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‘WE’VE COME A LONG WAY, BUT THE STRUGGLE GOES ON’

DIANE ABBOTT

I will never forget the day that I cast NOT OVER my first vote. Nor will I forget watch- ing my first election count and see- ing thousands of ballot papers with X against my name. Equality has not been won, say Labour women DEBBIE ABRAHAMS

I remember the life of Annie Kenney, a cotton mill by Lamiat Sabin their lifetime, according to new frage and look at how to achieve Angela Rayner said: “In 2009, worker, from Springhead in my constituency who was research from gender equality full equality for women. the fascist BNP were standing the only working-class woman to hold a senior posi- campaign group the Fawcett And Megan Dobney of the in the European elections. tion in the Women’s Social and Political Union. It is TODAY marks 100 years since Society. Sylvia Pankhurst memorial “On polling day I ended up in thanks to the many sacrifices made by her and fellow the Representation of the Peo- At current rates — with just committee said the Suffra- hospital waiting to give birth, Suffragettes that I have the opportunity to serve. ple Act that facilitated some 32 per cent of MPs women — it gette’s legacy should be recog- but I knew I had to use that women’s right to vote — but will take until 2062 to achieve nised and called for support for right to vote. more needs to be done to equal representation. the campaign to erect a statue “To everyone’s surprise, SHAMI CHAKRABARTI improve politics for women, Increasing the number of of her in Clerkenwell Green, I insisted on getting out to campaigners and Labour have female MPs makes “political London. the polling station to vote The 1918 Representation of the People said. sense” as laws regarding wom- “Statues don’t win progress Labour.” Act deliberately excluded working-class The shadow cabinet will be en’s rights would not have been but they are a lasting reminder Shadow minister for women women from the vote. So feminism with- meeting at the Museum of Lon- passed otherwise, Fawcett Soci- of the contribution of those and equalities Dawn Butler said out socialism will not be for the many don to mark the centenary of ety chief executive Sam Smeth- they represent. Sylvia fought that the centenary “illustrates but the few. Even these restricted rights property-owning women over ers said. racism, fascism, imperialism that every battle is worth the were hard won not by asking nicely, but 30 achieving the right to vote She suggested that this proc- and for the democratic rights fight as it takes us a step closer by feminists imprisoned and tortured by in 1918. ess can be hastened by legislat- of all — as well as for the vote to equality but we must never successive right-wing governments. A decade later, that right was ing to require parties to “take for women. 2018 is the year to stop fighting.” extended to all women over 21. action,” and having “meaning- mark her unique contribution.” Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn LESLEY LAIRD The Labour Party said it ful sanctions” imposed by an Shadow home secretary has also filmed a video featur- is proud to have a gender- independent regulator in cases Diane Abbott said: “Personally ing a commemorative plaque balanced shadow cabinet and of sexual harassment in Parlia- I will never forget the day that that he and the late Tony Benn This is a moment to celebrate how far we’ve come and more female MPs than all other ment and local government. I cast my first vote. placed in the Commons broom to renew our efforts on where we go next, not just here, parties put together. This afternoon, the shadow “Nor will I forget watching cupboard where Emily Wilding but for our sisters across the globe still denied the right But only just over a third cabinet will launch Labour’s my first election count and see- Davison hid overnight so she to vote. (37 per cent) of young women year-long campaign at the Suf- ing thousands of ballot papers could be registered in the cen- think equal representation in fragettes’ Exhibition to celebrate with X against my name.” sus as living in Parliament. Parliament will be achieved in the centenary of women’s suf- Shadow education secretary Turn to page 4

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■ PRIVATEER COLLAPSE ■ COURTS Carillion workers emailed: Lauri Love wins battle Don’t turn up on Monday against US by Peter Lazenby industrial strategy secretary extradition Rebecca Long-Bailey said: “The government has let down work- ALLEGED hacker Lauri HUNDREDS of workers employed ers and businesses impacted by Love won his battle by bankrupt public-service priva- Carillion’s collapse. against extradition to teer Carillion have been emailed “Eight hundred workers have the US yesterday after and told: “Don’t bother turning lost their jobs, more are left not the High Court ruled up for work on Monday.” knowing what the future holds that it would be “oppres- The email carrying the blunt for them and Carillion’s shoddy sive” to send him away. message was sent by the com- treatment of businesses in its Mr Love now faces the pany’s receivers, finance firm supply chain threatens even prospect of a criminal PWC. more jobs. trial in Britain, with Four-hundred-and-fifty work- lion’s central office staff would “And the ones that still have “The Tories have failed to judges finding: “It would ers involved in Carillion’s pub- remain in place until April, a job are in limbo. They turn up protect the pay, conditions or not be oppressive to lic and private contracts were then we see almost 500 are to work each day not knowing pensions of workers on Caril- prosecute Mr Love in contacted on Saturday. The job being booted out. if they’ll still have a job at the lion contracts. England for the offences losses are on top of 377 redun- “It’s not just the fact so many end of the day.” “They must now act quickly alleged against him. Far dancies announced on Friday. are being made redundant. It’s Carillion, which went bank- to ensure that these workers from it.” Union GMB, some of whose the callous way PWC are going rupt last month, employed receive swift redundancy pay- US authorities had members are affected, denounced about it which is so outrageous. 20,000 workers in Britain. ments and are properly sup- sought Mr Love’s extradi- the email sackings as “callous.” “Some people received Despite three profit warn- ported.” tion on cyber-hacking GMB national secretary emails on Saturday simply tell- ings issued by the firm last The government said yester- charges, for allegedly Rehana Azam said: “Loyal Caril- ing them not to bother turning year, the government gave the day that it “appreciated” the dif- stealing data from sev- lion staff are being treated with up for work on Monday. Others company £2 billion in public ficulties faced by hundreds of eral US agencies, includ- utter contempt by PWC. have been given less than a service contracts. sacked Carillion workers. ing the Federal Reserve, “The receiver said that Caril- day’s notice. Shadow business, energy and [email protected] the army, the Pentagon, Nasa and the FBI. Mr Love’s lawyers said he faced a sentence of up ■ COURTS to 99 years in prison if found guilty and was at a “high risk” of suicide if extradited. White supremacist guilty of Speaking outside court, Mr Love said: “This decision is important for the appropriate admin- plotting attack on Gay Pride istration of criminal justice and also for the by Sam Tobin when he was arrested, but who is on the autistic spec- humanitarian accommo- police found an axe, a machete trum, claimed he was himself dation of people whose and bomb-making material at bisexual, telling jurors at Leeds brains work differently.” WHITE supremacist Ethan Sta- his home. Crown Court that he did not bles was found guilty yesterday Jurors were shown a video intend to carry out the attack of planning a machete attack of him burning a rainbow flag and was simply venting his on a gay pride event in a pub. and posing next to a swastika anger online. The 20-year-old was arrested flag hanging on his bedroom His lawyer Patrick Upward by armed police on June 23 wall. QC told the court that his cli- after a tip-off as he walked Police also found internet ent was not a white supremacist towards the New Empire pub searches for “how to make but simply a “white fantasist.” in Barrow, Cumbria. chemical poison,” “what is Mr Stables, of Egerton Court, A member of a far-right Face- prison like for a murderer” and Barrow, was found guilty of book group warned police that “I want to go on a killing spree.” preparing an act of terrorism, Mr Stables had posted that he He had also searched for how making threats to kill and pos- was “going to war” and planned to make a bomb from matches sessing an explosive. to “slaughter every single one and police found a collection of He will be sentenced tomor- of the gay bastards.” cut-off match heads in his flat. row. GUILTY: Ethan Stables Mr Stables was unarmed During his trial, Mr Stables, [email protected] ■ TRANSPORT It’s outrageous: Virgin’s West Coast rail contract extended A vivid account of how James Connolly the power of local UNIONS have slammed the chise, which will end three government has been & The Re-Conquest of Ireland government’s “outrageous” years early in 2020. reduced by central decision to extend Virgin RMT general secretary government and Author John Callow provides Trains’ contract to run serv- Mick Cash said Mr Grayling’s ices on the West Coast Main announcement exposed “the hollowed out by the the fi rst critical reappraisal Line. cronyism and chicanery of private sector’ of Connolly’s last major work Transport Secretary Chris the privatised rail franchis- Prof. Jane Lethbridge using a wealth of original Grayling announced yester- ing process and will ram yet documents and photographs. day that the company’s con- another nail into the coffin of Don’t miss Peter In Connolly’s 1915 work the tract would be extended until this whole rotten business.” Latham’s probe great revolutionary grapples April 2020. And drivers’ union Aslef’s with questions of nationhood, The franchise had been general secretary Mick Whe- into the death of women’s rights and political due to end this April, but lan said: “It is outrageous that council power and economic democracy in a the government previously Virgin Trains has been handed NOW way that resonates today. announced Virgin would run a lucrative new contract to run services until April 2019. services on the West Coast To get your copy call the £7.50 TWO-THIRDS OFF Mr Grayling has been ham- Main Line despite serious criti- Star shop on (020) 8510-0815 + P&P £5 (WAS £18!) + £3 p&p mered for his mismanagement cism of its owners’ handling of Call (020) 8510-0815 of Virgin’s East Coast fran- the east coast franchise.” morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline news Tuesday @m_star_online February 6 2018 3

n INDUSTRIAL Usdaw demands talks after Homebase moots jobs cull

by Peter Lazenby

SHOP workers’ union Usdaw demanded talks yesterday after DIY firm Homebase announced plans to close up to 40 stores with the potential loss of 2,000 jobs. The firm said that between 20 and 40 of its “worst-perform- ing” stores could close down. Homebase which has 250 stores in Britain employing 12,000 workers, was taken over two years ago by Australian- owned conglomerate Bunnings in a £340 million deal. The announcement follows what has been reported as a “Staff in Homebase stores are “Usdaw is the trade union for “miserable January” for high extremely concerned that Wes- Homebase staff and now more street businesses. farmers, the parent company than ever they need represen- Supermarket chains Sains- of Homebase owners Bunnings tation and the support we can bury, Tesco and Morrisons UK, are reviewing the business provide. have all announced job losses, after acquiring it barely two “It is crucial that the com- despite being in profit and years ago. pany listens to the staff to make handing out dividends to share- “I have written to the com- a success of the business. We are holders. pany seeking clarification providing our members with Usdaw national officer David about their intentions and call- the support and representation Gill told the Morning Star: ing for them to involve Usdaw they require throughout this in the review to ensure the staff difficult time.” have a voice in their future. [email protected]

n PHONE-HACKING Hugh Grant: now is the HAVE YOUR SAY time for Leveson Part II letters@ (up to 300 words) to Write or by post: HUGH GRANT called yesterday “Murdoch and co will pay peoples-press.com for the second part of the Lev- unlimited sums to keep these 52 Beachy Rd, London E3 eson inquiry to take place after cases out of court. Individual 2NS settling his phone-hacking settlement is one thing, break- damages claims against Mir- ing up the power of the media ror Group Newspapers. conglomerates is quite another. n MITTING INQUIRY The actor is understood to “Reining in monopoly own- have donated a six-figure dam- ership is essential for a demo- ages sum to campaign group cratic media subject to the law Hacked Off. of the land instead of the laws SPYCOPS VICTIMS BLAST Speaking outside court, Mr of profit and political manipu- Grant said the case was not just lation.” about him but the “nature of Mr Justice Mann also heard high-level concealment at the details of settlements with Mirror Group.” MGN by actor Ralf Little and Alex Wilson, for MGN, said former Southampton FC execu- ‘FARCE’ OF ANONYMITY the company “deeply regrets tive chairman Rupert Lowe. the wrongful acts of its former Former police officer and employees.” Crimewatch presenter Jacqui CAMPAIGNERS’ SILK: undercover policing hearings ‘increasingly look like window-dressing’ But Campaign for Press and Hames also settled her action Broadcasting Freedom chair against News Group Newspa- AN INQUIRY into undercover by Sam Tobin She said that it made the outs from the public gallery Ann Field said the settlement pers, publishers of the now- policing was branded a “farce” hearings “increasingly look like when he told Ms Kaufmann that did not end matters. defunct News of the World. yesterday as counsel for the vic- window-dressing” as the level lawyers would meet a “brick tims complained that keeping of anonymity meant evidence wall of silence” in regard to the officers anonymised would mous claim that they fear risk could not be properly tested. information about two officers, undermine the purpose of the of violence and intrusion into Ms Kaufmann also submit- known only as HN23 and HN40. Norfolk & Suffolk inquiry. their and families’ private lives ted that, if the anonymity Maya Sikand, representing Counsel for the victims said if their identities and roles are stage of the inquiry was not former SDS officer Peter Fran- Readers & Supporters Group they were “extremely disap- disclosed. conducted with “significant cis, told the inquiry that Mr pointed” with the inquiry’s But the victims’ written breadth,” there was a serious Francis knew HN40 and was progress and several observ- responses said that there was risk the inquiry would “get off “unsure” why disclosure of Join us in Great Yarmouth for the inaugural ers left the public gallery at insufficient evidence that to a wrong start.” his cover name would reveal meeting of the Norfolk and Suffolk London’s High Court during important public interests in She accused the inquiry of his real name. Morning Star Readers and Supporters Group. proceedings. favour of disclosing the identi- setting “far too low a thresh- She also said that Mr Francis Inquiry chairman Sir John ties of the seven officers had old of risk” when determining knew HN23 and that he would Morning Star editor Ben Chacko will be joining Mitting heard applications for been taken into account. officers’ applications for ano- have valuable evidence for the us to discuss bias in the mainstream media anonymity by seven former Phillippa Kaufmann QC, rep- nymity and said that individu- inquiry on the “violence he was and socialist responses. officers from the Metropolitan resenting the victims, said the als would be unable to know if authorised to carry out.” 7.30pm Thursday February 8 Police’s special demonstration extent of the anonymity pro- they were victims of spying if Mr Mitting’s decisions on the squad (SDS). posed was alarming and risked officers’ cover names were not application will be published at Herois De Mar, 6-7 Broad Row, Great Yarmouth The officers’ submissions in undermining public confidence revealed. a later date. Norfolk NR30 1HT support of remaining anony- in the inquiry. Mr Mitting prompted walk- [email protected] Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 4 Tuesday news morningstaronline February 6 2018 @m_star_online

■ NHS TWEET Corbyn savages Trump NHS jibe by Lamiat Sabin the most expensive, ineffi- cient and unjust healthcare ■ FRONT PAGE systems in the world.” JEREMY CORBYN slapped In their own message to down Donald Trump Mr Trump, they said: “ 100 years on, yesterday after the US “We don’t agree with your president claimed people divisive and incorrect rheto- the fi ght were marching because the ric. No thanks.” NHS is “going broke and not The furore was sparked as continues working.” Labour secured an urgent Saturday’s demonstra- debate on the NHS winter FROM P1: In the video, he tion was organised by the crisis yesterday. says: “One hundred years People’s Assembly Against Shadow health secretary ago today an important Austerity and NHS Cam- Jonathan Ashworth, who milestone was achieved paigns Together to demand made the demand, said the in the fight for women’s that Health Secretary Jeremy four-hour A&E waiting time equality ... This wasn’t Hunt backs off from further target had effectively been gifted by MPs. This change privatisation and stops starv- abandoned until March 2019. did not come from above. It ing the NHS of sufficient Turning on the US presi- never does. funds. dent, he told MPs: “By the “It was won by the Suf- Labour leader Mr Corbyn way, we’ll take no lessons fragettes who forced the replied to Mr Trump on Twit- from Donald Trump, who government to act. They ter, telling him: “People were wants to deny healthcare to were fearless, innovative marching because we love millions with a system that and they grabbed the our NHS and hate what the checks your purse before it headlines. Tories are doing to it. Health- checks your pulse. “Emily Wilding Davison care is a human right.” “The NHS model isn’t was one of them. She hid The co-organisers of the broke, but it does need in the broom cupboard march said the protest funding. If this government behind me in Parliament was against the prospect won’t give it the funding it illegally overnight on the of moves to an “American- needs, then the next Labour night of the census. style system which is widely government will.” “This meant she could acknowledged to be one of [email protected] record her address as the House of Commons, mak- ing her claim to the same political rights as men. “I was proud to install a plaque in that cupboard with my friend Tony Benn so that Emily’s bravery and HIDDEN FROM the battle of the Suffra- gettes is never forgotten. “One hundred years later, HISTORY the struggle for equality continues.” Women who [email protected] changed the world A selection of Peter Frost’s articles from his Morning Star columns on the female heroes often overlooked in political history ■ HEALTH SERVICE CUTS Price £11.95 + p&p Online: shop.morningstaronline.co.uk By phone: (020) 8510-0815 NHS forced to cancel cancer operations as funds run dry

Choose from loads of fantastic by Peter Lazenby Hundreds of patients are Chief executive of the tions are being cancelled is products in the Morning Star being told on the day their oper- Patients’ Association Rachel scarcely believable. ation is due that it is cancelled. Power said: “The canby cella- “Everyone apart from Health OPERATIONS on cancer and Oxford University Hospitals tion of an operation for some- Secretary Jeremy Hunt seemed heart patients are being can- NHS Foundation Trust said that one with a life-threatening to see this crisis coming a mile ONLINE celled as the NHS sinks deeper in December and January 24 condition is always deeply off — it repeats the pattern of into crisis, it was revealed yes- cardiac and cancer operations undesirable.” previous years Don’t forget terday. were postponed on the day She demanded to know from “Yet instead of properly pre- SHOP we have Campaign group the Patients of surgery or the day before NHS England if the number of paring for it, seriously ill patients Association said the govern- because of a lack of beds in cancelled operations this year was now face the nightmare of hav- lots more ment has created “a nightmare” intensive-care units. higher than in previous years. ing their operations cancelled. books, CDs, for people desperately needing University Hospitals Bir- “Delaying surgery in these “Jeremy Hunt is clearly not posters, treatment. mingham said it had to can- instances increases the risk up to the job and must step T-shirts and Hospitals had already been cel 34 cancer operations, 53 to life and is a nightmare for down before the NHS crumbles told by management body cardiac procedures and four any patient subjected to it,” to dust in front of us.” much, much NHS England to postpone non- heart repairs. she said. A panel of health experts, set more on urgent operations such as hip University Hospitals North National officer of general up the Lib Dems, suggested yes- your online and knee replacements to free Midlands medical director Dr union GMB Kevin Brandstat- terday that a new ring-fenced beds for more urgent admis- John Oxtoby said that “due to ter said: “The fact the govern- tax to fund the NHS and social shop: sions. But NHS trusts say they severe and sustained pressure on ment has mismanaged this care, replacing national insur- are now having to cancel heart our services” its hospitals had to year’s winter crisis so badly ance, should be introduced. shop.morningstaronline.co.uk and cancer operations too. “prioritise some urgent surgery.” that cancer and heart opera- [email protected] morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline news Tuesday @m_star_online February 6 2018 5

■ HOUSING ■ BREXIT Property guardians BRITAIN WON’T BE PART OF EU ‘need more protections’ CUSTOMS UNION, SAYS NO 10 LONDON Assembly Mem- bers are demanding more BARNIER VISIT: May seeks to quell dissent while unions attack lack of focus on jobs and workers action to protect property guardians in the city. DOWNING STREET “categori- by Lamiat Sabin A report published cally” stated yesterday that IN AND OUT: Parliamentary today by the assembly’s Britain would not enter into David Davis housing committee calls any form of customs union Reporter and Michel on the mayor and West- agreement after leaving the EU. Barnier minster government to It clarified its stance over the GMB union general secre- improve the rights of matter amid clashes and confu- tary Tim Roache said that the those legally living in sion in the Cabinet. government appears to have vacant buildings. The government says its deci- rejected the idea of a customs Owners of empty residen- sion is based on Britain’s abil- union to placate squabbling tial and commercial build- ity to strike independent trade members of the Cabinet and ings often draft in property deals with non-EU countries. save Ms May’s skin, rather than guardians, who have a PM Theresa May’s official taking jobs into consideration. licence agreement but no spokesman said the govern- He added: “The future of tenancy rights, on cheap ment had set out its position our ports, manufacturing and rents to deter squatters. in a paper published in August, our trade with Ireland will be The committee warned which acknowledged that the hugely affected outside a cus- that many guardians are options of a customs partner- toms union, yet these issues are low-paid and forced to ship that were being explored seemingly absent from govern- as not having any form of cus- tiator Michel Barnier warned single market there would be bar- accept substandard living would be “challenging” to ment thinking. toms union would be “bad for yesterday that there was “not riers to trade, he pointed out. conditions and said legis- implement. “If this is indeed the Prime jobs, bad for investment and a minute to lose” in efforts to Labour has called for maxi- lation should be reviewed The chairman of the Com- Minister’s decision — where is bad for business,” TUC general achieve a Brexit deal. mum access to the single mar- so that they benefit from mons exiting the EU commit- the plan for jobs and our ports? secretary Frances O’Grady said. After a three-course lunch of ket without calling for mem- improvements made to the tee, Labour MP Hilary Benn, “Industry, communities and She added: “The Prime Minis- smoked salmon, pork belly and bership, which would place private-rented sector. told BBC Radio 4’s Today pro- livelihoods are at stake, we can- ter must break free of the Brexit vanilla custard tart, Mr Barnier restrictions on its plans to AMs said guardians need gramme that it was a “profound not continue with this level of extremists in her party and put told Downing Street the “time extend public ownership and guidance about their legal mistake” to leave the customs uncertainty.” The government working people first.” has come to make a choice.” invest in industry. rights and a place to raise union. must put working people first The EU’s chief Brexit nego- Outside the customs union and [email protected] concerns about a property guardian company. London Assembly hous- ing committee chair- ■ HEALTH woman Sian Berry said: “Most guardians are sim- FOR PEACE AND SOCIALISM ply working Londoners on lower than average wages Activists lay into who don’t see any other affordable options. “We want to see action from the mayor and plans to charge government to make potential guardians more donate Fighting fund aware of their rights and migrants NHS fees ONLINE close the gaps in the law to We rely on you, our readers, to

give these most vulnerable morningstaronline keep the only working-class renters more protection by Our News Desk JCWI head Satbir Singh said: .co.uk/page/ and security.” “This is an outrageous and cyni- cal attempt by the government support-us voice in the British media going PLANS to charge migrants dou- to shift the blame for its own with regular donations ■ CAMPAIGN SONG ble to access the NHS are “out- failure to deal with the crisis rageous and cynical,” human in the NHS.” rights campaigners blasted The Department of Health Standing Order, People’s Press Fighting Fund Tune off yesterday, estimates the NHS spends My name is: The Joint Council for the Wel- £470 on average per person McVey fare of Immigrants (JCWI) said per year on treating surcharge My nameMy address is: is: My address plans to double the immigra- payers. is: TRADE union activists seek- tion health surcharge — rising It estimates that the ing to oust Tory Work and from £200 to £400 a year or increased charges may provide Postcode Pensions Secretary Esther £150 to £300 for international around an extra £220 million McVey from her Tatton con- students — were “a shameful every year, with this money Telephone:...... Postcode stituency released a new cam- attempt to stir up division and going back to NHS services. paign song yesterday calling hatred.” Health Minister James Email: My telephone number is: Please pay the for her sacking. The charity accused the O’Shaughnessy said: “Our NHS Cooperative Bank PLC, Islington Branch, sort code 08-90-33 for Salford musician Dominic government of attempt- is always there when you need the credit of the People’s Press Fighting Fund, account number Williams’s hard-hitting song ing to shift the blame it, paid for by British taxpay- My email address is: No More (Sack Esther Now) for its failure in the ers. 5050-5115 the sum of: £ each month until further exposes the then disabilities health service onto “We welcome long-term Please pay the Cooperative Bank PLC, Islington Branch, sort code 08-90- minister’s role in imposing the migrants. migrants using the NHS, notice and debit my account accordingly. hated bedroom tax and harsh The new fees, but it is only right that My account33 for thenumber credit of is: the People’s Press Fighting Fund, account numberMy sort benefits changes that hit hun- which will come they make a fair con- code is:5050-5115 the sum of: dreds of thousands of Britain’s into force later tribution to its long- most vulnerable people. this year, apply term sustainability.” Standing order start date: Signature Ms McVey also came under to those out- But Mr Singh £ fire in the Commons yester- side the Euro- said he was ignor- To the manager (include bank name, address and postcode):

day for ignoring a question pean Economic ing the enormous US TO MAIL AND OUT CUT on government failure to Area (EEA) seek- net contribution each month until further notice and debit my account accordingly protect workers’ pension ing to live in Brit- of migrant taxpay- DON’T SEND THIS FORM TO YOUR BANK. PLEASE MAIL IT TO: schemes, including those of ain for six months ers and workforce PPFF Organiser, William Rust House, 52 Registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1965 Carillion employees. or more to work, within the NHS. Beachy Road, Bow, London E3 2NS study or join family. [email protected] No 12750R. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 6 Tuesday world morningstaronline February 6 2018 @m_star_online n SUDAN n IRAQ International parties back Change of mission: endangered US ‘drawdown’ to communists

ALMOST 60 communist and workers’ parties have Afghanistan begins signed a new statement in support of jailed Sudanese by Our Foreign Desk along with weapons and equip- The plan would leave a force Communist Party (SCP) ment, the contractors said. of about 4,000 US troops to leaders. An AP reporter at the al- continue training the Iraqi The statement, released US TROOPS have begun with- Asad base in western Iraq saw armed forces. yesterday, condemned drawing from Iraq after declar- troop movements reflecting “Continued coalition pres- Presi- ing victory over Isis and rede- the contractors’ account. ence in Iraq will be conditions- dent ploying to Afghanistan. “We’ve had a recent change based, proportional to the need Omar al- There was no formal Pen- of mission and soon we’ll be and in co-ordination with the Bashir’s tagon announcement of the supporting a different theatre government of Iraq,” Inherent (pic- “drawdown” of forces, but of operations in the coming Resolve coalition spokesman tured) anonymous contractors at a month,” US Army First Lieu- Colonel Ryan Dillon told the “dicta- US base said it began last week. tenant William John Raymond AP when asked for comment. torial Iraqi government spokes- told AP at al-Asad. But the coalition has said regime” man Saad al-Hadithi told He spoke as he and a hand- it will continue operations for the the US Associated Press (AP) ful of soldiers from his unit with its Kurdish separatist arrests agency: “The battle against conducted equipment inven- Syrian Democratic Forces made [Isis] has ended and so the level tory checks required before allies against Isis in neigh- during and following last of the American presence will leaving Iraq. bouring Syria for the foresee- month’s SCP-organised be reduced.” Lt Raymond declined to able future — against the will protests in Khartoum Mr Hadithi stressed the specify where his unit was of the Damascus government. against International Mon- reduction was in its early being sent, as that informa- US President Donald Trump etary Fund-demanded cuts stages and at present did not tion had yet to be made public. acceded to demands last year to wheat subsidies. mark the beginning of a com- A senior Iraqi official close by his Defence Secretary James “We believe that the plete withdrawal of US forces to Prime Minister Haider al- Mattis and commanders in health and lives of the from his country. Abadi said 60 per cent of all Afghanistan to send thousands detainees of the Sudanese But dozens of US soldiers US troops now in the country more troops in an attempt to Communist Party are in have been transported from would be withdrawn, accord- halt major Taliban advances in imminent danger,” the Iraq to Afghanistan on daily ing to the initial agreement the 16-year war. signatories said, adding flights over the past week, reached with Washington. [email protected] that authorities had seized copies of the SCP organ Almidan and other news- papers. n SOUTH AFRICA Last week SCP politburo spokesman Fathi el-Fadl said at least four party leaders, including politi- Ramaphosa and Zuma factions clash cal secretary Muhammad Mukhtar al-Khatieb, by James Tweedie headquarters in Johannesburg. ANC spokeswoman Khusela speculation in white-owned had been transferred to Footage of the incident on the Diko said the ruling party anti-ANC media that Mr Ram- remote prisons in the South African Times website “respects and will always aphosa and other ANC officials country’s west, hundreds SUPPORTERS of South African showed men pulling terrified uphold the right of all citizens elected in December had urged of miles from Khartoum. Vice-President Cyril Ramaphosa women from a pick-up truck, to protest.” The party later con- the president to step down at a He said conditions at beat women demanding “hands one man beating them with demned the attack, especially private meeting on Sunday. the Shala prison outside off” President Jacob Zuma yes- a stick and another kicking a “the assault of women in so cal- No confirmation of that Al-Fashir, the capital of terday. woman as she lay in the road. lous and dehumanising manner. emerged yesterday, suggesting North Darfur state, and Several men in black T-shirts The paper said that the ANC Johannesburg Region the rumour was false, as with Zalingh in the capital of bearing the “#Siyavuma” (We same group of men had earlier spokesman Jolidee Matongo many earlier reports. Central Darfur state were agree) slogan of Mr Ramapho- assaulted a BLF supporter in the identified one of the assailants As ANC president, Mr Ram- bad and that medical care sa’s successful campaign for street before police rescued the as Inner City Zone 12 branch aphosa is the party’s candidate and family visits would be the ANC presidency last year victim. The report added that secretary Thabiso Setona — and to succeed Mr Zuma in the gen- made more difficult by the attacked supporters of the a heavy police presence was promised he would be promptly eral election at the end of his move. WAITING: Cyril Ramaphosa Black Land First (BLF) march to needed to separate the Ram- disciplined for his “revolting” second term in May 2019. the Albert Luthuli House ANC aphosa supporters from BLF. behaviour. The march followed [email protected]

n ECUADOR A MODEST Correa run nixed by return DIFFERENT to presidential term limits PROPOSAL ECUADOREAN voters backed tion parties to win. EVERY TIME a return to presidential term “It’s going to be very difficult limits in Sunday’s referendum, for a mediocre person like Lenin by Mary Davis blocking ex-president Rafael Cor- Moreno to keep everyone happy,” and Angus Reid The authorised biography rea’s potential challenge to his Mr Correa told Venezuela’s erstwhile ally. Telesur network in an interview President Lenin Moreno hailed following the vote. The authors make a Marcus O’Dair’s biography of Robert Wyatt includes illustrations by the 64 per cent vote reversing the “The only thing that unites Alfreda Benge and photographs from Robert and Alfi e’s personal archive compelling case for 2015 constitutional reform abol- these people is their hatred of Holyrood to become an ishing the limit as a victory for Correa, not even love of country.” democracy. Mr Correa’s rift with Mr instrument of the people But the president and leader Moreno erupted last year when £20 + £2.50 p&p of the left-wing Pais Alliance, he called his successor a “wolf in Just £8 plus p&p shop.morningstaronline.co.uk which Mr Correa sensationally sheep’s clothing” for sacking and quit last month, relied on an alli- prosecuting vice-president Jorge (020) 8510-0815 shop.morningstaronline.co.uk (020) 8510-0815 ance with conservative opposi- Glas over corruption allegations. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline world Tuesday @m_star_online February 6 2018 7

n KOREA n CHILE Sports fans witness Pope accused of unity on ice ignoring evidence KOREA’S joint women’s ice- hockey team has had to tackle a linguistic divide after 70 years of separation as it prepares for of church’s abuse the Pyeongchang Winter Olym- pics. by Our Foreign Desk But members of the South Korea has incorpo- Vatican’s sexual abuse rated many English words and commission met Francis’s phrases — including hockey POPE Francis was accused top adviser Cardinal Sean terms — into its language, while yesterday of covering up the O’Malley on April 12 2015 to the North has eliminated words Chilean church child abuse explain their objections to with foreign origins and created scandal after reports he had Father Barros’s appointment homegrown substitutes. read the allegations in 2015. as bishop of Osorno, and The team’s formation, The US Associated Press gave him the letter to deliver TAKE A BOW: The Korean prompted by the recent detente (AP) agency said it had to the Pope. players salute their coaching between Pyongyang and Seoul, obtained an eight-page let- “He assured us he would staff after a practice session triggered a strong backlash in ter from victim Juan Carlos give it to the Pope and South Korea, with critics worried Cruz graphically detailing speak of the concerns,” then the deal would deprive South his accusations of abuse commission member Marie Korean players of playing time. at the hands of the Rev Collins said. “And at a later But on Sunday, with only 10 Fernando Karadima while date, he assured us that that days’ preparation, the Korean Bishop Juan Barros looked had been done.” team had its first match with on. Mr Cruz, who now lives in world No 5 Sweden in front of a On the last day of his the US city of Philadelphia, crowd of 3,000 in Incheon, west trip to Chile last month — heard the same. of Seoul. Despite a 3-1 defeat, it intended to restore faith in “Cardinal O’Malley called was a good result given that the church in the wake of me after the Pope’s visit here both Koreas are ranked outside the scandal — the pontiff in Philadelphia and he told the world top 20. angered victims by calling me, among other things, that The players wore the same allegations of the bishop’s he had given the letter to the uniforms with a unification complicity “calumny.” Pope — in his hands,” he said flag depicting the peninsula, When confronted by a in an interview at his home and stood to a Korean folk reporter on his flight out of on Sunday. song instead of their respective the country, the Pope said: Neither the Vatican nor national anthems. “You, in all good will, tell me Cardinal O’Malley responded that there are victims, but to multiple requests for com- I haven’t seen any, because ment. they haven’t come forward.” [email protected] n VENEZUELA CARACAS DEFIANT IN FACE OF TILLERSON’S THREATS WASHINGTON TURNS THE SCREW: Ex-ExxonMobil US Secretary of State threatens oil embargo

VENEZUELA’S president and by James Tweedie export markets so now only a putting forward a joint presi- foreign minister have vowed to fifth goes north — with twice dential candidate under the defend their country’s freedom as much going to China. banner of the Democratic Unity after Washington threatened an Speaking at a joint press Roundtable (Mud) coalition of a oil embargo. Before joining President Don- conference with Mr Tillerson, dozen parties. US Secretary of State Rex Till- ald Trump’s administration, Argentinian Foreign Minister The tribunal said that would erson made the threat against Mr Tillerson was CEO of trans- Jorge Faurie said his govern- breach electoral rules against imports and refining of Cara- national oil giant ExxonMobil, ment does not recognise “the “dual membership” of political cas’s dominant export on Sun- which has fought a long-run- political process and authori- parties. DEADLY ROUTE: A view of the Amtrak train and a CSX freight train day as he visited the Argentin- ning dispute with Venezuela’s tarian deviation of Venezuela” In a Facebook video, Venezue- ian capital Buenos Aires on the socialist government. or the assembly. lan President Nicolas Maduro n UNITED STATES latest leg of his Latin American While the lion’s share of Ven- Last month, Venezuela’s responded to the US threat, and Caribbean tour. ezuela’s oil once went to the Supreme Justice Tribunal ruled warning: “ We are ready. He said Washington wants US, Caracas has diversified its out the US-backed opposition “Venezuela, oil industry work- Crashed passenger train “free, fair and verifiable” presi- ers, imperialism threatens us,” dential elections, which Vene- he said. “We are ready to be free ‘was on the wrong track’ zuela’s new national constituent and nothing nor nobody is going assembly has called for April. to stop us.” US RAIL safety investigators ing late yesterday in Columbia, “The situation is becoming Foreign Minister Jorge believe that Sunday morning’s 10 miles north of Cayce, but he quite dire in Venezuela, so one Arreaza, in Nicaragua on the lat- deadly crash in South Carolina told reporters on Sunday night of the aspects of considering est leg of his own regional tour, could have been prevented with that a switch was in the wrong sanctioning oil is: What effect which previously took him to the right safety equipment. position and that a GPS-based would it have on the Venezue- Cuba, tweeted his disgust at Mr The Amtrak Silver Star from system called “positive train lan people and is it a step that Faurie’s “shameful and undigni- New York to Miami collided control” could have prevented might bring this to an end, to a fied” subordination to Washing- with a freight train at Cayce the crash. more rapid end?” Mr Tillerson ton in attacking Venezuela. after it was switched onto the The system tracks the loca- said, seeking to justify worsen- “His government once again wrong track at points, killing tion of all trains and the posi- ing consumer shortages and on its knees before Trump” he a driver and a conductor and tions of all switches to prevent hyperinflation. wrote, in contrast to the “wise injuring 116 of the 145 others human error sending two “Not doing anything to bring and dignified Argentinian peo- aboard. trains down the same track. this to an end is also asking the ple, full of solidarity and anti- National Transportation It was the third deadly crash Venezuelan people to suffer for imperialist by nature.” Safety Board chairman Robert involving Amtrak in less than a much longer time.” ‘SHAMEFUL’: Jorge Faurie (right) with Rex Tillerson [email protected] Sumwalt was set to give a brief- two months. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 8 Tuesday features morningstaronline February 6 2018 @m_star_online Star comment An NHS tax is a dangerous solution to the Tories’ deliberate funding crisis FRUSTRATION over uncertainties relating to funding of the NHS should not lead health staff or campaigners to fall for gimmicks like a hypothecated health tax. All the more so when this is trotted out by the Lib- eral Democrats when their own MPs, including current leader Vince Cable, propped up David Cameron’s Tories as they slashed real-terms NHS spending. Former Tory minister Nick Boles pushed the boat out last month by describing the NHS provocatively as the “cuckoo in the Treasury nest, hungrily demanding ever more money and pushing other public services ever closer to the edge.” His hypothecation solution would rebrand National Insurance as National Health Insurance, with income held and distributed from a healthcare fund and spent according to five-year plans. His otherwise like-minded Liberal Democrat panel recognise that this would weigh unfairly on low and middle-income working people earning between £157 and £866 a week who pay 12 per cent of their income in National Insurance. Those on over £866 are charged a 2 per cent marginal rate while over-65s who choose to continue working pay no National Insurance. The EU lurches eve The injustices suggest that, rather than a National Insurance extension by another name, it should be phased out. Shadow chancellor John McDonnell was once prepared to consider a hypothecated NHS tax, suggesting it might “help restore the trust and confidence in taxation and government spending.” Party leader Jeremy Corbyn made clear, however, that, to the right and to “if you go down the road of hypothecated taxation, then you’re going to do hypothecated taxation for every other service.” HE EU has always been a DOUG NICHOLLS writes on the European U big-business-led, How long would it be before brass hats, backed up by u nde mo c rat ic arms manufacturers and their mouthpieces in media Tstructure influ- and argues it is essential socialists accelerate B and Parliament, demanded hypothecation of taxes “to enced mainly by keep the country safe from its enemies?” the 30,000 corporate lobbyists sions and a £5.5bn fund to help deep, dark and original dream is always conveniently forgotten The predictable result would be hypothecated taxes permanently camped out in member states buy the latest of a single EU currency, a sin- that the EU turning the other for popular spending areas and an ongoing squeeze Brussels. cutting-edge weapons. gle agricultural, industrial and cheek to Germany’s recognition on Cinderella ministries — possibly welfare benefits Increasingly influential Arms exports have increased, immigration policy, single par- of Croatia precipitated the war or overseas aid. among these are the armaments with the EU becoming more liament run by the corporations on Yugoslavia. Its stoking of Another problem for allocating specific taxes to a companies that are smiling at tolerant of member states that and a single market protected fascistic flames against Russia single area of government spending is the likely demand the EU new military and foreign send much-needed hardware by a single defence and mili- in Ukraine as well as the hollow- for exemption. policy directions. to some of the worst tyrants in tary policy has come true. It is, ing out of populations through At present, the small minority able to jump NHS These plans were being the world. therefore, important for social- mass migration in the eastern queues by paying for private healthcare — or, more usu- agreed during the British refer- But the highlight of recent ists throughout the continent European recent accession states ally, having it provided as an employment perk — can’t endum campaign, but the Euro- developments was when the that at least Britain has woken has benefited Germany’s tradi- opt out of contributing because the NHS budget comes pean Commission and Remain- EU agreed last November to cre- up and is leaving. tional imperial claims. out of general taxation. ers were under orders then not ate what some have called the The nightmare is official. In The EU would really love Tur- Who would bet against a future Tory government, to do or say anything that could nucleus of a joint army. its November Defence Union key to join the club, make no with or without Liberal Democrat collaboration, grant- have helped the Leave vote. Twenty-three out of 28 EU report, the EU Parliament said mistake about that, and Presi- ing exemption from such a hypothecated deduction? Once our referendum was states signed a declaration in that the EU common security dent Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Most opinion polls deliver results showing respond- over, the EU became brazen in Brussels on November 13 2017 and defence policy “should lead current genocide against the ents prepared to pay higher taxes to maintain health- banging the war drums. As the prior to making a legally bind- in due time to the establish- Kurds is not likely to be a long- care funding, with 90 per cent insistent that the NHS Campaign Against the Arms ing pledge at an EU summit. ment of the European armed term impediment in their eyes. should not have to reduce either level of care or range Trade (CAAT) points out, “The German Foreign Minister forces.” Various bodies are being Misguided infatuation with of services to balance the books. EU machinery is being adapted Sigmar Gabriel called it “a brought into action to make this the EU has led to a disregard for This illustrates, notwithstanding sneers from such to assist the military industry.” milestone in European devel- a reality. its internal colonial role. The EU oafs as Donald Trump, the ongoing commitment of Over recent years, the EU opment.” Britain, Denmark, The EU external action serv- and its main banking partners people in Britain to the healthcare model introduced has been rapidly militarising. Ireland, Malta, and Portugal to ice has also produced its own and German arms suppliers 70 years ago by Aneurin Bevan. A flurry of activity in 2016 led their credit declined to sign, security and defence imple- took over Greece and have been He advocated general taxation as the basis of NHS to the adoption of a European while keeping a future door mentation plan with the aim fond for years of dominating funding, insisting that using a contributory system such Defence Action Plan (EDAP) and open to enter. of directly linking EU defence the southern European states, as National Insurance to fund it would be a “peculiarly a Research Programme (EDRP) This defence accord known capabilities to its foreign policy. whose economies would never unsuitable” approach, leading to complications and lack with its lucrative-for-some com- as Permanent Structured Co- One quick glimpse at the EU be able to sustain the German of fairness. mitment to spend 3.5 billion operation (Pesco), will see par- foreign policy positions will mark-based rigours of the euro If hypothecation means more than an empty gesture, over the period 2021-2027. ticipating states jointly develop make it clear to anyone what currency. it involves government collecting a specific tax, trans- Following a 90 million rapid reaction forces and new their direction is. The official EU Similarly, a callous defence ferring it to the NHS and basing expenditure on the pilot investment from the EU materiel such as tanks and imposition of sanctions against of the single market by some in income generated, which is an arse-about-face way of common budget in 2017-2019, drones. It will also see them Venezuela and flagrant lauding our movement, could mislead operating. the commission is proposing create single European logistics of the anti-democratic Venezue- another generation into fight- For the NHS to fulfil its revolutionary humanising to spend 500m in 2019-2020. and medical support hubs. Such lan opposition forces should ing for the 1 per centers who role, it needs necessary finance guaranteed and to That could rise to 1.5bn a year logistics will lengthen the long alone be enough to convince benefit from that market and have that cost met out of general taxation, requiring from 2021. list of “exercises” and missions you all is not friendly there. the rundown of our productive a national debate on tax levels and, especially, about This adds to previous EU deci- EU-controlled forces have under- But this is one instance in a capacity. which layers of society are best able to pay more. sions to create a single hub for taken over many years. long catalogue of EU belligerent Obsessions with markets and overseas military training mis- The European federalists’ positions taken over decades. It trade wars lead inevitably in the morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Tuesday @m_star_online February 6 2018 9

HANGING ON: Four people protest against Brexit outside Parliament ROM what I have observed recently, The gender debate any deviation from the statement F “ t r a n s - w o m e n are women” will at the very least result in the “offender” being publicly branded a transphobe or a “terf.” is dividing the left. At worst it can result in you being reported to your political party, trade union or employer and accused of hate speech or bigotry. The impact of this modern We mustn’t forget day McCarthyism has been increasingly to drive this important debate underground and to create a climate of toxic- ity, fear and suspicion, the like of which I have rarely seen in unity is strength over 30 years of activism in the trade union and labour move- ment. Informed debate and respect- The labour movement needs space for a democratic ful disagreement are part of the lifeblood of our movement and respectful debate, says TRISH LAVELLE and the right to disagree pro- foundly with your comrades and to offer a counter view in a well-run debate is what makes us a vibrant and progressive force. Therefore, the silencing of large numbers of, mostly, ver further women is not an acceptable way to conduct this debate. Nor is it the best way to address the very real issues of how society can better accept, support and include trans people. Here we have a deeply com- plex issue — with significant to war potential consequences for soci- ety and one which requires seri- ous thought and consideration — reduced to an oversimplified, Union’s increasing militarism emotive and sound-bite-rich social media confrontation that is unlikely to help the debate as e Britain’s withdrawal from it it moves into the more main- stream media sphere. current world tensions to real ordinary working people the So how do we begin to wars. Why else does the EU want world over.” conduct a more responsible, to arm itself to the teeth? It is EU fans conveniently forget respectful and informed dis- seeking to be a block in compe- that the institution they so cussion to find solutions to real tition with the US, China and adore is dominated in the par- concerns rather than to pit one Russia. liament by integrationists and form of discrimination against Crucially, we need to con- religious belief and freedoms the adoption of potentially War on Want has consistently neoliberals. Of the 751 MEPs another in a “no win” scenario sider very carefully whether a versus LGBT and women’s rights. divisive and unworkable poli- warned us about the implica- rubber-stamping the unelected for the Labour Party and the measure designed to support We managed to get through cies without adequate consulta- tions of EU trade, growth and commissioners’ proposed laws, wider movement? one person may have an unin- these conflicts without resort- tion taking place. world affairs plans, introduced only 50 are in the self-declared How do we ensure that peo- tended consequence that poten- ing to “no platforming,” name I realise that, by even writ- seven years ago and underpin- socialist or left grouping, far ple who have serious and impor- tially disadvantages the other calling and the silencing of ing this, I may unintentionally ning EU imperial ambitions less than in the decidedly hard- tant questions to pose about the and we should be prepared to debate and we managed to hurt or lose friends and com- today. right groupings and less than a impact on women of possible accept that potentially chang- develop inclusive and work- rades of both the personal and These established a retalia- quarter of the ruling European changes to the Gender Recog- ing the way we define half able solutions that drew wide social media sort, but I cannot tory system so that developing Peoples’ Party grouping and half nition Act can feel that their the population should not support. stand by and allow decent and countries could be penalised for the total number of German concerns are heard, understood be driven through without Of course, we will always longstanding women trade not opening their public pro- MEPs. and not dismissed out of hand? a proper examination of its come to better conclusions and unionists and labour move- curement markets to European The reactionary nature of the First, it is unarguably a fact impact. solutions when we remember ment and community activists businesses. The damage this has EU Parliament with sizeable that trans people suffer high Perhaps we also have to that the primary reason for the to be silenced and denigrated caused to domestic food produc- right-wing majorities reflects levels of discrimination and consider that women have oppression and exploitation of any longer. tion in many African countries the increasing rise of the hid- disadvantage in society. And rights and trans people have women is our class and that the No-one should be fearful of has been tragic. eous right in many European second, it is equally unar- rights and that sometimes ruling class have always and speaking up, offering an opin- War on Want also condemned countries including Scandina- guable that women remain those rights will be the same, will always attempt to under- ion, asking questions or feel the the policy for aggressively via. In its wilful perpetuation super-exploited, discriminated sometimes they will diverge mine the solidarity of our class. need to meet in secret. seeking to plunder the natural of some 20 million unemployed against, disadvantaged and and sometimes they may even This bitter and damaging I call for all those who share resources of Africa and Asia for workers throughout the conti- under-represented in society. conflict. row has all the hallmarks of an my views to come forward to the benefit of European business nent, the EU cannot deny its If we can agree on those two Only by applying this logic orchestrated attempt to divide frame a new debate, which rather than allowing developing responsibility in making this statements, logically, we can can we begin to design good, the left of the labour movement provides a safe space for disa- countries to use those resources monster too. also accept that both require workable policy solutions that and we should question who greements and questions to be for their own needs. Socialists and trade unionists and are entitled to specific win the support of all con- benefits most from this divi- aired, applies class-based anal- War on Want said: “The EU in Britain should hasten the day protections and support to cerned as well as wider society sion. ysis to the key questions and trade policy could not be more of March 29 2019 when we for- counter the conditions and and surely that is our objective Those of us in the trade focuses not on blame and exclu- regressive if it tried. Instead of mally leave and remember that circumstances that lead to this here. union movement who sup- sion but on finding mutually developing positive new strate- those who sup with the devil situation. Certainly, there is a poten- port Jeremy Corbyn and the acceptable solutions for women gies for jobs and welfare, the EU should take a long spoon and Defining what those protec- tial for conflict, but there will radical Labour manifesto have and the trans community. is seeking to revive the failed be prepared to reject any offer tions and support should look always be conflicts of interest a responsibility to provide Unity is strength and, unless neoliberal agenda of the past they put on the table. like can surely be our starting during times of change and the leadership and to facilitate a dealt with promptly, these divi- 30 years. point and those definitions can movement has had to consider better debate and discussion, sions will surely make us fall. “This policy will benefit ■ Doug Nicholls is chair of Trade only be achieved through a con- potential conflicts in the past thereby protecting the rights nobody except multinational Unionists Against the European sidered and inclusive discussion between young and old people, that we have fought for and ■ Trish Lavelle writes here in a companies at the expense of Union. with representatives of both. different groups of workers, won together, while avoiding personal capacity. 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Voices of Scotland

DIFFERENT VISIONS: Richard Leonard and Nicola Sturgeon Scottish Labour now offers something the SNP can’t HE SNP budget for 2018-19, which Richard Leonard has already dropped the timid managerialism of his passed with the support of the TScottish Greens, predecessors and promoted radical change, says PAULINE BRYAN draws a stark line between the mainstream SNP conference that she was those up to £100,000. of Tory austerity and an eco- “Labour’s budget for real conservative economic poli- leading a “left-of-centre social It proposed £545m for the nomic system that tolerates change will be underpinned by cies of the SNP and what is democratic party” sounds even protection of lifeline services, gross inequalities and poverty. the values which I want Labour now offered by the Scottish less convincing. an additional £100m for the In a recent speech Leonard to take into government.” Labour Party. Responding to Scottish NHS, an additional £5 in child Labour’s stated: “Scotland needs to Leonard made this speech Even though he has only Labour’s radical alternative benefit and a fully funded pay “ be bold on extending public in Dundee where he explored been in office for two months, to the SNP budget, Finance settlement. It also proposed ownership. That is why Scot- the challenges that working Richard Leonard has trans- Minister Derek Mackay was greater powers for local gov- proposals are tish Labour will work proac- people there had faced over formed Labour’s approach to reduced to the age-old insult ernment, including the ability tively with local councils to the previous century. Scotland’s economy from a that it was “scribbled on the to levy a tourist tax and a land develop and deepen municipal Dundee, he said, “is a fitting timid managerialism to one back of a fag packet” and some value tax on vacant properties. not just about ownership in public services place to consider where the that challenges the fundamen- changes would require legisla- The SNP faced angry accu- like buses, social care, build- balance of power is today in tal tenets of neoliberalism. tion and so couldn’t be intro- sations that it had failed to this year’s ing and energy. our economy and in our soci- The SNP is using its powers duced immediately. implement a £5 increase in “Introduce an Industrial ety and it is a fitting place to to make changes to the tax sys- Sturgeon’s response was child benefit after a campaign Reform and Common Own- consider what we can do, what tem in Scotland, but it is not reminiscent of May’s magic exposing the plight of 260,000 budget. The ership Act to give workers a I believe we must do, to tilt the prepared to offer fundamental money tree. She said: “It is children in Scotland living in statutory preferential right to balance more in the favour of redistribution of wealth. as though Richard Leonard poverty. plans go much buy an enterprise when it is working people.” The Scottish Greens are is suggesting that we fund Elaine Smith MSP argued in up for sale or facing closure. Labour, both in Scotland giving themselves a great pat our NHS through Monopoly her speech on the budget that, further and aim “Support the development and in Britain, must address on the back, but the conces- money.” “after 10 years in office, is it of co-operatives and place Co- this balance of power as a mat- sions they achieved — an addi- Scottish Labour’s alternative not time that the SNP used the operative Development Scot- ter of urgency. It cannot wait tional £170 million for local budget called for redistribu- powers of this parliament to at radical land on a statutory footing. to be in power to formulate its councils and public sector pay tion not just of wealth but of their full extent to redistrib- “Create a National Energy strategy for change. rises applying to 75 per cent power. ute wealth and power, eradi- alternatives to Company to facilitate and It should start the debate of workers rather than the 51 On income tax it proposed cate poverty and create a fairer expand community, co-oper- by encouraging Labour, trade per cent originally proposed reintroducing the 50p rate Scotland for the many?” ative and municipal-owned unionists and community — will do nothing to bring an on people earning more than It is important to under- SNP acceptance energy generation that builds activists to explore how we end to deep-seated austerity. £100,000 and to match the SNP stand that Scottish Labour’s in democratic control of our can shift power in our insti- Nicola Sturgeon must look proposals to reduce the basic proposals are not just about of Tory austerity energy sector, where surpluses tutions to give real power to at the new Labour leader and rate for those earning under this year’s budget. The plans will be used to reinvest in the people. realise that he is an existential £13,851. It introduced a 41p go much further than that infrastructure and tackle threat to her appeal to the left. levy for those earning between and aim to introduce radical fuel poverty by keeping energy ■ Voices of Scotland appears every Her claim made at that 2015 £42,386 to £60,000 and 45p for alternatives to SNP acceptance bills down. Tuesday in the Morning Star. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Tuesday @m_star_online February 6 2018 11

Chris Searle on jazz A jazzman of precious unity’s beautiful saxophone songs

Dell, Westergaard, Lillinger FREE SPIRIT: John Tchicai performs Dell is the solo voice of the featuring John Tchicai at the Munster Jazz Festival in 1987 following track, Fond, his Christopher Dell, Jonas West- Pic: Jazzenthusiast/Creative Commons mallets seeking “time blocks ergaard, Christian Lillinger in the improvisation” as his and John Tchicai notes cascade and climb up (jazzwerkstatt 128) and down the cafe walls. Tchicai enters chunteringly on Wet, beside Lillinger’s bat- tery of drums. On A Double Mescal he blows a breathy flute while Westergaard’s bass delves out a springing riff and Lillinger clips the rhythm forward. Double Exposure is the album’s longest track, its 14 minutes full of the Tchicai- Dell duo. There are two complex mind-processes here invent- ing the notes. HE tenor saxo- Both men dig deep and phonist John Tch- Tchicai’s rare artistry pours icai was born in out of his horn: all those Copenhagen in years, all those virtuosi who T1936 to a Danish crowded round his youth. mother and Con- You hear echoes of Ayler golese father, who had met and Coltrane, a cluster of when they were both waiters notes from Shepp — but at the city’s Aarhus Pleasure mostly his timbre is his own, Gardens. airy, clear, ever-inventive, He studied at the Royal sounds you can see through Danish Music Conservatory, to the truth about life and its heard the touring avant- music, with Dell, the other garde jazzmen Archie Shepp voice of the palaver, receiving and Bill Dixon at a festival in and responding, even during Helsinki and pursued them a final sublime Tchicai burst. to New York, where he played Who is the Intangible alongside them as a member Doorman who gives the title of New York Contemporary to the next track? Five. In 1965 he played with He’s sprightly and lively John Coltrane on the epochal and Westergaard gives him Ascension album session. He an agile gait before Tchicai also recorded with Albert springs in to characterise Ayler, and in 1969 found his cordiality in a human himself in Cambridge, per- sketch of humour and real- forming and recording with ity which may be a remem- John Lennon and Yoko Ono: brance of his father, who, altogether, a beginning in among many jobs before he professional music of many met his mother, was a night- dreams. club doorman. During the next two dec- Strange, almost heroic, ades, Tchicai spent much of that a septuagenarian sax- his career in Europe, teach- man should be casting his ing full time. horn into a piece of music In 1982 he joined Pierre called New!!!, composed by Dorge’s New Jungle Orches- a drummer still in his 20s, tra in Copenhagen and made and still sounding as if he is some powerful records with an essential part of the new them. In the ’90s he returned wave. Stateside to southern Califor- Through the last track, nia, but kept a presence too Venus, Tchicai sounds like in France. a bird, a travelling bird like Always a free spirit who one of the millions that jour- bonded closely with young ney and migrate every year musicians, he died in Octo- between Africa and Europe, ber 2012. bringing the sounds of two One of his final recordings gaard, a bassist of a new gen- Lillinger’s dazzling percus- alongside Dell’s trickling On the age-defying track continents together, while was the live 2010 session at eration and two Germans; sive power is prominent on vibes, ending in long, seem- Share the energy and crys- his European companions the Jazzwerkstatt Cafe in Ber- vibist Christopher Dell, born the opener Fortune at Zou ingly lifer-reflective, almost talline lucidity of his sound play next to him, embracing lin, which, combined with in Darmstadt in 1965 and the Feet, and is followed by Trav- hushed notes. meshes with the vigour, and enhancing his beautiful a studio session three days young drummer Christian eller, which could have been Tchicai was 76 when he vitality and range of ideas saxophone song. later, composes this album, Lillinger, born in Lubben Tchicai’s life story. recorded this album, but of Lillinger, some 50 years A pioneer of musical con- with Tchicai blowing with in the German Democratic His tenor, full, authorita- plays with an astonishing his junior, so much so that cord was John Tchicai: a jazz- his compatriot Jonas Wester- Republic in 1984. tive and resonating, simmers youthfulness. they could be sonic brothers. man of precious unity. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Tuesday morningstaronline 12 February 6 2018 info | entertainment @m_star_online

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DAILY SUDOKU (tough) TV and radio preview with Neil Jenkin

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Solution tomorrow… There won’t be so much laughter when they see what they’ve got for tea QUIZMASTER with William Sitwell A NEW family, new (but famil- (9pm BBC2) is footage of man- ing of hunger strikers and the TODAY’S QUESTIONS iar) presenter for the latest agement recruits making the use of surveillance tactics. series of Back in Time for … pilgrimage to the little Swed- Tonight’s File on 4 (8pm Back in Time for Tea (8pm ish town of Almhult, where Radio 4) is titled The Great Brit- 1 Which jazz singer was married BBC2) heads to Bradford to Kamprad started up the com- ish Money Laundering Service. to the late John Dankworth? meet the Ellises, who will pany 70 years ago. Will they It won’t come as a surprise to find how changes in the food be briefed on his fascist past? Morning Star readers that the 2 In mathematics, what can be eaten can reveal how life has Clare Balding’s Secrets of a City of London is awash with vulgar or mixed? changed for northern families Suff ragette (10pm Channel 4) dirty money, with new trans- over the past 100 years. attempts to shed some fresh parency rules designed to 3 A shot is a measurement of Guiding them through their light on the death of Emily reveal the true owners of Brit- what? time travel is presenter Sara Davidson at the 1913 Derby, ish companies being flouted. Cox and social historian Polly familiar because news cam- Reporter Tim Whewell Russell. eras captured the shocking investigates some of the scams Rag pudding and tripe are moment she was run down designed to dodge new regu- on the menu tonight. Not for by the king’s horse. lations and untangles the glo- the queasy. Balding discovers Davison’s bal networks set up to fill the Ikea founder Ingvar Kam- story and finds out how a gov- pockets of bent politicians and YESTERDAY’S ANSWERS prad died last week. And, erness from a genteel family deprive people living in pov- spookily, we’re being treated became a radical activist. And erty of much-needed public 1. Which direction does the Mersey river 3. Which element is represented by the to a three-episode advert, no, she explores the history of the funds. ? West. Iodine. (pictured) fl ow symbol I? sorry, documentary on the militant wing of the votes for Film of the day? Danny Boyle 2. Where are you likely to fi nd risers, half innovatory furniture store. women campaign that Emily and Loveleen Tandan’s 2008 landings and newels? On a staircase. Among the treats awaiting belonged to, revealing stories favourite Slumdog Millionaire us in tonight’s Flatpack Empire of police brutality, forced feed- (9pm More 4). morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Tuesday @m_star_online culture February 6 2018 13

■ THEATRE REVIEW Burdens of the baggage handlers

Beginning Both these late-30-some- Ambassadors Theatre, things are damaged goods and, London as the drink flows copiously, ★★★✩✩ we learn why. Her biological clock is tick- ing and, after a lengthy failed IT’S 2015. It’s the Guardianista relationship, she’s looking for enclave that is north London’s a caring partner to have a baby Crouch End. with, while he’s a divorcee with And it’s the after-party a child he hasn’t seen in years. party, with Laura (Justine Eldridge’s somewhat Mitchell) in a killer party laboured, though valid, point frock and Essex boy Danny in this National Theatre pro- TORTURED: Juliet Stevenson (Sam Troughton) sporting a duction directed by Polly Find- (centre) as Mary Stuart ketchup-stained shirt, circling lay, is that, in the age of social each other alone among the media sexual link-ups and pres- Pic: Manuel Harlan detritus of booze, food and a sured and demanding work ■ THEATRE REVIEW new carpet that’s had a fag environments, opportunities stubbed out on it. for finding that “special one” They’ve been eyeing each are increasingly rare. other up all night at her house- There are plenty of laughs of warming bash and, you might recognition as these two des- think, now’s their chance to perate souls enact their inept Diff erent but the same “get it on.” mating ritual, culminating in But no, that comes later, for their comically getting their what playwright David kit off and engaging in a fever- GORDON PARSONS sees an imagined confrontation between Eldridge’s agenda is becomes ish clinch as the lights fade. increasingly clear over 90 min- The learning curve appears Elizabeth I and the jailed Mary Queen of Scots which reveals utes of verbal foreplay in which to have been negotiated and the personal baggage weighing some kind of meaningful con- them as equally imprisoned by personal and political traumas them down is unburdened. nection seems on the cards. She, we learn, loves “Jeremy,” But despite the sterling Mary Stuart crown in the event of Eliza- during the final days preceding On press night, Stevenson while he appears to have Tory efforts of both actors — and Duke of York Theatre, London beth’s death and was conse- Mary’s execution. The result is plays Mary with a tortured mix- inclinations but that potential the play’s worth seeing for ★★★★✩ quently a rallying point for a powerful drama with a focus ture of passion, fear and anger, seed of dramatic conflict is their performances alone — I Catholic dissidents. on the relationship of the two while Williams is all political abandoned as rapidly as its was ultimately left unmoved Robert Icke, director and queens who in fact never met. manoeuvring and personal revealed. by a drama whose tell-all inti- E ARE all pris- adapter of this 18th century But Schiller has their battle angst. They are both sur- Pic: Manuel Harlan macies might better suit a oners of our classic, eschews any thought of of wills coming to a head in a rounded by recognisable wheel- radio play. own person- a chocolate-box costume stunning confrontation in ers and dealers motivated by It was rather like watching Walities and of drama. Its world, where person- which Mary sacrifices her last ambition and realpolitik. a dramatised version of the history and alities and politics entwine, is chance of freedom in the sui- While at moments the pro- relationship advice in a “qual- no-one understood this better recognisably modern. cidal satisfaction of telling her duction teeters on the brink of ity” newspaper and it chal- than Friedrich Schiller, widely Set against the bare stone cousin what she is — a prisoner melodrama, a splendid cast led lenges the suspension of disbe- regarded as Germany’s Shake- walls which serve both as like her. by these two actors maintains lief to accept that both charac- speare. Mary’s prison and the queen’s Juliet Stevenson and Lia Wil- the tension throughout. ters get more lucidly self-aware His epic historical drama court, the former is desperate liams take either role, decided The moving final image has the more bibulous they Mary Stuart, transferred from to achieve her long lost freedom by a nightly spin of a coin, Elizabeth, now translated back become. the Almeida theatre to the West by any means and Elizabeth is reflecting the psychological through history to the tradi- If you go and see it, avoid the End, focuses on the tragic con- trapped in her need to rid her- entrapment they share. Both tional finery of the Virgin knee-crunching seats in the flict between the Catholic Mary self of her potential nemesis. are women with powerful Queen, staring into a void — a circle. Audience-friendly they Queen of Scots and England’s Schiller, like Shakespeare, is sexual natures, the one solitary and lonely woman most certainly are not. Protestant Queen Elizabeth. not bound by historical accu- destroyed by having surren- imprisoned in her guilt. ■ Runs until March 24, box office: The complex family web of racy, with his play moving dered to hers, the other by nec- ■ Runs until March 31, then tours theambassadorstheatre.co.uk the Tudors left Mary with a between Mary’s Fotheringhay essarily struggling to suppress until April 28, box office and LEN PHELAN valid claim to the English prison and the English court her needs. details: almeida.co.uk ALBUM ROUND-UP WITH MICHAL BONCZA

Park Jiha Thomas Truax Sonido Gallo Negro Communion All That Heaven Allows Mambo Cosmico (Glitterbeat Records) (Psycho Teddy Records) (Glitterbeat Records) ★★★✩✩ ★★★★✩ ★★★✩✩

THERE’S a minimalist, Zen-like THOMAS TRUAX inhabits the THE ELEGANT arrangements quality to the disciplined same musical territories as and superb musicianship on soundscapes conjured by this Giant Sand, Valparaiso, the this third offering from the instrumental quartet led by Dresden Dolls, Post War Glam- Mexican octet somehow fail South Korean Park Jiha. our Girls or Moriarty, where to make the title quite as cos- Much of the sound is defined rich veins of cabaret, chanson mic as promised. by the piri (double-bamboo and punk are reconfigured to Matters stays terrestrial, flute), saenghwang (mouth to these meditative spaces, unexpectedly spectacular evocation of a railway train, and that’s where your feet He’s considered to be the first organ) and the characteristi- devoid of Western introspec- effect. one on which “pay with a ought to stay firmly rooted as liberator of Latin America. cally otherworldly, ripped tion or ornamentation, with Truax probes at the very smile” and where “a kind act pieces like La Danza de los Danzon Fayuquero subverts sound of a local hammered the pulse measured by metro- edge of genres, forcing con- gets you extra miles.” Diablos (Dance of the Devils) the ceremonial, stop-and-start dulcimer — all played by Jiha. nomic accents from the percus- stant adjustment from listen- On the pounding, ragged will keep them kicking the mathematically calculated Kim Oki on tenor sax and sion and dulcimer. ers to a sound that is wonder- International Homeland Secu- dust. steps of the traditional dan- bass clarinet infuses the The First Time I Sat Across fully eclectic and romantic, rity, Jesus is confronted with This traditionally joyous, zon, which results in an music with gentle ripples of From You, Accumulation of recreated with each song. a blunt indignation: “Are you carnivalesque dance is dedi- endearing misalliance jazzy improvisations, which Time and All Souls’ Day beguile Hard-edged yet polyphonic, it’s an anchor or a ball and chain?” cated to Gaspar Yanga, a black between the waltz and the oscillate between the nearly — even more so if you deposit as melodically elaborate and Truax demands. warrior who conquered the tango that will keep you bop- inaudible and an assertive yourself on a comfy sofa and varied as it is sensitive. Truax is touring small ven- Spanish in the Vera Cruz area, ping away, as will the remain- meandering. close your eyes. Humane Train mesmerises ues in February and March. winning autonomy for his ing array of mambos, cha cha There’s a crystalline quality Then, listen with your skin. with its innovative musical Not to be missed. Maroon people in 1618. chas and porros. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 14 Tuesday letters morningstaronline February 6 2018 @m_star_online

■ EUROPEAN UNION ■ APARTHEID Let Corbyn take over the Brexit talks and Opposing Israel’s crimes sort all this mess out is far from anti-semitic IF I can make a suggestion this EU, which will have been regarding Brexit: give Jeremy exposed as an unaccountable, I RECENTLY saw a brilliant Corbyn the opportunity to rene- despotic unprincipled group play at Liverpool’s Unity Thea- gotiate the terms of membership. whose only motive is to hold on tre called The Lynching, which He can rescind all previous to power and wealth at any cost was written and performed by treaties — in which our past at the expense of the public and Jackie Walker, a black Jewish prime ministers happily signed everything we all hold dear. woman and Labour activist who our rights away — and formu- The mantra that we all was accused of anti-semitism, late a new inclusive treaty should be following is co-opera- suspended from the Labour that will return the rights and tion, not competition, that is if Party and demonised in the responsibilities of membership we really care about this planet press and on social media. back to the citizens within the and all those on it. And I thought to myself European Union, vitally needed We really can live well with- that I must suffering from the in a thriving democratic state. out the need to always refer to same illness. The symptoms are These requirements are a corporate bottom line that anger and heartbreak from see- glaringly absent within this benefits only those wealthy ing the still un-built ruins of current setup. enough to have stocks and Gaza and the knowledge that It may help, and also show shares in these selfish business the brutal Israeli siege which good faith, if the unjustified conglomerates. has lasted 10 years continues debts hung around the necks of EDWARD MURPHY denying Palestinians enough the PIIGS countries are Co Antrim, Northern Ireland food, medicines or basic build- cancelled so that this ing materials like cement. new treaty starts off A friend in the Labour Party on a sound footing. advised me that they all had However, should it and that what I was suffer- SOLIDARITY: Campaigners show their support for Palestine on the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration this reasonable ing from was a dose of anti- request be denied, semitism. anti-semitic but Jewish people ered $5 million of aid to Gaza Israel and perhaps they’ll make then Corbyn will It’s a funny thing this afflic- who protested against Israel’s in 2010. it illegal to criticise Israel as that have the authority tion. For instance I have Jewish 2014 war which killed 2,251 Zionists said our convoy suf- will be deemed anti-semitic. to withdraw from friends in Liverpool Friends of people in Gaza, many of whom fered the worst form of it; the Will this letter be accused of Palestine and they too have were children, are apparently anti-semite terrorist support- anti-semitism because it will MAN FOR THE been called anti-semitic by definitely anti-semitic. ing strain, even though all we be said I was not taking anti- JOB: Labour leader people who support Israel. Indeed I was called anti- delivered was medicines! semitism seriously? Should I Jeremy Corbyn You see Jewish people who semitic when I organised pro- Soon in this Orwellian world see a quack? support Israel and its wars of tests against Israel’s wars and it’ll be illegal for pension funds MARK HOLT aggression are definitely not for going on a convoy that deliv- to disinvest their monies in Liverpool ■ OUR PAPER Terms like social inadequate have no place in these pages I WAS appalled to read the term society in which he has lived “social inadequates” in your and the particular state of that editorial on Darren Osborne society and culture. (M Star February 3-4). The Morning Star exists to It is a term of insult and deni- present the realities of that gration but is devoid of clear society and culture, especially meaning. when the daily barrage of the It is a term which can only be corporate media is misrepre- associated with the worst char- senting it and propagating the acteristics of the gutter press. It nastiest of attitudes to divide can have no place in the pages people and set them against of the Morning Star. each other. Osborne’s crime was heinous. Flippant and opportunistic He must accept his share of per- use of populist language only sonal responsibility and the pub- detracts from the good work lic at large must be protected. done elsewhere in the Star. Equally his crime must be MALCOLM PARKER placed in the context of the Southend

■ IVAN BEAVIS The best tribute to our fallen comrades is a ■ MEAT headlong rush towards our own revolution THE tributes to our late moti- written by Scottish communist Vegans can actually get fatter off the land vator and fundraiser-in-chief, poet Hugh MacDiarmid in the Ivan Beavis, have been truly 1930s: “There couldn’t be any A MORTON’S defence of meat that A Morton reads Chatham destined for animal feed,” it affected by water stress by impressive and moving. war/If nobody went;/There eating is very muddled (M Star House’s 2015 report Changing notes. 2050, and the need for annual The centenary of the Octo- couldn’t be any poor/Without January 31). Climate, Changing Diets: Path- “The report goes on to cereal production to rise by 900 ber Revolution may have their own consent.” “How much land will be ways to Lower Meat Consump- explain that ‘directly or indi- million tonnes by 2050 to meet passed already, but perhaps It’s time, surely, for us to needed to grow pulses for nec- tion. rectly, the production of ani- global demand, the continued the best compliment we could refuse point blank to accept essary proteins if everyone goes “Heightened demand for mals accounts for around 27 diversion of finite land, water pay Ivan would be to hasten the unacceptable and to set vegan?” meat and dairy products is per cent of global consumption and food resources to meat and the arrival of our own social- about bringing Ivan’s vision In reality, a vegan diet uses putting pressure on agri- and pollution of freshwater dairy production will become ist uprising. to fruition. far less land than a meat-based cultural land, two-thirds resources. increasingly hard to justify’.” I’m put in mind of a short PETER GODFREY diet. of which is already used for “With approximately five IAN SINCLAIR poem, The Root of the Trouble, Isle of Harris I would strongly recommend grazing or to produce crops billion people expected to be London E15 morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Tuesday @m_star_online sport February 6 2018 15

■ AMERICAN FOOTBALL Ajayi thankful for Super Bowl win by Kadeem Simmonds been through, the adversity, everything and to still be at this point, to still be able to BRITISH born running back touch and kiss that Lombardi Jay Ajayi hoped to have Trophy, and to understand inspired a new generation that I’m a Super Bowl cham- of NFL players on Sunday pion, greatest feeling in the after helping the Philadel- world.” phia Eagles win their first Ajayi was also asked about Super Bowl. his own journey and how Ajayi was born in London “special” it meant to rep- but moved to the United resent the country he was States when he was seven. born in. The former Miami Dolphin “Just to know where I’ve played a role in the Eagles’ come from, to know my 41-33 victory over the New roots. It’s rare to be in posi- England Patriots. tions like this, coming from NFL UK spent the build-up London, getting to the States to the championship game, and even being a Super Bowl and the majority of the regu- champion. It’s rare. lar season, reminding anyone “So, I’m thankful for my who would listen that the upbringing, I’m thankful 24-year-old spent a small por- everything that’s happened tion of his life in Britain and, in my life that’s brought me with the confetti still falling, to this point. Ajayi was immediately asked “This journey from [Brit- about what effect he hopes ain] to here is a blessing and this victory does for National has fuelled my fire. Football League in Britain. “It’s a lot of hard work and “I don’t know,” he said. dedication. If you stay deter- “Hopefully inspiring some mined, trust God, it really people. Just from the journey works out for you and for and the challenges that I’ve me it did.”

■ MEN’S RUGBY LEAGUE COMMENT TONIGHT’S FOOTBALL FA Cup Birmingham Huddersfi eld Leeds Rhinos get off to a Rochdale Millwall Swansea Notts County, 8.05pm League One Bury AFC Wimbledon winning start as Hull see League Two Accrington Stanley Swindon Town Football League Trophy Lincoln City Chelsea U21 off Huddersfi eld at home Yeovil Town Fleetwood Town FA Trophy Billericay Harrogate Town JAMES NALTON recaps what turned out to be an exciting opening Super League weekend Bromley Workington East Thurrock Spennymoor Town A NEW season of Super League “Credit to Leeds, I thought to Australia to face Wigan this Gateshead Maidstone Utd kicked off last weekend with they played really well. We gave weekend on the back of a 38-12 Stockport Maidenhead a round of one-sided fixtures ourselves enough chances but win at home to Huddersfield. Scottish Premiership which did nothing to distract as I’ve said all along it’s going Fetuli Talanoa’s 18-minute hat- Motherwell St Johnstone rugby fans’ attention from the to take a little bit of time,” said trick gave them a good spring- Partick Thistle Rangers highly publicised goings on Price. board ahead of the first Super Scottish Championship across codes in the Six Nations. “We need to be patient, espe- League match to take place Falkirk Brechin City Perhaps the most entertain- cially with our new combina- down under, which kicks off Scottish League One ing game of the round was tions. We were a little bit poor at 8.45 British time on Satur- Raith Rovers Albion Rovers the opening televised match with our offence at times but day morning. between perennial contend- there are plenty of positives to Another hat-trick, for Wake- All kickoff s 7.45pm unless noted ers Warrington Wolves and last take going forward. field’s Tom Johnstone, saw off season’s Grand Final winners “We’ve got a lot of improve- Hull KR on their own patch, Leeds Rhinos. ment left in us. It’s only round while St Helens and Wigan also SPORT ON TV A new-look Warrington side one and this is a starting point recorded convincing victories under Steve Price, who replaced for us.” against Castleford and Salford Tuesday long-serving manager Tony Ryan Hall impressed for respectively. ■ BASKETBALL: NBA, Golden State Smith at the end of last sea- Leeds with two tries, one of In the last game of the round, Warriors v Oklahoma City Thunder — son, were full of ideas in the which stood out as an early con- Widnes Vikings were able to get BT Sport 1 3.30am (Weds). attacking third but lacked the tender for try of the season. A off to a good start at home to ■ CYCLING: Dubai Tour — Eurosport ability and composure to carry display of pace and power saw Catalans Dragons, registering 2 9.30am; 6 Days of Copenhagen — out these plans, much to the him race through the War- a 40-12 win. Eurosport 2 8.15pm. frustration of their new head rington defence who were left “We are the only people who ■ FOOTBALL: DFB Pokal Cup, Pad- coach. grasping at thin air, brushing think we can do anything this BROUGHT DOWN: erborn v Bayern Munich — BT Sport The home team had chances off full back Stefan Ratchford season and we have set our own Leeds Rhinos’ Brad 1 5.30pm, Bayer Leverkusen v Wer- to get back into the game in the with ease on his way to the line. goals,” said Vikings coach Denis Dwyer is tackled by der Bremen — BT Sport 1 7.30pm; FA latter stages but couldn’t capital- It was a try which deserved to Betts, hoping his side are the Warrington’s Chris Hill Cup, Swansea v Notts County — BBC ise on good field position and win the game. surprise package in this year’s and Ben Westwood One 8pm. went down to a 12-16 defeat. Elsewhere, Hull will travel competition. Tuesday SPORT February 6 2018 INSIDE: Heady heady heady heady heady

■ FORMULA ONE ■ SPAIN Garcia hits back at FORMULA ONE TURNS claims he was racist ESPANYOL forward Sergio Garcia defended himself yesterday against claims TO GRID KIDS IN 2018 he racially abused Bar- celona defender Samuel Umtiti. Reports in Spain sug- With female models gone, Formula one turns to young drivers instead gested Garcia made a racist slur towards Umtiti, by Our Sports Desk scrubbed from the F1 calen- a Cameroon-born France DAYS OF OLD: dar with immediate effect last international, as tempers A grid girl during week. flared at the end of Sun- FORMULA ONE announced a Formula One Liberty Media’s decision to day’s 1-1 derby draw at the yesterday that “grid kids” will race in 2009 remove the female models RCDE Stadium. be used this season after the follows in the footsteps of the Umtiti was visibly sport abolished its long-stand- Professional Darts Corpora- frustrated with Garcia and ing association with grid girls. tion, which also announced needed to be restrained by F1 owners Liberty Media that women would no longer teammates. denounced the long-standing escort male players to the stage. Former Spain interna- practice of using female mod- The overhaul by Liberty, the tional Garcia, who came on els before grands prix as “at US media conglomerate which as a second-half substitute odds with modern-day societal took over the sport in January in the La Liga encounter, norms.” 2017, will apply to other motor responded to the allega- The grid kids scheme, which racing events that take place tions via social media. will come into effect at the at a Formula One grand prix He wrote on Instagram: F1 season-opening race in weekend. “First of all to clarify that I Melbourne next month, will Formula E, the FIA-backed already spoke with Samuel be comprised of competitors electric series, also uses young yesterday. In no way were already in the junior categories people coming through the my intentions racist. of motor racing. motor sport ranks to hold the “You all know that my The youngsters will be grid placards. wife is of Gypsy ethnicity selected by local motor racing Former F1 supremo Bernie and that I grew up in a authorities and F1 bosses hope Ecclestone was among those neighbourhood with all the change will be of greater critical of removing the grid the races in the world. appeal to the sport’s younger girls, but three-time world “My brother-in-law, fans. champion Jackie Stewart rec- with whom I have a strong “This will be an extraordi- ognised the need for change. friendship, is also African- nary moment for these young- “Sometimes it is better to American. sters,” said F1 US commercial take preventative medicine “Many things are said in chief Sean Bratches. and that is what Formula One the heat of a game which “Imagine, standing beside is doing,” Stewart said. should stay on the pitch. their heroes, watch as they so that they can dream of one of every young racer compet- opportunity to stand alongside “Every day I read about a Forca Espanyol.” prepare to race and to be there, day being there themselves. ing in the junior series that their heroes on the grid in the different scandal. F1 blue- alongside them in those pre- What better way to inspire the make up the FIA single-seater build-up to the race start. For chip partners do not need to cious few minutes just before next generation of Formula One pyramid, from karting all the the wider FIA, this is an excel- be involved with that. the start. heroes.” way to F1. lent initiative.” “I don’t think it is a shame “What an unforgettable Jean Todt, president of the “We are therefore delighted The tradition of using grid or a controversial decision and experience for them and their F1 governing body FIA, added: to bring that dream a little girls, which has gone hand I understand what Liberty are families. An inspiration to keep “Formula One is the pinnacle closer by giving the future in hand with the sport for saying. These are different driving, training and learning of motor sport and the dream champions of our sport the a number of decades, was times that we are living in.”

MORNINGSTAR ■ ATHLETICS: WORLD CUP ONLINE.CO.UK The socialist London Stadium to host inaugural news hub TODAY’S TIPS athletics World Cup this summer Farringdon’s Doubles CLASSIC PURSUIT by Our Sports Desk Bowker said: “This is world- “It is great to see such an Southwell 3:05 (nap) class competition where nation exciting head-to-head event STAR ASCENDING will face nation and fans will confirmed to be taking place Southwell 4:40 A NEW World Cup event featur- see an amazing feast of ath- in London this summer. The ing eight top nations will take letics over two days featuring concept is one that will excite Houseman’s Choice place at the London Stadium on many of the biggest global everyone in athletics and is BE MINDFUL July 14 and 15, British Athletics superstars in the world of sport. sure to attract new fans to the Southwell 2:05 said yesterday. “This will be an incredible sport,” he said. The format of the inaugural event which we are thrilled to World Cup event will feature all be able to launch on the back Published by the People’s Press MSTAR 2018-02-06 TUE 1.0 field and track events up to and of a highly successful World Printing Society Ltd, William Rust including the 1500 metres, with Championships last summer.” House, 52 Beachy Road, Bow, 0 6 London E3 2NS. Telephone: (020) teams led by female captains. confirmed participants are the straight into a final contest South Africa sprinter Wayde 8510-0815. Fax: (020) 8986- The tournament follows on United States, China, Germany, held during evening sessions van Niekerk, who claimed 5694. Email: enquiries@peoples- from London’s successful host- France, Jamaica, South Africa under floodlights at the Lon- 400m gold at last year’s World press.com. Registered with Companies House as Morning Star ing of the World Athletics and and Poland. don Stadium, venue of the 2012 Championships to add to his (incorporating the Daily Worker) World Para Athletics champion- The two-day event will see Olympic Games, with a prize Olympic title, feels the format No N5559. Printed by trade union ships last summer. one male and one female ath- pot on offer of £1.45 million. will prove a big hit both on and labour at Trinity Mirror. As well as Great Britain, lete from each nation selected UK Athletics chair Richard off the track. Tuesday February 6 2018 9 770307 175220