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by Bethany Rielly and economists called out his govern- said bold commitments must also be ment for breaking climate pledges, delivered. delays, backing new fossil fuel pro- “The G7 cannot be another target- THOUSANDS of activists descended jects and failing to invest enough in setting exercise resulting only in on Cornwall yesterday to kick off green industries and recovery. wasted time, political chest-thumping three days of protests against G7 Dozens of marches, theatrical and more empty promises that might leaders’ inaction on the climate protests and events were staged to as well be written in the sand of Car- emergency. demand world leaders put the climate bis Bay beach,” she said. Environmental activists marched top of the agenda. The climate group staged Brit- through the small village of St Ives, near Extinction Rebellion co-founder ain’s largest ever “drone show” Carbis Bay where the summit is being Gail Bradbrook said: “We know we using 300 illuminated unmanned held, to demand the leaders of global can’t trust the leaders of the world. vehicles to form 3D animals and shapes capitalism act immediately to avert the They have already failed us in Paris. above Cornwall’s idyllic landscape. impending climate catastrophe. “They are part of a broken system, The TUC called for British leaders World leaders from Britain, Japan, but humanity isn’t broken. We’re to adopt a more ambitious plan for Canada, the US, Italy, Germany and gathering in Cornwall in solidarity investing in green industries, warn- France began G7 talks yesterday, with communities on the front line ing that failure to do so risks leaving focusing primarily on the Covid-19 across the world. the country behind. pandemic and climate change. “For the countries and people most General secretary Frances O’Grady In his opening speech to the sum- vulnerable to rising temperatures, cli- said greater investment would pro- mit, PM Boris Johnson said: “As G7 mate change is not something for the vide a “chance to replace the jobs lost we are united in … our vision for a future: it is happening right now. ” in the pandemic and level up the UK.” cleaner, greener world, a solution to Ahead of the summit, all leaders Last week more than 350 organisa- the problems of climate change, and affirmed their commitment to hold- tions from 58 countries signed a letter in those ideas, in those technologies ing temperature rises to no more than calling on G7 leaders to stop funding which we’re all addressing together 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels — fossil fuels, cancel debt payments in … there is the potential to generate the lower limit set out in the 2015 Covid-hit global South countries and many, many millions of high-wage, Paris agreement. help them pay for climate adaptations. high-skill jobs.” But Greenpeace UK’s senior cli- Turn to page 2 But campaigners, trade unionists mate campaigner Ariana Densham Star comment: P10 ONWARDS AND UPWARDS: Climate champions descend on Cornwall’s beaches

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n SCOTLAND HEALTHCARE n CORONAVIRUS Watchdog probity Covid unlocking concerns raised delay likely as top by NIall Christie reputation and credibility Scotland editor of the organisations, which may also impact the wider NHS and local authorities.” figures voice fears SCOTTISH Labour has raised A ranking system is also concerns about a “conflict of set out to evaluate the risk By Derek Kotz the fact that they have given a who had not yet had a first dose interest” within the remit of “sustained or widespread very strong indication they will to come forward. of Public Health Scotland criticism of the Scottish be driven by the data.” The Delta variant is believed (PHS), after it emerged one government.” A DELAY in the final lifting of Mr McManus warned that to carry around a 60 per cent of its duties is to protect Opposition politicians have Covid-19 restrictions looked increased infection rates would increased risk of household the interests of Scottish raised questions about the increasingly likely yesterday as lead to more hospitalisations, transmission compared with ministers. independence of PHS and its cases of the highly transmissi- a significant rise in long Covid the Alpha (Kent) variant, with Documents revealed on duties in informing the public. ble Delta variant reached nearly and an increase in the number transmission-doubling times Friday show PHS, the public Scottish Labour health 30,000 in a week. of variants, including the risk varying regionally from 11.5 agency which investigated spokesperson Jackie Baillie Public Health England of a strain “that evades the vac- days to just 4.5. Scotland’s Covid-19 care said: “Scots believed PHS revealed that 42,323 cases of cine completely.” Cases have more than dou- home deaths and reported was an independent voice the Delta variant first identified He added that “investing a bit bled among largely unvacci- on the mass discharge of subjecting life or death deci- in India have been confirmed of time is really important to nated 20- to 29-year-olds, up patients into care settings, sions during the pandemic in the UK, up by 29,892 on the enable the vaccine programme from 54 per 100,000 people has to check whether to serious scrutiny. previous week – more than dou- to finish and do its job.” in the week ending May 30 to research criticises govern- “But these reports raise ble, and accounting for 90 per With Boris Johnson expected 121 per 100,000 in the following ment policy. serious questions about a cent of all cases. to make an announcement on seven days. Freedom of Information conflict of interest that need Reports that the govern- Monday, vaccines minister Shadow home secretary Nick (FOI) responses published in to be resolved. ment was considering put- Nadhim Zahawi hinted at a Thomas Symonds put respon- The Times show the body’s “It is just another example ting back June 21’s sched- delay as he toured the studios sibility for the sharp rise in remit includes a duty to pro- of the micromanagement uled reopening date by four yesterday, stressing: “We don’t Delta cases and the likely delay tect the reputation of SNP and control freakery which weeks were welcomed by Jim want to squander those hard- in lifting restrictions firmly at ministers. defines the SNP.” McManus, vice-president of fought gains that we have made the government’s door. The document shows PHS A PHS spokeswoman said the Association of Directors through the vaccination pro- He said: “The blame for this has an agreed communica- the group “discharges its of Public Health. gramme.” lies with the Prime Minister tions framework with the duties with integrity and is Acknowledging that it was a Mr Zahawi said the govern- and his reckless refusal to act government in Holyrood committed to work that is “fiendishly difficult decision,” ment was “on track” to meet on Labour’s repeated warnings and representatives from both open and transparent. Mr McManus told Radio 4’s a target of all over 50s being to secure our borders against Scottish councils. “A risk assessment for all Today programme: “I think offered their second jab by June Covid and its variants.” The public body is publications is undertaken we should strongly welcome 21, and he appealed to those [email protected] instructed to manage risk only to inform the sup- by Bethany Rielly when communicating porting communications information, with the FOI approach, and for the aware- adding: “Risk management ness of sponsors. It does n BREWING G7 PROTESTERS are facing an in relation to communica- not change the substance, “intensive policing operation” tions will primarily relate content or independence of this weekend, campaigners to reducing the potential those publications.” Union backs have warned, with officers impact of the risk on the [email protected] arresting seven people before staff letter demonstrations had even begun. hitting out Police have been accused of harassing and intimidating n IRISH SEA campaigners in the run-up to at Brewdog the meeting of world leaders in TRADE unionists have offered Cornwall on Friday. Nuclear waste stockpiles are their support to BrewDog Officers arrested seven mem- workers after complaints of a bers of Animal Rebellion, an ‘sloshing around’ in Irish Sea “toxic work environment” at animal rights branch of Extinc- the “punk” brewery emerged tion Rebellion, on Thursday RADIOACTIVE materials are The report also says that this week. after stopping and searching “moving around the Irish Sea” the government’s failure to Representatives from Unite MAKING THE POINT: Protesters gather in Leeds yesterday to mark the their vehicles. while the government fails to dispose of highly radioactive Hospitality praised the coura- beginning of G7 with a climate message Pic: Neil Terry Devon and Cornwall Police safely dispose of waste from waste has caused creation of geous members who released an said it had found paint and Britain’s nuclear power plants, stockpiles of waste plutonium open letter criticising BrewDog flares during the search, and a new report has revealed. and uranium which will cost management earlier this week. made arrests on suspicion of The UK and Ireland Nuclear taxpayers billions of pounds Punks With Purpose, a group n FRONT PAGE possessing items to commit Free Local Authorities group to store for the next century. of former staff, allege widespread criminal damage and conspir- (NFLA) says that for 50 years NFLA steering committee fear among employees and a acy to commit public nuisance. waste from Sellafield nuclear chair Cllr David Blackburn toxic attitude towards workers. Climate activists: We will Plain-clothed police were reprocessing plant in Cum- said the report “outlines This workplace atmosphere, also sent to the campsite bria has been discharged into one of the most embarrass- the former staff said, had led fight them on the beaches where protesters are staying the Irish Sea where it settles ing and perplexing elements to mental health problems. on Thursday. Resist G7 coalition on the sea bed but can be dis- of UK nuclear policy — what BrewDog founder James Watt FROM P1: More than 100 econo- [governments] in the South, reported that officers had been turbed by storms, waves and to do with its world record apologised following the letter, mists from around the world prop up right-wing dictator- waiting in a car outside the seismic activity. plutonium stockpile.” promising to learn and act, add- also urged G7 leaders to extend ships, and are responsible for campsite in shifts. ing his company is “committed pledges to end coal finance by 77 per cent of excess emissions. It comes after Ocean Rebel- to doing better.” the end of 2021 to oil and gas. It doesn’t exactly inspire trust.” lion co-founder Ron Higgs, who Unite Hospitality says it is However others suggested Anti-G7 protests are is involved in climate action supporting members, call- that there was little point in expected to continue through- protests against the summit, ing for an independent probe putting any faith in the lead- out the weekend. On Saturday, had his home in Cornwall Patrick Sarsfield Gallagher into management behaviour ers of global capitalism to make Extinction Rebellion will stage raided by 15 officers last month. and the implementation of positive change. a demo in Falmouth calling out Police monitoring group policies such as a proactive, Economic anthropologist government greenwashing. Netpol says this is being done Died 8th June 2021 anti-sexual harassment policy. Jason Hickel said: “The thing Sunday’s protests will see the to intimidate those suspected Communist, reader and supporter of Organiser Bryan Simpson about the G7 is that they are focus switch to opposing state to be involved in three days the Morning Star. said: “The owners of BrewDog basically a mafia of imperial- repression and surveillance, of action planned against the need to start taking responsi- ist powers who dominate global focusing on the government’s summit and accused forces of Will be sadly missed. bility for the toxic culture they arms sales, habitually [stage] policing Bill. failing to uphold their duty to Andy, Barbara, Saòirse, Will and Hegarty have created.” coups [against] progressive [email protected] protect the right to protest. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online news June 12-13 2021 3

n POLITICS ‘Labour in exile’ set to form CLP shadows LABOUR Party activists appalled at witch-hunts, suspensions and expul- sions by the party’s bureaucracy are planning to form “shadow” con- DON’T BANK ON THE BOMB: Yorkshire CND highlight Natwest’s damaging stituency Labour parties support for nuke manufacture in a Leeds protest Pic: Neil Terry (CLPs) “to continue the good work of the left.” The Labour In Exile Network is launching n HEALTH workshops to help mem- bers set up shadow CLPs after staging a successful alternative inquiry to Care workers are the official Forde inquiry into alleged corruption and witch-hunts against ‘literally worried the left. The group said 500 people took part in the online inquiry, and 1,000 sick’ over low pay followed it on Facebook. Terry Deans, one of the fed up having to chase Lifeways workshop organisers, said: by Peter Lazenby nearly every month for my cor- “I see setting up shadow rect wages. Pay day is so stress- constituency Labour par- ful and I dread having to look ties as a key way of both WORKERS in the care sector in at my payslip. defending members and north-west England have been “Every month the underpay- fighting back against such literally worried sick by under- ment has an impact on me. I attacks.” payment of wages. barely afford to pay the bills The workshops will Public-sector union Unison because I am owed outstand- include current and said workers at Lifeways Group ing wages and for the past few n G7 IN CORNWALL excluded members of in Bolton, Greater Manchester, months, I have had to borrow the party, and “will aim were suffering ill health through money from my family.” to shape Labour Party worries over paying their bills. Unison North West regional policy, carry out direct Lifeways operates nation- organiser Dan Smith said: “Life- action and support com- wide providing care services for ways need to take action now to munity projects. adults with learning disabili- ensure staff are paid properly. PROTESTERS FACE “We want members of ties, autism and brain injuries, “Care workers employed different shadow CLPs to including for Bolton Council. directly by local councils or the share and benefit from Unison investigated com- NHS do not suffer the indignity each other’s experiences. plaints from members about of having to plead with their Vital, also, is the need underpayment of wages and employers to be paid correctly. COP CRACKDOWN for these groups to link found “routine and habitual “This is yet more evidence of up — there is strength in incorrect payment.” the failings of the private social unity,” he said. The union said that in a sur- care sector.” The first Shadow CLP vey 72 per cent of the workforce A Lifeways spokesperson said: workshop will be on said they had been underpaid “The figures quoted bear no June 12 at 5pm. Register in the last six months. relation to the information we IN CORNWALL MEET at facebook.com/event_ One worker said: “I absolutely have. We take very seriously our ARRESTS: Seven animal rights activists already detained ‘on suspicion’ invite/1s62kEm4I/ love my job and the people I am obligations with regard to pay.” working with, but I’m absolutely [email protected] cause any disruption which is ludicrous because of course all protests cause disruption,” he told the Morning Star. “As local campaigners in Cornwall have quite rightly said, any disruption caused by protest is far less than the disruption caused by the enor- mous policing and security operation to basically allow G7 leaders to have a picturesque background for their gathering. “The idea that you can some- how have a sanitised version of protest far away from where it might actually be heard by peo- Around 6,500 officers have testers to gather, the furthest ple with no impact whatsoever been drafted from across the a staggering 106 miles away. … is a failure to understand country to Cornwall, closing Netpol co-ordinator Kevin what the policing duty is.” off the area surrounding Carbis Blowe said the recent crack- A force spokesman said Bay and erecting metal fences. down “seems to be pointing in response to the Thursday While police have said they towards a pretty intensive arrests: “We continue to sup- support the right to protest, policing operation against port the facilitation of safe and forces have vowed to take a protesters over the weekend.” legal protest but criminal activ- tough line on campaigners “Devon and Cornwall Police ity and public disorder will not who cause “disruption,” and … have taken the view that be tolerated.” have allocated four locations essentially they’ve allowed bethanyrielly@peoples-press,com far from the summit for pro- protest so long as they don’t Star comment: p10 Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 4 June 12-13 2021 news @m_star_online n EXTRADITION CASE ENVIRONMENT: Sea eagles have appeared on Loch Lomond for the first time MPs write to Biden seeking in more than a century. A pair of white-tailed eagles, commonly known as sea eagles, were first end to Assange prosecution spotted at Loch Lomond National Nature Reserve By Derek Kotz ing this case, leaving Julian in early March. Assange facing a third year of They have since been incarceration in Belmarsh high- seen “nest prospecting” A CROSS-PARTY group of security prison.” – searching for suitable British parliamentarians has Pointing out “the contradic- nest sites – suggesting written to President Joe Biden tion of advocating for press they intend to stay. asking him to drop the US freedom abroad while hold- Nature bodies are prosecution of whistle-blowing ing Mr Assange for years in working together to journalist Julian Assange. the UK’s most notorious prison protect the birds and Mr Assange, who faces a jail at the request of the US gov- minimise disturbance, sentence of up to 175 years if ernment,” it concludes that with an exclusion zone convicted of espionage in a dropping the case “would be put in place around the US court, remains on remand a clarion call for freedom that area where they have in London’s Belmarsh Prison, would echo around the globe.” been seen. despite winning an initial court The letter has been signed by It is believed that battle against extradition. members of the Labour, SNP, this is the first time sea The letter, co-ordinated by Conservative, Green and Alba eagles have settled at Labour MP Richard Burgon, parties. Loch Lomond since their notes that as president Barack MPs Diane Abbott, Tahir Ali, extinction in Britain in Obama’s vice-president, Mr Apsana Begum, Richard Bur- the early 20th century Biden “played an important gon, Ian Byrne, Joanna Cherry, due to persecution and role in the decision not to pros- Jeremy Corbyn, David Davis, habitat changes. ecute Julian Assange over pub- Neale Hanvey, Ian Lavery, Car- lications relating to the Afghan STILL AT RISK: Julian Assange oline Lucas, Kenny MacAskill, and Iraq wars and conditions in leaves Westminster magistrates’ John McDonnell, Grahame Mor- Guantanamo Bay.” court in January last year ris, Kate Osborne, Bell Ribeiro- It points out that the pros- Addy, Tommy Sheppard, Zarah ecution carrying a 175-year The letter also notes that, Sultana, Jon Trickett, Claudia sentence was brought under despite Westminster magis- Webbe and Mick Whitley ex-president Donald Trump, trates’ court refusing the US signed the letter, as have Baron- and that the case has been con- application for extradition, ess Christine Blower, Lord John demned by civil liberties groups “unfortunately the US Depart- Hendy and Lord Prem Sikka. and senior media figures. ment of Justice is still pursu- [email protected]

n HUMANITARIAN CRISIS Kent won’t take any more unaccompanied refugee children by Bethany Rielly in this “unthinkable position” would reduce to the council’s again just 10 months after the safe allocation immediately.” last time that the local author- The council’s proposal for a KENT County Council is refus- ity was overwhelmed. judicial review asks Ms Patel to ing to accept any more unac- He warned that, from June direct other councils other than companied asylum-seeker chil- 14, the council will not take in Kent to take in their fair share dren, warning that its services new children until “sufficient of unaccompanied minors. have reached breaking point transfers have been made out- A Home Office spokesman for a second time in a year. side of Kent, bringing our num- said it has provided the coun- Council leaders said that bers back to safe levels.” cil with “substantial operational the number already in its care Mr Gough expressed disap- support, including transferring had returned to “unsafe levels,” pointment that Home Secretary those in need of support to other despite repeated warnings to Priti Patel has refused to use local authorities in the UK.” the government that local ser- her existing powers to force The department was also vices were struggling to cope. other councils to take their urged to fix its broken finan- SOUTHAMPTON READERS GROUP They spoke out after threat- fair share of unaccompanied cial support scheme for asylum- ening to take legal action asylum-seeker children under seekers, which is leaving whole against the Home Office over the national transfer scheme families to go hungry. PUBLIC MEETING the “extreme pressure” on the for such youngsters. Last month, thousands of Wednesday June 16 council’s services. “As we have experienced asylum-seekers were left with- The local authority is cur- over the past few years, there out their weekly stipend after Kill the Bill! Jail the Spycops! rently looking after more than is absolutely no evidence that a botched contract transfer With Star reporter Bethany Rielly 400 unaccompanied child asy- a voluntary national transfer stopped their Aspen cards from lum-seekers — almost double scheme has kept pace with the working. All welcome the recommended maximum ever-escalating new arrivals on In a letter to Ms Patel number — up from 274 since our shores,” he said. reported by the Independent Zoom: mstar.link/RSG-KTB the start of the year. “If every other local author- yesterday, more than 50 refu- Meeting ID: 899 5192 1626 The maximum recom- ity in the UK were to take two gee and asylum organisations mended by the government is or three under 18-year-old said the situation was “one of Login and view countdown material 231, the council said. [unaccompanied asylum-seeker the worst asylum crises we’ve from 6.50 for event start at 7pm Council leader Roger Gough children] who arrive at Dover ever experienced.” said that he was saddened to be into their care, Kent’s numbers [email protected] morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online news June 12-13 2021 5

n EDUCATION n AGRICULTURE Unite calls for NEW SNP MINISTER government action to raise pay on farms TRUMPETS PLAN TO A SHORTAGE of seasonal agricultural workers could be dealt with by decisive action to end chronic low pay in the sector, farm workers’ union Unite said CUT TEACHING TIME yesterday. WARNING: Union AGM backs walkouts if talks on classroom hours fail As agricultural bosses lamented that a “massive by Niall Christie their devotion to the profession hole” in the number of Scotland editor through the coronavirus crisis, people coming to Britain calling for an education-led to pick fruit had left some recovery where politicians stop growers “on the brink,” the SCOTLAND’S new Education using education as a political union called on ministers to Secretary has claimed she football. intervene to encourage good wants progress in cutting the Mr Flanagan also said there employment practices. amount of time teachers spend must be an end to temporary Unite national officer Bev in the classroom “as soon as and zero-hours contracts Clarkson told the Morning possible” as members of Scot- within schools and a vastly Star: “If pay, terms and con- land’s largest teaching union improved pay offer for teach- ditions were right in agricul- backed calls for a strike ballot. ers in the coming weeks. ture then there would be UK SNP minister Shirley-Anne “Education should be, workers available as well as Somerville told the Educa- requires to be, a national effort migrant workers. tional Institute of Scotland’s focused on the health and well- “That’s the big prob- (EIS) annual general meet- being of children providing the lem – there’s massive ing (AGM) on Friday that her resource need across the whole issues because workers are party’s promises to reduce the education sector,” he said. extremely low paid, they amount of time teachers spend “We need a greater vision don’t have any job security with youngsters by 90 minutes from the Scottish Parliament and are often treated badly. a week would reduce stress for and we need greater commit- “To prevent chronic workers and create 2,000 new ment because what has been labour shortages requires jobs. discussed so far is barely in not only individual employ- On Thursday, EIS members the foothills of what is really ers to up their game, but for backed calls for a strike ballot required to address the needs of the government to imple- if a deal is not reached in the PROMISES: Scottish Education Scotland’s young people. ment sector-wide reforms next 15 months to cut both Secretary Shirley-Anne Somerville “We do need to challenge the and assistance, including n AIDING PALESTINE class sizes and teachers’ class Scottish government and the reinstating the Agricultural donate contact time. party’s commitment, adding Parliament, I believe, to deliver Wages Board. The EIS wants a nine-year she wants local councils to do on their manifesto promises.” “Not being part of the Protesters ONLINE plan to be put in place by Sep- more to take on teaching staff The calls come amid warn- EU’s Common Agricultural morningstaronline tember 2022, with members on permanent contracts, insist- ings that Scotland is facing Policy should also mean gov- vow to keep at the AGM passing a motion ing the Covid-19 pandemic and a second year of exam crisis ernment making the alloca- .co.uk/page/ saying they could ballot for recovery needs to use “every unless the First Minister listens tion of farming subsidies up factory “industrial action up to and teaching resource that we have to pupils and campaigners. conditional on the creation support-us including strike action” if this available.” [email protected] of decent, secure jobs.” is not achieved. EIS general secretary Larry occupation Ms Somerville reiterated her Flanagan thanked members for PRODUCTION at an arms fac- tory which helps make weap- Unite Croydon ons for Israel remained at a standstill yesterday as Pales- n TRANSPORT Retired Members tine supporters staging an occupation on the building’s Branch roof vowed “to stay as long as we can to disrupt the factory.” Rail workers to strike in four Palestine Action support- Regret to announce the death of ers climbed onto the roof of the APPH factory in Runcorn, Zsuzsi Yardley Cheshire, in the early hours of separate Scottish disputes Thursday and protesters gath- (January 9 1940 – June 3 2021) ered at the factory gates yester- by Niall Christie ing for 11 days of strikes from vene and force their hand.” and sends deep sympathy to her day to support the occupiers. Scotland editor Tuesday over a pay freeze, while ScotRail reiterated its family. Huda Ammori, a co-founder railway maintenance staff in demands that the RMT call off of the group, said: “APPH is one Perth will also be taking strike its strike action, underlining She was the branch’s Equalities Officer, a of the key suppliers to Elbit RAIL union RMT announced yes- action on Tuesday and Wednes- that its position on worker pay stalwart of the trade union movement, an which provides drones to Israel. terday that strikes are set to go day over a breach of dignity and will not change. internationalist and supporter “This is one of many actions ahead in four separate disputes respect policy. Operations director David of all progressive causes. She will be greatly targeting companies linked to on Scotland’s railways as indus- RMT general secretary Mick Simpson said: “Railway jobs are Elbit Systems, such as suppli- trial relations hit a new low. Lynch warned that Scotland’s being put at risk by the reckless missed by her many friends and comrades. ers and landlords who enable Transport workers across railways are set for a long hot actions of the RMT and we are Elbit to supply weapons to kill Scotland will walk out over summer of disputes. urging union bosses to call off Palestinians.” the next week, with concerns “The fact that we now have these divisive strikes.” Nationwide protests take raised over pay for staff being four disputes running in Scot- Serco’s Kathryn Darbandi place today in support of Pales- offered by private contractors land shows just how badly pri- said the strike action is both tine, including a demonstration running the country’s railways. vateers like Abellio and Serco unjustified and very disap- Len Freeman assembling at Leeds town hall at On Sunday, ScotRail workers run their operations and treat pointing, adding: “We have 2pm and action in Manchester, will take action in their long- their workers,” he said. also been clear that we fully North Devon CPGB secretary, AUEW where people will meet in Picca- running fight for pay justice for “If the companies will not sit intend to resume pay talks next convenor, anti-racist and community dilly Gardens at noon to protest all grades and another dispute round the table and engage in year, once the business is in a activist died 12 June 1981 age 47. outside banks which invest in over enhancements for rest-day serious talks aimed at resolving stronger position.”n was “one of firms supplying the Israeli army. working. each of these disputes then the the worst asylum crises we’ve Remembered fondly by Gerrard Sables In London, protesters will gather RMT members on the Serco politicians responsible for issu- ever experienced.” and Margaret McGuinness. at Downing Street at 1pm. 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n LEBANON Palestinian refugees call for activists to increase resistance by Steve Sweeney Phalangists in 1982, a period ple in recent years, according in Bourj el-Barajneh which also saw the massacre to camp officials. refugee camp, Lebanon of thousands of Palestinian One wall painting depicts a refugees at the nearby Sabra young man “martyred” in such and Shatila camps during the a way in 2018. PALESTINIAN refugees at the Lebanese civil war. The Lebanese authorities largest camp outside the occu- Between 1984 and 1987, have turned their backs on pied territories urged support- Bourj el-Barajneh was sur- the residents, refusing to pro- ers around the world to keep up rounded by the now-disarmed vide clean water and banning demonstrations and increase Amal militia during a battle construction work, which is NORTHERN IRELAND: CUBA solidarity activists unfurled the biggest Cuban flag on Earth overlooking Belfast pressure on their governments for control of west Beirut. desperately needed to improve yesterday. Members of the Cuba Solidarity Forum Ireland (Belfast) climbed the Black Mountain to display the to isolate Israel as an apartheid Today, conditions at the living conditions in the camp. huge flag in protest against the ongoing US blockade of Cuba while US President Joe Biden is at the G7 in state. camp are squalid. Some 50,000 “This is not a life. Nobody Cornwall. Solidarity activists from all parts of Belfast took part. A world day of action will take place next At Bourj el-Barajneh on the people are crammed into just cares if you die,” Amina said, Saturday June 19 in opposition to the illegal blockade. Cavalcades against the blockade will take place in southern outskirts of the Leb- one square kilometre blighted adding that all the residents London, Manchester and Sheffield anese capital Beirut, student by air pollution and a lack of want is the right to return to Amina H told the Morning natural sunlight. the homes and land that they Star ahead of today’s march in Narrow streets are inacces- were driven from 72 years ago. that she was “proud to see the sible to ambulances and health- Fellow refugee Abu Omar numbers on the streets. care is at a bare minimum, agrees, saying that he holds the n SIX COUNTIES “Something has changed. with the United Nations Relief British government responsible People aren’t afraid any and Works Agency (UNWRA) for their plight since it “shame- more,” she added, saying that and NGOs including Doctors fully” gave their land away the Palestinian people gain Without Borders (MSF) provid- with the 1917 Balfour Decla- Sinister parade of masked strength from the global dem- ing only limited services. ration and is “continuing to onstrations, which they see Posters encourage take-up of support the oppressors of the as part of “a united struggle the Covid-19 vaccine, promis- Palestinian people.” against injustice.” ing that it is safe, while others “Britain must take a fierce men causes huge concern The camp she calls home was warn: “Drug dealers are Mossad stand in fighting injustice and established during the 1948 agents” — an indication that, oppression,” he said. by Our Foreign Desk been displayed on the national- witnessed tonight, including Nakba, in which thousands of perhaps unsurprisingly, nar- “We ask the people to stand ist side of the local peace wall masked men standing outside Palestinians were forced out of cotic use is a problem. by the Palestinians and help earlier this year. a DUP constituency office and their homes and driven from Electricity cables are danger- make our dream to return THE appearance of masked West Belfast MP Paul Maskey others holdings sinister ban- their land by zionist forces. ously intertwined with water to our homeland become a men leading an illegal loyal- criticised the gathering, saying ners targeting US President It was besieged by Israeli pipes, which has led to the fatal reality.” ist parade through Belfast on that the burning of the Irish Joe Biden. troops and Lebanese Christian electrocution of at least 80 peo- [email protected] Thursday night was “sinister flag was a deliberate attempt “Hooded men on our streets and concerning,” a Sinn Fein to provoke and raise tensions. or calls to provoke instability MP said yesterday. “We have witnessed the have no place in our society and Loyalists gathered in the recent violence on the streets those in positions of leadership Woodvale district on Thurs- where property was destroyed, need to make that clear.” day evening before marching police officers injured and Police have estimated that down the Shankill Road in people left terrified in their more than 3,000 people took protest against the Northern homes. Those scenes cannot part in the parade, which is Ireland Protocol, a key part of be repeated. more than the number allowed British Prime Minister Boris “The PSNI [Police Service of to gather in public under coro- Johnson’s Brexit agreement Northern Ireland] now need to navirus regulations. with the European Union that address this illegal parade and Chief Inspector Darren Fox some loyalists believe under- the actions associated with it. said yesterday that the footage mines their Britishness. “Those within positions gathered would be examined Footage posted on social of leadership in political for suspected breaches of public media showed the burning of a unionism also need to come health rules. united Ireland banner that had out and condemn the scenes [email protected]

n REFUGEE CRISIS ‘Paradise’ garden honours the drowned THE director-general of the site pays homage to the ship- currents, only to be tossed UN’s cultural agency Unesco, wrecked who lost their lives in onto the rubbish heaps of Audrey Azoula, inaugurated search of a better life “and in north Africa’s costal towns. a garden in the coastal Tuni- recognition of the commitment Koraichi says the garden, a sian town of Zarzis this week of artist Rachid Koraichi to fight place of solemn rest as much commemorating refugees who indifference and give them a as solace and reflection, is an drowned while attempting to dignified final resting place.” Islamic idea of a cemetery as a cross the Mediterranean. The Garden is both a sym- restful place. The Garden of Africa (Le Jar- bol and an actual burial It is a non-denominational din d’Afrique) is the concept of place for the refugees who space to be “filled with the Algerian-French artist Rachid perish along the perilous sound of water and teeming Koraichi, whose exhibition at sea routes of the Mediterra- with plants — jasmine, hibis- the October Gallery in London nean in search of a better life. cus, bougainvillea, cypress, was reviewed in the Star. Their countless remains are oranges and scented herbs — A Unesco plaque at the returned to the shores by the like a true garden of paradise.” morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online world June 12-13 2021 7

n MEXICO in brief Corpus Christi massacre remembered MEXICO marked the 50th The students didn’t get more and the will and orders of Presi- Bachelet signals anniversary of the 1971 Corpus than a few streets before they dent Andres Manuel Lopez Obra- Christi massacre on Thursday. were set upon by plain-clothed, dor, that these ominous events in rights concerns On June 10, the day of Cor- government-backed paramilitar- Mexican history do not remain pus Christi festival that year, ies, who killed around 120 people. in silence,” Mr Encinas said. MYANMAR: UN human students took to Mexico City’s At a commemoration on The killings were just part of rights chief Michelle Bache- streets to demand democratic Thursday, assistant interior what has become known as the let warned yesterday of a reform of the country. secretary Alejandro Encinas Dirty War, a conflict between military build-up in parts INDIA: Indian National Congress activists demonstrate against the rise in It was the first large-scale vowed that the massacre would the US-backed PRI government of the country, with the fuel prices in New Delhi, India, yesterday protest since hundreds of dem- not be forgotten. and left-wing opposition groups, army using heavy weapons onstrators were killed in the “It is the Mexican govern- students and guerillas across against armed groups as Tlatelolco massacre in 1968. ment’s irrevocable commitment, Mexico in the 1960s and ’70s. well as civilian targets. Ms Bachelet said more n PERU than 108,000 people have fled their homes in eastern Kayah state in the last Congratulations pour in three weeks, and her office cited “credible reports” for Castillo’s vote victory that security forces have shelled civilian homes and LEFT-WING figures across Latin in the popular struggle in our blocked access for humani- America began congratulating dear Latin America.” tarian aid. Peru’s Pedro Castillo on Thurs- Argentinian President The military ousted the day after the final votes in the Alberto Fernandez tweeted elected government of Aung country’s presidential election Mr Castillo on Thursday, saying San Suu Kyi in February. appeared to show he had won. that he hopes “we join forces Mr Castillo gained 50.2 per in favour of Latin America. We cent of the votes against right- are deeply twinned nations.” Marin’s first test as winger Keiko Fujimori’s 49.8 Bolivian leader Luis Arce said per cent. that his country “joins the cele- voters head to polls But Peru’s electoral tribu- bration of the Peruvian people, FINLAND: Local elections nal, expected to take a week a country with which we share go ahead on Sunday in a or more to officially declare the history and culture.” first test for Social Demo- winner, is evaluating 631 tally Former Ecuadorian president cratic Party leader Sanna sheets following unsubstanti- Rafael Correa said: “Congratula- Marin, who took office ated accusations of voter fraud tions to Pedro Castillo and to all shortly before the global from Ms Fujimori’s campaign. the Peruvian people. A simple outbreak of Covid-19. Brazil’s Luiz Inacio “Lula” pencil beat the [millionaires] The 35-year-old Ms da Silva said: “The result of and its corrupt press. The road is Marin, who became the Peruvian polls is symbolic very difficult, but Peru will get Europe’s youngest and represents another advance ahead. Ever onward to victory!” government leader in December 2019, has won international praise for her handling of the pan- n GREECE n SRI LANKA demic but her party has failed to attract young voters. The conservative Waters by sinking National Coalition Party and the far-right Finns COURT REFUSES TO Party are in the lead in cargo ship tested the polls. LET OBSERVERS Orban prepares for leaking oil homophobic Bill by Our Foreign Desk ing chemicals and oil on the HUNGARY: Prime Minister ship could devastate marine life. Viktor Orban has prepared The ship’s operator, X-Press new legislation that bans ATTEND TRIAL SRI LANKAN authorities have Feeders, said in a statement showing content encourag- by Our Foreign Desk were to be made scapegoats juvenile court, owing to the begun testing the waters on Thursday night that “a ing homosexuality or gen- for the EU’s inhumane migra- fact that they were minors at around a sinking cargo ship to grey sheen has been observed der transition to under-18s tion policy. the time of their arrest, was try to determine whether oil is emanating from the vessel, and under the guise of banning A GREEK court refused to “From the moment of their rejected. leaking from it, officials said water samples are currently pornography. allow independent legal arrest and before any due pro- Two of the Moria Six, as they yesterday as microplastics con- being tested.” LGBT rights activists observers and journalists cess of law, they have been are referred to by activists dis- tinue to wash up on its shores. The fire erupted on May 20 denounced the bills as to attend the trial of four presented to the public as the puting the Greek authorities’ Results of the tests taken on when the ship was anchored discriminatory, with some Afghan teenagers yesterday culprits,” the open letter reads. version of events, were jailed Thursday by the Marine Envi- at about 9.5 nautical miles comparing the proposed accused of burning down an “Rather than seeing the for five years after a six-hour ronment Protection Authority north-west of Colombo and legislation to a 2013 Rus- overcrowded refugee camp fire as an inevitable disaster trial in March. are still pending, the country’s waiting to enter Sri Lanka’s sian law banning gay last year. in a deadly camp infrastruc- The case against the four Environment Minister said. main port. The navy believes “propaganda.” The infamous Moria refu- ture, the Greek state arrested boys was ongoing as the Star The tests were prompted by that the blaze was caused by “These proposals, which gee camp on the Greek island six young Afghan migrants went to press. satellite images which showed its chemical cargo. have dark echoes of Russia’s of Chios burnt down last Sep- and presented them as the Elsewhere at Fortress a substance that could be oil in The fire burnt for 12 days anti-gay propaganda law, tember, leaving about 12,000 culprits and sole cause of the Europe’s edges, the EU-sup- the water near the Singapore- before being extinguished last will further stigmatise people without help from the fire, attempting to stifle fur- ported Libyan Coastguard flagged MV X-Press Pearl, which week. It then started sinking LGBTI people, exposing authorities for days until a ther public debate on the liv- intercepted and returned was devastated by a nearly two- and attempts to tow it into them to greater discrimina- new camp was built on what ing conditions inside the camp over 450 people attempting to week fire before it started sink- deeper waters failed when the tion in what is already a hos- was later revealed to be a for- and political responsibility.” escape the war-torn country ing last week. ship’s stern sank to the seabed. tile environment,” Amnesty mer military weapons testing Waiting outside the court on Thursday night. The fire destroyed most Commenting on the envi- International Hungary direc- ground. after members of the public Doctors Without Borders of the ship’s cargo, which ronmental disaster last week, tor David Vig said. Six teenagers have since were refused entry due to (MSF) also warned that its res- included 25 tons of nitric acid Greenpeace said: “Plastic is not been accused of starting the space restrictions, members cuers with its ship Geo Barents and other chemicals. just an ocean and waste prob- fire, but 70 refugee support of Legal Centre Lesbos said had also been threatened by the But debris, including burnt lem. From the beginning of its groups signed an open let- yesterday morning that the Libyans during a rescue mis- fibreglass and tons of plastic lifecycle all the way to its end, MORNINGSTAR ter last week warning that defence lawyers’ applications sion in the central Mediterra- pellets, have already polluted plastic is a climate, health and ONLINE.CO.UK the teenagers’ right to a fair to have three of the defend- nean on Thursday. nearby beaches and there are social justice issue.” trial was at risk and that they ants’ cases heard before a [email protected] concerns that a spill of remain- [email protected] Socialist news hub Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 8 June 12-13 2021 features @m_star_online

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

ABOVE: Actor and activist Jane Fonda joins a rally at the headwaters of the Mississippi in in Solway, Minnesota, against a Canadian’s firm plan to replace an aging pipeline carrying crude oil from Alberta to Wisconsin LEFT: No Big Ships activists protest as first cruise ship leaves Venice since the start of the pandemic, demanding that such huge vessels be rerouted out of the fragile lagoon due to environmental and safety risks

ABOVE: A Colombian police officer attacks an anti-government protester in Bogota during the latest of weeks of demonstrations triggered by proposed tax increases

ABOVE: Staff and supporters of the Aids Healthcare Foundation march in front of the federal building in central Los Angeles as they call for the United States to share its surplus Covid-19 vaccine supplies with hard-hit, poor countries around the globe LEFT: Anti-government protesters in Beirut hit a member of Lebanon’s police intelligence as he tries to flee on a traffic officer’s motorcycle. They had spotted the police spy taking pictures of the demonstrators morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online features June 12-13 2021 9

Diane Abbott shadow home secretary Out of step and out of touch

NTERNATIONAL politics and domestic politics are DIANE ABBOTT looks at the retrograde policies bound up with each other. Countries pursuing an iso- lationist agenda, however of a Tory government exposed by the G7 summit they dress it up, always find thatI the world does not stop, through attempts in the Com- public spending, on the vac- and no, you cannot get off. This mons to restore cuts in the cine waiver and on upholding proposition was brought sharply international aid budget. the Good Friday Agreement. It is into focus at the G7, where the Ministers seem to have no said that Biden wants to reduce British government’s reaction- awareness that any claim to nuclear weapons multilaterally. ary and authoritarian agenda moral authority in leading the The UK is increasing them uni- bumped up against the real G7 is disastrously undermined laterally. world. by these cuts. Socialists and the wider The G7 meeting has the The government mantra that labour movement, and other capacity to address some of the “there is no money left” for des- progressive forces, should world’s most pressing problems perately needed aid is clearly understand the importance of and make a significant contribu- hypocritical as it wastes the far these issues. tion to resolving them, in co- greater sum of £37 billion on It is often falsely claimed that operation with the global South. a failed private-sector test and we should “stick to bread and Yet this Tory government is trace system. butter issues.” generally playing a far from con- However, the dispute over But we lost the last two structive role in international the Northern Ireland Protocol elections with the best leader affairs, and is actually a block- shows the reactionary nature Labour has ever had and we age to progress on many issues. of this English nationalist gov- were offering bread, butter and Ahead of the G7 summit ernment at its most stark. Talks jam in our manifestos. itself, the finance ministers’ with the EU are close to collapse But the Tories literally meeting hatched a global plan and they are taking the UK gov- Trumped us with wild accu- to increase the tax on some very ernment to court. sations on international and large corporations. The US ambassador has related issues that have trac- If effective, this is a welcome issued a demarche, which The tion with some of the popula- development. It is a US-led break Times tells us “is a formal dip- tion. We need answers to these from a central neoliberal idea lomatic communication or pro- questions. that lower taxes means more test lodged with a government, At the same time Boris John- investment and better alloca- more commonly an adversary son says he rejects the term tion of resources. than a close ally.” “special relationship” because The economic toll of the world’s poorest countries as if they materialise. run-down in North Sea oil pro- Perhaps most important of it implies subservience. Covid crisis is very large in the production can be increased Probably the biggest chal- duction both mean it has had all the British government’s The truth is that ever since G7 countries because in general massively. lenge of all for the G7 is on the a relatively easy ride in reducing efforts to tear up the treaty it Suez British governments have they let the virus freely circu- Blocking the waiver, as the issue of climate change. Yet CO2 emissions. But the effect of signed flouts the will of the been completely politically sub- late. It is imperative that work- US did and the UK and other G7 we learnt recently that, while these is not going to be as sub- Irish people, North and South, servient to the US, a reflection ers and the poor are not faced members continue to do, means the government has ambitious stantial in the future. who opposed Brexit and support of the even longer-standing eco- with picking up the bill. that inevitably many, many peo- targets for reduction of emis- Huge and rapid action is both the Protocol and the Good nomic inferiority. The tax plan still faces many ple in the world’s poorer coun- sions, it has no concrete plan to required simply to continue Friday Agreement. Johnson’s English national- hurdles, but it is clear that the tries will needlessly die. achieve these at all. For all our those trends, but we are yet to Biden is certainly no social- ism also rejects Bidenism, and is British government’s role was Pledges of vaccines, which sakes they need to formulate see any evidence of that. ist, but this British government a vain attempt to “Make Britain in watering down the original are explicitly a response to the a robust plan ahead of COP26 The government’s very nega- which Donald Trump helped great again” echoing his friend Biden proposal for a common 21 positive work of China’s and later this year. tive international role and how to create is significantly to the Trump. per cent minimum rate, yet it Russia’s “vaccine diplomacy,” Britain’s long process of it is entwined with domestic right of the US president. This is causing him great had the gall to claim credit for are clearly less effective even de-industrialisation and the politics has been highlighted This is true on taxation, on difficulties internationally. It the entire deal. is long overdue that we cause We have also subsequently him similar difficulties at home. learnt that Chancellor Rishi Sunak has put a great deal of ■ Diane Abbott MP is a Labour effort into exempting the big Party Member of Parliament for banks from the tax plan, in Hackney North and Stoke New- order to preserve the City of ington. London’s untaxed profits. “ On the Covid crisis itself the [Johnson’s] Prime Minister’s claim that he wanted to lead in “vaccinating the world” also rings completely government is hollow. His government is one of the many rich Western coun- one of the many tries with Big Pharma compa- “ nies and who have blocked vac- rich Western It is said that cine patent waivers at the WTO. President Joe Biden has belat- edly supported the waiver. This countries with Biden wants to would allow rapid and large- scale production of generic Big Pharma reduce nuclear doses. But the UK is blocking it, and the only conceivable rea- companies which weapons son is to benefit the Big Pharma companies. multilaterally. The The promise of 500 million have blocked doses from the US and 100 mil- lion from the UK government vaccine patent UK is increasing should be understood in this context. Waiving patents means waivers at the WTO PROFOUND IRONY: The over-40s are being vaccinated with Sputnik V and Sinopharm in the gym of the them unilaterally vaccines can be supplied to the American Institute school in La Paz, Bolivia, last Friday Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 10 June 12-13 2021 features @m_star_online

Star comment The G7 summit is a renewed projection of US imperial power

YESTERDAY the US president and the British premier gave their ice-cream cones a last lick, took a lingering look at the West Country beach and got down to business with the other five leaders of the biggest capitalist states. One question they need to resolve, or at least bear in mind, as they sort out their constantly shifting alignments, is to what extent they exercise decisive leadership over economic, trade and geopolitical questions when the global balance of power is changing. Russia and China are not included in this discussion and won’t appear in the grinning line-up at the conclusion of the G7. But a combination of their military and economic weight and the shifting tectonic plates of global power-broking, which entails factors such as volatile political change in CHEERING FOR CLARA: Supporters of Morena’s candidate in the Iztapalapa borough of Mexico City Clara Brugada Latin America and new economic and political relationships on the Asian landmass, makes this summit less decisive than in earlier times. Joe Biden wants to restore the centrality of US economic, political and military power as the glue for a restored regime Victory for the left in Mexico of “multilateralism.” This is a term that must be read as code for the renewed projection of US imperial power and a restoration of the alli- DAVID RABY analyses the mid-term elections where the ances that Donald Trump’s erratic presidency undermined. Morena party held and even increased its representation

EXICO’S mid- had elections for governor; all lajara, population five million) between his 4T Transformation Boris Johnson’s enthusiastic glad-handing and forced inti- term elections but one of these positions were and Nuevo Leon (with the third and its opponents, and that it macy with the US president is his recognition that Britain’s produced a held by opposition parties until city, Monterrey, population 3.5 would be better to recognise “special relationship” with the US is in danger of being down- clear victory for last Sunday. million) remain right-wing this simple division. graded even further unless he can convince Biden’s masters Amlo’s Morena Morena won 11 of the 15, and strongholds. In some areas this strategy that even outside the EU Britain can still be a springboard party,M although with setbacks a 12th state (San Luis Potosi) was Jalisco has a right-wing gov- worked. In particular Morena’s for the projection of US power on our continent. in the major cities. won by its allies. ernor who still has three years decisive victories in gubernato- Much of the media comment is focused on the Northern The Mexican and interna- State legislatures were being of his term remaining, but rial elections in the north-west Ireland Protocol. The bit-player role of two of the EU’s many tional media have predictably elected in 30 of 32 states; Morena hoped to make gains in region, with unprecedented “presidents” — European Commission president Ursula von invented a “defeat” for Amlo Morena and its allies won local elections there and failed. wins in Baja California, Baja der Leyen and European Council president Charles Michel — and his 4T Transformation of majorities in 19 of the 30. The right again won the gov- California Sur, Sonora, Sinaloa is to echo French President Emmanuel Macron in insisting the country to benefit workers There were also elections for ernorship of Nuevo Leon (as and Nayarit, is a vindication of that the protocol is sacrosanct. and the poor, so let’s begin with mayors and councillors in over it has done for decades), and this. In this very effort they confirm that it is indeed infinitely the basic facts. 1,900 municipalities, with very Morena also failed to make But opposition alliances, or renegotiable. No amount of witless posturing by unionists All 500 seats in the lower varied results. gains in local elections there. tactical anti-Morena voting, will stand in the way of really big business. house of Congress (Chamber of The one clear setback for In both of these states local worked against Amlo’s party Britain is no longer part of the institutional superstruc- Deputies) were being renewed Morena and the left was in local right-wing elites have success- in greater Mexico City and in ture of the European Union but the essential features of (but not the Senate); 300 by first elections in Mexico City and the fully played on regional senti- some states like Chihuahua. our country’s integration into, and conformity with, the past the post and 200 propor- neighbouring State of Mexico ment to exclude the left. A more fundamental issue neoliberal regime that the EU has developed over the last tionally. (Edomex) which includes many The setbacks in Mexico concerns the character of decades has been renegotiated. Morena won 198 seats com- of the outer suburbs: opposition City and its suburbs are more Morena itself and the long-term pared with 191 in the previous parties took many of these posi- surprising, and do suggest a viability of Amlo’s project. such elections of July 2018; with tions from Morena. political problem for Amlo and Morena means “National two allied parties its coalition It should also be recognised Morena. Renewal Movement,” and it Trade in services and goods continue to be substantially won 280, so a clear majority. that Jalisco state (home to the In part, as Amlo has said, aims to be a broad grassroots tariff-free. State aid to industry and public ownership remain The media claim that before country’s second city, Guada- this is no doubt due to the movement for popular democ- highly regulated while the competitive tendering regime the elections Morena had 253 vicious campaign of lies and racy and social justice rather which has laid waste to public services remains. seats and thus lost 55, but they distortions by the media which than just a political party. The British government anticipated the UK-EU Trade and do not explain that this situ- have greater influence in the As with similar movements Co-operation Agreement with a late December 2020 UK ation only arose because dur- capital city. elsewhere, electoral logic forces Internal Market Act which gave effect to a mini-me single ing the previous two-and-a-half The tragic accident on Line 12 it to behave as a conventional market that cloned the EU’s regulatory regime. years many deputies “crossed of the city’s metro system just political party and to engage The main structural features of the British economy — a the floor” from other parties over a month ago, in which 24 in partisan manoeuvres and much-reduced industrial and manufacturing sector and col- to join Morena. “ people died, was used by the horse-trading, but this weakens lapsing investment combined with an overblown financial Comparing like with like — media against the government its radical potential. sector with an overdependence on services — presents the Morena’s electoral tally in 2021 The setbacks in and may have influenced the None of this, however, should government with special problems. compared to 2018 — the party vote. detract from the main story The 2008 financial crisis revealed the dangers of exposure actually gained seven seats. Mexico City and Another factor to be taken which is that Amlo and Morena to the US speculative housing market that comes bundled The media also claim that into account is that where pre- have just won a remarkable vic- in with the inflated size of the finance sector. Morena previously had the viously Morena was competing tory. Much of the Johnson government’s centralising efforts two-thirds majority necessary its suburbs are with two major opponents, PAN In Mexico as elsewhere, mid- are directed at resolving the contradiction between the to pass constitutional amend- and PRI, that often competed term elections normally lead to traditional Tory focus on controlling expenditure and the ments and has now lost this, more surprising, with one another, producing a substantial losses by the gov- need to sustain confidence and secure a minimum level of but again this is false: the only three-way race (and minor par- erning party: instead, Morena demand in the economy as a result of the Covid-19 crisis. constitutional amendments and do suggest ties also), now the opposition has held and even increased its We can anticipate further constraints on public spending, Amlo and Morena succeeded united in many of the elections representation at various levels increased taxes on working people and a managed inflation in passing were achieved by a political in two- or three-party alliances of government. to erode wages. negotiating with a section of against Morena. Far from demonstrating that Britain has an equal relation- the opposition, and this will To an extent this scenario ■ David Raby is a retired academic ship with the US, this summit reveals Britain as a junior still be the case if they want problem for Amlo was deliberately created by and independent researcher on partner, privileged in some ways above others, but subor- to pass any more such amend- Amlo in a high-stakes strat- Latin America. He can be reached dinate and subaltern. ments. and Morena egy: for over a year he has been at [email protected] and on Fifteen of Mexico’s 32 states saying that the real choice is Twitter @DLRaby. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online features June 12-13 2021 11 The G7 in the era of the US’s new cold war on China

HE G7 meet in Cornwall. The Biden is making a last-ditch effort to shore up the hierarchical power United States is back. The world’s richest nations structure of the world with the US at its head, warns JENNY CLEGG are once again to Ttake the lead. The precedent for this re- The humanitarian disasters styling of Western world lead- that are their responses to ership lies in the “coalition of Covid are brushed aside; the the willing” that launched the last 20 years of failed wars and war on Iraq in 2003, circumvent- financial crises, forgotten. ing the UN. Billed as the most consequen- Likewise, a new grouping of tial G7 summit in 20 years, this “like-minded democracies,” set is the platform for Joe Biden’s up to serve as judge, jury and global launch of his new cold executioner in co-ordinated war on China. policies and actions to deal with The G7 group — France, China, will surely sideline the Italy, Japan, Britain, the United UN altogether. States, Germany and Canada — But Russia and China are came together on an informal making a stand. Russia’s For- basis to manage the global eign Minister Sergey Lavrov economy against challenges, has countered the West’s goal for example from the 1970s to develop its own rules “in Organisation of the Petroleum closed, non-inclusive formats, Exporting Countries (Opec) oil [to then be] imposed on every- shocks. one else,” pointing out: “The These advanced industrial- United Nations must serve as the ised countries, though only 10 key platform for co-ordinating per cent of the world’s popula- efforts: it is the backbone of the tion, made up 80 per cent of modern global order, where all world GDP. independent states are repre- However as developing econ- sented.” omies grew, concessions had At the same time, China’s to be made: Russia was admit- SPOILING FOR A FIGHT: USS Theodore Roosevelt marauding around the eastern Pacific Pic: Kaylianna Genier, US Navy/Creative Commons Foreign Minister Wang Yi, ted (on a limited basis only) calling for the need to pursue in 1997 to form the G8; then his presidency, Biden was to The G7 now is to form the “Wuhan lab theory” is floated such a “steering mechanism” equity and justice, not bullying some countries from Africa, state categorically, regarding heart of a collective effort to to manipulate discussion of the requires a military component. or hegemony, stated: “Interna- Asia and Latin America were predictions of Chinese world stop China’s rise at the behest pandemic. And most significantly John- tional rules must be based on invited to attend the summits leadership: “That’s not going of Boris Johnson who, to earn The cold war mission of the son’s selection of invitees to international law, and must be and the G20 including China, to happen on my watch … If his stripes as Washington’s summit came clear at a meeting Cornwall provides the oppor- written by all. They are not a India and other large develop- the West doesn’t unite to make most special ally, has invited of G7 foreign ministers in May tunity to bring the Indo-Pacific patent or a privilege of a few. ing countries was formed in the rules for the 21st century, “like-minded” democracies which expressed concerns over Quad — Australia, India, Japan They must be applicable to all 1999. China will.” — India, South Korea, South tensions in the Taiwan Strait as and the US — together with the countries, and there should be However, when the 2008 Where Trump succeeded in Africa and Australia — to join well as “the negative pattern major Nato allies. no room for exceptionalism or financial crisis broke and the bringing China in from the mar- the summit. of Russia’s irresponsible and The Biden roadshow will then double standards.” world economy faced melt- gins to the centre of US security That anyone could believe destabilising behaviour.” bowl on to Brussels for the Nato As with past G7 summits, the down, the G7 ducked out, concerns, Biden is making it his the purported aims of the meet- The Cornwall meeting is in summit followed by the US-EU Cornwall gathering is an oppor- handing over responsibility mission to shift opinion among ing — recovery from the Covid fact the start of a process to summit to extend the “major tunity for protest over global to the larger grouping — and US allies and friends to view pandemic and preparedness redesign the way the world is power” revamp into the world’s inequality, climate justice and especially China — to get out China as an existential threat against future pandemics; trade run to fit the future of “great largest military alliance as well war spending. of the mess. to the entire world. and world economic recovery; power competition.” as the transatlantic relationship. Certainly, the richest nations Since then, with the G7 dwin- and climate change — would This, according to the US cold From this, Biden intends to should bear the largest share of dling to a 40 per cent share of be properly addressed without warriors, demands not just the bring as much pressure as possi- the costs in tackling the world’s world GDP, its legitimacy and the inclusion of China beggars co-ordination of policy but pro- ble to bear on Vladimir Putin so problems. credibility have been increas- belief. active measures in particular as to weaken the Russia-China But this is no longer simply ingly challenged by the G20, Rather, the intent of Western to address the challenges posed partnership. about the global North versus representing 80 per cent of leaders is to show they can do by China. the global South. global GDP and two-thirds of “far better than the autocrats Why is it that, when faced the world’s population. “ in Russia and China.” rawing in other with problems of the utmost The US was to find it difficult However their headline-grab- democracies in a urgency, the G7, instead of tak- to corral the other G20 mem- Biden is making bing gestures promise more flexible way, the ing concrete action around a bers against China’s economic than they deliver — a pledge of G7 is to be recast unifying agenda to boost the “manipulations.” it his mission to a billion vaccines for developing as such a mecha- Much of the work global recovery, seeks to deepen The G7 then began to big countries whilst still blocking nism to manage “ dividing lines and disrupt inter- itself up as an ideological com- shift opinion the Trade Related Intellectual Dthe rules-based international of the summit national relations? munity, defending democracy Property Rights (Trips) waiver; order to hold China “account- Biden is making a last-ditch and upholding human rights. a global corporation tax that able for violations of interna- all-out effort to shore up the hier- However its summits were among US allies is full of exemptions and loop- tional law,” and to restrict its takes place in archical power structure of the notable for little other than holes for the financially savvy economic and technological world with the US at its head. the expulsion of Russia over and friends to to exploit; a ban on interna- engagement with others. private It is by no means certain the Ukraine in 2014. tional funding for coal-fired Much of the work of the sum- that other democracies are so Even to Western eyes, the view China as an power stations but no sign of mit takes place in private con- conversations like-minded about this race for grouping appeared a “hopeless ending subsidies to the fossil versations and sideline meetings global supremacy. relic of a bygone era.” fuel industries. with invitees. Protests should question the In 2020, president Donald existential New proposals to support It is here that the pressure is and sideline fundamental legitimacy of the Trump called it a “very out- high-quality infrastructure piled on to find China guilty of G7. The route to global equality dated group of countries.” threat to the investment look to outshine human rights abuses (Xinjiang) meetings with lies through the UN — that is Now suddenly the G7 is back. China’s contributions to global and violations of democratic the place where decisions that So what changed? entire world development through the Belt freedoms (Hong Kong). invitees affect the whole world should Within weeks of assuming and Road Initiative, while the But to really be effective be made. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 12 June 12-13 2021 features @m_star_online An open letter from representatives of Chinese professionals in the UK to G7 leaders

E ARE a collective of profes- sionals of Chinese ethnic Worigin residing in the United Kingdom. We wish to express the com- munity’s hope that leaders at the 2021 G7 will take all neces- sary step to defuse the current hostility towards China and the Chinese people. Many of us had lived experi- ence in China, and extensive relationships with the coun- try and people. We implore the leaders of the G7 to regard China as a friend and not as an enemy. We are glad that the Covid-19 pandemic is the main agenda for the 2021 G7 conference. However, we are anxious that this forum should not be abused as a platform to propagate anti-China Covid- 19-related myths. As the April 7 2020 Nature publication rightly warned: “Continuing to associate a virus and the disease it causes with a specific place is irresponsible and needs to stop.” As infectious disease epi- demiologist Adam Kucharski reminds us in his timely book The Rules of Contagion, history tells us that pandemics lead to communities being stigma- tised, which is why we all need to exercise more care. The international rule-based system has designated the WHO as the competent body to deal with such a pandemic. Hence, all political accusa- tions about the virus that are not science-based are unhelpful TENSIONS RISING: A child [in] public opinion, especially and a distraction to making the passes by a poster with the slogan in areas like corruption, envi- world safe from the pandemic. ‘Receive Covid-19 vaccination, ronmental degradation, health, A member of this collective, jointly build an Immunity Great and overall standards of living.” Dr Michael Ng, a community Wall’ in Beijing and (right) A Royal When considering whether leader and a university profes- Navy Merlin helicopter lands on China is a friend and partner, sor in the UK, is involved in the HMS Queen Elizabeth which or enemy, G7 should consider combating pandemic-related has been deployed in a the independent findings of the hate crimes against the Chinese provocative move to the “ Ash Centre. community. Philippine Sea We are concerned that cur- He wishes to remind the All political rent hostilities towards China G7 that any attempt to politi- We note with concern the in the West are manufactured cise the Covid-19 issue against United States’ anxiety over the accusations and ratcheted up in the United China would fan the flame of economic rise of China. States to serve the interest of the hate crimes against the com- China’s per capita GDP is about the virus military-industrial complex and munity. only one-fifth of the United the electoral needs of both the That would undo all the States, with only one military as Western critics and media The millions of Chinese who Democrats and the Republicans. excellent efforts of the local base abroad compared to 800 visualise. vote with their feet to return that are not The alleged genocide in Xin- councils, civic groups, police of the United States. The Chinese people are home after their travel and jiang and the threat of invasion force and community leaders It is not a threat to the West. aware of the ideological dif- studies in the West corroborate science-based of Taiwan are the two most who had helped defuse the China’s rise is complementary ferences between the West with the Ash Centre findings. important examples. spread of hate crimes. to Western interests. and China. China’s governance is differ- are unhelpful Dr Ping Hua, a research scien- A more prosperous China Yet over 90 per cent support ent from the West. That does On genocide in Xinjiang tist, is concerned that the rise of could only benefit working the government in Beijing. This not necessarily mean that the hate crimes and daily demonis- people in the West through is the finding from a 13-year long Communist Party of China and a distraction We believe that the claim of ing of China has created such a higher demands for Western survey carried out by the Ash (CPC) can defy the wishes of its genocide in Xinjiang is unten- hostile environment for Chinese goods and services. Centre of Harvard University. citizens. This is the conclusion to making the able as the Uighur population scientists that it could stymie Treating China’s rise as a They found that the major- of the survey. has increased from five million the scientific and intellectual threat to the United States or ity of the population surveyed According to Edward Cun- world safe from to 13 million since the 1950s. exchanges between the West the West is based on fiction. feels that today is better than ningham, who co-authored If China does enslave a million and the world’s fastest-growing China is not a utopia, but it yesterday. They expect tomor- the research from 2003-2016, Uighurs, the CIA enhanced aerial economy. is undoubtedly not a dystopia row to be better than today. the “CPC isn’t immune to shifts the pandemic surveillance technology could morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online features June 12-13 2021 13

DENIS ROGATYUK welcomes the election of Pedro An open letter from representatives of Castillo in the face of a fearmongering campaign conducted Chinese professionals in the UK to G7 leaders by his right-wing electoral opponent, Keiko Fujimori EDRO CASTILLO, a rural teacher and union leader, has easily prove the allegation with remarked historian Max Hast- won the Peruvian A new chapter in the video images of prisoners in the ings in a recent opinion piece in elections with yards. They have not done so. Bloomberg, was not even con- 50.179 per cent Critics of China have studi- sidered by the China experts andP a margin of approximately ously ignored a World Bank advising the US administration. 60,000 votes (0.4 per cent). history of Peru statement of November 11 2019 Hastings had raised a valid Keiko Fujimori, the candidate that dealt with the allegation question. The overwhelming of the far-right and the daughter that skills and learning institu- majority of countries world- of ex-dictator Alberto Fujimori, tions associated with the bank wide recognise the People’s has cried fraud and commenced were de facto prisons. Republic of China as the legiti- a legal battle to overturn the “In line with standard prac- mate government of China and result by demanding the annul- tice, immediately after receiving pursue the one-China policy. ment of over 200,000 votes a series of serious allegations in This is de facto recognition across Peru’s rural regions. August 2019 in connection with of China’s sovereignty over Tai- And while the current presi- the Xinjiang Technical and Voca- wan. To China, it is an unfin- dents of Argentina, Bolivia, Nic- tional Education and Training ished reunification process. aragua and Venezuela have con- Project, the Bank launched a The United States has its own gratulated Castillo as the presi- fact-finding review, and World hidden agenda to embolden the dent-elect, Fujimori appears to Bank senior managers travelled Taiwanese separatists, in the be determined to seize power to Xinjiang to gather informa- same vein as encouraging Uig- through a process similar to the tion directly … the review did hur or Hong Kong separatists. coup that took place in Bolivia not substantiate the allegations.” We hope the G7 should advise in November 2019. Mr Bitu Bhalla, a member the United States to refrain from When analysing the cam- of the Honourable Society of redefining its one-China policy, paign of both sides, the dras- Gray’s Inn and international thereby destroying any likeli- tic differences between the arbitrator, and Mr Wah-Piow hood of an amicable arrange- two candidates are not only Tan, a Balliol-educated human ment for reunification. ideological, but also cultural rights solicitor, were unim- and societal. pressed by the various legal The impending war Castillo’s image as a humble opinions supporting the claim rural teacher from the northern of genocide against China. We are particularly con- region of Cajamarca and a union “China and the World Bank’s cerned that Britain’s aircraft leader who led a successful $100 million education and carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth national teachers’ strike in 2017 training program in Xinjiang,” II, the third-largest globally, resonated so strongly among the they observed, “is cast-iron evi- is speeding towards Taiwan to rural and urban populations of THE PEOPLE dence that China has no spe- flex its muscles at China. the country’s interior that the HAVE cific intention to kill a part or Instead of supporting the final vote tally was over 80 per SPOKEN: whole of the Uighur population. hawkish approach of the United cent in many of them. Pedro Castillo Without specific intention, States towards China, the G7 Castillo completely oblit- waves to there cannot be any genocide. should review the futility of erated Fujimori in the regions supporters and “What genocide regime wars launched since the Sep- of Puno (89 per cent), Huancave- (below) losing would spend $100 million to tember 11 2001 attack. lica (85 per cent), Cusco (83 per candidate Keiko educate and train the people The wars in Afghanistan, cent), Apurimac (81 per cent) Fujimori you plan to kill?” Syria, Iraq and Libya had caused and Ayacucho (81 per cent). They are also disappointed 800,000 deaths, displaced 21 This “deep Peru” also has a that the issues of proportionality million people, wasted $6.4 profoundly indigenous charac- constituent assembly, like the promises of her campaign was personified by an individual of were not adequately addressed, or trillion. These wars created ter (especially Cusco), which one recently founded in Chile. the proposed “water bonus” humble origins who never held addressed at all by those barris- failed states, not democracies. strongly rejected the rule by He also promised immediate to assist in the cost of utilities a political office but sought to ters criticising China’s response The current propaganda war the Lima-based oligarchy. action on the Covid-19 pan- throughout Peru’s central and fulfil the popular demands of to the threats of terrorism. complementing the military Castillo and Peru Libre used demic through mass importa- northern regions. the majority that have been “Unlike Britain or the United adventures against China are a similar campaign formula tion of the Sputnik-V vaccine It was pointed out many forgotten and neglected for States, China confronts an al- efforts to retain US hegemony. that handed them the first- from Russia and continual co- times that it was her father, decades. Qaida and Isis-inspired insur- The flawed policy has more round victory — campaign operation with China. Alberto Fujimori, who was In this manner, his vic- gency seeking to establish an dire consequences than those meetings, rallies and gather- During his campaign, he also responsible for the privatisa- tory echoes those achieved by Islamic caliphate in Xinjiang of the last two decades. ings throughout Peru’s south, opposed the US intervention in tion of water utilities in the Hugo Chavez, Lula da Silva, Evo and central Asia.” The G7 should review the pre- centre and the north. Venezuela and promised that first place. Morales and Rafael Correa. vious 20 years of war launched These are the regions that the country would leave the The legacy of Alberto, Kei- Castillo is poised to write a On the China threat by the US before contemplating bore the brunt of Fujimori’s “Lima Group” comprised of the ko’s own role in his govern- new chapter in the history of to Taiwan to support Biden’s military-led neoliberal policies and repres- region’s key right-wing govern- ment and the current investiga- Peru and the wave of popular Indo Pacific Tilt, which is the sion in the ’90s. ments that have been pushing tions against on her on charges left-wing governments. According to the Economist, code word for China-bashing Castillo’s first-round campaign for the overthrow of the gov- of bribery and corruption also Taiwan has become the most in the South China Seas area. was also considered remarkable ernment of Nicolas Maduro. weighed heavily on her cam- dangerous place globally because The stakes are so high that for mostly ignoring social media On the other hand, Fujimori’s paign. of the risk of military conflict the advice of Bruce Kent, the (Castillo did not have a Twitter campaign was a blend of fear- The disappearances and assas- between the United States and veteran peace campaigner, or an Instagram account until mongering, pork-barrel populism sinations of social campaigners China. There is enough nuclear ought to be taken seriously: after the first-round victory) and huge investment in publicity and trade union activists, the weaponry between them to “We can learn to live harmoni- and instead embracing tradi- in all of Peru’s private media. forced sterilisation of more than destroy the planet. ously as neighbours … we have tional face-to-face campaigning This was especially profound 250,000 indigenous women, the What the United States per- to learn to live as partners.” throughout the country. in Lima and its metropolitan privatisation of state industries ceives as China’s threat to Tai- TAN WAH PIOW Throughout the mass meet- area, as well as the country’s and the theft of hundreds of wan is viewed differently by the (Universal Common Sense) on ings that he held in the coun- coastal regions. millions of dollars under Chinese people. behalf of the Collective of Chinese try, he spoke of the need to end Throughout the campaign, the rule of Fujimori is At an International Affairs Professionals the vicious cycle of corruption massive billboards projected still fresh in the coun- Fellowship forum, a US think within Peru’s neoliberal state, text and images such as “Yes try’s memory. tank, a panellist reported that ■ Tan Wah Piow is a Balliol-edu- recover and renationalise the to Democracy! No to Commu- In the end, this 100 per cent of overseas Chi- cated human rights solicitor, practis- key industries, utilities (espe- nism!” and “We don’t want to vision of a repeat nese students in the United ing in London and director Universal cially water) and Peru’s natural be another Venezuela!” of the 1990s under States considered Taiwan a Common Sense. For background to resources. The desperation of the part Keiko’s presidency province of China. Bruce Kent’s comments watch War Castillo also embraced the of Fujimori’s campaign was pushed the country “The possible validity of No More a DVD production avail- popular demand for a new con- notable. to embrace a radi- Chinese claims” over Taiwan, able at www.abolishwar.org.uk. stitution and the creation of a One of the most ridiculed cal social change Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 14 June 12-13 2021 info | entertainment @m_star_online

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Commie Chef CROSSWORD 1,XXX set by Alamet QUIZMASTER with William Sitwell TODAY’S QUESTIONS Asparagus and new 1 In London, what does 3 True or false: Edward LEZ stand for? Elgar wrote an opera potato salad based on the story of 2 Two eagle specimens Rama and Sita. ASPARAGUS isn’t cheap, but enough given the high levels were rescued by some this is the time of year when of unemployment that hit in kayakers on the Danube it should be affordable for we the thirties, nobody knew recently. Were they members of the subordinate you could eat it! It was grown steppe eagles, white- classes. purely as an ornamental plant. tailed eagles or golden When I lived in Huddersfield, So, if you can afford it, here eagles? there was a clump in our tiny is a very simple recipe. If not, garden. try replacing the asparagus Our elderly neighbours told with green beans. us that it had become popular Frozen are best when they’re YESTERDAY’S ANSWERS in the 1920s but, tragically out of season. 1. Did Aristophanes write 3. Edmonton and St John’s comedies or tragedies? are both Canadian provin- Comedies. cial capitals and suburbs of 2. How many legs does a which English city? London. Ingredients cockatrice have? Two – like a wyvern, with a cock’s head. ■ 450g/1 lb new potatoes, scrubbed and chopped into bite-sized pieces ■ about 200g/8 ozs green ACROSS DOWN DAILY SUDOKU (pretty tough) asparagus 1. Doctor provided soak returned 1, 24. No clappers use this for ■ about 200g/8 ozs broad to vagrant (7) exercise (4-4) beans 5. Beat the starter with odd out- 2. Prompts church to be engulfed ■ tbsp white wine vinegar burst (7) by river (7) ■ tsp mild mustard 9. Long ago perhaps press for clean 3. Jazz with constant dealing (5) ■ back (9) 4. Turning up predella’s reverend 2 tbsps olive or rapeseed oil 10. Force 5 across on president (5) members (8) 11. Selecting the best pricy ring? 5. Flowers’ edges support organ- Heck, that’s outrageous (6-7) ised workers (6) 13. Travesty of justice is a bit of a 6. I can get on uneasily with wine What to do blow I admitted (8) seller (9) 15. Took what they say you’ll find 7. University study (7) Drop the asparagus and broad at Wimbledon (6) 8. Appeasing soldier going up to beans into boiling water with 17. Body of soldiers that is not college seeing top removed (10) a little salt added. discontented going east (6) 12. Setter’s left nude model be- 19. Bad habit – half of capital does sieged (10) Boil for 15 mins, then winter sport (8) 14. Fixed up tax-free grass outside remove. 22. Box? Unlikely – it’s violent, see (9) Leave the vegetables to cool (10,3) 16. “Red or Dead” is creating chaos to room temperature while the 25. Dark close to junction (5) (8) spuds are cooking. 26. Subject to strain and stress (9) 18. Bad wind raising bottom is not Don’t drain the boiling water 27. Misled, was first returning to allowed (7) — cook the potatoes in it for 20 turn to half-hearted document (7) 20. Dry ice starting to be found in minutes or until soft enough to 28. Untreated timber rip-off (3,4) material network (7) 21. Switch disuse put out (6) poke through with a fork. 23. Guard propeller (5) Mix the rest of the ingredi- 24. see 1 down ents together to form a dressing and pour this over the veg. I like this served with an omelette or other egg dish. Solution on Monday… Solution on Monday… morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online features | entertainment June 12-13 2021 15

This uplifting short can still be caught free on the BFI web- site. Probably the pinnacle of Birmingham revives Co-op film in this period was The Men of Rochdale (1944), a remarkable film promoted by the Scottish CWS to mark the “ centenary of the formation of Many cinema the first co-op shop in Roch- dale. pioneers had begun Co-op film tradition No expense was spared in its production, directed by Compton Bennet, script by using co-op halls Reg Groves and music by no NICK MATTHEWS welcomes the return of the Co-op films – less than the London Sym- for cinema phony Orchestra. There is a a movement that has given us fantastic cinema over decades terrific role for John Lawrie as exhibition before a businessman threatened by the new co-op. S A child raised on Post-war was of course a new the first world war, Saturday morn- world with rising consumerism ing club at my and the arrival of television, but it really local fleapit, I have but the movement never for- always had a love got its early foray into cinema. blossomed forA cinema. A medium that, by For many years, the Co-oper- just turning down the lights, ative Group was the sponsor can silence hundreds of chil- of the of British Youth Film between the wars dren does it for me. Academy. The BYFA was itself As a co-operator it is heart- a co-operative of colleges and with some societies ening that there is a very long universities which gave young relationship between the people hands-on experience opening purpose- movement and cinema. Back of filmmaking. Many of the in 1914 in a rallying call the participants in their summer Co-operative News asked: “The schools went onto careers in built cinemas cinema: should it be used for the industry. co-operative purposes?” One of the films they pro- Seeing that cinema had THE BIG, duced was The Rochdale Pio- the means of “attracting the FLOATING, neers, released in 2012 and The festival involves feature masses — young and old — in SCREEN: inspired by the 1944 Men of films, shorts and an exciting cat- a way that would enable them An audience Rochdale. Many of the cast and egory of brand new five-minute to obtain knowledge, and at watches a film at crew were recruited from the films in three categories, telling the same time be vastly enter- the The Openaire BYFA and worked alongside co-op stories, social justice drama tained.” Float in London established actors like John and social justice documentary. Many societies across the Henshaw and John McArdle. For several weeks submissions in country took up this gauntlet It received its TV premier on this category have been coming as the local Co-op Hall provided commercial cinema operators ebration of Co-op tea, in 1930. It shows how a housewife gal- Channel 4. in and I am looking forward to a convenient location for show- whose business model was It was not just in the showing vanises her husband through This year for Co-operatives seeing the best of them. ing films. It was also popular threatened. There was genuine and distribution of films that the co-operative movement Fortnight that spirit of engage- The culmination of the festi- with Co-op members who could fear among the exhibitors that the Co-op became involved; and ends with them joining ment between co-operation val will be an in-person awards get their divi on their tickets. the Co-op was going to open a they began commissioning and the May Day march of that year and cinema is being revived ceremony on the afternoon of Many cinema pioneers had cinema circuit. making them. accompanied by rousing music with the Just Film festival to July 4 at the Warehouse Cafe begun using co-op halls for The Co-op had seen cinema The best examples of these by Benjamin Britten. be held between the June 18 in Digbeth, Birmingham. It cinema exhibition before the as an advertising medium, films include Advance Democ- The film’s director Ralph Bond, and July 4. This online festival is time to attract a new mass first world war, but it really using especially produced racy (1938), a remarkable short co-founder of the London Work- is being prompted by Birming- of film-lovers to educate and blossomed between the wars short films distributed to over a made during the People’s Front ers Film Society, believed in “put- ham Co-operative Film Society entertain. Check it out. I am with some societies opening thousand cinemas each season Movement of the late ’30s pro- ting the worker on the screen as supported by Central England already as excited as I was when purpose-built cinemas. to promote co-op products such moted by the four London Co- a positive and vitally important Co-op and the Co-op News. I was that small child on my Much to the annoyance of as The Cup that Cheers, a cel- operative Societies. aspect of life as a whole.” (www.justfilm.coop) way to Saturday morning club.

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Aardman’s first film made Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, killing a man while driving Film entirely in computer 10pm Talking Pictures drunk, and Stephen Graham, ROUSING: Saturday animation rather than stop Robert Aldrich-directed 1964 an officer compromised Can a fit and motion, an adventure comedy southern-gothic psycho- Oklahoma, 1.15pm BBC2 by family circumstances. in form again about the rats of London voiced thriller with Bette Davis, Classic 1955 Rodgers & Gripping. Gareth Bale by a splendid cast led by Hugh Olivia de Havilland and Joseph lift Wales one Hammerstein musical about Fargo, midnight Channel 4 Jackman, Kate Winslet and Ian Cotton. “The guignol is about The fourth series of the Coen more time? two young cowboys’ attempts McKellen. as grand as it gets,” quipped brothers-inspired black- to woo their sweethearts. critic Judith Crist. Summer Holiday, comedy crime anthology Hidden Figures, 1.50pm BBC2 continues. Italian and 8pm Channel 4 Not-so-classic 1963 musical. Documentary black gangs fight it out for 2016 fact-based drama Don (Cliff Richard) and Sunday domination in Kansas City, about three African- his chums persuade their Brian Cox’s Adventures in American women whose employer to lend them November 1950. Chris Rock Space and Time, 9pm BBC2 genius in mathematics and a double-decker for a heads an excellent cast. The prof takes a fresh look engineering made a significant continental trip. Compare and at the concept of gravity, Yesterday’s sudoku Saturday contribution to the space race. contrast with the following, Joe Allen, Aaron Ramsey and revealing it to be far more Football: Wales v featuring the US’s, ahem, pale Bale himself are going to need Deadfall, than just the force that makes Switzerland, 1.15pm BBC1 imitation of Cliff. the youthful legs of the likes of 8.25pm Talking Pictures things fall to the ground. The belated 2020 European Harry Wilson and Dan James to 1968 Bryan Forbes-directed King Creole, championships begin for do the running for them. drama: “Michael Caine 3.45pm Talking Pictures Drama the home nations with this BBC1 also screens England plunges into the world of the 1958. musical drama directed awkward-looking encounter v Croatia on Sunday (kick-off adulterous… the treacherous… by Michael Curtiz, starring Sunday with the Alp-dwellers (kick- 2pm), while the Tartan Army and the perverse!” screams the Elvis Presley, Carolyn Jones Time, 9pm BBC1 off 2pm). must wait till Monday for publicity poster. How can we and Walter Matthau. A Episode two of the Jimmy Can Gareth Bale inspire Scotland’s Hampden clash with resist? rebellious young man takes a McGovern-written prison-set Wales to reach the dizzy the quite good Czech Republic job at a nightclub, attracting three-part drama with Sean heights of 2016? Wise old heads (kick-off 2pm on BBC1). Sunday the attention of a local crime Bean as guilt-riddled teacher Flushed Away, 11.35am E4 boss. Mark, a first-timer jailed for Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 16 June 12-13 2021 culture @m_star_online

The Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s announcement that there’ll be visa-free touring for musicians in some European countries is beyond a joke Pic: DirkVE/Creative Commons DirkVE/Creative Pic: Thanks, but no thanks Oliver Dowden AS A musician and poet accus- a gig in the third if I had had and most expensive beer I have it. So we chugged in, parted the dair flight to the tomed to doing a substantial more than two hours’ notice of ever drunk. And I’ve never had tumbleweed, somehow found a US via Reykjavik part of my work in mainland my overnight stay. to pay for it ‘cos it’s always been bar which reminded me of East- which arrived too Europe, I’d like to congratulate Allow me to reminisce. I on my rider. You can see why bourne in the 1970s and, realis- late for the connect- Oliver Dowden on his much love Norway. I have toured I’m fond of the place now. ing we were unlikely to ever be ing flight, allowing us longed-for breakthrough agree- there enough times to release I have been to Lichtenstein, invited to rock the place, I did an overnight stay there ment allowing us to tour there an album — imaginatively which is an achievement, a short poem. Purely so I can at the airline’s expense. visa-free once more. titled Live in Norway — and because it is very small and now say, I have performed in We marvelled at the I don’t want to sound churl- am especially fond of Trond- difficult to find: a lot of people Liechtenstein. treelessness, the steam ish in his moment of triumph heim, where my wife Robina don’t know where it is at all. I Thanks, Oliver. coming out of the ground, but it behoves me to observe and I have always been very do, although I have to confess Iceland is a fascinating coun- the linguistic connections to that it does, however, miss a well looked after by our friends I found it by accident. It nestles try with a proud indie music Old English and the fact that few countries out. Torgeir Lund, her favourite host proudly at the top of, and in history. I’ve performed in all a bottle of Heineken and a Rather a lot, if truth be told. anywhere, and Niko. between, the enveloping folds the other Nordic countries glass of wine cost about Basically, nearly everywhere, Torgeir runs Crispin Glover of Switzerland and Austria. many times and have always 30 quid. And we’d actually. Records, the independent label I’d love to say it is cherished hoped for an invite. love to go back. And that is not to denigrate which released my CD, and as a wonderful hidden jewel I’ve never had one, though, But actually, if the many cultural opportuni- Niko an independent craft- and a seat of unimaginable and since I’m in the wonder- and when the pan- ties offered by Norway, Lichten- beer bar covered, and no, I’m pleasure but it isn’t. It’s really, fully privileged position of demic is finally over, what stein and Iceland. I’ve visited all not imagining this, in Brighton really dull. So dull, even Cold- being able to combine holi- I really want to do is play for Stockholm, Helsinki, Bern and three. I’ve performed a lot in & Hove Albion memorabilia. play have never played there. days and gigs I had more or my friends and supporters in Vienna. the first, once in the second — Norway does an IPA called I was gigging in Austria and less abandoned the idea of cities I have visited for decades That’s Vienna, not Vaduz. albeit only for a few minutes — Nogne 0 (Naked 0) which is Switzerland with my band some going there. like Berlin, Hamburg, Han- Where’s Vaduz? Guess. and would definitely have done simultaneously the loveliest years ago and we bumped into Then we booked an Icelan- nover, Amsterdam, Brussels, Bollocks to Brexit.

BOOKS I THE SIX-POINTED STAR BY MANUEL TIAGO I INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHERS, £20.54 Six-pointed symbol of a fascist system

THE SIX-POINTED STAR is the ship, which ran parallel to and then threw DENNIS BROE recommends an account of life nickname given to Lisbon’s for- Franco’s rule in Spain, the them off their tress-like prison with a surveil- fortress housed prisoners land. In anger at in one of Portugal’s most notorious prisons lance centre and cells radiating guilty of “crimes” large and this injustice, he out from it. small. shoots the land- during the Salazar dictatorship During the Salazar dictator- Among them was politi- owner, a crime cal activist Alvaro Cunhal, for which the pictured left,general secre- prisoners forgive tary of the Portuguese Com- him. Garino stole munist Party from 1961 to food, distributed 1992. He wrote fiction under it to his fellow villagers and for the name of Manuel Tiago and this was locked up for 12 years. his book advances the case for These crimes, the product of in-depth reform of the penal a ruthlessly unequal society, are system in what is a fictional- differentiated from the doctor ised version of his own prison who drugged his patients and experience. then raped them. He treats the The arbitrary nature of this other prisoners disdainfully, system became ever more evi- as if he should not be among dent as the dictatorship reached them. Instead of showing actual its apogee in the 1950s and the remorse, he makes a spectacle author is struck, in getting to of prayer — designed to get him know the inmates, by the fact an early release — in front of that the prison is filled with guards and prison officials. “killers who are neither worse And there is woman-traf- nor better than one[s] who have ficker Argentino who, in a fit, never killed and never would ... killed his partner with “the many who committed crimes crime revealing the kind of could well have spent their man he was in the end.” whole lives without doing Prison labour is revealed to them.” be a scam, with inmates earn- There is a striking contrast ing a pittance for the most tax- in the motives and circum- ing work while having to use stances of those locked up. two-thirds of their wages to pay Silvino, convicted of robberies for the upkeep of their cells, and break-ins and fascinated food, clothes and laundry. by his explorations of the ani- The novel’s heartbreaking mal kingdom, is recognised as vignettes are aided by Eric A “a good man” by guards and Gordon’s translation, which prisoners. respects the time frame but Augusto retaliated when updates the language where ACT OF SUPREME TREACHERY: General Gomes da Costa, sabre in hand, and his troops after the May 28 1926 coup d’etat that ushered in the a big landowner robbed his this is crucial to an understand- fascist dictatorship of Antonio de Oliveira Salazar Pic: Joshua Benoliel/Creative Commons family, seduced his sister ing by a contemporary reader. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online culture June 12-13 2021 17

PREVIEW ‘Meticulous and precise yet bursting with life’ CJ Stone looks forward to a retrospective of printmaker BEN SANDS’S work

EN SANDS is one of those artists you’ve probably never heard of, but should have. He worked in Bwoodcuts and linocuts as well as being an expert typesetter and accomplished painter. I first became aware of him when his son Matt started put- ting photographs of his prints on Facebook. Even with this less than ideal presentation, I could see straight away that this work was some- thing special. It is meticulous and precise and yet bursting with life at the same time. Sands was born in Westcliff- on-Sea, Essex, in 1920. He was the youngest child of parents who had emigrated from Poland in 1913. He was left-handed but, in the convention of the time, forced to write with his right hand. However he was allowed to paint and draw using his left hand, which probably goes a long way towards explaining the quality of his work. He gave a fascinating insight into the act of cutting into a block of wood in a 2003 inter- tal Wet Canteen is based upon ORDINARY LIVES: (Left to right from above) Regimental Wet view: “…automatically, with drawings he made in Austria at Canteen; Commuters; Widdicombe Fair; London; Whitmarket Stalls practice, your mind sees that this time, although the linocut block as a field of solid black wasn’t completed until 1990. these scenes of everyday life, a mastery of technique that is … when you start cutting you After leaving the army, Sands captured in the moment and sometimes astonishing. start letting the light into the refused to collect his service preserved through the medium They come alive, as do his block and revealing the world medals, saying that surviving of print, the mainstay of his characters and, although you which ultimately you are going the war intact was enough. work. can pinpoint the era in which to present to the public. He enrolled at the Central Most of it is set in and around these scenes take place by the “Because you are letting light School of Art in London, then Whitstable. People wait at a bus dress, there is a timeless qual- in all the time, every cut you worked as a commercial artist in stop or stroll along the sea- ity to them. make lets another streak of various studios, practising skills front and there are mothers Sands would have been 100 light in…” in typography and illustration. with babies in push chairs and last year and we had originally If he was restricted by his The image of the rag-and-bone kids playing in a play ground, planned to mark it in 2020 but right hand, he was uncon- men wolf-whistling a passing Whitstable market stalls on a the pandemic got in the way. strained and powerfully gifted woman, with scenes of bomb Thursday morning and Morris So we’re celebrating his 101st with his left. He developed damage in the background, dancers on May Day. this year with an exhibition of skills that won him a scholar- dates from this post-war period. There is such richness of his work at the Horsebridge Arts ship to the Willesden College In the 1950s he met and mar- texture, vibrancy and depth Centre, 11 Horsebridge Road, of Art in 1934. ried the love of his life, Bonna, here. His skies, particularly, are Whitstable from June 18 to July In 1943, he was conscripted with whom he had two chil- luminous and vivid, showing 4, details: thehorsebridge.org.uk. into an Irish army regiment, dren, Matt and David. the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, The family moved to the then and spent his war in Italy. sleepy seaside town of Whitsta- Although he worked as a Party headquarters to explain. He was stationed in Austria ble in Kent in 1960 and it was typographic designer and had to “If you’ve got Rupert Murdoch’s for over a year after it ended, from here that he produced his commute up to London for work, money behind you, you don’t and the image The Regimen- most characteristic work. in his spare time he produced a need mine,” he wrote. string of broadsheets and hand- You can see his socialism in printed books under the imprint his work too — a celebration of the Shoestring Press. of the lives of ordinary people The commute to London was, depicted with simple, unaf- as today, a slow torture that he fected warmth. endured for the sake of the fam- He never lost his eye for ily and the print Commuters is a product of this time. It is a view from an elevated position, just under the roof of the carriage and he achieved it, in those pre-selfie-stick days, using only his imagination. He refused to He was a life-long socialist “ and, although he never joined collect his service the Labour Party, he contrib- uted to it for many years. medals, saying that He stopped his direct debit in 1994 after Blair went to see surviving the war Murdoch following his ascension to the leadership of the party. intact was enough Sands sent a letter to Labour Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 18 June 12-13 2021 letters @m_star_online n CLIMATE n PALESTINE Two-state solution is not the Nothing good with answer for Palestinians I FELT unhappy with Nick Wright’s claim that a two- nuclear reactors state solution to the problem of Israel/Palestine is the only WILL PODMORE admits he is wind which continues to come supports a grim reality: that way forward (M Star June 10). on the side of the government down in price. living in radioactively con- It is 73 years since this solu- and the industry in supporting There is also the cost of taminated areas over multiple tion was canvassed in the UN nuclear power, but feels that is decommissioning nuclear years results in harmful health 181 Resolution and 30 years justified. sites. The Nuclear Decom- impacts. since the Oslo Accord. What he fails to mention is missioning Authority’s most The current plans for new After all this time we seem that this is not support from the recent estimate is that it will nuclear reactors in England are to be nowhere near to the ful- government which arises from cost £132 billion to decommis- at Sizewell and Bradwell on the fillment of this policy with cer- concern about provision of elec- sion the civil nuclear sites. It east coast. This coast with cli- tainly no land and no peace for tricity but rather because the mil- is said that nuclear power is mate change is at increased risk the Palestinians. NEW STATE? A rally in itary (for Trident nuclear-armed an answer to climate change. of flooding and tidal surges, Politically the involved Gaza organised by the submarines and nuclear-powered But if the whole cycle of nuclear endangering the reactors. groups seem to be further Popular Front for the submarines) is dependent on civil energy is taken into account, If a suicide bomber were to apart than they ever were yet Liberation of Palestine nuclear-specific skills. then it is not low carbon. attack an array of solar panels economically the Israelis and This has been shown clearly A recent analysis by Mark or wind structures, it could be Palestinians and other groups South Africa and that the non tionships based on common with research carried out by Jacobson of Stanford Univer- difficult with the power going are closer than they ever were. contiguous bits of the Palestine interest. Professsor Andy Stirling and sity in the USA demonstrates down, but that’s nothing com- We seem to be a long way Authority look like the Bantus- The Israeli working class can Dr Phil Johnstone at the Uni- that nuclear power’s emissions pared with an attack on a from the days of the Jewish set- tans where an army of subser- have no interest in having large versity of Sussex. are between 10 and 18 times nuclear reactor which would tlers labouring on the land to vient labour can be coralled. numbers of Palestinian work- Furthermore Will ignores greater than those from renew- spread radioactivity for miles, make the desert bloom and the I don’t think things should ers treated as cheap labour. the huge problems and dangers able energy technologies. the equivalent of a nuclear settler boycott of Arab labour. develop so a Palestinian state Certainly, proponents of either of nuclear power. The question of jobs is impor- warhead exploding. Finally, as Modern Israel seems to should in some way be the two or one state should resist There is the radioactive tant but renewable energy is I have said before, there are the depend quite a lot on Palestinian mirror image of a zionist state apartheid measures especially waste which will be toxic for already providing more jobs human costs which start with labour, including building work. where “two houses both alike where they are made to look thousands of years and which than the nuclear energy sec- the mining of uranium. As The two communities are in dignity, from ancient grudge like progress towards the two- will also come with the small tor. The Office for National socialists we would surely want inextricably involved with break to new mutiny.” state solution. modular reactors. There is no Statistics (ONS) data for 2014 to stand in solidarity with our each other whether they like Nor do I believe they need In the long run it is essential solution to the existing pile, indicated 15,500 direct jobs in sisters and brothers the indig- it or not so the theme should to. I do not think all the Jew- that some Israelis feel it is pos- other than deeply buried stor- nuclear compared with 43,500 enous people of the world who not be separation but equality ish people living in Israel really sible to live securely under a Pal- age which is proving difficult to in renewables. have had generations of suf- for those who are living side are ardent zionists and all Arab estinian authority of some sort. find, let alone for more. There is Recent updates show the dis- fering from cancers, ill health by side. people living in Palestine are Nick Wright might say I am the cost of nuclear power which parity increasing. The Cherno- and untimely death from the I am unhappy with Nick’s ardent Fatah and Hamas. a dreamer but I am not the is astronomical; the “strike byl disaster should have been a uranium mining on their land? comments because I fear a Some minds might be open only one. price” for nuclear far exceeds wake-up call. RAE STREET two-state solution might insti- to new ideas. and it might be CHRIS GOULD that of electricity from offshore A growing body of evidence Littleborough tuts apartheid practices like in possible to create new rela- Norwich

The Red List June 12-19 13th-14th: No to Nato Counter- 109 1622. Organised by the George Holocaust and the Genocide whats-on. Hosted by the Bishopsgate 8 SATURDAY 12 Summit Mealmaker branch of the Scottish Against the Tutsi Institute. ■ Republican Socialist Movement. Socialist Solutions to the Crisis 13th: 2pm online 6.30pm online Global Nato: a Threat to Peace, a Genocide scholars Lonzen Rugira 11am online discussion with Kate Hudson and Philip Spencer, investigative A day-long event with Labour 8 FRIDAY 18 of CND, Lindsey German journalist Linda Melvern, and MPs such as Diane Abbott, 8 WEDNESDAY 16 of Stop the War Coalition Hope not Hate head of research Joe Richard Burgon and John Camouflaging Culture: Soft and international speak- Mulhall discuss how the Holocaust McDonnell, plus Cat What is Big Flame?: Exploring a Power and the Forever Wars ers. 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Organised by the North A lecture by historian Tony Cox. eventbrite.co.uk/e/154865415627. £95, concessions £71, and more responsible for the journal Red East Labour History Society. Join the Zoom meeting at mstar. redlist@peoples link/scotslavery; meeting ID: 368 Denial and Distortion of the courses, go to bishopsgate.org.uk/ -press.com morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online letters | history June 12-13 2021 19 n NORTHERN IRELAND n STUDENTS Debt levels are higher Unification only possible than some may think with loyalist agreement THANK YOU to Alan Wheatley He has taken the maximum for raising the issue of student maintenance loan, to which he nurses’ debt (M Star June 10), is entitled based on his moth- WHILE I would find no fault but I fear that £60,000 may be er’s income. But this gets worse. in most of Ken Livingstone’s Pic: Dom0803/CC wide of the mark for some. He has not been able com- article (M Star May 22), when Nursing is a four-year uni- plete this year’s study because it comes to the issue of the versity course which generally of depression caused by his border poll he, like others, incurs annual fees of £9,250. On father’s death last year and makes no reference to what top of that there may be the need over four years of distressing might be called the elephant for a student maintenance loan. family breakup. in the room: the unionist/loy- My grandson is in the third This will mean a repeat of alist community. year of a four-year chemistry the third year. He will leave As regards to the Good Fri- degree (the first year being a with no clear career path and day Agreement (GFA), a very foundation course). over £100,000 of debt. interesting piece appeared in His private accommodation My heart bleeds for him and the Belfast-based Irish News, fees are almost £2,000 per his mother’s agony which is on June 4. term which he has paid from made worse by their financial In this piece, the writer the start because the university situation. referred to a conversation has no halls of residence. NAME & ADDRESS SUPPLIED that he had with a member of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) in 1998 who stated that the vote in the GFA referen- n VACCINES dum did not reflect a victory for David Trimble. He advised the author of G7 nations must suspend C-19 patents the article to “count the pro- JONAS SALK once said: “You potential new variants that could agreement and anti-agreement cannot patent the sun” be resistant to existing vaccines unionist votes at the next elec- when he refused to do as from emerging. tion. That will tell you all you FRAGILE PEACE: Some unionists are happy to let the Northern Ireland Assembly close down such with the newly discov- This is in all our best inter- need to know.” parties there were some who ered if the assembly closes down, Ireland, something not on the ered Polio vaccine. ests and should be demanded This was duly done with the were against it. As we know especially if the Northern Ire- cards at the moment, a border The G7 nations must agree to by all. Please contact MPs and result that we were told 201,500 the DUP became the biggest land Protocol remains in place. poll now in the manner that Mr suspend all Covid-19 vaccine pat- pressurise the British govern- voted for pro-agreement union- unionist party. This is the situation we are Livingstone writes will just be ents as first proposed by India and ment to do what is right by all ists but 207,869 voted for anti- It is a belief that a majority faced with and until a signifi- a sectarian headcount. South Africa, so as to enable less of humanity. agreement unionist parties. of unionist/loyalists not only cant number of unionists/loyal- ERNEST WALKER developed nations to purchase PHIL BRAND Even within the pro-GFA oppose the GFA but are not both- ists see their future in a united North Belfast life-saving drugs and prevent any London SW17

n SCOTLAND n HEALTH Federalism is just a step Star was welcome at left medical practice towards independence I AM one of the two authors I’M DELIGHTED to agree British working class. of the book a Radical Prac- with Dougie Harrison By doing so they play tice in Liverpool: the Rise when he writes (M Star into the hands of the and Fall of Princes Park June 10) that “federalism is capitalist class. The ques- Health Centre which Syl- a dead duck.” It is indeed. tion now has nothing to via Hikins reviewed so This is because feder- do with Boris Johnson, positively (M Star June 7). alism is just a stepping the Tories or the Labour Princes Park Health Cen- stone to separation, and Party: it is about class – tre was one of the only prac- separation is now — and unite our class against tices in Britain to have the has been for seven years — capitalism, or divide it on Morning Star in the waiting a dead duck. The working false national lines. room for patients to read for class in Scotland spoke in It is not that the union many years. Not only that, 2014 and they voted for that is to blame for the but I wrote regularly for unity. The people spoke. many failings in our soci- the Morning Star as Rosa That settled the question. ety, not the English, it is Hudson on health-related Those who try to resur- capitalism. We all need to issues. The Morning Star is rect the corpse of separa- unite against capitalism. referred to and referenced in tism disrespect democracy. WILL PODMORE our book and I hope readers They are trying to split the London E12 will enjoy this. n THEORY KATY GARDNER Liverpool Capitalism brutal & inhumane IT’S clear to so many that capitalists to employ people to ple, but non-governmental despite the centuries of do it” (M Star June 8). organisations and many carers. struggle against it, capital- He says that much work that It is a brutal, inhumane ism continues to wreck the could be carried out for the ben- system caused entirely by the world. Governments respond efit of society as a whole, is not misdirection of money. to the crises of capitalism by being done. Either the world must applying more of the same, In the area of waged work develop and vote for the con- more rigorously. this is absolutely correct. In cept of sharing, or the use of Andrew Maybury states that fact, much necessary work for money must disappear alto- “work in a capitalist system is society such as caring work and gether, if we and the planet not allocated or carried out raising the next generation, is are to survive. What other according to what needs to being done, but it’s unwaged. course is there? be done, but is rather based And under capitalism it’s not MARILYN WARBIS on whether it is profitable for governments which help peo- Plymouth Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 20 June 12-13 2021 sport @m_star_online

Racing Guide with Farringdon n YORK, CHESTER AND GOWRAN PARK It’s all about quantity over quality this weekend

ITH Royal this very lightly raced seven- My best bet of the day runs Makawee can make the most ground and Side Shot disap- tative style and can take this A s c o t year-old gelding was a really in the opening Queen Mother’s of the weight he is set to receive pointing last time out, the nod rise in grade in his stride with around the smart two-year-old, finishing a Cup (a handicap over a mile and from his three rivals by taking goes to Oman hailing from the the assistance of the brilliant corner and four-length fifth in the Middle a half for lady amateur riders the Listed Ebor Grand Cup at in-form yard of Ralph Beckett. Hollie Doyle. the Epsom Park Stakes and then as a three- at 2.00) with the nine-year-old 3.35. He was well behind the WDerby meeting just behind us, year-old beaten only a length Nicholas T looking the pick. Across the Pennines at Ches- aforementioned Classic Lord this afternoon’s racing is more and a quarter by the mighty This versatile middle dis- ter, Brain the Snail is one of no last time out at Haydock, but about quantity than quality Battaash on the Scurry Stakes tance handicapper was rated less than five entries in a field seemed to hate the ground WEEKEND TIPS with Sandown, Chester and a Sandown. as high as 100 last summer and of 14 for local owner Dr Mar- that day and with a pull in York leading the way and as He then sustained a seri- although naturally he has been wan Koukash in the six furlong the weights combined with Farringdon’s Doubles a result the size of the fields, ous injury at the back end of in decline since for a horse of handicap sprint at 2.10. The the return to a faster surface, Saturday even for the more valuable his second season in training his age, he remains capable of assessor has given him a real I expect him to exact revenge NICHOLAS T handicaps, have predictably and following a final run in a winning at this level off a rat- chance off a mark of 87 here on his rival in this valuable York 2:00 (nap) suffered. Listed contest at Newbury he ing of 91 with the capable Amie following two moderate runs contest. The most interesting race in was gelded and spent some Waugh on top. in significantly higher class at The one mile, all-aged handi- BRIAN THE SNAIL that arena is probably the class 1,093 days on the sidelines His last run confirmed that Haydock Park and York. cap at Sandown Park (3.50) Chester 2:10 four handicap that back-ends before being transferred to the fire still burns bright when Beautifully drawn in box No looks a really open affair, but Sunday the York card at 5.40 over six Colin Teague. he was far from disgraced in 3, as long as he can hold his I am quite sweet on the claims BATON ROGUE furlongs. It is fair to say that his two the Zetland Gold Cup at Red- place early on I think he will of Alexander James trained by Gowran Park 4:30 (nap) Despite picking up a pen- runs back have been moder- car, beaten just three lengths prove too strong for the likes of Mick Appleby. alty for winning last time out ate, beaten 68 lengths when by Good Birthday into seventh the front running Lincoln Park The four-year-old has been BLUE SKYLINE at Doncaster, Roundhay Park last of 24 in the Ayr Gold Cup spot. and the frustrating but in form offered a real chance by the Doncaster 1:45 remains a well-weighted ani- and then 24 lengths last of 16 Set to race off the same mark Music Society. handicapper here having mal near the top of the handi- in a class three handicap at here, he should get a nice tow The feature Nationalrace- dropped from a mark of 91 to Houseman’s Choice cap having taken in better races Newcastle in October. into this contest with plenty of horseweek.uk Handicap at 88 following his British debut at Saturday last season and he is likely to go However, this is massively pace up top and can outstay the 3.20 for three-year-olds looks Chester and on bits and pieces ATALIS BAY off favourite here alongside the easier, he has been dropped likes of Viaduct and Carlos Felix a cracking contest with several of his old French form he is Sandown 2:15 hat-trick seeking Mr Wagyu. from a mark of 98 to 79 and I down the long home stretch. upwardly mobile young horses entitled to go very close here. But for a value wager I am am sure Colin would not have Later on at the Knavesmire, set to line up in the field of Finally, at Bath have a second Sunday going to invest in one of the kept him in training unless Ostillo can defy top-weight seven. look at Redcar winner Greek KHADEEM rank outsiders Koropick. he thought that he could win in the JCB Handicap over With Classic Lord better Kodiak. Salisbury 3:38 Formerly with Hugo Palmer, a race of this ilk. seven furlongs at 2.35, while served by some give in the He won that seller in authori- morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online sport June 12-13 2021 21

Layth’s take with Layth Yousif

URO 2020 is champs and now bolstered finally here. The by the return of Karim Ben- competition that zema, breezed Euro qualify- was delayed by a ing topping Group H with year thanks to the eight wins, a draw and a CovidE pandemic is now upon single defeat, with only six us. Am I looking forward to goals conceded. it? A resurgent Italy under Yes and no. former Manchester City Stretching from central boss Roberto Mancini, who The highs and Asia to the shores of the haven’t lost a game since Atlantic, the idea was to take 2018, are part of the group in as much of the continent of frontrunners that also as possible in a celebration include a storied Belgium of cultures and countries. side ranked No 1 in the Fifa Which is great in theory. rankings. Especially if you’re a Uefa Led by Roberto Martinez, bigwig being flown first they are masters of the 3-4-3 class from Russia to Roma- with an embarrassment of lows of what nia, Azerbaijan to the Alli- riches in their attacking anz Arena and everywhere options including Romelu in between. Lukaku, Kevin De Bruyne, The notion was Michel Eden Hazard and Youri Tiele- Platini’s brainchild. The mans — with even Crystal now-disgraced adminis- Palace journeyman Michy trator Platini. No wonder Batshauyi sparkling when I prefer to recall the glori- pulling on the Red Devils ous French attacking mid- shirt, notching an impres- fielder Platini. The man who sive 22 goals in only 33 will be Euro notched a record nine goals appearances — even if the in five games during Les backline are far too old to Bleus’ unforgettable march become trophy winners. to the 1984 European Cham- Don’t forget hardy peren- pionship. nials Germany, whose mis- The logistics of attempting erable form — including a to navigate Europe as a fan 6-0 thrashing by fellow hope- would have been difficult fuls Spain — was forgotten for many thousands of loyal following their 7-1 rout of a supporters without factoring sorry Latvia side this week. 2020 in airline companies’ rapa- What of England? Tomor- cious algorithms. Squeezing row’s clash with Croatia will fans’ budgets by ramping up reveal all, after two stodgy prices for popular flights sec- 1-0 friendly victories over onds after the final whistle, underwhelming opponents that could send a team 4,000 in Austria and Romania. miles away on the kick of a Zlatko Dalic’s side that ball, depending on group reached the 2018 World Cup stage results. final are aiming for one final Thankfully, that won’t hurrah with 13 of that squad happen. Well, when I say still present — and could thankfully, a pandemic surprise Gareth Southgate’s disrupting a major inter- side at the English national national tournament, not stadium. to mention our lives for the Dalic is a canny opera- last 16 months, is nothing tor who favours a 4-2-3-1 to be grateful for. Nor is the formation that can easily fact that fans are being told morph into a fluid 4-3-3. not to travel. Luca Modric, even at 35, is Even the Tartan Army still their lynchpin in mid- are forbidden from congre- field, while defensive pairing gating in Trafalgar Square, Dejan Lovren and Besiktas’s prior to the derby with Eng- Domagoj Vida still dominate land at Wembley next Friday. the backline. Stadiums will be less than Their attacking trident half full, with many hard- of Modric, Ivan Rakitic pressed fans complaining and Marcelo Brozovic that that Uefa has cancelled their worked so well in Russia tickets — after holding onto still contains two of the their hard-earned cash for three, with Serie A winners nearly two years. Inter Milan boasting the That would be contentious outstanding Nikola Vlasic in itself, only for many to — who replaces the fad- highlight their tickets are ing 33-year-old Sevilla star now back on sale to the Rakitic — alongside club corporate crowd for prices side teammate Brozovic. It 10-times as much. And promises to be an exciting that’s without mentioning tournament. On the pitch the “secondary market.” Or at least. greedy touts as they’re nor- PS: Here’s a message for mally called. those who boo the knee: of Marxism” or any other dress up your pathetic lies culture. Quite simply one of summer for RSD 2020. And yet. Do you feel uncomfortable arrant nonsense used to and arguments. the finest books ever written What I’m watching: Eng- Who isn’t exited about the about people taking the disguise your disgusting What I’m (re)reading: on sport, let alone football. land vs New Zealand. It’s prospect of this tournament knee? Good. Now stop boo- prejudice you’re utterly Football Against The Enemy. What I’m listening to: It’s been a long year for all of us on the pitch at least? ing and educate yourself as wrong. Taking the knee is Seeing as Euro 2020 is a Record Store Day on Satur- and I’ll be catching up with The format presents a line- to why people are doing it. about raising awareness of continent-wide spectacle, day, with a raft of decent an old pal at Edgbaston to up arguably stronger than Because, if you boo the knee, discrimination and trying Simon Kuper’s outstanding rereleases whatever your watch the second Test as a the World Cup. Reigning you’re a racist. It’s as simple to combat racism. If you’re football travelogue from tastes. In honour of RSD punter for the first time in global champs France, led as that. against that then I don’t 1994 covers 22 countries to 2021 I’ve been listening to two summers. As someone by the most decorated water And if you claim it’s about want you near me because explore how our game has New Order’s 1982 John Peel who lives for live sport I sim- carrier in history Didier Des- “protesting against the creep you’re a racist, however you shaped national politics and sessions, which dropped last ply can’t wait. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 22 June 12-13 2021 sport @m_star_online

The left wing with James Nalton

HE 2021 Copa America kicks off on tomorrow night when the South Brazil will compete in American nations joinT this summer’s feel-good festival of international foot- ball, but it does so in contro- versial circumstances. Players, especially those of the controversial last-minute hosts Brazil, have spoken out against holding the tournament amid the ongoing threat posed by the coronavi- rus. It was decided last month that original hosts Argentina Copa America amid and Colombia would not be able to hold the tournament in their respective nations due to a surge of Covid cases in the former and the ongoing upris- ing against the country’s right- wing government in the latter. the backdrop of Instead, the tournament will be held in a country where both these situations exist, and the hosting of a football tourna- ment will likely mean they intensify. As with the Euros, this edi- protests and Covid 19 tion of the Copa America was originally due to take place last summer but was postponed due The tournament was taken away from Argentina due to coronavirus and to coronavirus. The tournament in its cur- rent format is supposed to be Colombia due to protests, then awarded to a country that have both quadrennial but had the 2020 edition gone ahead as planned, released on Wednesday, they Even though matches are it would have been the fourth condemned the decision to go being played behind closed tournament in six years. ahead with the tournament, doors, protests in the country This is due to a special cen- though they will not boycott it. could increase using the foot- tenary Copa America being “For many reasons, be they ball matches as a vehicle. held in the United States in humanitarian or professional, The Copa will be played in 2016, and a move by Conmebol we are not satisfied with the venues in Rio de Janeiro, Cui- — South American football’s conduct shown by Conmebol aba, Goiania and the capital governing body — to align the relating to the Copa America,” Brasilia, while the Brazilian tournament with the Euros, they said. domestic season continues hence the additional edition “All recent facts lead us to across the country alongside planned for 2020. believe it has been an inade- it. With the Euros already quate process. It is important to “Everyone knows our posi- under way following last emphasise that at no time did tion in the Copa America in night’s opener between Turkey we want to make this a political Brazil,” vice-captain Casemiro and Italy, on the other side of discussion. said following a World Cup the world, the South American “We are aware of the impor- qualifier against Ecuador last equivalent kicks off tomorrow tance of our position. We fol- Friday. night when Brazil host Vene- low what is published by the “It’s not just me, not just the zuela in the opening game. media and are present on social players who play in Europe. It’s The new hosts of the tourna- media. everyone, including Tite. All ment were only confirmed on “We also try to avoid fake together.” Thursday after three injunc- news bearing our names being Holding the tournament in tions, presented by trade circulated without the true Brazil at this time was certainly unions and opposition par- facts. a bad idea, but were the players ties, were rejected by Brazil’s “Finally, we remember that to boycott it, the anger of many Supreme Court, meaning the we are workers — professional would be directed towards tournament goes ahead in Bra- footballers. We have a mission them rather than their negli- zil despite the obvious issues. to carry out wearing the his- gent president. “It falls to state governors toric yellow and green jersey of Their decision to use their and mayors to set the appropri- the five-time world champions. involvement in the Copa Amer- ate health protocols and ensure “We are against the way this ica as a protest in itself could they are respected in order to Copa America has been organ- help highlight Bolsonaro’s dis- avoid a ‘Copavirus,’ with new ised, but we will never say no astrous handling of the corona- infections and the emergence to the Brazilian national team.” virus, and may even go some of new variants,” Justice Car- As the statement signifies, way towards turning the tide men Lucia wrote in her ruling. Brazil are a close-knit and against him. The cavalier attitude of emotionally united group The Brazil players are play- Brazil’s right-wing president under the leadership of their ing in this tournament “for the Jair Bolsonaro towards coro- manager, Tite, and this served more than 200 million fans” to navirus has seen the country them well when they won the whom they addressed that open become one of the worst-hit Copa America in 2019. letter. in the world, and he’s now Though the players say their They have made it abun- backed the hosting of the stance is not political, it clearly dantly clear they are not play- Copa America. is, and their decision to speak ing it for Conmebol and, even A number of Brazilian foot- out could begin to highlight to though they didn't mention his ballers have declared support other Bolsonaro supporters that name in their statement, they for Bolsonaro in the past but their president isn’t working in are certainly not playing it for in an open letter to their fans, their best interests. Bolsonaro. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online sport June 12-13 2021 23

SPORT ON TV n WOMEN’S SWIMMING Saturday ■ BASEBALL: MLB, New York Mets v San Diego Padres – BT Sport 3 12am (Sun). Groves drops out of Olympic trials ■ BASKETBALL: NBA play-offs, Utah Jazz v LA Clippers – Sky Sports Main Event 2am (Sun). ■ BOXING: Lewis Ritson v Jeremias due to ‘misogynistic perverts’ Ponce – Sky Sports Action 7pm, Sky Sports Main Event 10pm. by Our Sports Desk als in the 200-metre butterfly she’d complained about a swim- ■ CRICKET: Second Test, England v and a relay at the 2016 Olym- ming worker and the way “they New Zealand – Sky Sports Cricket pics, said she planned to delete stare at me in my” swimsuit, 10.15am, Sky Sports Main Event AUSTRALIAN swimmer Maddie her Twitter app after posting: and also expressed concerns 10.30am; First Test, West Indies v Groves has withdrawn from the “You can no longer exploit about the anti-doping process South Africa – BT Sport 2 2.45pm; upcoming Olympic trials fol- young women and girls, body and the treatment of athletes T20 Blast, Sussex v Hampshire – lowing a series of social media shame or medically gaslight with long-term illnesses. posts condemning “misogynis- them and then expect them to Perkins, a two-time Olym- Sky Sports Main Event, Sky Sports tic perverts” in the sport. represent you so you can earn pic 1,500-metre gold medal- Cricket 6.55pm. Groves didn’t detail her alle- your annual bonus. list, told ABC television that ■ FOOTBALL: Euro 8.20pm, Wales gations, which initially sur- “Time’s UP.” swimming in Australia was v Switzerland – BBC One and S4C faced last year, and Swimming She posted later on Insta- a “proud blended sport” and 1.15pm, Denmark v Finland – BBC One Australia president Kieren Per- gram to say her decision to administrators had done a 4.45pm, Belgium v Russia – ITV 7pm; kins said yesterday that he was withdraw from Olympic selec- lot of work in recent years National League play-off semi-final, trying to contact the two-time tion was not based on a “singu- to build a framework to deal Torquay v Notts County – BT Sport Olympic silver medallist. lar incident.” with any issues of abuse by “We have had an ongoing “It’s partly because there’s making “sure that we have 2 11.30am. dialogue that has been gener- a pandemic on, but mostly all the right processes for ■ GOLF: European Tour, The Scan- ated by Maddie through social it’s the culmination of years whistleblower investigations, dinavian Mixed – Sky Sports Golf media. of witnessing and ‘benefiting’ and ensure police matters are 12.30pm; PGA Tour, The Palmetto “We reached out with her in from a culture that relies on dealt with as they need to be. Championship – Sky Sports Golf 5pm. December 2020 to try to engage people ignoring bad behaviour “There’s always going to be ■ HORSE RACING: Live from York with her on these concerns she to thrive. I need a break.” historical things that we need – ITV and STV North, STV Central has,” Perkins told the Austral- The Olympics, set to open on to acknowledge and work 1.25pm. ian Broadcasting Corp. July 23, have already been post- towards resolving,” Perkins “We have done it again now, poned for 12 months because of said. “But I and everyone in ■ MMA: UFC, Israel Adesanya v Mar- and unfortunately at this the Covid-19 pandemic. our sport would certainly be vin Vettori – BT Sport 1 3am (Sun). point we have not been able “If starting this conversa- quite challenged by the asser- ■ MOTOR CYCLING: World Superbikes to have a direct conversation tion will save just one young tion that there’s a misogynistic “I certainly want to find out a wellbeing officer and she can from Italy – Eurosport 2 8.30am with Maddie to understand girl from something like being culture.” and get to the bottom of it if certainly talk to them as well and 12.30pm; Le Mans – Eurosport 2 exactly what her concerns are, told to lose weight or diet, not Veteran swimmer Mitch she does have some issues,” as sports psychs and really try 10.45am and 2pm. who the people involved are, going to the Olympics will Larkin, who has been team- Larkin said in Adelaide, South and dig to the bottom of those ■ RUGBY UNION: Gallagher Pre- so that we can investigate it have been worth it,” Groves mates with Groves, said the Australia, where the Olympic issues. “And if there is a culture miership, Bath v Northampton – BT and deal with it.” added. complaints “broke my heart a trials start today. “We have got issue, we would absolutely love Groves, who won silver med- Groves tweeted last year that little bit.” an athlete integrity officer and to change it.” Sport Extra 3pm, Bristol v London Irish – BT Sport Extra 3pm, Exeter v Sale – BT Sport 3 3pm, Harlequins v Newcastle – BT Sport Extra 3pm, n MEN’S RUGBY UNION Wasps v Leicester Tigers – BT Sport 1 2.30pm; PRO14 Rainbow Cup, Sharks v Bulls – eir Sport 1 5.10pm, Cardiff Watson: Let players combat racism how they want v Benetton – S4C 7.30pm, Ospreys v Benetton – eir Sport 1 7.30pm. by Our Sports Desk the reaction? I don’t know. I being had as a result of people ■ TENNIS: French Open – Eurosport expected it a little bit if I’m taking the knee because that’s 1 1.30pm, ITV4 1.30pm. honest,” Watson said. very important. Sunday ANTHONY WATSON believes “You see so many people “I’m starting to see more it is crucial for sportsmen and on social media platforms and more people discuss it in ■ BASEBALL: MLB, New York Mets v women to continue using their who have got so much to say the right kind of context and San Diego Padres – BT Sport 1 6pm, platform to take the knee in with so little real substance understand more why athletes Chicago Cubs v St Louis Cardinals – BT protest against racial injustice. behind their reasoning. Only are taking a knee.” Sport/ESPN 12am (Mon). Watson was among the six months ago I said I knew Watson, whose mother Viv- ■ BASKETBALL: NBA play-offs, England players to perform this would continue to happen. ian is Nigerian, disagrees that Phoenix Suns v Denver Nuggets – Sky the symbolic gesture before “I don’t think anybody sport should be separated from Sports Main Event 12.30am (Mon). matches during last year’s should be forced do anything. causes such as anti-racism autumn campaign and the People should do what they and also rejects the link made ■ CRICKET: Second Test, England recent Six Nations, with indi- feel is right. If I’m asked when between taking the knee and v New Zealand – Sky Sports Main viduals given the choice of I’m with the Lions and if it’s Black Lives Matter as a political Event, Sky Sports Cricket 10.15am; whether or not to act. universally discussed, then I’ll movement. First Test, West Indies v South Africa And the Bath wing will be throw my opinion into the hat “Kneeling has been around – BT Sport 2 2.45pm. involved when the British and in terms of what I would do. well before this politicised ■ FOOTBALL: Euro 8.20pm, England Irish Lions squad begin dis- “I want to continue to raise agenda that people have v Croatia – BBC One 1pm, Austria v cussions over what approach awareness around some of the thrown around and in my opin- North Macedonia – ITV 4.15pm, Hol- should be adopted in South racial inequalities that I believe ion they use this as an excuse to Africa when a pre-tour train- are still prevalent in this coun- mask some of their own issues. land v Ukraine – ITV 7.10pm; National ing camp begins in Jersey next try and worldwide. “If you do any research — League play-off semi-final, Stockport week. “The racial abuse that foot- and anyone who is booing the v Hartlepool – BT Sport 1 11.30am. England’s football team were ballers and sports people get kneeling should do their own ■ GOLF: European Tour, The Scan- booed by some fans for tak- is unacceptable, whether it’s research before they boo some- dinavian Mixed – Sky Sports Golf ing a knee before their Euro online or wherever. thing — it shows that kneeling 12.30pm; PGA Tour; The Palmetto 2020 warm-up games against “While that continues to has been around since … the Championship – Sky Sports Golf 5pm, Australia and Romania — a happen, especially at the first example I can think of is Sky Sports Main Event 7pm. response Watson finds frustrat- frequency and magnitude Martin Luther King in 1965. ingly predictable. at which it’s happening, it’s “But it goes back even before ■ MOTOR CYCLING: Le Mans – Euro- Four months ago the 27-year- important to continue to raise that to the slave trade. To draw sport 2 6am; World Superbikes from old called out critics on social awareness. that link between kneeling Italy – Eurosport 2 11.30am. media who objected to Eddie “I do think it’s an impor- and a political organisation ■ TENNIS: French Open – Eurosport 1 Jones’s team showing their sup- tant message, the footballers is absurd and in my opinion 10.25am, 1.30pm, ITV3 1.30pm. port in the fight against racism. are doing a great job and I’m that’s an excuse to fit their “Am I disappointed by glad that conversations are still agenda.” Saturday/Sunday SPORT June 12-13 2021 n MEN’S FOOTBALL WEEKEND FIXTURES Euro 2020 Wales Switzerland, 2pm Denmark Finland, 5pm Belgium Russia, 8pm MISHA: THERE’S STILL England Croatia, 2pm* Austria North Macedonia, 5pm* Netherlands Ukraine, 8pm* Copa America A LOT OF WORK TO DO Brazil Venezuela, 10pm* World Cup Qualifying Charlton’s coach says there’s ‘no reason’ for lack South Asians in football St. Kitts and Nevis El Salvador, by Our Sports Desk senior South Asian coach in how difficult sometimes it is 9pm English women’s football, said: within South Asian cultures to Haiti Canada, 10pm “I think there’s no one reason make the sacrifices you need to CHARLTON assistant boss why there’s a lack of represen- to be a professional footballer. Panama Curacao, 12.05am* Riteesh Mishra says while tation. Quite clearly there’s a “I think there’s still a lot of Korea Republic Lebanon, 7am* there is “still a lot of work to lack of representation within work to do, but I’d say you can do” he feels optimistic in terms professional football. see from the players in profes- Intl Friendlies of South Asian representation “I was at a club in Forest sional leagues now, it’s getting Ghana Ivory Coast, 6pm in English football, and has who I think gave me lots of better, there is more represen- stressed the importance of role good opportunities and really tation. I see more kids, boys and Morocco Burkina, 8pm models and visibility. supported me. I got the sense girls, from South Asian commu- Mexico Honduras, 12.30am* Last month the FA published they were just looking at me nities within academies. Tanzania Malawi, 2pm* an update on its Asian inclusion as a player and didn’t put any “I think what we need to strategy, which noted the 2011 other barriers in the way that really do now is focus on when Sudan Zambia, 6pm* census showed Asian communi- perhaps others from ethnic we get players in, can we create Women’s Friendlies ties accounting for 7.8 per cent minorities may have faced. a structure that keeps them in of England’s population. “But I don’t think clubs are for as long as possible. I think Luxembourg Belgium, 5pm The report said Asian par- necessarily entirely set up to the way to do that is having the other hand, I think there black heritage representation Japan Mexico, 6am* ticipation within grassroots allow for South Asian football- coaches and [other staff] vis- is a responsibility on others to for example in professional Costa Rica Guatemala, 6pm* football for over 16s was at 10.7 ers to succeed. ible at the training grounds.” try to uplift people who are in football. per cent male and 13.5 per cent “What I mean by that is there He added: “Right the way roles, so it’s less about self-pro- “There’s still a long way to female, while the number of isn’t necessarily the coaching through the pyramid, wherever motion and more about being go for it to be truly representa- * denotes Sunday game Asian coaches, volunteers and structure where young South there’s decisions being made on visible, and others unlocking tive.” referees was around 2 per cent. Asians can see role models or players’ or coaches’ futures or doors to be visible.” Mishra says as a player he It said there were a “small people they can engage with hiring decisions, there need As well as the Asian inclu- faced “some direct racism” number” of professional players when they go into the training to be people who come from sion strategy, the FA’s diversity from opposition players and of Asian heritage in the men’s ground that will make them diverse backgrounds, so they work includes the Football parents, and felt some ste- and women’s games, and that feel really comfortable. just have more of a rounded Leadership Diversity Code reotyping regarding physique around 1 per cent of both Pre- “When you feel really com- understanding.” launched in October. — he also says as a coach he mier League and EFL appren- fortable and you know there’s Mishra also emphasised the Mishra said: “I feel optimis- feels “there are certain, prob- tices were of Asian heritage. maybe somebody there who importance of “massively edu- tic. I think the FA are doing a ably unconscious, biases and Mishra, who is British understands the journey you’re cating the South Asian commu- really good job of trying to pro- stereotypes that follow you Indian, was in Nottingham going through, you’ll have nity about what is required to mote programmes, show they around.” Forest’s academy from the age more confidence and be able become a professional athlete want to create opportunities, He added: “There’s been of 13. He stopped playing after to play better. or coach.” share role models. I think it’s a situations where I could have MORNINGSTAR breaking his leg aged 18 and “I never felt that, so you Speaking about his com- very good starting point. maybe turned away from the ONLINE.CO.UK his subsequent coaching jour- never have that security of munications with aspiring “We’re starting to see a bit of sport, but I’ve just decided to The socialist ney has seen him working at thinking there’s people out coaches and young players, a movement. It’s going to take try to break down the chal- Charlton since 2014. there who know perhaps the Mishra said: “I feel the [role time. I’d say South Asian repre- lenges and barriers and prove news hub The 30-year-old, the most cultural challenges you face, model] responsibility, but on sentation is massively behind my worth.” n MEN’S FOOTBALL Scotland to kneel in solidarity with England on June 18 by Our Sports Desk “We have therefore agreed Glen Kamara soon after he continuation of abuse towards that we will show solidarity was racially abused by Slavia players. with our counterparts in Eng- Prague player Ondrej Kudela, “For the avoidance of doubt: SCOTLAND players will take land, many of whom are team- whose 10-game Uefa ban rules me, my coaching staff, my play- the knee in solidarity with mates of our own players, and him out of the Czech Republic’s ers and my backroom team their England counterparts who have found themselves on clash with Scotland on Monday. take a stand against racism when they meet at Wembley, the receiving end of abuse from Clarke said: “I explained in and all forms of unacceptable 24 hours after announcing they fans in recent international March the rationale behind the and discriminatory behaviour would stand. matches. squad decision: not only is it across society. The Scots had confirmed on “We will continue to take a consistent with the collective “We do so to raise awareness Thursday they would continue stand — together, as one — for approach from Scottish football of the ongoing problem but also standing together in opposition our matches at Hampden Park. above but the purpose of tak- as a reminder to those who to racism before their European For our match at Wembley, we ing the knee, to raise awareness have the ultimate power and Championship games. will stand against racism and and help eradicate racism in responsibility to implement But the reaction to their kneel against ignorance.” football and society, has been meaningful change.” decision, both negative and Clarke added that Scotland diluted and undermined by the positive, has prompted a partial had begun standing for their rethink 24 hours later. warm-up games at the River- and groups, whose views we opening World Cup qualifiers Published by Peoples Press MSTAR 2021-06-12 SAT 1.5 Scotland will still stand side Stadium in Middlesbrough. denounce in the strongest in March. 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