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DUPING THE ■ EXHIBITION Photos from the marginalised fringe JOHN GREEN is impressed by a new show at London’s Barbican exploring concepts of the outsider as an agent of change. VULNERABLE Turn to page 17

by Sam Tobin Unclear clauses allow evictions at fi rms’

CARE HOME residents are being duped into signing unfair discretion – and even charges after death and unclear contracts which can charge fees for a month after their deaths, a new inves- from £4,000 to more than way” and that most residents Until this situation changes, [the care home] on this.” tigation has found. £15,000. The family were told move into a home “in some Mr Duncan-Jordan said, “we are They added that they did not Consumer rights group that they had signed an agree- form of crisis.” not going to see proper standards remember signing a contract Which? said care homes could ment that this could be done. That means neither residents of care to both those who need it with such a clause in it “as the be breaking the law by failing Another reported their nor their loved ones have time and those who provide it.” time of crisis that had led to us to inform residents and their mother being served an evic- to properly check the home’s Which? also received reports fi nding him a place in a home families about dodgy clauses, tion notice without explanation terms, he said, adding: “Con- of grieving families being he could aff ord was so stressful ■ SPORT such as a right to terminate a and the home manager refus- tracts are written in language charged after-death fees to and we were so desperate.” contract with just 24 hours’ ing to discuss it. The family that particularly frail, older cover income lost while rooms Only four of the 50 care Check out our mini notice for undefi ned “detri- were eventually forced to con- people may fi nd diffi cult to are cleared and cleaned before homes that Which? asked for mental behaviour.” cede that the contract allowed understand.” another resident can move in. a sample contract were willing Cheltenham preview In one case reported to the for residents to be evicted with Above all, he pointed out One respondent, who was to provide one, while the others consumer watchdog, a manager no reason being given. that “over 80 per cent of all told that they would not get any either advised the investigators HORSERACING expert placed a resident with dementia National Pensioners Conven- our care homes are privately of the £3,500 monthly fee back to visit the home or directed FARRINGDON gives his on round-the-clock one-to-one tion national offi cer Neil Dun- run,” meaning that they are after their father died, said that them to websites that did not lowdown of the horses to care at £15 per hour, causing can-Jordan said that “very few “not about care – this is about their grief had meant they were provide the information. look out for. their monthly bills to skyrocket people go into care in a planned business.” “not in a fi t state to challenge Turn to page 5 Turn to page 21

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■ IWD ■ WEATHER Cyclists face gruelling hill ‘STOP FORCING STAFF TO climb to mark Women’s Day WORK WHEN IT’S SNOWING’ A WOMEN’S cycling club in Yorkshire are RICHARD LEONARD: Rewrite laws to protect workers’ lives during freezing conditions to dress as suff ragettes and undertake a gruel- EMPLOYMENT laws must be by Conrad Landin “greater access” to workplaces A Glasgow-based charity ling hill-climb tomorrow rewritten to stop bosses forcing Scotland editor “for trade unions, to enforce worker told the Star: “I’ve to mark International workers to risk their lives by Exclusive these rights,” and said he was been seeing a lot of shout-outs Women’s Day. venturing out in the snow and “keen to support initiatives to those who have been ‘brav- The 120-member ice, Richard Leonard has said. such as Better Than Zero.” ing’ the snow to work. Fair play Queensbury Queens of The Scottish Labour leader remain at work. These included Care worker Elaine McNeil and respect to them. the Mountain Cycling was speaking exclusively to branches of Marks and Spencer, was found dead in the snow in “But those who have chosen Club near Bradford was the Star after the Met Offi ce McDonald’s and Morrisons. north Glasgow on Wednesday. not to work to protect their established two years issued an unprecedented red Several of the companies She is believed to have become own health and safety are ago to challenge the alert for Scotland’s central belt later announced that they ill on her way to no less brave or deserving of male stereotype image of this week. would close their outlets early. work and col- respect. cycling as a competitive The Better Than Zero group, Mr Leonard, a former trade lapsed, but “I’m thinking particularly sport. which organises workers on union offi cial, said: “To work, the full cir- of those members of our It was formed after a precarious conditions in Scot- or be asked to work, in [hazard- cumstances staff who have disabilities mum and her six-year- land and campaigns against ous] conditions is an infringe- of the trag- or physical or mental health old daughter watched their exploitation, said it had ment of your rights.” edy are not problems.” a cycling race and the been inundated with calls from He said he would advise known. [email protected] daughter asked: “So only people under pressure to brave anyone in this situation, “if Richard Leonard: P10 boys can race then?” the hazardous conditions. you’re not already a member Elise Fitzgerald, club The red alert meant that of a union, to join one.” communications offi cer, authorities believed the Tackling abusive bosses said: “At Queensbury weather posed a risk to life. It would take a major shake-up, Queens Cycling Club we lasted until Thursday morning, Mr Leonard said, pointing out believe it’s important to but an amber alert — the next that “Labour is committed to challenge these stere- level down — was extended abolishing zero-hours con- otypes and there is a until 10am yesterday. tracts. need to increase parity Roads were closed, trains He argued: “We need to see in professional sport. were cancelled and people a root-and-branch review of “As a club we feel that were advised not to leave their the balance of power in work- cycling is one of the best homes. places. Employment law is basi- ROTTEN TO THE CORE: feelings of empower- Better Than Zero named and cally fashioned on the basis of Campaigners with Lesbians and ment and freedom.” shamed numerous employers a master-servant relationship.” Gays Support the Miners leave The team will tackle and bosses who had reportedly But the Scottish Labour rotten food outside of Serco’s HQ the 1.5 mile climb from asked workers to come in or leader stressed the need for the town of Ilkley to the iconic Cow and Calf FOLLOW US rocks on Ilkley Moor overlooking the Wharfe ON TWITTER ■ MARCH4WOMEN Valley. @M_Star_Online Suff ragette star recites cry for Freedom ACTOR Anne-Marie Duff will 100th anniversary of the fi rst and addressed thousands of suf- recite Emmeline Pankhurst’s women being given the right to fragettes.” renowned Freedom or Death vote and focuses on the inequality London Mayor Sadiq Kahn, rally cry tomorrow at the women and girls face worldwide. along with Ms Pankhurst’s Laugh along March4Women demo for sexual Ms Duff said: “Emmeline great-granddaughter Helen equality. Pankhurst was a formidable Pankhurst — granddaughter with Marx The Suff ragette star, who fi gure, whose name means so of prominent communist and I’ll have the last laugh yet! played laundry worker Violet much to so many people. anti-fascist suff ragette Sylvia — Karl Marx cartoon and caricatures Miller in the fi lm about the “I’m honoured to have been and many other public fi gures An ideal present for the Marx women’s suff rage movement, asked to share them and I can’t will also address the crowd. bicentenary. £11.49 including p&p will read Ms Pankhurst’s 1913 think of a more spectacular The demonstration will speech at the rally in Trafalgar and special location than the start at Millbank at noon and cheques to PPPS, 52 Beachy Road, London E2 2NS, phone (020) 8510-0815 or online at shop.morningstaronline.co.uk Square tomorrow. same spot in Trafalgar Square end with the rally in Trafalgar TRIBUTE: Emmeline Pankhurst The march accords with the where Emmeline herself stood Square.

Our Class, Our Culture ■ ANIMAL RIGHTS Lanarkshire Readers & Supporters Group Actors welcome circus wild animal ban THE HISTORY OF THE LANARKSHIRE by Our News Desk for the animals, who must circuses and I’m thrilled that of acts in Britain, with only two STEEL INDUSTRY AND THE NEW endure an utterly unnatural action will fi nally be taken.” performing in England using and miserable life in the cir- She also called for an end to wild animals. INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY BRITISH actors have welcomed cus,” he said. the “pitiful acts” across Britain Suff ering caused to wild plans to ban wild animal cir- ADI said circuses could not and urged the public to join her animals by constant travel, cuses in England within two provide animals with adequate in backing ADI’s campaign. severe restrictions on move- Public meeting on Speaker: years. facilities to keep them physi- ADI president Jan Creamer ment and an unnatural life- Tuesday March 6 Brian Blessed, a long- cally or psychologically healthy said: “Circuses cannot meet style has prompted authorities Richard Leonard standing supporter of Ani- as they are frequently on the the needs of animals in small, and governments around the 7pm at Blantyre Leader, Scottish mal Defenders International move. mobile accommodation and world to end their use in cir- Miners Welfare, Labour Party (ADI) and its campaign to stop Joanna Lumley, another Animal Defenders Interna- cuses. 1 Calder Street, Chair: Alan Raby circus suff ering, said he was staunch supporter of the tional has repeatedly docu- National restrictions on per- Blantyre, Glasgow Former union “absolutely delighted” that a campaign, said: “Forced to per- mented suff ering and abuse.” forming animals in travelling G72 0AU shop st wild animal circus ban is in form, caged and confi ned — An increase in awareness of shows have now been enacted sight. it is haunting and horrifying circus animals’ suff ering has in 43 countries. “It cannot come soon enough to see animals being used in led to a decline in the number [email protected] morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online news March 3-4 2018 3

■ IMMIGRATION Serco HQ blockaded with rotten food over Yarl’s Wood by Ceren Sagir Sam Bjorn of Lesbi- Baroness Susan Williams ans and Gays Support has previously claimed that the Migrants said: “The the hunger strikers may be ACTIVISTS blockaded the women in Yarl’s Wood face refusing food for “dietary HQ of security fi rm Serco intimidation from guards and religious reasons,” by dumping rotting food and sexual harassment choosing to remain deaf to there yesterday in protest at and companies like Serco their demands. its treatment of detainees at are profi ting from this Around 30,000 people Yarl’s Wood. horrendous treatment are sent to immigration The action was organised of people in detention detention centres each year, by Lesbians and Gays Support centres. though campaigners say the Migrants, which tweeted “The UK immigration the practice is harmful and that it wanted to remind the system is rotten to its core unnecessary. private company running the and it’s the brave women of Britain is the only immigration detention centre Yarl’s Wood that are suff er- country in Europe that that 120 women inmates are ing the consequences. has no specifi ed legal entering their second week “As Serco continues to time limit for detention of hunger strike. Both Serco ignore the hunger strike, we of immigrants, so people and the government have wanted to bring the rotting seeking refugee can be held refused to acknowledge the food to their doorstep. We indefi nitely. Many are held hunger strike and listen to support their brave fi ght for months or years with no the demands of the Yarl’s against this brutal system.” release date. Wood women. Home Offi ce Minister [email protected]

■ TRANSPORT Corbyn backs battle to save train guards as strikes continue by Peter Lazenby conducting a campaign of strikes against the plan, said it had reached agreements with JEREMY CORBYN has backed train operators in Scotland and rail union RMT’s campaign to Wales on the guards’ role, but keep guards on trains ahead of the union’s attempts to forge a a 24-hour strike today. deal with Merseyrail and North- The Labour leader showed ern had been “kicked back” in his support for the union’s its face. Unguarded campaign by General secretary Mick Cash retweeting a fi lm featuring said: “It is frankly ludicrous passengers highlighting the that we have been able to nego- guards’ important safety role. tiate long-term arrangements Mr Corbyn said: “This RMT in Scotland and Wales that pro- operators sacking guards and union fi lm shows why it is tect the guards and passenger ripping off passengers in Brit- WE’RE HIRING essential to keep guards on our safety but we are being denied ain to subsidise state-run rail- trains. Please share and sup- the same opportunities with ways in their own countries. The successful applicant will need… port this important campaign. rail companies in England. Merseyrail, which has ADMINISTRATOR Excellent communication and #KeepTheGuardOnTheTrain.” “Every single eff ort that RMT reduced its services because interpersonal skills His endorsement comes as has made to reach negotiated of the severe weather, urged We are looking for an Administrator to join the business team in our busy east Multi-tasking, planning and Merseyrail and Northern staff settlements in these separate passengers to check before London offi ce. organisation skills stage a 24-hour strike in the disputes with Northern and they travel today because of Digital and physical record-keeping long-running dispute over rail Merseyrail over safe opera- the strike — the 16th since the Working Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week you will be the fi rst point of contact and reporting skills privateers’ drive to abolish the tion and safe staffi ng has been dispute began. for all visitors and telephone enquiries. The ability to work fl exibly in a role of the guard on trains. kicked back in our faces. There will be no services on This post is subject to a six-month small team and off er new ideas The two companies are “No-one should be in any some lines around Liverpool probation period. Holidays start at 28 days IT skills and experience including among those seeking to boost doubt — these disputes are and Chester. per year rising to 30, plus bank holidays. use of Microsoft Offi ce software profi ts in this way. about putting the safety of Northern said timeta- If you have the skills and are ready to An interest in the labour RMT, whose members are the travelling public before bles would be “signifi cantly take on a new challenge at a national movement and progressive issues the profi ts of the private train amended,” with around 44 per newspaper, which isn’t afraid to tell it like HAVE A STORY? companies.” cent of usual services running. it is, email [email protected] for Women and minority ethnic candidates He said Transport Secretary The strike coincides with an application pack. are particularly encouraged to apply Email us: news@ Chris Grayling and Prime Min- engineering works in Manches- peoples-press.com ister Theresa May were happy ter and Blackpool. to see state-owned overseas [email protected] CLOSING DATE: Monday March 19 Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 4 Saturday/Sunday news morningstaronline March 3-4 2018 @m_star_online

■ PENSION Cambridge Where there’s a will, there’s a way … Uni bosses hit by UCU strike pressure

by Peter Lazenby Cambridge Vice-Chancellor Stephen Toope said pensions are key to attracting interna- tional academics to Britain, UNIVERSITY bosses’ unity warning that his university appeared to be crumbling in might leave the USS scheme if the face of strikes by lectur- no deal is done. ers after Cambridge warned He said UCU proposals should yesterday that it could break be among those studied in the ranks in the pension dispute if eff ort to fi nd a resolution. a resolution is not found. “I strongly support the explora- Cambridge University threat- tion of ideas to resolve this situa- ened to launch an independent tion, including those put forward pension scheme for its academic by UCU,” Professor Toope said. staff if employers’ organisation “If all else fails and no sector- Universities UK (UUK) fails to wide scheme is deliverable, reach agreement with the Uni- Cambridge will have to consider versity and College Union (UCU). whether there is scope for a Cam- Talks between the two sides bridge-specifi c scheme — either will open on Monday through within or outside the USS.” conciliation service Acas. UCU general secretary Sally Some 40,000 lecturers at 64 Hunt said: “Professor Toope is universities have joined the right to say things cannot go strikes since they began last on as they are. week. “We would argue they never SNOW-MAGEDDON: Treacherous weather condi- In total, 14 days of action are should have been allowed to get tions continue to disrupt lives across Britain with planned, aff ecting more than this far in the fi rst place. It is cancelled trains, grounded fl ights and gridlocked one million students. important we all move forward roads. Just as the Siberian storm nicknamed “The UUK wants to abolish the cur- to Monday’s talks looking to Beast from the East” subsided, Storm Emma has rent lecturers’ pension scheme resolve this dispute.” arrived with biting winds and icy rain. linked to fi nal salaries and UUK claims that the current And yet, some workers were compelled to brave replace it with one dependent pension scheme has a £6 billion the snowstorms to help others less able. Postal work- on stock market fl uctuations. defi cit. ers from the Scottish Borders were snapped (above) However, UCU says the plan The employers’ organisation working together to clear a snow-fi lled path around will see retired lecturers lose said: “The collective position an old people’s home in Kelso. £10,000 a year. of employers is that university While fi refi ghter Dan Cheetham walked 15 miles UUK is composed of univer- pensions must be aff ordable, through foot-deep snow to ensure he was on time sity vice-chancellors, whose sustainable and continue to for his shift the next day. Mr Cheetham treked pensions are also linked to off er a meaningful benefi t to through thick snow for four hours to reach the fi re their fi nal salaries — though staff .” station in Lincolnshire. they will not be aff ected. [email protected] However, the emergency services are advising people take extra caution when travelling and not to make any unnecessary journeys. (020) 8525-6995 ADVERTISE HERE [email protected]

■ SUNDERLAND MARX ORATION Homeless invited to kip in football stadium SUNDERLAND football Staff at the club’s Sta- depending on the weather. club is opening its doors dium of Light have created a The club advised any- to the homeless and vul- special “warm room” which one wishing to use the Sunday 18 March nerable this weekend will include places to sleep, facility to arrive at exit as temperatures drop hot food and hot drinks for two in the south-west Gather at 1.30pm for 2pm start below freezing across those in need of shelter. corner of the stadium. England’s north-east. Pets will also be welcome, Anyone wishing to Highgate Cemetery, The Championship side the club added, and the make donations of food announced yesterday warm room will be staff ed. or clothing should take Swain’s Lane entrance that it would be “pro- Sunderland said the them to the stadium’s viding a safe and warm room would remain open reception desk, which is environment in the bit- until at least 9am on Mon- open from 9am to 5pm With her Excellency Teresita Vicente Sotolongo, the Cuban ter conditions forecast.” day and possibly beyond, today and tomorrow. Ambassador, celebrating the Bicentenary of Marx’s Birth Followed by social from 3pm at the Oak & Pastor Pub, 86 Junction Road, N19 5QZ. HAVE YOUR SAY [email protected] Write (up to 300 words) to... 52 Beachy Rd, London E3 2NS morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline news Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online March 3-4 2018 5

■ TRADE ■ PUBLIC OWNERSHIP BRITISH STEEL ROCKED BY East Coast rescue TRUMP TARIFF TAUNTS plan goes off rails GOVERNMENT pledges to would quit the franchise DEVASTATING: Unite fears global tax wars over steel if US import proposal goes ahead consider taking crisis- in the middle of this hit InterCity East Coast year. PROPOSED increases to metal manufacturing communities dent Jean-Claude Juncker said train services into public Transport Secretary tariff s by US President Donald by Sam Tobin by securing assurances from the EU would “react fi rmly and ownership are a sham, Chris Grayling now says Trump would be “devastating” President Trump that they will commensurately to defend our the RMT union said yes- he is considering public for the British steel industry, not be caught up in a global interests,” while Canadian terday. ownership as an option Unite warned yesterday. Minister Theresa May support tariff war between the US and Foreign Minister Chrystia The publicly owned to save the service again. Setting out plans for a 15 per steelworkers, Mr Brady said: countries such as China.” Freeland said Canada would operator that rescued the But the RMT says that cent tariff on steel imports and “US tariff s on British steel UK Steel head of policy Rich- take “responsive measures” if service in 2010, after its the winding-down of 10 per cent on aluminium, Mr would be devastating for the ard Warren said the US was a restrictions were imposed. second collapse in private DOR makes the option at Trump said US domestic indus- industry and the thousands signifi cant export market for A Downing Street spokesman hands, has been wound best “improbable.” try had been “decimated” by of workers who have battled British producers and that Mr said the government was “par- down by the government General secretary Mick “unfair” trade policies and for its survival alongside their Trump’s proposed tariff s would ticularly concerned” about any and is probably incapa- Cash said: “Since Chris would not be “taken advantage trade unions. have “a signifi cant impact.” measures that would impact ble of mounting another Grayling announced that of any longer.” “Any tariff s imposed on He said that, “considering Britain steel or aluminium, but rescue. the Virgin East Coast Unite’s national offi cer for British steel by President the thin margins that larger said it was not yet clear if Britain The InterCity East Coast operation was being steel Tony Brady warned how- Trump on the scale that is steel operators will be operat- would be included in any tariff s. franchise has been the wound down due to a ever that the measure would being mooted would be mis- ing to, 25 per cent is a signifi - They added that the govern- most glaring example of massive fi nancial crisis, add to pressures on British guided and deprive US manu- cant tariff .” ment was “engaging with the rail privatisation failure. there has been a deafen- steel, which had already been facturers of some of the most Canada and the EU both indi- US on what this announcement After failing twice in ing silence from both taken “to the precipice” by gov- specialist steel in the world. cated they would retaliate to means in practice.” private hands, it was him and his offi cials. ernment inaction against cheap “Government ministers any tariff s, potentially starting [email protected] taken over by govern- “Now we know why. The Chinese steel dumping. and Theresa May must back a trade war with the US. US steel unions welcome ment-owned Directly government have eff ec- Demanding that Prime Britain’s steelworkers and European Commission presi- Trump’s tariff plans: p7 Operated Railways (DOR), tively cut loose their last which turned it into a remaining public-sector success story, with £1 fall-back operation, hang- billion in surpluses for ing one of Britain’s main ■ BREXIT the Treasury and soaring inter-city routes out to customer satisfaction. dry. Following the suc- “This is mismanage- TUC leader slams ‘chasm’ between May’s rhetoric and reality cess, the government ment on a truly epic THERESA MAY’S latest Brexit more cohesive nation,” while a new arbitration mechanism mixed reaction from the EU. privatised InterCity East scale by the specialist in speech showed the “chasm” conceding that neither her for disputes, while also giving Chief negotiator Michel Coast again, only for the failure, Mr Grayling.” between her rhetoric and government nor the European greater detail on the Irish bor- Barnier said he “welcomed” the third operator, Virgin Mr Cash said the solu- reality, TUC general secretary Union would get “exactly what der question. “clarity” in the speech, which Trains East Coast — a tion was to “end the fi xa- Frances O’Grady said yesterday. we want” from the negotia- But Ms O’Grady said: “We would inform the European joint venture by Richard tion with spivs and specu- In a speech at Mansion tions. need all options on the nego- Commission’s guidelines. Branson’s company and lators” and renationalise House in London, the Prime Ms May set out the “foun- tiating table to protect jobs, However, European Parlia- Stagecoach — to throw in all of Britain’s railways. Minister claimed she could dations” that she wants to livelihoods and rights at work ment Brexit co-ordinator Guy the towel, saying that it [email protected] deliver “an optimistic and underpin the new relationship, and to prevent a hard border in Verhofstadt said the Prime Min- confi dent future” which would including binding commit- Ireland.” ister needed to “move beyond leave Britain “a stronger and ments to fair competition and Ms May’s speech met with a vague aspirations.”

■ RIP-OFF ■ EU Communist Party CARE FIRMS’ of Britain Gove’s tough talk ‘watered CONTRACTS London District Meeting: What is Britain’s Road With Rob SLAMMED to Socialism? Griffi ths down imitation of Labour’ (gen sec CPB) FROM P1: Three of the four Thursday 15th March 7pm: contracts that were provided MML, 37a Clerkenwell Green, EC1R 0DU by Sam Tobin A shocking £18.1 billion was cial structures, avoided pay- included unfair terms such paid out to shareholders of the ing taxes, have rewarded the as after-death fees and the nine large English regional water already well-off , kept charges right to terminate the con- and sewerage companies between higher than they needed to be tract with just 24 hours’ ENVIRONMENT Secretary 2007 and 2016, which represented and allowed leaks, pollution notice. WORKING WITH Michael Gove has been “taking almost all of their £18.8bn profi ts and other failures to persist Which? managing direc- lessons” from Labour’s manifesto over the same period. for far too long.” tor of public markets Alex LABOUR FOR A as he tries to talk tough about Mr Gove said water compa- But he still insisted that “pri- Hayman said it was “unac- rip-off water fi rms, the party said nies had “shielded themselves vate markets are the optimum ceptable that care homes are SOCIALIST FUTURE yesterday. from scrutiny, hidden behind way to meet the ongoing needs making it diffi cult for peo- But shadow business secre- complex fi nan- of water customers and the ple to get hold of contracts,” tary Rebecca Long-Bailey said environment,” claiming that adding that “far too many Mr Gove had watered down renationalisation would be a care home residents are hit Labour’s popular policies on “terrible backward step.” with unexpected fees or con- the industry, which pledge real Ms Long Bailey said: “Michael tract terms.” action “to tackle the failures of Gove has clearly been taking He said the government, privatisation in our utilities.” lessons from Labour’s popular which has just days to In a speech at the Water manifesto. However, spouting respond to a damning study UK conference, Mr Gove told words will do little to mend our of the sector by the Competi- Michael company bosses they have rip-off water system. tion and Markets Authority, Calderbank, not been acting “in the public “Where the Tories just talk, “must now ensure the rules North London CP Convenor of Brent interest” and warned them Labour will take action to tackle governing care homes are fi t 7pm Monday March 5 Momentum of “changes to the regu- the failures of privatisation in our for purpose and adequately Marx Memorial Library, latory framework” if utilities and bring the water com- protect residents and their 37a Clerkenwell Green, Susan Michie they did not clean panies back into public hands.” families.” London EC1R0DU CPB up their act. [email protected] [email protected] Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 6 Saturday/Sunday world morningstaronline March 3-4 2018 @m_star_online

■ ISRAEL in brief AFGHANISTAN: Residents walk though the site of a suicide attack in Kabul yesterday. A Netanyahu large explosion in the eastern part of the Troops told not to Afghan capital on Friday morning killed at least one person and wounded others, an snitch on dirty war interviewed Afghan offi cial said PHILIPPINES: President Rod- by police on rigo Duterte has ordered police and soldiers not to Bezeq links co-operate with any inves- tigation into the thousands ISRAELI police ques- of deaths in his so-called tioned Benjamin “war on drugs.” Netanyahu and his wife Police have killed at yesterday as part of a least 4,000 people since Mr corruption investigation Duterte took power in June involving the country’s 2016. Human rights groups telecom giant Bezeq. put the total at over 10,000. The detectives spent Meanwhile, the Philip- about fi ve hours in Mr pines police said yesterday Netanyahu’s residence that it had sacked 400 grilling the PM, while his offi cers in that time, though wife Sara was questioned none for their conduct in Mr separately elsewhere. Duterte’s bloody crackdown. Last month, two Netan- yahu confi dants were arrested on suspicion of Trade unionists held promoting regulation worth hundreds of mil- in mass detention lions of pounds to Bezeq. In return, Bezeq’s news TURKEY: Prosecutors site, Walla, allegedly have ordered the arrest provided pro-Netanyahu of another 154 people, coverage. including trade unionists, It’s the fi rst time that teachers and naval offi c- Mr Netanyahu, who was ers, for their supposed also communications ■ EUROPE links to a US-based cleric. minister until last year, is The total included 72 being questioned in the trade union offi cials, so-called File 4,000 probe. though it was not clear Police have recom- Dutch PM calls on the EU to from which union, and mended that Mr Netan- 66 teachers. yahu be charged with cor- The Turkish govern- ruption in two other cases ment accuses Islamic — Files 1,000 and 2,000. push further deregulation preacher Fethullah In the fi rst he’s alleged Gulen of orchestrating a to have taken bribes failed 2016 coup. from billionaire support- by Our Foreign Desk tioned deregulating civil nota- on Spain, Portugal and Ireland Part of that would be stand- ers, in the second to have ries. Similar attacks on notaries, following the bankers’ crash of ing permission for military con- pushed a law to help a among many other jobs, by French 2008, saying it was “a painful voys to cross EU member states’ Military drafted in newspaper publisher DUTCH Prime Minister Mark President Emmanuel Macron process” but claiming that “it borders, with money spent on crush a rival freesheet Rutte said yesterday that the sparked mass public protests. does pay off .” beefi ng up roads to cope with to hold pipelines in return for positive European Union is not “an He praised Mr Macron for He cited his own country as heavy materiel. coverage. unstoppable train speeding taking “tough measures in the evidence for that, with his gov- While Mr Rutte positioned his PERU: The government Left-wing coalition towards federalism,” as he urged labour market and the pension ernment having cut spending by speech in opposition to the more plans to declare an oil Hadash has warned more deregulation, military system” — slashing workers’ tens of billions of euros — with federalist agenda pushed by Mr pipeline a “strategic asset” that Mr Netanyahu may spending and harder borders. rights and making deep cuts similar results as in Britain, with Macron, many of their prescrip- so that it can be guarded by resort to drastic meas- Speaking in Berlin, he said to pensions. markedly increased poverty. At tions are similar — expanding soldiers against what it said ures — including war — that his fi rst proposal for an EU Meanwhile he urged that one point two-thirds of Dutch doc- neoliberal reforms while further were “vandals.” to shore up his political of “prosperity, security and sta- budgetary restrictions on tors reported seeing patients too militarising the EU. Peru has come into con- position at home. bility” was to “make Europe’s eurozone countries be enforced poor to aff ord their prescriptions. The key diff erence between fl ict with communities in a services market truly open.” more rigidly on laggards who While Mr Rutte advocated the approaches appears to be remote Amazonian jungle He took aim at the “5,000 had “abstain[ed] from mod- cutting EU development spend- that Mr Rutte wants to keep region over the pipeline protected professions in the ernising their economies” — ing, he said the bloc should be EU decision-making as it is and pollution caused by it. MORNINGSTAR EU. That’s … 22 per cent of a euphemism for privatisation spending more on the military, and cut the bloc’s budget, while Since the start of 2016, ONLINE.CO.UK all workers. I say: let’s abolish and deregulation. toughening up its borders to keep Mr Macron and his supporters about 5,600 barrels of oil Socialist news hub these protected professions.” And he praised the auster- out refugees and more quickly wish to further empower the have spilled because of cor- Mr Rutte even specifi cally men- ity measures forced by the EU deporting those who make it. Brussels bureaucracy. rosion or other failures, and 11,110 have been lost due to vandalism that offi cials sus- pect is caused by local busi- ■ BURKINA FASO nesses who are then hired to patch up the pipeline. JAZZ FOR PRESENTS Jihadists open fi re on Courtney French embassy VW ‘won’t pay for retrofi tting cars’ ISLAMIST extremists opened It was not clear whether more Pine fi re on the French embassy militants were involved in the GERMANY: Emissions test and the army headquarters violence, which was labelled a cheat Volkswagen said Come along to a unique Labour in separate attacks in Burkina terrorist attack by police direc- yesterday that retrofi tting Party fundraiser to take Surrey off the Faso’s capital yesterday, killing tor-general Jean Bosco Kienou polluting diesel cars was a Tories. Jazz legend Courtney Pine will at least seven soldiers, while and French Prime Minister good idea — but it would eight of the militants died. Edouard Philippe. There was not pay for it. play and a major frontbencher will Many others were wounded no claim of responsibility. Germany’s top court make an appearance too among the security forces and Gunfi re and explosions ruled this week that it was feared that the death toll resounded for hours but sub- local councils could ban 7pm Saturday March 3 could rise, said Communica- sided by midday. Witnesses said polluting diesels. The Leatherhead Theatre KT22 8DN tions Minister Remy Danjuinou. fi ve attackers had arrived in a government is desper- Tickets £25 from 01372 365-141 or Five emergency centres were pick-up truck and started shoot- ately trying to avert such www.theleatherheadtheatre.com set up in Ouagadougou to treat ing after shouting: “Allahu akh- bans to avoid hurting the high number of casualties bar.” They then set fi re to the the car industry. Sponsored by Unite the Union in the former French colony. truck and continued shooting. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline world Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online March 3-4 2018 7

n UNITED STATES ANTI-POLLUTION RULES SET TO BE WATERED DOWN ENVIRONMENT: Public health regulator EPA will spike key protections

by Our Foreign Desk It would also significantly Environmental Defence weaken rules put in place to Fund spokesman Matt Watson protect human health. said: “This move would put an THE US government has The 2016 standards govern- estimated 25 million people announced that it is planning ing leaks and emissions from who live in counties with dan- to water down anti-pollution oil and gas drilling operations gerously unhealthy air at even rules, amounting to a £75 mil- sought to reduce the amounts greater risk from oil and gas lion a year handout to electricity of methane and volatile organic related air pollution by rolling companies and oil and gas firms. compounds. Those compounds back measures that are flexible, The Environmental Protec- are a component of ground- cost-effective and that have been tion Agency (EPA) said late on level ozone, air pollution that proven to work by leading states Thursday that it was planning can aggravate asthma and con- and responsible companies.” to shred the 2016 rules, drawn tribute to early deaths. The EPA is also proposing to up in a bid to slash emissions of EPA assistant administra- make it easier for electricity methane — a potent greenhouse tor for air and radiation Bill companies to dump poisonous gas — as well as substances that Wehrum said the changes will ash left over from burning coal. cause hazardous air pollution. “provide regulatory certainty to The ash contains toxic heavy Those rules were strongly one of the largest sectors of the metals — such as arsenic and opposed by giant fossil fuel American economy and avoid lead — and is usually dumped companies, who have backed unnecessary compliance costs.” into unlined pits, with the poi- President Donald Trump’s Mr Wehrum previously sons leaching into groundwater efforts to scrap environmental worked as a lawyer represent- and rivers. regulations. ing fossil fuel and chemical It would be a reversal from As well as worsening cata- companies. He joined the previous EPA plans, which had strophic climate change, Trump administration in set a deadline for utility firms experts predicted that scrap- November and now heads the to report such hazardous con- ping the 2016 rules would lead EPA office that regulates his tamination. to dirtier air and water. former paymasters. [email protected]

n UNITED STATES US steel unions welcome Trump tariff plans DONALD TRUMP declared from next week. president Leo Gerard. yesterday that “trade wars The United Steelworkers He said that the tariffs are good, and easy to (USW) union said that the would “reduce the nega- win” after other countries US steel and aluminium tive impact” of imports expressed concern at his industries had long “been “that have decimated imposition of tariffs on under attack by predatory production in the United imported steel and alu- trade practices” and wel- States.” minium. comed the enforcement of China has expressed Mr Trump had earlier US trade law. “grave concern” at the AZERBAIJAN: In this video grab provided by the national APA television channel, firefighters work at the scene said that he plans to “For the USW, the objec- tariffs and the European of a fire at a drug rehabilitation clinic in Baku yesterday. Authorities say at least 24 people have been confirmed impose a 25 per cent tax tive has always been to Union said it was consid- dead after the clinic burned down in the capital yesterday morning. Firefighters later reported the blaze on imported steel and 10 restore market-based eco- ering imposing taxes on started at the “decrepit” one-storey wooden block, where patients had been sleeping, due to a wiring fault. per cent on aluminium nomics,” said the union’s US exports. The clinic had been massively oversubscribed due to a shortage of beds in the republic n THAILAND A FREE WILL Registration opens for political parties FOR ALL STAR READERS by Our Foreign Desk fronts for the military to retain after overthrowing the elected elements sympathetic to the power after any transition to government of Yingluck Shina- Shinawatras. Have you made sure your loved ones democracy. watra, the sister of former PM Titipol Phakdeewanich, a will be taken care of when you die? AT LEAST 42 prospective politi- In any case, there is wide- Thaksin Shinawatra — himself political science professor at Take the worry out of things with cal parties have applied to reg- spread scepticism about overthrown by the military in Ubon Ratchatani University, ister with Thailand’s Electoral the planned election date, 2006. said he has doubts about how a will drawn up by a fully qualified Commission so they can com- announced last week by Prime The 2014 coup followed much influence the new politi- solicitor – and it’s free if you leave a pete in a parliamentary vote Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha, months of protests against Ms cal parties can have over the bit of cash to the Star! currently scheduled to be held as several others announced Shinawatra, seen to be under future of Thai politics. by next February. by the junta have later been her brother’s influence, and He said that the junta had But while the country’s mili- postponed. the more-or-less Keynesian instituted legal changes to Martin Ross, solicitor tary junta has opened registra- Former general Mr Chan- economic programme the two maintain its influence over Tel: (01273) 726-951 tions, the parties still have to ocha himself said that the had followed. government, including the meet a list of conditions and vote would only happen if the After the coup, the mili- establishment of appointed [email protected] gain the generals’ approval to political situation remained tary banned political activi- government bodies to dilute Due to differing legal requirements this offer operate. “calm.” ties. Since then the military the power of elected officials. is only available to people in England & Wales Some applicants appear to be The junta took power in 2014 has tried to stamp out any [email protected] Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 8 Saturday/Sunday features morningstaronline March 3-4 2018 @m_star_online

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

ABOVE: Anti-fascist demonstrators march against the Italian far-right mob CasaPound during what has been a volatile, and increasingly violent, election campaign LEFT: Spanish pensioners block the road outside the Finance Ministry in Madrid as part of nationwide protests against pension cuts

ABOVE: Floral tributes to two murdered Mexican women are held high as part of a march demanding the government act against femicide

ABOVE: Mexican activists wear Donald Trump masks as they march against the seventh round of renegotiations of the Nafta trade deal, set to get worse for indigenous farmers LEFT: Candles burn at a silent protest for murdered Slovakian journalist Jan Kuciak and girlfriend Martina Kusnirova. Kuciak was working on a piece that investigated possible links between the Italian mafia and Prime Minister Robert Fico morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online March 3-4 2018 9

Y recent speech on Labour val- ues and Mimmigration Tory immigration policy was aimed at not only outlining how Labour and Tory values contrast when it comes to this issue, but also bringing some calm, rational thought to the debate. All politics is about choices and these choices must be harms our prosperity informed by both political values and shaped by evidence. It is unreasonable to make claims on immigration that It has been shown repeatedly that the government’s arbitrary simply aren’t valid, and yet many Tory and Ukip claims on the issue are in no way based net migration target doesn’t work, writes DIANE ABBOTT on factual reality. The last Labour manifesto laid out our values on the issue in the following way, stating: “Labour offers fair rules and reasonable management of migration. “In trade negotiations our priorities favour growth, jobs and prosperity. We make no apologies for putting these aims before bogus immigra- tion targets.” When we say our priorities favour growth, jobs and pros- perity before bogus immigra- tion targets, we mean it. Labour will do nothing which harms the prosperity of the overwhelming majority of people, and immigration fits into that framework. Unfairness is built into the current immigration system in a series of ways and Labour is instead arguing for fair rules and reasonable management. Currently, as part of the EU and single market, freedom of movement operates for EU citizens coming here and for British citizens living and work- ing in the EU. While the government says it wants a level playing field for all migrants post-Brexit, the clear indications are that it wants the lowest common denominator to be the basis for equal treatment. Labour doesn’t want to play that game. We want to move towards a more equal get doesn’t work, and not just For many on the right of the the migration impact fund, to to countries they have little or and respected status for all when it comes to international political spectrum, migrants help specific areas under strain. no connection with. migrants. students. have always been a convenient Investment in these areas will Prior to Jeremy Corbyn In terms of what this means But rather than setting scapegoat for failure, and the benefit entire communities, becoming Labour leader, there we won’t have, it means we unworkable targets for purely current anti-immigration cam- and help to create new jobs were some who believed that won’t have artificial targets, or political reasons, what we can paign can act to distract anger with decent pay. Labour could only make gains “Go Home” vans, and we won’t do as politicians is set a frame- “ away from the Tories and their As part of putting fairness if we fought the Tories on their have the hostile environment work for immigration. That failed austerity agenda. at the centre of our approach, terrain, including on immigra- that the Tories have deliber- framework must be set with Unfairness is in There is pressure on schools, we will also address some of tion. But the general election ately built. a focus on growth, jobs and the NHS and housing from a the most glaring humanitarian campaign showed the opposite In terms of what this means prosperity. built into the growing population. This is failures in terms of the govern- was true. we will do, it means we will put The counterproductive true no matter how it grows. ment’s attitude. When Labour set its own achieving greater prosperity for nature of the government’s current But these are problems asso- Currently, the government agenda on the key issues facing the many first. attitude on this question can ciated with growth, which grants a small number of child the majority of people, offer- This means, to give just one also be seen by the fact we are should be met with investment. refugees each year a right to ing real, workable solutions, it example, that we will welcome currently turning away doctors immigration Instead, the government has remain, but denies some of their gains and the Tories fall back. international students. They and nurses from outside the EU, responded with austerity. parents or carers leave to stay. Labour’s agenda puts pros- make a huge contribution to while the NHS faces a staffing system in a It is government cuts and At the same time, some par- perity for the many first. Immi- our country. shortage due to Tory cuts. Yet austerity which have caused ents with the right to be here gration can be harnessed for That isn’t just financial, this government turns doctors the crisis in schools, in hous- suffer the heartbreak of see- prosperity. Its costs can be miti- although their financial con- away in a failed effort to meet series of ways ing, in the NHS, not migrants. ing their children deported gated by a government which tribution is hugely significant. its net migration target. Migration also provides chal- because they have turned 18. aims both to raise prosperity The cultural, educational and This target isn’t achievable and Labour is lenges in specific economic We will end these policies, and to share it more equally. social benefits they bring are and the reality is it isn’t even sectors and regions, and only meaning that if a child is With the Tories divided over also enormous. designed to be. Instead, it is the instead arguing Labour will act on these chal- granted the right to be here, Brexit and Theresa May over- It is therefore completely excuse for a permanent anti- lenges by improving trade so will their parents and car- seeing an increasingly weak counter-productive that the migrant campaign. union rights, tackling the ers and that if you have been government that is running Tories include international In contrast to the Tories, for fair rules and exploitation of migrant labour brought up by carers or parents out of new ideas, only a Labour students in their immigration Labour is clear that we need by unscrupulous employers with a right to be here, so will government led by Corbyn can target figures. migrants and migration, but reasonable which serves to undercut wages you, even after you turn 18. achieve that. It has been shown repeat- also that, like any phenome- for all and ending overseas-only We will also end indefinite edly that the government’s non, migration has both costs recruitment. detention and stop the disgrace- ■ Diane Abbott is shadow home arbitrary net migration tar- and benefits. management Labour will also reinstate ful practice of deporting people secretary. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 10 Saturday/Sunday features morningstaronline March 3-4 2018 @m_star_online Star comment ‘We’re building not May’s Brexit vision would maintain the worst aspects of the EU just a unity, but a

THERESA MAY’S Brexit speech has the virtue of mak- ing the difference between Conservative and Labour aspirations crystal clear. The same can’t be said of her strategy for leaving the EU — a speech full of phrases like “life is going to be unity of purpose’ different,” “there will be ups and downs” and “our future is bright” was somewhat shorter on detail. Claims that British and EU negotiators are “close” to agreement on the terms of an implementation period merely reveal that a bargain still eludes the PM, while Scottish Labour leader RICHARD LEONARD speaks to “let’s get on with it” is a lame sally from the leader of the government almost 21 months after the referendum. Even so, May made it clear that a Tory Brexit will the Star about why we need to respect the EU be one that seeks to maintain all the anti-democratic restrictions membership of the single market imposes on economic decision-making. referendum result, developing a Scottish industrial Given she was playing catch-up with Jeremy Corbyn, who set out his party’s approach earlier in the week, the strategy, and challenges within the Labour Party Prime Minister will have weighed the following words carefully: “We may choose to commit some areas of our regulations like state aid and competition to remaining ICHARD LEON- against this in 2014. And try- in step with the EU’s.” ARD had to put ing to overturn this has as little back his inter- traction with the public as try- view with the ing to overturn the decision to RStar. But who leave the EU, Leonard argues. This was a sharp riposte to Corbyn’s promise that a could blame him? Indeed, he says this is even Labour Brexit would negotiate terms which allow us to The new Holyrood Labour the case with a “huge cohort “support cutting-edge industries and local business” and leader’s Central Scotland con- of people who voted Yes” to “stop the tide of privatisation and outsourcing.” stituency is at the heart of the independence. And there are Since the 2016 vote to leave, the Conservative Party has unprecedented Red Alert zone plenty of SNP voters who “don’t struggled to reconcile its obligation to honour the result prescribed by the Met Office like their votes being used as a of a referendum it called — and which its members and this week. proxy for remaining in the EU.” voters overwhelmingly welcomed — with the desire of Scotland’s central belt has This was part of the reason, its City paymasters to maintain EU membership. been gripped by Narnia lev- he believes, for the SNP’s loss At times, the British Establishment has considered els of snow this week, leaving of support in the Westminster Brexit such a threat that grandees such as Michael Hesel- roads closed, trains cancelled general election last year. But tine have toyed with support for Labour in the hope and thousands of workers he’s also clear that Labour that its many pro-EU MPs might be willing to overturn stranded. gained ground thanks to the the vote or negotiate an exit which maintains member When I was due to speak party’s leftward shift. status in all but name via single market and customs to Leonard on Thursday after- “We spoke once again about union membership. noon, he was one of them. public ownership, about being The fact that at this critical juncture the Labour He had also been gearing anti-austerity — we spoke once Party — so often in the past simply the B-team of Brit- up to speak to Morning Star again about Labour wanting to ish capitalism — is led by an actual socialist and anti- readers at the paper’s Glasgow redistribute not just wealth but imperialist has confounded an elite who no longer have conference today, entitled An power.” a major British political party able to implement their Industrial Strategy for People, For a man with his trade preferred policies. which unfortunately had to be union background and a his- Yesterday’s pledge to maintain competition rules that cancelled due to the snow. by Conrad Landin “won’t find support” for their tory on Labour’s left wing, this restrict public ownership and encourage outsourcing, as And to top it all, he’s cur- proposed deal among their own was music to his ears. well as state aid rules that prevent planned management rently dog-sitting a Hungarian MPs and, with Labour opposi- And these “enduring of the economy, was a pitch for Britain’s capitalists to vizsla called Copper. Unsur- tion too, their blueprint could themes” have a particular rel- renew their confidence in the Tories. prising, then, that he’s firmly Smith — to vote against a sym- be voted down. evance to Scotland, he believes. behind Jeremy Corbyn’s pledge bolic motion protesting at the “There’s a distinct possibility Well before he ran for the lead- to force landlords to allow ten- triggering of Article 50. of a constitutional crisis later in ership, Leonard was working ants to keep pets. Opposing a second referen- the year,” he says, not without on a vision for a Scottish indus- The Prime Minister pointed out, accurately, that Brit- Indeed, unlike previous Scot- dum is “absolutely” a decision some appetite. trial strategy — something he ain has done much to create these anti-socialist regula- tish Labour leaders, he hasn’t he stands by. But this would not mean argues the SNP government is tions in the first place as one of the key drivers of EU made a dog’s dinner out of “I’m clear that we need to undoing Brexit. Instead, MPs sorely lacking. neoliberalism. attempts to distance himself respect the result of the refer- could force a general election, For the Scottish Labour On this she sounded the same note as her Netherlands from Corbyn’s leadership of endum,” Leonard tells the Star. and with a change of govern- leader, there’s no better exam- counterpart Mark Rutte who, speaking in Berlin at the the Britain-wide party. “It’s not about going back on ment, a new negotiating team ple of this than the threat hang- same time, outlined a future for the EU that accelerates When Leonard became Scot- the 2016 decision — it’s about under Corbyn could return to ing over the BiFab yards. The the deregulation of “protected” professions, imposes tish Labour leader in December, what deal we secure to facili- the table with new demands. engineering firm, which pro- more economic “restructuring” (cuts and privatisation) he had campaigned very much tate Brexit. It’s not the place Leonard doesn’t see Nicola duces fabrications for offshore on member states and cuts its development budget to as the left candidate for the for elected politicians to try to Sturgeon’s demand for a “spe- oil, gas and renewable electric- spend more on a joint military. role — against Anas Sarwar, overturn the will of the people.” cial status” inside the EU’s ity generation, threatened to That Rutte is unconcerned about whether these meas- a former vice-chair of Blairite He is “pleased” with Corbyn’s existing single market as a close its sites last year after it ures are democratic is shown by his explicit praise for group Progress. A former GMB announcement earlier this serious demand. ran into financial trouble. French President Emmanuel Macron, whose attacks on union official, Leonard was week in support of a new cus- “The EU will not fashion a Workers staged a “work-in,” labour rights and the public sector are being imposed elected to Holyrood only in 2016. toms union with the EU after deal with part of a member in the model of the occupation by decree rather than exposed to the hazards of par- His predecessor Kezia Dug- Britain quits. state, or part of a previous at Upper Clyde Shipbuilders liamentary votes. dale, now best known for her “Jobs, the economy and the member state. which brought their union con- Rutte and May’s speeches show the same commitment time on I’m a Celebrity, Get Me maintenance of workers’ rights “The SNP’s own position has vener Jimmy Reid to national to unfettered “free market” capitalism because on the Out of Here!, had been a strong are the right priorities for nego- changed over time, but in the fame in the 1970s. big questions the Conservative Party and the European supporter of a second referen- tiation,” he says — but he has end they would like to see Scot- The Scottish government Commission are in complete agreement. dum on Brexit. little confidence that Britain’s land becoming an independent bailed the company out — but it It is Corbyn’s Labour, with its commitment to extend- Leonard, on the other hand, negotiating team will deliver state with its own membership was only a temporary reprieve, ing democratic control of our economy and challenging was one of just three left-wing the goods on these counts. of the EU.” with redundancy notices sent the power of big business, that offers a real alternative. Labour MSPs — the others Leonard says he can foresee But, he stresses, there was out last month. being Neil Findlay and Elaine a situation where the Tories a “clear referendum decision” Leonard’s own union, the morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online March 3-4 2018 11 Latin America: standing in solidarity against right-wing reaction Revelations that Britain has been selling spyware to Honduras show us that international solidarity matters, says CHRIS WILLIAMSON

ECENT inves- What we do here in Britain retain their power and influ- tigations have can have a direct material effect ence in order to continue revealed that the — for better or worse — on the plundering the region’s natu- British Foreign fortunes of Latin America. ral resources, so they sought Rand Common- Across the hemisphere, poli- to destabilise the popular new wealth Office has tics is changing rapidly. In Bra- governments. been allowing the sale of spy- zil, the right-wing opposition For those across the world ware to the hard-right, anti-dem- orchestrated the undemocratic who believe in social justice, ocratic government in Honduras. removal of Dilma Rousseff — it is a process we have a respon- The regime is currently the elected president, who was sibility to defend. engaged in a brutal crackdown continuing to implement pro- The left and the labour on protests. gressive reforms. movement has always had an The Honduran state has With the right wing now internationalist outlook. People received hundreds of thou- firmly in power without a sin- from different cultures, coun- sands of pounds’ worth of Brit- gle vote being cast, there has tries and creeds across the ish spyware that it has used to been a concerted effort to dis- world are bound together by monitor, disrupt and prevent credit, defame and persecute international solidarity. anti-government campaigning. the country’s most popular That’s not just a buzz phrase, Protests against the results politician. The right’s goal is it’s the product of hard work, of a heavily disputed election to stop former president Lula building links and understand- have seen dozens of people lose da Silva from standing in the ing across borders between their lives. 2018 presidential election. trade unions, social movements, It’s not as if Boris Johnson’s These are not simply ques- political parties and all those department had no idea what tions of who governs, they are striving for a better world. would happen — violent repres- questions of who survives. It’s in that spirit that the sion has been routine since the The new Brazilian govern- Labour Friends of Progressive National Party of Honduras ment has laid off workers and Latin America was formed. The took power following a coup implemented hard-line neolib- aim is to strengthen awareness in 2009. eral policies that will squeeze and support for movements This story is important for living standards for millions struggling to advance social progressives in Britain because of working people. They have and economic justice in the it reminds us that Latin Amer- replaced a government that took region, and to provide an infor- ican solidarity is much more 40 million people out of poverty. mation resource for the entire than showing abstract support In Honduras, the coup gov- labour movement. for distant foreign movements. ernment is not only viciously In Parliament, MPs are work- repressive against trade unions, ing to hold the government to GMB, has been at the forefront as well as anger at the state of party is currently in a state of women’s movements and other account when incidents like of the continued fight to keep the world. He’s been listening division. progressive organisations. the Honduran spyware sales the yards open and secure more to Paul Weller’s album A Kind “No, we’re building not just a Its vicious neoliberal policies are exposed. work for the yards. Revolution, after all. unity, but a unity of purpose,” mean two-thirds of its citizens But we can be more effective Yesterday a cross-party del- It’s no surprise that it’s on he says. “It’s an opportunity to now live below the breadline. in our parliamentary scrutiny egation of MSPs wrote to West- industrial issues that Leonard put forward a hopeful vision for These problems have been of the government with the minster’s Business Secretary sounds most confident, having a different kind of Scotland.” “ exacerbated by the destructive support of our movement Greg Clark to demand a key made a life out of advocating Crucial to this will be his role of foreign governments. behind us. contract be awarded to BiFab. for workers and secure jobs. ambitions for a “community US meddling in Latin Ameri- Our movement is founded on An industrial strategy is But he has faced troubles organising culture inside the What we do here can politics is nothing new: the principle of international sol- “exactly the answer for BiFab,” closer to home, not least in his Scottish Labour Party.” That CIA-backed death squads, mil- idarity. That is why this work is but the Scottish government own party’s machinations. As means building in workplaces, itary coups and both covert so essential, because when work- has “no industrial strategy at the Star reported last month, forging “links with trade in Britain can and open warfare are regular ing people, and those living in all,” he complains. some of Leonard’s supporters unionists in workplaces as well features of the region’s politics. poverty, make advances any- “The SNP, in office but not in have spoken out against “the as with trade union regional have a direct Infamous examples include where in the world, the whole power, lurch from one failed sort of refusal we saw to accept secretaries.” the coup in Chile, the block- world becomes a better place. rescue to the next. There’s far Corbyn’s victory in 2015, now And local government too ade of Cuba and the 2002 coup too much market, and far too being repeated in Scotland.” can lead the way. “Down the material effect attempt in Venezuela. ■ Chris Williamson is Labour MP little planning.” Leonard stresses that Scottish years local government has The “pink tide” of reform- for Derby North. Labour Friends This is the kind of rheto- Labour’s prospects for revival are often been the place radical — for better or ing left-wing governments of Progressive Latin America is ric that would have sounded dependent on “having a Labour ideas have been developed.” that emerged across the region committed to providing regular absurdly radical among Labour’s Party that’s united in Scotland” Leonard’s current reading is worse — on the throughout the 1990s and news and campaigning on Latin establishment a few years ago — and that means united with The Nothing, a recent novel by 2000s faced a sustained dirty American solidarity. For more — and unbelievable even more Corbyn’s leadership too. Hanif Kureishi. But taking on tricks campaign from powerful information visit labourfriendspla. recently in Scottish Labour. “I don’t think that people on the helm of a party that has fortunes of Latin vested interests who fear the wordpress.com, follow on Twitter But Leonard’s tone shows a the whole vote for divided par- undoubtedly faced years of hol- redistribution of wealth and @labourfplam or on Facebook at confidence of being part of a ties,” he warns. But he rejects lowing out, he’s under pressure America political power. Labour Friends of Progressive Latin new mainstream, and warmth the notion that the Scottish to deliver the full monty. They were determined to America. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 12 Saturday/Sunday features morningstaronline March 3-4 2018 @m_star_online Rattled Tories resort to smears by the servile media Labour’s agenda to defend living standards means the party is in a good position to move further forward writes MATT WILLGRESS

OU might not more akin to the Liberal Demo- A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS: know from what crats, with the latter being the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn some of the often repeated position of Tony campaigning, in Telford, media pundits Blair himself. during the general election Ysay, or indeed The first problem with this from what Tony narrative is that Labour’s cur- Blair says, but in the nine rent polling levels are in fact a months since the general elec- significant achievement, espe- sible at Corbyn and the Labour just 20.5 per cent in the Sep- building genuinely affordable living standards. tion Labour has polled consist- cially when it is considered that leadership in the hope that tember federal elections. housing were all vote-winners, We should be clear that we ently at over 40 per cent and just over a year ago in January some of it sticks. This follows a pattern since and underpinned by Labour’s need to do everything we can to held a narrow lead over the 2017 Labour trailed 12 per cent Additionally, a quick look at the financial crash of 2008, alternative economic strategy force another general election Tories. behind the Tories in the polls the performances of Labour’s when parties of the liberal cen- to Tory austerity. and be clear that if we can do According to a recent Elec- and continues to face an over- sister parties across Europe in tre or social democratic variety To make further advances it so we can win it. toral Calculus prediction, based whelmingly hostile media. the last year shows the extent which have endorsed austerity electorally Labour must build Indeed, the reason the Tories on polling from January 11-23 Analysts believe that a key of what Corbyn’s leadership has have seen their support plum- on this programme — not aban- are flinging around absurd 2018, Labour is on 41.1 per cent factor to the surge in popularity already achieved, as parties met, with the example of Pasok don it — reaching out across all smears and so desperate to and the Conservatives are on Labour and Corbyn achieved in that have failed to stand up to in Greece perhaps the most sections of the population with cling to their coalition of chaos 40.6 per cent. the general election campaign austerity got electorally ham- cited and most dramatic. policies that will deliver bet- with the DUP and avoid an Despite this, the right-wing was due to the fact that rules mered all over the continent. A reason Labour in Britain ter living standards for people election at any cost is because media — alongside some voices during the campaign meant In the Netherlands general is not facing these disastrous from all walks of life and all they know that with media bal- on the right of the Labour Party that its message and key policies election in March 2017 the results is precisely because the parts of Britain. ance rules back in play — and — have in recent months taken got more airtime than it had in Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) base of the movement elected Instead of “dreaming” about Labour’s membership army to criticising Jeremy Corbyn the 18 months of unrelenting secured only 5.7 per cent of — and then, despite enormous a new Macron, with the local of around 570,000 (compared and Labour’s leadership for hostility across the media that the vote — down from 24.8 per pressure from the bulk of the elections in May approaching with the a Tory membership not having a larger lead in the preceded the campaign. cent in 2012. The French Social- parliamentary party, the media fast, Labour needs to unite of around 70,000) mobilising polls. These rules regarding the ist Party, having implemented and the establishment, kept — around our leadership and its voters for Labour — it is likely The implication is often that broadcast media are now no austerity under Francoise Hol- Corbyn as leader. key policies to improve living Labour’s popularity could Labour needs a Emmanuel longer in play, although they lande, secured only 6.4 per cent The key pledges with a clear standards. further improve and Corbyn Macron type figure if it is to would again be if another gen- of the vote in the first round of anti-austerity, pro-investment, This includes its approach to become prime minister. improve its position and make eral election was called. the April 2017 presidential elec- programme in the “For the the difficult issue of the Brexit Let’s grasp this opportunity. the decisive breakthrough to Furthermore, since the tion — down from 28.6 per cent many, not the few” manifesto negotiations, where this week get clearly ahead of the Con- general election we have seen in the first round vote in 2012. outlined how this agenda could Corbyn’s speech confirmed ■ Matt Willgress is the national servatives — perhaps combin- sections of the print media — In Germany, after five years improve the living standards of that, while the Tories want organiser of the Labour Assembly ing a more “moderate” (for that most notably around the recent of participating in Merkel’s the majority. to use Brexit to make the cur- Against Austerity. You can follow read austerity-lite) economic frenzy of “spy” stories — resort “grand coalition,” the SPD Policies such as free school rent inequalities and insecuri- them at www.twitter.com/Labour- programme and a shift in the again to the desperate tactic of won their smallest share of meals, scrapping tuition fees, ties even worse, Labour’s clear Assembly and www.facebook.com/ party’s stance on Brexit to one throwing as much mud as pos- the vote since 1945, gaining a real living wage of £10, and priority is protecting jobs and labourassembly.againstausterity Labour’s customs union with the EU is work in progress

huka umunna’s by Fawzi Ibrahim single market and the cus- and protecting our national a study commissioned by the channel several times and other Labour toms union as the only way interest when the Eu has the Eu in november 2017 before it is finally assembled remainers’ hope to secure jobs and rights the German, French and “identified international in Wales serve the interest Cthat the Labour single market or the customs on its head and stated the 25 other national interests standards, best practices of workers and the environ- Party will support union is incompatible with obvious: jobs and rights to consider, as well as its and technologies that can be ment, or is it just a way for staying in the single market Labour’s radical plans for can only be secure when we own overriding interest in used to avoid a hard border.” corporations to make more and the customs union were economic and industrial are in charge, by our own remaining relevant and in In any case, a customs profit? decisively dashed by Jeremy generation, regional devel- actions outside the single charge. union as such does not pre- Others in the Labour Corbyn in his much trailed opment, state aid and state market and the customs There are great uncer- vent a hard border as the Party, less clear on the speech in Coventry this ownership of public utilities union and he outlined the tainties in such a strategy Eu/Turkey customs union issues, must be very wary week. — a crucial understanding measures Labour will take including the possibility of proves. of appearing to undermine That Labour will honour of the nature of the Eu and to that end. maintaining the high tariffs If Britain is to keep the and weaken the hand of the result of the Eu refer- its institutions that the The idea of a customs on food products that penal- very same trading relation- those engaged in negotiat- endum and leave the single majority of Labour members union between the Britain ise developing countries and ship with the Eu after Brexit ing with a foreign body on market and the customs are yet to understand. and the Eu is clearly a work the possibility of imposing as now, it begs the ques- behalf of the country and union and with it end the significant too was his rec- in progress with its contra- the Canadian equivalent of tion: aren’t these the very its people; parties that do freedom of movement is not ognition that the huge Eu dictory aims and uncertain TTIP, Ceta, on Britain. arrangements that did so that will be punished at the that new. What is new that membership fees will after outcomes. If the purpose of consid- much damage to our indus- polls. will prove to be a giant leap Brexit be spent on our public Contradictory aims ering a customs union is to try and manufacturing? forward for the Labour Party services. because on the one hand it ensure no return to a hard Does the fact that a mini ■ Fawzi Ibrahim is a national is Corbyn making it clear Corbyn turned the TuC’s binds us to Eu trade deals border in the island of Ire- car will have its compo- officer of Trade Unionists that remaining in either the argument for staying in the while negotiating our own land, then it is unnecessary. nent parts criss-crossing Against the EU. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online March 3-4 2018 13 The Corbyn moment MARK PERRYMAN argues that now – more than ever – is the time to transform Labour into a social movement

HIS week my new A Corbyn government would best comrade put an end to all of that, for George Osborne good. has described the To achieve this requires Timpact of Jeremy a laser-sharp campaigning Corbyn’s customs focus on winning a minimum union speech as “the Labour of Labour’s 66 target seats and leader, has with the smallest holding on to Labour’s 19 most of nudges, manoeuvred himself precarious defences, those with into a more pro-business, more majorities of less than 1,000. pro-free trade European policy The May 3 local elections will than the Tory government.” be the first test of how far The question of whether this Labour still has to travel to not marks the Corbyn Moment just come a decent second, but stretches way beyond the ranks to win. Despite all the chatter of the Corbynite Left. about a “Progressive Alliance” Osborne meant those words via tactical voting it is this kind as a compliment. Their prov- of tactical campaigning that enance and meaning will, how- will secure a Labour majority. ever, trouble many on Corbyn’s Meanwhile on the all-impor- side. But this, dear comrades, tant ideological level it is hard is what hegemony looks like, to dispute, despite the naysay- our ideas becoming the new ing commentariat and back- common sense. And without in biting from the Labour hard essence even a smidgen of prin- right, Labour has been setting ciple being sacrificed either. the agenda almost from the Anyone who doubts the dif- moment the June 8 votes were ference Corbyn has made, and counted. continues to make, to Labour Exposing the Tories getting politics should be force-fed into bed with the DUP as not Tony Blair’s 2005 Labour con- so much a coalition of chaos ference speech: “I hear people but the coalition from hell. say we have to stop and debate Responding to the causes and globalisation. You might as well consequences of the Grenfell debate whether autumn should disaster. Standing up for an follow summer.” NHS facing the impossible task The economic powers reshap- of coping with a winter crisis ing the world described as a as resources and morale wither force of nature, unstoppable, away. irresistible. No point in expect- Locating the Carillion col- ing that they can be changed in lapse in the rottenness of pri- any meaningful sense. vatisation at any cost. And now the International Brigades, Staf- Contrast this with the sym- mingham town peacefully with Of course Blair in govern- most recently outlining a way ford Cripps, Labour winning bolism of who was called upon a smile on her face had gone ment did many good things. to navigate Brexit in a man- the peace in 1945, Bevan and to introduce Corbyn at the final viral. She had stood up for what Nobody in their right, or left, ner that puts the haplessness the foundation of the NHS, Bar- big outdoor rally of the 2017 she knew was right. minds should pretend other- of Johnson, Davis and Fox to bara Castle on the picket line general election campaign — Neither parliamentarianism wise. That’s what Labour in utter shame. with the women Ford strikers Saffiyah Khan. nor protest politics can do that power is expected to do isn’t it? “ But winning in 2022, or campaigning for equal pay, A few months previously the on their own, rather it needs But crippled by this embrace sooner if at all possible, is going Michael Foot, Neil Kinnock and photo of Khan, a young Asian, Khan and hundreds of thou- of neoliberalism the measure All the doorstep to take all of this and then Tony Benn leading CND demon- Muslim woman fearlessly fac- sands like her to make such of Blair’s failed promise would some. It means the transfor- strations, Bernie Grant stand- ing down the English Defence resistance possible. bedevil Gordon Brown and Ed mation of Labour into a social ing with his community after League boot boys in her Bir- Not a stage army at anyone’s Miliband who unsuccessfully activity is a movement on a quite unprec- the 1985 Broadwater Farm riots beck and call but individuals followed in his wake. edented scale. — none of what I am describ- who come together to create During the 2015 general elec- building block We saw the beginnings of ing here should appear either communities of change. That’s tion opposition party leaders’ this last May and June as mar- new or all that threatening. But the party Labour might become debate Miliband snapped back towards a mass, ginal seats were flooded with for some it certainly seems as and if it does just about any- that he wasn’t the same as the eager, often new, campaigners if the latter was precisely how thing is possible. Tories under the torrent of to win the Labour vote street they regard such a change and Now that’s not something the “sisters united” criticism members-led by street and led by Owen Jones June 8 has done precious little “ I suspect Osborne and his from Nicola Sturgeon, Leanne and Momentum this has con- to alter their opinion either. big business mates will wel- Wood and the Greens’ Natalie party rooted in tinued with regular #Unseat They describe this as “Clause But this, dear come with such open arms as Bennett. days of mass canvassing in the One Socialism” and have the Labour’s commitment to a cus- Quick as a flash Sturgeon most high profile of Labour’s pin badges to prove it. toms union. And in the greater tellingly retorted that no Ed, our communities target marginals. The grouping most identi- comrades, is scale of things that is what both you’re not the same, but neither All this doorstep activity car- fied with this Clause One posi- really matters and what will are you different enough. rather than the ried out not as a duty-bound tion inside the Labour Party, what hegemony shape Labour’s future. Notwithstanding Osborne’s stage army of the party’s Progress, puts it thus: “In the plaudits this is something extras but as a building block 1930s, 1950s and 1980s Labour ■ Mark Perryman is the editor nobody is ever going to say entrenched towards a mass, members-led was pulled away from its true looks like, our of The Corbyn Effect and will be about Corbyn. And that’s why party rooted in our communi- path by syndicalist social move- speaking at ‘The Corbyn Moment the next general election will deference of the ties rather than the entrenched ments. At its founding, the ideas becoming ’ a day of discussion and debate on be so momentous in the same deference of the parliamentary party’s intention was clearly Labour as a social movement fea- way 1945 was, ushering in the parliamentary party. spelled out for the world to see the new common turing Alex Nunns, Andrew Mur- post-war settlement, and 1979 For those stepped in the in the very first paragraph of ray, Francesca Martinez, Hilary not only ending it but carv- Labour tradition of Keir Har- the constitution: to ‘maintain Wainwright and others. Saturday ing out its replacement in the party die and Ellen Wilkinson, the in parliament … a political sense 10 March, London. Details from shape of neoliberalism. hunger marches, Cable Street, Labour Party’.” www.counterfire.org.0 Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 14 March 3-4 2018 info | entertainment @m_star_online

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Leek and potato bake 1 A Stevenson screen is 3 If a spacecraft under- used in which science? takes interstellar travel, what must it have left WHAT else can I off er this vascular system. 2 Which Irish county has behind? week but another real winter They have a lot of vitamin A, given its name to a type warmer? which has been shown to boost of tweed? Serve this as a main course, your immune system, and vita- as it’s full of everything a win- min B6, which again appears to YESTERDAY’S ANSWERS ter body needs: fats, protein, protect us from heart disease vitamins and lots of things you and stroke. 1. The gopher is indigenous Beethoven’s (below) need to keep out the cold. Best of all, leeks are cheap to which continent? North Symphony No 9 (Ode to Leeks are anti-carcinogenic and delicious, and this is an America Joy) and very good for your cardio- excellent way to cook them. 2. The United 3. In 1981, to what Team of Germa- did Iran rename Ingredients ny, which com- Winston Churchill peted at the 1956, Boulevard, site of ■ 2lb/900g potatoes, scrubbed ■ level tsp paprika 1960 and 1964 the British em- or peeled and thinly sliced ■ 450ml/16fl oz single cream Olympics, used bassy? Bobby ■ approx 1lb leeks, trimmed or low-fat equivalent what as its Sands Street after and chopped into ½”/1.25cm ■ salt and freshly ground “national” the martyred Irish lengths white or black pepper anthem? hunger striker ■ 200g/7oz hard cheese, ■ butter or margarine to grated grease the dish ACROSS DOWN (medium) 1. Sack little man returning to 1. Call for car containing team DAILY SUDOKU state (5) with close-up view (8,4) What to do 4. Fragment of start of scene 2. Fake gets Trump started on where playwright inserts line (8) almost complete amnesiac (9) Steam (best) or boil the leeks has one, or with tin foil, and 8. Corporal’s new mission follow- 3. The Spanish accompanying and potatoes for three mins. continue baking for 15 minutes. ing opera and invasion (6,8) the South African native (5) Spread half the potatoes over Check that the potatoes are 10. Went in to infl uence motor 4. A runner once directed out of the bottom of a suitable sized cooked through. If not, give sport (8) religious rite (9) oven-proof dish greased with them another 10 minutes or so. 11. Farewell to copper spelt out 5. see 23 butter or margarine. Serve with a green vegetable loud (3,3) 6. Need us at a dance feeling Season this and subsequent such as broccoli. 12. Reserved force to hold strong sick (9) layers according to taste. chess players (9) 7. Writing mostly positive Spread half the leeks over 15. Thought a citizen’s part was response for example (5) this, then add the rest of the unspoken (5) 9. Construct a little mural with spuds. 17. Find answer succeeded when several sides (12) Top this with the grated love breaks down (5) 13. Unusual fi ne story cannot be cheese, then the cream. 18. Time to study philosopher as put into words (9) Bake for 45 minutes, then an old-style punishment (9) 14. Stamp certain to be collected cover the dish with a lid if it 19. Notice split off course (6) and valued (9) 21. Get the Morning Star to turn 16. Dog, not entirely fashion- dog back in another newspa- able, twice raised gold head of per’s right to use someone else’s hair (9) property (8) 20. Way to defeat England (5) 24. Accountant is less sensitive 22. Something fi shy with Ice- when about to manage singer land’s conclusion (5) (6,8) 23, 5. King not working at home 25. Legal document containing kept part of network (8) folio with conclusion secured (8) 26. Stop good man getting every- Solution on Monday… Solution on Monday… Leek pic: Bjorn Konig/Creative Commons thing (5) morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online March 3-4 2018 15 The new-look paper – what do you think?

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AST Saturday, after tainment reminiscent in its variety is making a comeback. evening as “extraordinary,” witnessing a stir- scope (though not its content Fast-forward 35 years and I’m it’s saying something — I’ve ring 4-1 win for – radical politics were well to at the beautifully renovated stood in for Donny Osmond the Seagulls in a the fore) of the old-time music Hoxton Hall in East London, and supported Saxon. Julian Lsix-pointer against hall shows. taking part in Ms Paolini’s Fox is a singer-songwriter who Swansea, I got the There were quite a few bands Phantasmagoria Cabaret, mar- is quite literally the missing train to London and cycled in there, too. James supported shalled by the eff ervescent and link between Depeche Mode, to Hoxton Hall on my fold-up me once at the Old White Horse very Italian Patrizia. Ivor Cutler and Ted Chipping- bike — Hoxton is one of those in Brixton and I persuaded She’s part of multinational ton. If you don’t believe me strange, Tubeless places where Roland and Claire to let me female dance/mime/spoken- have a look at youtube.com/ you need to be a Londoner to put on powerful protest punks word trio Jesus Paolini Park and watch?v=6R_OpvgC-0E work out how to get there on Newtown Neurotics from Har- they’re exploring the nuances I was on at the beginning of public transport — and trav- low and Anhrefn from Bangor, of English as a second lan- the second half and it seemed elled back in time. the very fi rst Welsh punks to guage in a way that can only to go down very well but then LONDON THEATRE ordinary people and the Not that far back, really, in sing in their native tongue, as be described as surreal. had to head back to the Sussex MADHOUSE re:exit extraordinary leaders who the scheme of things — just elements in the shows. They’re followed by Candi coast. But not before fi nding Shoreditch Town Hall shaped and tested our society to the beginning of the 1980s, But stand-up comedy soon Gigi, a Jewish performance out that the Muldoons’ daugh- Old Street, EC1 by hard graft. Through per- when I had recently emerged became the dominant force in artist/comedian whose dance ter was in the audience, which March 13-28 formance, sound, light, video from the underground punk New Variety, as it did elsewhere partner is an infl atable naked seemed very fi tting. and design, Shift aims to spark scene as an angry young rant- in our scene, and we saw less rabbi she waves around by the I can honestly say that if you “The history of the institution- debate on how we live and work. ing poet and been invited by and less of the other types of penis. live in East London and want to alisation of people with learn- nationaltheatrescotland.com pioneering cultural activists performers. Not being a come- After some more very experience an evening like no ing disabilities being locked Roland and Claire Muldoon dian, but a poet who likes to be strange dance routines, includ- other, information on future away in long-stay hospitals is from the CAST theatre group funny sometimes, I went off to ing a section where audience events can be found at face- very recent, with the changes LEEDS/TOURING DANCE (it stood for Cartoon Archetypal pastures new. members are given pins and book.com/patrizia.paolini.58 that were long fought for being Jane Eyre Slogan Theatre) to join their I am saddened to see that invited to burst balloons Next week’s gigs are less forgotten and the progress Grand Theatre newly created London cabaret Roland Muldoon’s Wikipedia attached to the dancers’ bodies, nuts. Stand Up For Labour being vanished from the pub- Briggate circuit New Variety. entry now simply describes the next up is naked poet Glory Perl with Arthur Smith and more lic consciousness,” says Nick March 7-14 For the next few years poets, New Variety circuit as “promot- from Tunbridge Wells, whose at the Old Fire Station in Llewellyn, artistic director of jugglers, mime artists, the fi rst ing a new wave of alternative compositions are mainly about Bournemouth next Thursday, Access All Areas. Jane Eyre’s journey to overcome wave of alternative comedians comedy.” It did that for sure her own bits. Form refl ecting RISC in Reading with my band His company’s new show the odds, one of literature’s fi n- and other performers who sim- but a whole lot more. It was content, and then some. Barnstormer on Friday and Hot MADHOUSE re:exit cross-refer- est love stories, gets the dance ply defi ed classifi cation enter- brilliant and, now people are And then came the highlight Banana Music in Holmfi rth ences the past with the current treatment in this production by tained audiences across London starting to get sick of endless of an extraordinary evening next Saturday after my fi rst trip climate where no joined-up sup- Northern Ballet. in a truly diverse bill of enter- bills featuring only comedians, for me. When I describe an to Goodison Park since 1983... port structures for people exist Choreographed by Cathy and the four walls of the hospi- Marston and with music played tals where people were locked live by Northern Ballet Sinfo- away are now being replaced nia, the company’s dance-actors ■ THEATRE REVIEW with the four walls of people’s bring this tale of romance, jeal- bedrooms and there are no ousy and the dark secrets to life Frozen opportunities for engagement in what should be a powerful Theatre Royal Haymarket, or support. reworking of Charlotte Bronte’s London An innovative production by novel. ★★★✩✩ Frozen response learning disabled artists, the Tours nationally until June show is set in a corporate care 9 after these dates in Leeds. facility promising a “revolution” northernballet.com RYONY LAVERY’S A challenging play about a child killer in social services, where the fi ve Frozen arrives at artists wait for a change that is the Theatre Royal forever promised. LIVERPOOL EXHIBITION Bwith a starry cast leaves MARY CONWAY somewhat cold Illusionist David Munns ques- Lubaina Himid: Meticulous and a formidable tions whether the Victorian Observations and Naming track record after previous label of freak persists today, the Money productions at Birmingham choreographer DJ Hassan spins Walker Art Gallery Rep, the National Theatre between joy and loneliness, William Brown Street and on Broadway attracted Dayo Koleosho asks how easy Until March 18 award nominations. it is for learning disabled people But there’s something to live independently, Imogen about Lavery’s story of a Roberts celebrates the ancient remorseless serial killer who Olmec tribe who worshipped commits the kind of crime those with Downs Syndrome that makes avengers of us as gods and performance poet all and sets mobs baying for Cian Binchy imagines him- blood that leaves me cold. self as London’s oldest baby. Centred on the rape and shoreditchtownhall.com murder of a child, Frozen cuts through spontaneous SPLENDID: Suranne revulsion with intelligent Jones and Nina Sosanya COATBRIDGE EVENT For Meticulous Observations, questions while seeming to Shift 2017 Turner prize-winner exploit, rather than dissipate, Photo: Johan Persson Summerlee Museum of Lubaina Himid has selected work the prurience of the world at sonance for the audience comments of killing children formed. Forgiveness, in the Scottish Industrial Life by women artists from the Arts large. between the rather clini- that “the only thing I’m sorry end, seems just too easy and Heritage Way Council Collection, along with 20 Lavery asks whether the cal dissection of the crime about is that it’s not legal,” its potentially transformative March 29-April 1 fi gures from her major installa- killer can be truly held and the compassion and the psychiatrist is merely power stated but not felt. tion Naming the Money. responsible for his actions, empathy its fallout should panicked by fl ying and the Undeniably, Frozen is a This large scale outdoor event At the centre is her 1987 given that his physical brain engender. mother is on the margins of clever piece in exploring pro- by National Theatre of Scotland series of watercolour draw- development has been dam- The mother Nancy ineptness in acknowledging found questions about the features original music and ings, Scenes from the Life aged and its normal func- (Suranne Jones), killer Ralph love. banality of evil and Watkins, words from punters, poets, of Toussaint L’Ouverture, tioning is “frozen” — in the (Jason Watkins) and psychi- Despite the skilful per- as killer, chillingly portrays playwrights and pensmiths about the former slave who writer’s words, “crime as sin atric researcher Agnetha formances of these splen- a truly loathsome little man. from across North Lanarkshire. led the Haitian revolution. or crime as symptom?”— and (Nina Sosanya) are all clev- did actors, emotional truth But something of the emo- With a cast of over 100, Shift The installation addresses how whether there can be forgive- erly equipped by the writer is lessened in the interests tional heart is missing, leav- tells the stories of the many Europe’s wealthy classes spent ness for such a crime. with quirks and oddities of inquiry. While Nancy is ing us wallowing in disgust “shifts” put in by the workers their money and fl aunted their If so, is forgiveness essen- that evidence independent heartbreaking as a woman and joylessness when pity who built our world and created power in the 18th and 19th tial to the healing process? consciousness not will. in the extremes of grief and enlightenment should our future. centuries by using enslaved Excellent questions but, The diff erence between — because Suranne Jones actually unfold. Told through, song, poetry African men and women. somehow, not adequately them, though, is in moral- makes her so — ultimately, Runs until May 5, boxoffi ce: and prose it focuses on the liverpoolmuseums.org.uk explored. And there’s a dis- ity. While the killer calmly the character is never fully trh.co.uk morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online culture March 3-4 2018 17

■ EXHIBITION FROM THE MARGINS: (Left to right from top) Daido Moriyama, Japan, Theatre, from the series Japan Photo Theatre; Mary Ellen Mark, Lillie with her rag doll, Seattle, from the series Streetwise, 1983; Philippe Chancel, Untitled, from the series Rebel’s Paris, 1982 Marginal and Paz Errazuriz, Evelyn, Santiago, from the series La Manzana de Adam (Adam’s concerns Apple), 1983 shape the debate on margin- alised communities. How far JOHN GREEN recommends an that is true is a moot point but it’s a show which undoubtedly exhibition of images representing challenges preconceptions and prejudices. Each individual exhibitor people on the fringes of society could be singled out for men- tion in a fascinating and inform- Another Kind of Life ative exhibition but particularly Barbican, London striking are the ‘80s images of HHHHI black and white youth happily cavorting together in a Paris suburb by French photographer HE WORKS in Philippe Chancel. Another Kind of At first glance it might seem Life at London’s as if the images were taken in Barbican Centre the US but such relaxed inter- Tpresent the out- racial mixing just couldn’t have sider as an agent political motivations, they seek happened there. Chancel’s focus of change. to provide an authentic repre- on the local illuminates a wider Here are individuals and sentation of the disenfranchised global picture. communities who openly flout communities with whom they A series of evocative black- social convention — sexual spent months, years or even and-white images of Teddy Boys experimenters, romantic rebels, decades. in the 1950s by British photog- outlaws, survivalists and the Peering into the lives of oth- rapher Chris Steele-Perkins expression to the mute sadness comment with any profundity on the maturity of their think- dispossessed — drawn from ers, particularly those who beautifully capture moments and loneliness of their troubled on the subjects’ lives. ing, the keenness of their eye the work of 20 documentary live outside the mainstream, of youngsters strutting their lives. And they also raise the issue and their ability to convey some- photographers from different can easily seem voyeuristic stuff, rebelling against an older Part of the Barbican season of how far can they help us thing greater than the sum of countries. but most of the photographers stuffy generation and attempt- The Art of Change, which understand or appreciate these the subjects they have fixed in Their take on marginalised here largely avoid that pitfall ing to stamp their own image explores how the arts respond marginal lives or the motivation time. groups from the 1950s on, and reveal their subjects with on society. to, reflect and potentially effect individuals have for choosing — There’s plenty of that on show among them Indian eunuchs, sympathy and understanding. The Chilean Paz Errazuriz’s change in the social and politi- or the reasons for them falling here. Chilean transvestites or black The exhibition makes the images of male cross-dressers cal landscape, it’s an exhibition into — particular lifestyles. and white street kids in Paris, claim of being empowering who, in Pinochet’s Chile, suf- that raises many questions, not But photographers are no dif- ■ Another Kind of Life: Photography reflects a diverse view of the and inclusive in charting how fered severe persecution and least how far a single photo- ferent from any other artist. The on the Margins runs until May 27, world. Driven by personal and visual representation has helped harassment give powerful graphic image or sequence can impact of their images depends box office: barbican.org.uk

■ FICTION REVIEW Tortilla tale to savour

Quesadillas Chingada” (“The hill mother constantly Twins Castor and Pollux and the arrival of a rich fam- policeman, dodgy politicians by Juan Pablo Villalobos in the middle of fuck- prepares hundreds have suddenly disappeared ily of Polish immigrants in the parading on TV and lots of (And Other Stories, £7.99) ing nowhere”), where of quesadillas — the and, according to tyrannical business of inseminating cows. cheesy quesadillas. “there are more cows typical Mexican dish older brother Aristotle, they’ve They’ll later force them to Villalobos’s second novel, than people, more of tortillas filled with been abducted by aliens. leave their humble neighbour- after his critically acclaimed THE THIRTEEN-year-old Mexi- charro horsemen than cheese — to keep the Skilfully translated from the hood to build Olympic Heights, debut Down the Rabbit Hole, can boy Orestes (Oreo) is try- horses, more priests family quiet and avert Spanish by Rosalind Harvey, an exclusive condominium for proves that he is a force to be ing to survive in a world that than cows and the disaster. Quesadillas is a brilliant sat- the rich. reckoned with. doesn’t quite make sense. people like to believe But this is no typical ire, a fierce and poignant tale That is only the beginning His ferocious tone, comic In Juan Pablo Villalobos’s in the existence of family. Oreo’s teacher of madness and absurdity in of Oreo’s misadventures and grasp and radical vision dis- novel, it is one of vast eco- ghosts, miracles, spaceships, father is an inveterate insulter a country where the rich get his unsuccessful search for a tinguishes him as one of the nomic inequalities, growing saints and so forth.” who often lashes out against richer and the poor even more better life. best Latin American writers of social injustices, entrenched Oreo’s family battle daily politicians on TV — “Fucking poverty-stricken. On the way, he encounters his generation. poverty, corruption and politi- to get by in an uphill strug- robbers! Corrupt bastards!” — Oreo’s family witness a destitute pilgrims, miraculous In Quesadillas, he’s pro- cal mismanagement. gle against rocketing infla- and there are seven brothers revolt against the Institu- virgins, psychedelic water- duced a witty, dark and pro- He lives in Lagos de Moreno, tion, rationing, starvation all colourfully named after tional Revolutionary Party, melons fertilised by human vocative masterpiece. on top of the “Cerro de la and political instability. His ancient Greeks and Romans. its numerous electoral frauds excrement, an incompetent LEO BOIX Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 18 March 3-4 2018 letters | entertainment @m_star_online

■ UNION POLICY ■ UNIVERSITIES RECENT DEATH: TUC under O’Grady has improved markedly Scott Westgarth I ASSUME the letter by Ryan occasions and at the Dur- Gallagher was a sarcastic, ham Miners’ Gala and made High fees tongue-in-cheek dig at the excellent speeches, when I EU and the TUC (M Star Janu- think we had Sir Brendan ary 26). Barber before Frances, who I voted to come out of the was more of an Establish- put off late EU and we must accept the ment fi gure. result, despite it being a very We need strong trade complex issue. unions, trades councils and The TUC is 150 years old a strong TUC, plus the very this year and it has had vari- good work being done by the life learners ous general secretaries, some People’s Assembly, to stand to the right, some to the left, up against this awful gov- THE letter from Tim Mickle- and some middle of the road, ernment. burgh drawing attention to the but I do think Frances O’Grady Because for as long as I deterrent eff ect of university is one of the best, who always can remember they have tuition fees (M Star February speaks up on behalf of the attacked the working class 28) is spot on. workers in this country. at every opportunity. As he says, if you have family Frances has been at the PAUL FIRMAGE money you can to a large extent Tolpuddle Festival on several Downham Market choose to study whatever and wherever you like. Otherwise your university study, if it happens at all, is ■ PENSIONS liable to consist of a vocational subject at the institution near- est to where you live. Women are being That is particularly true for adult mature students, who are rarely mentioned when the waited out by Tories government brags about the increased number of students I WOULD like to add my voice state pension age when some ■ BOXING in higher education. of support to Ruth Hunt’s arti- of the best legal brains didn’t Access courses, which were cle regarding women in their know either. designed to get adults with- MINISTER: Sam Gyimah is in sixties left with a raised pen- Today, we learn from Scot- Medical view of head trauma is unequivocal out formal qualifi cation up favour of a fees ‘review’ sion age (M Star February 26) tish Financial News that we YOUR news item (M Star Feb- is what loss of consciousness to university entrance stand- I am almost 64 and, despite must wait at least two decades ruary 28) on boxing deaths (even temporary) really is. ard through a year’s intensive That is one reason why starting work at 15, I will not for the Department for Work mentions some of the dan- In the early 1960s the US study, have practically disap- humanities and social science qualify for a state pension until and Pensions to investigate the gers this “sport” represents Air Force simulated gradu- peared. Sky-high fees — for courses, which can inspire dan- March 2020. I became single thousands of complaints that it to healthy young people. ated injuries to a brain in the Open University — as well gerous thoughts about how we through divorce in my late fi f- has received. Gaining medical experi- a laboratory and the Royal as other institutions —and an should live with one another, ties and I was working two part- Isn’t this another way of say- ence involved me in a long- Dutch Air Force then banned absence of maintenance grants and the kind of society we want time jobs in order to survive. ing to the women aff ected by ish exposure to collections aircrew from amateur box- have eff ectively killed them off . to live in, are played down in Neither my solicitor nor pension robbery that we will of brain specimens. A box- ing. The cerebral disruption, How many men or women in favour of economically “rel- barrister made mention of my be almost dead, at best, by the er’s brain is so often recog- from even a mild impact, to their thirties or forties, prob- evant” subjects. pension age escalating from time anything surfaces from nisable from all the others an organ suspended in fl uid ably with families to support, A future Labour government, 60 to 66, and neither of them this investigation? by the bits, often quite sub- within the skull has to be are going to incur many thou- as well as scrapping tuition fees thought fi t to factor it in during This cruel government is stantial, that are dropping seen to be believed! sands of pounds in debt, with and reinstating maintenance the fi nancial settlement. playing for time, knowing full off into the preservative Serious medical attention no certainty of a secure job at grants, should also look to a It appears that no-one in my well that there is no such thing solution. All of those “bits” must be given to the damage the end of it? greatly expanding programme legal team knew of the pending as a posthumous state pension. are irreplaceable brain cells. contact sports can infl ict. Modern capitalism needs of non-vocational adult educa- increase in women’s pension Many of us are already in our Boxing is not the only The sort of medical oversight a skilled and educated work- tion, so that higher education ages, yet several Tory ministers mid sixties and don’t have time sport that causes brain dam- in contemporary “sport” is ing class, but the last thing can happen outside universities have derided and mocked the on our side. age, but it is the only one demonstrably inadequate. the dominant groups within as well as within them. aff ected women for having no KAREN WALSH where one of the aims is to ROGER FLETCHER it want is a population which TONY DENNIS knowledge of their increased Derby cause such damage, for that Chesham asks too many questions. Leighton Buzzard

TV Weekly Preview with Ann Douglas What to miss Monday: The Kyle Film of the twentieth century. Drama Files, 8pm ITV Presenter Iwona Blaswick, It’s bad enough to see director of Whitechapel Art Jeremy Kyle’s face on the Monday Gallery is joined by a team of Wednesday telly but imagine if he Carol, 9pm Film4 global curators. The Assassination of Gianni showed up at your house Cate Blanchett shimmers in Monday Versace, 9pm BBC2 in an early morning this lesbian romance across A gripping and lavish police raid, with camera the class divide set in 1950s My Life: Without a Home, dramatisation of the well- crew in tow? All so that New York. 5.30pm CBBC known fashion designer’s the world’s most judge- Three children capture the murder. mental man can pretend Wednesday reality of life in temporary to seriously consider Memento, 11.45pm BBC1 accomodation by fi lming on “should cannabis be Remember when this fi lm their mobile phones. Sport made legal?” Ugh. blew everyone’s minds with its brilliant concept of a man Tuesday Saturday with short-term memory loss The Art of Now: No Singing World Indoor Athletics, Yesterday’s sudoku attempting to solve his wife’s No Movement, 11.30am BBC 9.45 am, 5.30pm BBC2 PARA HOPEFULS: Great Britain’s Alpine Skier Kelly Gallagher MBE murder? Well, it’s still Radio 4 It’s the penultimate day of (right) with guide Gary Smith excellent. Sudanese journalist Yousra the championships in Elbagir looks back at the Birmingham meaning the Friday downhill skiing begins Documentary musical history of Sudan, the 60m, 400m, 800m and 1500m Winter Paralympics, after midnight but jazz heyday of the 1970s, fi nals are to be settled. US defi nitely tune in for the changes under Islamic rule in sprinter Christian Coleman is 10.55am, 12.30am spectacle of the opening Monday Channel 4 the ’80s – where music was defi nitely on form right now, ceremony and spot all An Alternative History of forbidden – and the current he smashed the 60m world True sport fans will need those faces now familiar Art, 9.45am BBC Radio 4 climate where love songs record last month, could he to stay up late to catch the after the roaring success of New nugget-sized series that have been permitted since better that astonishing fi rst day of action as the the Paralympics in Sochi. champions forgotten artists 2010. 6.34-second dash? morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online letters | history March 3-4 2018 19

GRAHAM STEVENSON explores the Star archives 80 YEARS AGO TODAY... Left rallied to dethrone appeaser THE “Chamberlain Italy and the immedi- ■ Must Go” campaign ate lifting of the arms gathered steam as the embargo on the Spanish Daily Worker of March government. The Scottish 3 1938 reported that Youth Hostel Association workers in many factories had adopted this course. were “hurrying after Twenty-four youngsters work to sign their names wrote to the premier to letters demanding the from Creag Dhu Youth resignation of the govern- Hostel in the Trossachs, ment.” condemning the govern- Young people gathering ment’s policy as a direct at hostels for a weekend’s danger to peace. leisure activities were Protest meetings were getting involved, whilst held in Musselburgh, many monster meetings Mansfi eld Woodhouse, up and down the country Oxford and Hoddesdon, showed that “the British where 150 trade unionists people have been roused gathered at the Clarion into action by the latest Youth Hostel. Chamberlain betrayal.” Ickenham Co-op Shop stewards at R & J Political Council and both Beck Ltd, an engineering Cannhall and Cranford fi rm in Kentish Town, Women’s Co-op Guilds London, had sent a letter deplored the threat to to the Prime Minister peace. Coventry Com- signed by “all except munists organised a mass three of the 78 workers meeting and in Mexbor- employed by the fi rm. ough, the Labour Party We are not prepared organised same. Watford to tolerate fascism in 1/632 Branch of the Britain” they wrote, “nor TGWU and Kirkintilloch a government which by branch of the NUR also its actions encourages its sent in their protest to development.” the Worker, as did scores ■ BREXIT The repeated demand of other working-class The Leave vote didn’t mean ‘sort of stay’ was no pact or loan with organisations. Young Reds approached Labour IT IS probably true that very ket ensures free trade and com- market as well as the EU. union as well, shows contempt few of us would have under- mon standards between com- Advocating continued mem- for people and disregard for THE Daily Worker Calling on confer- stood the precise technical con- ponent states. It is completely bership of the single market popular sovereignty. ■ of March 4 1938 ence to give a lead in the tents and distinctions between bizarre that the Labour Party and/or customs union is, in I agree Britain should be reported on eff orts by Chamberlain Must Go the three concepts of member- is now advocating the former practice, to subvert the sover- seeking the best possible, deep- Britain’s Young Commu- movement, the YCL urged ship of the EU, the single mar- rather than the latter, signing eign decision taken by plebi- est and most comprehensive nist League (YCL) to build the election of a leader- ket or the customs union before up to imposing tariff s on exte- scite in 2016 by the back door. relationship with the EU. But a relationship with the ship that would campaign the 2016 referendum. rior countries. Claiming that the British this must be outside of formal Labour League of Youth with them in the inter- The customs union is the It is clear that most people electorate, when voting 52:48 to membership, customs union (LLY), which was holding ests of the whole working outward-facing ring-fence who voted Leave wanted “control Leave the European Union, did and internal market, if we are its conference in Trans- class and told delegates: around the EU, imposing a com- over laws, borders and money.” not realise or were not express- to respect popular sovereignty. port Hall, Smith Square, “We appeal to you to mon tariff on all goods coming That has to mean leaving the ing a view on membership of ANDREW NORTHALL London. receive a delegation from into the EU. The internal mar- customs union and the internal the single market and customs Kettering “Decisions taken there the YCL to discuss how may well have a decisive the members of the YCL bearing on the future of could enter the Labour young people throughout League of Youth.” ■ BREXIT the country,” the Worker A similar unity call to explained. “Each of the socialist and social demo- delegates to the confer- cratic youth bodies in ence will receive a copy some countries, notably of a striking manifesto Spain, had resulted in Labour shift on customs issued by the Young Com- such unity mergers. munist League.” Whilst a left leadership This proposed an was elected, in the end, immediate joint pro- the offi cial leadership of union a backwards step gramme of a 40-hour Labour and the unions week, holidays with pay, remained deeply hostile no “blind alley” [dead to the unity call, so huge I CONFESS that I am a little dis- to Europe, have gained. Kent fund the Common Agricultural in those agricultural constitu- end] jobs and an end to numbers of LLY members, mayed about the development and southern England have Scheme, which we in Norfolk encies where the Tories always the Means Test for unem- including many of its of Labour’s policy on Brexit done better than Liverpool, know gives loads of money to win. Will the money raised by ployment benefi ts. leaders, simply decamped which now consists of remain- Manchester and Glasgow. the Tory-minded barley barons the tariff , that Labour wants to But the LLY conference to the YCL. ing in the European customs We need change and continue, go to the same pur- was being asked to accept union indefi nitely. remaining in the customs pose? I suspect it will. that these policies could As Jeremy Corbyn says, we do zone just props up this status When Labour tries to rear- only come about with an You can not want to disrupt economic quo. Another problem is that range the customs union in elected Labour govern- read editions of ties to Europe so that working under the present tariff regime, exchange for a few concessions ment. the Daily Worker people suff er, but some British Britain runs a sizable current it could be just like the days of The YCL manifesto (1930-45) and Morning workers suff er loss of opportu- account defi cit on trade with Harold Wilson and James Cal- took issue with this: Star (200 0-today) nity because of the tariff . the EU, which seems to be laghan, and we cannot keep on “Such a declaration mstar.link/DWMSarchive, online at For instance, those people almost permanent. We need going down that road. If we pay can only tend to breed living in the western part of to invigorate our economy by the same levy on the same tar- passivity. The youth of Ten days’ access costs HAVE YOUR SAY Britain pointing towards the reducing this defi cit and I do (up to 300 words) to iff and it goes to the same pur- Britain, given the cor- just Write £5.99 and a Atlantic and away from Europe not see how this can be done [email protected] pose, then we have not left the rect lead, can win fun- year is have been cut off from markets if we stay in the tariff union. or by post: 52 Beachy Rd, EU in any meaningful sense. damental improvements £72 because of the tariff while Currently the money raised London E3 2NS CHRIS GOULD and conditions now.” those in the south-east, near on the common tariff goes to Norwich Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 20 Saturday/Sunday what’s on morningstaronline March 3-4 2018 @m_star_online

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Racing Guide with Farringdon n CHELTENHAM Never too early to get ready for the Cheltenham Festival LUCKY 15: With snow affecting this weekend’s races, now is the perfect opportunity to prepare for the big event which kicks off in two weeks BACKED: Le Prezien

ith no rac- experience his ideal conditions, not only for tuesday, but for a ing today, namely good ground over two- few years down the line. i thought i and-a-half miles. MINELLA ROCCO — GOLD CUP Wwould look his best effort yet over fences Last year Jonjo’s charge ahead to the came when he rallied into third unseated Noel Fehily at the Cheltenham Festival which place behind Splash of Ginge in fifth in the irish Gold Cup, but starts on tuesday March 13 and the BetVictor Gold Cup. But had then ran the race of his life to here is my ante-post Lucky 15 that prestigious event been run finish second at Cheltenham. bet. on a faster surface i am con- this year, he did a deal better LE PREZIEN — RYANAIR CHASE vinced he would have lifted the at Leopardstown falling at the Rated a full 9lbs behind big prize that day. final obstacle albeit his chance top Notch for this two-and- Yes, he does act on soft had long gone. a-half mile championship, it ground, but good to soft allows But the key to this stayer, is would be easy to write off Le him to fence better and use spring ground, a real staying Prezien’s admittedly outside his sharp turn of foot that we event and as we saw in 2017 chance for this thursday have witnessed several times in getting into a rhythm. crown. his career to date. OK, i could there is a strong argument Yet i am of the opinion that be scuppered by Mr Nicholls to suggest that had the field this seven-year-old has yet to running him in the Grand gone a real gallop in last year’s Annual off a big weight (yet Gold Cup he would have out- WEEKEND TIPS 2m is clearly too sharp) or in stayed all and sundry up the the two-and-a-half mile Byrne hill. Group Plate, but what have i suspect connections of Farringdon’s Doubles connections to lose by running Native River have learnt their Saturday him here? lesson from 12 months ago GETABIRD — SUPREME NOVICES and that Richard Johnson will MALAYSIAN BOLEH HURDLE Lingfield 4:00 (nap) turn the screw a lot further OK, so the “bird,” excuse the out which would play into WILLIAM HUNTER pun, has arguably flown here the hands of Rocco. Don’t give Chelmsford 6:45 with his win in the Moscow up on him, he is a big player Sunday Flyer hurdle pointing to the granted his conditions at 25/1. CAID DU BERLAIS — FOXHUNTERS TILLY DEVINE strong view that Getabird will Southwell 4:55 (nap) give favourite backers a win- there is little doubt that Paul ning start to the meeting. Nicholls has a soft spot for this POETIC AFFAIR the way he jumped his amateur riders race and in this Southwell 2:45 hurdles that day and finished nine-year-old he has a major groom he has blossomed in it is amazing how often the company in the henry Vii his race off suggests we have player in this most fascinat- the point to point field hack- weather deteriorates at the Chase at Sandown. Houseman’s Choice a budding Champion hurdle ing of events. ing up at Larkhill on his two back end of the fourth and the rain-softened ground Saturday performer in the making and Recently transferred to Rose starts to date. final day of the festival, but if didn’t help on that occasion, LANSKY i have already backed him for Loxton, who learnt plenty work- Really good ground is impor- we get a dry afternoon i can but he is probably just a handi- Lingfield 3:30 the 2019 Champion hurdle. ing for the Ditcheat handler, tant to him and as this is usu- see this scopey grey running a capper in the making, if a good he may not be a “price,” but Caid Du Berlais ran a cracker ally a real test of stamina, huge race in this curtain closer. class one and his high cruising Sunday then every multiple bet does in last year’s Pertemps Final under such conditions he has Winner of two of his three speed will stand him in good WESTERN WAY need a “nap” for the bet and in finishing a staying-on fifth to the park form to run a huge starts over the larger obstacles, stead in this end of meeting Southwell 4:20 the Willie Mullins charge we Presenting Percy. Under the race at double figure odds. the son of Monmartre was then cavalry charge, should he get have a really exciting prospect care of Kauto Star’s former CAPTIANE — GRAND ANNUAL outclassed by Sceau Royal and his ground. n MEN’S FOOTBALL St Pauli are back in play-off contention t Pauli put them- hope especially given the Neudecker and avevor’s win- anything is possible, espe- own patch would be a real selves back in the by James Nalton unpredictable nature of the ner led to celebrations on cially here at home.” statement, and show clear race for promo- division. the terraces. For it to happen With 12 games to go the signs of improvement under Stion to the Bun- Christopher avevor’s 89th- in such a dramatic manner, Bundesliga 2 has two clear Markus Kauczinski. desliga with two this vital victory wasn’t minute goal gave the home in such an important game, contenders for automatic “We are prepared for eve- consecutive wins which leave just an important one for fans something to cheer, as only added to the fans’ joy. promotion in the shape of rything,” said a confident St them three points behind St Pauli, but it kept the they saw their team win at “it’s just a great feeling second place Fortuna Dussel- Pauli boss as he discussed third place Holstein Kiel. rest of the chasing pack in the Millerntor for the first to score. the main thing, dorf and Nurnberg, who top opposition tactics. a Sami allagui goal gave touch with third place. as time this year. though, is that we won as a the table. But below them “Fortuna are very flexible. them an important away win many as 10 teams have an they had taken the lead team,” avevor told the club’s the final chance of a trip to they build on a three-man against fellow hopefuls FC eye on this promotion play- through the excellent Rich- website. the top-flight is very much midfield with a six and two ingolstadt, while a dramatic off spot, and even sides near ard Neudecker but went on “after a good start we hit up for grabs. 10s, or two sixes and a 10. fixture at the Millerntor last the bottom of the table, such to concede two against the a blip in the first half, but St Pauli travel to Dussel- We’re going to have to play weekend saw them run out 3-2 as Eintracht Braunschweig league’s second-highest scor- we picked ourselves up again dorf this weekend where a our best football in Dussel- winners against the Kiel club. and Bochum, will retain ing side. But another from and never lost our belief. win against Fortuna on their dorf.” Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 22 March 3-4 2018 sport @m_star_online n WOMEN’S FOOTBALL United States overcome Germany in close win by Our Sports Desk

THE United States fought nasty central Ohio weather on Thurs- day night to get a “workman- like” win over Germany in a match-up of the world’s top two teams. Megan Rapinoe scored in the 17th minute and the US held on for a 1-0 victory in a game played in cold temperatures, howling wind and a mix of rain and snow at 1 Black and Gold Boulevard. “It was miserable,” Rapinoe said. “The wind was every- where and it was cold and kind of sideways rain.” The top-ranked side pre- vailed in an opening-round game of the SheBelieves Cup, a four-team round-robin tour- the field, side-to-side,” US for- a game of keeping that lead,” what we had against a good nament that also includes Eng- ward Alex Morgan said. “It Morgan said. opponent.” land and France. The exhibition wasn’t even going from one end Germany got another good Rapinoe was surprised the is a challenging tune-up for to another end. That’s where chance in the 20th minute 1-0 lead held up. World Cup qualifying this year. we had difficulty.” when Dzsenifer Marozsan hit “I thought there was going US goalkeeper Alyssa Naeher Sara Dabritz had a point- the post. US captain Carli Lloyd, to be a lot more in the game,” preserved her clean sheet when blank shot for Germany who is just two goals short of she said. “I think the weather she fell on a shot from Hasret inside the box in the game’s 100, nailed an accurate shot in got a little bit worse throughout Kayikci in injury-time in what 16th minute but misfired and the 57th minute, but Schult the game.” was just the second on-target pulled it right. Less than a made a terrific leaping save. It In last year’s tournament, shot of the night by the Ger- minute later, Morgan headed was the best chance of the sec- the US team lost consecutive MEN’S FOOTBALL: Watford appealed for assistance mans. a long goal kick to Rapinoe, ond half for the United States. home games for the first time yesterday to help clear Vicarage Road of snow The opportunities were lim- whose subsequent in-stride “It was a workmanlike game in 17 years, dropping games ahead of today’s Premier League game with West ited for both teams because of shot squirted through the legs in challenging conditions,” US to England and France after Brom, promising complimentary match tickets to the wind. of goalkeeper Almuth Schult. coach Jill Ellis said. “We were beating Germany in the open- volunteers, as well as bacon rolls and a hot drink. “The wind was going across “Once we got the goal, it was doing the best we could with ing round.

n WOMEN’S FOOTBALL DREAM START FOR LIONESSES AS THEY RIP APART FRANCE SHEBELIEVES CUP: New England boss Neville pleased with victory

by Our Sports Desk Fran Kirby added a fourth On the bus, on the way to the shortly after half-time but ground, it felt right. Gaetane Thiney denied Nev- “It felt right standing in the PHIL NEVILLE hailed his nerve- ille a first clean sheet with a technical area and the most less England side for dismantling deflected effort 13 minutes important thing is the players France 4-1 in the SheBelieves Cup from time. are enjoying the raised expecta- opener after admitting to having Victory means England tions and the higher profile.” “a few butterflies.” defeated France for just the Neville also showed his The former Manchester second time in 19 matches and appreciation for his team’s United, Everton and Eng- Neville was delighted to see work ethic throughout the land defender received waves his side rise to the increased match but picked out goals- criticism just hours after his scrutiny after his appoint- corer Kirby as a standout per- appointment in January when ment. former. historical tweets about women He said in his post-match Neville added: “We did have resurfaced. press conference: “I was a lit- a game plan. We know they But head coach Neville’s tle bit nervous before the game, have quality players — [Eug- reign on the pitch got up and I had a few butterflies, but my enie] Le Sommer on the left- running in emphatic fashion players didn’t. That’s the most hand side, [Amandine] Henry following goals from Toni Dug- important thing. in the middle. They are good gan, Jill Scott and Jodie Taylor “There is great expectation players and you can tell that THAT WAS QUICK: Toni Duggan celebrates opening the scoring for England against France inside 37 minutes. and I love that expectation. they have quality. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online sport March 3-4 2018 23

■ MEN'S FOOTBALL SPORT ON TV Saturday ■ ATHLETICS: World Indoor Cham- pionships — BBC Two 9.45am and 5.30pm. CAMBRIDGE READY ■ BOXING: Super-welterweight, Kell Brook v Sergey Rabchenko — Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Action 7.30pm; Super-lightweight, Josh Taylor v Humberto Soto — Channel 5 10pm; Heavyweight, Deontay Wilder v Luiz Ortiz — Sky Sports Main Event, TO KEEP TACKLING Sky Sports Action 2am (Sunday). ■ CRICKET: One Day International, New Zealand v England — Sky Sports Cricket and Sky Sports Main Event 6am; First Test day three, South Africa v Australia — Sky Sports Main Event 9am, Sky Sports Cricket 9am. RACISM HEAD ON ■ CYCLING: Track World Champi- onships — Eurosport 2 7pm, Strade Bianche — Eurosport 2 1pm. RICHARD ROSE of Cambridge Stand Up to Racism writes about ■ DARTS: UK Open, ITV 4 12.30pm and 7pm. ■ FOOTBALL: Premier League, the work they are doing in the area with the help of local clubs Burnley v Everton — Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Spores Premier League and helpful supporters to rid the game of discrimination 12.30pm, Liverpool v Newcastle, BT Sport 1 5pm; Championship, Wolves v Reading — Sky Sports Main Event ambridge Stand Up 5.15pm; Serie A, Napoli v Roma — BT to Racism recently Sport 2 7.30pm; Bundesliga, Leipzig hosted a meeting v Borussia Dortmund, BT Sport 2 entitled Football 5.15pm; National League, Boreham C Wood v Macclesfield — BT Sport 1 For All: Keeping 12pm; Australian A League, Newcastle Racism Out of Our Game. Jets v Sydney FC, BT Sport 1 6.30am, This was a small, but we Brisbane Roar v Adelaide United — BT hope important, start of a big- Sport 1 8.45am. ger campaign to reverse recent ■ GOLF: European Tour, Tshwane worrying trends in the sport, Open — Sky Sports Golf 10am; PGA notably the well publicised Tour, World Golf Championships — Sky Sports Golf 6pm. cases of discrimination and ■ RACING: From Doncaster — ITV abuse in club and national 1.30pm. teams, and the increasingly ■ RUGBY UNION: Aviva Premiership, rabid actions and pronounce- Exeter Chiefs v Saracens — BT Sport ments from some members 2 2.30pm; PRO14, Scarlets v Lein- of the Football Lads Alliance, ster — Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports Main Action 3.15pm, Zebre v who seem determined to bring Ospreys — S4C 5.30pm, Cheetahs v Islamophobia and racism onto Connacht — Sky Sports Action 5.15pm; social media, the streets and, if Super Rugby — Crusaders v Stormers we let them, the terraces. — Sky Sports Action 6.30am, Sharks The meeting was backed v Waratahs — Sky Sports Action 1pm. by the two biggest non-league ■ SNOOKER: Welsh Open — Eurosport 1 12.45pm and 6.40pm, clubs in Cambridge, Cambridge BBC Two Wales 1pm, 7pm. City and Histon FC, as well as ■ TENNIS: WTA, Acapulco Open — BT by the local MP Daniel Zeich- Sport 12am (Sunday). ner. Sunday Show Racism the Red Card ■ ATHLETICS: World Indoor Champi- had hoped to be involved but, onships — BBC Two 2.45pm, BBC Two “We had to make sure we due to a lack of resources, this they also ran a follow-up story and the EDL before that — it to make our next meeting big- Wales 4.30pm. defended, Nikita [Parris] did a turned out to be impossible. to it on their website. was great to see United fans ger and particularly to include ■ BASKETBALL: NBA, Suns @ Hawks fantastic job in front of Lucy This meant that we lacked a Our biggest failure was in marching with us when the a wider group of Cambridge — BT Sport 1 8.30pm. Bronze and Mel Lawley when speaker with a national pro- persuading anyone to par- EDL came to town in 2011 and United fans and the club itself. ■ CRICKET: First Test day four, South Africa v Australia — Sky Sports Main she came on and did the same file, such as Luther Blissett or ticipate from our local league 2013. Ideally, Show Racism the Red Event 8am, Sky Sports Cricket thing. Shona Chitate-Samuriwo, West club, Cambridge United, who Even on the occasions when Card will have the resources 7.55am. “But I have to say Fran Kirby Ham midfielder, who we had are easily the biggest team in few of their fans attend our to support us with a big name ■ CYCLING: Track World Champion- was amazing in the first half. originally hoped to invite. the area. Their fans who did events, we feel that we are lay- speaker but otherwise we ships — BBC Two 1pm, Paris-Nice — She caused them all sorts of However, we were fortunate attend hope that the success ing down a clear signal that rac- believe that we have enough Eurosport 2 2.30pm. problems and she had that bit to get in contact with Matt Cle- and wide mainstream support ists trying to organise at United contacts in the local football ■ DARTS: UK Open, ITV 4 12.45pm and 7pm. of quality that was too good ments, currently manager of St for the first meeting will help won’t go unopposed. community to pull this off. ■ FOOTBALL: Premier League, for them. Neots Town FC and one time inspire the club to be involved We always make sure we One possibility is using the Brighton v Arsenal — Sky Sports “We have struggled against player with both Cambridge in the future. have a good number of us republication of a book to mark Main Event and Sky Sports Premier France and to beat them 4-1 in United and Cambridge City, Despite their absence, the carrying this leafleting, but the centenary of the death of League 12.30pm, Manchester City v these types of conditions where who proved to be very sup- launch was certainly a mod- have never experienced any Walter Tull [an interesting and Chelsea — Sky Sports Main Event and it was cold, it was raining, it portive. est success. We got to the posi- response but support from fans. important early black player] by Sky Sports Premier League 3.30pm; Serie A, Genoa v Cagliari — BT Sport was snowing, it was sleeting Finally, we were delighted tion where we could run such We know that historically anti-racist football author Phil 1 11.30am, AC Milan v Inter Milan — BT and the style of football that with the enthusiasm of the a meeting thanks to months, there have been a handful of Vasili to do this. Sport 2 7.30pm; Bundesliga, Cologne we played, was really pleasing.” Cambridgeshire Football Asso- if not years, of consistent work racists amongst the fan base Whatever happens, we want v Stuttgart — BT Sport 2 2.30pm, Goalscorer Taylor was ciation to be involved. They around the football clubs, par- but, due to our efforts, they to keep the anti-racist momen- Freiburg v Bayern Munich — BT Sport delighted to see England start not only hosted the meeting ticularly Cambridge United, are restricted to muttering fur- tum within the local football 2 5pm; Ligue 1 — Caen v Strasbourg — the competition with victory in their building, promoted it which we have leafleted reg- tively at the back of the stands community on the front foot BT Sport/ESPN 2pm; MLS, Sporting Kansas City v New York City — Sky and she feels the result was to all affiliated clubs and pro- ularly, about our meetings, and have yet to organise any- and to keep the racists pinned Sports Main Event 12.45am (Mon- well deserved as the Lionesses vided members of their inclu- demos and of course the threat thing openly in recent years. firmly back in their own pen- day); Australian A League — Western prepare to face Germany sion time to support the event, of the Football Lads Alliance We’d really like to push out alty area. Sydney Warriors v Perth Glory — BT tomorrow before taking on Sport 1 6am. the United States on Thursday. ■ GOLF: European Tour, Tshwane The striker said: “It was a Open — Sky Sports Golf 10am; PGA Tour, World Golf Championships — really important match for us, ■ ITALY Sky Sports Golf 6pm, Sky Sports obviously [with it being] Phil Main Event 7pm. Neville’s first game in charge. Napoli striker delivers pizza to homeless ■ RUGBY UNION: Aviva Premiership, “This is such a prestigious Worcester Warriors v Exeter Chiefs — tournament, a tough tourna- DRIES MERTENS does more for collecting clothes for the less you to do the same,” before BT Sport 1 2.30pm; PRO 14, Oyonnax ment to be a part of and the Naples than just score goals for fortunate in the southern city. adding: “It doesn’t take a lot of v Stade Francais, Sky Sports Action 11.25am, Clermont v La Rochelle, Sky focus coming into this was to the city’s football team. The Belgium international effort to take action … I would Sports Action 3.45pm. be ruthless, to be organised and The Napoli forward has also uploaded a video of some of love to see you try, too.” ■ SNOOKER: Welsh Open — just have a solid performance been doing charity work, includ- his acts of kindness to Twitter The 30-year-old Mertens has Eurosport 1 12.45pm and 6.30pm, and work hard, and I think we ing giving pizza to the homeless, yesterday, saying he posted it scored 16 goals for league leader BBC Two Wales 1pm, 7pm. achieved that.” visiting children’s hospitals, and because he “hope[s] to inspire Napoli this season in Serie A. Saturday/Sunday SPORT March 3-4 2018 INSIDE: Cambridge stand up to racism n MEN’S FOOTBALL WEEKEND FOOTBALL Premier League Burnley Everton, 12.30pm Leicester Bournemouth Southampton Stoke MORTON CHIEF: FANS Swansea West Ham Tottenham Huddersfield Watford West Brom Liverpool Newcastle, 5.30pm Brighton Arsenal, 1.30pm* ARE RISKING THEIR Manchester City Chelsea, 4pm* Championship Aston Villa QPR Barnsley P P Norwich Bolton Preston Brentford Cardiff City Bristol City Sheffield Wednesday LIVES IF THEY TRAVEL Derby County Fulham Millwall Sunderland Nottingham Forest Birmingham SCOTLAND: The Ton are due to play Celtic despite safety concerns Sheff United P P Burton Wolves Reading, 5.30pm by Our Sports Desk “We have to look at every League One single aspect. Supporter safety has to be key and I don’t think Wimbledon P P Chartlon MORTOn chief executive War- anyone can guarantee that at Blackpool P P Northampton ren Hawke demanded yesterday this moment in time and I fear Bradford P P Portsmouth that their trip to Celtic Park to for a lot of Morton supporters Doncaster Rovers P P Bury be postponed as he fears fans trying to get to this game. Gillingham P P Rotherham will risk their lives to make “Surely the Scottish Football MK Dons Bristol Rovers the game. Association and Police Scotland Rochdale P P Plymouth Celtic declared the areas sur- will come together and make rounding their stadium were in a sensible early decision in the Scunthorpe Oldham good condition with no plans best interests of the safety of Shrewsbury P P Peterborough for a pitch inspection ahead of everyone.” Southend Walsall today’s Scottish Cup quarter- However, the SFA defended Blackburn Wigan, 12pm* final. its approach and reiterated that League Two All 14 Scottish Professional it would remain in “constant Football League games this close contact with all clubs Barnet P P Port Vale weekend have been postponed concerned, police and local Cambridge United Luton amid safety concerns, as well as authorities” with the situation Carlisle Grimsby issues with pitches, but the four to be reviewed regularly on a Coventry Lincoln Scottish Cup ties remain on. game-by-game basis. clubs involved — has led to our of problems with the water A club statement read: “Hav- Crawley P P Chesterfield With Inverclyde particularly The governing body’s current stance. supply. ing made a hazardous return Crewe P P Forest Green Rovers badly affected by the snow, interim chief executive Andrew “Any supporter who does Motherwell manager trip on Tuesday, with the Hawke said: “We will have sup- McKinlay added: “The safety of decide to travel is urged to do Stephen Robinson is “quietly travel restrictions still in place Exeter P P Chartlon porters risking life and limb to supporters, players and staff, as so with caution and consult all confident” their meeting with around the country, most of the Morecambe P P Colchester travel to a football match while always, remains our top prior- relevant public transport and Hearts at Fir Park tomorrow weekend’s football already post- Newport P P Accrington Stanley the Met Office is issuing warn- ity. travel bodies before embarking will survive while Rangers poned and continued forecasts Stevenage P P Mansfield ings to avoid non-essential “We acknowledge that, on any journey. manager Graeme Murty fore- of snow for the next seven days, Swindon P P Yeovil travel. Ultimately, it isn’t about either way, some supporters are “Conditions are of course sees no issues with Ibrox stag- we find the decision to insist the area around Celtic Park. likely to be left inconvenienced. changeable and we remain on ing tomorrow’s visit of Falkirk. on us making another lengthy Scottish Cup “It’s about people getting out “However, we are conscious standby to react to develop- Queen of the South are trip on the immediate Tuesday Celtic Morton, 12.30pm of their driveways and onto the that a great many have already ments.” unhappy with the SPFL after ridiculous.” Aberdeen Kilmarnock main roads safely and without committed to tickets and travel Aberdeen and Kilmarnock being “ordered” to play Dun- Meanwhile, Celtic’s post- Motherwell Hearts, 2.15pm* accident and harm. Therefore, plans and that — along with both agreed their meeting dee United at Tannadice on poned game against Dundee Rangers Falkirk, 4.15pm* the decision on the game goes improving weather conditions, today should go ahead follow- Tuesday, seven days after their has been rearranged for April much further than ‘is the pitch forecasts from authorities and ing talks but the South Stand at scheduled meeting was post- 4. Hibernian will host Hamil- Scottish Premiership playable and the stadium clear?’ the views of the majority of the Pittodrie will be shut because poned after they arrived. ton 24 hours earlier. Ross County P P Partick Thistle St Johnstone P P Hamilton Scottish Championship n FOOTBALL Dunfermline P P Livingston Inverness P P Brechin City Iranian women will be allowed into stadiums ‘soon’ Scottish League One Airdrieians P P Stranraer Albion Rovers P P Queen’s Park by Our Sports Desk he was reluctant to be heard “Of course for a big country impression in 2013 by Iranian Alloa P P East Fife “criticising anyone.” like Iran much more can be President Hassan Rouhani “I hope, I am confident, I done,” Infantino said. that the “intolerable situation Arbroath P P Ayr United FIFA President Gianni Infan- was promised that women in “So my plea to all of you men could change over the medium SheBelieves Cup tino received assurances from Iran will have access to foot- and women, let’s develop and term.” United States France. 5pm* Iran yesterday that female fans ball stadiums soon,” Infantino encourage women’s football “This cannot continue,” Blat- will “soon” be allowed into foot- said at the Fifa headquarters because we need to care about ter wrote on the Fifa website Germany England, 8pm* ball stadiums after they were in Zurich. 50 per cent of our population.” in 2015. “Hence, my appeal to blocked from getting into a “We will see but I hope this While Infantino did use the the Iranian authorities; open All kickoffs 3pm unless noted game he attended in Tehran. experience which I made only speech to tell Iran “much more the nation’s football stadiums * denotes Sunday game Thirty-five women were yesterday afternoon can maybe can be done,” that was in refer- to women.” stopped from entering the help many, many women ence to the awarding of televi- Azadi Stadium on Thursday for around the world.” sion rights. Published by the People’s Press MSTAR 2018-03-03 SAT 1.5 a game between Esteqlal and However, Infantino did not Iran has disregarded previ- Printing Society Ltd, William Rust Persepolis and “were instructed specify who made the pledge, ous pleas from Fifa to open its House, 52 Beachy Road, Bow, 0 9 London E3 2NS. Telephone: (020) to a proper place by police.” nor did he address the fact that stadiums to women. 8510-0815. Fax: (020) 8986- Amid criticism of the trip, only men are allowed into Ira- Infantino’s now-banned 5694. Email: enquiries@peoples- Infantino opened a Fifa equal- nian stadiums during a speech predecessor, Sepp Blatter, used press.com. Registered with Companies House as Morning Star ity conference yesterday by in the country on Thursday. stronger language in 2015 to (incorporating the Daily Worker) claiming the trip could help There was only passing refer- express frustration at the lack No N5559. 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