, big new Yet now Labour can’t even make the case for overhauling The latest Tory tactic in its where various far-right and half the workforce has seen a spending on health and edu- social care despite appalling crimes against elderly and disabled so-called “culture wars” is white-supremacist groups real pay cut. cation and support for a feder- care home residents by the Tories over the last year, tied to the abuse of public reports acted above and outside the Aside from very honourable ally-mandated minimum wage thousands of unnecessary deaths. to support their ridiculous law. This was supplemented Debbonaire’s view that the public oppose higher state claim that institutional racism by the activities of the police, spending is based on a misreading of the reasons for Labour’s does not exist. The aim of National Guard and other recent reverses. this offensive is to create Federal agencies. As we saw in 2017, when Labour won its biggest vote increase and exacerbate division and This civil war atmosphere in 70 years, and are still told by opinion polls today, people discrimination. was carried on right into are in favour of higher spending, more public ownership and All of us in the labour Capitol Hill after the result was higher taxes on the rich. movement, campaigners, NGOs known, in an effort to overturn “ An election defeat caused by Brexit denialism and four years and others must respond with a democratic election. As yet, there is of relentless character assassination of Jeremy Corbyn by every unity against division and It failed spectacularly. An Establishment media operation in the country is being spun discrimination, fighting all early examination of the exit no mass as a rejection of socialist policies that continue to be popular. injustices including racism, polls suggests that it was black So popular they forced the Tories to abandon talk of austerity sexism and homophobia. people who came out in droves movement that and to pose as the champions of high-expenditure infrastructure As we have suffered a series for Biden, along with increasing projects and “levelling up.” of defeats with the election in numbers of Latino voters. No wonder a party determined to erase its most successful 2019 and the removal of Jeremy In places like Arizona it is going to lead manifesto in decades while smearing and patronising its own Corbyn as leader, I want to seems to be the votes of the activists is proving worse than useless in opposition. register first that victories are daughters and sons of immi- to the rapid The impetus for the radical changes we need is not coming possible, even if we have got out grants that were decisive. This from Westminster. It has to come from our movement, in the of the habit a bit. We struggle is a justice against a president dumping of workplace and the community. and sometimes we win. And I who caged migrant children Today, on the streets, we will make that point. think it is important to register and who broke up literally that. hundreds of families. It was Britain’s Trump morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online features June 26-27 2021 13

Diane Abbott MP for Hackney North Whatever you’re angry about, campaigning for, demanding action on – join the People’s Assembly on the streets today We must send a strong message that as we emerge from Covid, there must be no going back to business as usual, says STEVE TURNER of Unite

T’S been a long time since government not fit to govern. virus to spread since people Unite Community and indus- we were together on our As we emerge from Covid, could not afford to self-isolate. trial branches to build local coa- streets. There’s nothing there must be no going back to That the Treasury held litions to campaign against the quite like being able to business as usual. No going back back the right of employ- universal credit £20 cut stand together, in person, to the failed austerity policies ers to temporarily furlough throughout this summer, Iin solidarity. of the past — the low-paid workers required to quaran- taking the campaign directly And there’s certainly plenty insecure jobs, homelessness, tine was disgraceful and a to Tories in their constituencies of $15 an hour sounds pretty that voters are deterred by the for us to protest about. From food and clothing banks, the deliberate decision that will where thousands of families economically radical. left has no factual basis. growing unemployment and privatisation and contracting undoubtedly have cost lives, are struggling to put food on Maybe not quite Corbynism, Unfortunately, in this disgraceful “fire and rehire” of out of our NHS and our public led to increased infections the table and keep roofs over but not completely opposed country and in others there working people, to the looming services, on their knees and meant that successive their heads. to it either. By contrast, this is nothing comparable to the cut to universal credit, growing through the crisis but held lockdowns have lasted longer It’s not often I find myself government has no plan on size or scope of the Black Lives inequalities, institutionalised together by the courageous than necessary, further dam- in agreement with a Tory, but climate change, zero-hours Matter movement. As yet, there racism and the growth of workers on the front line who aging the economy, jobs and there was little to argue with contracts are soaring, real is no mass movement that is the far right, for peace in an kept our loved ones cared for livelihoods. in Ken Clarke’s dismissal of the pay is being cut and “fire and going to lead to the rapid increasingly dangerous world and our communities moving, The failure to support the £200 million to be splurged on rehire” encouraged. dumping of Britain’s Trump. or to fight the insulting 1 per and who far too often lost low paid and vulnerable to the royal yacht as “populist There is also a myth that it cent pay offer to our NHS and their own lives to this terrible isolate has been an act of gross nonsense.” was the association with the ut that means public service heroes and the disease. negligence. But in the context of radicals, the socialists and the onus is on us, threat to the right to protest They showed, as ever, that The government failed Brit- offering a real-terms pay cut Black Lives Matter that cost the people on the itself from the Police, Crime, it’s the solidarity of our class ain’s workers and our economy to NHS staff and snatching the Democrats the landslide demos today and Sentencing and Courts Bill. that holds our society together, because they chose to side with back £1,040 a year from a decent opposition should the wider move- Whatever you’re not the grasping cronyism of their ideological hatred of the universal credit claimants, a expect vs someone like Trump. ment, to lead campaigning for, demanding the Tory class. social security that we all pay lifeline that has enabled them Yet all the Democratic Breal opposition to this govern- action on or simply angry But now the Son of Austerity into and not with the working to feed their kids, heat their Congressional candidates who ment, which daily increases its about, join the People’s is coming back for more. people of this country. homes, buy school uniforms, espoused Medicare for All got authoritarianism, its mistreat- Assembly on London’s streets Chancellor Rishi Sunak appears The cancellation of the so- replace broken washing elected, every single one of ment of refugees, its grotesque today to demand a new determined to claw back some called summit on social care machines and install vital them. undermining of public health normal and the removal of a of the billions he’s been forced, this week was an ominous sign broadband, it’s more than In Europe, we see a similar and its widening of inequality by your actions, your protest that Sunak is not interested in nonsense, it’s inhumane and pattern. Labour’s sister parties and discrimination. and campaigns alongside us, finding the cash the sector des- an absolute disgrace. who work with the left remain This is a government so the trade unions, to shell out perately needs. For so many reasons the in office. Labour’s sister par- steeped in the mire, it even over the past 17 months to No doubt he will also use Tories really are not fit to ties that embraced austerity denies that institutional rac- protect jobs and businesses, the lifting of remaining Covid govern! and anti-migrant rhetoric are ism exists. We have to rise to support the low paid and restrictions on July 19 as a rea- So, whatever motivates peripheral forces, often in sin- the challenge Black Lives Mat- unemployed. son not to step back from push- you: from housing to jobs, gle digits in the polls. The claim ter has set us. To demand jus- A 17 months that arguably ing more of the cost of furlough our NHS to educating our tice, to demand equality and could have been shortened if onto struggling employers or to kids, ending austerity to killing to demand peace, opposing the it weren’t for his government’s extend furlough for the avia- the policing Bill, climate wars that further engender rac- “ repeated failures, dither and tion, hospitality and other sec- change to human, civil and ism. We need to be up to that Get on the delay, including the refusal tors in urgent need of ongoing trade union rights — get on challenge. by ministers to act on repeated support if we’re to avoid the the streets today and join One of the oldest and best streets today warnings by their scientific millions currently on furlough me and tens of thousands of slogans is, “An injury to one advisers that the desperate becoming unemployment sta- protesters to demand the new is an injury to all.” As this inadequacy of sick pay — a tistics in September when the normal that we need if we’re government is stepping up its and join me pitiful £96 a week for those scheme ends. to shape a society that leaves attacks all across the board, who qualify but nothing for We won’t let that happen, no-one behind. that must be our response. and tens of the two million paid s o and I’m already back in talks To carry through their reac- little they don’t with the Treasury team, press- ■ Steve Turner is assistant general tionary agenda this govern- thousands of earn enough to ing home the point that the secretary of Unite and chair of the ment is whipping up racism, get even that — Chancellor must accept the People’s Assembly. The national marginalising women, deny- was causing the reality that Britain’s workers demonstration takes place today, ing young people a future and protesters to need nothing less June 26 – assemble 12 noon at increasing scapegoating. than the support Portland Place, London W1A for Fighting all of these injus- demand the given by our com- a march to Parliament Square. tices is imperative in them- petitor nations. For more information visit selves. But they also contribute new normal We’re also gearing thepeoplesassembly.org.uk. to the wider struggle for unity up for empower- against a government not fit to ing our govern. that we need Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 14 June 26-27 2021 features @m_star_online

HEN the pan- demic hit last spring, Covid-19 shows how vital and unprec- edented restrictionsW soon followed, it became clear that the immedi- ate impact on the news industry reliable, trustworthy news is was going to be stark. The NUJ successfully ensured that newsgatherers were classed as key workers, able to move around as necessary for their NUJ leader MICHELLE STANISTREET explains the union’s priorities work, and we worked with the industry and government to solve problems and negotiate amid difficult times – including fairness for freelances, making the a boost of advertising revenue for newspapers. tech giants pay their way and tackling the bullying of journalists Our officials and reps were inundated with industrial work, dealing with furloughs and lay- The NUJ is calling for a Jour- offs — as ever, certain employ- nalism Foundation to be set ers were keen to use the crisis up to champion public service as an excuse for redundancies. journalism, broker new fund- We fought off pre-emptive ing channels and new models attempts to cut pay and condi- — including co-operatives and tions without the appropriate not-for-profits — of journalism. consultation and staved off The union has also been some of the job losses. monitoring the potential What the pandemic did lay impact of surveillance technol- bare was the precarious work- ogies used in response to the ing conditions of our freelances, Covid-19 challenge, guarding many of whom saw their work against a consequential impact dry up overnight as theatres on journalistic surveillance shut and sporting and other and targeting of whistleblow- events were suspended. ers. With other unions and the One unforeseen consequence TUC, we successfully ensured of the pandemic has been jour- financial aid for freelances nalists finding themselves the and the self-employed — and targets of anti-lockdown pro- went on to lobby hard for the testers. millions of workers who found Many of you will have seen themselves cast adrift excluded the hounding of BBC journal- from the government’s support ist Nick Watts, but many more schemes. of our members have been The NUJ’s campaign for a Fair exposed to abuse and threats Deal for Freelances is demand- of violence. This is all adding ing major reforms, meaningful to a worsening safety situation protections for all workers and for journalists. a right to collective bargaining That’s why the NUJ supports for freelances. proposals in a forthcoming What started out as a state- broadcasting white paper to ment in response to the pan- explore ways to set the same demic quickly morphed into a basic rules for video-on- broader plan — the resulting demand services as traditional report From Health Crisis to broadcasters, in terms of caus- Good News — the NUJ News ing harm and offence, hatred Recovery Plan tackles the many and abuse, impartiality, accu- fault-lines that exist in our racy, protection of under-18s industry, ones that have been and privacy. exacerbated by this crisis. Covid-19 demonstrated just t is also why we are arguing how vital reliable trustworthy REFORMS REQUIRED: Journalists and television crews on Abingdon Green, outside the Houses of Parliament in Westminster, London that the tech giants need to news and information is — yet take responsibility for the it also exposed the industry’s how to source trusted news, One of the plan’s proposals is more BBC Bitesize content and misinformation and bully- fragility. plus make them believe that for free vouchers for online or a local radio initiative Make a ing on their platforms. Our plan calls for meaning- you can be a journalist what- print subscriptions to all 18 and Difference co-ordinated support II am proud of how members ful intervention to transform a ever your background. 19-year-olds and tax credits for for the elderly, housebound and rose to the challenge, providing sector that has a vital role in households with subscriptions those at risk. vital news and information in the spectrum of essential public to boost engagement and fight The thanks for this from the often difficult circumstances. services. It offers practical ways back against disinformation. government is its proposal to I am proud of the way the in which it could be reconfig- An overarching plank of the flog off Channel 4, probably to a “ union, its officials, reps and ured in a way that better roots recommendations is the need non-UK owner with no stake in members have pulled together the industry in the public good. for action to make the tech nurturing home-grown talent The tech giants to deal with the industrial con- Critically, it makes clear any giants pay their way, something and innovative programming. sequences caused by Covid-19 public funding and intervention that I’ve been liaising closely The Recovery Plan sets out facilitated the and the effect on the wellbeing has to be around key principles “ with my counterparts in the a range of short and medium- of members during the crisis. of conditionality — the NUJ’s Covid-19 US, Canada, Australia and with term solutions — from Jobs spread of fake In times of trouble, people plan is absolutely not about the International Federation of for Journalists tax credits; tax turn to their union and we had propping up the status quo that Journalists over this past year. perks for online or print news people joining as they saw their has often failed journalists and demonstrated For too long they have subscriptions and local advertis- news and jobs and working conditions the communities we serve. helped themselves to journal- ing; media literacy initiatives; under threat. Any public funding would just how vital ists’ content and repaid them community asset status for local dangerous We’re still dealing with the come with the strings of pro- by hoovering up all the digital papers, so companies can’t shut effects of this crisis, but one viding public service journalism reliable advertising. them down without meaning- conspiracy thing certain is the case for a and creating diverse newsrooms We saw how the tech giants ful scrutiny, and the chance strong, independent and prop- which reflect all of their read- trustworthy facilitated the spread of fake for local communities to step theories erly funded press that values ership. news and dangerous conspiracy in and take them over; funding journalists and journalism That is why our members theories surrounding the virus. support for new start-ups; better could not have been made have been taking part in a new news and Our public service broad- diversity and plurality; and call- surrounding stronger. literacy project, NewsWise, and casters provided vital public ing time on the platforms’ free visiting schools to help young information is health information, offered ride with sustainable funding the virus ■ Michelle Stanistreet is general people to understand news and families forced to home school through a digital levy. secretary of the NUJ. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online features June 26-27 2021 15

ODAY, more than 15 months since the first lockdown began, the Morn- Back on the streets ing Star is back on the streets. TIt isn’t strictly the first time — we organised a distribution at the national Palestine soli- darity demonstration on May 22, and street sales of the paper and raring to go have resumed in parts of the country. And we’re still taking pre- cautions of course. When the With Covid restrictions being relaxed, the Morning Star is taking part in decision was taken not to fully relax Covid-19 restrictions on June 21, we consulted an expert the People’s Assembly demo today – but the daily paper of the left still before proceeding with plans to distribute the Morning Star needs your support to make sure it survives, says editor BEN CHACKO at today’s People’s Assembly demo. We were assured that doing staggering death toll to the far of a different kind of govern- ship in Russian waters this so would be safe, given the lower death rates in most other ment. week. demo is outdoors and our dis- countries and with MP Diane I don’t mention the Corbyn If you appreciate the need for tributors will be masked and Abbott organised the Zero- movement to hark back to the a Morning Star, I’d ask you to provided with sanitiser. Covid Coalition to push for a past, but because the policies help make sure we survive. The But today’s march in Lon- complete change in strategy. Labour began to flesh out in pandemic has hit our finances don is the first national labour No other paper has kept a 2017 and 2019 — around pub- hard. 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The Morning Star has seen Like the rest of the move- oppression have intensified the a big increase in sales of our ment we’ve learned a lot dur- impact of the crisis on black ritain’s only online PDF edition over the ing lockdown. people and women. co-operatively past year, but it’s not enough Thousands have tuned in to As thousands march today owned news- to make up for the above losses. Morning Star online meetings against a return to the pre-pan- paper, with its There are however more and rallies and such events will demic “normal,” the Morning 10 shareholder ways to get your daily paper definitely continue. But we’re Star is with them as the news- Cartoon: Richard Cole trade unions on than ever. You can still ask any looking forward to returning paper that has always fought ourB management committee, newsagent to get you a copy to real-world meetings and the the “austerity” that gutted our into the greatest challenge to We backed the Corbyn has an agitational and organi- daily. 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Labour rails — rightly — suborning by the second refer- paigns consistently for peace ship with NewsTeam — just The BBC and mainstream against Tory sleaze, but the endum campaign, after 2017. at a time when Washington’s call (01782) 959-532 to set this papers all reacted as if Domi- revolving door between public As the bodies piled high last determination to maintain eco- up. nic Cummings’s devastating office and business boardrooms year many Establishment jour- nomic and military supremacy If you’re one of those peo- testimony about the corrupt, and the dependence of public nalists attacked our appalling worldwide is dragging us into ple who buys the Morning Star chaotic and callous behaviour services on private contractors Prime Minister’s record, but a dangerous new cold war when you see it but don’t get of the Prime Minister, that make such corruption inevita- most were complicit in the against China while reckless it every day, please consider “thousands of people died ble. “ cynical smear campaign that provocation in eastern Europe taking up one of these options. who didn’t have to die,” was Over four decades of neolib- helped sink Britain’s best hope saw shots fired at a British war- And tell your comrades! a revelation — but it was no eralism have led us to the venal A paper that shock to the Morning Star, and vicious politics of 2021. which alone in the daily press We are also the only daily campaigns regularly contrasted Britain’s newspaper that threw itself consistently STRUGGLE ON ALL FRONTS: (Below) NHS workers demand a 15 per cent pay rise; (right) marchers move along Piccadilly in solidarity with the people of Palestine, on May 22, 2021 for peace at a time when Washington’s determination is to maintain economic and military supremacy worldwide Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 16 June 26-27 2021 features @m_star_online The labour movement must not fall into the It’s 2021 and people can’t get a dentist Tory ‘culture The Morning Star looks at how locals war’ trap are campaigning over the shortage of NHS dentists in a Suffolk town There is cunning in what some Tories are doing but there are also profound UST over a year ago the “The campaign has been wid- small town of Leiston ened to take in the whole of the on the Suffolk coast had Suffolk area. As the situation weaknesses – the left needs to be wise to two dental practices that is just as bad in other towns. took on both NHS and “In neighbouring Cam- Jprivate patients. bridgeshire more than 50 per this, says KEVIN OVENDEN Now it has none. Both prac- cent of adults have no access to tices have upped and left us NHS dental care. high and dry. They were both “In many cases, dentists owned by huge companies require citizens to attend for HE term “culture was in fact moving in a more some Tories are doing but there that were more interested in ‘check-ups’ every six months. war” is an unwel- tolerant and liberal direction. are also profound weaknesses. shareholder profits rather than “These cost up to £30 a time. come US import. It left the right looking out First the weaknesses. On running a service free at the That is the equivalent of a £60 The American of touch with the country they every single measure of social point of use. NHS annual ‘membership culture warriors thought of themselves as born attitudes Britain is today a much Our local Tory Cabinet min- BITING BACK: Leiston fee.’ We intend to challenge of the right had a to rule. more tolerant and liberal place ister, Therese Coffey, seems campaigners Dina Groden and this practice which means Tlot going for them 30 years ago. So they could cling on to than in the early 1990s, with a indifferent to the town’s plight. Steve Marsling collect signatures many have to live in pain or Whether it was gun worship the anti-gay Section 28 while common sense that might be She suggested we ring go without. or banning abortion, they could in schools and across society called broadly progressive. around and find other dentists. paste-up table, complete with “I have to say the response rely on vast networks, secular more people came out, others On some questions it is quite There aren’t any! plastic rotting teeth, wind- from the local Labour Party has and religious. A big section of were persuaded that there was socialist: there’s one law for the People cannot find an NHS up chattering gnashers and a been disappointing so far. The society had never reconciled nothing wrong with being gay rich and another for the poor. dentist willing to take them on banner “Save our NHS dental campaign has been organised to the changes driven by the or lesbian and attitudes sof- Or support for the principles within a 50-mile radius. services in Leiston.” by local communists but the upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s. tened even among those who underpinning the NHS. Despite Our rural bus services have Then we took to the high petition is not party political. The parallel British effort did think so. an embarrassingly co-ordinated been cut and our nearest rail- street. People were queuing up “Local Labour supporters in the years of John Major’s I raise all that because it is effort to boost support for the way station is five miles away. to sign. The East Anglian Daily have taken the trouble to sign, governments was feeble by abundantly clear that Boris monarchy there remains a The waiting lists at some den- Times sent a video team and a but official offers to help have comparison. Johnson’s Tories are today using strong republican sentiment. tists are so long it could be up to reporter. not been received. That did not stop an ava- the techniques of culture war — When the current queen five years before being seen. Peo- The local radio station ABC “This is just the start of the lanche of right-wing media that is trying to find “hot button” is out of the equation it rises ple are being forced to go private Radio gave me 20 minutes campaign. We intend to ramp stories and urban myths about issues around which to attract considerably. and put themselves into debt. on air. The local butcher and it up and spread it.” “political correctness.” those who would not otherwise Of course there are reac- Local communist activist greengrocer demanded petition Marsling is standing as the Those in turn played some give their political support. tionary attitudes. Powerfully Steve Marsling says: “So I wrote sheets for their shops. The sup- Communist Party candidate in role in seeding the ground for The latest instance was this backed media and political a letter to the East Anglian Daily port has been overwhelming. the Aldeburgh and Leiston by- an advance by the fascist Brit- week with Tory MPs on the edu- forces try to utilise them. Times pointing out that NHS “The personal cases related election on July 8. ish National Party. cation select committee out- There is polarisation. A gen- services are going backwards. to us at the stall have been The lack of local NHS dental But in big social and political rageously trying to claim that eral acceptance of, say, people “I wrote that, in 1948, Nye quite distressing at times. A services will be at the forefront terms, the Tory culture war of poor white kids are suffering being gay — the view of about Bevan promised dental care young man with an abscess of the campaign. then descended into the fiasco because of efforts to fight rac- two thirds of the population free to all and that this Tory travelling a 60-mile round Marsling says: “I would urge of Major’s “Back to Basics” ism. They used artful language, — can go hand in hand with a government was reneging on trip to a private dentist that all trade unionists and social- effort to channel narrow- but that is what they meant. minority that is highly bigoted. that commitment. charged him a month’s rent ists to get out their paste-up minded, supposed “common Today’s right-wing push is But it is still the case that those “I signed it in my role as money. tables and get a petition going. sense.” Then a nation nearly not as potent as in the US three pushing right-wing culture-war chair East Suffolk Communist “A woman who told that the Enough is enough. died laughing at his “cones decades ago, or approaching lines face a very different social Party. It was reprinted and a moment she stepped over the “It’s 2021 and people can’t get hotline,” if you remember that. Donald Trump’s success in 2016. reality from 30 or 50 years ago. huge wave of support for the private dentist’s doormat the a dentist. I could in 1951 when I Despite winning the 1992 But unless the labour move- A second weakness is that letter followed. charge would be £225 before was born. Seventy years of liv- general election and the appar- ment responds effectively, it despite all the Thatcherite and “So along with other CP any treatment! People in pain ing under capitalism and we ent global triumph of capital- can go a lot further than the then Blairite and then Camer- members we set up a ‘Toothless people worried for their chil- are going backwards. Join our ism over communism, the Tory hapless John Major was able to. onite hype about opportunity for in Leiston’ petition, got out the dren’s future. campaign.” problem was that British society There is cunning in what those who aspire, Britain remains morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online features June 26-27 2021 17

fantastically class divided. More than half of people Black and Asian people in Brit- black and white workers — or had set running (and relying The pandemic has reinforced want to see more taxation to ain experience racial discrimina- women and men — has some- upon ideas more common that divide. All sorts of media- fund social spending. tion. There is no such discrimi- times been a minority in the among human resources man- driven efforts to redefine that Hence the weaknesses for the nation on the basis of “being labour movement. It is not today. agers than your average union fundamental reality under Tories — most people are not white.” Thus, white privilege. The danger is that we are branch committee). other terms cannot hide it. that right wing and have a “them But surely a privilege is made to look like we are a There is a lesson there. Speak How many “millennial” and us” good, class sense. From something that is in some way weird minority on account of to the reality, not to some squab- young people have a well-off that flows the Tory cunning. unearned or unfair? Don’t we falling into this Tory govern- ble about terminology that our “boomer” gran? “ If a three-card trickster tried want to end privilege, so that ment’s trap. opponents set up for us. This week we learned that They erect a to scam you like this on the someone like George Osborne is And that is to get us to fight It was good to see Labour the percentage of children so street you’d be insulted. rewarded according to his con- over fetishised symbols, not MPs on the education com- poor that they are eligible for What the Tories are trying tribution to society not accord- the social reality. And so, in a mittee this week strike right free school meals rose from 17 straw man, go to do is worse. You throw large ing to his birthright? monumental scam, we allow at the issue. to nearly 20 per cent in England numbers of white kids into pov- Is “not being discriminated the right to parade as dealing Up against Tory rogues we between January and October to theatrical erty and then say it is liberals against” a privilege? Isn’t it bet- with real problems. should play the man and not last year, and that that talent- or Marxists or what have you ter a right? The trade union and labour the ball. We need to do simi- less Tory George Osborne has lengths to knock who are to blame because they There’s nothing privileged movement should say bluntly: larly across the piece — from been appointed chairman of talk about racism. about being the working-class not on our watch. The National fighting for women’s rights to the British Museum. it down and try Now, they cannot put it that lad from a white family who Education Union and its joint opposing anti-LGBT discrimi- This is class Britain just as crudely. Everyone has to claim is not as likely to be stopped general secretary Dr Mary nation. much as when Karl Marx was to be anti-racist. and searched by the police or Bousted gave a master class this It ought to be easy to crush poring over economic almanacs to divert the Even most fascists pretend excluded from school as your week in how we should respond this Tory gambit. But we have in the British Museum’s read- that all they are doing is stand- black friend but is still right to this trickery. to put our socialist approach ing room. rest of us into ing up for “white identity” — or under the heel of a brutal state They pointed out the Tories’ centrally. There is an exploitative chain “white rights” as the thugs of and heartless society. responsibility for the class That means taking our argu- of connection between hun- defending the BNP said in the 1990s. Is this just playing with divide that remains the big- ments to the mass of working- dreds of thousands of kids being Instead they erect a straw words? You say white privilege, gest single determinant of class people, as today’s People’s plunged into poverty and the man, go to theatrical lengths to I say racism. Well, we have a educational outcome. Assembly demonstration aims assumptive 18th Baronet Osborne things that we knock it down and try to divert perfectly good word — racism Calmly, and marshalling the to do. being handed another sinecure. the rest of us into defending — for understanding this. facts that are all on our side, they It is only when the left fails More and more people recog- never put things that we never put for- More importantly, we have dismantled the falsehood that to do that and sinks into a silo nise it. The British Social Atti- ward in the first place. a grand history of struggle white kids are doing badly on that the party of 18th Baronet tudes survey finds an increase forward in the So — “white privilege.” For and analysis arising upon it account of opposition to racism. Osborne can dare claim to rep- in the proportion of those most (of the few) who use the that connects anti-racism and They did this without once resent working-class people of regarding the distribution of term it is another way of rec- opposition to capitalism. mentioning the term “white any skin colour or ethnicity in wealth as unfair or very unfair. first place ognising racism. That approach of uniting privilege” — a hare that Tories Britain. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 18 June 26-27 2021 features @m_star_online

Pic: Christine Drake Pic: Joan Heath H R I S T I N E DRAKE knows a lot about verbal abuse, threats and harassment. She’s suf- Cfered all three during the last seven years as she’s mounted a weekly, one-woman campaign in support of the people of Pal- estine. Four days a week Drake stages a solo demonstration in the town square near her home in Hebden Bridge in the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire. From Thursday to Sunday, MESSAGE: (Above) Graffiti on using a collapsible clothes Israel’s apartheid wall – a counter rack as a frame, she displays to Donald Trump’s ‘Make America posters, home-made placards, Great Again.’ The wall passes photographs, including some through Palestinian communities, of children killed in Israeli separating farmers from their land attacks on Palestinians. The display is next to a lamp- post, which she drapes with a angry. But I didn’t feel scared Palestinian flag. Another hangs or anything. on the clothes rack. “I’ve had zionists here,” she Hebden Bridge is surrounded says. “They say: ‘You’re a liar, by Pennine hills and straddles you’re a terrorist.’ I don’t take the Rochdale canal and the any notice of that garbage. River Calder. “It’s quiet now,” she tells the It’s a popular destination Morning Star when she was for tourists and other visitors, interviewed during one of her and Drake has handed out thou- Saturday vigils, “but it’s never sands of leaflets about Palestine really safe.” to people meandering through She’s been visited many the square. times at her protest site, and Round her neck hangs a at home, by police and officials. placard reading: “Standing in Council officials called a solidarity with the Palestinian meeting about her activities in people. End the occupation.” the local town hall after there Also hanging round her neck had been complaints about her. is a small camera. She uses it to She refused to attend. photograph anyone who is antag- “I’ve had the hate crime police onistic or threatening towards here twice,” she says. “Police her — and there have been a few. have threatened to arrest me. The camera is a smart move. They were coming every day. Drake, a veteran of the Green- They said I should take the dis- ham Common Women’s Peace play down. I refuse to take it Camp against cruise missiles down. They’ve come to my home. of 1981 to 2000, is 74 years old They were ringing me up. and just 4' 11'' tall. “And this is how petty the She would have little hope of council can be. When I first defending herself in the event started here I used to put post- of a physical attack. ers on a litter bin next to me. The The camera is intended to be council moved the litter bin.” a deterrent against any would- be attacker. It’s worked so far. he points to a She was injured, though, sturdy iron litter when a council official tried bin a few yards to tear down her clothes rack away. It must display because she hadn’t per- have taken some mission to have it there, and effort to shift it. she was putting posters on SSo now she uses the lamp- council-owned “street furni- post instead. And her clothes ture” — an iron litter bin. She rack. It opens and rises up eas- suffered a deep scratch to her ily with the pull of a lever. arm in the struggle. Her posters and photos are “There was blood every- already attached with sticky where,” she says. “He tried to tape, and after her daily three- take my display down but I held or four-hour stint she simply onto it. pulls the little lever to col- “Someone called the police. I lapse it, folds up her Palestine told them the man had attacked flags, and walks to the home me, and I made a complaint. of a friend around the corner, “The police came back three where she stores her equip- days later and told me the case ment. Her own house is a bit was closed. They said they were further away. taking no action because ‘I’d Her latest addition to the brought it on myself’.” display is a home-made poster POIGNANT: Christine poses with her Palestinian solidarity display had his arm round him against “He said the child’s family The verbal attacks can be on the ground in front of the a wall, shouting ‘My son! My had been given money to make nasty and threatening. clothes rack, with the images son!’ The Israeli soldiers put six him do it. I couldn’t believe he’d She says: “The other day I of 65 small, black coffins repre- which are packed with people ers SHOULD be disturbed. EVE- bullets into him.” said it — defending putting six was threatened by someone. senting the children killed in on sunny days. RYONE should be disturbed.” Photographs and film of the bullets into a 12-year-old boy.” He was a big man. He told me Israel’s 11-day attack on Gaza Drake’s display stands along- Drake’s commitment to incident were published world- The boy was Mohammed al- I was the sort of person who in May. side sandwich boards advertis- Palestine began during the wide. Durah. He was killed on Sep- would be shoving bodies into Round the perimeter of the ing cream teas, fine ales and second intifada — the second “I was living in Canada at the tember 30 2000, as with his gas ovens. town square are three cafes, a the like. uprising — in Palestine from time,” says Drake. “The Israeli father he crouched behind a “And he said: ‘I know where pub, two pie shops, a butcher’s “One of the coffee shops said 2000 to 2005. ambassador was visiting a local concrete cylinder, sheltering you live,’ and he didn’t mean and two shops selling fashion the photographs on the display “In the second intifada there synagogue. I waited in line to from gunfire. he would pop round for a cup clothing. were disturbing the custom- was a little boy with his father speak to him. I asked him how Drake says: “That little boy of tea. I told him that everyone The cafes and the pub have ers,” she says. in Gaza. The Israelis were firing killing children would bring started my journey.” knows where I live. I felt quite outside tables and seating “I told them that the custom- live rounds at people. His father peace. In 2012 she left Canada and morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online features June 26-27 2021 19

CHRISTINE DRAKE, who runs a one-woman campaign in her local town square in support of the Palestinian people, talks to Peter Lazenby about the abuse and threats she receives for taking a stand and how visiting Palestine changed her life ‘They tried to take my display down. There was blood everywhere’

mother was killed instantly. does everybody hate us?’ I took One of them has a sniper rifle. protests which in many com- “This was a family who’d a big breath — it was like being “When Palestinians gather munities take place after Friday been to a nice event. It was thumped in the chest. I said: ‘I in their own communities prayers. special to them. don’t hate you. A lot of people that’s what they do,” she says. She says that at one demon- “We came to their home. don’t hate you.’ “They break into someone’s stration: “We heard a shot. I I’ve never cried so much in my “We talked. The farmer’s house, throw out the tenants asked if it was a live round or life. The children were trying wife said: ‘When I go shopping, and put a sniper on the roof. a rubber bullet. There’s a dif- so hard to be brave. One was I don’t know if I’ll be coming “They have soldiers with tear ference in the sound. only three.” home. When my children go gas, as well as snipers. They “A six-year-old boy told me it Drake has witnessed many to school I don’t know if I will control every aspect of Pales- was a live round — a six-year- incidents. They visibly distress ever see them again.’ At this tinian life.” old boy could tell the differ- her as she recounts them. She point we were crying. ence between the sound of a apologises, pauses to gather her- “We went a bit further up here’s a photo- live round or a rubber bullet.” self, then continues her story. the hill. Up there, we could graph of a gath- Many photos of protests

Pic: ChristinePic: Drake “We were going picking olives see down on the settlement. ering in a Pal- include a precautionary ambu- with a farmer. We got a lift to the We saw the settlers coming estinian house. lance, usually from the Red INJUSTICE: The ‘agricultural gate’ in Israel’s apartheid wall. At 6.30am olive grove. There were settlers towards the road. She points to one Crescent, in case protesters every morning dozens of farmers queue, hoping to be allowed through living across the road. They’d “The farmer’s wife was try- man. are injured. to work. Usually only two or three are successful come during the night. These ing to find a phone. She got on T“The Israelis imprisoned “I’ve was inside one once, were third generation settlers. the phone and said: ‘My son! him when he was 16,” she says. after I’d been tear-gassed,” returned to Britain, moving to “One family from the village They’d been during the night My son! You must leave! They “They kept him in for nearly 20 she says. Hebden Bridge which is just a went to a wedding in Hebron and chopped them all down. are coming! They will kill us’.” years. He’s in his early thirties “That is daily life for the few miles from her birthplace — a 48-year-old woman with “We found the farmer and Drake has an extensive pho- but looks much older. Palestinians. Not just once, in Yorkshire, the town of Dews- eight children,” she says. his wife. I said: ‘Why don’t we tographic collection of some “His family and friends were but for the last 73 years. That bury. “She’d bought new clothes. collect all the branches off the of the things she has seen in celebrating his release, a wel- is the daily thing that they do Her one-woman protests in They were looking forward to olive trees and save the olives?’ Palestine. come home party. The Israelis to them.” Hebden Bridge began in 2014. it. On the way back a group of So we did. One shows three Israeli sol- threw in tear gas.” Drake originally decided to “What brought me to the settlers dropped a boulder onto “The farmer’s wife was look- diers on the rooftop of a house She and the other volunteers visit Palestine because people square was the 2014 bombing of their car from a bridge. The ing at me and she said: ‘Why in a small Palestinian village. are observers at Palestinian would challenge her support Gaza. I couldn’t put up with all for the Palestinians by saying: that crap on TV about Israel, all “Have you been there?” those lies, so I came down here “I’d say hadn’t. Then they’d when they were bombing Gaza. trash everything I said,” she says. I’d bring a megaphone to tell “So I thought maybe I should people what was happening.” go, and look into the eyes of the For around three months Palestinian people and be able every year Drake is absent from to tell their story. her patch in the town square. “Someone said I would never That’s when she’s in Pales- “ be the same if I went to Pales- tine, one of a group of around tine, and that is so true. When 15 volunteers who meet once What brought I came back after the first time a year in a small village in the I had post-traumatic stress West Bank. me to the because I was so traumatised They have forged close by the horror of what I saw. friendships with local Palestin- square was the “But that is why I went there ian families. She won’t name and it is the best thing that I the village for fear of reprisals ever did. They are the most against it by Israel. 2014 bombing of beautiful, loving people. And The volunteers help with the they’ll never give in.” olive harvest and act as inter- Gaza. I couldn’t Neither will she. On Thurs- national observers during pro- day, Friday, Saturday and Sun- tests, at checkpoints, outside put up with all day next week Drake will be schools even, where she says back in Hebden Bridge town Israeli Defence Force members square with her clothes rack have used tear gas. that crap on TV display, her home-made plac- She and the other volunteers ards, her leaflets and her Pal- are made welcome by the vil- about Israel, all estinian flags. lagers, who invite them to wed- And she’ll be there the week dings, and also, sadly often, to those lies INTIMIDATING: Israeli soldiers, including a sniper, on the roof of a house in a Palestinian community. Snipers after that, and the week after funerals. are posted regularly during protests and other gatherings that, and the week after that… Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 20 June 26-27 2021 features | entertainment @m_star_online

N THE middle of 2020 — In December we drew up of outputs, from immediate its centenary year — the to 3,000 to a major confer- actions to the elements of a Communist Party was ence which was opened by strategy for the movement adapting its tactics and the president of the TUC and to fight back. Some will be creating new arenas for The unemployment looked at Marxism, technology new initiatives and some Ianalysis and discussion as the and artificial intelligence. a re-focusing of ongoing country alternated between Then followed two work- campaigns and activities. partial and full lockdown. ing groups, one focused on Examples include: In the months following the the “Future of Work” and the ■ Extending organisations like declaration of a pandemic, it fightback begins other on developing the fight- Sheffield Needs A Pay Rise to became clear that the pre- back against unemployment. major towns and cities across existing capitalist crisis was Each had an internation- the country about to get much worse. alist dimension and we have ■ Exploring the options for As some of the biggest been working with leading Workers Solidarity Centres names names on the high ANDY BAIN explains how Britain’s activists from Spain on new linked to Trades Councils street collapsed it became clear laws enacted there to combat ■ Supporting the existing cam- that Britain would face a wave communists have helped the movement precarious working and bogus paigns to keep the £20 top up of unemployment not seen for employment practices. to universal credit and to stop more than a generation. We worked with others to fire and rehire. 2021 would also be another prepare for the struggle ahead explore how to draw in those ■ Drawing up local economic centenary, that of the commu- who understood the need to plans to challenge decline, nist-inspired and led National join an Unemployment Fight- especially in town centres Unemployed Workers Move- back: ■ Supporting the establish- ment, with the lessons and ■ We published a new digital ment of a National Council of legacy the NUWM brought and print Unemployment Fight- Recovery with union involve- with it. back pamphlet ment that puts green jobs at During 2020-21 millions ■ We explored the idea of “peo- the heart of its work were not working at all ple’s marches” for jobs, both, ■ Further Future of Work or working from home in physical and virtual events as this has a longer-term difficult circumstances and ■ We worked with those relevance to trade unions wish- millions more were forced to involved across the movement ing to plan ahead work as front-line workers, on Unemployed Workers Cen- Today’s People’s Assembly in dangerous and uncertain tres or rather Workers Solidar- demonstration brings together conditions. ity Centres to bring together many issues of protest against Early on unions everywhere the employed who are under the Tory government and, came into their own, negoti- threat, the part unemployed above that, the monopolies it ating collectively with gov- and the unemployed acts on behalf of. ernment to secure furlough ■ We conducted local public Whether it is to do with payments and with — often meetings across the country decent housing for all, a public reluctant — employers over bringing in speakers from the health service, climate emer- PPE. wider trade union movement gency, fire and rehire, ending Unions took on new levels and anti-austerity campaigns. racism or the Bill to stop us of responsibility, helping to More recently the Com- protesting, the majority can reshape workplaces and work- munist Party held two linked be united for a different and practices to ensure safety. events under the heading better future with decent jobs The news media suddenly Unemployment Fightback, a and homes for all. discovered that the work- webinar with 12 high-profile If you want to get involved, force they often pilloried was speakers followed a week later if you have ideas to fight essential and the bravery and by a meeting with workshops unemployment, then we want professionalism of the work- to develop the ideas raised. to hear from you and work ers in our health and support These were CPB events, alongside you — get in touch services, who battled to serve Many paid the ultimate sac- with a significant growth in union co-ordinating commit- not organised by wider cam- via info@communistparty. the people of the country, was rifice and we will not forget membership, especially among tee hosted a centenary event to paigns or organisations, and org.uk, marking your email grudgingly recognised. these comrades. young trade unionists. The analyse the communist contri- the prominent speakers from “unemployment fightback.” But those workers often had While many stopped Young Communist League has bution to the development of across the movement and a to do this, with insufficient meeting and organising, the grown at a faster rate. our modern labour movement large audience were keen to ■ Andy Bain is the trade union and inadequate protective Communist Party doubled In our centenary celebra- bringing together hundreds of join us. organiser for the Communist Party equipment. its efforts and was rewarded tion calendar the party’s trade activists. There was an exciting range of Britain.

TV Weekly Preview with Tom King What to miss Sunday: Private Film The film is of course famous Entertainment Passions: Alastair too for the immortal line: “Play Campbell, 12pm Radio 3 it again, Sam.” Sunday (Yes, I know he never said Monday The warmongering con- Early Man, 2.45pm BBC1 it — frankly, my dear, I don’t Victoria Wood: the Secret sigliere’s transition into give a damn.) List, 9.30pm BBC2 cultural dabbler, author Set in the year one million BC, and future Strictly con- Nick Park’s (Aardman) ani- A selection of the much- testant continues apace. mated comedy follows the tri- Documentary loved comedian’s favourite Here he chats about als and tribulations of cave- sketches from her debut se- his favourite tunes, boy Dug and his pet boar Tuesday ries, As Seen on TV. which must include Hognob, who challenge an Hemingway, 9pm BBC4 Sorry Seems To Be The army of Bronze Age (eh?) war- Hardest Word, surely? riors to a football match. Inveterate documentarian Ken Sport Burns is at it again, this time Saturday with a six-part series on the Monday Yesterday’s sudoku GENTLE GIANT: Casablanca, 4.50pm BBC2 legendary US writer. Wimbledon, 10.30am BBC2 A Newfoundland Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid From his humble Midwest- Bergman star in this classic ern childhood, through his ser- I will never forgive the much- loveable larger breeds — World War II thriller-cum- vice in Italy during the second lauded tennis competition Thursday Irish wolf hounds, Great timeless love story. world war all the way to the for frequently booting the Big Dog Britain, 10pm Danes, St Bernards — in Rick, an expat nightclub burly game-hunter frequently Simpsons off the schedules Channel 4 favour of footling little owner, is shaken by the simul- partaking of the bottle, Hem- for two interminable weeks Tragedy! Though demand beasts the size of rats, taneous appearance of resist- ingway attracted a mystique every summer throughout my for dogs has shot up putting many hounds on ance leader Victor Lazlo and that blurred fiction and reality. childhood, so I certainly did during the pandemic, the endangered list. Rick’s old flame, Ilsa Lund: But was there even more to not mourn its absence from it seems that Brits are Why? Tune in, find out, “Of all the gin joints in all the the martini-swigging, rifle- our screens last year. turning away from the and get a Newfoundland. towns in all the world, she wielding scribbler than meets But, if it’s your thing, then walks into mine.” the eye? it’s back, for a fortnight. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online features June 26-27 2021 21

HE People’s Assem- and tangible alternative for bly’s national working people. A genuine demonstration and recognisable alternative to comes together Tory corruption, incompetence in London against and austerity. a desperate back- Now is the time for The Young Communist dropT for working people. League is clear that young Well over 130,000 people people face an unfolding have died during the Covid-19 disaster under capitalism in pandemic. The vast majority of Britain. these deaths were preventable. Our Youth Charter is a Millions of workers have positive set of policies to been thrown into poverty or working people combat the immediate crisis, on the scrap heap. A whole to offer some relief and help generation of young people build unity for change. have had their lives and These aren’t just policies for education carelessly disrupted the YCL, these are demands for and their futures thrown into the broad working class and doubt. Ruling class and Tory student movements which incompetence is to blame for and the youth to can be translated into those all of this. struggles taking place every Working people are still day in our schools, campuses, enduring a decade-long ruling communities and workplaces. class offensive, vicious attacks The policies provide on pay and conditions and that broad basis for a mass austerity and privatisation seize the initiative movement for progressive aimed at shoring up profits in change among young people. the City of London, to ensure These demands and the we pay for the 2008 financial struggle to achieve them ask crisis. The strength of our movement is to be found in all of the fundamental questions After Covid-19, another about economic ownership deep capitalist crisis is and democratic control in our already looming, years in the the thousands of struggles which are taking place up country. making, but accelerated by the 2021 is the YCL’s centenary pandemic. year, marking 100 years of The ruling class and their and down this country, says JOHNNIE HUNTER the ideas and principles, the Tory Party have the same comrades and the struggles plan. Make working people which have guided and shaped pay through austerity and on campuses. It was workers at the grassroots level. being won across the board. real change now, facing down young communists for a privatisation and use the and our trade unions who The nationwide eviction At the University of a Tory government and their century. opportunity to protect profits demanded and won these vic- bans that have been won have Manchester alone students police in the process. But 100 years haven’t by attacking pay and living tories, crucial victories that been a lifeline for working won a 30 per cent rent History has shown us that changed one crucial fact — for standards. prevented an even more hor- people. reduction — a £12 million wherever working people working people and the youth, But working people and the rific death toll. Universities, landlords and payout. stand up for their rights, there our victory lies in bringing youth are far from powerless It was pressure from workers other profiteers have tried to Electrified by events in is always hope. together all the struggles that in all this. When we come and trade unions that ensured extract as much as possible the US and the Black Lives The strength of our are taking place today into a together, united, we’re the first national lockdown from students across Britain Matter movement, working movement is to be found in all mass movement which can invincible, we have the power was implemented in the face of during the pandemic, charging people and particularly the of the thousands of struggles, change society. to make history. Tory wavering, incompetence the same fees for Zoom classes, youth have come together to big and small, which are The People’s Assembly is We’ve seen that clearly and indifference. luring students back to campus drive forward the fight for taking place up and down this key in building that mass during this pandemic. We have Throughout the pandemic and tying them into eye- racial equality and justice country. movement today — let’s make the power to “demand a new tenants’ organisations up and watering rental agreements. throughout the pandemic. But it’s not enough to June 26 2021 the decisive normal.” down the country have led the Students haven’t taken this Women across Britain, know what you’re against. turning point. In the early days of Covid-19, struggle to oppose exploitative lying down. Leading from determined to combat sexism, It’s not enough just to resist it wasn’t the Tories who guar- landlords, winning stunning the front, rent strikes and misogyny and epidemic levels the unrelenting attacks of the ■ Johnnie Hunter is general anteed safety precautions in victories along the way by occupations have spread across of gender-based violence, have ruling class. secretary of the Young Communist the workplace, in schools or organising in communities the country with victories taken to the streets to demand We have to stand for a clear League. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 22 June 26-27 2021 culture @m_star_online

MUSIC I ALBUM REVIEWS Foodman motorway service stations, and TONY BURKE I SIMON DUFF I MIK SABIERS Yasuragi Land he likes visiting public baths too. (Hyperdub Records) Dance-inspired, Yasuragi HHHHI Land is a breezy and refined instrumental work full of IRREPRESSIBLE: HYPERDUB continue to release hyper-rhythmic music made Wilko Johnson and groundbreaking albums and with a few simple tools. Unu- Lee Brilleaux the latest is by Japanese artist sually for a Hyperdub album, Foodman, real name Takahide there’s no bass. Higuchi. The album opens with Omi- As a musician, he is heavily yage, with a slow and off-centre influenced by the Footwork bird-like flute setting the scene electronic dance movement for drums and synths. from 2010s and jamming as a Yasuragi and Parking Area naive and closer Minsyuku has teenage busker. feel like leftfield jazz while a Nile Rodgers-inspired guitar A food lover, he’s inspired by Ari Ari, deep-house Japan-style, woven into dense rhythms. eating at Michinoeki, Japanese comes across as cartoonishly SIMON DUFF Dr Feelgood Greatest Hits (Grand) The Mono LPs and eerie pop, it’s strangely HHHHH Shuffle/Play enthralling, especially with the cello taking the track to (Fretsore Records) the next level. FORMED in 1971 with char- HHHII Elsewhere Chancy Gar- ismatic frontman Lee Bril- dener, with an acoustic sim- leaux, national treasure SHUFFLE/PLAY is the second plicity that belies its quirky Wilko Johnson and John Pic: www. drfeelgood.org album from Liverpool’s The pop approach, has hints “Sparko” Sparks, the Feel- Right, Roxette, She’s a Wind them a massive following Mono LPs. of the Beatles’ Strawberry goods were in the vanguard Up, the stomping Back in the and while in 1994 Brilleaux It’s an eclectic mix of tracks Fields, while Love Me could of the pub-rock revolution Night, Night Time and Milk died of cancer, they carried and randomly shifting genres be an electronic dance-floor — the antidote to stadium and Alcohol. on touring and recording, but with a rocky undercurrent filler but deserves a banging rock. Their debut album Down with many line-up changes. backed by strings and cello. remix. Playing no nonsense Brit- by the Jetty is a stone classic With tracks from every Think About It opens with There’s a strong hint of ish R’n’B, they sent sweating along with the breakthrough Feelgood era, play this loud a good riff, a strong hint of the Arctic Monkeys and Alex the groove — it’s an enigmatic audiences into orbit. 1976 live album Stupidity, and there will be no sleep to 1980s pop, before rocking out Turner and while not all the collection worth listening out Their early hits and crowd which reached number one. Canvey Island. and it’s followed by the jazzy, tracks work — the switch in for. pleasers included She Does It Constant touring gained TONY BURKE Make Your Mind Up. Odd styles makes it hard to get into MIK SABIERS

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COMING to prominence in 1970 TO MARK their 25th year as WITH proceeds going to War ONE of my favourite TV clips with rock band Skid Row, Gary one of the most esteemed Child UK, this celebration of is of the US show Shindig Moore was a guitar wonderkid labels in drum & bass, Hos- John Lennon, marking what when the Rolling Stones faced ‘IT MATTERS WHERE YOU GO’: Frank Turner fundraising for WayOut and probably Belfast’s numero pital Records celebrate with would have been his 80th birth- presenter Jack Good making Arts in Freetown, Sierra Leone Pic: frank-turner.com uno guitar-slinger since the age a groundbreaking selection day, brings together a collec- small talk. of 15. of 25 brand new remixes and tion of international artists for Brian Jones tells him to Frank Turner Skid Row also featured Phil reworks. a worthy, but perhaps slightly shut up and let Howlin’ Wolf England Keep My Bones: 10th Lynott, later of Thin Lizzy, While the formula of a high underwhelming, walk through perform and we were then Anniversary Edition and Moore later played and tempo 174bpm has stayed in the legend’s back catalogue. treated to the giant blues (Xtra Mile Recordings) recorded with Lizzy on and off place, the style of the genre has Curated by war refugee Sepp singer performing How Many until 1979 when he got tired of moved on. It’s the same archi- Osley and his band Blurred More Years, jabbing his finger, HHHHI drug use hampering live shows. tecture but radical reinterpre- Vision, a top idea of calling blowing the back off his har- He had also played in the tations, combined with bright on artists from all continents monica and doing hip rolls NEATLY summed up by his jazz rock band Colosseum 2 new foundations and furniture, to come together to celebrate which left nothing to the debut solo EP Campfire Punk- and with Ginger Baker and abound in what seems an end- doesn’t quite click. imagination as Mick Jagger rock, Frank Turner’s music puts Jack Bruce in BBM in the early less flow of new ideas. There’s a riff-heavy Strawberry smiled on. an angry spring in your step 1990s. H25PITAL embarks on a jour- Fields Forever and an adept but Born in Mississippi in 1910 while wrapping warm arms This set features unissued ney through the past, present uninspiring version of Tomorrow Chester Burnett (Wolf) was a around you. recordings, including covers of and future of the label, featur- Never Knows by Gowan of Styx. sharecropper who befriended This breakthrough album — Freddie King’s I’m Tore Down ing the likes of Netsky, London Neither add much to Len- the great delta bluesman released as a special edition a lelujah — which asks if there is and Memphis Slim’s Steppin’ Elektricity, Keeno, Voltage, non’s canon and more tracks Charley Patton and in 1951 he decade on — touches on death, no God, is there still meaning Out. Fred V, Danny Byrd, Nu Logic inspired by the man rather commenced recording some Englishness and identity. to life — along with a myriad Other highlights include and many more. than just covers of his work of the toughest post-war blues Whether singing about his of unheard demos and obscure In My Dreams, a scorching Highlights include DRS & may have worked better. records at Sun studios in Mem- late grandmother in the simple B-sides. cover of How Blue Can You Dynamite, who team up with Then again, KT Tunstall’s phis and at Chess in Chicago. and uplifting Peggy Sang The It’s an impressive collection Get — originally cut by Johnny Logistics for a shapeshifting take on Gimme Some Truth This 55-tracker contains Blues, to how rock ’n’ roll is the from what could possibly be Moore’s Three Blazers and remix of the 2009 track Jun- pares it back to the message out-takes, demos and alternate new religion in I Still Believe, best described as an Eton-edu- made famous in 1964 by BB gle Music, Halogenix’s remix which soars with her sweet takes from 1951 to 1963 and this expanded collection of cated Billy Bragg. King — and the blistering Liv- of Kings Of The Rollers’ Shella voice and Maxi Jazz’s Power to there are no barrel scrapings, tracks questions the status Yet, as Turner sings: “It ing With The Blues. and Metrik’s Cadence, complete the People is simple and potent. they are music history. quo and what it means to be doesn’t matter where you come A fine album of unearthed with dreamlike synths and rav- Kudos for the concept, less TB English. from, it matters where you go.” gems. ishing vocals. so for the application. There are the original dozen Indeed. TB SD MS tracks, ending with Glory Hal- MS

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OBITUARY Nos da, cymrawd the spirit of cross- members who “holiday in Brit- ATTILA THE STOCKBROKER pays tribute border cultural co- tany, never in France — in the operation invited Basque Country, never in Spain” to a visionary genius of Welsh culture them to do their — there were contradictions not first-ever gigs in just in the words but in the man. AST weekend a good early-day motion in his honour. One evening, in a church England in 1986. Here was a writer passionate friend of more than In the mid-1980s, I’d been in hall somewhere in the middle They went down about his native language who three decades left touch with Rhys Mwyn, leader of nowhere, I did a gig with Dat- a storm at The opposed Welsh independence, this world at the age of pioneering Welsh language blygu. There were just two of Square in my then voted Labour and supported of 56. He changed the punk band Anhrefn (Disorder) them — singer David R Edwards, adopted home Chelsea; I argued with him a Lculture of his homeland for and he invited me to do some instrumentalist Patricia M Mor- town of Harlow lot about that. While remaining ever by using his native lan- gigs in deepest Wales. It was gan and a drum machine. Both and thus began a friendship from then on I did my best. creative all the while, he battled guage to compose lyrics and at the very beginnings of an have a middle initial tribute to with David and Rhys spanning Random Datblygu lyrics and the with mental and physical health music totally unlike anything alternative music scene which Mark E Smith, although they 35 years. bilingual road signs I drove past problems for 30 years, living on which had gone before and, in would take the language out of really don’t sound like The Fall. Datblygu’s most prolific on my regular visits to Wales the streets of his home town Car- doing so, inspired two genera- its cosy space in the world of They were simultaneously period was in the 1980s and became my Welsh textbooks. digan for a while before being tions — so far — to follow in Eisteddfods, choirs and folk- gorgeously tuneful and con- 1990s, when they produced a But David’s wondrous words taken into psychiatric care. his footsteps. ies and thrust it into the mael- frontationally atonal. Every trio of albums: Wyau (Eggs), were beyond me and I had to I visited him there, then in His name? David R Edwards. strom of punk and John Peel. song was different and this, Pyst (Post) and Libertino which settle for making up my own: his sheltered accommodation His band? Datblygu, Welsh I love foreign languages, combined with a language are regarded as a milestone in “Dim pel-droed yn y eglwys. in Carmarthen and finally in for “evolution,” “progress” or speak French and German, ideally suited to David’s some- the development of Welsh-lan- Dim heddlu yn y defaid” (“No his flat next to Carmarthen “development.” And never was and Welsh, with its mutations times soaring, sometimes sar- guage music. The likes of Gryff football in the church. No Town’s football ground. It was a band better named. and seemingly impenetrable donic, delivery meant they were Rhys and Cerys Matthews now police in the sheep.”) that last time, just before lock- In the rest of Britain, unless roots, had always fascinated completely unlike anything I eulogise them and John Peel But then, a few years ago, down, when I took the picture you are an aficionado of the me. With great gusto, guided by had ever heard before. said that Datblygu’s lyrics were Ankst Records released a tri- above - Dave is on the left.. John Peel Show, speak Welsh Rhys and Anhrefn, I performed At the end of the gig, or the best reason to learn Welsh. ple CD set of the three albums He looked healthier and hap- or are seriously into independ- my English verse to welcoming maybe before its end, David Everyone said what a fan- mentioned above, with all lyrics pier than he had for ages, talk- ent music, you probably won’t crowds in an embryonic new jumped off stage and ran off tastic writer he was but there translated and David’s wonder- ing about plans for Datblygu’s have heard of him. In Wales, world containing the likes of down the road. Such was the were no English translations of ful, surreal, sardonic and con- recently released album, Cwm he is sufficiently revered for Y Cyrff (The Corpses, later to experience I had just witnessed, the lyrics and that frustrated tradictory world opened up to Gwagle (Void Valley). his death to be headline news, become Catatonia) Traddodiad it seemed completely logical. me, so it was time to have a go. me like a flower. And now he’s gone. He leaves Labour Senedd leader Mark Ofnus (Frightened of Tradition), I was transfixed. Anhrefn Rhys taught me my first Welsh Old school folkie Daffyd Iwan behind a wonderful legacy. And Drakeford to issue a statement The Fflaps and Elfyn Presli a’r were the Welsh Clash. Datblygu phrase, “Fy nethau yn ffrwydro being rained on in a Plaid Cymru he loved the Morning Star. sending condolences and Plaid Massey Fergusons, neither of were the Welsh... God knows. gyda mwynhad” (“My nipples meeting in a hall with a leaky Nos Da, cymrawd. MP Ben Lake to propose an which need translating. I absolutely loved them and in explode with delight”) and roof. Welsh Language Society Gutted.

THEATRE I seven methods of killing kylie jenner OPERA I IVAN THE TERRIBLE HHHHI I ROYAL COURT, LONDON HHHHI I GRANGE PARK OPERA, SURREY

Acute drama interrogates Tendentious Stalin parallel mars engaging racist assumptions production of Rimsky-Korsakov opera Pic: Marc Brenner Cultural appropriation and the ownership of black bodies IT’S perhaps unavoidable for that formidable opera direc- online are just some of the issues raised in a bracingly tor David Pountney, known for tackling the more obscure provocative new play, says WILL STONE Slavic operatic repertoire, not to pursue the somewhat sim- PLAYWRIGHT Jasmine Lee- tweets get resurrected. mixed race alienates her from plistic comparisons of Ivan the Jones’s hit debut explores many And Cleo shows her own myo- both black and white cultures. Terrible’s reign to that of Joseph things over 90 minutes, among pia when she spitefully attacks The realm of the online Stalin in this production. them the cultural appropriation Kara for having it easy with her world is made authentically This may be an interpretative of the voiceless by the rich and lighter skin, only to inadvert- chaotic and noisy, allowing the conceit too far because, at its famous, namely the Kardashi- ently prove the point that Kara’s main plot lines of the story to heart, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsak- ans and arch-socialite Kylie be driven along by the intense ov’s opera is the tragic tale of Jenner. interactions of the two friends. an all-powerful ruler rediscov- Much has happened in the The intensity of their rela- ering his long-lost illegitimate world since the play’s original tionship begins to melt into daughter Olga. IN THE RIGHT CENTURY: The first half of Ivan The Terrible staging in 2019 to merit this compassion once Cleo is will- Ivan, portrayed as a passion- rerun, with the ills of institu- ing to apologise and face up to ate lover in the prologue, in The cliche image of Rus- sakov and David Pountney tional racism brought centre her grievances. At one point, she the final scene has laid siege to sian history is a land of bloody are great story-tellers. The stage following last year’s explo- even admits to finding her own Pskov, where he discovers that dictators but Ivan the Terrible chorus sing beautifully and sion of BLM protests. The issues rage exhausting. Olga is in fact his daughter. He killed far fewer people than are a delight to watch. Adrian raised in seven methods ... now What then follows is a hom- determines to spare the city the Tudors did in the dynastic Thompson as Nikita stands out seem eerily prescient. age to “voiceless black women” but fails and Olga dies in the struggles considered to be a as an engaging character actor, The play’s protagonist Cleo and a searing indictment of a cross-fire. golden age. while Clive Bayley’s “Ivan as Sta- (Leanne Henlon, pictured) is society that only praises black The first half of Pountney’s Thus what we are presented lin” convinces as a controlled the angry face of the anony- feminine attributes when they production is faithful to its 16th- with is Russia, viewed after the psychopath. mous online troll who uses a are appropriated by white century period setting, with the fact, through a Western gaze. Evelina Dobracheva, who Twitter account with the handle women. costumes, echoing the folk illus- And while this very much pan- plays both the adult Olga and @incognegro to list seven bru- Littered with more acronyms trations of Ivan Billibin, com- ders to the tastes of a Grange her mother, sings the role of the tal ways of killing Kylie Jenner to fill a Gen Z dictionary, seven plementing Francis O’Connor’s Park Opera audience it was a daughter beautifully, though under the hashtag #kyliejen- methods... spectacularly cap- superb minimalist set. shame more of the psychologi- the decision to treat her as a pas- nerfidead. tures the zeitgeist of the age Ivan the Terrible is essentially cal elements of the opera are sive victim denies her agency But her raging frequently and leaves us with plenty to an opera about generational left unexplored. and is a missed opportunity spills out IRL (in real life) chew on. trauma and, although mak- What we are left with are dramatically. to attack those close to her, WILL STONE ing Ivan a Stalin clone in part the familiar tropes that Stalin JAMES MATHER including friend Kara (Tia Ban- works, it hinders the universal- was a malevolent force and that non), who identifies as queer ■ Runs until July 27, box office: roy- ist and personal resonance that history in Russia repeats itself. ■ Runs until July 14, box office:

once Cleo’s former homophobic Pic: Myah Jeffers alcourttheatre.com. the piece offers. Even so, both Rimsky-Kor- grangeparkopera.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 24 June 26-27 2021 letters | red list @m_star_online

n NORTHERN IRELAND TOO SOON? People wearing masks as they walk down busy Oxford Street, London, on June 7 Will a united Ireland benefit all workers? NICK WRIGHT’S recent analy- way of appeal to workers in able for those who would be sis of the present state of union- Northern Ireland. affected by the change to remain ist politics in Northern Ireland For example, could the as part of the United Kingdom. (M Star June 24) makes for com- labour movement persuade While I am sure that others pelling reading. civil servants in Northern could point to instances where However, his final call for Ireland that their jobs would aspects of life for workers in the British labour movement be secured in a unified state? the south of Ireland is better to rally around the call for all- In addition, how would the than in the north, I for one Ireland solutions to all-Ireland labour movement persuade have never been convinced problems, which I presume the working people in Northern that the establishment of a author envisages as forming Ireland that their assimila- united Ireland is a necessary part of the process to further tion into healthcare system pre-condition to the further weaken the ties with Britain that presently exists in the the interests of British or Irish in the move towards a united Republic would be beneficial? workers. Ireland, is maybe a policy plat- In both of these examples, I MARK ROSE form that offers little in the would suggest that it is prefer- London SE14

n TORIES The real enemy is much closer to home than in the Crimea THE enemy of the Brit- The real enemy is ish public isn’t in the preparing legisla- Crimea where the Royal tion that will take Navy with a full com- away the right to plement of reactionary protest and will British journalists is make voting harder engaging in a Rurita- for the poor. nian spat with Russia. The real enemy The real enemy sits defends monu- in Downing Street and ments to slavers. n COVID-19 has said he’d rather The real enemy “bodies pile high in laughs and jokes their thousands” from coro- ages racism and calls black when asked why conviction Better to be masked up than sorry navirus than shut down the children “piccaninnies.” rates for rape are so low. EVEN if face masks are discon- in South Korea since the Avian likelihood will continue taking economy. The real enemy refuses to The great German social- tinued on or around the week flu pandemic of 2003 with rela- such precautions regardless of The real enemy thinks pay health workers a living ist Karl Liebknecht was cor- of the July 19, they should still tive success. whether such safety measures Britain’s “vaccine success” wage. The real enemy wanted rect when he said “The main be mandatory on all public The public though seem to be are lifted or not. was the product of “greed” to stop poor children getting enemy is ALWAYS at home.” transport. more cautious than the govern- PHIL BRAND and “capitalism.” free meals during the holi- SASHA SIMIC This is what has been done ment might realise and in all London SW17 The real enemy encour- days. London N16

The Red List June 26-July 3 purpose, a democracy that serves Bratton in conversation with of which are necessary if we are 8 SATURDAY 26 the people, and a country that is Nick Srnicek to work together effectively in a 8 SATURDAY 3 united against hate & prepared to united movement. Find out more People’s Assembly demo — No 7pm online TUC Women Chainmakers’ face the challenges ahead. Voices and register at https://mstar.link/ to a New Normal Covid-19 exposed the pre-existing Festival from Kill the Bill Coalition, BLM, conditions of the current global XRworkshop 12pm Portland Place, W1 10.30am online Corbyn’s Peace & Justice Project, crisis. The Revenge of the Real The People’s Assembly will be joined The 2021 TUC Women Chainmak- Gypsy Roma Traveller community envisions a new positive biopolitics by countless supporting organisa- ers’ Festival will again be online and XR Murdoch activists — plus that recognizes that governance is tions to protest against the Tories this year. The event will involve two art, music and food. literally a matter of life and death. over a range of issues, including panel sessions focussing on leading We are grappling with multiple the government failures during the CONTACT US women in the movement and from interconnected dilemmas—climate pandemic, as well as its attempts to women who’ve been on the front Promote your events! change, pandemics, the tensions squash our right to protest with the 8 TUESDAY 29 line fighting for workers this year. between the individual and draconian Police, Crime, Sentencing redlist@peoples Free. Register here: https://mstar. society—all of which have to and Courts Bill. Mental Health Matters - Sui- -press.com link/Chainmakers2021 cide Awareness be addressed on a planetary Resist Armed Forces Day 4pm online scale. For tickets, priced NHS 73rd Anniversary 12pm, various activities Join the TUC for the next episode pandemic are young workers. This £3, with book £11.99, protests Armed Forces Day once again will in its Mental Health Matters series event will look at the role trade students and unwaged Various times and places be whipping up support for war by of online events. This episode union reps and officials can play in free, go to https:// On the 73rd anniver- the back door and giving children focuses on suicide awareness with addressing this issue. Free. Register housmans.com/event/ sary of the founding the impression that violence and a look at some of the organisations for the event here: https://mstar. revenge-of-the-real/ of our NHS, a day of obedience are something to be who provide life-saving support link/youthemployment. Organised action has been called XR event: admired. The Peace Pledge Union to those who need it. Register for by the TUC by Keep Our NHS Oppression, members and allies around Britain a Zoom link at https://mstar.link/ Public, Health Cam- movement will be challenging these messages. mentalhealthmatters. Organised by TUC North West Black Workers paigns Together, NHS building and our For details, go here: https://mstar. the TUC. Forum Saturday 26 Workers Say No and relationships as link/peacepledgeunion 5pm online NHS Staff Voices. Join activists The NW TUC relaunches its black protests up and down workers’ forum and hears about na- 7pm online Britain to demand: 8 WEDNESDAY 30 This workshop will No to a New Normal tional and local initiatives to tackle patient safety, pay justice 8 SUNDAY 27 address the importance Job creation for young workers: racism and organise black workers 12pm national demonstration and an end to privatisa- of understanding the The role of trade unions in our unions. Free. Register here: tion! To find out the details Free the Press – part of an structural nature of oppres- 10am online https://mstar.link/blackworkers Assemble at London’s Portlandfor your nearest protest/online Uprising Weekend! sions (such as racism, sexism, Youth unemployment is rising event go to https://mstar.link/ 12pm rally, Parliament Square Book event: The Revenge of classism, ableism, the oppres- Place for a People’s Assembly Join Extinction Rebellion in London and almost half of those who have march to Parliament NHSdemo lost their job since the start of the the Real: Politics for a Post- sion of young people, ...), as well as Square. to demand a press that is fit for Pandemic World – Benjamin doing personal healing work – both morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online letters June 26-27 2021 25

n CORONAVIRUS Times talks more rubbish on Covid

THE Times printed more cov- Australia has had much selective reporting is sadly idiotis on June 21: “Only [sic] better results than Britain typical of the modern Thun- 89 people tested positive” of in terms of the effects on the derer (long ago famed for those having mandatory tests economy, health, the arts, its objectivity) and the near prior to returning to Britain pubs, and weddings on the monopoly control of the Brit- from amber list countries, basis of strict quarantine and ish press generally. it says, before going on to early lockdowns as soon as I really must get round to report various sources call- there is even one case in a city. buying shares in our Morning ing for these restrictions to The use of that word “only” Star. be lifted. shocks me as one of the RIVER AXE-THE-TAX It fails totally to report the many who regard that as 89 Manchester scientific voices calling for bor- cases too many being merely ■ ■ Ed: You can find out how to der controls to be tightened. trusted to stay home instead support the Star and buy shares This on a front-page “report” of supervised quarantine. at https://morningstaronline. rather than “content.” Shock but not surprise as co.uk/page/support-us

IT’S RAINING LIB DEMS: Newly elected Liberal Democrat MP for Chesham and Amersham Sarah Green is welcomed to the House of Commons by party leader Sir Ed Davey in Westminster, on Monday A DAY TO SPEAK UP: Army veterans n CHESHAM & AMERSHAM should use today to protest against Lib Dem vote inspired by hatred of Tories Tory benefit cuts YOUR report on the this Buckinghamshire British politics. Indeed I recent Chesham and constituency when Jeremy recall a friend who used Amersham vote concen- Corybn was in charge. to be a Labour member trates on the fact that it But have you stopped to in the safe Tory seat of was Labour’s worst ever think that many normally Harrogate backing a performance in a by-elec- Labour voters will have Liberal Democrat in order tion (M Star June 19/20). turned to the Liberal to see the back of Nor- And yes, it hardly shows Democrats because only man Lamont in 1997. You the leadership of Sir Keir they had a chance of might say it was a case of Starmer in a good light defeating the Tories? real politick in action! when compared to how Certainly tactical voting TIM MICKLEBURGH the party performed in has long played a part in Grimsby

n GO AHEAD Bus workers score great victory WE WON a great victory for fire-and-rehire tactics and cut started strike action. They are 350 bus drivers at Go Ahead wages. members of our union. in North Manchester recently. Let’s support the 80 skilled MERVYN DRAGE We can win across industry Weetabix engineers in Burton Greater Manchester Unite as employers seek to impose Latimer and Corby, who have Community

n SERVICE CUTS Militarists need to speak up ARMED Forces Day in Britain There is probably a case for ex-service personnel are thought has taken place annually since using Armed Forces Day this to be homeless across Britain. 2009. This year Armed Forces year to reflect on the very dif- Perhaps it is time to hear pro- Day was designated as Saturday ficult circumstances faced by military commentators speak June 26. many ex-service personnel. out against cuts to benefits and Armed Forces Day was intro- For over 10 years successive important public service which duced in 2009 at a time when Tory-led governments have are detrimental to veterans and there was widespread pub- slashed welfare budgets. other sections of the community. lic criticism of the Iraq and According to research by the ARTHUR WEST Afghanistan wars. Peace Pledge Union around 13,000 Irvine HAVE YOUR SAY WORKERS’ WIN: Unite members in Manchester following news of their victory [email protected] Photo: Neil Terry Photography Write (up to 300 words) to... Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 26 June 26-27 2021 info | entertainment @m_star_online

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Dessert: Sesame and 1 In which English county 3 Which French forename is Noah’s Ark Zoo, which is shared by the two Strawberries sadly lost one of its orchestral conductors elephants recently? Rieu and Previn? THIS is a delicious and very when I lived in the Moroccan simple dessert dish and, as far district in Brussels. This has 2 A sloop normally has as I know, entirely of my own an entirely different consist- one of what? invention, ency, but similar ingredients It was inspired, however, by and a very similar, sumptuous a strawberry halva — a Middle flavour. Tahini is now widely YESTERDAY’S ANSWERS Eastern/North African sweet available in UK supermarkets which I used to be able to buy as well as specialist shops. 1. Which famous children’s author became a firm supporter of vaccination after his daughter died of measles in 1962? Roald Ingredients Dahl (pictured) ■ 220g/8 oz strawberries 2. What would a Lebanese ■ 2 tbsp tahini do with a khubz? Eat it, it’s ■ 2 tbsp runny honey or agave a type of bread composer Don Battye, who syrup 3. What nationality was the died in 2016? Austrailan ■ plain yoghurt or cream

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Racing Guide with Farringdon n NEWCASTLE, CHESTER AND WINDSOR Newcastle takes centre stage EWCASTLE has mark again following that half His main rivals could come its big day in the a length win from Australis in the form of the lightly sun this afternoon and he was far from disgraced weighted and now well handi- with the Northum- in the Ascot Stakes over two- capped outsider Al Kout, the in- berland Plate and and-a-half miles last week. form multiple all-weather win- consolationN event on what On that occasion he was ner Indigo Times and recent this afternoon looks a cracking card. forced to race very wide, giv- Yarmouth victor Byron Hill. Jubilee and July Stakes last The four-year-old has twice Both races have maximum ing away plenty of ground, and Elsewhere on the card, I year, Khaadem has looked recently run poorly here off fields of 20 with the main event a smoother passage here from fancy both Major Jumbo in the a bit lacklustre on his three marks of 77 and 75, but will at 3.30 with the weights headed stall 14 could see him leave that big six furlong handicap at 1.45 starts this year with the main return to the Cheshire track WEEKEND TIPS by Champions Stayers’ winner form well behind off this very and Khaadem in the following problem being him running on the back of a cracking run Trueshan (off a mark of 113) and playable mark. Chipchase Stakes at 2.20, a race way too freely in the opening at Nottingham with an unlucky Farringdon’s Doubles the bottom-weight running off The consolation event at the first selection would nor- exchanges. in running fourth of nine Saturday 92, so this is a truly cracking 2.55 is also fully booked and mally be running in. However, there is plenty of beaten less than two lengths LAAFY renewal. this looks a cracking chance However, the now seven- pace on in this field and I am by Saluti. Windsor 4:10 (nap) Second in the rearranged for the unexposed four-year-old year-old has been badly out of hoping that the five-year-old And if you go back far Sagaro Stakes last year, Zeeband to make his mark at form of late having dropped will be able to settle and finally enough (August ‘20) he finished MAJOR JUMBO Mildenberger carries second this level. from a rating of 108 to 95, but show his true ability. a fair second off here off 83 and Newcastle 1:45 top-weight equating to a mark The Roger Varian-trained the icing on the cake is that The all-weather specialist now gets to race off a mark of Sunday of 111 with Rainbow Dreamer runner didn’t race as a juve- Kevin Ryan has engaged 7lbs Diligent Harry, withdrawn 68 which is why I fancy he will INFLECTION POINT off 110 and then a big 8lbs gap nile but won two from five as claimer Oisin McSweeney to from the Commonwealth outrun his currently available Curragh 2:30 (nap) and more to the rest of the a three-year-old in his debut take his mark right down to 88. Cup at Royal Ascot because of double figure price. field. season, improving as he was If he manages to show any- the soft ground, looks a huge Elsewhere, Mission Boy PONDUS Lucky Deal, 5lbs higher for given a stiffer test of stamina. thing like his best form then he player, but all of his runs have (Windsor 1.55) could also out- Curragh 4:10 his win over the course and On his one run this season, would be absolutely chucked in come at Lingfield or Wolver- run his big odds on ground that distance last year, has to be a he ran a cracking third of seven off his mark and could well be hampton and this Tapeta suits in a competitive extended Houseman’s Choice player with his regular rider behind Global Storm on a fairly one of the gambles on the card. track is far stiffer than those mile handicap at 1.55, while Saturday Andrew Breslin on board, but testing surface when looking in It is also worth noting that two venues. has been given a real chance DILIGENT HARRY the best value play here, at an need of the outing. it was only 12 months ago that With heavy showers pre- by the assessor even off top- Newcastle 2:20 each-way price, could well be Only a pound higher here he finished under two lengths dicted, the ground at Chester weight in the mile and three another course and distance and with a first time visor on third to Judicial in the Chip- looks as though it will have furlong handicap due off at 4.10 Sunday winner Island Brave. to enable him to settle better, chase and his form figures at some give in it and that will in which he probably has the LOCK’S CORNER The now seven-year-old gets he could take another signifi- the track read 123. certainly suit Birkenhead in the well handicapped Koeman to Uttoxeter 3:35 to race off exactly the same cant step forward here. Fourth in both the Golden five furlong handicap at 5.40. worry about most.

Douglas Beattie Beattie on Scotland Scotland’s brief stay at the Euros HERE were some but in the end the Scots hardened;” they knew time it’s right to point to the hard lessons from were outdone by a team exactly how to manage the positives. Here is a largely Scotland’s exit which produced a couple of game at this level. Also, in young group of players who at the European moments of real quality. each Group D encounter — now have an appearances at Championships In London, Steve Clarke’s time and again — Scotland a major finals under their againstT Croatia on Tuesday men showed how well they made chances but spurned belts. Aided by the likes of evening and these can’t be can play. It was a bravura them — a return of one goal Gilmour, Nathan Patterson overlooked if another long performance, but draining across three games speaks of Rangers, Celtic’s David wait to qualify for a major both physically and men- for itself. Turnbull and Keven Nisbet finals is to be avoided. tally. The most striking fea- There is no doubt Clarke of Hibernian, they will grow Yes it was great to see ture of the night was the has recast Scotland magnifi- stronger still. Scotland back in the big quality of Billy Gilmour cently, and there is much to Mere hope, cries of “Come time but, as with the past 10 who, at just 20 years of age, praise in reaching the finals on Scotland” and so forth appearances in World Cups has the makings of a mid- after such a long hiatus. Yet are not enough if we want to and European Champion- fielder who can go as far in there will be criticism too — really compete at this level. ships for the men’s national the game as he pleases. having been set up to play a Think here again of Croatia, team, all too fleeting. To have that rare gem certain way the Scots seemed population four million, In the space of eight days, ruled out with Covid days unable to move to plan B, with a team which consist- two matches were lost on later was a hammer blow. never mind C or D. ently outperforms anything home soil, while a notable It would have been a treat Questions will also be Scotland can muster. draw was carved out at Wem- to see the young maestro asked about why the man- Perhaps the biggest lesson bley against England. Gilmour against the old ager waited so long, in the from the ups and downs of Looking across those master Luka Modric in the final game especially, to Euro 2020 is that our foot- games there are a number final group match against bring on substitutes. This is ball authorities must be hon- of things to pinpoint. Firstly, Croatia. Alas, Scotland were a crucial aspect of the mod- est about how the game is the opener against the Czech undone by moments of bril- ern game. We are not talk- played in our country. If they Republic at Hampden was liance from the Real Madrid ing merely of fresh legs, but are prepared to do that they pivotal — defeat left Scot- playmaker who bestrode the finding ways to change the may find the answer to a land chasing the group, Hampden turf as though it pattern and flow of a match. question a new generation of whereas even a draw would were his own fiefdom. There’s a good deal more fans are now asking — why have been a platform to As the Scotland man- which could be said about do Scotland fail (or at last build on. ager rightly pointed out, tactics, formations and fail to get out of their group) This was a fifty-fifty game Croatia were “tournament personnel but at the same and how can they succeed? morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online sport June 26-27 2021 29

Layth’s take with Layth Yousif Whoever said ‘dead’ group games were boring was wrong

ANDS up who felt and face England in the knock- 37 years to the day since one of to say those who decried the sup- thanks to the pandemic has Yet, Essex reached the total drained after the out stages. the greatest matches of football posed banality of “dead” group been tough for a cricket tragic in a cracking finish to break the final dramatic For me the only show in that was ever played. stage games were proved wrong. such as myself. hearts of Middlesex supporters group stage games town was the prospect of Eng- I’m talking about the I simply can’t wait for the So, it was with no little everywhere, with a four off the this week? land facing Germany in the momentous European Cham- knock-out stages. excitement I ventured back to last ball by Simon Harmer to H“Football. Bloody Hell.” Sir knockout stages. pionship semi-final between NW8 this week to take in Mid- clinch a stunning victory by Alex Ferguson’s immortal As someone who went to the France and Portugal that took S I must’ve been to dlesex’s T20 clash with Essex. two wickets. line moments after his Man- 5-1 thrashing of Die Mannschaft place on June 23 1984. Lord’s hundreds of From the carved tiles bear- However, despite the result, chester United side won the in Munich in 2001, not to men- On a tempestuous evening times since I first ing Seaxes and the image of if you love sport but you’ve 1999 Champions League final tion attending a raft of games deep in the south of France, started watching Thomas Lord resplendent on never been to Lord’s then you was an apt phrase once again for this fixture as a punter as Michel Platini’s Le Bleus recov- Middlesex and Eng- the walls of nearby St John’s have to visit. Never mind it this week. well as covering a few as a jour- ered from being 2-1 down in landP at the home of cricket. Wood underground station, being a national treasure it Flicking between Hungary v nalist, this clash is loaded with extra-time to somehow beat Yet such is the majestic nature to admiring the newly rebuilt should be on the Unesco World Germany and France v Portu- depth and texture. Fernando Cabrita’s side 3-2 of the place, every single visit, Compton and Edrich stands Heritage list. gal was fraught enough in itself But let’s hope we as a nation in Marseille’s old Stade Velo- as a punter or a journalist, is as (which are excellent by the What I’m reading: I love without considering the rami- have moved on sufficiently drome. The team included one much an honour as a privilege. way) opposite the grand old dipping in and out of my col- fications of the ever-changing from the clichéd coverage that of the best Portuguese football- From the terracotta-coloured pavilion that I can safely say, lection of Wisdens. on-field action. the Euro 96 semi-final between ers of the 80s — the luxuri- Edwardian pavilion to the hal- until my dying day I will simply What I’m watching: The I’ve been to Budapest and the pair generated all those antly mustachioed Fernando lowed history of the place, to never tire of looking at — it was Edge. An insightful, and at I have to say it is a stunning years ago. Chalaba. If you’re too young the splendid Old Father Time simply wonderful to be back. times disturbing documentary, city with wondrous architec- Let’s hope we can simply to remember, Google it. It still weathervane, to the wondrous And that’s without mention- giving the inside track on how ture and an evocative river view this match as one of great leaves me with goosebumps slope, to the layout of the ing the warm welcome in the the England Test team got to running through the heart of interest for footballing matters even now. stands that are fit for a state media centre from old col- No 1 in the world a decade ago. it. I even paid a visit to St Ste- only, not tired and offensive Yet, on Wednesday even- of the art 21st-century cricket leagues on the circuit I hadn’t What I’m listening to: phen’s Basilica to see the tomb clichés about past wars. And ing at one stage it looked as ground — yet sympathetically seen since before Covid. LA Woman, The Doors. Next of Ferenc Puskas and honour while we’re at it, this fixture if France and Portugal were and aesthetically pleasing My beloved “Middle” set an week is the 50th anniversary the memory of a true legend. has been played 32 times, so about to recreate that never- enough not to drown out the imposing total of 183-2 which of the legendary Jim Morrison’s However, Viktor Orban’s let’s hope the coverage over the to-be-forgotten clash, a brace tree-lined background — eve- included an outstanding knock death. I once made a pilgrim- dreadful right-wing policies coming days reflects that, not each from Cristiano Ronaldo rything about Lord’s is magical. from Stephen Eskinazi to reach age to Pere Lachaise cemetery leave me cold, so I was never just lazily referencing that Euro and Karim Benzema resulting Even while consciously 102 not out from only 62 balls, in Paris on the morning of an going to entertain the notion 96 clash. in a dramatic 2-2 at the Ferenc savouring each and every trip supplemented by a quickfire 29 France vs England game many about how “romantic” it’d be if …… Puskas Stadium. over the years, to be denied off 23 balls from my favourite years ago, to spend time at Jim’s the less than mighty Magyars In a strange quirk of fate They were so many subplots as attending nearly two sum- young batsman of the moment, grave. That’s how much I love were to dispose of Germany Group F’s final fixtures were to be a Netflix thriller — suffice mers’ worth of sport at Lord’s Joe Cracknell. his music. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 30 June 26-27 2021 sport @m_star_online

The left hook with John Wight

AST on the Versace- clad heels of the car crash of an exhibition bout between former pound for pound king De La Hoya, another boxer FloydF Mayweather Jnr and You- Tuber Logan Paul, another box- ing great of yesteryear, Oscar De La Hoya, has announced a date and opponent for his own return to the ring in an exhibi- about to ruin his legacy tion bout. A worrying trend has thus now been entrenched with GETTING BACK IN THE RING these wildly mismatched AT 44: Oscar De La Hoya exhibition fights that are tan- tamount to freak shows and unedifying spectacles rather than legitimate sporting con- tests. Consider the above-men- tioned Mayweather-Logan Paul event. Held at the Hard Rock Stadium in Miami on June 6 over eight rounds with no judges present ringside and no winner declared at the end, Mayweather looked so bad it would have been a stretch to describe him as a mere shadow of his former self. The 44-year-old said after- wards that he’d hardly trained for the bout and boy did it show. Giving away 20 years in age difference, four inches in reach, and over 30lbs in weight to a YouTube prankster appear- ing for only the second time in a boxing ring — with his first bout against British YouTuber KSI — this was always going be an experiment in nonsense. Mayweather described the to get two of these fights down that in his pomp Oscar De La event as a “bank heist,” mak- under my belt, and get the tim- Hoya was a tremendous speci- A SHADOW OF HIS FORMER ing abundantly clear where ing ready and everything, and men in the ring. This writer SELF: Floyd Mayweather Jnr he places the boxing public in then my third one, I want to recently took the opportunity his esteem. Even so, one mil- call out Floyd Mayweather.” to watch his rematch with lion people were sufficiently This malarkey is getting one of Mexico’s greatest, Julio intrigued to fork out an out- decidedly silly. Boxing, by Cesar Chavez. The fight took landish $50 for the pay per definition, is a young man’s place on September 16 in Las view. One can only ponder game. No matter how condi- Vegas and it was an absolute how many shared the senti- tioned a 48-year-old might be, war, pitting boxing’s current ments characterised by the reflexes and speed diminish in pound for pound star in De La chorus of boos which rang out line with the ageing process. Hoya against its fading king in from among the live audience Without both functioning at Chavez. at the Hard Rock Stadium at optimum level in a boxing ring, On the night the speed, foot- the final bell? you’re only putting yourself in work, combination-punching So now Oscar De La Hoya harm’s way. and balance of De La Hoya has decided that he too wants At this rate someone is going was sublime as he peppered a a piece of this action. Of course, to get hurt, and when that hap- frustrated Chavez with a whip- as did his nemesis Mayweather pens the backlash against the ping jab upstairs and down for before him, this former Olym- sport will be justifiably severe. the first half of the fight. In the pic champion and six-division YouTubers are not fighters they fifth Chavez came back into world champion has been at are fame-hungry fools kidding things, successfully closing the pains to point out that his themselves on. Former stars of distance and finding gaps in De comeback is not about money. the sport in their 40s engag- La Hoya’s defence. In the sixth It never is, is it? ing in these ridiculous exhibi- De La Hoya decided to plant his De La Hoya’s last competi- tion bouts are no longer fight- feet and trade up close, taking tive fight before retiring saw ers they are desperate relics Chavez’s best shots yet refusing him reduced to a human punch looking to cash in on legacies to yield by as much as a step bag for an in-prime Manny they are doing their utmost to back. Pacquaio. That was in 2008, 13 denigrate and damage, along Back and forth the fight now years ago, and it’s hard to imag- with the sport in which they swung as both men poured eve- ine how the 48-year-old version established said legacies in the rything in and at points it was will be able serve up anything first place. nip and tuck. In the end youth more than the car crash his old De La Hoya is currently con- prevailed, proving too much for rival, Floyd Mayweather Jnr, did ducting a very public and nasty experience, and a brave but bro- against Logan Paul in Miami. feud with the one-time star of ken Chavez refused to come out De La Hoya is scheduled to his promotional stable, Saul of his corner for the ninth. fight MMA fighter Vitor Belfort “Canelo” Alvarez. Perhaps it is Legends of the sport such in Las Vegas on September 11. here where the former feels the as Mayweather and De La Of the match-up De La Hoya — need to return to the ring, what Hoya should, in their ring dot- who has a well-documented with his acrimonious parting of age, view themselves as elder years-long struggle with alco- the ways with boxing’s version statesmen and custodians of hol and substance abuse to of a golden calf depriving his the sport. Instead, with these his name — recently stated: “I promotional outfit, Golden Boy, exhibition antics, they violate want to make the biggest come- of considerable revenue. whatever integrity the sport back in boxing history. I want What cannot be gainsaid is has managed to cling on to. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online sport June 26-27 2021 31

The left wing with James Nalton Chile star Ben Brereton Diaz — from Rovers to La Roja

HIS year’s Copa is Brereton, who was first Copa America knockout next game against Uruguay physical forward Chile have “I left Concepcion in 1986 America has called up by Chile for World stages, the Blackburn man as the two combined in style struggled to produce, so it when I was 15, always think- served as some- Cup qualifiers in early June. may well have worked his for one of the goals of the feels like they have struck ing about returning. thing of a post- Brereton’s Chile, as they way into La Roja’s starting tournament so far. gold in finding him. “I came here to study, I Euros chillout will now be known in Eng- XI. Having dragged Diego “His videos with Mau- love Chile but after marry- zoneT for those watching land, have already managed Having made his debut off Godin out of position, ricio Isla trying to teach ing my husband we had two back in Britain, and Chile’s draws against a star-studded the bench in Chile’s open- Brereton received the ball him some of the national children.” call-up of Blackburn Rov- Argentina side featuring ing Copa America game from Vargas before playing lingo have been shared far The Chilean side of Brere- ers forward Ben Brereton Lionel Messi and a Uruguay against Argentina, Brereton a return pass around the and wide on Chilean social ton’s family is represented has provided an additional, team boasting the likes made his first start in the corner into space with the media groups. every time he puts on the unexpected storyline. of Luis Suarez and Edison subsequent match against outside of his boot. “He’s also been the sub- red shirt. This is especially The first games of the day Cavani. Bolivia. The experienced Godin, ject of numerous debates on the case as Spanish naming in the Brazil-hosted tourna- These two draws, plus a He scored the only goal one of the wiliest central TV and radio, and is often customs use the mother’s ment often kick off at 10pm win against Bolivia, have in that important win, get- defenders of the past dec- referred to as Big Ben by first surname as well as the UK time, just after the late been enough to see Chile ting on the end of Eduardo ade, was taken out of the commentators! father’s. game in the Euros has fin- through to the knockout Vargas’ pass before finishing game completely by Brere- “Interest in him has been As a result, he’s known ished. stages, and meant defeat to cooly past two defenders and ton’s movement, and Var- huge and if he continues to as Ben Brereton Diaz when The coverage has had a Paraguay on Thursday night the goalkeeper. gas blasted his shot past impress it will only grow, representing Chile and uses low-key feel due to games didn’t affect their progress. The joy on the faces of Fernando Muslera to give along with his cult hero type the name Brereton Diaz on being played behind closed It initially appeared that his teammates as they cel- Chile the lead. status.” the back of his shirt. doors and the BBC’s show- Brereton would be on the ebrated showed how he’s Brereton remained in the Brereton is able to repre- It has been one of the ing it via its digital medi- fringes of the Chile squad. managed to integrate and starting XI for the defeat to sent the South American more captivating stories ums rather than on its TV Manager Martin Lasarte endear himself to the Chile Paraguay and will be push- nation thanks to his mother, in this summer of interna- channels. was hesitant to start him in squad in such a short space ing to start for however long Andrea, who was born in the tional football and Brereton There has been no pre- those World Cup qualifying of time, despite the language Chile remain in the tourna- Chilean city, Concepcion. Diaz will at least go down as match build-up, no half-time games due to the language barrier. ment. Andrea moved to England a cult player for Chile, and analysis and a lone commen- barrier. “We get along well with “Brereton Diaz has been a as a teenager to study, as her possibly in England too. tator has been tasked with “It’s difficult to be in the Ben,” said Vargas. “We huge hit with Chileans and father had done before her. Now he appears to be a talking through the matches starting XI without speaking don’t know his language, people here have appreciated “After studying for four starter for his new national and providing information Spanish,” said Lasarte. “But he doesn’t know how to his effort and clear pride years in England and meet- team, the serious business on the players starring in with everyone’s help he is speak Spanish either, but when he wears the red shirt,” ing my mother, my father of the Copa America knock- them. adapting to a new culture.” we understand each other says Santiago-based South went back to Concepcion, out stages begins where One player who might not That peripheral role didn’t very well on the pitch.” American football expert where me and my sisters he’ll hope to continue to have needed introducing to last long and by the end of Brereton returned the Adam Brandon. were born,” she told the make an impact in key some of Britain’s viewers June, as Chile head into the favour for Vargas in the “He is the type of quality Lancashire Telegraph. moments. Saturday/Sunday SPORT June 26-27 2021 n RACISM SPORT ON TV Saturday ■ BASEBALL: MLB, Los Angeles Dodgers v Chicago Cubs – BT Sport 1 12am (Sun). ■ BASKETBALL: NBA Play-offs, Phoe- nix Suns v Los Angeles Clippers – Sky Sports Arena 2am (Sun). BERRY’S READY TO ■ CRICKET: Men’s T20I, England v Sri Lanka – Sky Sports Main Event & Sky Sports Cricket 2pm. ■ CYCLING: Tour de France – ITV4 9am & Eurosport 1 10.45am. La Course – Eurosport 1 7am. ■ EQUESTRIAN: Show Jumping – Eurosport 1 6.15pm. IMPACT THE WORLD ■ FOOTBALL: Euro 8.20pm, Last-16, Wales v Denmark – BBC One 4.30pm; Hammer thrower: We should use our voices to bring awareness to issues Italy v Austria – BBC One 7.30pm. ■ FORMULA ONE: Styrian Grand Prix, by Our Sports Desk cancer late in 2019. was the women’s shot put final, Berry has fre- neighbourhoods I grew up in Practice – Sky Sports Main Event & “To have her be well is even where Raven Saunders, decked quently spoken is enough pressure. The things Sky Sports F1 10.45am; Qualifying – more special than going to out in a green Hulk mask, about her plans I have to deal with and I have to Sky Sports F1 1pm. GWEN BERRY raised her fist, Tokyo,” Coburn said. “Shar- broke the meet record with a to use the plat- protect my son from is enough ■ GOLF: Women’s PGA Champion- then thumped it against her ing this with her means eve- throw of 65 feet-5 inches (19.96 form in Tokyo, pressure. And I’m here. I’m old ship – Sky Sports Golf 5pm & Sky chest two times and set off on rything.” metres), only to watch Jessica and anywhere enough to be able Sports Main Event 6.30pm. European her quest for an even bigger Allyson Felix also ran on Ramsey top that mark a few else she has an to handle a lot Tour, BMW International Open – Sky stage to spread her message. Thursday. Felix, who qualified minutes later at 66-0 1/4 (20.12). audience. of this pres- Sports Main Event & Sky Sports Golf The hammer thrower, who for the 400 metres four nights Berry’s next chance to put on “I just want sure.” 12.30pm. PGA Tour, Travelers Cham- forced the US Olympic world earlier, made it through the a show will come in the ham- everyone to pionship – Sky Sports Main Event & into an uncomfortable conver- first round of the 200. Because mer finals this afternoon, when understand that, as BEING Sky Sports Golf 9pm. sation about raised fists, kneel- of the way the schedule is set, the forecast high is 39°C. athletes, we can use HEARD: Gwen ■ MOTO: MotoGP, Qualifying – BT ing and other demonstrations she wouldn’t be able to run Her opening gestures on our voice, we should Berry Sport 2 11am. British Superbikes – Eurosport 2 1pm. at the Games, finished sixth in both distances in Tokyo, but Thursday, which came as she use our voices to bring ■ MOTORSPORT: World Rally Cham- qualifying at track and field tri- that wasn’t on her mind as she was introduced to a crowd of awareness to these issues pionship, Rally of Kenya – BT Sport als on Thursday. She’ll be in the scooped up her two-year-old a few hundred watching the that impact our communi- 1 7am & 1pm. final today competing for one toddler, Cammy, and headed hammer area just outside the ties,” Berry said. “Because ■ RACING: Newcastle – ITV & STV of three tickets to Tokyo. out of the track. main stadium, wouldn’t have our communities are the 1.25pm. “Today means a lot to me,” “I know it’s going to be diffi- been news were it not for the communities that are under ■ RUGBY UNION: British and Irish said the 31-year-old mom, who cult, but [am] trying to sharpen voice she has found since she attack.” Lions v Japan – Channel 4 2.15pm. wore a T-shirt emblazoned with myself up a little bit and just raised her fist on the medals Berry’s qualifying throw of Gallagher Premiership final, Exeter the words “Activist Athlete.” keep going,” said Felix, who has stand two summers ago at the 232-1 (70.74) fell almost 20 feet v Harlequins – BT Sport 1 4.30pm. “My message is very powerful. been speaking out for mums in Pan-Am Games in Peru. short of her season best. Some ■ TENNIS: Eastbourne – BBC Two I want to impact the world.” the wake of her rupture with After her demonstration in of her biggest competition England 12.15pm. She’s hardly the only athlete Nike over the company’s preg- Lima, Berry received a year- comes from her own country. ■ UFC: Ciryl Gane v Alexander Volkov using their platform to send a nancy policies. long probation for violating Four of the top five throws of – BT Sport 2 9pm. message. Other athletes, after more international rules that ban 2021 have been made by US Sunday Emma Coburn, who serves than a year of empty stands and protests and demonstrations athletes, including world ■ BASEBALL: MLB, Los Angeles as vice-president of the athlete stringent Covid-19 protocols, inside the lines. champion DeAnna Price, Dodgers v Chicago Cubs – BT Sport advocacy group Athletics Asso- were happy simply to have an But last year’s summer of vio- Pan-Am Games runner- 1 12am (Mon). ciation, won her ninth national audience to watch them run — lence in the aftermath of the up Brooke Andersen and ■ BASKETBALL: NBA Play-offs, Mil- title in the steeplechase and in this case the fans in the half- killing of George Floyd sparked Janee’ Kassanavoid. waukee Bucks v Atlanta Hawks – Sky will head to her third Olym- full stands at Hayward Field. changes. The US Olympic and Some might feel the pres- Sports Main Event 1.30am (Mon). pics. Coburn won her race in “It felt like a big hug with Paralympic Committee said it sure for today’s finals. Berry ■ CRICKET: Women’s ODI, England v a meet-record 9 minutes, 9.41 everyone cheering,” Raevyn would not enforce the ban at doesn’t look at it that way. India – Sky Sports Main Event & Sky seconds, then dedicated the vic- Rogers said after her 800-metre trials this year and would not “I feel like being black Sports Cricket 10.30am. Men’s T20I, tory to her mother, who was qualifier. sanction athletes who violate in America is enough West Indies v South Africa – BT Sport diagnosed with Stage 4 colon The best contest of the night the IOC’s Rule 50 in Tokyo. pressure,” she said. “The 1 6.45pm. ■ CYCLING: Tour de France – Euro- sport 1 12.15pm. ■ FOOTBALL: Euro 8.20pm, Last-16, Netherlands v Czech Republic – ITV n WOMEN’S CRICKET 4.15pm; Belgium v Portugal – ITV 7.15pm 7.30pm. ■ FORMULA ONE: Styrian Grand Prix – Sky Sports F1 12.30pm & Sky Sports A draw was a good start, says Winfield-Hill Main Event 1.55pm. ■ GOLF: Women’s PGA Championship by Our Sports Desk “It was nice to potentially has made it clear she is happiest – Sky Sports Golf 5pm &; Sky Sports open a few wounds on some leading from the front. Main Event 7pm. European Tour, BMW of their middle-order players “I’m pretty keen [to open], International Open – Sky Sports Golf ENGLAND may have had to set- that didn’t get away,” she said. that’s no secret,” she said. 12.30pm. PGA Tour, Travelers Champi- tle for a draw in last week’s Test “It’s nice for us to have “I sort of lost my way [over] onship – Sky Sports Golf 7pm. match against India but Lau- thrown those punches early the last couple of years, trying ■ MOTO: MotoGP – BT Sport 2 ren Winfield-Hill believes their on a few of their players. They to be a good team person, play- 9.15am. British Superbikes – Euro- sport 2 1pm. Motocross World Cham- dominant performance may also had some players who had ing lots of roles but probably pionship – Eurosport 2 7.30pm. have “opened a few wounds” some good success against us, none of them particularly well. ■ MOTORSPORT: British Touring Car ahead of the one-day series. so we will go back to the draw- I wasn’t being true to myself. Championship – ITV3 11am. World The tourists held on to share ing board and make sure we The last year or so I’ve gone Rally Championship, Rally of Kenya the spoils after following on in come hard at them. back to what’s familiar and – BT Sport 1 6.30am & 11am. the four-day match, but there “There’s certainly been some that’s opening the batting. ■ RUGBY UNION: Men’s international, was no doubt about which side good battles already and I’m “If the opportunity arises it’s England A v Scotland A – Channel 4 had the best of things in Bristol. sure that will continue in the one I’d be massively excited for, 1.30pm. Seventeen-year-old Shefali one-day and T20 series.” because it’s what I want to do.” Verma starred in both innings Winfield-Hill opened the to keep her side afloat in the batting in the Test match, Published by Peoples Press MSTAR 2021-06-26 SAT 1.5 match, but middle-order main- kick-starting the England effort Printing Society Ltd (12750R), stays Mithali Raj and Harman- with a lively 35 and two sixes. William Rust House, 52 Beachy 25 Road, Bow, London E3 2NS. preet Kaur were dismissed four It is a role she has performed in Telephone: (020) 8510-0815. times for a combined total of 27 of her 43 ODI appearances, Email: enquiries@peoples-press. just 18 runs. but she has not headed up the com. 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