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£1.5O Saturday/Sunday February 3-4 2018 | Owned by our readers | Incorporating the Daily Worker | Est. 1930 | morningstaronline.co.uk As the NHS nears its 70th birthday on July 5, marches and demonstrations are RALLYbeing held across 54 towns and cities WARNS today demanding action over the crisis ■ NEWS Carillion: Hundreds made redundant UNIONS warn that thousands more jobs are at risk as chaotic bankruptcy of outsourcing and construction giant claims NO 10 TO FIX its first mass haul of victims. Turn to page 6 Ken Livingstone: p13

■ WORLD Remembering where NHS CRISIS fascism was broken RUSSIA commemorates 75 years since the Battle of Stalingrad turned back the ■ WORL THOUSANDS of health workers, had a minor operation and was Late last year, the pair had a nazis. RALLY GUIDE Turn to page 7 patients, union members and by Lamiat Sabin discharged two days later. row on Twitter during which activists will join marches “She has excellent insurance Mr Little accused Mr Hunt of ASSEMBLE nationwide today to demand an so was only presented with a “knowingly lying to the public.” 12pm Gower Street (North end to the NHS crisis. “We need to reverse the tide bill for $2,500 (£1,750). In response, Mr Hunt chal- Side) Nearest stations: The government will be of cuts and privatisation. We “My mother was rushed to lenged him to provide evidence ■ SPORT Euston, Euston Square, urged to provide more beds, need to end pay restraint for hospital in an ambulance, that he was deliberately trying Warren Street staff and funds to ease the prob- NHS staff and we need to build received expert emergency to mislead, which triggered Mr Six Nations preview: MARCH lems facing the service. a fully funded, publicly owned care, stayed in hospital for two Little’s offer of a public debate. Bloomsbury Street - The NHS in Crisis: Fix it Now and provided NHS and social weeks to recover, was treated Royal College of Nursing Will it be a washout? Shaftesbury Avenue event was organised by the Peo- care service. We need our NHS daily by consultants, physical president Cecilia Akrisie Anim ple’s Assembly Against Auster- more than we need the Tory A WAVE of injuries has cost - Charing Cross Road - therapists, occupational thera- will address the rally to say that ity and Health Campaigns government.” pists and nursing staff, was nurses are bearing the brunt of the teams dearly ahead Whitehall / Downing Street Together. Shadow health secretary Jon escorted home in a taxi and the huge pressures on the NHS. of rugby union’s biggest TIMINGS Activists are due to join the Ashworth, who will be attend- checked on three times a day She is expected to say: “Staff spectacle. DAVID NICHOLSON 12pm - 1pm: Assemble & lead march through central ing, said that the NHS is strug- for a further five weeks.” at every level are experiencing surveys the damage. speeches London from noon before hold- gling through its “worst winter Earlier this week, Mr Little burnout and many of our col- Turn to page 22 1pm: March leaves off ing an hour-long rally opposite on record” when we should be had escalated his attack on leagues are turning their back Downing Street, with linked celebrating its 70th year. hated Health Secretary Jeremy on jobs they love. 2pm: March reaches end protests also taking place in 54 He added: “We have a fight Hunt by challenging him to a “It’s no surprise that nursing point other towns and cities across on our hands for the future of showdown at today’s rally. staff feel overstretched and 2.15-3.30pm Speeches England. a universal public NHS.” He issued an open letter to undervalued. There are now 4pm: Disperse People’s Assembly organiser Actor Ralf Little recalled how Mr Hunt that offered a time for more than 40,000 nurse vacan- Ramona McCartney said: “The his mother suffered a stroke them to publicly discuss cies in England alone. There will be a short emergency demonstration is in and was saved by NHS staff resources, staff and funding in Turn to page 5 FRANCES O’GRADY march route for disabled demand of more beds, more staff while his mother-in-law paid the NHS. Star comment 12 A new deal is people or those who don’t and more funds for our NHS. thousands for a routine opera- needed for feel they can manage the “As we mark the NHS’s 70th tion in Florida. workers whole route. birthday, we have to build a move- He said: “My mother-in-law PAGE 10 P11 ment that fights to defend it. spent two nights in hospital, GAIL CARTMAIL

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DOCTORS will demonstrate outside the General Medical Council’s (GMC) offices today to protest against the striking off of one of their colleagues. Dr Hadiza Bawa-Garba was struck off last month after the GMC successfully appealed against her initial 12-month suspension to the High Court. She was found guilty of gross negligence manslaughter and received a suspended jail sen- tence over the 2011 death of six-year-old Jack Adcock who suffered a cardiac arrest caused by sepsis. But many doctors have reacted angrily to the GMC measures, arguing that many of the issues raised by the case, such as dangerous levels of understaffing, have been ignored. A crowdfunding page has raised more than £275,000 so Dr Bawa-Garba can launch an appeal against the ruling. Protesters will gather outside the GMC offices in central Lon- don before joining a wider HISTORICAL MOMENT: march to demand an end to the (Clockwise from top) Great crisis in the NHS organised by granddaughter of Suff ragette the People’s Assembly and Emmeline Pankhurst Helen Health Campaigns Pankhurst visiting the Royal Together. Mint in South Wales, where she struck a commemorative 50p coin to mark 100 years since the passing through Parliament of donate the Representation of the People Act, a portrait of Ms Pankhurst and the new coin on ONLINE top of the Act morningstaronline .co.uk/page/ support-us

NORFOLK AND ■ ECONOMY SUFFOLK NEW READERS & SUPPORTERS GROUP! Labour challenges Tories to Join us in Great Yarmouth for the inaugural meeting of the Norfolk and Suffolk Morning Star Readers and Supporters Group. Morning Star editor Ben Chacko will be publish their tax returns joining us discussing bias in the mainstream media and Socialist responses. 7.30pm Thursday February 8 by Lamiat Sabin being leader of the opposition He earned just £6 in interest Herois De Mar, 6-7 Broad Row, Great Yarmouth Parliamentary Reporter and two pensions, and paid a over the tax year, which suggests total of £48,079.80 in tax. that he has almost no savings. Norfolk NR30 1HT He received £6,464 in state His office said he has no JEREMY CORBYN and John pension and £2,405 from a Uni- stocks or shares, benefits from McDonnell heaped pressure son union pension, on which no trust funds and did not on their Tory counterparts to he paid £962 in tax. receive any income from prop- publish their tax returns by Mr Corbyn said: “Tax avoid- erty. The Workers’ Stately Home making their own public yes- ance and evasion deprive our Mr Corbyn’s returns also terday. public services of tens of bil- shows a total of £890 in gift aid sends greetings to all those The Labour leader paid lions of pounds every year and contributions linked to charity almost £50,000 to the Excheq- will only be tackled if we have donations over the year. attending the uer, according to figures the political will to do it. Prime Minister Theresa May released by the party. “We cannot expect the public published her tax returns while #FixOurNHS In the 2016-17 tax year, he to trust us as party leaders if standing for the Tory leadership received a total income of we are not prepared to be open OUT IN THE OPEN: Jeremy in 2016 but did not do so last demonstration £136,762, including one salary and honest about our own tax Corbyn’s tax return, which he has year despite Mr Corbyn releas- for being an MP, another for arrangements.” just published ing his. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline news Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online February 3-4 2018 3

■ ECONOMY ■ WOMEN’S RIGHTS New coin marks 100 THOUSANDS FEAR THE WORST AS years since vote won CARILLION CONFIRMS SACKINGS SUFFRAGETTE Emmeline Pankhurst’s great-grand- COLLAPSED OUTSOURCING GIANT: Union Unite says workers face chaos as fi rm announces redundancies daughter struck a com- memorative 50p coin by Sam Tobin person said laid-off workers repeatedly urged both the yesterday marking 100 would be entitled to make a receiver and PWC [a giant years since some women claim for statutory redundancy accountancy appointed as spe- won the right to vote. UNITE warned yesterday that payments and the Jobcentre cial managers of Carillion by Dr Helen Pankhurst was thousands of workers at col- Plus “rapid response service” the High Court] to follow a at the Royal Mint in lapsed outsourcing firm Caril- would provide support. proper procedure and consult Llantrisant, south Wales, to lion face “chaos and confusion” But a Unite spokesperson over redundancies. imprint the design of the after hundreds of redundancies said the latest announcements “Dismissing Carillion workers coin, paying tribute to the were confirmed. meant that “thousands of work- with virtually no notice is unac- passing of the Representa- A spokesperson for the offi- ers remain in limbo” with their ceptable and not the way to treat tion of the People Act cial receiver said that 919 jobs future is still uncertain. workers, particularly as the gov- through Parliament. have been protected but, “The latest redundancy ernment has set up a task force The Act allowed service- “despite best efforts,” 377 staff announcement has increased to support workers and services.” men over the age of 19, would be made redundant. the feeling of chaos and confu- A government spokesman men over 21, and women Most of the 919 workers will sion which has stalked Caril- said: “Understandably, this will over the age of 30 and “of transfer to a new employer on lion since its collapse last be a very difficult time for property” to vote for the “existing or similar terms,” the month,” the spokesperson said. those who have been made first time. spokesperson said, adding that “Workers don’t know if they redundant and their families. Dr Pankhurst said: “The the official receiver would con- will get paid from one day to “As with almost all insolvencies, suffragettes used to deface tinue to work to find new pro- the next and could be made there are unfortunately a number coins and there was a viders for Carillion’s existing redundant or transferred to a of redundancies, and government penny coin they used to contracts. new contractor on lower wages stands ready to support those deface with ‘votes for The company’s collapse last at a moment’s notice. affected through Jobcentre Plus’s women’ written on it and month left a £900 million debt “Thousands of workers Rapid Response Service. here we are today in 2018 pile, a £590 million pension remain in limbo and don’t “We continue to work hard marking the centenary of deficit and hundreds of mil- know if they will be able to to minimise the impacts of the right to vote. lions of pounds worth of unfin- continue to feed their families.” insolvency and ensure that pub- “I think Emmeline would ished public contracts. GMB national secretary lic services run safely.” be very amused and proud The official receiver’s spokes- DESOLATE: Carillion offi ces in Wolverhampton Rehana Azam said: “GMB has [email protected] for how things have changed and she would be remembering those defaced coins.” ■ NOTTINGHAM SPEECH NAL U Helen Antrobus, of the NATION NION People’s History Museum in N Manchester, welcomed the new design that will be in Corbyn applauds circulation later this year. She added: “I wish it were Sending solidarity to those possible for all of us to carry one in our pockets to councils for saying carry forward that message rallying for our NHS of equality first started by the Act 100 years ago, No to privatisation #FixOurNHS reminding us that we still have work to do.” by Lamiat Sabin ham, with Robin Hood Energy and inspiring Liverpool Leccy CHRIS KITCHEN General Secretary and Angelic Energy in my bor- NICKY WILSON National President JEREMY CORBYN will hail the ough of Islington. WAYNE THOMAS National Vice-President rebirth of “municipal social- “In Newcastle where the Tyne ism” today, applauding Labour & Wear Metro has been taken councils across the country back in-house after forced con- The Labour leader has that have brought back or kept tracting-out and the service is OOFF SS released his tax return to the public services in-house. running better, meeting peo- MMIINNEEWWOORRKKEERR public three years in a row, but In a speech to Labour coun- ple’s needs. Tory Chancellor Philip Ham- cillors in Nottingham, Mr Cor- “That’s the lesson too for mond has refused to do so. byn is expected to say that Brit- councils like Cardiff and here In the 2016-17 tax year, ish society is being “disman- in Nottingham which have hung shadow chancellor Mr McDon- tled” by privatisation of such on to municipal bus companies nell received a total income of services through the use of out- and regulated bus services. OUT NOW! £87,353 and paid a total of sourcing companies and so- “In Redbridge, waste services £24,099.20 in tax, Labour said. called austerity. will come back in-house next Mr McDonnell said: “I have Privatisation has made vital year, as they have in many again published my full tax public services a “cash cow” for other council areas.” COMMUNIST REVIEW 86 return. the wealthy few, he will add, He will refer to the “implo- “I have done this every year while the government has cut sion” of the outsourcing and Theory and discussion journal of the Communist Party as shadow chancellor because council funding by up to 50 per construction firm Carillion and I believe, if you aspire to be in cent. the National Audit Office report charge of the nation’s finances, “This is why Labour councils into exorbitant PFI schemes as CONTENTS: Women and the Russian Revolution Mary Davis; Appeal from the then you should be as open and are taking measures to bring examples of how the “‘private International Meeting of Communist & Workers’ Parties; Socialism is real transparent about your own services back in-house and good, public bad’ dogma has income as possible. reject costly PFI-style models,” crumbled.” freedom Gennady Zyuganov; Centenary of the October Revolution Liu “It is right that people in he plans to say. 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n COURTS Love to hear extradition appeal result next week ALLEGED computer hacker including the “high risk” Lauri Love will find out on that Mr Love, who suffers Monday whether he has won from Asperger’s syndrome, his appeal against extradi- would kill himself. tion to the United States to Edward Fitzgerald QC stand trial on charges of argued that if he is to stands taking data from govern- trial, this should take place ment agencies. in Britain because it would Two judges sitting at the be “unjust and oppressive” High Court in London will to extradite him. give their decision on his case. Mr Love’s appeal centres on Mr Love (top, right), 32, a September 2016 ruling by a could up to 99 years in jail if district judge at Westminster he is found guilty of magistrates’ court that he cyber-hacking charges by a could be extradited. US court. He is alleged to have His appeal lawyer told two stolen data from several US judges during a High Court agencies, including the hearing in November that Federal Reserve, the army, his extradition would not be the Pentagon, Nasa and the in the “interests of justice” FBI, in a spate of online HERO: Visitors and staff look at campaigner and artist Annie Swynnerton’s portrait of Suffragist leader Millicent Fawcett which has gone on for a number of reasons, attacks in 2012 and 2013. display at Tate Britain to mark 100 years since women first gained the right to vote. Ms Swynnerton was the first woman to be elected an associate member of the Royal Academy of Arts and a passionate campaigner for women’s right to vote

n LIVERPOOL Mayor urged to ‘step aside’ Comrade Avtar Sadiq Lal Salaam Red Salute while fraud probe continues Funeral Arrangement by Our News Desk 12.30 afternoon on 5th February 2018 Arrival of coffin LIVERPOOL Mayor Joe Anderson Gilroes Cemetery & Crematorium is facing calls to temporarily Groby Road, Leicester LE3 9QG “step aside” from council business after it was revealed Celebration Of Comrade Sadiq’s Life Achievements that he had been interviewed under caution as part of a fraud 1pm- 4pm investigation. Maher Centre Mr Anderson said yesterday he had attended the November 15 Ravensbridge Drive, interviews with Lancashire Leicester LE4 0BZ Police “voluntarily” and was offering officers his “full co- Comrade Sadiq lived a life of a committed fighter against racism, fascism, operation and assistance in discrimination and injustice of all forms. He stood for justice, peace, their enquiries.” But Richard Kemp, leader of solidarity with working class movement and a just world. His contribution to Liverpool’s Liberal Democrats, the working class movement is well recognised and documented. said it would be “in the best interests of the city and indeed Tributes from friends & sister socialist and community organisations of the of Joe Anderson” if he were to Association of Indian Communists and Indian Workers Association GB. take the “very reasonable action” of stepping away from Please come to the crematorium. Only close family members will business while the investigation accompany the coffin from home. continues. Comrade Sadiq’s wife, sister Gurdarshan and his son Arvinder have Mr Kemp added that Labour UNDER PRESSURE: Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson Deputy Mayor Ann O’Byrne was requested no flowers but donations to the Morning Star, the people’s daily “in place” to deputise for Mr The force’s Operation executive Ged Fitzgerald, Lan- newspaper, will be appreciated. Anderson. Sheridan has been investigat- cashire County Council leader A Lancashire Police spokes- ing allegations of financial Geoff Driver and two other men person said: “A 60-year-old man irregularities in the tendering were arrested last year on sus- For any further information contact: attended a police station in the of a £5 million contract with picion of conspiracy to pervert 07518 269-391 07956 811-553 county by pre-arranged appoint- One Connect, a joint venture the course of justice and wit- Dyal Bagri Harsev Bains ment on November 7 and 24 between Lancashire County ness intimidation, but not on National President IWA Secretary AIC 2017 as part of an ongoing inves- Council and BT to run some suspicion of fraud, and bailed Shaheed Bhagat Singh Welfare Centre, 88 Hastings Road, Leicester. tigation. The individual con- services, since 2013. pending further enquiries. cerned has not been arrested.” Liverpool City Council chief [email protected] morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline news Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online February 3-4 2018 5

■ HEALTH SERVICE ■ COUNCIL HOUSING ■ PARLIAMENT 81 died when MPs shed tears as ambulances DEMOLITION PLANS arrived late, colleague tells of says MP WILL NEED BACKING stillbirth trauma AMBULANCE delays are feared to have caused up to 81 patient deaths at a by Lamiat Sabin trust judged to be in OF TENANTS: KHAN Parliamentary Reporter “crisis,” a former Liberal Democrat health minister said yesterday. REGENERATION: Rules will apply to schemes funded by London mayor MPs were moved to tears yes- Norman Lamb said he terday by colleague Sharon had seen a list of 40 cases by Sam Tobin The proposals follow Hodgson recalling how her still- of potential patient harm repeated calls by Green London born baby “officially did not linked to response time Assembly Member Sian Berry, exist” even though she had delays at the East of RESIDENTS of council estates whose motion proposing ballots known that the little girl’s England Ambulance in London will be able to vote for residents where schemes heart was beating throughout Service Trust. on any plans to demolish their involved demolition was most of the birth. They include 19 cases homes under proposals unanimously supported by Lon- Ms Hodgson’s voice faltered where patients died. announced by London Mayor don Assembly members in and she had to pause several But he added he Sadiq Khan yesterday. December. times as she described the trau- OVERCOME: Sharon Hodgson understood there were a Ballots will apply to any She said that Mr Khan had matic birth of her third child tells the Commons of her tragedy further 120 incidents of schemes funded by the mayor been “slow” to issue the new Lucy. potential patient harm which involve the construction guidance but welcomed that he Her fellow Labour MPs could present in the chamber. and the death total could of 150 or more homes and the had “finally seen sense” and also be seen dabbing their eyes Conservative MP Will Quince exceed 80. demolition of existing ones, offered residents a say in any when she said that Lucy, who intervened to allow Ms Hodg- Mr Lamb also voiced says City Hall’s first-ever “estate plans to demolish and rebuild would have been 20 this year, son a chance to compose her- concerns about compla- regeneration” good practice their estate. had no birth or death certifi- self, noting: “Bereaved parents, cency in the trust’s guide. Ms Berry added: “It’s only fair cate after she was stillborn at all of us, want to ensure our leadership, despite the Released yesterday, the Bet- that, if your home faces demo- 23-and-a-half weeks. child’s life, however short, has Care Quality Commission ter Homes for Local People lition, you can vote against bad Ms Hodgson explained that meaning. saying the service is “in guide seeks to give tenants a plans. this was because she was “three “She is absolutely doing that. crisis” and “patients are at greater say in decisions affect- “Councils and developers to four days short” of the If she doesn’t mind me saying, risk.” ing the future of their homes. who have engaged residents required 24-week legal age. Lucy would be very proud of her Senior trust staff also It would mean all schemes with from the very start of drawing This emerged during debate mummy today.” drive Jaguars, Range mayoral funding would need PROMISE: Jeremy Corbyn and up plans would have nothing on the Civil Partnerships, Mar- Ms Hodgson joked in reply: Rovers, Mercedes and Audi the support of a majority of Sadiq Khan in Barnet yesterday to fear.” riages and Deaths (Registration “If he was trying to calm us A5s while there have been residents before the funding Labour leader Jeremy Cor- Etc) Bill, which includes propos- down, he’s probably made it recruitment difficulties, could be approved. “I want to make sure people byn, who joined Mr Khan in als to introduce formal record- worse.” Mr Lamb added. Launching the proposals on living on social housing estates, Barnet, said: “Regeneration ing of a stillborn child born The Bill, tabled by Tory Health Minister Steve a housing estate in Barnet, who have the greatest interest must put local people first not before gestation has passed the former minister Tim Loughton, Barclay said: “A wide-rang- north London, Mr Khan said: in their future, are at the heart property speculators. 24-week mark and to give coro- seeks to see how the govern- ing plan of immediate “We need more social housing of any decisions from the “Labour is committed to giv- ners power to investigate late- ment can extend civil partner- actions has been put in in London, not less, which is why outset. ing residents the right to a bal- stage stillbirths. ships to opposite-sex couples place to address the issues I will use all my powers to make “By involving residents and lot across the country so that, Ms Hodgson said she had and calls for the inclusion of a that were identified” sure that any plans for estate putting social housing first, we when we’re in government, we watched a previous Commons mother or second parent’s following a “risk summit.” regeneration protect existing can make sure plans for estate can deliver real regeneration debate on baby loss from her name on marriage and civil Concerns about the social housing and take every regeneration help build a city for the many not the few.” office as she was “too scared” partnership certificates. trust were raised in the opportunity to build more. for all Londoners.” [email protected] of her emotional reaction to be [email protected] Commons last month by Labour’s Clive Lewis, who mentioned allegations of people dying due to Communist Party ambulances arriving late of Britain over a 12-day period. London District ■ FRONT PAGE Public Meeting: What is Britain’s road to Socialism? Thursday 15th March at Marx Memorial Library Fix the NHS, 7pm, 37a Clerkenwell Green, London, EC1R 0DU rally will say Speakers to be confi rmed FROM P1: “Seventy years since the formation of the NHS and nurses have always been at the heart of it. “Urgent action is needed DISTRAUGHT: The family of victim Makram Ali give a statement after Darren Osborne’s sentencing yesterday to address the current crisis. If none is taken, it is our ■ FINSBURY PARK TERROR NAZI FASCISM IS BACK IN patients who will suffer. We will continue to speak out to POWER IN UKRAINE defend our NHS.” Far-right van attacker gets 43 years’ jail Please join us for a TUC general secretary FAR-RIGHT terrorist Darren attempted murder. Devices You accelerated the van towards protest Saturday Frances O’Grady echoed her Osborne was sentenced to a found at his family home in them intending to kill as many February 10th in support sentiments by saying: ”Bril- minimum of 43 years in jail Cardiff revealed multiple web people as you could.” of the Communists and liant, dedicated staff have yesterday for driving a van into searches for far-right material. Earlier, it was revealed that people of Ukraine. suffered year after year of pay a crowd of Muslims after Ram- Mr Osborne told Woolwich he had appeared in court on 33 In London meet at the misery and are having to do adan night prayers. Crown Court that he wanted occasions for 102 offences over Ukranian Embassy from 1pm, more with less for less.” He killed Makram Ali and to kill Labour leader Jeremy 30 years. in Glasgow at La [email protected] injured 12 others when he Corbyn and London Mayor Branding Mr Osborne’s Pasionaria statue from 1pm, deliberately mowed down wor- Sadiq Khan. attack an “act of terrorism,” a at the Engels’s statue in ■ A full list of today’s rallies is shippers outside two mosques Ms Justice Cheema-Grubb Downing Street spokesperson Manchester from 1pm and in available at healthcampaigns in Finsbury Park last June. told him: “This was a terrorist called on internet companies outside the Ukrainian together.com Mr Osborne was convicted attack. You intended to kill […] to go “further and faster” in consulate in Edinburgh from on Thursday of murder and “You had found your target. removing extremist content. 1pm. 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■ SYRIA Rocket fi re targets Turkey as Afrin Kurds hit back by Our Foreign Desk war against Isis],” he said. Communist Party of Turkey general secretary Kemal TURKISH media claimed nine Okuyan told the Sol newspaper people were wounded yesterday that the invasion was a bid to by rockets fired over the border force the US to abandon sup- from Syria’s Afrin canton. port for Kurdish forces, which It blames the fire on Syrian have built up self-governing Kurdish forces resisting the areas around Rojava over the Turkish invasion of the region, course of the Syrian war. which has seen dozens of civil- “Syria has been de facto ians killed in indiscriminate divided despite the fact that the bombing raids. Syrian government did not Turkey claims to be fighting fall,” Mr Okuyan said. “terrorists” in Afrin, though “The AKP government [in the Kurdish forces it is fighting Turkey] maintains its previous have been battling Isis in alli- Syrian policy. It would do any- ance with its Nato ally the thing for a regime change in United States. Kurdish politi- Syria if it had the chance. It’s cian Aldar Khalil has slammed trying to convince the US of Washington’s “unclear and that by sending the message: indecisive” stance on the Turk- ‘Take the [Kurdish nationalist] ish assault. PYD out of the equation and we “They should meet their obli- can move against the Syrian gations towards this force that government together’.” participated with them [in the [email protected]

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Communist Party ■ LIBYA of Britain 90 refugees feared Executive Committee drowned crossing THE £19,170 BIG RED APPEAL Mediterranean Sea by Our Foreign Desk firmed dead crossing the Med- iterranean in 2017 while eight HELP BUILD BRITAIN’S Pakistanis went missing and NINETY people are feared were presumed dead in 2016. COMMUNIST PARTY! drowned after a smugglers’ The IOM says 6,624 people boat carrying mostly Pakistani crossed the Mediterranean in Your donations have helped raise £6,620 migrants capsized off Libya’s January — about two-thirds of so far, including those from Glasgow coast early yesterday, the UN them to Italy — roughly a 10 per migration agency said. cent increase from a year ear- comrades £552, Bedfordshire postie Ten bodies have washed lier. £197, Newcastle pensioner £14, London ashore near the Libyan town of About 250 people died in the rail worker £100, Gwent anti-racist Zuwara following the early crossing in January, six fewer campaigner £235, West Country morning tragedy, said Interna- than a year ago, but it was the tional Organisation for Migra- second deadliest month since supporter £20, Leicester pensioner tion spokeswoman Olivia Hea- June while December was the £200, Swansea Star seller £5, West don. least lethal recorded since Midlands trade union offi cial £40, Eight were believed to be RESCUED: Libyan refugees January 2014. Pakistani and two Libyans. earlier this week “Of course, there is no way Liverpool CP £100,labour movement “We are told that two survi- to predict the number of deaths historian £100, London electrician £60, vors swam to shore and one last year made up the 13th larg- we record. Almost all migrants South Yorkshire CP £100, Somerset person was rescued by a fishing est nationality represented who die in the Mediterranean trade unionist £200, Cardiff teacher boat,” Ms Headon said. among people making the are victims of chance,” said “We are working to get more crossing, but they were the Julia Black, co-ordinator of the £25, Oxfordshire CP £200, London details on the (capsizing) and third-largest contingent in IOM Missing Migrants Project. supporter £50, Devon anti-cuts activists where the survivors are so that January. “But it is heartbreaking that £141. we can assist them better.” Ms Headon said the reason so often dozens, sometimes She said Pakistani nationals for the increasing flow of Paki- hundreds, of deaths occur in a Please give what you can by cheque (“CPB”) or P/O to CPB (Dept. RA), Ruskin House, are increasing among the stanis wasn’t immediately single day. While the deaths of 23 Coombe Rd., Croydon, London CR0 1BD, by bank transfer to Unity Trust, number of refugees and clear, nor whether the greater these migrants are unpredict- Communist Party of Britain, 60-83-01 no. 50725694 or migrants attempting to cross influx is likely to continue, but able, there is an undeniable online at www.communist-party.org.uk. the Mediterranean to Italy and he said the IOM was “looking trend of tragedy in the Mediter- Europe via Libya. into it.” ranean.” offi [email protected] • Tel. (020) 8686-1659 By nationality, Pakistanis No Pakistanis were con- [email protected] morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline world Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online February 3-4 2018 7

n baTTle OF sTalingraD in brief n malDives Two detained at Firms in spotlight anti-government RUSSIA MARKS 75 YEARS over Israel links PALESTINE: The United demonstrations Nations human rights office has drawn up a list of 206 TWO people were arrested in businesses profiting from the Maldivian capital Male at SINCE NAZI SURRENDER Israel’s illegal settlements in a protest last night against the West Bank. the government’s refusal to RUSSIANS marked the 75th Soviet Union status to Yakov Pav- portray the Soviet and German Officials are writing to release political prisoners. anniversary of the Red Army’s by ben chacko lov, whose platoon’s defence of a forces as equally savage. the companies to remind Supreme Court judges victory at the Battle of Stalin- single building since known as He pointed to testimony from them that, since the had ordered the release and grad yesterday, attending a “Pavlov’s house” for over two Field Marshal Paulus on the settlements are illegal retrial of nine opposition military parade and laying access to the oilfields of the months became legendary. efforts of Red Army doctors to under international law, it politicians, saying that the wreaths to honour the soldiers Caucasus, cost the Wehrmacht Soviet general Vasily Chuikov save the lives of German prison- is illegal to do business with guilty verdicts in their cases who died defending the city. hundreds of thousands of later remarked that the assault on ers after the battle. them. had been swayed by politics. Seventy-five tanks, one for troops and is seen as the second Pavlov’s house had cost the Ger- And he demanded that Volgo- “Businesses play a central One of the nine, ousted each year that has passed since world war’s key turning point, man army more soldiers than the grad be renamed Stalingrad role in furthering the president Mohmmed the nazi surrender on February marking the beginning of the conquest of France. permanently. establishment, maintenance Nasheed, is currently in 2 1943, rolled through Volgo- end for the nazis. In an address to mark the As with Leningrad, the name and expansion of Israeli exile in Britain while the grad, as Stalingrad was Russian President Vladimir anniversary, Russian Communist is already officially adopted by settlements,” the human others are behind bars. renamed in 1961, while 50 air- Putin inspected wreaths in Vol- Party leader Gennady Zyuganov the city on certain important rights office noted in its Ministers sacked the craft and 1,500 soldiers also gograd yesterday and the praised the “unparalleled” sac- anniversaries. report. country’s police chief after took part in the commemora- Defence Ministry released a rifices of the city’s residents. “We cannot allow the win- his department said it tion. number of formerly classified As the greatest-ever victory for ning country to cover up the would uphold the court’s Stalingrad has been called military documents. Soviet arms and proof of the sacred feats of its people, while Miners safely rescued ruling to release the men. the bloodiest battle in history, They included a handwritten “effectiveness of a planned other countries demonstrate Mr Nasheed plans to with more than a million note from General Konstantin socialist system,” the truth about much better memory,” he said, after Beatrix collapse stand against President deaths in over five months of Rokossovsky reporting the capture Stalingrad had always caused pointing out that even Paris Yameen Abdul Gayoom in brutal close-quarters fighting. of the German commander Frie- “tooth-grinding” among anti- has a Metro station called Sta- SOUTH AFRICA: Roughly forthcoming elections. The German defeat foiled drich Paulus on January 31 1943 communists, he pointed out, lingrad. 1,000 miners have been Elected 10 years ago, Mr Hitler’s plan to cut off Soviet and the order granting Hero of the with false accounts seeking to [email protected] evacuated from the Beatrix Nasheed said he was forced to mine in Free State after resign “at gunpoint” in 2012. being trapped under- He was convicted of terror- ground for more than 24 ism in 2015 in what observers FOLLOW US hours by a power cut. said was a sham trial and was ON TWITTER The National Union of granted asylum in Britain. Mineworkers and trade @M_Star_Online union federation Cosatu expressed relief, while metalworkers’ union Numsa said the mine should stay closed until an n iran investigation is complete and workers’ safety can be 29 women arrested during guaranteed. protest against hijab law Insults to king will IRANIAN authorities have climbing a fountain, and then be criminal offence arrested 29 women in Tehran waving her hijab in the air in after they protested against a law protest. CAMBODIA: Insulting the that forces them to wear the hijab. Iran’s Islamic clothing laws, king will be made a The Tasnim news agency which require women to cover criminal offence, cabinet reported yesterday that Tehran their hair and wear loose-fit- mOck inaUgUraTiOn: Supporters of opposition leader Raila Odinga at the beginning of the week ministers decided yesterday. police had nicked the women ting garments in public, are They have backed an for “disturbing public security” backed up with fines and n kenya amendment to Cambodia’s by removing their headscarves. prison sentences. criminal code, which will Six other women were Iranian newspapers carry a fine and a jail reportedly arrested this week reported in late December that sentence of up to five years. for similar protests. Tehran police would no longer Police stop High Court from Both houses of parliament Several women have been arrest women for wearing the have to approve the change. photographed or recorded tak- wrong clothes, instead sending Ministers said the ban ing off their hijabs and waving them to re-education classes lifting TV channels blackout was needed to protect the them on sticks. — though repeat offenders reputation of King Noro- One video showed an elderly would still face jail. dom Sihamoni. woman struggling to walk That reform appears not to by Our Foreign Desk they tried to cover opposition Uhuru Kenyatta. through a snow-covered park, have taken place. leader Raila Odinga’s mock The government said the “inauguration” at which he event was treasonous and has Fidel Castro’s son KENYAN police prevented yes- declared himself “the people’s declared the loose National terday’s serving of a High Court president.” Resistance Movement alliance dies, aged 68 n calais order lifting a government Interior Minister Fred Matiangi an “organised criminal group.” blackout imposed on the coun- had claimed that the involvement Police arrested a second law- CUBA: Fidel Castro Diaz- try’s three main TV stations. of TV and radio stations would yer who had stood with Mr Balart, son of the revolu- Traffickers ‘behind clashes’ Police prevented democratic have led to the deaths of thou- Odinga at the ceremony yester- tionary leader, has died at rights activist Okiya Omtata sands of Kenyans, but judges day. the age of 68. “TOTALLY organised” gangs are gangs. The Pas-de-Calais prefec- from delivering the document, ordered the government not to Police fought with protesters Mr Diaz-Balart was an behind violent clashes among ture said the unrest began after issued a day earlier, to the Com- interfere with the broadcasters in the Nairobi slum of Kibera expert nuclear physicist refugees in Calais, French Inte- a meal distribution near the Cal- munications Authority while until a case challenging the min- after the dawn raid on the who studied in the Soviet rior Minister Gerard Collomb ais hospital, with a showdown plain-clothes officers chased ister’s order is heard. home of Miguna Miguna, who Union and most recently said yesterday. between Eritreans and Afghans. away journalists reporting on A High Court judge has also had called himself a “general” worked as scientific adviser Police reinforcements arrived Subsequently a larger group of the matter. had to order police not to arrest of the movement. to the Council of State and at the port after fights that appar- Eritrean refugees “cornered” 30 Police had earlier detained a three journalists after cops That followed the arrest on as vice-president of the ently broke out between Eritrean Afghan refugees and a battle court process server, so Mr “laid siege” to the headquarters Wednesday of TJ Kajwang, an Cuban Academy of Sciences. and Afghan refugees injured 22 broke out with sticks and stones Omtata went himself and was of the Nation Media Group. MP who appeared at the cere- He had undergone people, five of them by gunfire. and a gun fired toward the end. eventually forced to paste the Mr Odinga’s ceremony was mony wearing judicial robes. several months of treat- Police were seeking a suspect Mr Collomb said the govern- judges’ order on the wall of meant as a protest against last He was charged with adminis- ment for depression. He for the shootings but had made ment planned to take over meal building’s gatehouse. year’s two presidential elec- tering an illegal oath and took his own life on no arrests, the minister said, distribution to stop soup kitchens The government ordered a tions, which he asserts were released on bail. Thursday. blaming human trafficking becoming “fixed nodes of tension.” blackout of the stations after rigged in favour of President [email protected] Communist Party of Britain

Britain’s Communists send solidarity greetings to all NHS workers and campaigners • Take all NHS facilities and services back into public ownership! • Invest more in wages and welfare, not weapons and warfare! FBU North West stands with • Bring down the Tories and put Labour into offi ce on a left-wing manifesto! those fighting for our NHS Join the Communist Party for socialist revolution #FIXOURNHS Robert Griffi ths Liz Payne Andy Bain General secretary Chair Trade Union Organiser NORTH Regional Secretary EC Member WEST Mark Rowe Les Skarratts REGION CPB, Ruskin House, 23 Coombe Rd, Croydon CR0 1BD Regional Treasurer Regional Chair 5 [email protected] 020 8686-1659 Steve Shelton Gary Keary www.communist-party.org.uk www.facebook.com/CPBritain/ morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online February 3-4 2018 9

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

ABOVE: A Kosovan wears a face mask during a protest against heavy pollution in Pristina on Wednesday LEFT: Pupils from Irish-language schools join a Stormont protest on Thursday demanding greater support for the Irish language in ongoing power-sharing talks

ABOVE: Residents and workers outside the Maharin nursing home, Anglet, France, express their anger over staff shortages during nationwide protests on Tuesday

ABOVE: Relatives of people executed by one of former Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori’s death squads march against him receiving a medical pardon in Lima on Tuesday LEFT: A man burns mock US and union flags during a protest in support of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees on Monday, which has had its budgdet slashed by $60 million by the Trump administration Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 10 Saturday/Sunday features morningstaronline February 3-4 2018 @m_star_online

HE NHS, reeling from a cash crisis caused by the At 70, the NHS is at a Tory austerity T agenda, is at a defining cross- roads as it prepares to celebrate its 70th birthday in July. The NHS needs a massive and immediate cash injection to tide it over the winter crisis, a long-term funding plan to meet defining crossroads soaring demand in the decades ahead and a coherent, well- funded strategy that ensures GAIL CARTMAIL lays out Unite’s demands for saving the NHS and that health and social care are neatly woven together. However, under the malign creating a health service worthy of Aneurin Bevan’s grand vision stewardship of Health and Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt since 2012, we have seen the NHS drained of cash increases in real terms, a dedi- cated workforce demoralised by a dramatic erosion in their pay because of below-inflation increases, a recruitment and retention crisis across many health disciplines and increas- ing waiting times at A&E departments and for routine operations for patients. That’s why there will be excellent turnouts for today’s demonstrations, organised by the People’s Assembly across the country, by people deeply concerned about the state of the NHS and what harm this hard- hearted Tory government has inflicted on one of Britain’s greatest achievements. While there is so much to condemn about Tory health policy, rhetoric is not enough. It is incumbent on those on the left to offer practical solutions to ensure that the NHS enjoys many more birthdays so that everyone in need benefits from a health service free at the point of delivery. Our health service is not being funded enough. Since 2010 the NHS budget has increased by about 1 per cent on average each year. This is the worst funding set- tlement since the creation of the NHS in 1948. The average increase in funding has been almost 4 per cent per year, according to research from the There’s a lack of confidence tion with staff seriously, they funding gap of £7.1 billion by which had many NHS contracts, We need to end the privatisa- Kings Fund. across the whole NHS workforce would listen to people on the the end of the decade when including managing 11,800 tion of services that’s extract- This yawning gap needs to be that anybody really has a plan. front line like paramedics and money to stabilise the adult beds, has brought the outsourc- ing profits at patients’, staff bridged and a commitment to Soundbites don’t make policy. nurses who would point out social care provider market is ing of public services to profit- and taxpayers’ expense. stick with the principle of pro- Staff have had a pay cut of that, beyond a proper funding included. hungry private companies into We need short-term building gressive taxation to ensure almost 20 per cent in real terms settlement, social care services It estimates that underfund- disrepute. blocks to stabilise the NHS, ie health and social care are both since 2010 and this has contrib- must be in place for the NHS to ing of social care means that Unite called on Lancashire more money, evidence-driven free at the point of delivery. This uted to a recruitment crisis. This survive. there will be a £2.3bn funding County Council this week to reform that undoes the waste- may mean a rethink on taxa- needs to be addressed in a gen- A strong social care set-up gap by 2020. reconsider its decision to trans- ful and ideological reorganisa- tion, possibly even an increase, erous fashion by the independ- would stop people, often the Privatisation is also under- fer NHS community services to tion carried out by Tory gov- if social care is to be stripped of ent Pay Review Body and its elderly, ending up in A&E mining the health service, with Virgin Care in a £104 million ernments since 2010 and to the wrong-minded commer- recommendations then need to departments when they don’t 43 per cent of clinical contracts contract. We think there needs reverse the haemorrhaging of cialisation and delivered as a be honoured and not under- have to be there, but the path- advertised going to the private to be greater transparency sur- staff numbers in nursing and public service. mined by ministers ways need to be in place for this sector last year and cash-hun- rounding Virgin Care’s other health professions by giv- This would only work if the NHS Digital’s latest vacancy to happen. gry octopus Virgin Care suck- finances. ing them a proper pay rise. public was genuinely convinced rates update showed that the We need to bring the social ing up more than £1bn worth Private Eye recently revealed And then we must raise our that the money was going number of unfilled advertised care system up to the high of NHS contracts with its ten- that, much like Carillion, Vir- eyes to the far horizons so we directly to the NHS and social nursing and midwifery posts in standards of the NHS, not move tacles. gin Care’s finances are ques- don’t rely on quick fixes, the care and not disappearing into England reached 34,260 in the health services into our failing Commercial confidentiality tionable at best. On a turnover sticking plaster approach, but general expenditure. three months to September — social care system. Councils cuts out staff consultation, of £252m, the private outsourc- create a joined-up strategy for While it has become practi- the highest level since records across the country have suffered whether that’s the right thing ing firm posted losses of nearly the future that would be wor- cally universally accepted that began. 40 per cent cuts at the same for patients or not. £16m last year. thy of Aneurin Bevan’s grand the NHS needs more money and Crucially, we need consulta- time as public health has been Unite believes that privatisa- Its liabilities are larger than vision. it needs it now — even a growing tion with the staff and clini- put into their domain, meaning tion of the NHS makes it more its assets by about £30m and list of Tory MPs are demanding cians — the people who keep our that much-needed health visi- open to a Carillion-style col- the only reason, according to n Gail Cartmail is a Unite assistant more funding — Unite believes hospitals and community serv- tors are being cut and district lapse and is calling for a Private Eye, that the firm is general secretary. that substantial funding must ices running — and constructive nurses are also being axed. rethink on the billions in pri- “spared insolvency” is because be coupled with a plan for its dialogue with local communi- The Local Government Asso- vate sector contracts in the its owner Richard Branson NHS in Crisis demonstration future, one that puts patients ties. ciation predicts that local gov- health service. keeps pouring cash into it to begins today at 12pm, and the workforce at its centre. If politicians took consulta- ernment will have an overall The collapse of Carillion,— keep it afloat. Gower Street, London Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 11 Saturday/Sunday features morningstaronline February 3-4 2018 @m_star_online

The British economy is not delivering for the workers

ROM the Carillion collapse to the NHS FRANCES O’GRADY invites all trade unionists, activists and friends crisis and from to the gig economy to F the public sector of the labour movement to join the TUC march for a new deal pay cap, the pat- tern is clear. 12, to demand a new deal for only function with reasonable sorry state. Take the trains. Brit- matters. That’s why we cam- All the risks of doing busi- working people. investment, both in the services ish commuters are paying far paign and organise together ness are being shifted onto We invite all trade unionists, themselves and the people that more in fares than commuters and that’s why we march. workers and taxpayers, while community activists and provide them. elsewhere in Europe and get- Right now, the government bad bosses rake in massive prof- friends of the labour movement Over the last seven years, our ting overcrowded trains and could take action to supporting its. to join us. NHS, police service, social care disrupted services in return. working people such as ban- British workers have been The crisis we’re facing didn’t system, local governments and “ When things go wrong, like ning zero-hours contracts, giv- waiting a decade for a real pay appear out of nowhere. It’s the other public services have been with Virgin/Stagecoach, taxpay- ing equal rights to agency work- rise in the longest pay squeeze product of political choices. stripped back so far that now All the risks of ers are left to pick up the bill ers and putting workers on since Napoleonic times. The Carillion collapse is a they’re barely functioning. in the form of massive bailouts. boards. Every day, union reps hear textbook example of the fail- We know that, in the case of doing business Throughout the world of But more importantly, it’s stories of falling living stand- ures of the privatisation and the NHS, all that’s keeping it work, bosses are pushing the time for nothing less than a ards and in-work poverty. outsourcing agenda —billions going is the hard work of dedi- risks of doing business onto transformation of how working Working people are skipping of pounds pumped into a profit- cated staff, from surgeons to are being shifted their workers. Insecure work people are treated in the UK. meals to make ends meet or driven conglomerate, with nurses to administrators to has become a staple of our We need ambitious and radical leaving the heating off so they workers, taxpayers and public ambulance call operators. onto workers and economy, as sham self-employ- policies to make the world of can pay for food. service users left to carry the But those workers have had ment in companies like Uber work better for everyone. Dedicated NHS nurses are can when it goes bust. to endure an appalling eight and Deliveroo denies workers So talk to your workmates, forced to use food banks. Fire- And now Capita has issued a years of real-terms pay cuts taxpayers, while their most basic rights, like sick get your union branch to book fighters are taking on second profit warning as well. How thanks to the government’s pay and paid holiday. This is coaches and join us in London jobs so they can feed their many outsourcers have to be in artificial pay restraint for pub- bad bosses rake old-school exploitation, plain on May 12 to demand a new families. trouble before government lic sector workers. and simple, even if it’s hidden deal for working people. See This isn’t the kind of Britain rethinks its failed outsourcing Unsurprisingly, this unholy behind shiny apps and websites. you there. we can accept. That’s why the strategy and brings vital public trinity of service cuts, pay in massive profits Everyone deserves a great TUC has called a national dem- services back into public hands? restraint and outsourcing has job, with decent pay and fair n Frances O’Grady is TUC general onstration in London on May That said, public services can left our public services in a treatment and a voice on what secretary. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 12 Saturday/Sunday features morningstaronline February 3-4 2018 @m_star_online Star comment Greetings to the thousands ‘Congo could be t of health service marchers GREETINGS to the tens of thousands of marchers gather- ing in London today to answer the joint call by the People’s Assembly and Health Campaigns Together to save the NHS in England. country in the wo Health services in Wales and Scotland are not without their problems, but the biggest of these is the Tory govern- ment’s squeeze on finance to the devolved administrations.

England is unique in having the hands of Health and Pastor SIMON NTUMBA talks to POSITIVE PERSPECTIVES: Social Care Secretary Jeremy Hunt personally clasped Members of the youth theatre Espoir round the throat of NHS services. perform a ‘No to sexual exploitation He has presided over a healthcare regime he proclaims the Star’s James Whitehead about the and abuse’ sketch in Kavumu, South as driving efficiency savings but staff and patients perceive Kivu Province, DR Congo; (bottom) clearly as inflicting death by a thousand cuts. a demining unit of UNMASS in The Tory government was warned across the health continuing conflict which is tearing apart Kalemie, Tanganyika province and service that there would be an NHS winter crisis, but it (below centre) Henry Makori refused to step up to the mark, making available only a tiny proportion of the emergency funding necessary. the Democratic Republic of Congo No amount of hand-wringing or sympathetic noises can alter the reality – that the sad spectacle of patients HE graves rest struggle for control over these capital. “The government was being forced to wait in ambulances before admission to silently in the stretches of soil, where workers unfair, so we resisted the injus- overstretched accident and emergency services or having depths of the often sweat daily for no wages. tice.” to lie on trolleys in corridors because of a shortage of jungle, but the And just as Victorian Britain’s They’d had enough of an available beds – has cost lives. T trail beside them children would crawl through education system deprived of continues. The the coal pits of Merthyr, their any public funding. From pri- footsteps of porters sink into Congolese cousins today are mary school to university, the soil, as sacks of ore sit on consumed in the arduous toil funding is forced upon the Patients who find themselves in these predicaments their backs. The trail ends at of digging for ore. Children family. Decades of corruption have no criticism of the paramedics caring for them in the Bisie tin mine in northern forced into work, ushered have left the education system the ambulances or the doctors and nurses in A&E. Kivu, an eastern province of along to enter adulthood. depleted, a social ladder with- They praise the kindness and professionalism of these the Democratic Republic of “Congo could be the richest out steps. Ntumba explained health heroes and understand that the pressures on the Congo. country in the world,” observes that workers would go months NHS are the direct responsibility of Hunt and his Tory Down the mine shaft, the Congolese pastor Simon without pay, no money to send ministerial partners in crime. miners are caked in soil and Ntumba. The state of the coun- children to school. Seventy years on from the transformation into reality water. Flashlights are strapped try he now believes to be worse Streams of discontent con- of the dream of Labour health minister Aneurin Bevan to the side of their heads, elas- than when the DR Congo got verged on campus. Law stu- and fellow campaigners for an NHS available free of tic bands holding them in independence in 1960. dents, then medical students, charge to all at the time of use and financed through place. Ntumba was born in Kin- then the economic department general taxation, the Tories have another US-style model It’s dark deep below the shasa, the capital of the DR started to organise protests. in mind. earth, but it is places like this Congo, in 1970. The struggling “It spread across the country. They have built on the neoliberal initiatives of Tony where the ingredients of our young republic was under the Young people were willing to Blair, Gordon Brown and their New Labour acolytes, who everyday lives are scratched tight grip of the military dic- fight for their future. There assisted private health firms to penetrate this citadel of out, such as cobalt and coltan, tatorship of Joseph-Desire was new ideas, new hope,” collective endeavour, by declaring open season on the under the watchful eyes of Mobutu, enjoying warm rela- Ntumba recalls. “But when we NHS for corporate vultures. rebel militia or renegade sol- tions with Western powers and have a good idea and go to the We cannot allow the already inadequate NHS resources diers. It is the beginning of a often bribing the opposition. streets, we risk death.” to be bled away by parasitic outsourcing or private health journey that will end in our Mobutu had lifted the ban The DR Congo soon companies. hands in the form of mobile on opposition parties in 1990, descended into war when its This Tory government is increasing NHS spending by phones and laptops. but the road to democratising eastern edges were invaded by about 1 per cent a year when the percentage annual Conflict minerals like these the nation was still unpaved, Rwandan-led troops. The esca- increase needed is nearer 4 per cent. feed desires for entertainment obstructed by the government lation of systematic murder, Ntumba left the DR Congo It is nonsense to say that there is no money to pay for and fuel continuing conflict in as protest and civil activism rape, ethnic killings, and min- in 2007, five years after the the NHS when Tories can afford tax cuts for the rich. It eastern Congo, as large chunks pushed for the rolling out of eral smuggling, combined with official end of the second civil is a question of priorities. of minerals are smuggled out the road ahead. the jailing of political opposi- war. “It was not an easy deci- of the country and sold on to By 1993, Ntumba recalls the tion. Two civil wars in seven sion to leave,” he describes. the international market. growing disillusionment years had shattered families Hope for his country and his Osborne deserves to Warring militia groups among the students in the and any sense of hope. church robes were among the possessions he smuggled out of Congo, and brought to Britain. spend decades behind Ntumba works in Swansea as a pastor, offering religious support for his international bars for his crime congregation of around 25 wor- shippers. Many are Congolese FAR-RIGHT terrorist Darren Osborne’s 43-year jail sen- refugees. tence for killing and maiming Muslims in London last “Once inside the church, June is fully merited. politics is left outside,” he says. Its severity may persuade other social inadequates “I don’t mix ideologies of tempted to emulate his Islamophobic carnage to reflect church and politics. I offer a on the consequences of such a crime. message of hope and love.” Osborne is distinguished by little more than his utter The continuing conflict in banality. He will serve time that others who fashioned the DR Congo has created large the bullets for him to fire can avoid. pockets of an active diaspora His obsessive internet searches for the rantings of across continents. various purveyors of poison was assisted by the refusal “We have a diaspora all over of the transnational corporations that provide social the world and we are always in media services to remove the most vile posts designed touch. We urge the people in to incite hatred against Muslims. the country to get to where These internet companies’ insouciance to the conse- they are. Because it is our duty, quences of their irresponsibility is matched by the alac- our responsibility.” rity of TV stations to give the oxygen of publicity to one Yet communication net- far-right loudmouth, as though an interview with him works in and out of the DR could prove enlightening or helpful. Congo are risky for those who Treating far-right terrorism as less serious than its are caught. “Everybody who is jihadist equivalent is unacceptable. Pic: Monusco Photos/Creative Commons in Congo right now, trying to morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online February 3-4 2018 13

Ken Livingstone e the richest Carillion’s collapse shows the neoliberal orld’ dogma has failed

Pic: Monusco Photos/ APITA issued a hoovering up as many of these report, some PFI contracts cost Creative Commons profit warning this companies as possible that ben- 40 per cent more than would week that set alarm efited from the public sector have been the case had they Cbells ringing across hand-outs represented in these been funded directly by public both Whitehall and different neoliberal policies. spending and taxpayers will pay the country. It was the third At the same time, the terms nearly £200 billion to contrac- major outsourcing company in and conditions of staff were tors under PFI deals for at least the last month to issue profit often reduced and corners cut 25 years. warnings. in a bid to boost profits. For this reason, public serv- The news regarding Capita It was then the austerity ants union PCS general secre- was yet another illustration of policies we have seen since 2010 tary Mark Serwotka recently how the Tory obsession with under the Conservative-Lib Dem summed up privatisation as “a privatisation and outsourcing (ConDem) coalition and the corrupt process where a merry- is failing, coming only weeks Tories that saw this “model” go-round of sham bidding and after the collapse of Carillion. come crashing down. the awarding of contracts, false As Labour’s Jon Trickett MP Revenues flattened between accounting and political sleight said this week, “we cannot 2010 and 2016 due to the govern- of hand, shunts money from the afford another Carillion. The ment’s slashing of investment public purse to big company government must take serious in infrastructure, transport and executives and shareholders.” steps to oversee the activities of housing, alongside cuts to cur- Additionally, putting profit Capita.” rent spending on public services before vital public services and What happened with regards such as the NHS and education. workers’ rights has seen priva- to Carillion has put not only put As the blog Socialist Eco- teers walk away from failing thousands of jobs at risk and nomic Bulletin put it, “the pace contracts in many parts of our seen pensioners gravely con- of new privatisations and PFI public services with the tax- cerned about their futures. It since 2010 was not enough to payer having to pick up the mess has also put our vital public top up the bucket with a big hole they leave behind. services in danger, meaning marked austerity.” Continuing with this privati- that the overwhelming majority This is why Labour leader Jer- sation dogma risks lurching our could face even higher bills and emy Corbyn was right to argue public services from crisis to lower living standards as a not only that Carillion’s vital crisis, threatening jobs and tax- result of the collapse. public service contracts must be payers’ money, plus leaving the The immediate causes of the brought in house but, more majority of people without the collapse have been widely widely, that the collapse of Car- services they need. reported, but attention must illion needs to be a turning The myth that the private sec- also be drawn to the fundamen- point and an end to the fiasco tor is intrinsically a more effi- tal underlying cause — the dis- that has been privatisation. cient provider of services and astrous love affair successive To put it simply, the Carillion goods — exposed as a lie again governments have had with the scandal must bury the rip-off and again in recent years — must private sector. privatisation dogma, including die with Carillion. This has involved outsourc- outsourcing and PFI, for good. Instead, we need a totally new ing, failed privatisation after A growing pile of evidence approach to the provision of our failed privatisation and private shows that the Tories’ dogmatic public services. give information to the people resources. They deal directly finance initiative (PFI) contracts commitment to outsourcing and Since Jeremy Corbyn became who are outside, they are in with the militias that control that would better be described privatisation is all about ideology leader of the Labour Party, he trouble. As soon as they get the mineral areas and not the as extortion. and not about what works. has put wholehearted opposi- them, they are jailed.” Congolese government. It was this growth of outsourc- Their approach is certainly tion to outsourcing and PFI at The same is true for return- “The Congolese wars are a ing, privatisation and PFI that not good value for money for the the centre of Labour’s pro- ing Congolese. “I know a lot of great source of revenue for saw Carillion expand so rapidly, taxpayer. According to a recent gramme, saying the party would people from the diaspora, when Western countries that manu- sign no new PFI deals when in they visit Congo, they are facture and sell arms to mili- government. arrested,” he says. tias.” Additionally shadow chancel- “We have been organising Reports by numerous NGOs, lor John McDonnell announced very strong protests within including Amnesty Interna- at Labour conference last Sep- Britain almost every month … tional, have traced conflict tember that he would act to We organise in London. We go minerals in which child labour bring existing deals in-house by to the Parliament, but these has been used, from the DR taking ownership of the special protests are not heard about it Congo down the production purpose vehicles to deliver sav- in the media. is an editor of Pambazuka line that ends up in consumer ings for the taxpayer. “The UK government knows based in Kenya. “There is reluc- products made by Apple, Sam- And shadow communities the situation and we have tried tance on the part of the media sung, Microsoft, Sony and secretary Andrew Gwynne has to build a relationship so they to give detailed and prolonged Volkswagen. said that delivering local serv- can help us put pressure on the accounts of these conflicts,” Ntumba can’t return home. ices in-house would be the [DRC] government … But, when Makori says. “There is still the Conditions are too dangerous. default option for the next we come to claim our rights, view within Western thinking He knows people who have Labour government. seeking help from the UK gov- that war/conflict is the ‘nor- returned and have been put in It’s time for this alternative ernment, nothing happens.” mal’ state of affairs.” jail, but life in Wales is not a and a Corbyn-led Labour govern- While much of the Western Yet there are interests lurk- quiet resting place. ment that will have the priority media appears to have tuned ing under the scarred Congo- “Sometimes we don’t want of putting the public interest out to a conflict that has lese landscape, such as the Bisie to be here,” Ntumba reflects. first. If the Tories won’t wake up claimed the lives of move than mine in North Kivu. “The wars “Although it is Europe, though to the reality of the changing five million people — the dead- in Congo are about resources,” it is democracy, and freedom, economic landscape and the fail- liest since World War II — other Makori exlpains. “Powerful there are areas in which we are ure of austerity and neoliberal outlets keep it in the spotlight. Western interests benefit from not happy. dogma, it’s time they stood aside. One such outlet is Pam- minerals in areas controlled by “We are not really free, the bazuka News, a pan-African assorted militias. way we should be. Do you really ■ You can follow Ken at twitter. magazine focusing on civil and “The instability benefits think all the refugees here are Cartoon: Mike Bryson com/Ken4London and facebook. human rights. Henry Makori companies that use Congolese happy?” com/KenLivingstoneOfficial. 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Commie Chef CROSSWORD 1,224 set by Alamet QUIZMASTER with William Sitwell TODAY’S QUESTIONS Paratha 1 In which decade of the 3 If you bought La LAST week I offered you a rec- The dough should be fairly 20th century did the last Repubblica in Italy, what ipe for chickpea and potato stiff, but easily kneaded. naval forces leave Holy would you be buying? curry. This is a meal that we eat The exact quantity of water Loch in Scotland? often at home, but instead of will depend on the absorbent rice — or sometimes as well as quality of the flour, which var- 2 Which bird is the logo of rice — I like to eat it with an ies enormously. Crystal Palace Football Indian bread. Instead of adding a little Club? My favourite is paratha, so I white flour, you can use 100 per thought I’d make that this cent wholemeal flour if you week’s recipe. prefer, or buy a brown bread YESTERDAY’S ANSWERS Be careful when you add the flour which is 80 per cent or water. Do it a little at a time. more. 1. Alexandre Dumas wrote a made from fruits, made in novel about a man who Hungary wore what made of iron? 3. What was the nickname Ingredients A mask (The Man in the for Leicester Square in Iron Mask). London during the dust- ■ 110g/4oz wholemeal flour or ghee (Indian clarified but- 2. True or false: palinka is a men’s strike of 1979? ■ 30g/1oz white bread flour ter), melted type of drink. Fester Square ■ dsp vegetable oil ■ salt to taste ■ 30g/1oz butter, margarine ■ water True. It is an alcoholic spirit

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E WERE trans- ported in a taxi to the Wplanton, a camp of the Parents will not allow parents of the 43 students who were disappeared in September 2014 from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers’ College. It has been a thorn in the side of Mexican attorney general’s office (PGR) for more than three years, having been established Mexico to forget the 43 soon after the trainee teachers, aged between 19 and 24, van- Inside one of the tents are leg as a result of not resting ished from police custody. XOCHI WRIGHT reports on a protest plastic chairs and some tables properly. Another one is seri- Three of their fellow stu- scattered with cups and papers. ously ill in hospital. dents were shot dead the same In the back there is an area On the 26th day of every night after the group had set camp in the heart of Mexico City where a kitchen has been month, they take turns to off to attend an event hosted improvised. There is a table, a travel to some far-flung corner by a local politician’s wife. pletely different from the small stove and many plastic of Mexico to join one of the They all attended a rural col- gleaming skyscrapers we’ve just bags where, in the absence of many public events held to lege in the state of Guerrero, passed. any sort of fridge, it would seem remember the disappeared. famous throughout Mexico for Here, it is a different reality that they keep the food donated Who knows if they will be producing generations of educa- from the, no less valid, beauti- to parents and volunteers. able to continue to stare across tors who spend their lives work- ful Mexico of holiday posters. The conditions in which the the street at the PGR and say: ing in the most remote and Immediately one feels loneli- parents are barely surviving are “We want them back alive.” under resourced communities ness, frustration, pain, fear and unacceptable and unjust. They On January 17, more than 40 in the country. a very deep sadness. have no official economic, psy- mothers from all over Mexico For tourists driving along A small street separates the chological or legal support. The went on hunger strike. These Reforma Avenue, Mexico City’s camp from the PGR federal gov- government continues to mothers stood outside the sec- longest street, which runs ernment office, heavily ignore them. It says the case is retary of government office, through a number of boroughs, defended by armed guards. closed and busies itself with with the aim of suing the gov- including one of the capital’s The camp is made up of old promoting Mexico to tourists. ernment and the institutions most exclusive neighbour- and broken shelters, cobbled In spite of this lamentable which are supposed to guaran- hoods, it can be quite an eye- together from bits of wood and lack of compassion, the moth- tee their rights. opener. tarpaulin. Blown up photo- ers, fathers and extended fam- They demanded that the The centre of the city has graphs of the missing students ilies of the Ayotzinapa 43 have attorney general address their seen a massive amount of build- adorn the site. not given up. demands for justice and for the ing in recent years. Once Some of these include por- They maintain their faith the Executive Commission of famous buildings have been traits of missing students by and say that they fervently Attention to Victims give them replaced with skyscrapers. the Scottish artist Jan Nimmo, hope to see their children back the support and legal advice Even more striking is the who made them once she home and that there will be that they require. density of traffic. Mexico City’s learned that some of the par- justice for them some day. With Mexican society is deeply air pollution is so bad that the REFUSING TO ents, many of whom do not the support of Mexican and concerned about the high level city introduced a system of BE SILENT: The speak Spanish as a first lan- international human rights of insecurity, crime and human driving on alternate days. protest camp, guage and live in extreme pov- organisations, they say they rights abuse. There have been The transformation has been with portraits of erty, did not own a picture of will not rest until they have the increasing concerns following so absolute that tourists would the missing their children. truth. approval of the Internal Secu- be forgiven for assuming that students, Next to the entrance was a Talking with a volunteer rity Reform that violates Mexico is a rich, modern and stands in front Christmas tree decorated with accompanying the parents, we democracy in terms of freedom well-organised country, where of the modern photos of students and some learn that most of them are suf- of expression and the rights of the rule of law is respected. building of the improvised gift boxes labelled fering health problems. The toll citizens. On the way to the planton, attorney “justice,” “truth,” “comprehen- of camping in the street, far Mexican society is asking the we found an unofficial memo- general’s offi ce sive reparation,” “memory,” “we from their families is taking its international community for rial marking the disappearance are missing 43,” and the toll. its support so that their strug- of the 43 students from Ayotzi- ernment isn’t very comfortable if it thinks removing the mural number of days since the boys They don’t sleep well, they gle will not be in vain and to napa. On the bottom a phrase with such a public reminder of amounts to removing the mem- vanished from police custody, don’t rest and above all they ensure that future govern- reads: “Because they were taken state brutality and corruption ory of the 43 missing students. possibly after being handed don’t eat properly. Most of them ments respect the rule of law alive, we want them back alive.” and would rather it be removed. Arriving at the planton, one over to a local organised crime suffer from diabetes. One of the and protect the rights of Mexi- Apparently the Mexican gov- Clearly, it is deluding itself senses the atmosphere is com- gang. parents was about to lose his cans.

TV Weekly Preview with Ann Douglas What to miss Tuesday: Flatpack Film Documentary Drama Empire, 9pm BBC2 This may well be an Saturday Saturday Monday interesting show on Ikea Lethal Weapon, 10.45pm ITV A House Through Time, 7pm Maltese: the Mafi a in and of itself. But the Classic buddy movie starring BBC2 Detective 10pm C4 BBC’s use of licence-fee a pair who could not be more The last in the series for this First episode of the new 1970s money for “inside looks” different. Fundamentalist anti- excellent project focusing on Italian Mafia drama. at big firms which are semite Mel Gibson stars oppo- the life of a Liverpool house. inevitably carefully site leftie hero Danny Glover. curated for bosses’ Monday Entertainment interests is an unsettling Monday Hull’s Headscarf Heroes, trend. Sweden isn’t a war Lincoln, 9pm Film4 9pm BBC4 Wednesday zone, there’s no excuse for A Big Film in every sense of the Covering the successful cam- Eurovision: You Decide, embedded reporting. word, starring Daniel-Day paign to improve trawler safety 7.30pm BBC2 Lewis as the man who freed the after the deaths of 58 sailors. The spectacle is back in Brighton slaves. It does of course skate Dome, hosted by Mel from Bake- Yesterday’s Sudoku over his less savoury aspects in Tuesday off and Mans Zelmerlow. its haste to build legends. Clare Balding’s Secrets of a Suff ragette 10pm C4 Saturday It’s good to see the topic Friday Even fronted by Clare Balding, Sport Suff ragette, 9pm Channel 4 being dramatised with Looper, 11.05pm BBC2 this forensic examination of This high-powered 2015 proper resources, though as A little overwrought and not the famous death of Emily Saturday film treatment of the fight ever disappointment awaits entirely up on its time para- Wilding Davison at Epsom is Six Nations Rugby: Wales for women’s rights has a lot in its characterisation of doxes, but this time-bending worth a look. vs Scotland, 2.15pm BBC1 going for it and an all-star working-class women as crime thriller manages to coax Scotland is at the top of its game cast of Carey Mulligan, stoic and silent types. a reasonable performance out Thursday in the opening round, will Wales Meryl Streep and Helena The writing and acting of late-period Bruce Willis, Travel Chaos: the True struggle? Followed by France vs Bonham Carter. are top notch. which is no mean feat. Joseph Cost, 7.30pm ITV Ireland (4.45pm) and Italy vs Eng- Gordon-Levitt co-stars. Tackling the commuting crisis. land on Sunday (ITV 2.15pm). Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 16 Saturday/Sunday culture morningstaronline February 3-4 2018 @m_star_online

Arts ahead what to watch Attila the Stockbroker on the road diary A revolution in the way we create and access culture

HIS week’s column freezing nights furtively poster- at the Victoria Hall in Lampeter documentary about the band is all about the ing while dodging the cops are alongside the hilarious Hattie and its history. It will feature fel- glories of DIY. No, more or less a thing of the past. Hatstar, the feisty Muddy Sum- low travellers such as Billy Bragg, not putting up And, despite the baleful activ- mers and the Dirty Field Whores. Phill Jupitus, Steve Lamacq and Tshelves or mend- ities of property developers doing Three great gigs, happening yours truly. ing stuff — I know their best to close down much- thanks to the creativity and deter- Many readers of this column nothing of that. My very occa- loved venues and replace them mination of local organisers step- will be familiar with the Neurot- sional, thoroughly reluctant and with luxury flats, the DIY live ping outside the mainstream. ics’ long and proud history and totally useless attempts mean music scene is alive and well and And, of course, the same thing I urge you to check out the that my wife now interprets that new gig spaces are emerging all is taking place in the world of project page at kickstarter.com/ acronym as Destroy It Yourself. the time, often in unlikely loca- record, book and film produc- projects/1308400141/kick-out- I’m talking about DIY culture, tions. tion, aided enormously by the the-newtown-neurotics-docu- as practised by people in the arts I was in the West Country and new internet phenomenon of mentary. Even if you haven’t world who, for all kinds of rea- Wales last week and performed crowdfunding. heard of them, have a look at the sons, don’t work with commer- in three such places — two well- Bands, writers and film-mak- trailer for the film and I think cial mainstream agents, promot- established and one very new ers can now appeal directly to you may be inspired to lend your ers, publishers or venues but indeed. their audiences and ask for finan- support as well. organise their own gigs and Dave Macdonald has been run- cial assistance in realising A big day for me next Thurs- events and release and distribute ning The Thunderbolt in Bristol projects without the help of day, a warm-up gig in my local CARDIFF OPERA SOUTHAMPTON THEATRE their own material. as a purpose-built venue for a mainstream producers. One such pub, the Duke of Wellington in The Force of Destiny The Shadow Factory It’s a movement that undoubt- while now and has the combina- project relates to the Newtown Shoreham. It marks the launch Millennium Centre NST City edly has its roots in the punk tion of great real ale and a lively Neurotics, one of the great pio- of a project I’ve wanted to do Bute Place Above Bar Street explosion of 1977 and one of and varied programme of events neering political punk bands of since the seventies — combine Until April 21 February 7-March 3 which I have been a part for 40 absolutely right. Local rapper the early 1980s. early music and punk in songs THIS new Welsh National years. It has become an increas- Clayton Blizzard did the support They didn’t just earn the and instrumentals centred THE INAUGURAL production ingly easier modus operandi and I had a wonderful time. respect of their peers, but along around the English Revolution Opera production of Verdi’s in this new Southampton perennial favourite (above) tells since the late 1990s, when email The following night I was at with cultural comrades such as of 1649. Not just one or two, as theatre by one of Britain’s and the internet were born. Cardiff Bus Social Club, which The Redskins are seen by many Barnstormer have always done, the story of Don Alvaro and the leading playwrights, Howard beautiful Leonora’s plan to Mailing lists, once endless has just become a DIY music in the new generation of musical but a whole set’s worth. Brenton, is set in 1940 during stamp-licking and envelope venue, has decor as old school as activists as a huge influence. Come if you can. Thirty further elope. When her father is killed the Battle of Britain. At that by a stray bullet from Alvaro’s addressing, now happen at the you can get, fine, and no real ale, Young film-maker Luke Baker gigs including some major festi- time, it was home to the Spit- press of a button, email replaces not fine but we got round it. has launched a Kickstarter vals already booked, announcing gun, an inescapable chain of fire fighter aircraft factory events is unleashed as, forced endless hours on the phone and Last Saturday, I ventured into crowdfunding project with the soon. Listen at soundcloud.com/ which was flattened by the social media promotion means rural Wales for a storming night aim of making a full length barnstormer1649. to flee, they are pursued by her Luftwaffe in three devastat- brother who has sworn ing raids. The city burned, vengeance. The other-worldly but Brenton’s play follows the presence throughout of the lives of women who stepped ■ THEATRE REVIEW carefree Preziosilla provides a up when the chips were down constant reminder that the in a story of chaos, courage force of destiny really is and emerging community unstoppable. Verdi’s epic opera spirit. Features a 25-strong is told through a rousing score community chorus made up that includes the instantly of Southampton residents. familiar overture, popularised Beyond our Ken nstheatres.co.uk through classic film scores and Ken advertisements. A brilliant tribute to a comic genius goes much wno.org.uk The Bunker, London ★★★★★ further than mere biography, says LYNNE WALSH

F THERE’S a goat, order pudding,” was the advice of the adorably “Ianarchic Ken Camp- bell on one occasion. Baffling? Not at all. In the context of an anecdote about the late comic genius’s life, it makes perfect sense. This two-hander, written by and featuring Terry Johnson as LONDON EXHIBITION himself, sees Jeremy Stockwell Yto Barrada: Agadir channelling Campbell rather The Curve, Barbican Centre than playing him. HARROGATE/TOURING Silk Street, EC2 The physical resemblance is THEATRE Feb 7-May 20 fortunate, perhaps, but the voice We Are the Lions, Mr Manager! YTO BARRADA weaves — that Essex estuary, manic Harrogate Theatre together personal narratives articulation — is uncanny. Oxford Street and political ideals to create a Those who encountered complex portrait of the February 5-10 Campbell in decades past will Pic: Robert Day AFTER a winter break, this Moroccan city Agadir — recall the swoops and surges of unmissable show, highly devastated byp an earthquake his growling enthusiasm. Tak- At one point, it seems he Oram, who would never had complex memories he conjures recommended by the Morning in 1960 — and its people in a ing direction from him must might make all of us a nice written it unless inspired and up. If it occasionally trips into Star, is back on the road again. state of transition. have been like taking notes cuppa. urged on by Campbell. purple prose, that’s no less It’s the remarkable story of Encompassing a mural, film, from your Uncle Mephistophe- There is no one story of Ken And that’s the heart of this appropriate for the multicol- Jayaben Desai, inspirational sculptures and a series of live les. Campbell’s life. He lived it piece — Campbell’s “mentoring.” oured world this piece inhabits. leader of the 1976-78 Grunwick and recorded performances, The set in this subterranean according to the lure of lunacy Not an avuncular guidance, His recollection of Campbell’s film processing factory strike, Barrada considers how a city theatre seems to have been — his own and others’. Johnson, more a loving bullying. Actors funeral in Epping Forest is both and it tells how she not only and its people might address thrown together by squatters, a colleague, friend and occa- Bob Hoskins and Jim Broadbent daft and devastating. With stood up for workers’ rights and the process of reinvention an indication that designer Tim sional victim of Campbell’s rage, acknowledged their debt to him Campbell gone, laughter gives against oppression but turned following disaster. She takes Shorthall knows his craft. admits to a “wilful perversion and so has performer Chris Lyn- way to silence — the audience the dispute into a national as her starting point a surreal Indian throws on walls and seat- of memory” in his bio-schtick ham, renowned for sticking a misses him. movement for human rights text by Mohammed Khair- ing provide a kaleidoscope back- of his life and times. firework up his bum and light- But, hell’s bells, it was joyous and dignity which is still Eddine reflecting on the drop, freeing Campbell to sit The staging of the 22-hour ing it while Ethel Merman belts to spend 90 minutes with the inspiring. After these dates in earthquake that tragically next to us, digging us in the ribs play cycle The Warp provides out “There’s no business like grand old geezer of theatre. Harrogate, the production tours destroyed much of the with a lewd joke or prance down the drama for the first half. It’s show business.” nationally until May 22. modernist city. the aisles, slapping us on the essentially the autobiography of Johnson’s writing is lyrical ■ Runs until February 24, box townsendproductions.org.uk barbican.org.uk back. writer, poet and artist Neil and perfect for the poignant, office: bunkertheatre.com morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline culture Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online February 3-4 2018 17 n PICTURE THIS

ITH promotion biography Magritte, mental luxury.” imminent, non- Singulier is at first Thus it is with Wconformist office reluctant but soon this entertaining worker Charles intrigued during and humorous book, Singulier buys a bowler hat on his quest through whimsically nar- a whim from a street trader at the realm of the rated by Zabus and the local market. Belgian painter in gloriously illus- What he doesn’t know is the which the ever- trated by Campi. hat belonged to the surrealist changing and con- A joyous read, it painter Rene Magritte and, fusing mise-en- ends with an unex- when he decides back at his flat scenes of Magritte’s pected romantic to take it off, the hat stays on best-known paint- twist locked within as if glued to his scalp. ings utter clues the appropriately Suddenly, the TV comes on that may solve the artist’s titled Infinite Recognition — a and Magritte’s favourite villain, secrets. conclusion with which the Mag- the psychopathic crime genius “What is hidden must be rittes would have certainly Fantomas, speaks from the shown,” the shoes/feet of the concurred. screen. Red Model, inspired by van MICHAL BONCZA He tasks Singulier with Gogh’s Pair of Shoes, enigmat- unravelling the painter’s ically inform him, while the n Magritte: This is not a Biography secrets before the hat can be fish head in Collective Inven- by Thomas Campi and Vincent removed. tion sees its own status as an Zabus is published by SelfMadeHero In Thomas Campi and Vin- inverted mermaid cliche as (Art Masters series), price £9.99. cent Zabus’s ingenious graphic upsetting established canons. The Unexpected Answer (far right) offers a time-machine relocation, as does Time Trans- fixed. Along the way, Singulier is offered some succour by a young, pretty woman. A myste- rious figure, she may or may not be Magritte’s adored wife Georgette, his lifelong muse whose feminine form appears throughout his work. Magritte despised the Estab- lishment and abhorred repre- sentational art, subverting it with intelligence and subtle wit. He was close to the Belgian Communist Party all his life and believed that “class con- sciousness is as necessary as bread” and that, for a “commu- nist painter, the justification of artistic activity is to create pictures that can represent n THEATRE REVIEW Light on the terrifying darkness of the digital era

The Believers Are But Brothers RUBY FISHER sees an unsettling drama exploring the Bush Theatre, London growing connections between extremism and the HHHII underbelly of the internet

RE-SHOW, a cor- they collide over the internet. young British Muslims, and at the threads of our social nucopia of From the Tahrir Square “rev- Ethan, a white middle-class DNA. All it takes is our curiosity screens, headsets olution” to Isis on Telegram, the American, all of whom find and our permission. and consoles sur- show embraces an entire cos- their lives inexorably altered Alipoor’s is an intelligent, Pround actor mos of complex, interconnected when they happen upon the earnest and well-researched Javaad Alipoor at issues, seemingly prioritising same YouTube video. performance, often drawing on the Bush, as he navigates his breadth over detail. The maw of the darknet swal- aspects of his own life as a way through a game of Call of It’s an enormous story that lows them whole and we’re young Muslim speaking out in Duty. The rattle of assault rifles, defines the emergence of the plunged into an arena where a cultural space dominated by exploding grenades and the digital age and, if this show violent images, rape videos and white privilege and presump- occasional scream of terror proves anything, it is that, if hate speech dominate, while tion. indicate that he’s just racked you’ve never heard of the dark- Pepe the Frog reigns supreme. The play is at times poetic, up another kill. net, are surprised by the idea The dramatic text, as well as at others didactic and, at all An usher informs us that of the Taliban on Telegram or memes, factoids and “lols,” is times, diffuse. much of the show will take if you still believe that what often delivered via Whatsapp, Much like the internet itself, place on a Whatsapp group. happens online stays online, a device at its most impactful it’s about everything and noth- Leave it on, she urges, it will you are living on its outermost when threatening messages ing and, if it falls short dra- enhance the experience. perimeter. start to appear in the group matically of the Herculean task So this ambitious solo piece And it’s a world in which feed. set before it, those theatrical is as as much an immersive reason and relativity start to The shock is palpable in the failings come to pale in com- digital experience as it is a work decay as rapidly as the bodies audience and suddenly the dig- parison to the importance of of live theatre with Alipoor of those malcontented young ital world doesn’t seem so far its discussion. (pictured), who co-directs with men who waste away in the away. Go and see this show. If it Kirsty Housley, presenting a glow of their computer screens. As Alipoor points out, the doesn’t leave you unsettled, I’ll fragmented thesis on political The narrative of The Believ- tendrils of the internet are ever delete my Facebook account. extremism, frustrated mascu- ers references three ordinary reaching out from behind the n Runs until February 10, box linity and what happens when people, Atif and Marwan, two screens in our pockets, pulling office: bushtheatre.co.uk Pic: The Other Richard Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 18 Saturday/Sunday letters morningstaronline February 3-4 2018 @m_star_online

■ OUTSOURCING ■ EDUCATION Audit culture must Carillion failure unveils end for creative arts

WHAT a delight to see Richard Michel Foucault and Rudolf Burgon’s erudite championing Steiner might seem strange capitalist myth-making of creativity and the arts (M bedfellows, but they were at Star February 1). one on the damage done by a WITH the demise of Carillion, One thing Richard could have schooling system that attempts it seems an opportune moment mentioned is creativity in rela- to standardise the human soul. to remind thinking people of tion to the schooling system. It’s absolutely vital that Jer- just one actuality — the demon- Too often, the left is associ- emy Corbyn’s next Labour gov- strable capitalist myth of pri- ated with an intrusive state ernment learns what damage vate-sector superiority of serv- that dictates every dot and the toxic audit culture has ice provision over state provi- comma of the centralised done, and continues to do, to sion. national curriculum, with the our children and teachers, and Simply put, it is impossible professional creativity of the that they row back on it furi- for a private company to pro- teacher — let alone their hapless ously once in power. vide as comprehensive a public children — being sacrificed on We on the left have to learn service as provided by the state the alter of a control-freak audit that sometimes — and espe- because all tax is nominal in culture that does untold dam- cially when it comes to creativ- the state provision of services, age to pedagogical relation- ity and the arts — less is more. whereas, for a private concern, ships and the learning experi- DR RICHARD HOUSE including so-called non-profit ence. Stroud ones, all tax is actual. This simple fact ensures that the cost of supplying any human service to the extent of ■ KARL MARX that provided by the state is prohibitive to a private concern. 200th birthday should be celebrated Thus it generally follows INCAPABLE : Carillion’s collapse shows the private sectors failing to provide comprehensive service that, when a private concern IT IS the 200th anniversary of ain, in the Morning Star and gains a large contract, job losses individuals for the same cost as It is worth emphasising that allocation to the public sector the birth of Karl Marx in May also with coach trips arranged follow, typically around one a private-sector company can the state cannot and does not in order to, primarily, promote this year, he was born on May to Highgate cemetery so people third or more, as the company employ one and the state can thus actually tax itself. For it to do the private vested interest as 5 1818. can visit his final resting place desperately seeks the money to provide an enhanced human-led so would be little short of fiscal part of a warped and bankrupt This landmark should not go and pay tribute to the great pay its now actual tax burden. service beyond that which a pri- insanity. In cases of outsourc- political ideology. unnoticed. man. It follows, therefore, that the vate concern can provide for the ing, the state merely carries out C JONES There should be tributes A SILVESTRO public sector can employ two same available finance. an exercise in imaginary tax Newcastle galore everywhere across Brit- Birmingham

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GRAHAM STEVENSON explores the Star archives 80 YEARS AGO TODAY... Youth were losing their skills base BILL WAINWRIGHT, or semi-skilled workers, ■ editor of Challenge, whilst there had been an the paper of the Young all-round decrease in Communist League, apprenticeship, which wrote in the Daily Worker had become “a system of of February 3 1938 on getting cheap labour “trade training for which works all to the youth.” advantage of the Leaving school now employer.” contained a “bitter sting” Raising the school as it was no longer a leaving age to 16 would question of what young help, Wainwright people wanted to do, but proposed, but that was of what job they could get not won until 1972, after and keep. eight years of dithering. New work processes Also, new phases of meant old craft skills education, with “general were no longer required, elementary education” up whilst “thousands of to 13 years, could be young workers enter the followed by education factories to be used as that would be either cheap labour, machine “technical or commer- minders … they learn only cial,” or geared to a small part of the trade.” industrial or business Britain’s youth was skill. being “forced into the What was needed was a Army of general labour” new trade training in what was still decid- scheme for all industries edly a manufacturing with a good ratio of country but the trend was trainees to trained, away from “heavy regular promotion and ■ BREXIT ■ MEDIA industries to the light higher wages year-by- rationalised industries.” year, with security of What is Labour’s view This had made most employment and equal BBC journalists contribute to young workers unskilled pay for equal work. on Northern Ireland? PARLIAMENTARY reporter attitude of distaste over Star Spy Grey took stand against left Lamiat Sabin wrote (M Star January 15): “Jeremy Corbyn I SYMPATHISE with Comrade Especially gratifying was THE Daily Worker there to take solidarity ruled out staying in the single Birch’s letters (M Star, February pointing out the dates of sev- ■ of February 4 1938 funds. market yesterday because doing 1 and prior) in his attempts to eral Morning Star articles ask- reported a trial at which Although much was so would be dependent on mem- ascertain a reason for our paper ing why Carillion was still a “tall, slim, blonde young made of the intrigue, no bership of the European Union.” not being among those receiving government contracts woman — referred to as mention of India was There are just two alternative reviewed by the BBC. when it was obviously failing, ‘Miss X’ — told how … she made at the trial. On her ways for the United Kingdom For my sins I follow a BBC these dates being weeks and had joined a number of return, Grey worked as to exit the single market as far business presenter on Twitter months in advance of her post- organisations so Harry Pollitt’s as Northern Ireland is con- who has stated in the past that HAVE YOUR SAY ings asking the same thing. as to keep personal cerned — either a hard border she will “review any paper So, it appears that we face a certain people secretary. Write (up to 300 words) to must be created between North- except The Morning Star.” Pre- battle not just against BBC under observa- Glading had [email protected] ern Ireland and the republic, or sumably that means that she or by post: 52 Beachy Rd, policy (if that is the case) but tion.” asked Grey to it must pull out of the UK. would have included The Daily London E3 2NS also against the political stance This was Olga rent a flat he Which of these two alterna- Sport had it still been in exist- of individual presenters. Grey, who had wanted to use for tives is favoured by Labour? ence. When I asked the reason, I wish Comrade Birch every been asked by meetings that IVOR KENNA I received no reply. from one of the “BBC-approved” success in his campaign. MI5 in 1931 to could not be Celtic League England However, kind soul that I am, newspapers I reply with the DR PETER STORCH join the Friends TRIAL: Percy Glading bugged by the branch chairman every time she tweets an article Morning Star’s alternate take. Argyll & Bute of the Soviet security forces. Union. She became a His real aim in typist in the Anti-War photographing the Movement, a broad drawings was to deter- ■ OUTSOURCING organisation. mine if Britain’s new Percy Glading, one of naval gun would breach those on trial, was an international treaty, involved in this and the which limited calibres to League Against Anti- 14 inch breech loading. Neoliberal experiment Imperialism. The Royal Navy was A leading Communist experimenting with 16 engineering trades inches, although this was unionist and, until 1928, abandoned after a is well and truly over an employee of Woolwich revision of the treaty only Arsenal, he was now a few weeks after the charged, along with three trial, as the US more SO OUTSOURCING conglomer- their superiors. But when if We have beaten them all. others, with obtaining successfully took over ate Carillion has finally gone. comes to the fat-cat bosses and Theresa May, can you hear me? four technical drawings development. And after three decades as a the politicians who acted as Theresa May, I have a message for that might be useful to public-sector worker — 30 years enablers for their behaviour, I you in what could be an election an enemy. You can read of being subjected to ideologi- have to say (paraphrasing the year. I have a message for you: Glading had spent editions of the cally driven, knee-jerk private- late Bjorge Lillelien): the private your wonderful private sector has some years aiding the Daily Worker is-bad vilification — I see the sector, birthplace of giants. We imploded under its own greed. development of trades (1930-45) and Morning Star truth finally comes out about have beaten you. Theresa May, as they say in unions and the Commu- (200 0-today) the marvellous private sector You Sir Alan Sugar, Digby your language in the boxing nist Party in India, as , online at and just how strong, stable and Jones, Fred “the Shred” Good- bars around Madison Square in part of a campaign of mstar.link/DWMSarchive superior it really is. win, Lord Levene, Peter Crook, New York, your boys took a hell support for its independ- Ten days’ access costs I feel desperately sorry for Matthew Ridley, Marjorie of a beating! Your boys took a ence and Grey had been just the ordinary workers and their Scardino and now your Philip hell of a beating! asked by him to travel £5.99 and a families who will suffer the Green CBE — we have beaten ANDY FISHER year is £72 most because of the actions of them all. Reading ENABLER: Theresa May Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 20 Saturday/Sunday what’s on morningstaronline February 3-4 2018 @m_star_online

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Racing Guide with Farringdon n LEAOPARDSTOWN, LINGFIELD AND SANDOWN Yorkhill needs a big race at Leopardstown this afternoon Willie Mullins will hope to rectify his mistake from his last race while the BETTER CHANCE big handicap at 2.55 should go to Three Stars due to the shorter distance TODAY: Yorkhill

HERE is some fantas- cannot dispatch this lot with a Gold Cup at 3.35. This year’s tic racing at Leop- good pace on from Special Tiara event doesn’t have much ardstown in Dublin and company, then his future strength in depth to my eyes Twith their inaugu- comes hugely into question. and I think there is value in ral two-day festival Dortmund Park looks a solid opposing the likely favourite and the best bet on the card selection for the opening Grade Our Duke and Paddy Power this afternoon has to be Yorkhill One staying novices hurdle at Chase winner Anibale Fly. in the Coral Dublin Chase at 1.10. The value could certainly be 1.45. He has a really powerful Djakadam. He possibly ran too I cannot understand for the engine and should have too quickly last time out after a life of me why Willie Mullins much for his rivals, the best of good run behind Sizing John ran him over three miles last which could well be the former and a return to anything like time rather than go back to winning point-to-pointer Dicey his best form on a track which two-and-a-half. I think he has O’Reilly who could well be clearly suits will surely see him made the right decision this worth a saver reverse forecast involved at the sharp end of time to go back to the mini- with the selection. this valuable contest. mum trip. The big handicap of the day Back to today, with a whole His work has reportedly been is a two-miler at 2.55 and, as host of hot handicaps up for very good of late and I feel, if he much as Tully East should be grabs and the big staying hur- high on everyone’s list, the value dle at Sandown (3.00) where the WEEKEND TIPS pick at an each-way price could stout stayer Golan Fortune is be Three Stars with the cheek not to be underestimated. pieces on for the first time. After winning three of his Farringdon’s Doubles He has been plying his trade last four races the selection has Saturday over two-and-a-half miles of gone up in the ratings from 118 ARDAMIR late but simply doesn’t get to 134, but this even stiffer test Lingfield 1:25 (nap) home over that distance and of stamina should bring about this fast-run event on what even more improvement and he GOLAN FORTUNE promises to be on much better is preferred to the Paul Nicholls- Sandown 3:00 ground looks the way to go trained Topofthegame and the Sunday with him and I suspect he could strong staying Folsom Blue. DJAKADAM be available at 20/1 plus. In the two grade ones, it is Leopardstown 3:35 (nap) The feature race is the Irish impossible to oppose Buveur Champion Hurdle at 3.30 and D’Air in the 1.50, but the Scilly RAINY CITY it is hard to get away from Isles Novice Chase at 2.25 looks Musselburgh 12:50 Faugheen if he has recovered more open and the value looks from his blowout last time out. to be No Comment from the Houseman’s Choice The one worrying factor is that Philip Hobbs yard that is slowly Saturday connections never really found running into form. TERREFORT out why he ran below form, but Elsewhere, Sam Red is taken Sandown 2:25 he should hopefully take care to land the 1.35 at Wetherby, of the likes of the strong-trav- while the best wagers on the Sunday elling Melon and well-backed all-weather could be Ardamir GENERAL MAHER five-year-old Defi De Seuil. (1.25 Lingfield) and then later Musselburgh 3:40 Tomorrow, the biggest race on Morning Has Broken (7.15 at on day two is the Unibet Irish Kempton). n MEN’S FOOTBALL COMMENT Inconsistent St Pauli still dreaming of play-off chances THE German second division is rate third and 17th, but Kaiser- in Brown were then beaten at league. We have to deploy our defeat in the previous game was striker whose nickname is The one of the most closely fought lslautern are rooted to the bot- home by Darmstadt 98 just own strengths and create a the introduction to the side of Spartan. leagues in European football tom of the table, eight points three days later, kicking off the threat by doing so. We had Dimitrios Diamantakos, the Kauczinski will be hoping and even the team sitting sec- behind Greuther Fuerth. second half of the season in enough chances against Darm- Greek forward who arrived at that his new man up top will ond from bottom, Greuther St Pauli find themselves typical fashion. stadt. Now we have to make the club a couple of weeks ago. help St Pauli take some of the Furth, could approach the pro- lodged in the middle of this They travel south to Heiden- better use of them.” The 25-year-old, who has five chances they missed against motion play-off spot with a run competitive division, a position heim today for a midday kick- The St Pauli boss has never caps for his country, enjoyed Darmstadt, as they aim to bat- of wins. which reflects the inconsistent off against the team just one lost at the Voith Arena, but the the experience despite the tle at the top of this tightly Fortuna Dusseldorf sit at the nature of their league cam- point behind them in the table. side he currently leads are yet defeat. “The atmosphere was contested division as opposed top of the table, just three paign to date. “They’re on a decent run of to take a point there. superb, it reminded me of the to the bottom. points ahead of second-placed Markus Kauczinski’s side form and have won their last They will be hoping that the derbies in Greece,” said the JAMES NALTON Nurnberg and five ahead of managed to win the first game four games at home,” said Kauc- former’s record remains intact Holstein Kiel who currently of the Ruckrunde when a Wal- zinski of today’s opponents. this lunchtime as they occupy the coveted promotion demar Sobota brace helped “When it comes to scrapping approach the game having had Star sports editor Kadeem play-off spot. them to a 3-1 win at Dynamo and physicality, Heidenheim the full week to prepare. Simmonds writes on Wednesday Beyond that, 15 points sepa- Dresden. True to form, the Boys are one of the best sides in the One positive from the home Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 22 February 3-4 2018 sport @m_star_online n MEN’S RUGBY UNION COMMENT The battle lines have been drawn. The nations are ready. LET THE GAMES COMMENCE SIX NATIONS: DAVID NICHOLSON previews the start of the tournament and analyses each team’s chances of victory

HE waiting is almost land leading the way with the Gatland has thrown the dice row will become clear this through to the quarter-final Jones’s team is looking for a over, the fireworks most crocked players. and chosen 11 of the swagger- afternoon, but, if any team stage of the European Champi- historic third championship are primed to burst Wales are missing six of their ing Scarlets, who have won other than the All Blacks can ons Cup, Ireland are brimming win in a row and will not be Tover the grounds, Lions, while opening opponents through to the quarter-finals live off scraps, it is the Scots. with confidence. content unless his side com- bets have been laid Scotland have lost eight front- of the European Cup. After years when the Scots If they beat France, then the plete a second Grand Slam and boasts given for which row forwards. A former Scarlets winger has found reaching the try line as tournament opens up for them under his leadership. team is going to be the 2018 Six This is a symptom not just of also been picked and Josh difficult as finding a Tory MP with a possible Grand Slam With eyes firmly on Japan Nations champions. the exhausting schedule of Adams is the English Premier- north of the border, the men in decider beckoning against Eng- next year Jones has been very At least until the final match games the top players face but ship’s top try scorer this season. blue have one of the most excit- land at Twickenham. clear that his team have to over- of the opening round tomorrow also greater fitness and muscle The 22-year-old Worcester ing and incisive attacks in the Les Bleus are under new man- take the All Blacks and be able each sides’ fans can dream of a levels. Added law changes leads winger is in cracking form and championship. agement and head coach to win away from home. Grand Slam. to the ball being in play for has earned his international A victory for Townsend’s men Jacques Brunel has made dra- The England coach explained But are the fans being short- longer. debut. will give them confidence for matic changes to the team that he believes the reason changed this year? In fact, there is just about an Wales will be trying to their home tie against the which performed so poorly last teams lose away from home in The matches will be sellouts elite Lions squad of crocked avenge their defeat to Scotland unpredictable French. year. the Six Nations is a mental and victories will be cele- players. last year and to gain some Win that and the confidence Six of the 32-man squad have block. His side faces tough away brated, but yet the mounting What about Sam Warburton, momentum for their visit to from a winning run will boost never played international fixtures in Edinburgh and injury crisis sweeping each of Billy Vunipola and Sean O’Brien Twickenham. the Scots for their home tie rugby, while only two players Paris. the teams surely takes some of as a back row? Opponents Scotland beat the against England, where they have over 50 caps. Nineteen- While England have been the gloss off the sporting spec- Among the backs that fans Welsh in Edinburgh 12 months will be looking to avenge their year-old fly-half Matthieu Jal- worst affected by the growing tacle. will be missing are Elliot Daly, ago and were in scintillating 61-point hammering at Twick- ibert got Brunel’s nod for injury list, Jones has by far the Fans want to see their team Semesa Rokoduguni, Henry form during the autumn inter- enham last year. today’s clash. greatest pool of players to call play the best opposition with Slade, Dan Biggar, Rhys Webb, nationals. France host an Irish side that The Bordeaux teenager is upon. their first choice side, but this Rhys Priestland, Liam Wil- A narrow loss to the All has great things predicted for being hailed as France’s most The canny Australian has year that is going to be denied liams, Jonathan Davies, George Blacks was followed by a merci- its next golden generation of exciting prospect for years and said that Ireland are favourites them. North, Morgan Parra, Camille less thrashing of Australia, as players. has been entrusted to get his for this year’s tournament but, History tells us that the Lopez and Wesley Fofana. Gregor Townsend’s men racked But for the Paris showdown side playing in the absence of despite that, he will certainly championship following a Lions Despite all the injuries, fans up a record-breaking 53 points. with Les Bleus, coach Joe mercurial scrum-half Morgan be backing the men in white to tour leaves the British and Irish will be excited at the chances Talismanic full-back Stuart Schmidt has selected a blend Parra. win this year’s championship. teams struggling with injuries being given to emerging stars. Hogg returns and will be look- of experience and youth with England start their cam- A reasonable case can be to their top players, with France Wales coach Warren Gatland ing to make it a hat-trick of three players handed their Six paign in Rome against an made for ultimate victory for often capitalising. used the autumn internation- player of the tournament Nations debuts — James Ryan, improving Italian side, but all the teams, apart from Italy. There are almost 60 players als to expand the Welsh game awards. Bundee Aki and Jacob Stock- Eddie Jones’s side should rack That is the beauty and genius unavailable for the Six Nations into the more modern and How hard Scotland will be dale. up their 23rd win out of 24 of the Six Nations. Let the kick-off, with England and Ire- expansive style of play. hit by their make-shift front With Munster and Leinster matches. games commence. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online sport February 3-4 2018 23

n AN OPEN LETTER TO RIYAD MAHREZ Dear Riyad

OW are you holding up, buddy? the onerous task of kicking a ball about for 90 in Adrien Silva, but they won’t let you go despite Life can be tough sometimes and minutes. the fact their valuation of you has not been met few have it worse than you at Leicester would be nothing without you. But and no replacement could have been signed in Hthe moment. Next time I pass a you would, of course, still have reached these dizzy time. homeless person asking me to heights without them. And then there is that valuation. How dare “spare a few pennies” or I bump into someone I mean, I know Arsene Wenger looked at you Leicester expect £95 million for you? heading to a food bank or I meet a junior while you were still in the French Second Division I mean that’s nearly 70 per cent of the fee Bar- doctor complaining about “stress,” I’ll tell but took a pass, but someone would have taken a celona paid Liverpool for Phillipe Coutinho little them to stop being so self-centred. At least chance on you. more than three weeks ago. they don’t have it as bad as you. And no doubt they would have nurtured you How could Leicester possibly expect so much Few of us can comprehend what it must and helped you improve and you still would have for you when you have scored a goal every 3.7 be like to have your dream move won the Premier League and become PFA Player games for them — exactly like Coutinho did for snatched from your grasp in of the Year. Liverpool? such cruel fashion. You owe Leicester nothing. They owe all the It’s almost as if Leicester think, just because Well, at least your glory of that unexpected title success to you. you’ve scored more goals (30 to 28) and created dream move since you I know it’s only a year ago since “The Experts” more assists (21 to 18) than the Brazilian over the stopped dreaming were telling us that that title success was all down last two-and-a-half seasons, that somehow you about moving to to Claudio Ranieri WHO ABSOLUTELY SHOULD might be worth more than half what he is. Arsenal or was it NOT BE SACKED UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES Then of course there’s your Premier League win- Barcelona? It’s hard WHATSOEVER but what do “The Experts” know, ner’s medal and your PFA Player of the Year and to keep track with eh? African Player of the Year awards. a dreamer like I know that Jamie Vardy scored 24 goals in that All irrelevant, I know, but those greedy bastards you. It’s little title-winning season and I know that Kasper Sch- at Leicester no doubt think they justify the grossly wonder you’re meichel kept 15 clean sheets, ably protected by inflated price tag they have slapped on you. not in the the likes of Wes Morgan and Robert Huth. A You are of course absolutely right not to turn right frame nd I know other players like Leonardo Ulloa up to training without explanation this week. of mind to and even Nathan Dyer chipped in with crucial It’s not at all unprofessional and it’s certainly undertake goals that kept the team’s momentum going. not disrespectful to your teammates, Claude Puel I know that Leicester’s form fell apart when or the club’s owners. Nor is it disrespectful to the N’Golo Kante left, but it was you, not those other club’s fans who save up their hard-earned cash to journeymen, who really won that title and the buy season tickets and shirts with your name on club should give you the rewards you deserve. It’s for their kids — cash that indirectly pays your not you that’s being selfish, it’s Leicester. wages. None of them will ever understand the I can only guess how disgusted you must have mental trauma you are currently suffering. been 18 months ago when the club forced you to If the club fines you for “breach of contract,” sign a four-year deal worth £100,000 a week. well that will say so much more about their lack That disgust must have only been compounded of respect for you than your unenforced absence when the club’s chairman handed over the keys says about your lack of respect for them. to a brand new BMW I8, worth a paltry £105,000 Riyad, you’ve outgrown Leicester. You dream of as a “reward,” if that’s what you can call it, for playing for a “big” club like Manchester City or is winning the Premier League title. it Arsenal? I forget. These people simply have no respect. You dream of playing in the Champions League Furthermore, it’s outrageous that they let Kante and you’ve shown you are a player worthy of that leave simply because Chelsea met his release clause stage. That Leicester are expecting a “big” fee, a but they won’t let you leave simply because you Champions League fee, for you simply makes no don’t have a release clause. sense at all, does it? It’s outrageous they let Danny Drinkwater leave Anyway, keep your head up, pal. We’re all root- just because they felt they’d received a fair offer ing for you. for him and thought they’d signed a replacement Yours, Roger Domeneghetti

n WOMEN’S FOOTBALL City lose key players to injury in 0-0 draw

Chelsea 0-0 Man City loss of goalkeeper Karen Bard- Ramona Bachmann drove in the stricken Bardsley. Her Chelsea defender Magdalena to come down to their team’s by Asif Burhan sley and survived a late from the left to only to see her assured handling was capped Eriksson was disappointed that return meeting in Manchester at Kingsmeadow onslaught from the Spring goal-bound shot deflected over by one superb onrushing save Chelsea could not get the win at the end of the month, but, Series champions without Eng- by the excellent Jen Beattie with her feet from Drew Spence she felt they deserved but saw with 10 games left to play, Cush- land captain Steph Houghton before Millie Bright stabbed who seemed certain to score in the positives in their perform- ing felt there was more to win- AFTER 19 straight wins stretch- to maintain their two-point wide from close-range from the the 74th minute. ance. ning the league. ing back to May, Man City’s 100 lead at the top of the table. corner. Cushing had no doubts about “I think we did really well “To me, I don’t think it will per cent start to the Women’s Chances were few in the first With Chelsea still to come to her temperament. “She’s a fan- today. We showed them that be won on the head-to-heads. I Super League season was finally hour with Fran Kirby coming the Academy Stadium later this tastic goalkeeper with a great we’re close and we’re there and think it will be won this year thwarted by their closest chal- closest for Chelsea, screwing month, City manager Nick Cush- future. we’re after them. on the teams that don’t drop lengers Chelsea in a goalless her shot narrowly wide after ing was satisfied with the result. “It’s down to the player’s “Of course I would have points in the games in and draw at Kingsmeadow on Thurs- robbing Demi Stokes in the “Naturally, I’m going to be mentality and down to the hoped to get a win today, but a around the head-to-heads. day night. area, but the home side laid happier because we’re the away preparation. draw it’s alright. I think the “This year you’ve got Reading New England manager Phil siege to their opponents’ goal team. A point away from home “Ellie showed tonight that’s feeling is what we take with us and Liverpool and Birmingham Neville was in attendance and after Houghton went off against Chelsea and a clean she prepared properly. She’s from this game. We had them and Bristol. They’re very, very saw two key members of his injured in search of the win sheet is a positive for sure.” been thrown in after 10 min- pushed down in their own half good teams and they’ve inherited squad carried off at that would have seen them That clean sheet was due in utes. I think it was a fantastic and we had more chances than improved so we’ve got to make the start and end of the match. leapfrog City at the top of the no small part to 18-year-old performance from an 18-year- they had.” sure in those games we apply City recovered from the early table. Ellie Roebuck who came on for old for sure.” The race for the title is likely ourselves properly.” Saturday/Sunday SPORT February 3-4 2018 INSIDE: An open letter to Riyad Mahrez n MEN’S FOOTBALL WEEKEND FOOTBALL Premier League Burnley Man City, 12.30pm Bournemouth Stoke Brighton West Ham MOYES: WEST HAM ARE A Leicester Swansea Man United Huddersfield West Brom Southampton Arsenal Everton, 5.30pm Crystal Palace Newcastle, 2.15pm* ‘MULTINATIONAL TEAM’ Liverpool Tottenham, 4.30pm* Championship Aston Villa Burton PREMIER LEAGUE: Derby Brentford Hammers boss rejects claims club discriminates against African players Fulham Nottingham Forest Leeds Cardiff Norwich Middlesbrough Preston Hull Queens Park Rangers Barnsley Reading Millwall Sheff Wednesday Birmingham Sunderland Ipswich Wolves Sheff United, 5.30pm League One Bristol Rovers Shrewsbury Bury Blackpool Charlton Oxford United Fleetwood Scunthorpe Northampton Rochdale Oldham Bradford Peterborough Southend Plymouth Blackburn Portsmouth Doncaster Rovers Rotherham Wimbledon Walsall MK Dons Wigan Gillingham League Two Accrington Stanley Stevenage Chesterfield Crawley Town Colchester Newport County Forest Green Rovers Coventry Grimsby Cheltenham Lincoln Swindon Luton Exeter Mansfield Barnet Notts County Crewe Port Vale Morecambe Wycombe Carlisle Yeovil Cambridge United FA Trophy Brackley Town Sutton United by Our Sports Desk told football agents the Ham- matter where they are from. good Scottish players and bad Karren Brady had previously Dover Leyton Orient mers wanted to avoid recruit- “Never, ever, never at all [have Scottish players.” offended Vichai Srivaddhana- Harrogate Town Billericay Town ing further African players. I experienced prejudice like that]. Asked whether the reports had prabha, the owner of his parent Maidenhead United Stockport DAVID MOYES dismissed sugges- Moyes, who also worked with “I think my first signing at caused an effect on a squad that club Leicester, with comments County tions yesterday that West Ham Henry at Everton, highlighted Everton was Joseph Yobo, I went includes the likes of Cheikhou she made about their sacking of Maidstone Utd Gateshead have anything other than an their failed attempts to sign to his testimonial in Nigeria Kouyate and Arthur Masuaku, Claudio Ranieri. Spennymoor Town East Thurrock United open transfer policy and dis- both Algeria’s Islam Slimani last year. I’ve signed [South Afri- Moyes responded: “I have spoken However, Moyes said: “That’s Wealdstone Warrington Town tanced the club from comments and the Cameroon-born Ibra- can] Steven Pienaar three times. with one or two of the African not a question for me. You need Workington Bromley allegedly made by director of him Amadou before Wednes- “I don’t think there are many players and they seem fine. to go to the club and ask them player recruitment Tony Henry. day’s transfer deadline. other clubs who have as many “They have trained well and that. Scottish Premiership The club have suspended He said: “The comments are African players as West Ham. I morale in the camp is good “We were in for Slimani, but Kilmarnock Celtic, 12.30pm Aberdeen Hamilton Academical Henry, pending an investiga- wrong. We were signing two play- find it difficult to believe any- because we are on the back of he had another option to go to Dundee Ross County tion, after claims he said that ers from Africa on deadline day, one could say we are not a mul- a pretty good run. Newcastle that he chose. We Hearts St Johnstone African players “have a bad so I can only say they are wrong. tinational team who sign good “The players are doing well, so had interest in [Anderlecht’s Motherwell Partick Thistle attitude” and “cause mayhem” “You can see the players the players, the best available. hopefully we can keep it going.” Leander] Dendoncker and we Rangers Hibernian when not selected. club has signed over the years. “Over my time I’ve had good Reports suggest Slimani went hoped to get one of those two, Scottish Championship He was allegedly speaking in We sign good quality players, African players and bad African on loan to Newcastle instead of but for different reasons they Dumbarton Brechin City response to suggestions he had the best we can get. It doesn’t players. It’s just like having West Ham because vice-chair didn’t come up.” Falkirk Livingston Inverness CT Dundee United Morton Dunfermline Athletic St Mirren Queen Of The South n MEN’S CRICKET Scottish League One Arbroath Albion Rovers Ayr United Alloa Athletic Forfar Athletic Airdrieonians Willey ‘disappointed’ to miss out on six sixes Queen’s Park Raith Rovers Stranraer East Fife by Our Sports Desk marking the occasion with the square usually,” he said open the innings after Alex Scottish League Two something special when he with a broad smile. Hales (hand) and Jason Roy Annan Athletic Cowdenbeath launched Australia’s Ashes- “It would have been nicer to (back) withdrew from the game Clyde Edinburgh City DAVID WILLEY confessed a winning spinner over the ropes get the final one too, but, if and he has no illusions about Peterhead Montrose Stenhousemuir Berwick Rangers tinge of regret yesterday despite five times in a row in his second you’re hitting 34 off an over, making a permanent move. Stirling Albion Elgin City a day to remember in Canberra, over but, with anticipation you can’t complain. “I think I’ll be sliding back having narrowly failed to flog building even among the home “I got a chance at the top of down to nine or 10 for the first All kickoffs 3pm unless noted Nathan Lyon for six sixes in an fans, he had to settle for a the order with a couple of nig- game [against Australia]. That * denotes Sunday game over. sweetly struck four through the gles and I had nothing to lose. I was my one chance,” he said. The Yorkshire all-rounder covers from the final delivery. went out with a bit of a free rein dominated England’s T20 tri- There were ironic boos from and managed to clear the ropes Published by the People’s Press MSTAR 2018-02-03 SAT 1.5 series warm-up against an Aus- the 8,000 spectators who had a few times. No complaints.” Printing Society Ltd, William Rust tralian Prime Minister’s XI, been hoping to see a rare full Willey made his name as a House, 52 Beachy Road, Bow, 0 5 London E3 2NS. Telephone: (020) taking three wickets with his house of maximums and Willey dashing top-order stroke-maker 8510-0815. Fax: (020) 8986- left-arm seam then smashing admitted he was unusually in county cricket and performed 5694. Email: enquiries@peoples- 79 in just 36 balls as the tour- deflated to see one of his shots a similar role during his recent press.com. Registered with Companies House as Morning Star ists sprinted to an eight-wicket racing to the boundary. Big Bash stint with Perth Scorch- (incorporating the Daily Worker) victory with more than seven “Yeah, I probably was disap- ers but has never batted higher No N5559. Printed by trade union overs remaining. pointed ... especially in an Eng- than seven for England. labour at Trinity Mirror. 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