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PETER MASON enjoys a new take Trump exposed again on the classic Pinocchio tale The US and Israel are increasingly at odds THEATRE: P11 with public opinion, writes JOHN HAYLETT: P8 BOSSES ROLLING IN IT ON FAT CAT FTSE 100 chiefs rake in £4.5m a year THURSDAY on average by Steve Sweeney TUC general secretary pay, adding that the reforms Pictures: Nick Ares/ Tripp Frances O’Grady demanded should lead to “much more urgent action by the govern- focus on the wider workforce FAT-CAT bosses’ telephone- ment to address Britain’s and employee voice when deci- number salaries sparked yawning pay gap and called sions on chief executive pay renewed outrage yesterday as for the minimum wage to be are being made, to improve TUC research showed that increased to £10 an hour. fairness and transparency.” they are paid 120 times the She said workers should be However, general union average worker’s wage. given places on pay commit- GMB urged tougher action, Today has been branded tees to ensure “common sense arguing that bosses would not “Fat Cat Thursday” as it marks and fairness” when it comes “voluntarily rein themselves the date by which a typical to setting boardroom pay. in.” company chief executive has New corporate governance GMB general secretary Tim raked in as much money as an reforms mean that all listed Roache accused Prime Minis- average worker earns in a year. companies will have to publish ter Theresa May of breaking Research from the Char- the pay ratio between bosses pledges to guarantee worker tered Institute of Personnel and and workers from this year. representation on company Development (CIPD) and the High Pay Centre director boards, arguing that the meas- High Pay Centre shows that the Stefan Stern said that, while ure would have helped improve average FTSE 100 chief exec- the publication of the ratios transparency on corporate utive is paid a staggering £4.5 would force company boards excesses and win fairer pay. million — 120 times the aver- to acknowledge pay disparity, He said: “It’s simply age British salary of £28,758. “there are still grossly exces- obscene that, in just three Top of the fat cat pay pile sive and unjustifi able gaps working days, top company for the second year running between the top and the rest bosses will have made more was Sir Martin Sorrell, the of the workforce.” money than the typical UK chief executive of advertising CIPD chief executive Peter full-time worker will earn in giant WPP whose total pay Cheese called for a “radical the entire year. was a whopping £48.1m. rethink” of chief executive Turn to p2 STILL ROLLING IN IT: Top chief executives are paid 120 times the average salary

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FRONT PAGE HEALTH SERVICE NEW MUM: Polar bear Victoria, who has given TOP BOSSES birth to the fi rst polar bear cub born in Britain for 25 ROLLING IN IT years at the Highland May ‘burying head Wildlife Park, the Royal ON FAT CAT Zoological Society of THURSDAY Scotland said yesterday

FROM P1: “Does anyone really think these fat cats in sand’ over NHS deserve 100 times more than the hard-working PM claims service better prepared than ever for winter crisis people who prop up their business empires — work- by Steve Sweeney trying to lecture patients that had operations cancelled was ers who have to scrimp ‘nothing has changed’ for “frustrating.” He, however, and save to feed their patients. denied there was a crisis, families and put a roof LABOUR accused Theresa “The reality is we see hos- claiming that “the NHS has over their heads and, like May of “buring her head in the pitals at full capacity, ambu- been better prepared for this most of Britain’s working sand” over the NHS crisis yes- lances backed up, cancelled winter than ever before, we population, will now be terday after she claimed that operations and patients wait- have put extra funding in.” feeling the pinch after the the service was better pre- ing for hours on trolleys. But even some members of festive period? pared for winter “than it had “Instead of burying her her own party weren’t con- ”Big corporations are ever been before.” head in the sand, Theresa May vinced as Tory MP Sarah Wol- not going to volunteer to Ms May told LBC radio that needs to explain why she has laston called on the govern- really rein themselves in, the NHS had benefi ted from allowed underfunding and cuts ment to “get a grip” on the which is why we need additional funding, claiming to health and social care to NHS. greater restraint on the that there were more beds continue.” Ms Wollaston, who is also excesses of those at the available across the service as Health union Unite national the chair of the health com- top.” a result. offi cer Sarah Carpenter mittee told BBC Radio 4’s Ms O’Grady added: NHS England has told hos- warned that underfunding has Today Programme there were “Workers are suffering the pitals to defer non-urgent placed the NHS in “intensive “serious issues with capacity,” longest pay squeeze since operations until at least Janu- care” branding it “a stain on “far too many bed closures” Napoleonic times, but ary 31 due to huge winter pres- Theresa May’s government.” and a lack of funding over a fat-cat bosses are still sures. She accused Chancellor number of years. getting salaries that look It is believed that around Philip Hammond of taking And Health Secretary Jer- like telephone numbers. 55,000 planned operations will “political revenge” in the NHS emy Hunt was forced to apolo- “The government needs be affected. budget after health boss Sir gise for the cancelled opera- a plan to make the Shadow health secretary Simon Stevens spoke out about tions acknowledging there economy fair again.” Jonathan Ashworth said Ms the scale of the fi nancial crisis. were “real pressures” in the stevesweeney@ May’s comments showed she Ms May acknowledged in NHS. peoples-press.com FORCED TO APOLOGISE: was “out of touch.” the radio interview that the [email protected] Jeremy Hunt He said: “Next, she will be situation for those who have Star comment: p8

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NATIONAL ACTION Police arrest 6 for alleged membership of nazi gang

by Felicity Collier since the NA ban and are thought to be the same people under a different banner. SIX people were arrested yes- Campaign group Unite terday on suspicion of being Against Fascism (UAF) called members of the banned neonazi for politicians and the media group National Action (NA). to take the growing threat of West Midlands Police said far-right violence and terror- the arrests were part of a ism as seriously as it does planned operation which Islamist terrorism, pointing included other English coun- out that around a third of all terterrorism units. suspected terrorist activity is The suspects, aged 21 to 37, perpetrated by the far right. comprise fi ve men from Cam- UAF joint secretary Wey- bridge, Banbury, Wolverhamp- man Bennett said: “After being ton, Leicester and Stockport, defeated at the ballot box and and a woman from Banbury. on the streets, the far right is They were detained under increasingly turning to vio- Section 41 of the Terrorism lence and terrorism. Act, on suspicion of being “Outrages such as the killing involved in the commission, of Jo Cox, the murder of preparation and instigation of Mohammed Saleem and attacks acts of terrorism. on mosques and Muslims show “There was no threat to pub- that the threat is real and must lic safety,” a police spokesper- be taken seriously. son said. “National Action are despi- The far-right group was cable nazis who use Islamopho- banned in 2016, when Home bia, anti-semitism, homopho- Secretary Amber Rudd said it bia and threats of violence to was promoting violence and intimidate all who oppose their acts of terrorism. sick ideology. They are a tiny The group has been part of the growing threat of described by the Home Offi ce far-right terrorism which must as “virulently racist, anti- be prioritised and defeated.” semitic and homophobic” and Three men were charged became the fi rst far-right last year with terror offences group to be outlawed in Britain. as a result of their alleged The group had posted state- membership of NA. ments on social media cele- Westminster magistrates’ brating the murder of Labour court was told that the three MP Jo Cox by fascist Thomas were part of a mobile phone Mair. chat group where members Several groups, such as exchanged racist messages. Scottish Dawn, have sprung up [email protected]

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HEALTH SERVICE POLITICS CARRIED AWAY: Kite surfers in the Ayrshire seaside town of Troon take advantage of the Tory troll windy conditions yesterday, as Storm Eleanor Tories like death lashed Britain with winds of up to 100mph, leaving thousands of homes without power blog has a and disrupting transport links pop at NHS penalty and campaigner THE Royal College of obedience – poll Nursing has defended a nurse after she was by Felicity Collier when Labour were in power attacked by a right-wing under Harold Wilson. troll following an appear- The Queen Mary report ance on BBC Radio Five ACADEMICS have branded found that 84 per cent of Con- Live to discuss NHS cuts. the Tories a “breed apart,” servatives believe schools London nurse Danielle with research by Queen Mary should teach children to obey Tiplady was interviewed University of London fi nding authority, compared to 38 per about the NHS winter more than half of the party’s cent of SNP members and Lib crisis. members support the death Dem members and 31 per cent The right-wing Guido penalty. for Labour. Fawkes blog attacked her The study, published today, Meanwhile just one in 10 as a “leading Corbynista” asked questions of the members Conservatives oppose the scale and highlighting her of different political parties. of austerity, in contrast to 98 articles for the “commu- It found 54 per cent of Tory per cent of Labour members. nist Morning Star.” members want executions, Researchers also found that RCN London spokesman compared to 23 per cent for Tory members “did less on Bernell Bussue said that the SNP and 9 per cent for almost every count than their “Danielle is a dedicated Labour. counterparts in other parties” nurse and NHS cam- In 2013, backbench Tory to help their party during the paigner who works MPs drew up an “Alternative election. tirelessly to provide care Queen’s Speech” that included A total of 4,117 members of for people in London. the reinstatement of the death the four parties were surveyed “She is well qualifi ed to penalty. just after the 2017 general speak about issues Capital punishment was election. concerning the NHS and abolished in Britain in 1965, [email protected] should not be attacked for doing so, especially at a Something to say? Join the debate! time when nursing staff are working as hard as Send letters (of up to 300 words) to ever to keep an under- [email protected] or to funded NHS upright.” 52 Beachy Road, London E3 2NS e Th BE IN IT TO WIN IT club £5 A MONTH gives you the opportunity to win the £501 JACKPOT. Increase your chances of winning by taking out membership in multiples of £5. The club pays out 17 prizes each month, from £25 to £501. THIS IS A GREAT WAY TO SUPPORT YOUR PAPER. By becoming a 501 Club member you are helping the Morning Star cover its printing, distribution and staff costs. HIGHER EDUCATION e DON'T Th MISS OUT! Butler tells PM to axe club Signup form My name is: My address is: ‘shocking’ Young Postcode Telephone: Email: Please pay the Cooperative Bank PLC, Islington Branch, sort from uni regulator code 08-92-99 for the credit of the PPPS – 501 Club, account number 6510-7317 the sum of: £ by Felicity Collier has been controversial because The decision sends the mes- in words: each month until further notice and debit my account accordingly. of his casual bigotry, sexism, sage that, “under the Tories, homophobia and fanaticism for misogyny and homophobia will My account number is: My sort code is: LABOUR challenged Theresa the privatisation of education. not just be tolerated but May yesterday to axe the “Theresa May cannot allow rewarded,” Ms Butler said. Standing order start date: Signature “shocking” appointment of this appointment to stand,” Mr Young has described right-wing journalist and free said shadow equalities minis- wheelchair ramps in schools To the manager (include bank name, address and postcode): schools advocate Toby Young ter Dawn Butler. as a sign of “ghastly inclusiv- to the new higher education “She must also explain what ity” and labelled working-class DON’T SEND THIS FORM TO YOUR BANK. PLEASE MAIL IT TO: watchdog. exactly made them appoint students at Oxford University Mr Young’s appointment to him in the fi rst place. Trans- “universally unattractive.” 501 Club, William Rust House, 52 Beachy Road, Bow, London E3 2NS the board of the new Offi ce for parency is key to changing The Tory favourite has said You must be 16+ to join. Registered Small Lottery London Borough of Tower Hamlets Reg No. 2708. Students universities regulator attitudes and outcomes.” he received his own place at Morning Star Thursday January 4 2018 HOME NEWS 5

EMPLOYMENT IFS claims higher minimum wage will reduce jobs by Peter Lazenby workers is also the best way to keep your pay above the minimum wage — get organ- A SCAREMONGERING new ised in a union.” report from the Institute for RMT general secretary Fiscal Studies argues that Mick Cash called it “another higher wages will accelerate blatant attempt by the boss automation and cost jobs. class to roll back the gains The Establishment-friendly made by the trade unions” on body claimed yesterday that the minimum wage and a gen- putting up the minimum wage uine living wage. — currently set at a poverty- And TUC head of economics level £7.50 an hour for workers Kate Bell said: “Minimum aged over 25 — could threaten wage rises in the UK have jobs because automation gone hand in hand with rising FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE: McDonald’s staff demonstrate in front of Parliament last September would be cheaper than paying employment, and the TUC workers. believes the minimum wage The TUC, rail union RMT should reach £10 an hour as INDUSTRIAL and general union Unite all quickly as possible. rubbished the claims. “This should be done along- “This is just propaganda for side more investment in bad employers who want an training and infrastructure to excuse to suppress wages,” help businesses raise their Unite executive offi cer Sharon productivity and adopt tech- Burger workers win Graham said. nology in ways that support “The best way to defend employment.” your job and get the best for [email protected] Big Mac pay victory INTERNATIONAL TRADE Tories’ TPP talks threaten Union leader hails McDonald’s strikers’ ‘amazing achievement’ by Steve Sweeney “sit up and take notice.” “While we haven’t achieved least £8 an hour, up from £7.60. future of public services In a watershed moment last everything we want just yet, Mr Hodson called the news year, BFAWU members including all workers to be a “great start to the year” and THE government has been ship (TTIP), which has been MCDONALD’S workers cele- walked out at McDonald’s in covered by the agreement, to paid tribute to the strikers who holding “informal” talks to lock widely criticised across the EU brated victory yesterday after Crayford and Cambridge in a be paid at least £10 an hour fought for better terms and Britain into a trade deal that because it will force signatory winning the biggest pay rise 24-hour stoppage over pay and and for all employees to be on conditions. could open the door to the governments to put all public at the company for more than conditions. a permanent contract, this is He said: “This demonstrates enforced takeover of public services up to tender, with 10 years. The strike, the fi rst by a step in the right direction,” how standing up for your services by transnational fi rms. transnational corporations The award, which takes McDonald’s workers in Brit- he added. rights can force a huge com- International Trade Secre- likely to snap them up. effect on January 22, follows ain, was backed by Labour Workers will be paid accord- pany like McDonald’s to tary Liam Fox’s department has Global Justice Now director strike action taken by staff at leader Jeremy Corbyn, who ing to their age, job and region change their ways. been negotiating with the of campaigning Nick Dearden two sites for the fi rst time in offered “support and solidar- under the new deal, which will “Their action has caused Trans-Pacifi c Partnership told the Star: “The UK was Britain last September. ity” to the workers, saying his cover those working for com- ripples across the movement (TPP), which includes Australia, always the foremost proponent Bakers, Food and Allied party was fully behind them. pany-owned McDonald’s res- and, because they went on Mexico, Singapore and Canada. of an extreme TTIP agreement Workers Union (BFAWU) Mr Hodson said others taurants but not franchisees. strike, they have won the big- Critics believe TPP mem- in Europe. national president Ian Hodson across the country should look From the end of this month, gest pay rise for more than 10 bership could pave the way for “Outside the EU, they now hailed the rise as an “amazing to the McDonald’s strikers as the minimum wage for 16 to years. Britain to join another trade see TPP as a possible way that achievement” by workers who an example of what can be 17-year-olds will be £5.75 an “Those workers should be group, the Trans-Atlantic they can get a turbo-charged stood up for their rights and achieved when workers join hour, up from £5.10, while very, very proud.” Trade and Investment Partner- TTIP after Brexit.” forced the fast-food chain to trade unions and take action. those over 25 will be paid at [email protected]

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IN BRIEF SOUTH AMERICA PM to ‘release all political prisoners’ Ex-minister calls for ETHIOPIA: Prime Minster Hailemariam Desalegn pledged yesterday that he would release all political prisoners and close a jail where inmates were Venezuela invasion tortured. In the surprise announcement, he told a Campaigners urged to fi ght back against foreign intervention press conference: “Politi- cal prisoners facing by James Tweedie woes, which the government regional armies for military He said their aim was to prosecutions and already blames on a US-directed eco- exercises near Venezuela’s “torpedo the ongoing dialogue under arrest will be nomic war and black market border simulating the creation between the government and released.” SOLIDARITY campaigners spivs, had created a “famine.” of a “humanitarian corridor.” the opposition in the Domini- He said the “notorious” attacked former Venezuelan Venezuela’s government has Mr Hausmann also repeated can Republic and prevent the Maekelawi detention minister Ricardo Hausmann’s been supplying all households discredited claims that the gov- coming presidential election. centre, which held many call yesterday for a foreign with subsidised food parcels ernment had barred the right- “Mr Hausmann’s call for protesters from the military invasion to end a sup- each month to ensure people wing Democratic Unity Round- military intervention against Amhara and Oromia posed “famine.” don’t go hungry. table (Mud) from elections. a Latin American nation regions, would be closed. Britain’s Venezuela Solidarity However, Mr Hausmann Venezuela Solidarity Cam- should be unequivocally and Campaign (VSC) slammed Mr equated the situation to that in paign secretary Francisco totally rejected by everybody Hausmann for his article enti- the nazi-occupied Netherlands Dominguez told the Morning in the UK and everywhere tled D-Day Venezuela, published in 1944-45, when 20,000 people Star: “Sections of Venezuela’s else,” Mr Dominguez said. Correa returns to on Tuesday by the Project Syn- died of malnutrition. extreme right wing, realising Mr Hausmann was minister dicate website funded by billion- Mr Hausmann claimed with- that the economic war has of planning from 1992-93 in support No vote aire speculator George Soros. out evidence that “today’s Ven- failed to persuade Venezuelans the second government of ECUADOR: Former The Harvard University ezuelan famine is already worse. to stop supporting the Bolivar- president Carlos Andres Perez, president Rafael Correa professor and former chief How many lives must be shat- ian government and faced with who was impeached for embez- will fl y home next Thurs- economist of the Inter-Amer- tered before salvation comes?” the utter electoral collapse of zling 250 million bolivars of day to back a No vote in a ican Development Bank In November US troops the Mud, have opted to cam- government funds. constitutional referendum claimed Venezuela’s economic joined the Brazilian and other paign for military intervention.” [email protected] called by his estranged successor Lenin Moreno. Mr Correa said he opposes three clauses of the BOLIVIA proposed changes, includ- DESTRUCTION: Boys ing an end to indefi nite stand on the rubble re-election of offi cials. of a house hit by Morales hails “These people want to end Saudi-led air strikes the division of power, they in Sana’a, Yemen growth after want to end democracy, go back 20 years and then take the next 20 years for more public themselves,” Mr Correa said. investment

BOLIVIAN President Evo Five offi cers killed in Morales hailed on Tuesday last year’s return to al-Shabab ambush economic growth under KENYA: Five police his 12-year-old Movement offi cers were killed in an for Socialism government. ambush on Tuesday by Mr Morales confi rmed suspected Somali al- that 2017 had seen a 3.8 Shabab extremists, per cent increase in GDP authorities said yesterday. as a result of increased Offi cials said their public investment late in vehicle came under attack the year as well as in the country’s northern increased co-operation Mandera county, close to between city and provin- the border. MIDDLE EAST cial governments. The US military Africa “The Bolivian economy Command claimed consolidated itself as the yesterday to have killed fi rst in the region in terms two al-Shabab members in Norway halts arms sales to of annual growth since 2014 a drone attack on a vehicle and we hope to continue as supposedly carrying leaders in the current explosives, 30 miles west year,” Mr Morales said. of the Somali capital UAE over 3-year Yemen war “Our economic model is Mogadishu. very important not only for by James Tweedie mation” that any of Norway’s (£3.7m) in 2015, Statistics Nor- Bolivians but also at the military exports had been used way data showed international level,” the in Yemen, but she acknowledged On Tuesday, the Sana’a gov- former coca-growers’ union Doctors refuse to NORWAY suspended arms “great concern” over the ernment called for an inde- leader added on Twitter. exports to the United Arab humanitarian crisis there. pendent and impartial inter- “Certainly some work overtime Emirates yesterday over its However, Norwegian news- national commission to inves- countries in the region are POLAND: Thousands of role in the invasion of Yemen. paper Verdens Gang published tigate war crimes committed better [in regard to growth doctors refused to work Oslo called the move a “pre- a video released by Houthi by the Saudi-led coalition, the fi gures], but it is overtime yesterday in cautionary line” based on its forces on Tuesday, allegedly Saba news agency reported. because they protest at new contracts assessment of the devastating showing a “US spy submarine” The Ministry of Human have access forcing them to work more situation in Yemen, where the they had seized. Rights urged the United to the sea than 48 hours per week. Saudi-led nine-nation coalition, The newspaper said the Nations and the UN security and their Some hospitals had to which includes the UAE, has vehicle was a REMUS 600 council to press the coalition economy postpone non-critical killed more than 10,000 civil- Autonomous Underwater Vehi- to end the war, lift the blockade is based operations. ians and displaced three million cle made by Norway’s Kongs- and work towards a political on the The Health Ministry in nearly three years of war. berg group. solution to the regional crisis. private claimed 3,500 of 88,000 The coalition was formed in Norway has sold weapons The ministry condemned sector.” Have your say – send a letter FATAH hospital doctors have refused 2015 to fi ght Houthi rebels who and ammunition to UAE since the New Year’s Eve coalition (of up to 300 words) to ANNIVERSARY: A to sign up to the new now control much of northern 2010. Its arms exports to the raid in western Hodeidah prov- [email protected] woman marches contracts, but protesters said Yemen and the capital Sana’a. Gulf state totalled 79 million ince on the Red Sea that or by post to 52 Beachy underneath a the fi gure was closer to 5,000. Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Norwegian crowns (£7.2m) in reportedly killed 34 civilians. Road, London placard of Mahmoud Soreide said she had “no infor- 2016 alone, up from 41 million [email protected] E3 2NS Abbas Morning Star Thursday January 4 2018 WORLD NEWS 7

North korEa Kim Jong Un reopens phone line with south

by our Foreign Desk names and checked that com- munication lines were working. The abandoned village NORTH Korean leader Kim inside the demilitarised zone Jong Un reopened the cross- separating the two countries border hotline to Seoul yester- was where the 1953 armistice day for the first time in two ending the Korean War was years. signed. No peace treaty has The reconnection followed Mr ever been negotiated to for- Kim’s offer of talks with South mally end the conflict. Korea, which was made in his The hotline was closed in New Year’s Day address, osten- February 2016 after a border sibly on participation in this incident erupted into a row with year’s Winter Olympics there. the government of subsequently That proposal was accepted impeached South Korean pres- by South Korean Unification ident Park Geun Hye. Minister Cho Myoung Gyon on Her moderate successor Tuesday. Moon Jae In’s election last North Korean Committee year raised hopes of peace on for Peaceful Reunification the Korean peninsula, but they (KCNA) chairman Ri Son were soon dashed by escalat- Gwon, said Mr Kim welcomed ing nuclear tensions between Seoul’s response and ordered Pyongyang and Washington. officials to reopen a commu- On Tuesday, Nikki Haley, nication channel at the “peace the hawkish US ambassador to village” of Panmunjom. the United Nations, declared: South Korean authorities “We won’t take any of the talks confirmed that the channel had seriously if they don’t do some- been reopened, revealing that thing to ban all nuclear weap- liaison officials of the two ons in North Korea.” republics had exchanged their [email protected]

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iNDia: Mumbai was partially schools and colleges across Future status of child shut down yesterday by the city to close. state-wide strikes staged by They called the strike members of India’s Dalit across the western state of migrants still up in the air community against rising Maharashtra after Dalit attacks from far-right groups. activists were attacked by US IMMIGRATION chief (DACA) scheme he axed last The strikers, who belong right-wing Hindu groups in Kirstjen Nielsen said on Tues- year. to Hinduism’s lowest caste, the city of Pune, 90 miles day that negotiations on a Bill Since 2012, the DACA has blocked roads and railway from Mumbai, killing at to alter the status of undocu- protected about 800,000 people lines and forced businesses, least one. mented migrants brought to the from deportation. country as children are still up Talks will resume now that in the air. Congress is back in session. The Homeland Security sec- However, last week Mr retary said the White House was Trump tweeted that he would open to several options for the not accept any protection for the iSraEl-PalEStiNE immigrants, including citizen- child migrants “without the ship or permanent legal status. desperately needed WALL at But she did not narrow down the Southern Border … We must what President Donald Trump protect our Country at all cost!” trump’s threat to cut aid is might accept as part of the If no agreement is reached by replacement for the Deferred March, those protected under the ‘blackmail,’ say Palestinians Action for Childhood Arrivals DACA are liable to be deported. Syria by James tweedie for that, would have had to pay States is keen on its interests table, reinforces the fact that, more. in the Middle East, it must when he recognised Jerusalem “But with the Palestinians implement the international as the capital of Israel, he was Army captures several towns PALESTINIAN leaders told no longer willing to talk peace, resolutions which call for a indeed trying to make a final US President Donald Trump why should we make any of state on the 1967 borders with status decision that ignored from extremist forces in Idlib that their country was “not for these massive future payments East Jerusalem as its capital.” international law and the sale” yesterday after his to them?” “Without this, the United rights and claims of the Pal- SYRIAN troops advanced Hetesh and Western-backed threat to cut aid to the Pales- Palestinian President Mah- States will push the region to estinian people. deeper into al-Qaida-occupied group Ahrar al-Sham have tinian Authority. moud Abbas’s spokesman Nabil the abyss.” “His attempts to bully the Idlib province yesterday, a day failed to join forces against the Mr Trump ramped up ten- Abu Rudeineh described the Veteran PLO peace envoy Palestinians into compliance by after retaking a swathe of the advance, with the latter reject- sions on Tuesday by suggest- comments as “blackmail” add- Hanan Ashrawi said Palestine withdrawing aid are obscene Israeli border from the terror- ing an alliance on Tuesday ing on twitter that he would ing that “Jerusalem is not for “will not be blackmailed” by and confirm that the US cannot ist movement. until Hetesh returns prisoners halt US payments to Palestine sale, neither for gold nor silver.” Mr Trump, who had “single- act as an honest broker.” Preliminary reports said the and seized bases. that currently stand at $310 The US president’s latest handedly destroyed the very Mr Jamal urged Britiain army had captured several vil- National media showed foot- million (£229m). threat follows his disastrous foundations of peace.” and other countries to hold the lages in the south-west of the age yesterday of troops reoc- “We pay the Palestinians decision to recognise Jerusa- “Trump has sabotaged our US and Israel to account for province, east of the Hetesh cupying abandoned Hetesh hundred of millions of dollars lem as Israel’s capital, which search for peace, freedom and breaking international law stronghold of Khan Sheikhoun. positions in the Beit Jinn area a year and get no apprecia- has been widely condemned. justice,” she said. and ignoring the UN which The offensive is aimed at adjacent to the Israeli-occu- tion or respect,” Mr Trump Mr Rudeineh disputed the Palestine Solidarity Cam- voted overwhelmingly last recapturing Abu ad-Duhur air pied Golan Heights and finding wrote. US president’s claims that the paign director Ben Jamal told month to reject Mr Trump’s base and enveloping the last Israeli-packaged food. “We have taken Jerusalem, Palestinians were not willing the Morning Star: “President recognition of Jerusalem as extremist-held areas of Hama Meanwhile, two Russians the toughest part of the nego- to restart peace talks. Trump’s tweet, which referred Israel’s capital. province and the south of were killed when their helicop- tiation, off the table, but Israel, He said: “If the United to taking Jerusalem off the [email protected] Aleppo province. ter crashed in Hama. Morning Star 8 FEATURES Thursday January 4 2018 Pic: Blaues Sofa / Creative Commons Star Comment A crisis of their own making FULL marks to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt for notic- ing that the fi rst week in January “is the busiest week of the year,” as it was last year and those before. What a pity he hadn’t provided suffi cient resources to NHS England for it to cope with the seasonal upsurge in demand as well as scheduled operations that have been cancelled. NHS England acute care director Professor Keith Willett accepts that postponing operations and out- patient appointments for a month is “not ideal” for SINISTER: Organised crime’s patients. involvement in the sex trade is He should have left it at that rather than following an increasing problem up with a string of excuses for the government, claim- ing that a winter plan was in place, that it worked and that fewer operations were cancelled in the run-up to Christmas. ISHA GLENNY’S new series Prof Willett insisted that giving patients notice of McMafi a was launched on cancellation is preferable to squashing them at the BBC TV on New Year’s Day. last minute, which has happened previously. It is an appropriate if depress- What he is saying is that things could have been ing opener for the new year. worse but weren’t. It aims to highlight a new True, but not much of a consolation to patients stageM in the evolution of global capitalism: Mafi a capitalism. We are, though, not talking The new M given long-term notice of a procedure only to be told to forget about routine operations booked for January. here of a few family Cosa Nostras controlling Deferring an entire month’s worth of elective sur- the underworld, but well-organised crime syndicates, with links to governments and gery, totalling 55,000 operations, at the beginning of security services, gnawing their way to the January puts a burden on hospital staff for the rest of core of capitalism. the year and there is no guarantee that there won’t be The recent revelations from WikiLeaks and further cancellations. the Panama and Paradise Papers exposing massive tax evasion by global companies only capitalism ★✩★ show the seemingly less grubby aspect of The Health Secretary’s hope is that these will be capitalist venality. spaced out rather than concentrated like a winter snow But such massive evasion of tax and the storm that emphasises the reality that our NHS has apparent ease with which the super-rich are A new, totally unregulated form of ca able to hide away their wealth sends a clear been left without adequate means to meet its respon- signal to everyone that duplicity and even sibilities. crime itself can in fact pay. emerged, mired in dirty money from d Hunt, like his boss Theresa May, thanked NHS staff If individuals and companies can avoid tax profusely for working “beyond the call of duty,” but with impunity and vast sums can be laundered that is not a once-a-year occurrence for workers of the so easily, many will ask: why should I remain pornography and corruption, writes J highest calibre who understand the meaning of pub- a law-abiding citizen, working in a nine to fi ve lic service. job and paying my full tax bill? expose this situation is dealt with brutally. struction of a luxury mansion. He notes that it takes seven years to train a doctor With the collapse of the Soviet Union and A whole number of journalists and envi- These are just a few on a long list of attacks and three for a nurse “and it’s going to take time for the eastern bloc, combined with the voracious ronmental activists who have tried to expose on those who attempt to expose Mafi a capitalism. those nurses and doctors to come through,” but he Western appetite for drugs and porn, a new, widespread corruption and the fl outing of But such activities are not confi ned to Russia. ignores the eff ect on staff morale of government totally unregulated and unscrupulous form environmental regulations by powerful com- The recent murder of campaigning journal- policies. of capitalism has emerged. panies and individuals have been physically ist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta demon- Many junior doctors chose to leave the NHS and this With the enormous sums of money gener- attacked and, in the worst cases, murdered. strates how widespread intimidation is becom- country to pursue their professions elsewhere because ated by drug-dealing, cyber crime and por- The investigative journalist Anna Politko- ing and how invulnerable such Mafi a capital- of the determination of Hunt and the Tory government nography, there was an urgent need not only vskaya was murdered in Moscow in 2006. ists and their henchmen now feel. to impose new contracts rather than negotiate them to hide the ill-gotten gains but to invest them Alexander Litvinenko, who revealed how cor- Her relentless focus on corruption, crony- with the British Medical Association. in safe areas. ruption in Russia went right to the top and ism and political malfeasance in Malta had This new Mafi a’s secretive operations are involved the secret services, was murdered drawn wide attention. facilitated by electronic communications and in London in 2006, almost certainly by mem- After her murder, her son said: “My mother ★✩★ the easy means of shifting large sums of cash bers of the Russian secret services. was assassinated because she stood between NHS staff , like all public service workers, have also rapidly around the world and thus keeping it Grigory Pasko, a former Russian naval the rule of law and those who sought to violate suff ered an annual reduction in living standards be- hidden and unregulated. offi cer and founding editor of Ecology and it, like many strong journalists. But she was cause of pay restraint imposed for seven successive Albanian gangs have been involved in drug- Law, an environmental and citizens’ rights also targeted because she was the only person years by the Tories and their Liberal Democrat allies dealing and traffi cking young women to work magazine, was attacked by unknown assail- doing so. This is what happens when the insti- in response to the economic crisis triggered by the as sex slaves; cyber crime syndicates are now ants in 2016, after he had published informa- tutions of the state are incapacitated: the last private banking system’s self-induced collapse. largely based in eastern Europe. tion about the secret dumping of nuclear waste person left standing is often a journalist.” Off ering warm thanks to the NHS workforce and Albanian organised crime is highly active in the Sea of Japan. In Latin America the situation is even worse apologising “unreservedly” to patients whose opera- not only in Europe but in both North and South Environmental activist Galina Golubova, than here in Europe, particularly in Mexico tions have been cancelled is marginally better than America and other parts of the world, includ- of EcoDefence and the Movement for the Pro- where the country has been in a state of de ing the Middle East and Asia. tection of Childhood, disappeared in Moscow facto civil war for decades and the rule of telling them to lump it, but it doesn’t mean a great According to the US State Department, Alba- in 2012. law has virtually collapsed. deal. nia is the mainstay of organised crime worldwide And most recently, in December 2017, In 2012, leaked documents showed that the The same goes for his acknowledgement of the “need and one of the main points of drug traffi cking, Andrei Rudomakha of the Environmental government believed there had been a total to fi nd substantially more resources,” but neither the weapons, immigrants and counterfeit goods. Watch on the North Caucasus was attacked of 25,000 people missing across the country: governments led by David Cameron nor that by There- The British National Crime Agency (NCA) in the southern city of Krasnodar by three silent victims of the drug war. sa May has given any indication of understanding the said it was increasingly concerned by what masked men. This year, the tally is close to 33,000. But scale of the problem. it called the Albanians’ “high-profi le infl uence For years he has exposed illegal landfi lls, the truth is that no-one knows how many peo- The fact that, “in 10 years time, we’ll have a million within UK organised crime.” It has also the destruction of landscapes and the con- ple are missing in Mexico. Most of these deaths more over-75s” hasn’t suddenly leapt out the wood- warned of the threat of cyber crime from tamination of waterways in Russia’s south. are a result of turf wars between drug gangs, work, but the Camerons, Cleggs, Osbornes, Cables former eastern bloc countries. Some investigations have exposed land but with the collusion of state security forces. — and Hunts — holding offi ce in post-2010 govern- Under Boris Yeltsin, the old Soviet infra- grabs by local offi cials who have built man- The drugs are destined largely for the US. ments preferred to give tax breaks to their own class structures were demolished and the country sions in pristine forests and on the coast. Without that ready market, the gangs would rather than invest properly in our NHS. opened up to robber barons and oligarchs who He ended up in a hospital with multiple be deprived of their income. Words are cheap and the prospect of Hunt and co were able to take control of its wealth. injuries, including a fractured skull and bro- In Colombia, Brazil, Honduras, Brazil and truly reversing their denial of adequate fi nances to As a result we have seen the country descend ken nose. Rudomakha and several other activ- Guatemala campaigning environmentalists our NHS doesn’t seem very likely. into lawlessness and the emergence of a Mafi a- ists had just returned from the Black Sea, and those exposing corruption have also been like governance. Anyone who attempts to where they were documenting the illegal con- brutally eradicated. Morning Star Thursday January 4 2018 FEATURES 9

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS The Trump administration has been left exposed again

ONALD TRUMP is very upset with the Palestinian leadership, The US and Israel’s outdated and accusing it of ingrati- tude. The US president unjust views are increasingly at can’tD believe, just because he declared Jerusalem as Israel’s cap- odds with public sentiment across ital and pledged to transfer the US embassy there, that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has told the globe, writes JOHN HAYLETT him to forget any Washington-led peace negotiations. TRAGIC: Murdered journalist Anna Either Trump is unaware of the Palestinian Ahed Tamimi from pub- Politkovskaya city’s unique importance to Palestin- lic awareness after she was filmed ian Muslims and Christians, as well slapping an Israeli soldier when he as to Jews, or he believes he has a and other occupation forces entered god-like power to make declarations her West Bank village shortly after binding on the whole of humanity. her cousin was put into a coma when His administration reacted he was shot in the head with a rub- angrily and with a degree of incom- ber-covered steel bullet. prehension to Abbas’s statement that She was not arrested at the time the US has disqualified itself from but Israeli troops came into her leading any peace process and to the home later at dead of night, locking UN general assembly declaration her up in an Israeli jail along with Mafia that Trump’s unilateral attempt to her mother and cousin. rewrite international law is illegal Ahed was denied a change of and “null and void.” clothes for a week while in custody He has taken to the Twitter air and, when she was taken to military waves to complain that “we pay the court, three soldiers were deployed Palestinians HUNDRED OF MIL- to sit immediately in front of her LIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get father Bassem Tamimi to prevent no appreciation or respect. They him seeing his daughter. m don’t even want to negotiate a long “I wasn’t even allowed to see her overdue ... peace treaty with Israel.” and any time I tried to speak to her, The US president even suggested the Israeli officers would tell me to implausibly that he had helped the shut up and would threaten to kick f capitalism has process, having “taken Jerusalem, me out of the court,” he said. the toughest part of the negotiation, The military judge accused her of off the table.” assaulting Israeli Defence Forces m drug-dealing, Appearing like a sulky adolescent, personnel, dragging up accusations Trump added: “With the Palestini- relating to previous occasions when ans no longer willing to talk peace, she has resisted IDF attempts to seize s JOHN GREEN why should we make any of these family members in their village. massive future payments to them?” He ruled that she and her mother In almost all cases, the attackers are not The Palestine Liberation Organi- has designated itself and its closest reluctance to approve — and assist, Fatemah be held in jail until their brought to justice, encouraging others to sation commented: “We will not be allies as the “international commu- if required — massive Israeli aerial cases are complete, possibly with employ the same means to keep their dirty blackmailed. President Trump has nity,” either directing the UN or attacks on Iran’s nuclear facilities, custodial sentences, as though this operations secret. sabotaged our search for peace, supplanting it. maintaining, against the judgement will make Ahed disappear. Around 100,000 people in Latin America freedom and justice. Now he dares Yes, the US was isolated over its of the International Atomic Energy Her father has expressed pride at are murdered each year as a direct result of to blame the Palestinians for the illegal blockade against Cuba, but Agency, that Tehran is intent on his daughter’s actions, calling her drug laws cobbled together in Washington. consequences of his own irrespon- otherwise it has been unchallenged developing nuclear weapons. “one of many young women who in Africa is rife with corruption at all levels, sible actions!” on key global economic, diplomatic Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin the coming years will lead the resist- compounded by Western capitalism’s willing- Netanyahu ministers swiftly wel- and military issues. Netanyahu would have anticipated ance to Israeli rule. She is not inter- ness to facilitate it. comed Trump’s implied threat, with Obama’s plan to rerun the inva- Obama’s refusal to back an adventur- ested in the spotlight currently being The recent exposure of the Israeli billion- Communications Minister Ayoub sion of Iraq in Syria was scuppered ist assault likely to set the region aimed at her due to her arrest but aire Dan Gertler is just one example. He is Kara applauding him for ripping off first by disagreement in Britain’s ablaze, but he might have expected in genuine change.” the founder and president of the Dan Gertler the “Palestinians’ mask of hypocrisy.” Parliament and then by Russia’s better (worse) from Trump. Israeli commentator Uri Avnery International Group of companies. Culture and Sports Minister Miri decisive military intervention. Perhaps this indicates, as some sees her “becoming the Palestinian He has been heavily involved in the exploi- Regev said: “It can’t be that on the It should have been seen as a have suggested, despite Trump’s Joan of Arc before our eyes.” tation of the diamond and copper reserves of one hand he gives $300 million to straw in the wind to Washington that nuclear willy-waving contest with He denounces the decision to hold the Democratic Republic of the Congo. UNRWA [the United Nations Relief its allies in Europe were no longer North Korean leader Kim Jong Un her in custody as “totally stupid,” As of 2015 his fortune was estimated at and Works Agency for Palestine able or willing to ignore public opin- — “my button’s much bigger, more recognising that “thousands of Pal- $1.26 billion by Forbes. His deals are carried Refugees in the Near East] and on ion, as they had over Iraq, and to powerful and it works” — that he estinian teenagers see the photos and out through a whole number of Mossack Fon- the other hand they slam the door saddle up unquestioningly in the US has had to listen to advice from the their hearts swell with pride. Look seca shell companies. in his face and say they will not even global sheriff’s posse of deputies. many generals now stationed in the how one of our own dared to confront While at the moment this corruption and enter into negotiations.” Trump’s attempt to scotch the com- White House and its environs. the occupation. I want to be like her.” violence with impunity is largely confined to Education Minister Naftali Ben- prehensive international treaty with His Israeli acolyte has not been Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was the areas of the world outside the so-called nett was equally supportive, claim- Iran, covering nuclear power and slow to exploit his patron’s Jerusa- asked about Ahed by the six-year-old Western democracies, this new Mafia is ing: “The truth is the Palestinian global sanctions, has also run into lem statement, having a Bill passed daughter of journalist Clayton increasingly infiltrating the latter. leadership continues to fund terror- difficulties, with EU states defending by 64-51 in the Knesset on Tuesday Swisher, telling her that “she London’s property market, for instance, has ists, using US tax monies. By speak- its legal status and their own trading that will require a special two-thirds shouldn’t be in prison because chil- become an ideal place to hide away dubiously ing truth, we can stop the fantasy opportunities with Tehran. majority vote in future to relinquish dren should never be in prison and, obtained cash. of another Palestinian state in the His authority has been similarly any part of Jerusalem to the Pales- if people are standing up for their The worldwide relaxation of financial con- heart of Israel.” undermined by the reluctance of not tinians under a future peace accord. rights, then they should be allowed trols and deregulation has only made the work In reality, the US gives $300m a only his transatlantic allies but It also excluded a number of Arab to do that.” of the new capitalist Mafia easier — as has year to the Palestinian Authority, major state governments such as villages currently within the munic- Such self-evident facts may be the election of a man in the United States who which is a drop in the ocean com- California to share the unscientific ipality of Jerusalem but outside anathema to the likes of Trump and is heavily tainted by corruption and accused pared to the £3.1 billion handed stance on global warming of so many Israel’s apartheid wall, effectively Netanyahu, but their outdated and of underhand dealing, and who makes clear annually to Israel, rising soon to of his backers by pulling out of the removing 30 per cent of the city’s unjust views are increasingly at odds his contempt for the rule of law. £3.8bn, courtesy of former president Paris agreement on reducing green- Palestinian population and further with public sentiment across the The Mafia capitalists are jubilant. Without Barack Obama’s going-away present. house gas emissions. skewing its ethnic make-up, although globe. a restoration of strict financial regulation and US presidential pretensions to The Trump administration has they retain, for now at least, Israel control, as well as real national sovereignty unchallenged world leadership are been left exposed again, supported residency permits. n John Haylett is Morning Star over economies, Mafia capitalism will con- not a new phenomenon. Since the over Iran solely by Tel Aviv which The Netanyahu government has political editor. He writes every tinue to expand. Soviet Union’s demise, Washington has not yet reconciled itself to US also acted to remove 16-year-old other Thursday. Morning Star 10 FEATURES Thursday January 4 2018

US v NORTH KOREA ‘It could be worked out, in my opinion, in half a day’

N DECEMBER 3 The ence and to self-sufficiency — an office in each capital then moving Sunday Times carried The above statement comes from objective summarised in the Korean towards an exchange of ambassa- a full spread on the sub- word “juche.” dors, to reduce barriers to trade and ject of US intentions former US president Jimmy Carter In this context, its centrally investment and to work towards a with regard to North planned economy — whatever its nuclear-free Korean peninsula. Cen- Korea in the light of its and puts into perspective the drawbacks — has achieved a solid tral was the issue of nuclear develop- Olatest successful intercontinental and substantial industrial base. ment. ballistic missile test. The country is also “the most In return for the freezing of the This missile flew high and far, present administration’s wilful militarised country on the face of North’s graphic reactors and a return dropping finally into the Sea of the Earth,” in the words of US profes- to full inspections under the Nuclear Japan. sabotage of any and all prospects sor Bruce Cumings, who remarked Non-Proliferation Treaty, two “pro- The calculation has been made too that militarisation was not so vis- liferation resistant,” light-water that with a more horizontal trajec- ible to a traveller. reactors would be supplied to the tory it could reach all of the US main- for peace on the Korean peninsula, The country is what it is in part North with loans and credits to be land. North Korea may not yet have because its governments have made available to facilitate their the technology to fit such a missile writes JOHN ELLISON responded defensively to the purchase. Moreover, in the short with a nuclear weapon but the US attempts by its enemies to thwart its term, heavy fuel oil would be sup- may, more than ever, be likely when fierce insistence upon independence. plied by the US. militarily ready to initiate war if For more than six decades, it is North Korea was not a reluctant some incident — perhaps acciden- an inescapable fact that successive party to this agreement. It had tally arising — has not already trig- US administrations have neither pushed for it after being alarmed by gered it. sought a final peace treaty nor estab- the resumption of aggressive mili- To Washington, the desirability of lished diplomatic relations with the tary exercises featuring 50,000 US talks aimed at reducing tensions, North. The “hermit kingdom” has and 70,000 South Korean troops. whether conducted directly or received harsh encouragement to After threatening in 1993 to with- through intermediaries, is not self- remain one. draw from the NPT in May 1994, the evident. Indeed, the only alternative Beal’s book described the response North shut down its reactor at Yong- cited to war and invasion of the North to an overture, by the North, to the byon, ruling out charges of game- (not excluding a preemptive nuclear US in 2002 for talks (then led by Kim playing. strike) is simply ongoing “contain- Jong Un’s father Kim Jong Il). White Though the new Clinton adminis- ment,” in view of “the received wis- House deputy national adviser tration seems at that moment to have dom of the US foreign policy estab- Stephen Hadley did not need to con- been as much inclined to a new war lishment that the South Korean death sult anyone. Direct talks, he said, with the North as to co-existence, at toll in any war was unacceptable.” would “reward bad behaviour” — so this point former US president “Containment,” of course, offers there were no talks. Jimmy Carter stepped in with a per- no promise of future peace. North Korea’s “bad behaviour,” sonal mediation attempt, breaking Tim Beal’s 2011 book Crisis in looked under the microscope, has the impasse and facilitating the Korea was written against an earlier always included as a core element Agreed Framework. background of war tensions and his the bare fact of its continuing exist- comment on the realities of a ground ence — a “behaviour” which has been he US follow-through war against the North no doubt holds endlessly punished by US economic faded, influenced by calcu- good today: sanctions and an intimidating mili- lations that the North’s “Obviously the US would expect tary stance. economy would fail and the (South) to provide most of the The major exception to the gloves- that the regime would fall. troops, fill most of the body bags and off, sanctions on, US approach was No advance towards dip- administer the conquered territory.” the October 1994 “Agreed Frame- lomaticT relations. No light-water But since Beal wrote this, the work,” signed on behalf of both coun- reactors. The US had lost interest and raised possibility that nuclear bombs tries. Earlier that year North Korea’s in late 2002 the George Bush admin- could be used — and perhaps by both istration withdrew altogether from sides — makes the prospect of the Framework. another Korean war still more ter- “ It is impossible for In 2009 Carter stated in a press rifying. interview that in his view the agree- If the assumption is made that most of us to sympathise ment could easily be reinstated: “It North Korea’s leader — “nuclear- could be worked out, in my opinion, armed madman” Kim Jong Un — with some aspects of in half a day.” wants war and therefore the destruc- The Sunday Times piece, predict- tion of his homeland (which in the the style of government ably, did not concern itself with the 1950-53 conflict was devastated by history of US enmity towards North bombing and napalm beyond imagi- applied in North Korea Korea, with the long-term desire of nation) — one could understand the its leaders for peace and the coun- wish of the US to protect itself and but its people have the try’s independence, or even with a its dependent ally South Korea. diplomatic way forward. But this assumption, spread far right not to be the victim A State Department official was and wide by mainstream media, is quoted as saying, however, that the falsely predicated. of external attack ” bombing and invasion of the North, Kim Jong Un is often presented as Cartoon: Rob Amos and its occupation by the South’s if he is his country’s only inhabitant military, with a view to a reunified but North Korea is a country of 25 is allocated by the government — is sympathise with some aspects of the founding leader Kim Il Sung had died Korea, was “the kind of cavalier million people — occupying 55 per subject to severe overcrowding, that style of government applied in North — as discussions were progressing wishful thinking that led us into dis- cent of the whole Korean peninsula the electricity supply often breaks Korea, including its “political re- — and his son Kim Jong Il had suc- aster in Iraq.” — and more than two million people down and that there are serious food education camps,” the extreme cult ceeded him. The impression grows from the US live in the capital Pyongyang. and other shortages. of personality for its leader — tied In the Agreed Framework — a title refusal to contemplate standing down Though not a paradise, its high- French, however, does not examine to hereditary succession and severe which accommodated US squeamish- from its own belligerent position in rise housing blocks, well-looked-after the impact on the country of the long- restrictions on the right of individu- ness about the use of the term exchange for the same from North parks and tree-lined boulevards and term sanctions and threat of renewed als to express views considered “treaty” — North Korea surrendered Korea, that the real “madman” is in its cleanness have not given visitors war. Beal, on the other hand, draws anathema by the regime. But the its option to develop nuclear weapons residence in both the White House an impression of a city on the verge from an article published by the people of North Korea have the right in exchange for benefits it considered and the Pentagon. of starvation or internal rebellion. North’s state news agency in 2010, not to be the victims of external more essential. War, which could begin as nuclear, In his informative, if not always which listed categories of economic attack. Both countries promised — in the or could become nuclear, is unthink- balanced, 2015 book on the North damage suffered and even attempted Since the armistice of 1953 the agreement — to move towards nor- able. (sub-titled State of Paranoia), Paul to quantify it in dollar terms. North has been committed to a form malising political and economic rela- But the US may be thinking it. And French noted that housing — which It is impossible for most of us to of socialism, to political independ- tions by first establishing a liaison planning it. Morning Star Thursday January 4 2018 CULTURE 11

BOOK REVIEWS Serial off erings with a killer twist They go back dec- tre, for jailed psycho- best known character Barbara Leslie’s ades, with remarkably paths. after a decade’s break Unhinged (Titan, similar features in com- There’s a personal with Let Darkness £7.99) completes the mon. reason behind her Bury the Dead (Titan, Danny Cleary trilogy, Her only ally, in vocation — as a teen- £7.99). though you don’t need revealing a killer of ager her psychopathic It’s set in 1917, to have read the fi rst great patience and boyfriend attempted to when William Mur- two instalments to stealth, is an unpopular kill her. doch, now a widower enjoy this one. local cop who’s not far He then went on the and a senior detective Cleary and what off retirement. run, with help from his rich family, in the Toronto police, is delighted remains of her extended family have HASED out of London by There isn’t much new to be done with and Evelyn knows he will one day to have his only son home from the holed up in a discreetly fortifi ed house people traffi ckers, journalist the serial killer story, no matter how return to complete his unfi nished busi- war, even though Jack is clearly in Toronto, where they should be safe C Jenny returns to her native many authors continue to convince ness unless she can fi nd him fi rst. suffering from his wounds both from the religious cult that is still Guernsey in The Devil’s themselves otherwise, but Dearman’s Terrifi cally suspenseful, although physical and mental. hunting them. Claw by Lara Dearman (Trapeze, intimate understanding of life on this is yet another woman-in-jeopardy But, as he investigates a series of But they can’t live the rest of their £7.99) to take up a rather dull job on Guernsey makes this a fresh setting serial-killer story at heart, it benefi ts murders, all of young men who are lives behind security doors and bul- the island’s daily paper. for this debut novel in a series that I’m from being rather more scientifi c in non-combatants, Murdoch is forced to letproof windows. Sooner or later When a woman’s body washes up looking forward to seeing more of. its approach than usual. wonder how much his own boy knows there’ll have to be a showdown — and on a local beach, it’s unclear whether Hello Again by Brenda Novak It’s part of a series, so there’s no about what’s going on. here it comes. the death was due to suicide or acci- (Headline, £8.99) takes place in a complete resolution at the end, but it It’s rather a dark book, set in a Funny and tragic, and as touching dent but, while researching for a remote one-pub town in Alaska, where nonetheless works well as a stand-alone dark time, but with good period as it is blood-soaked, this is a breath- background feature, Jenny fi nds Dr Evelyn Talbot runs a unique facil- novel. detail and characters who come lessly exciting conclusion to a highly other such deaths. ity, part-prison and part-research cen- Maureen Jennings returns to her alive, even if only in death. unusual series.

JAZZ REVIEW THEATRE REVIEW Allen’s sonic boom shakes the Vortex Perfect Pinocchio Marshall Allen and the PETER MASON sees an inventive new version of the classic children’s Double Spiral Infi nity Quartet The Vortex, London story at the National Theatre that ticks all the right boxes Pic: Manuel Harlan ★★★★✩

AT 93, Marshall Allen is one of the oldest musicians still regularly touring and playing live. A survivor of the Sun Ra Arkestra, who played with the Sat- urnian maestro for more than four decades, he landed at the Vortex with his Double Spiral Infi nity Quartet. Drummer Avreeal Ra, bassist Kash Killion, pianist Ka are joined on the night by two of London’s best and most outrageous free jazzmen, electronics keyboard wizard Pat Thomas and vibraphonist Orphy Robinson, whose roots are in Anti- gua and Jamaica respectively. With such a musical amalgam, the sounds are a unique union of US, England and the Caribbean and they begin with Ra’s huge volley of drums and Killion’s bass plunging earthwards like a great drill as he plucks his strings like an inconsol- able giant bee. Robinson’s mallets hit his vibes with the sounds of muted electric bells and Ka strikes her keys like another battery of drums, while Thomas’s computerised electronic undergrowth sizzles. The second piece, revisiting Sun Ra, has Killion slapping his bass Pinocchio audience to focus interchangeably on journey to rescue Geppetto from a in portraying Pinocchio’s wise coun- and singing: “We’ll travel there/ National Theatre, London either the puppet or its human embod- whale’s stomach and the fi nal disap- sellor as a fussy hypochondriac. We’ll travel there/Without a care/ ★★★★★ iment with no loss of effect or drama. pearance of the blue fairy, are so In the lead role, Joe Idris-Roberts It has to be tomorrow,” and the cer- And drama there is, in spades. breathtaking and beautiful that they plays Pinocchio with just the right tainty of his bow makes his strings Directed by John Tiffany, this is a bring tears to the eye, not to mention blend of selfi sh pig-headedness and howl like a distressed urban fox. EAUTIFULLY wrought, and fairytale that never shys away from gasps of audience appreciation. cute innocence and the rest of the cast As Allen’s nonagenarian breath spellbinding in its execu- elements of darkness yet it’s fi lled with And there’s humour in nicely meas- – not all of them blessed with huge powers into his horn, switching to tion, this Pinocchio magic at every step and offers the ured amounts and wonderful music, experience – make a top-class contri- melodica within the onrush of col- reverses expectations. kind of immersive experience you’d with familiar songs from Walt Dis- bution. lective sound, you marvel that this In this version by Dennis only otherwise get as a small child ney’s Pinocchio fi lm that are used Good as the acting is, though, it’s is the man who travelled the sonic Kelly, Pinocchio is played buried in an exquisitely illustrated sparingly. Neither cloying nor over- just one of many ingredients that spaceways with Sun Ra for all those Bby a real person and some of the children’s book. done, they’re a welcome part of the feeds into a highly successful mix of years, who still blows like fury with human characters, including Pinoc- Every scene offers new delight as whole, bewitching piece. music, puppetry, dance, acting and his compatriots and the two black chio’s father Geppetto, are repre- a mixture of technical wizardry and David Langham puts in a magnifi - technical sorcery. Londoners beside him. sented by huge-headed puppets, each canny stagecraft conveys the strange cent performance as the dastardly fox For adults and children alike, it’s How the music travels, fuses and crafted in the spitting image of the to-ings and fro-ings at the heart of in glam-rock boots who lures Pinoc- an end-to-end delight. unifi es in the Vortex’s crepuscular actor who holds them aloft and gives Pinocchio’s almost hallucinatory chio into trouble and Audrey Brisson, See it if you can. light. them voice. story. fl itting elegantly around the fl oor with Runs until April 10, box offi ce: CHIRS SEARLE It’s a clever trick that allows the Many of the passages, including the her Jiminy Cricket puppet, is brilliant nationaltheatre.org.uk Morning Star 12 FEATURES Thursday January 4 2018

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US POLITICS Only the black vote can deliver political change in southern US Nearly two million potential black voters remain unregistered in the South. They’d vote if their concerns were properly addressed by the Democrats and such a vote would, in turn, transform the politics of the US forever, argues Reverend JESSE JACKSON IBERATING the South is the key to liberating the nation. The key to liberating the South is the black vote. Recent black turnout in elections in Virginia and AlabamaL demonstrates this point. There are four million unregis- tered black voters in the 11 former confederate states. Florida has more than 555,000 unregistered blacks and some 200,000 Puerto Ricans moving to the mainland around Orlando after the recent devastating hurricane. Georgia has 618,000 unregistered blacks and North Carolina 463,000. Massive voter registration efforts must be the priority in those three states with other southern states to follow. If African Americans and Latinos register and vote in large numbers in the South, there will be a new politics in the US. In the most recent Alabama senate race, voters were offered a stark choice. The Republican nominee Roy Moore had praised slavery and vili- the senate race in Alabama, Repub- fi ed immigrants and had been twice licans trying to recycle Trumpism removed from judicial posts for ele- were defeated — in large part vating his religious beliefs over the because African Americans turned laws and the constitution. out in record numbers. His opponent was Democrat Doug Trump’s vilifi cations clearly mobi- Jones, a lawyer famed for prosecut- lise the vote of people of colour, of ing the Klansmen who murdered the the young and increasingly of women. four little girls in the infamous 1963 Their vote cannot be inherited. It Birmingham church bombing. must be earned. Jones prevailed, but Moore might If Democrats want to succeed, they well have won if he had not been cred- have to put political energy and ibly charged with preying on teenage resources into opening up our elec- GROUNDWORK: girls when he was in his thirties. tions, making it easier for working Voter registration in Although it was close, the race people to register and vote and putting Saturn, Birmingham, represents a turning point. African new energy on the ground to persuade Alabama, and (above Americans, particularly women, and organise people of colour to vote. left) Jesse Jackson turned out in record large numbers. They will also have to stand up for Jones won the Iron Bowl vote, win- an agenda that will speak to the ning in the home towns of Auburn pressing needs of the African-Amer- and the University of Alabama. He ican community. At the core of that fared best among the young. That agenda are policies needed by work- vote represents the potential future ing and poor people of every race of politics in Alabama, in the South — affordable health care, decent- and in the country. paying jobs, quality schools, afford-

The race-bait politics that have able college or technical training, Pic: Shannon McGee/Creative Commons defi ned the Republican Party since clean water and air, retirement secu- Nixon’s “southern strategy” in 1968 rity and more. are the “base of the Democratic Black Votes Matter, Woke Vote and What Alabama and Virginia sug- may well be reaching its sell-by date. Equal opportunity and equal jus- Party,” yet neither African-American more, that can make a difference. gest is that candidates who make that Trump renewed the strategy with tice — particularly an end to mass women nor men have been the centre Democrats need to walk the talk, to clear may well be able to transform his posturing on immigrants, his incarceration for non-violent crimes of the party’s efforts or the focus of wake up and catch up. the South and, in doing so, transform blustery nativism against Muslims — are claims not for special treat- its resources. African Americans are clear about the country. and his divisive stance on the haters ment but for basic citizenship. What Alabama showed is that there who their foe is. What is yet to be in Charlottesville, Virginia, but, in Democratic Party chair Tom Perez is a new energy outside the party proven is who is for them, who stands ■ This article fi rst appeared at peo- the governor’s race in Virginia and says that African-American women structures, in organisations such as on their side. plesworld.org.

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EUROPEAN UNION GRAHAM STEVENSON explores our online archive Brussels is not the great 80 YEARS AGO TODAY... Roosevelt’s opening speech slashes fascism and demands equality at home THE Daily Worker He demanded an “end to protector of our rights ■of January 4 1938 the abuses of big reported on the raptur- business” which if ous reception given to continued unchecked READING Patrick Morrello’s but over the years this has then US president would “destroy the basis letter (M Star December 19) been created by stealth so that Franklin Delano of the capitalist system simply had me scratching my we have that country right Roosevelt’s “State of the itself.” US agriculture head in disbelief. now. Union” speech to the had sought to push wages Before we joined the EU we Morrello writes of the “fan- opening session of both and payments to farmers had many rights which our tasy of Lexit” but he seems houses of the US to a new “competitive workers fought for that are to forget that there is a strug- congress, in the second point — an obvious better than many EU member gle to ensure that Labour is year of his second term impossibility” without countries enjoy. the next government and it is of offi ce. reverting to slavery. We are still in the EU at that government that will Roosevelt was The government being present and have been for 45 ensure the rights he believes “interrupted again and the “underwriter of years during which time suc- the EU has given us are not again — sometimes for a excess farm production cessive governments have only protected but strength- half-minute at a time — without limit,” would sought to smash the power of ened. by roaring cheers from bankrupt the nation in a the unions (remember the min- He needs to believe in that the assembled!” He decade. Leaving the ers’ strike?) and now are still possibility, now more achiev- opened with a “a slashing management of supply trying to push through an even able than ever before, and fi ght attack on the fascist and demand to farmers more savage piece of anti- WHERE WERE YOU BRUSSELS? Women protest by for its realisation. governments as the had not worked either. trade union legislation all Cortonwood mine against pit closures in 1985 When you read of Martin universal enemies of Amidst “tempestuous without the merest peep from Schulz’s desire for a Euro- peace,” the Worker applause,” the president Brussels. ensures no-one must work — so where is all this mythical pean superstate with a single reported. said that there must be a During Francois Hol- more than 48 hours. protection? economic policy and army, The behaviour of “fl oor” beneath which lande’s tenure at the Elysee His efforts came to a halt Morrello asserts that once surely the necessity of get- Japan towards the US wages must not fall and a Palace he was trying to end when he lost power so out of the EU we will suffer ting out is even more imper- had been “provocation “ceiling” above which the 35-hour week, hiding Emmanuel Macron has taken the right-wing Tories’ vision ative. which at any earlier prices must not rise. behind the assertion that the up the same fi ght and again of “a low-tax, low-welfare, low- STEVE ARLOFF period would have led to working time directive Brussels raises no objection regulation, low-wage Britain” Clayton, West Yorkshire war.” In a clear appeal You can and warning, “directed read editions of chiefl y to the national the government of Britain,” Daily Worker HONOURS (1930-45) he affi rmed his faith that and Star (200 0-today)Morning peace could be saved by , online at Well Versed Sir Nick those nations that had mstar.link/DWMSarchive edited by Jody Porter not discarded democ- racy. Ten days’ access costs Clegg... At home, he said, just £5.99 and a Breathing the Air the Tiger Breathes conditions called for year is £72 by Fred Voss what a equally plain speaking.

I guess I never really wanted to grow up never wanted total joke the white shirt and the tie and the coat and the offi ce and the good job I stepped DESTROYING ANOTHER farce of an OUR NHS: into a world of razor-sharp cutters and sour steel dust and men honours list. I’ve little who were still children Health Secretary objection to the likes of Jeremy Hunt who sang and whistled and danced and dreamed Ringo getting a gong as a as their machines ran member of the world’s men in blue torn shirts covered in razor-sharp steel chips and slivers who were somehow most successful ever pop still playing in their backyards like they did when they were 6 years old and anything group. And the same was possible applies to local achievers men who have never ordered another man to do anything such as Grimsby swimmer in their life Brenda Fisher, who men who can still feel the power of the universe in their hands deserve national recogni- as their fi ngers wrap around a red 3-foot-long monkey wrench tion, though reference to and turn the nuts on a 10-ton machine an empire (BEM, MBE I never really wanted the college degree and the cocktail party and the big house on the hill etc) should disappear. in this world of A-bomb and world war and lies But May’s Tory cronies I wanted the honesty — including Nick Clegg, of tool-steel gears and the sweat on a man’s back true who enabled us to have as Jupiter fi ve years of Cameron and the curl of a wave and the drift of the snowfl ake and the saw-tooth tip austerity — getting of the mountain top in the fi rst ray knighthoods is completely NHS CRISIS of morning sun wrong and shows that I wanted these poems change is needed. sharp as diamond teeth TIM MICKLEBURGH My GP was suddenly closed real as screw threads and smoking steel and knuckle and back muscle Grimsby of men who can make anything with their hands IN THE summer my local GP from lack of treatment. I never really wanted to grow up surgery was suddenly closed. MICHAEL SHORT never wanted the stale words and the dead dreams and the tie According to the administra- St Leonards- and the tuxedo tors this was to “provide an on-Sea I wanted to breathe the air the tiger breathes improved service”(!). Yesterday’s feel my soul reach It is still closed, and we Sudoku solution to the stars patients have had to make do walk with an alternative surgery into a roaring steel mill where men grip hammers and laugh because they are always ready several miles away. to make a new I wrote a letter of com- and better world. plaint to the Health Minister and received a reply saying that this was merely a local matter and nothing to do ■ Fred Voss, a machinist for 32 years, has had three collections of poetry published by the with his department. UK’s Bloodaxe Books. His latest booklet is The Earth and the Stars in the Palm of Our Hand, What is happening to published by Culture Matters. our NHS? Something should be done soon before people start dying Morning Star Thursday January 4 2018 SPORT 15

MEN’S FOOTBALL: PREMIER LEAGUE MEN’S TENNIS De Minaur upsets Guardiola says schedule Raonic in Brisbane

by Our Sports Desk second set but was is ‘going to kill’ players fi nally FORMER champion Milos broken in Man City 3-1 Watford Raonic lost in straight sets the fi fth by James Nalton ON THE MARK: to 18-year-old Alex De game when Sergio Aguero Minaur in a second-round De Minaur at Eastlands upset yesterday at the challenged MANCHESTER CITY returned Brisbane International. a call on a to winning ways with a convinc- Raonic, who won the second ing victory against Watford on Brisbane title in 2016 and serve, got it Tuesday night, when Raheem reached the Wimbledon overturned Sterling scored the quickest fi nal that year, struggled to to win the goal of the season so far. fi nd rhythm with his point on a Pep Guardiola’s side had usually booming serve in a double- dropped points for the fi rst 6-4 6-4 loss to the Austral- fault and time in 18 games and also ian wild-card entry. won the next two points on failed to score for the fi rst time De Minaur (pictured) the back of some impres- in the league this season when pressured Raonic with his sive returns. they drew 0-0 with Crystal relentless service returns, De Minaur broke again in Palace last time out. made just one unforced the seventh game and, after Here, however, they wasted error and only dropped missing the chance to close no time creating the chances serve once — when serving out in the eighth, the which meant they had the for the match at 5-2 in the former Wimbledon junior game won within 15 minutes. second — en route to the fi nalist held his composure Both managers used their biggest win of his career. to close out. post-match press conferences The win put De Minaur “It’s going to take a while to express concerns about the into a quarter-fi nal match for me to believe what’s number of games played dur- against US qualifi er happened just now,” he ing this period, as they feared His artists created numer- Heurelho Gomes and the for the defeat commenting Michael Mmoh, who upset said. for their players’ fi tness. ous chances in the fi rst half Argentinian slotted home the that, “when we lose, we lose No 8 seed Mischa Zverev Asked how he unsettled “We are going to kill them,” but only managed to fi nd the loose ball. together,” but he also spoke 6-2 5-7 6-4. one of the better servers in said Guardiola. “The bosses back of the net twice. Watford had a couple of about the tough winter sched- Raonic was playing his tennis, De Minaur said he need to refl ect [on the sched- Sterling turned in Leroy chances, but the best of them, ule. fi rst match since October threw out the playbook. ule]. It’s not normal to play on Sane’s cross after just 38 sec- which fell to Andre Gray, was “I understand we are here after taking time out to deal “I was just guessing the 31st and two days later. onds, before an undefendable saved expertly by sprawling to respect the culture and it’s with injuries that also ruled really, I’m not going to lie,” “Here in England you don’t Kevin De Bruyne cross was City goalkeeper Ederson. The important for the fans, but I him out of the US Open late he said. “I tried to change protect the players, you have diverted into his own goal by visitors did manage to pull a think that for the players these last year, when his ranking my returning position a bit to look for the quality not the Christian Kabasele with Ser- goal back when Andre Carrillo moments are really hard,” he slipped to 24 — 21 spots to try to throw him off a bit. quantity. gio Aguero lurking. crossed for Gray to score a said. lower than his career-high He probably didn’t have his “Football is not basketball Aguero struggled to put goal similar to Sterling’s While City are back to win- fi nish in 2016. best serving day, which or tennis where you can play away chances but eventually opener, but it was no more than ning ways, Watford only have Raonic saved double helped me a lot. I took every two days. Tradition is got his goal in the second half a consolation strike. one win in nine and have some break points in his fi rst two advantage of it, really tradition but just think about when another unstoppable De Their manager Marco Silva work to do in the weeks to service games in the proud.” the players, the artists.” Bruyne cross was spilled by refused to blame individuals come.

MEN’S FOOTBALL: PREMIER LEAGUE Moyes grateful for Carroll’s late winner West Ham head into tonight’s London derby in good spirits

West Ham 2-1 West Brom felt his team deserved the hour in, as James McClean Brom stopper Ben Foster to by Paul Donovan result after losing out to a con- picked up the ball on the left, the incoming Carroll, who troversial late goal against cutting in to hit a shot that fi red home from a narrow at the London Stadium Bournemouth and an offside defl ected off Angelo Ogbonna angle. WEST HAM nicked a late win- one in the last home game ver- and looped over home keeper West Brom manager Alan ner on Tuesday night to run sus Newcastle. “It was time Adrian. Pardew admitted his side had out winners in this keenly something went for us,” he West Ham’s dominance in been mentally and physically fought relegation battle at the said. the second half was rewarded tired for the last 20 minutes. London stadium and give them The manager was pleased in the 58th minute when an “It is diffi cult to criticise my momentum heading into with the two goals from Car- Aaron Cresswell cross from team in any way today,” said tonight’s London derby with roll. “This game suited Andy the left was met by Carroll Pardew. Tottenham. better than others — he did a who rose to head into the far Moyes expressed his sym- Hammers manager David good job,” said Moyes, who corner. pathy for West Brom, having Moyes acknowledged his side’s thought the game was great for The home side continued to to play two games in three good fortune in getting the the crowd. live dangerously though, with days. result against West Brom with The home side had little to a West Brom breakaway foiled The midlands side had a last-gasp injury-time goal show in the fi rst half of the only by an excellent last-ditch appealed to the Premier league from Andy Carroll. game, looking disjointed in tackle from Ogbonna. to get the game postponed but “It didn’t look likely for long their approach play, with one The home fans were resign- to no avail. periods but we kept at it. We effort seeing Carroll blast ing themselves to more lost “If I was Alan Pardew, I were poor in the fi rst half so over, having met a Pablo Zaba- points when Marco Arnautovic would be completely disap- changed it a bit in the second leta cross from the right. got away on the left in the 94th pointed with the way the Pre- half, getting 15 yards further It was the Baggies who minute, fi ring his cross just mier League has set it up for DIFFERENCE MAKER: Andy Carroll challenges for the ball up the pitch,” said Moyes, who opened the scoring half an beyond the reach of West them,” said Moyes. 16 Morning Star Thursday January 4 2018 Sport

MEN’S CRICKET: ASHES SCOTLAND Goss joins ROOT: CRANE’S READY Rangers on season-long loan deal

RANGERS announced the signing of QPR midfielder Sean Goss yesterday on a FOR THIS ASHES TEST loan deal until the end of the season. The German-born 22-year-old moved to the Championship side from Young leg-spinner gets the backing of England captain Manchester United last January but has only made by Our Sports Desk six appearances. PREPARED: Mason Crane Goss, who joined United from Exeter in 2012, will ENGLAND are confident link up with his new Mason Crane will meet the teammates for the trip to challenge of his Test debut the United States tomor- head on in the heat of the row where the Ibrox club Ashes. will play in the Florida Joe Root’s tourists have Cup. pressed the “gamble” button Goss said: “Rangers is a in search of a consolation vic- massive football club with tory in Sydney, having lost the a massive fanbase as well, urn before Christmas in Perth and being out there seeing and then kept the scoreline at the stadium was unbeliev- 3-0 thanks to a bore draw on able. So for me it was a a poor pitch in Melbourne. no-brainer and I couldn’t A recurrence of Chris wait to get here. Woakes’s side injury will keep “I know it is a tough him out of the final Test but league and there is a lot not the forthcoming one-day expected of the Rangers international series against players. That is why I’m Australia or the tour of New here. I want to challenge Zealand still to come this win- myself at a big club and I ter. can’t wait to get going.” England were already plan- ning to retain out-of-form all- rounder Moeen Ali alongside 20-year-old novice leg-spinner Sport on TV Crane — so Woakes’s absence BASKETBALL: NBA, Houston Rock- merely means his fellow ets v Golden State Warriors — BT seamer Tom Curran can con- Sport 2 1am. solidate after his debut at the CRICKET: Second day of the fifth MCG. Ashes Test from Sydney, Australia v England — BT Sport 1 11pm; Big Crane will become Eng- Bash League, Hobart Hurricanes v land’s youngest specialist spin- in his game and the way he hosts, who will stick with with two spinners, and a leg- “Of course, he has had a Adelaide Strikers — BT Sport 2 8am. ner since Ian Peebles 91 years went about those Twenty20s Nathan Lyon as their only spin- spinner could be quite hard tough couple of games but you FOOTBALL: Premier League, Totten- ago but Root is confident he in an England shirt [last sum- ner. work late on in the game.” don’t just lose the ability he ham v West Ham — Sky Sports Main has the mettle to deal with the mer] shows he is not going to Root added: “On this sur- Root also gave Moeen a has overnight. Event, Sky Sports Premier League 7.30pm. occasion. back down from any challenge. face, [Mason] is going to be a timely endorsement, despite a “I am fully confident on this GOLF: Sentry Tournament of Cham- “The way he has conducted “He has bowled well when really good option. miserable series so far which surface and throughout this pions from Hawaii — Sky Sports himself for the whole trip has he has had the [tour match] “It looks like it should give has brought the off-spinning week he can put in some valu- Main Event, Sky Sports Golf 11pm. been outstanding,” he said. opportunities on this trip and a bit of turn throughout. all-rounder just three wickets able performances for the TENNIS: Brisbane International — “For a young man to apply it is a really good chance for “It generally does here any- at an alarming cost of 135 each side. Eurosport 1 1am/BT Sport 2 5am; Hopman Cup from Perth — himself and absorb himself in him to show what he is capable way but it looks like it has and 136 runs at a sub-20 aver- “My message to him has Eurosport 2 9.30am; Qatar Open — the environment as he has is of.” definitely dried out in the last age. been to relax and try and enjoy Eurosport 2 12.30pm; Shenzhen exactly what you are after. England have read the Syd- 24 hours. “Moeen is a fine player,” his cricket. He is at his best Open — BT Sport//ESPN 4am. “I can see a big progression ney pitch differently to their “That is why we have gone said Root. when he is having fun.” Farringdon’s doubles MEN’S FOOTBALL: RACISM THE HOODED CLAW Wolverhampton 4:05 (nap) Fifa open probe into Brewster’s racism claims PUSHKIN MUSEUM Wolverhampton 4:30 by Our Sports Desk abuse or witnessed it on a foot- ciation and “is now analysing of your players has been rac- of a lack of evidence, but Spar- ball pitch seven times, includ- and gathering evidence.” ist? What about your team- tak were forced to close 500 Houseman’s ing five occasions in the last According to Brewster’s mate being respectful to us?’” seats in their academy stadium choice FIFA is investigating Rhian seven months. Guardian interview, The FA has already com- for their next game because Brewster’s claim that England Two of those alleged Gibbs-White was plained to Uefa about an inci- of the monkey chants directed UDONTDOYOU teammate Morgan Gibbs- incidents, all against called “a monkey” dent that took place in a game at Liverpool’s Bobby Adekanye Chelmsford 7:45 White was racially abused by overseas opposi- by a Spanish player against Ukraine at last May’s in September. a Spanish opponent during the tion, took place on after an incident in European U17 Championship Under-17 World Cup final, foot- England duty, with Spain’s penalty and Liverpool have also com- Published by the People’s Press MSTAR 2018-01-04 THU 1.0 ball’s world governing body the most recent box. plained to the European body Printing Society Ltd, William Rust confirmed yesterday. being the abuse Later in the about two incidents involving House, 52 Beachy Road, Bow, 0 1 London E3 2NS. Telephone: (020) Liverpool teenager Brews- directed at Gibbs- game, Brewster got Spartak Moscow and one with 8510-0815. Fax: (020) 8986-5694. ter made the allegation in a White in October’s 5-2 involved in an argu- Sevilla in the Uefa Youth Email: enquiries@peoples-press. powerful interview with the victory over Spain in ment with a Spanish League. com. Registered with Companies House as Morning Star (in- Guardian last week. The Kolkata. player who felt England were The complaints from the FA corporating the Daily Worker) No 17-year-old Londoner told the A Fifa spokesperson said it not winning “respectfully.” about the Ukraine game and N5559. Printed by trade union newspaper he has either per- has recently received a com- “I said: ‘How can you tell us Liverpool’s on the Sevilla labour at Trinity Mirror. sonally experienced racial plaint from the Football Asso- to win respectfully when one game were not upheld because Thursday January 4 2018 9 770307 175244