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THOUSANDS of people will by Sam Tobin It said that online radicalisa- justice for the Grenfell fire sur- march in London, Cardiff and tion, starkly illustrated by the vivors. Glasgow today in opposition to case of Finsbury Park terrorist Scottish Labour leader Rich- rising racism and xenophobia. Marches will also be taking Darren Osborne, was on the ard Leonard will be among Stand Up to Racism has place across Europe over the rise as the mob of younger, the speakers in Glasgow and organised the rallies ahead weekend, organised by anti- “tech-savvy” fascists grew in Labour MP Stephen Doughty of the UN’s International Day racist campaigners in the face size and influence online. will address demonstrators in for the Elimination of Racial of a resurgent far right. In London, shadow home Cardiff. Discrimination on Wednesday. Earlier this month, anti-racist secretary Diane Abbott will But South Wales Police were group Hope Not Hate warned of present an anti-racist alterna- called in yesterday after racist a “surging threat from far-right tive to the Tories’ inhuman graffiti and posters appeared n WORL terrorism and violent extrem- treatment of migrants and near to the assembly point for RALLY GUIDE ism” despite the collapse of older refugees, while Kensington MP the Cardiff march overnight. far-right groups in Britain. Emma Dent Coad will demand Swastikas and the words LONDON “nazi zone” were sprayed on Assemble at BBC Portland walls near Grange Gardens Place, W1A 1AA, form while a poster with a swastika north up Portland Place which read: “The symbol of our to march south at 1pm to struggle” was put on a nearby Whitehall pan-African restaurant. Stand Up to Racism said it GLASGOW was “shocked and appalled” Assemble on Holland by the graffiti, but added that Case in point ... Street at 11am, then march “sadly we are not surprised.” to George Square rally “Our march will go ahead in Fascist vandalism, including CARDIFF spite of this act of intimidation swastikas, the words “Nazi Zone” Demonstration from — racists will not divide us. We and offensive posters, was spot- 12.30pm at Grange are the majority and we will ted by parents on the school run Gardens stand up to racism.” in Cardiff yesterday. Turn to page 2 ANTI-RACIST: Marchers at a Stand Up to Racism rally last year Star comment: p12

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n EX-SPY’S POISONING Johnson escalates tensions by blaming Putin for attack

by Our News Desk Moscow has repeatedly line with the Organisation for requested that Britain send it the Prohibition of Chemical samples of the suspected nerve Weapons convention if [Britain] FOREIGN Secretary Boris John- agent for testing. gets round to — and deigns to son accused Russian President Russia’s ambassador to Brit- — fulfilling its international Vladimir Putin yesterday of ain Alexander Yakovenko yes- legal obligations in line with personally ordering the poi- terday quoted Foreign Minister the [convention].” soning of an ex-spy and his Sergey Lavrov as saying that Vil Marzayanov, a Russian daughter. Westminster’s “failure to co- chemist who helped develop Mr Johnson further ratch- operate” on the Skripal case the “Novichok” class of chemi- eted up tensions by claiming was a “major violation of the cal weapons and who defected that it was “overwhelmingly chemical weapons convention.” to the United States, said yester- likely” that Mr Putin himself Mr Lavrov said: “Russia is day that several countries are ordered the attack on Sergei ready to capable of creating the poison. and Yulia Skripal in a restau- co-oper- Mr Marzayanov, speaking rant in Salisbury. ate in from his home in the US, told However, Mr John- the Novaya Gazeta newspaper son did not offer that he had even published the any evidence for his formula for the chemical in a claim — in the same book in 2008. n FRONT PAGE way that Prime Min- Meanwhile British Defence ister Theresa May did Secretary Gavin RALLIES MAKE IT CLEAR: RACISM IS UNWELCOME HERE not when she alleged Williamson, who that it was “highly had dinner with FROM P1: Police said the graffiti its second reading after 129 and reintroduce legal aid for likely” that Russia was the wife of a former was being removed and there MPs supported it, despite Tory family reunion cases. behind the poisoning. Putin minister after would be a “full investigation attempts to talk the Bill out. Ms Abbott said: “Labour is The Russian gov- she gave the Tories with every intention of the The legislation would give committed to keeping families e r n m e n t £30,000, told reporters arrest and prosecution of per- child refugees in Britain the together and upholding respect has denied yesterday that Russia should petrators.” right to sponsor their close for the humanity of refugees b e i n g “go away and shut up.” Stand Up to Racism also family members’ safe passage, and to their right to a family involved in the Labour leader Jeremy Cor- hailed a parliamentary vic- expand who qualifies as a fam- life.” poisoning of Mr byn has urged the government tory yesterday as the Refugee ily to allow young people who Amnesty International said Skripal and his daugh- to take a “calm, measured” Family Reunion Bill passed have turned 18 to live in Britain the Bill’s passing “takes us one ter, and Westminster approach, warning against the giant step closer to reuniting has yet to present any drift towards a “new cold war” refugee families.” evidence that would with Russia. [email protected] back up its claims. [email protected] South Yorkshire Morning Star Readers & Supporters Group n HILLSBOROUGH TRAGEDY The Grenada Revolution: What really happened? Topman pulls ‘offensive Karma T-shirt’ 7pm, Monday March 19 at Speaker: Central United Reform by Our News Desk Bernard Coard who claimed Hillsborough Church, 60 Norfolk Street, Former deputy was “God’s punishment” for Sheffield S1 2JB the Heysel stadium disaster in prime minister Further enquiries, contact TOPMAN has pulled a T-shirt which 39 people, mostly Juven- Introduction by symorningstar@gmail from sale after it was accused tus supporters, died at a match Chris Searle .com or 07851 753-711 of mocking victims of the 1989 in Brussels against Liverpool. Hillsborough disaster with its Ms Brookes also said the red design. colour, the number 96 and the The red shirt had the word rose were all symbols associ- “Karma” down one sleeve and ated with Hillsborough. a large “96” on the back, along Earlier, a Liverpool fan said West London Trades Union Club with a rose and the phrase on Twitter: “So it’s a #BobMar- presents “what goes around comes back ley song and it’s managed to get around.” through god knows how many A St Patrick’s Day Celebration Ninety-six Liverpool fans people before it’s printed. died in the Hillsborough dis- “Just shows you how few › Bar opens at 2.30pm aster in the human crush at the people know about the biggest › Rugby on TV (England v start of an FA Cup semi-final. sporting disaster and cover-up Ireland) from 2.45pm A spokeswoman for the this country’s ever seen.” retailer said Topman “apolo- Another user tweeted: “I don’t › Film on large screen 4.30pm gises unreservedly for any think it’s the @Topman design (The Molly Maguires, starrirng offence caused by this T-shirt.” that’s the issue, Hillsborough Sean Connery and Richard She said the design had used wouldn’t have been in their Harris and written by Walter a Bob Marley track which was thinking, it’s the brain-dead Bernstein, one of the rereleased in 1996 for inspira- people who will end up wear- Hollywood 10) tion, but the £20 shirt quickly ing it for the wrong reasons, and › came to the attention of Liver- there will be people like that.” Admission free pool fans on social media when Wirral South Labour MP › March 17 at WLTUC, 33–35 it went on sale online. Alison McGovern tweeted the Acton High Street, London Louise Brookes, whose shirt was very “unfortunate” W3 6ND 26-year-old brother died at and was among those calling the stadium, said the words for it to be discontinued. › Nearest station is Acton Central were used by some rival fans [email protected] DISASTER: 96 people died at Hillsborough in 1989 morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline news Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online March 17-18 2018 3

■ INDUSTRIAL ■ FREE WORK Gatwick staff Tory stops unpaid in vote for strike action trial shifts Bill with over pay cut fi libustering tactics GATWICK airport work- ers will begin balloting for strike action in a by Sam Tobin minister Alan Whitehead also dispute over a below- welcomed the Bill, saying it was infl ation pay rise — about the principle of a “fair despite company profi ts A TORY minister yesterday day’s pay for a fair day’s work.” rising by millions in the talked out a Bill which would Mr McDonald said he would past year. ban unpaid trial shifts that never again shop in bargain Their union Unite exploit vulnerable jobseekers store B&M after being “horri- said workers have been who “don’t know their rights fi ed” to learn that a young man off ered 2.8 per cent and can’t stand up for them.” with autism had been “stacking increase — a “real-terms SNP MP Stewart McDonald shelves for three or four days” pay cut” — even though said current legislation was before being sent away with Gatwick Airport Limit- “insuffi cient” in dealing with no pay. ed’s profi ts rose by £35.5 unpaid trials. But fi libustering Business million to £97.4m. It has He said that his Unpaid Trial Minister Andrew Griffi ths also recently paid out Work Periods (Prohibition) Bill talked the Bill out, claiming £375m to shareholders would help people with learn- that “there is a very clear way in windfall and dividend ing disabilities who he said were in which we can do this without payments. more likely to “fall victim” to the need for further regulation.” The ballot will begin the practice. Mr McDonald also claimed on March 23 and will Fellow SNP MP Neil Gray said he had found an online advert be completed on April the “greatest tragedy” was that from 2012 for an unpaid intern- 13 and, if members vote most often those “exploited” ship in the offi ce of Mr Griffi ths. for action, strikes could have learning disabilities and Mr Griffi ths initially said he begin during late April. “are desperate for work and see had “never, ever had an unpaid Unite regional offi cer these as their only opportunity internship” in his offi ce but later Jamie Major said workers and that is one of the key rea- clarifi ed that the position had were “disgusted” with sons why this Bill must pass.” been advertised but not fi lled. the airport’s attitude Labour’s shadow business [email protected] and called for a “sensible off er” to avoid industrial action. He said workers had helped the company achieve “record profi ts … GET THE WHOLE STORY AT yet they have only been off ered a real-terms pay MORNINGSTARONLINE.CO.UK cut. Cartoon: Mike Bryson

■ RACISM SELLERS NEEDED MARCH AGAINST RACISM BRITAIN FIRST’S LEADER Saturday March 17 LONDON: 11.30am CARDIFF: 12pm Portland Place Grange Gardens BEATEN IN PRISON BRAWL W1B 1AA CF11 7LJ Contact Mary Contact John 07719 383-322 07876 337-944 MOVED: Paul Golding will now serve his term for hate crimes in another unit at HMP Elmley by Ceren Sagir Stand Up to Racism’s Wey- online videos during the trial. They were also threatening man Bennett told the Star that They were convicted on a joint and abusive towards the family Paul Golding was “where he charge after an incident last members, including children FAR-RIGHT Britain First’s leader belonged” and, quoting Mal- May at a pizza takeaway in and a pregnant woman, of two Paul Golding was left with a colm X, said the attack showed Ramsgate, where Ms Fransen defendants being tried for rap- broken nose after being beaten that “chickens have come home banged on the windows and ing a white 16-year-old girl. up in prison, police revealed to roost.” doors of the shop and Mr Golding was given an yesterday. Mr Golding was found guilty screamed at peo- 18-week prison term while Ms They are investigating of religiously aggravated har- ple: “Paedophile” Fransen was sentenced to 36 reports that Mr Golding was assment along with deputy and “foreigner.” weeks. Com Avtar Sadiq attacked by two inmates at leader Jayda Fransen carried District Judge Justin Barron (April 13 1941 – January 28 2018) HMP Elmley on the Isle of Shep- out in May last year. said the two leaders’ crimes were pey in Kent a week after he was Mr Bennett said: “The reality “deliberately planned against tar- We wish to thank comrades, families, friends jailed for hate crimes. of being inside of prison and geted victims” and their actions and organisations who gave us tremendous They have confi rmed that carrying on his policies has and words “demonstrated hostil- sympathy and support during this diffi cult time. the assault happened around come home.” ity” towards Muslims. 4.30pm on Wednesday. Authori- The pair launched a rac- Britain First was founded by Also grateful to AIC for organising “the ties said he had been punched ist campaign in which they the two as a self-proclaimed Celebration of Comrade Sadiq’s Life” event by two other inmates, caus- claimed to be trying to expose “patriotic political party” following the funeral on February 5 2018. ing him to suff er minor facial Muslim men who were the seven years ago that claims injuries. subject of a rape trial, while it “opposes Islamic extrem- Red Salute Comrade! The convicted racist has now smearing innocent Muslims ism and mass immigration been moved to another unit in general. because they are a danger Gurdarshan Kaur away from the other inmates They were arrested for dis- to the British people.” Arvinder Singh Kandola in the category C prison. tributing leafl ets and posting [email protected] Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 4 Saturday/Sunday news morningstaronline March 17-18 2018 @m_star_online

■ POLITICS ■ UNI FEES ANCIENT DISCOVERY: A layer of Student black clay dating back 56 million Labour deselects ‘social years has been uncovered 108ft below ground by engineers work- nurses have ing on the HS2 rail line in Ruislip, west London. The previously cleanser’ mayor Wales loans cut unknown material points to an ancient sub-tropical coastline that by Lamiat Sabin after error in was formed from densely wooded marshes in the Paleocene period when most of southern England NEWHAM Mayor Sir Robin funding was covered by a warm sea. Wales, who is accused of STUDENT nurses at nine socially cleansing the east universities have had London borough that hosted their loans and grants the Olympics, was deselected cut off or reduced after yesterday as the Labour candi- they were previously date for the elections in May. paid too much by mis- Britain’s longest-serving take. mayor was defeated by Council- The Royal College lor Rokhsana Fiaz by 861 votes of Nursing (RCN) has to his 503. written to the Student Focus E15 campaigner Jas- Loans Company (SLC) min Stone celebrated the end urging it to write off of his mayorship that lasted 23 overpayments over fears years. that those aff ected may The Focus E15 Mums occu- and demanding the repopula- of her fi rst term, double the be unable to pay their pied a low-rise block of fl ats tion of Carpenters estate. number of youth clubs, oppose rent. on the abandoned Carpenters “So many times being school academisation and the The RCN said least 100 estate, near the Olympic Park, locked out of council meetings, Silvertown tunnel scheme. second and third-year in 2014 in protest against the attacked by private security at In a statement, she thanked nursing students had eviction of tenants after it was the mayor’s show, arrested for Labour members for “putting received letters from the earmarked for demolition. protesting against wrongful their trust and hope” in her. SLC stating expected pay- Newham council had evictions and now he is out! She added: “Let’s unite and ments would be reduced planned to sell the land to “Good riddance. However work together for Labour’s suc- or stopped in order to private developers at a profi t the fi ght is not over. We must cess at the local elections in recover the overpay- with no obligation to rehouse make sure that the Newham May. It’s time to be truly radi- ments. residents in the new homes. People’s Charter demands are cal again and show what Labour They said that a Ms Stone said: “We have heard and met.” can achieve for the many here number of students had spent four-and-a-half years Ms Fiaz has pledged to build in Newham.” queried payments when fi ghting his social cleansing 1,000 council homes by the end [email protected] they were made but were told that they were cor- rect. RCN chief executive Janet Davies said she was FOR PEACE AND SOCIALISM “very concerned about the considerable amount of distress and disrup- tion this error and subse- quent action is causing.” An SLC spokesman said they were inves- tigating the error and Fighting fund would use their powers donate to “defer the recovery ONLINE We rely on you, our readers, to action, if appropriate.” morningstaronline keep the only working-class .co.uk/page/ support-us voice in the British media going with regular donations ■ EDUCATION CUTS

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My name is: My address is: secondary schools Postcode Telephone: ‘running at a loss’ Email: Please pay the Cooperative Bank PLC, Islington Branch, sort code 08-90-33 for by Lamiat Sabin The lowest was the east of been saying about the impact England at 17.5 per cent. of real-terms cuts to school the credit of the People’s Press Fighting Fund, account number The fi gures only cover local funding. 5050-5115 the sum of: £ each month until further THE number of secondary authority schools and not oth- “As recent research by the schools running at a loss has ers such as semi-privatised School Cuts coalition of unions notice and debit my account accordingly. nearly trebled in four years, academies. has shown, class sizes have according to new research Researchers had analysed the been increasing as a result of My account number is: My sort published yesterday. balance sheets and budgets of government underfunding,” code is: Between 2013-14 and 2016-17, 1,136 secondary and 13,404 pri- she said. Standing order start date: Signature the number of council-run sec- mary schools in England over “Increases in class size mean ondary schools in defi cit nearly seven years. less individual attention for To the manager (include bank name, address and postcode): trebled from 8.8 per cent to 26.1 At primary school level, the children, but they also increase

CUT OUT AND MAIL TO US TO MAIL AND OUT CUT per cent, according to the Edu- proportion in defi cit rose from workload for teachers and cation Policy Institute. 4.4 per cent to 7.1 per cent. support staff — driving more DON’T SEND THIS FORM TO YOUR BANK. PLEASE MAIL IT TO: The region with the most sec- National Education Union people away from teaching and PPFF Organiser, William Rust House, 52 Registered under the Industrial ondary schools in defi cit was joint general secretary Dr Mary intensifying the recruitment and Provident Societies Act 1965 Beachy Road, Bow, London E3 2NS south-west England at 34.9 per Bousted said that the report and retention crisis that has No 12750R. cent in 2016-17. confi rms what unions have developed. ” morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline news Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online March 17-18 2018 5

■ PROTESTS UNI CHIEF FILMED ‘RUGBY TACKLING STUDENTS’ UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN: Students were supporting striking lecturers when Donaldson ‘attacked’

UNIVERSITY director Angus by Sam Tobin Aberdeen University stu- She called on the university Donaldson has been fi lmed dents in potential harm,” to “take responsibility for this “manhandling” and rugby- they added. incident,” pointing out that it rucking students during a “Rather than acting to ensure had “promised open access to protest earlier this week. way into the building, leaving the safety and wellbeing of staff the occupation.” Mr Donaldson, who is paid staff shaken and distressed and and students, Donaldson has Ms Chapman said: “If they £115,000 a year as director resulting in one staff member behaved in a physically aggres- had kept their agreement and of estates and facilities at being knocked to the ground and sive and escalatory manner.” maintained open access to the University of Aberdeen, having their head trodden on.” A UCU spokesman told the the occupation, none of what can also be seen to rugby- But members of the group Star: “Many people would be is seen in the footage would tackle students in the footage Aberdeen Students Support rightly shocked by what they have happened.” revealed yesterday. the Strike said that the foot- see in this footage.” A university spokesman said: Police were called on age “clearly shows that the Maggie Chapman, the uni- “The university is conducting a Wednesday after a mem- university’s allegations of versity’s rector, said she was full review into the events sur- ber of staff was reportedly student violence are unsub- “very concerned” about Mr rounding the incident of March knocked to the ground by stantiated.” Donaldson’s behaviour, add- 14 when a group of protesters students — who were sup- They said the video showed ing that he “appears to think forced their way into a univer- porting University College Mr Donaldson “charging head- he is on the rugby pitch, and is sity building. Union (UCU) members strik- fi rst into a crowd of students trying to clear students off an “We will work with staff ing over proposed pension and security staff , ramming imaginary ball. and students to consider all cuts — attempting to enter students against the fi re door “This might be acceptable in relevant information, includ- a campus building. they were being told to move a rugby game, but it is certainly ing personal accounts and any The university claimed “a away from.” not an acceptable way to treat other relevant media.” group of protesters forced their He had “repeatedly put students.” [email protected]

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■ REFUGEE BILL Bid to reunite families passes fi rst test

by Ceren Sagir It followed a successful debate and defended the gov- culture as well as the psycho- attempt to secure enough sup- ernment’s response to the logical fallout from incredibly port to avoid the blocking of humanitarian crisis created by traumatic experiences back in A BILL to reunite torn-apart the Bill in the face of govern- the wars in the Middle East and their home country. refugee families in Britain ment opposition. north Africa, many of which “We hope that MPs continue passed its fi rst Commons test Current rules prevent refu- Britain has exacerbated. to show their support and send yesterday. gees in Britain from being reu- The Bill would also reintro- a message to the government The “Good Samaritan Bill” nited with anyone other than duce legal aid for refugees who that child refugees in this brought by SNP MP Angus their partner or children under have lost everything so that country have the right to be MacNeil aims to allow child 18. Child refugees who arrive they can aff ord to navigate the reunited with their families,” refugees to sponsor their close in Britain alone are unable complicated process. she said. family members to join them. to bring their parents to join Amnesty UK director Kate The Bill will progress to the She warned that “a high- With backing from 129 MPs them. Allen said the hundreds of chil- next stage where it will be HAVE YOUR SAY! quality education service Write (up to 300 words) to the Refugees (Family Reunion) Home Offi ce Minister Caro- dren who arrive alone face a examined further by a com- cannot be delivered without [email protected] (No 2) Bill was given an unop- line Nokes urged MPs not to “multitude of new struggles” mittee of MPs. investing in teachers and sup- or by post: 52 Beachy Rd, posed second reading. support the Bill before the such as a new language and [email protected] port staff . London E3 2NS “Instead of ignoring the evi- dence, the government must respond to the concerns of ■ HMP ERLESTOKE parents and those working to FILM SCREENING deliver the high-quality educa- tion service we need.” Inmates get 3 extra years for prison riots Association of School and PRISON inmates who took the day due to a shortage We Are The Lions, Mr Manager! College Leaders general secre- part in a riot have had of staff . tary Geoff Barton claimed that an additional three years The situation was made many schools were so skint that placed onto their sen- worse after a national they cannot even aff ord the 1 tences. prison smoking ban was per cent pay rise for their staff Luke Needham, 30, trialled. next year without having to Deno Harrison, 23, and Mr Needham set fi re to make more cuts. Ben Sharratt, 27, were his cell and, after knock- Government offi cials each handed the addi- ing down his cell door, shrugged and claimed the tional term at Winchester helped other prisoners to Department for Education Crown Court for their escape from their rooms. “doesn’t recognise [the report’s] part in a prison mutiny. Both he and Mr Harri- fi ndings.” Sentences will run con- son managed to get onto Political theatre comes to Harrow [email protected] secutively to their current the rooftop. They even- jail ter tually came down after Harrow Edgware Book now at www. FOLLOW US The riots took place in Tensions rose during midnight when a trained 9th April 11th April townsendproductions. HMP Erlestoke in Wilt- the weekend after pris- negotiator and back-up 7.30pm 7.30pm org.uk ON TWITTER shire (pictured_ on June oners were ordered to offi cers arrived at the @M_Star_Online 11 2016. remain in their cells for prison. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 6 Saturday/Sunday world morningstaronline March 17-18 2018 @m_star_online

■ SUDAN ■ UNITED STATES in brief British CP Six months after hurricane, Tax breaks fuel protests at electric car boom arrest of top NORWAY: Demand for Puerto Rico still awaits aid electric cars is outstripping supply, according to a new comrades study by the Cicero climate by Our Foreign Desk research institute. COMMUNIST Party of Tax breaks mean they Britain leader Robert cost the same to buy as oil- Griffi ths has written to PUERTO RICANS marked six burning cars, with half of Sudan’s embassy to pro- months yesterday since the new cars sold last year being test at the arrest of two formation of Hurricane Maria, fully electric or hybrid. leading members of the which devastated the island, To meet its targets, 65,000 Sudanese Communist causing about $100 billion new electric cars need to be Party (SCP). (£72bn) in damage. sold this year — almost dou- Central committee Half a year on, many resi- ble the 2017 total. But many members Fathi Elfadl, dents of the US colony still lack people are on waiting lists, the offi cial SCP spokes- running water or electricity. and “being dependent on man, and Taj Alsir Only a fraction of the $23bn production abroad … Norway Othman Babu are the (£16bn) set aside by the United is vulnerable to marketing latest to be rounded up States Congress has actually decisions by car producers.” by Khartoum’s security been spent in Puerto Rico and forces following huge leaders on the island denounced communist-organised the sum itself as woefully inad- Papua independence demonstrations against equate. About $1.27bn (£910 the government’s auster- million) has been received for activist thrown in jail ity budget. food and just $430m (£308m) to They were nabbed on repair infrastructure. INDONESIA: A Papuan Monday night and taken A $4.7bn (£3.4bn) loan activist has been found to an unknown loca- approved last year for the US guilty of treason and tion. Their families have states of Texas and Florida sentenced to 10 months heard nothing about and the colonies of the US Vir- HUNG OUT TO DRY: Ninety-three-year-old World War II veteran Antonio Morales, whose single-story concrete in prison for promoting them since then. gin Islands and Puerto Rico home in Corozal has been without running water since Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico last September a petition calling for a Both men are in their was reduced by the Treasury independence referen- seventies and suff ering Department last month to $2bn said that the US government second-class citizens,” Mr Gil ing austerity measures on the dum for the region. from serious medical for Puerto Rico alone, none of is neglecting the colony, while said. “They are not doing this to island and the devastation left Yanto Awerkion was conditions. which has been given out. Washington has blamed the Texas. They are not doing this by Maria has boosted disaster arrested last May in The SCP said that a And programmes funded by island’s people themselves for to Florida.” capitalists who insist on priva- Timika near the US- member called Ali al- $6bn (£4.3bn) of Federal Emer- delays in funding, although it Meanwhile, the island tising the struggling publicly owned Grasberg gold and Kenin was also arrested. gency Management Agency has not been specifi c. remains mired in roughly owned electricity utility Prepa. copper mine, a source of “Dozens of trade union (Fema) money have yet to reach Maria destroyed 75,000 $75bn (£54bn) of debt, half of Puerto Rican independence immense wealth for its and political fi gures thousands of Puerto Ricans, homes and damaged 300,000 which is interest and almost leader Oscar Lopez Rivera owners but which has have been arrested over many of whom live in desper- more, causing an estimated all of which is owned by giant recently condemned Wash- brought poverty, oppres- the past month in the ate conditions. $31bn (£22bn) in damage to “vulture” hedge funds that spe- ington for carrying out “per- sion and environmental wake of mass demonstra- Tens of thousands of resi- housing alone, said Puerto cialise in wringing money out haps the biggest experiment in destruction to Papua. tions in Khartoum and dents are still waiting for per- Rican Housing Secretary Fern- of poor countries and munici- neoliberalism” in Puerto Rico, He will be released other cities protesting manent shelter, water or power ando Gil. palities to line the pockets of “especially with privatisation. within weeks because of against the removal of as the next Atlantic hurricane “If we had power in Congress their wealthy investors. Everything is privatised — air- time served. food subsidies and the season approaches. … I ask myself if any federal Former US president Barack ports, trains, water.” resulting hardship,” Puerto Rican offi cials have agency would treat us as Obama forced a set of punish- [email protected] wrote Mr Griffi ths. Kidnapped UN “Some of those arrested remain unac- driver found dead counted for. In these two ■ NORTH KOREA recent cases we ask that AFGHANISTAN: The body the prisoners be immedi- of a UN driver, abducted ately to receive the neces- Pyongyang’s envoy in Stockholm talks two months ago with a UN sary medical attention.” NORTH KOREA’S foreign minis- employee and her child, Both have recently had ter was expected to meet with SURPRISE TRIP: has been found in the same surgery — Dr Elfadl for a HAVE YOUR SAY! his Swedish counterpart yes- North Korean Foreign location where the kidnap- heart condition and Mr terday for a second day after Minister Ri Yong Ho ping took place. Write (up to 300 words) to Alsir a kidney trans- making a surprise trip to Stock- Police chief Dawood Amin [email protected] plant. or by post: 52 Beachy Rd, holm that has fuelled specula- said the body was found London E3 2NS tion about a possible meeting early yesterday and has been between President Donald sent for an post-mortem. He Trump and North Korean leader said there was no informa- Kim Jong Un. tion yet on the whereabouts Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho or condition of the Afghan landed at Stockholm’s Arlanda woman and her child. airport on a direct fl ight from James Connolly Beijing late on Thursday and spent several hours at the Swed- Zuma corruption & The Re-Conquest of Ireland ish Foreign Ministry before returning to the North Korean charges resurrected Author John Callow provides embassy. SOUTH AFRICA: Former the fi rst critical reappraisal The Swedish foreign minis- try has said talks “will focus on president Jacob Zuma is of Connolly’s last major work Sweden’s consular responsibili- to be tried for alleged using a wealth of original ties as a protecting power for corruption, prosecutors documents and photographs. the United States, Canada and announced yesterday. In Connolly’s 1915 work the Australia” but also will also The 16 charges relate great revolutionary grapples address the security situation to an arms deal in the with questions of nationhood, on the Korean Peninsula. 1990s when he was women’s rights and political A “protecting power” is a deputy president. They and economic democracy in a country that acts as a liaison have been reopened after way that resonates today. between states without formal being closed controver- NOW diplomatic relations. sially a decade ago. TWO-THIRDS Mr Ri briefl y met Prime weren’t revealed as the North once served as a diplomat at Mr Zuma denies all the OFF £5 (WAS £18!) + £3 p&p Minister Stefan Lofven yester- Korean foreign minister’s the embassy, is shrouded in allegations against him. Call (020) 8510-0815 day. Details about their talks visit to Stockholm, where he secrecy. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online world March 17-18 2018 7

n FRANCE SCARRED FOR LIFE: My Lai massacre survivor Tran Van Duc with a picture taken by US army photographer Ron Haeberle of his mother Nguyen Thi Tau, who was among the 504 Unions gearing up unarmed civilians killed by US troops for rail strike cast doubt on talks bid

by Our Foreign Desk tion of the Spinetta report, which urged ministers to hack away at rail workers’ FRANCE’S rail unions rights and benefits, and blasted the government yes- prepare the SNCF for com- terday for having “no desire petition and privatisation of for real negotiations” after domestic passenger services Transport Minister Elisabeth — as demanded by the EU’s Borne claimed she was will- Fourth Railway Package. ing to talk in a bid to avert a This policy risks intro- huge series of strikes. ducing a franchising model The four unions — similar to the one that has the CGT, SUD, Unsa and been a disaster in Britain CFDT — said that Presi- since the 1990s. dent Emmanuel Macron’s The left-wing CGT union ministers had “ignored the confederation said the dedi- proposals and criticisms of cation of the workforce was the trade unions” regarding the bedrock of the SNCF’s the government’s planned success, with passenger num- railway reforms. bers and revenue surging. Rail workers are set to rally In a bid to sway public in Paris next Thursday, with opinion, French media have employees of publicly owned been smearing the staff, n SOUTH-EAST ASIA railway company the SNFC claiming that the SNCF’s striking on two out of every debt is a result of supposedly five days, first on April 3 and lavish pay and benefits. 4, then on April 8 and 9, and But the CGT said the VIETNAM RECALLS MY LAI so on until the end of June. debt stemmed from both The planned action is a financial mismanagement response to Mr Macron’s by SNCF bosses and the government announcing its company’s long record of intention to smash up the technological innovation — much-envied French rail such as in electrification and MASSACRE BY US TROOPS network. high-speed trains. That followed the publica- [email protected] IMPERIALIST ATROCITY: Ceremony of remembrance hears pleas for peace and reconciliation by Our Foreign Desk But Mr Dung said Vietnam erans laid flowers to pay tribute theless. Unexploded US bombs wants to set aside the past and to the victims. continue to kill people across n COLOMBIA befriend other countries to The My Lai Peace Foundation, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. MORE than a thousand people build a better future in which a local non-governmental organi- US forces also widely used Uribe brother freed from jail in Vietnam marked the 50th peace and happiness can thrive. sation, was launched at the event. chemical weapons to destroy anniversary yesterday of the The commemoration comes “Vietnam suffered numerous large swathes of countryside, COLOMBIAN judges have which is accused of murder- My Lai massacre, carried out at a time when bilateral rela- pains of wars,” Truong Ngoc including food crops, and these ordered the release of San- ing 533 people between 1993 by US troops during the war tions between the US and Viet- Thuy, president of the founda- continue to cause birth defects tiago Uribe, the brother of and 1998. on Vietnam. nam are the strongest they’ve tion, said at the launch. “We and poison the food chain. right-wing former president His brother Alvaro Uribe On March 16 1968, US sol- been since their normalisation therefore more than anyone While it is commonly Alvaro, from “preventative has been repeatedly linked diers spent three to four hours of relations in 1995. The US is else understand the price of thought that Britain stayed out detention” in prison. to Colombia’s murderous murdering 504 unarmed civil- now one of Vietnam’s top trad- peace. We want peace.” of the war, the British govern- Mr Uribe had been held right-wing paramilitaries ians, mostly women, children ing partners and investors, and Historian Duong Trung Quoc ment sent special forces to aid for two years without being and he has been at the fore- and elderly men in My Lai and relations have also expanded to noted that, as the event was the US and advised it on the bru- convicted, though prosecu- front of those denouncing a neighbouring community. security and defence. taking place, a US aircraft car- tal counterinsurgency tactics tors believe that he was the the 2016 peace agreement Speaking at yesterday’s com- At yesterday’s event, sev- rier was visiting a nearby port, Britain had deployed in Malaya. head of a paramilitary group with the former Farc gue- memoration, provincial official eral dozen girls wearing tradi- the first since the war. [email protected] called The Twelve Apostles, rilla group. Dang Ngoc Dung said My Lai tional Ao Dai outfits and dove The US war on Vietnam was a typical case of “cruel headgear performed dances in killed millions of civilians, crimes committed by aggres- tribute for the victims and to including tens of thousands sive and hostile forces” during promote peace. Participants in neighbouring countries the the war. 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A spokesperson Australia has routinely mis- This post is subject to a six-month small team and offer new ideas for “breathtaking” hypocrisy said his claims appeared to treated refugees it locked up IT skills and experience including after he said he wanted to bring probation period. Holidays start at 28 days come from baseless accusations in jails on Nauru and Papua per year rising to 30, plus bank holidays. use of Microsoft Office software supposedly “persecuted” white by the Afrikaner-dominated New Guinea, with an Austral- An interest in the labour South Africa farmers to Aus- AfriForum group. ian court awarding one group If you have the skills and are ready to take on a new challenge at a national movement and progressive issues tralia on refugee visas. 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Struggle on the Streets the best photos from the week’s protests around the world

ABOVE: A French pensioner holds a placard that reads: ‘Hands off my pension’ at a demonstration against pension tax rises LEFT: Ethiopian Israelis, many practising Jews, hold up photographs of relatives outside parliament in Jerusalem demanding the government fulfill a pledge to allow 8,000 fellow Ethiopians visas into the country

ABOVE: An indigenous woman from the Amazonian town of Morete Cocha takes part in a demo in Ecuador against mining and oil drilling in the Amazon

ABOVE: Thousands of Brazilians gather in front the Municipal Theater to protest the deaths of left-wing councillor Marielle Franco and her driver, who were assassinated in Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday night LEFT: Two hundred students in Chicago take part in a mass walkout opposing gun violence in solidarity with the victims of the Florida high school shooting last month morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online March 17-18 2018 9

DECISION TIME: The main polling station in Bogota, Colombia, last Sunday, during legislative elections Elections scare big business

ou might not In Mexico’s, Colombia’s and Brazil’s presidential elections, left-wing have heard much about it but 2018 is a year in which candidates have a realistic chance of winning. JOE GILL looks at Yleft-wing candi- dates are mak- ing the running in a number what the big capitalist players think about these developments of countries which uS capital fears could impact on profits. ing allegations. came under fire in an appar- who threaten the interests of it does not cancel its upcoming austerity in Brazil, regardless Reading the business press This time the shadow of Don- ent assassination attempt in global capital. “They’ve never presidential elections, democ- of who wins, he added. “The reports on upcoming elections ald Trump to the north, his rac- Cucuta. been given the benefit of the racy in Latin America is sup- most important thing that in Mexico, Colombia and Brazil ist attacks on Mexicans and his When he was an MP during doubt,” he said. posed to exclude any outcome we’ll follow in terms of policy and it appears the only criteria demands for renegotiating the the presidency of hard right “Petro’s proposal for a con- unwelcome in Washington. will be fiscal discipline and for whether a candidate is good iniquitous Nafta free trade deal Alvaro uribe, he led a push to stituent assembly to reform We really have to repeat approving the pension reform is if the markets say so. have favoured the left-wing get justice for many victims of health, education, the justice this fact: Washington is ready that would put a cap on fiscal While coups or assassina- candidate, who is in the lead Colombian paramilitaries, and system, the economy, and poli- to declare economic warfare expenditures.” tion of candidates have been in polls. had to sleep with an assault tics, would create tremendous on Venezuela, already suffer- Lula, who has 42 per cent in favoured by Latin American Likewise the left wing front- rifle due to death threats. uncertainty for business and it ing uS sanctions and a severe the latest poll, is defiant about elites and the uS in the past, runner in Colombia, which In the upcoming election, is hard to foresee what reforms economic crisis, if it goes ahead the jail threat. “I’m going to judicial coups and fraud are goes to the polls on May 27, there are fears that the pow- would ultimately be enacted,” with an election that will be stay here. This is where I was other ways to ensure that the is limited, say the asset guys, ers that be will try to keep said Kogan. monitored by international born; this is where I belong. people can’t vote for change. because he has distanced him- his name off the ballot. In a Any trace of pinkish social observers, including those The only thing I’m afraid of is The threat from Mexico’s self from his radical past. tweet on 26 February, Petro democracy is dangerous and hostile to the government of betraying my people.” veteran left-wing leader Andres In fact Gustavo Petro ran denounced the possibility of “a Petro has been labelled a Nicolas Maduro, and a raft of Lula’s predecessor from the Manuel Lopez obrador is real, a popular administration massive fraud” on the March 11 Chavez-Castro bogeyman by guarantees for a fair vote. Workers Party, Dilma Rousseff, say some reports in the busi- in Bogota until he was over- consultation to elect the presi- the right, although he denies In Brazil, former president was overthrown in a judicial ness press, but perhaps not thrown by Colombia’s top dential candidate for the left- this, saying he is closer to Lula de Silva could stand a good coup in 2016. as bad as it might have been. prosecutor who accused Petro wing coalition that could leave uruguay’s former president chance of coming back to the Latin America’s left wing Why? Because he has allegedly of violating the laws of the him out of the race, reported Pepe Mujica. Mujica, president presidency in october, but he tide has suffered defeats and moderated his politics to be free market by challenging the Telesur. between 2010 and 2015, never faces a 12-year prison sentence setbacks in recent years, but if more market friendly. privateer rubbish collectors in The markets are nervous. significantly challenged capital for alleged corruption, which any of these elections do not go “The moderation in his the city. The coup against him “The base case is still for Petro during his time in office, while supporters say is a trumped up the way the markets think they speech and in his campaign backed by President Santos to lose, but the uncertainty legalising marijuana and abor- charge designed to prevent him should, we can expect a raft of makes the likelihood of him led to mass protests in 2014, around that prediction has tion. from running. stories telling us how danger- winning higher and the like- although he was eventually increased substantially,” Scotia- of course, reading this kind “We were worried about ous democracy has turned out lihood that he will turn out to reinstated by the courts. bank’s head of Latin American of report, it is often wise to Lula because he belongs to to be in the continent, dressed be very bad and very left-wing Petro belongs to a political strategy Joe Kogan wrote last remember that what is good a political party that’s more up of course in the language of lower,” says Pablo Riveroll of movement that has never had month. “Recent history warns for the markets and the super left-leaning politically and market totalitarianism. Chile’s Bci Asset Management. state power, he has pointed against underestimating politi- rich is usually not good for the economically, and therefore It’s not just Russia’s Vladimir Lopez obrador was denied out, in a country which has cal risks.” working class and middle class is perceived as less market Putin who doesn’t want real a victory in 2006 due to well witnessed how “when there are Mario Castro, a Latin Amer- majority. friendly,” said Gregorio Velasco, competition in elections. It’s documented vote fraud and strong candidates [of the left], ica FX and rates strategist at As we have seen in Ven- Bci’s head of institutional fixed capitalism. the 2012 victory of incumbent they’ve been murdered,” said Nomura in New York, said Wall ezuela, where uS Secretary of income funds. president Enrique Peno Neto the candidate. As if to prove his Street does not forgive or for- State Tillerson has threatened The markets want to see cuts ■ You can talk to Joe Gill on Twit- was also marred by vote buy- point, his motorcade recently get the past actions of those an oil blockade of the country if to pension provision and more ter, at @gill_joe. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 10 Saturday/Sunday features morningstaronline March 17-18 2018 @m_star_online

RENT STRIKE: Protesters march through London against the high cost to access higher education We need action on student rent, not vague comments from the Tories

OR THOSE of us old enough to remem- After asking the Universities Minister about the possibility for student rent ber the classic TV shows Yes, Minis- BERNADETTE HORTON Fter and Yes, Prime caps, writes about the absurd cost of living Minister — where the civil servants ruled on I asked him: “Rents in halls fees to £9,000 a year, certain look at: the cost of living for the thing that students get from England, Scotland and exactly what the ministers of residences and private rents universities in certain cities students and what we can do upset about is constant inac- Wales. said, did, thought and wore in have soared and take up huge have priced out working-class about it. tion by your government. The Scottish students have no tui- public — I can now add my own chunks of maintenance loans. students. This is blatant class “So, I wouldn’t say rent caps only thing the Tories are doing tion fees to worry about, Wales modern-day version which, in For low-income students, hall discrimination. but I can say that the cost of liv- is inflating tuition fees so they is switching from partially my opinion, would make an rents can be higher than the Imagine my shock when I ing for students is something I take a lifetime to pay off. And funding tuition fees to target- ideal political comedy. entire maintenance loan for received the following reply want to take a serious, and look the recent announcement of a ing maintenance grants to all I am set to go to university in a year. Will you be looking at from the Universities Minis- at to see what we can do to sup- year-long review into the very students. September, aged 51. A lifetime rent caps?” ter — I would like to point out port and help.” mess they have made and what English students, on the of bringing up kids, caring and Housing and rent costs are that Mr Gyimah could perhaps The minister can be “very they are now going to do about other hand, are left to suffer housework is now about to be a massive burden for students do with a few lessons in public alive” to whatever he wants, it is as comedic as it gets. the whole tranche of tuition fees set aside for a short while to con- with families on low incomes speaking. but students want firm action But these are real lives the and maintenance loans. It’s a bit centrate on my writing. and in many cases, including “Well it’s not for me to look on lowering rents, not in a few Tories are playing with. Stu- of a postcode apartheid and it Indeed this marvellous news- my own, halls of residence costs at rent caps, where you know years time but right now. dent numbers are declining, needs to stop. paper has given this female were firmly looked at before a you’ve got private landlords etc. The student rent crisis mir- working-class students are Labour is looking at imposing working-class aspiring writer a decision was made to even apply But I am alive to this. I’m very rors the overall picture of the being financially barred from rent caps on private landlords. platform to get into university. to a particular university. alive to the size of the rent v the housing crisis in Britain. It is certain universities and regions, If they could incorporate this So thank you to the Morning In London, for example, halls maintenance loan. a potent reminder of what a buy-to-let landlords are on rent cap on university halls of Star. or private accommodation can “There are also some land- stubborn “no build, no rent the make and take, massive residence too, this would be a As such with my new-found be as much as £13,000 a year, lords in some parts of the coun- cap” Tory housing policy has amounts of new student flats vote-winning initiative for stu- status of student to be, I enthusi- which is way above the maxi- try which demand the rent be done to damage the very social are being built in inner cities, dents. astically put forward a question mum maintenance loan avail- paid upfront for the year, which fabric of our country, where we with concierge services and Many students I have spo- to Tory Universities Minister able. causes huge stresses and prob- have homeless people freezing “glamping” pods for visitors ken to look at tuition fees as Sam Gyimah on The Student Even working part-time does lems for families often, but also to death on our streets. It’s for the use of wealthy overseas something they will pay off Room’s online forum. not leave much room for books, within the halls of residence. utterly shameful. students. The whole concept on the never-never. Everyday I was delighted when my travel, food and clothing costs “The thing that is most likely Gyimah needs to understand of university education being rent, maintenance and living question was selected and etc. Places like London, York and to upset students is if there is a that talking in vague terms reduced to a marketplace for costs concern them now while waited eagerly for Gyimah’s Edinburgh can be no-go univer- rent increase. I think this is a about the cost of living means capitalist forces only. they are studying and, for this answer. My question revolved sities for low-income students. key part of the cost of living, nothing to students struggling Each individual country in reason, I think the new 2018 around rents and low-income Since the Con-Dem coali- and it’s something that, as a new with accommodation costs. Britain has very different poli- Wales initiative on maintenance students. tion decided to increase tuition minister in this area, I want to I can tell you now, minister, cies that also divide students grants is the way to go. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online March 17-18 2018 11

Diane Abbott shadow home secretary

N R E L E A S E D files about the 1984 Battle of Orgreave from Ufive police Orgreave – it’s time forces have recently been uncovered by the cross-party House of Com- mons home affairs select com- mittee. This material includes files from the Merseyside, Metro- politan, Norfolk, Northum- bria and West Yorkshire police for truth and justice forces, including reports from senior “liaison” officers for units deployed at Orgreave. At least two Met police files The uncovering of new files by the home affairs select committee has have also been identified as containing information relat- ing to Orgreave. again raised the need for a full inquiry, writes DIANE ABBOTT The uncovering of these new files swiftly followed BRUTALITY: A phalanx of South Yorkshire Police the recent identification of face the picket line outside Orgreave coking plant nearly 800 unreleased South Yorkshire police files that were not considered when the Home Secretary, Amber Rudd, ruled out an independent public inquiry or statutory inquiry into Orgreave in October 2016. Specifically, South York- shire Police have completed the cataloguing of 782 files in 84 archive boxes related to Orgreave, with a further 10 boxes since located. My colleague Yvette Cooper, the chair of the committee, has written to the Home Sec- retary asking that an inde- pendent “review and publish” process is set up for the newly discovered files to determine which should be made public. She added that “it would not be appropriate for South York- shire Police to be the arbiter of what is and is not placed into the public domain. That needs to be done independently and must have credibility.” The call for an independent review of the files has been reported as being supported by South Yorkshire Police and by the South Yorkshire police and crime commissioner Dr Alan Billings. What has become known as the Battle of Orgreave saw thousands of police officers and miners involved in vio- lent clashes at the coke plant in South Yorkshire. At one chief constable, Peter Wright. pendent inquiry to establish ndeed, the campaign- whether members of the Cabi- stage police horses were sent It has now been shown that the truth. ers reported at the time net were responsible for direct- to charge the crowd up the at Hillsborough they withheld The Home Secretary’s 2016 of Amber Rudd’s shock ing political policing, or the field as officers followed to information on their own decision to deny any inquiry announcement that their cover-up. make arrests. responsibility for the deaths of at all into Orgreave was shock- Idiscussions with the home This denial of truth and It led to 95 people being 96 football fans, and hundreds ing. secretaries (May and then justice cannot stand and the charged with riot and vio- of serious injuries. There was widespread dis- Rudd) had centred on the form developments around these lent disorders but their cases You can’t understand what belief and anger at the time. an inquiry might take, rather papers show that the issue will were dropped amid questions happened at Hillsborough Barbara Jackson, secretary of than whether there would be not simply go away. about the reliability of police unless you get to the bottom the Orgreave Truth and Justice “ one at all. Trade unionists, the labour evidence. of Orgreave. It was the same Campaign, described the deci- The central claim of the movement, and all those who The Orgeave Truth and Jus- force, the same leadership and sion as “a complete shock and Orgreave truth and justice campaigners believe the state should not be tice Campaigners say some very similar methods in the a great disappointment.” is that Orgreave showed that above the law will continue of the thousands of officers aftermath. This was particularly the showed that policing had become a political this fight. drafted in to police the pick- We finally had an inquiry case as Theresa May’s princi- weapon under Thatcher. It is for these reasons that eting used excessive violence into the Hillsborough trag- pal policy adviser Nick Timo- Her Cabinet was determined Labour has promised a full — and that this was followed edy, thanks to the tireless thy had previously argued in policing had to crush the miners’ strike and inquiry. As I said at Labour by the fabrication of accounts campaigning of the people of favour of an Orgreave inquiry, found a willing instrument in conference last year, the during the subsequent inves- Liverpool. saying that “if the police come a political the South Yorkshire force. people involved in Orgreave tigation. These further papers being pre-planned a mass, unlaw- The miners were seen as a deserve justice, and need to What happened at Orgreave uncovered has further illus- ful assault on the miners at challenge to the Tory govern- know the truth about what was followed by a cover-up trated why the Orgreave fam- Orgreave, and then sought to weapon under ment. They were the “enemy happened. of deaths at Hillsborough. ilies’ campaigners need the cover up what they did and within.” The same police force, South same justice as Hillsborough arrest people on trumped-up Thatcher An inquiry would establish ■ Diane Abbott is shadow home Yorkshire, was led by the same had and the same type of inde- charges, we need to know.” whether this is the case, and secretary. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 12 Saturday/Sunday features morningstaronline March 17-18 2018 @m_star_online Star comment The Rohingya women b The lesson from history is that racism must be resisted at all costs as traumatised by mass r it consequences would Pics: Crossroads Audio-Visual Collective be devastating

THE COWARDLY defacement of the assembly point for today’s anti-racism demonstration in Cardiff should strengthen the resolve of all marching today. It is vital that we assemble in towns and cities across our country to show that we will not flinch in the face of racism and fascism, that we will stand steadfast beside those on the receiving end of discrimination, slurs and violence. Those with their hands on the levers of power like to think that Britain was made “great” by its imperial conquests, its bloody sacking of a good chunk of the planet, and proceed with similar ideals if somewhat moderated methods. We know that Britain is made great by the efforts of its people, who toil together and try to ensure a better future for their children, no matter where their ances- tors might have hailed from. The actions of a small, scattered mob of far-right hatemongers would be ludicrous were it not for the clear memories of what such actions, left unchecked, can lead to. The memories are there in the swastikas they scrawled in Cardiff. The symbol of the Hitler regime that methodically murdered millions of Jews, Slavs, Roma, gay and disabled people, and whomever else the nazis found distasteful — along with the brave women and men across Europe who had the courage to stand with them and fight the nazi menace. And we must be honest with ourselves — the threat is not only from tiny far-right grouplets.

At the head of our government, in Theresa May, we have someone who has constructed a “hostile environ- ment” for refugees and immigrants. A Prime Minister who sent advertising vans round London telling people to “go home or face arrest.” Whose Prevent “counter-terrorism” programme wants NEW report, by Cristel Amiss and teachers to report students for “radical” views. Rape by Com- Lisa Longstaff Who wants doctors to check sick people’s passports mand published before treating them. by Kaladan Press Her MPs are not much better. The Tories have openly A Network, docu- Rohingya themselves, uncen- stolen the clothes of parties usually considered further ments mass vio- sored by the interpretations of to the right. lence against women and girls outside observers or academics. by the Myanmar military, in its Sultana had recorded earlier 2017 purge of Rohingya people witness evidence of atrocities Britain is not alone in this. We’ve seen similar in Italy, across northern Rakhine State. in 2016. where the largest party in what the Italian media ludi- We met Pippa Curwen, a The background chapter tells crously calls the “centre-right” coalition has explicitly human rights defender, who how the Myanmar government threatened to round up and deport 500,000 “foreigners.” helped publish the research. had refused visas to independ- We see it in Germany now, where liberals celebrate She has been involved in life- ent international investigators, the renewed “grand coalition” while its interior minister saving work on the Thai-Myan- instead installing its own says that “Islam does not belong” in Germany, a state- mar border for over a decade. “Rakhine investigative com- ment that will only fuel support for the far-right AfD. The chief researcher of the mission,” which did not report And, back to Britain, in the current frenzied Russo- report is lawyer Razia Sultana, a any instances of abuses during phobia two national publications literally resurrect nazi former teacher. She interviewed the whole of the 2016 military propaganda posters to portray Vladimir Putin as the 36 survivors — 24 women and operations. accompanied by other horrific cleared Rohingya communi- face of “Judeo-Bolshevism,” as the nazis would have it. 12 men who had just arrived on This impunity gave a green violence using knives, burning ties from the countryside and It is essential that we march today, and that we con- the border with Bangladesh hav- light to atrocities on an even and other forms of torture. towns, razing their homes, tinue to march, and that we show that racism has no ing fled for their lives. larger scale in 2017. Women and children were bru- leaving only non-Muslim vil- place in our country. They described the torture “Women and girls were tally attacked in their homes, lages intact. But it is not sufficient to constrain ourselves to the they had suffered and what raped, mutilated and killed for while fleeing, and in military They aimed to extinguish the battle over racism. After all, it is a tool used by the they had seen inflicted on their very identity as Rohingya. camps where they were held very existence of the Rohingya. capitalist class to divide us. others — horrific crimes com- Rape is being used as a weapon prisoner. As an immediate precursor And it is essential to them that we are divided, as mitted by the military during of genocide.” She notes that particular to violence targeting women they bang the war drums, ruin our children’s education, their August 2017 campaign to Sultana documents testi- acts of mutilation of women’s and children, Myanmar troops smash our treasured health service, and allow more ethnically cleanse the northern mony that hundreds of women breasts and genitals, indicate invaded the villages, rounding people to burn to death in their homes. Rakhine state where many and girls were gang-raped in that the violence was the result up men and boys for arrest, tor- Refugees and immigrants are not the source of our Rohingya had lived. front of their loved ones by of a directive, rather than indi- turing and killing, often using country’s problems, and they never have been. It is the Eight were rape survivors. groups of Myanmar soldiers vidual soldiers’ actions. allegations of “terrorism.” gilded elite, who want all and more for themselves, Sultana is from the region as their homes were ransacked Atrocities were authorised This left women and chil- and want it on the backs of the working class, that and this is the closest we have and destroyed. by the military and the border dren alone and vulnerable and are to blame. to the authentic voices of the Often, these rapes were police, which systematically paved the way for mass rape. morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline features Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online March 17-18 2018 13 en being ss rape

Given the systematic organ- Unilever is one of the biggest isation of the military raids, foreign investors in the region, with were co-ordinated by the investing about £500 million a armed forces from the sea, air year. and on land, the report con- It claims to respect the dig- cludes that war crimes have nity and rights of women and been committed. girls, especially in its market- It calls for the military lead- ing of Dove products, and has ers at the highest level to be been named “Impact Cham- held responsible. pion” by UN Women. Myanmar has so far blocked It’s time it put this into any independent UN fact-find- practice by withdrawing from ing investigation. Myanmar instead of enhanc- This is being used as a pretext ing the funds available to the for some governments to take government. no action at all, and to carry on The Unilever protesters supporting investments with handed in a letter to chief the excuse that they are waiting executive Paul Polman — who for an official UN report. was paid £9.4m in 2015 — urg- The country’s de-factor ing him to divest. leader Aung San Suu Kyi The international movement has refused to mention the against sexual violence, from Rohingya, to the outrage of Hollywood to #MeToo and NITY against rac- people around the world who #TimesUp, must be extended ism and fascism supported her when she was to the Rohingya — women, is crucial and under house arrest by Myan- children and men. more necessary Join the struggle mar’s military junta. Corporations must be forced Utoday than at Some experts have avoided to put life before profit and to any other point acknowledging that this mass stop funding rape and geno- since the second world war. rape and murder is genocide. cide. We are all sisters and Europe is facing the biggest As anti-rape organisations brothers of Rohingya. rise in racism since fascism’s against the rising with over 60 years of com- rise to power in the 1930s. This bined experience of working ■ Cristel Amiss is a member of the is illustrated by recent election with survivors of rape, includ- Black Women’s Rape Action Project results in Europe. ing historic child and domestic and Lisa Longstaff is a member of In Italy, the racist populist abuse in Britain, we know how Women Against Rape. Five Star movement gained tide of racism hard it is to get justice. 32.22 per cent, a 6.63 increase Some of us have fled to Brit- ■ You can support the campaign from the previous election in ain after suffering rape and by using the hashtags #NoPeace 2013. But there are rising levels of fascists in Europe and rising torture by military forces or #NoDove. For more information The fascist Northern League by Sabby Dhalu racism that indicate at some hate crimes against Muslims, others in authority. please email bwrap@rapeaction. increased its vote share by 14 point in the future a racist Jews and black people in Brit- Our collective self-help with net, follow @bwrap1, war@womena- per cent with 17.69 per cent. far-right electoral force could ain, it is incumbent on all anti- survivors, and our attempts to gainstrape.net and @AgainstRape The centre-left Democratic falling support for centre-left emerge. racists to unite against racism hold their attackers to account, or visit the Sisters of Rohingya blog Party gained 18.9 per cent of the social democrats who provided Hate crimes increased by and fascism. addresses the trauma of rape, of sistersofrohingya.wordpress.com. vote — a 6.5 per cent decrease. no solution to people’s declin- 29 per cent to 80,393 — the Trade unions, Christians, witnessing loved ones killed, and You can see the full report Rape by In Austria the far-right Free- ing living standards and con- biggest number ever recorded Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Sikhs, the many barriers to recovery Command at: www.kaladanpress. dom Party is in the governing ceded instead to racism. since such records began — in African, Caribbean, Asian, faced by victims of sexual and org. coalition with the right-wing Britain is currently bucking the year up to March 2017 and LGBT communities, social dem- racist and Islamophobic crimes. conservative People’s Party this electoral trend because the 80 per cent of these were racist ocrats, socialists and all anti- These are compounded by after polling 26 per cent, with left and right are sharply polar- attacks. racists should stand together victims losing their homes 51 seats in the National Coun- ised on whether people are for Incidents of anti-Muslim against hatred, racism and and in some cases becoming cil, in the October 2017 general or against a Jeremy Corbyn-led abuse and attacks in public fascism. refugees. election. The Austrian Social Labour. areas rose by 326 per cent in The lesson of history is that There are now 900,000 Democratic Party only polled The Tories’ “hard Brexit” 2015, with women dispropor- we must unite against racism Rohingya in the camps of Bang- a tiny fraction more votes with and adaptation to racism has tionately targeted. and fascism in Europe and put ladesh who need our support 26.9 per cent. absorbed the bulk of the 12.6 More recently between 2016 aside differences on the Middle and action. In Germany Alternative for per cent Ukip polled in 2015, and 2017 hate crimes targeting East and other matters. Rape by Command calls “ Deutchland gained 12.6 per so Ukip polled 1.8 per cent in mosques more than doubled Today’s UN Anti-Racism Day for the military to be held to cent — a 7.9 per cent increase 2017, with the Tories gaining from 47 between March and events are part of an interna- account for systematic rape Women and girls — the first time far-right 42 per cent. July in 2016 to 110 in the same tional day of action against rac- and other violence against nationalists gained seats in The current Labour leader- period in 2017. ism, with demonstrations tak- civilian women and children the national legislature since ship rejects neoliberalism and The Community Security ing place in London, Glasgow, and a place of safety for all the were raped, the 1930s. austerity and champions an Trust also recorded a 34 per Cardiff, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, refugees to settle and rebuild The SPD polled 20.5 per cent, improvement of people’s liv- cent increase in violent assaults Barcelona, Warsaw, Athens their lives. They must not be mutilated and a 5.2 per cent fall from the pre- ing standards. against Jewish people in 2017. and many more cities. These forced back to Myanmar. vious election and agreed to It also stands up to the rise Swastikas were graffitied in are peaceful demonstrations The majority who want ulti- form a coalition government in racism, Islamophobia, anti- Cardiff before today’s UN Anti- showing unity against rising mately to return must be guar- killed for their with the CDU which is likely semitism and for a humanitar- Racism Day demonstration. racism, Islamophobia and anti- anteed rights and safety. to make this SPD even less ian approach to refugees. As a The Football Lads Alliance semitism in Britain and Europe. The Sisters of Rohingya are very identity as popular. result, it is performing better is organisation similar to the Diane Abbott MP, Claude demanding sanctions against The common thread in these than its European counter- EDL and over the last year it Moraes MEP, TUC president Myanmar, not just military Rohingya. Rape elections is a vicious circle of parts. has mobilised thousands more Sally Hunt, Talha Ahmad from sanctions, and an end to for- governments pursuing eco- In this situation there is little than the EDL. the Muslim Council of Britain, eign investment. nomic policies that worsen room for a far-right electoral It is posing as an organisa- David Rosenberg from the Jew- On International Women’s is being used as living standards, using racism force in Britain. But there is tion against terrorism, but its ish Socialist Group and many Day, March 8, we joined a large to scapegoat communities and no room for complacency. We real agenda is racism and Islam- more are joining today’s event and lively picket outside Uni- a weapon of distract people from these prob- have defeated Ukip, the Brit- ophobia. These organisations in London. lever’s London HQ calling for lems, a growing racist far right, ish National Party, the English grow when the left is strong. the company to divest from right-wing conservative parties Defence League and Britain In light of growing electoral ■ Sabby Dhalu is co-convener of Myanmar. genocide adopting a far-right agenda and First. support for the far right and Stand Up to Racism. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 14 March 17-18 2018 info | entertainment @m_star_online

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fi ve to seven minutes. kochtopf/ Pic: CommonsCreative Solution on Monday… Solution on Monday… morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online features | entertainment March 17-18 2018 15 Marxism at the core of today’s Pic: Paasikivi/Creative Commons political debate As capitalism increasingly paints itself into a corner the once derided ideas of Karl Marx acquire a contemporary relevance, writes MEIRIAN JUMP

OMORROW, an ary leader who passed away in atmosphere of cel- 2016, by quoting his opinion ebration will infuse that “Marx’s theory was never Tthe annual Oration a fi xed scheme. It was a concep- at Karl Marx’s grave. tion. It was a method. It was an 2018 marks 200 years since the interpretation.” birth of the revolutionary phi- The ambassador joins an TIMES THEY ARE A CHANGIN: (Left) the Cuban ambassador Teresita Vicente Sotolongo and (above) Karl losopher. eminent list of speakers who Marx’s bust by Laurence Bradshaw The bust by sculptor Lau- have delivered the oration over rence Bradshaw at Highgate the years, including the scien- Sessions will look at themes publication of Das Kapital last On Sunday, the meeting will Cemetery has been the site of tist John Desmond Bernal, gen- from “the role of the state,” autumn. not just remember an individ- a yearly assembly for over 70 eral secretary of the RMT Bob “nationalism and populism” to Increasing numbers of stu- ual, but a history of collective years. Organisers expect large Crow, Labour MP Tony Benn “class, race and gender.” It will dents and trade union activists action founded on Marxism and numbers at the ceremony this and, last year, the Venezuelan be a truly international aff air access the MML’s unique histor- its continued re-interpretation. bicentenary year. ambassador Rocio Maneiro. with speakers from India, Ger- ical resources and come to par- Mindful of today’s struggles, The Cuban ambassador, Wreaths will be laid at the many, China, Cuba and the US. ticipate in classes and events. the Cuban ambassador will Teresita Vicente Sotolongo, grave site from delegations Outside Britain, Karl Marx Professor Simon Mohun’s series deliver the message: “We must will deliver the oration. She from across the globe. House in Trier — his birth- of lectures on Marxist politi- read and reread the works of

will examine the diverse ways Marx’s tomb — which is misiones.minrex.gob.cuPic: place — will re-open following cal economy, which starts on Marx and Lenin. But in order Marxism has impacted both being cleaned up and re-paved a period of renovation with a March 27 at 7pm promise to be to properly comprehend them thought and action in recent by the cemetery in time for Sunday’s gathering is one of new permanent exhibition on popular. we must also reapply them.” history, with particular refer- the bicentenery of his birth many events celebrating Marx’s May 5. Major conferences will This interest speaks to dis- ence to Latin America. on May 5 — is set alongside 200th birthday which explore take place in Ireland, Germany, satisfaction with the status quo ■ The Marx Oration gathers at Sotolongo explains: “Marx- resting places of other life- the relevance of Marxism today. China, to name a few. — austerity and neoliberalism 1.30pm for a 2pm start at Swains ism is humanism; a humanism long socialists worthy of our The Marx Memorial Library’s These Marx 200 celebrations — and a renewed curiosity and Lane entrance Highgate Cem- that is based on the revolution- remembrance. Claudia Jones, (MML) Marx 200 conference come at a time of increased enthusiasm for exploring alter- etery. Meirian Jump is Archivist & ary potential of human beings communist, feminist, activist will be held on May 5 at the interest in Marxism — queues natives. We can see these trends Library Manager at Marx Memo- to transform history.” and founder of the Notting Hill School of Oriental and African threaded across Clerkenwell across Europe and in Britain we rial Library. Details of MML events, She will be paying tribute carnival was famously buried Studies. The event has already Green for the MML’s lectures are talking again about social- courses and lectures can be found to Fidel Castro, the revolution- to the left of Marx. sold out. on the 150th anniversary of the ism and class politics. www.marx-memorial-library.org.uk

TV and Radio Weekly Preview with Ann Douglas What to miss Thursday: My Baby’s Film murder, McDonald explores that the paintings get Life: Who Decides?, 9pm the tireless campaigner’s homesick and make their Channel 4 work. way home. Sunday One to avoid purely Thursday Thursday because of the emotional Catch Me If You Can, subject: a camera crew 5.45pm BBC2 The Art of Now: Band Eastenders, 7.30pm, 9pm follows families whose Leonardo DiCaprio stars in Politics, 11.30am Radio 4 BBC1 babies are under this fascinating, and Chris Hawkins charts the The legend that is Kat Slater intensive care at the surprisingly emotional, current generation of is back! And because it’s Southampton Children’s drama about the con man politically-charged musi- Eastenders, she returns Hospital, even fi lming who managed to evade the cians and why the music- while plans for her funeral consultations over FBI for years. scene, across all genres, is are well under way. withdrawing treatment. so exciting now. Documentary Sport Entertainment Yesterday’s sudoku Monday Saturday Discovery: Why We Cut Saturday Six Nations Rugby, noon, BELFAST: The triple funeral for the Gibraltar Three Men, 8.30pm World Service Winged Bull in the El- 2.25pm ITV, 4.30pm BBC1 Monday and lethal gun attacks on People from around the ephant Case, 10.40pm There are three mighty The Funeral Murders, Republican funerals world discuss male circum- BBC2 clashes on the final day of which took place 30 years cision. the tournament. Italy meets 9pm BBC2 The National Gallery art ago. A range of contribu- collection was evacuated to Scotland, England faces The violent reality of the tors – IRA, Loyalist, RUC Thursday Snowdonia during the Ireland and Wales chal- troublesis brought into and British Army – shed Martin Luther King by second world war. This lenges France. Could the focus as this anniversary light on their diff erent Trevor McDonald, 9pm ITV fact it’s St Patrick’s Day documentary looks perspectives and the contemporary dance piece in-depth at two separate brutality of the confl icts. MLK is more than one from the acclaimed Wayne swing the result in Ireland’s speech. Fifty years after his McGregor company imagines favour? Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 16 March 17-18 2018 culture @m_star_online

Arts ahead Attila the Stockbroker on the road diary

tographic skill and technique alongside images exploring ideas and narratives rich in Those Russians are threatening yet again meaning and message. It encompasses single images and series work HEN I launched myself into Horovitz’s seminal Poetry Olympics LP the 1980s. She went on to work for London across all genres, with the the world of poetry and punk — my fi rst review in the recently sadly Underground, become a member of the work executed in many ways, Wrock as Attila the Stockbro- demised NME and my fi rst Peel session. RMT national executive and a mother of from alternative processes to ker in 1980, some of my ear- Not bad for a poem written in 20 minutes three lovely sons and, a few years ago, she contemporary approaches. liest poems were satirical musings about in my bigoted relatives’ sitting room! took up poetry again. She is very, very good barnsleycivic.co.uk “the Russian threat” and the best-known In the present confrontation, all kinds of at it indeed. was undoubtedly Russians in the DHSS. people are reminding me of that poem and But of course she’s not the angry young HALIFAX/TOURING THEATRE The fi rst two verses went like this: asking for an update. It’s diffi cult for two poet I fi rst met on her 16th birthday when Get Well Soon reasons. Firstly, “The Russians are running she interviewed me for her fanzine. These Square Chapel Arts Centre “It fi rst was a rumour dismissed as a lie the Department of Work and Pensions” days she’s a DMW — Disaff ected Middle- Square Road But then came the evidence none could deny doesn’t have the same ring of menace to it. aged Woman. And that’s the name of her EDINBURGH EXHIBITION April 21 A double-page spread in the Sunday Express Secondly, the Red Russia of Daily Express new book and current tour, which you can Art of Glass The aim of this new show – The Russians are running the DHSS…. nightmares doesn’t exist any more. About experience for yourself tomorrow, Upstairs National Museum of Scotland from the excellent Mikron 58 per cent of the population there wish at the Otley Labour Rooms, alongside the Chambers Street Theatre is to “make a sur- The scroungers and misfi ts have done it it did, according to opinion polls, but it equally superb Laura Taylor. April 6 – September 16 gical strike on the state of at last doesn’t. My favourite in the book — given a our NHS,” 70 years after its The die of destruction is fi nally cast And, of course, that Daily Express head- ringing endorsement by Jeremy Corbyn, Art of Glass highlights the founding. The glue sniffi ng Trotskyists’ fi nal excess – line wasn’t primarily aimed at the Russians incidentally — is Night Tube, chronicling work of contemporary artists Written by Ged Cooper, it’s The Russians are running the DHSS!” but us in the British left who were sup- the hours as the antics of pissed stragglers such as the Filipino-Ameri- set in St Monica’s hospital, posed to be fi nanced by them and following from a late night out give way to the quiet can Jeff rey Sarmiento, whose I was on a family visit to relatives who their instructions to the letter. We didn’t very early risers making their way to low- work draws on personal read that horrendous organ and its front then, obviously, and we certainly aren’t paid menial jobs. narratives, and renowned page unfortunately caught my eye. It was now. We don’t like capitalist oligarchs and There are cautionary tales, rewrites of English sculptor Emma Wof- split between scare stories about “the nationalism, do we? classic pop hits, some very personal poems fenden, whose evocative pieces Russians” and outrage at “social-security Well, I hope we don’t. A few people on and the title one, which sums the author have a sense of the surreal. scroungers.” Bored while my mother the left don’t seem to be making a distinc- up perfectly! Available at gigs or from Edinburgh-based Geoff rey was chatting to the couple in question, I tion between Russia in the 1980s and Russia janinebooth.com Mann has created The Leith Pat- decided that the deadliest threat to Middle now and there is a big diff erence. The Star Three gigs next week, all poetry fi rst tern, which explores the myth England would be if the two scapegoats article last Thursday summed it up. I’m then a set of early music meets punk with that the archetypal wine bottle became a double act, so I borrowed a pen not siding with either of the participants my band Barnstormer — Centrala in Bir- was designed and produced by and paper and wrote the poem. in this sabre-rattling exercise. I hope that mingham next Friday, Saith Seren Wrex- the Leith Glassworks. It certainly stood me in good stead, get- you aren’t either. ham Saturday and Ye Olde John O’Gaunt in Scottish artist Karlyn Suth- ting me my very fi rst play on the John Peel Now for a book review. Janine Booth was Lancaster on Sunday, visit attilathestock- erland’s work is infl uenced by Show, my fi rst poetry on vinyl — Michael one of our original ranting poetry posse in broker.com. Cheers! the environment and quality of light found in the far-north of Scotland, while Pinkie Maclure’s Beauty Tricks takes ■ THEATRE REVIEW issue with the human and where all is not well. They’re environmental impact of the on life support as they face beauty industry and the pres- bugs, bed-blockers and a bat- sure women sometimes place tle to save A and E. A Cherry Orchard ripe with on themselves and their daugh- Can Nye Bevan’s dream ters. of free healthcare for all nms.ac.uk survive? is this show’s ques- contemporary resonance tion and it seeks the answer BARNSLEY PHOTOGRAPHY through tunes, transfusions The Cherry Orchard RPS International and titters. The audience, directly Photography Exhibition Tours nationally after Bristol Old Vic ROLE-PLAYING: invited into these charac- The Civic this premiere in Halifax. ★★★★✩ Eva Magyar (centre) ters’ shared world, under- Hanson Street mikron.org.uk as Charlotta stands their motivations April 28 - June 9 and actions. We may laugh at LONDON THEATRE IF YOU are hoping to recon- their idiosyncrasies yet we’re The Great Wave fi rm expectations of a lyri- sensitive to their inability to National Theatre cal turn of-the-century mas- communicate eff ectively. Upper Ground, SE1 terpiece, where inevitable And we’re always aware that March 10 – 14 April 14 social upheaval on a provin- others are watching. cial Russian estate mirrors Boyd’s direction, empha- The Great Wave by Francis the mood of the passing sea- sising the realism of such Turnly is set on a Japanese sons and elegiac sentiment a recognisable world, does beach, where teenage sisters prevails, this production of not not shy away from Chek- Hanako and Reiko are caught The Cherry Orchard is likely hov’s symbolism. up in a storm. to disappoint. Ranyevskaya’s drowned Reiko survives while Director Michael Boyd has son acts as a stage hand, Hanako is lost to the sea. worked with Rory Mullarky whose care-free presence Their mother, however, can’t to produce a fresh, vibrant introduces each act, rein- shake the feeling her missing translation of Anton Chek- forcing the role of the past daughter is still alive, and hov’s play, giving it a far without steeping it in mel- family tragedy soon takes on more contemporary reso- ancholy. The intrusion of a global political dimension. nance, while Tom Piper’s a rough transient, echoes Set in Japan and North in-the-round stage design of distant emotive sounds Korea, Francis Turnly’s makes the audience a key and the lonely demise of the

“epic” new thriller is element. This is very much Pic: Jon Rowley long-serving servant Firs are directed by Indhu Rubasing- a production about perform- all emphasised. ham in this co-production ance and communication or, than her terms is refl ected yet unresponsive audience The end may leave the with the Tricycle Theatre. rather, its absence. in every other relationship. while Verity Blyth’s bossy stage devoid of action, but The International Photography nationaltheatre.org.uk Kirsty Bushell’s impulsive The characters, locked Anya attempts to bring the audience is still there Exhibition, now in its 160th energy, warmth and implicit into their own roles, per- order to an uninterested in the light, ready to play year, is the longest-running sadness make her a convinc- form not only for us but household. its part. exhibition of its kind in the ing Ranyevskaya, drawing also for each other. Simon Potential romances fail, Runs until April 7, box world. family, friends and retinue Coates’s sentimental and with couples not hearing offi ce: bristololdvic.org.uk, Its aim is to refl ect the vary- back to her doomed estate. opinionated Gayev elegises or saying what is required then transfers to the Royal ing interests and vibrant aes- Her inability to respond to to his bored yet attentive of each other, shared remi- Exchange Theatre, Manches- thetics of the photographic Jude Owusu’s straight-talk- nieces, Enyi Okoronkwo’s niscences are unequally felt ter, from April 19-May 19, box medium today, presenting ing, self-made entrepreneur eternal student Trofi mov and future plans hardly offi ce: royalexchange.co.uk work that demonstrates pho- Lopakhin on anything more pontifi cates to an alert involve another participant. SIMON PARSONS morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online culture March 17-18 2018 17

■ HISTORY How Charles I lost his head over his lust for the world’s greatest art collection There’s another story to be told about the monarch’s collection of masterpieces currently on show at the Royal Academy in London, says BREEZE BARRINGTON

REAT leaders disaster and the first of many like to dem- ill-judged moves that would onstrate their come to characterise his reign. power. These He returned to England deter- Gdays it tends to mined to be the most promi- be shows of mil- nent king in Europe, a great itary might and grand parades collector, almost divine and, of state-of-the-art weaponry. above all, indisputably pow- But Renaissance monarchs erful. and nobles amassed huge col- He would continue to spend lections of art, the better to vast amounts of money on art, show off their cultural sophisti- clothes and court entertain- cation. Charles I was no excep- ments. He would ostracise an tion and the current exhibition already distant parliament and, at the Royal Academy indicates within four years of becom- the extent of his obsession with ing king, engage in an 11-year collecting the finest art and art- personal rule under which ists, one which was ultimately he would impose unpopular to cost him his head. and barely legal taxes on his Walk through Charles I: King COLLECTOR’S CHOICE: people. and Collector, which represents Anthony van Dyck, Charles I in His immovability on mat- only a small fraction of the Stu- Three Positions, 1635–36; (top) ters of state and religion would art king’s entire collection, and Roman, Aphrodite ‘The embroil his three kingdoms in you can see how art functioned Crouching Venus,’ 2nd century AD a civil war that would last a as a political display of power and (above) Hans Holbein the decade and he would maintain and magnificence. Younger, Anne Cresacre, 1526–27 his divine right to rule until But behind the austere parliament had no choice but painted faces of the king and occasion even breaking into to condemn him for treason. court, there is another story her garden only to be met with On January 30 1649, Charles to be told. Reuniting works for shrieks of terror from the virtu- was walked from St James Pal- the first time in 350 years, it ous princess. This is clearly not ace to the Banqueting House in captures a singular moment in the way a prince was expected Whitehall where, sat under the British history, as an unscrupu- to behave and, if a union had extraordinary ceiling painting lous king created arguably the ever been possible, his ideas of by Rubens depicting his father most impressive art collection rative, functioned as a symbol The trip was costly both dip- he was given pride of place at diplomacy drew an end to it. in divine glory, he would set- in the world while ostracising of power and wealth, displayed lomatically and financially, but the great festival of Corpus As possibilities for a mar- tle his affairs before being led his parliament and people and at particular diplomatic events they came back with a great Christi. It was a feast for the riage dwindled into oblivion, onto a purpose-built scaffold catapulting himself on to the to put across messages of maj- haul of art, gifted, bought and eyes. The streets were lined the Stuart courtiers scavenged and beheaded. scaffold. esty and status. Art and diplo- possibly even stolen, in the case with great tapestries and he what they could get their hands Oliver Cromwell became When James I succeeded macy were completely insepa- of a sculpture of Samson Slay- saw how Philip IV was revered on and the trip turned into lit- Lord Protector and under him Elizabeth I to the throne rable at this point and James’s ing a Philistine. Charles had by his people, almost as a deity. tle more than an art collectors’ the crown jewels were melted in 1603, it quickly became son Prince Charles was deter- caught the collecting bug with Though he had no thoughts holiday. down and the gems sold, along apparent that here was a more mined to present himself at the an acute love of Titian. of conversion, Charles saw This visit was financially with the majority of this enor- “continental” monarch. He forefront of European power. When they arrived at the the tempting reality of a king ruinous. James wrote to his son mous art collection, a neces- was descended from the Bour- He turned to art to project this Spanish court, they witnessed treated almost as a god, with begging him to come home, sary move to recoup some of bons through his mother, his image of majesty. an unimaginable kind of maj- an art collection to rival any telling him that the royal purse the money lost under decades court spoke in French, he was The story of Charles as col- esty. The Habsburgs owned other in existence. was empty. Vast sums of money of decadent monarchs. determined to create a unity lector starts with an imprudent some of the most splendid art were spent on elaborate cloth- What we see in the exhibi- between his three kingdoms of trip to the rigid court of Spain. in the world — the walls were e can ing, jewels and art, as well as tion is around seven per cent Scotland, England and Ireland To Charles, he and his compan- covered with works by Titian, see from an elephant and camels. of the original collection and, and to marry his children into ion — the king’s favourite, The Bosch, Correggio, Velasquez paintings When they returned home, walking through, it is easy to powerful courts of Europe. Duke of Buckingham — were — and sumptuous tapestries of the Charles and Buckingham were see how the king lost his head. Under his rule, England was chivalrous knights on a voyage woven with gold and silver Wp r i n c e determined on war with Spain “open for business” and could to woo and wed a European thread. No-one in England had upon his and the latter took an invading ■ This is an edited version of an now reap the rewards of the princess. ever seen anything like this return that he took on Span- fleet to Cadiz in 1625. It was article by Breeze Barrington, PhD freedom of movement artists To Buckingham, they were before and the experience had ish fashion and a new kind of another complete fiasco and candidate in Early Modern Tap- had enjoyed on the continent art collectors ready to reap the a profound effect on the group. majesty was implemented. the cost was immeasurable, estry, Queen Mary University of for generations. Over the next spoils of a court already hous- To the Spanish, his sudden As well as falling in love both in terms of money and London, which first appeared in 40 years, the English would ing an array of masterpieces. arrival could only mean one with art and ceremony, Charles loss of lives, without making The Conversation, the conversa- greet the likes of Van Dyck, They took with them Bucking- thing — he may be willing was immediately besotted a dent in the Spanish army. tion.com. Charles I: King and Col- Orazio, Artemesia Gentileschi ham’s art agent and a handful to become a Catholic. In an with his potential bride and The trip to Spain was a lector runs at the Royal Academy and Rubens. of courtiers well versed in col- attempt to show Charles all accounts describe his constant definitive moment for Charles in London until April 15, details: Art, more than merely deco- lecting and Spanish etiquette. that Catholicism had to offer, impatience to see her — on one — a diplomatic and financial royalacademy.org.uk Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk 18 Saturday/Sunday letters morningstaronline March 17-18 2018 @m_star_online

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GRAHAM STEVENSON explores the Star archives 80 YEARS AGO TODAY... Dockers refuse to work for Franco

THE Daily Worker Already, dockers in ■ of the March 17 Middlesbrough and 1938 celebrated on its Southampton had acted, front page with: “DOCK- building on this the ERS ACT FOR SPAIN: London dockers believed Labour Throws Down that “not only can Spain Gauntlet in Commons.” be saved, but peace saved Workers in the Port of also.” The failure to act London had given notice against the invasion of of permanent refusal to Austria “disgusted the handle cargoes bound for whole of dockside” and Francoist Spain, embark- had been “the last straw.” ing from Mark Brown’s In Parliament, Clem Wharf on Tooley Street. Attlee, leader of the Cases and bales of gun Labour Party, threw down cotton, now known as a challenge to prime min- nitrocellulose, had already ister Neville Chamberlain been sent back on lorries on his refusal to end the that had brought them non-intervention farce down from Lancashire. and aid Spain. High-explosive but Many in the labour smokeless gun cotton, movement had been dis- prepared in the form of a satisfi ed with the “weak jelly and then hardened stand taken by the Labour and cut, had made the front bench” previously rifl e a particularly deadly and Attlee’s “vigorous weapon, especially in the onslaught on the Govern- larger calibre weapons ment was the sequel.” Cartoon: Skelf carried by bombers. Discussing this at a You can lunch-hour meeting, the read editions of ■ SPY DRAMA dockers decided that the the Daily Worker government had been (1930-45) allowed to “cripple the and Morning Star (200 0-today) Spanish people and to , online at aid the Fascist invaders mstar.link/DWMSarchive Why is Moscow guilty long enough.” Ten days’ access costs One docker said: “If just the Government refuse £5.99 and a to take action, we our- year is £72 until proven innocent? selves will do it.” I ALWAYS understood that a May is deciding how to pun- plausible and logical book What has Russia to gain? Nation’s workers primed for strike person is considered innocent ish Russia and consideration is about how he thought the CIA Certainly it has a lot more to until proven guilty but appar- being given to boycotting the were responsible for the death lose. May said she wanted a AS the Daily The member had not ently this does not apply to World Cup. of John Lennon. response from them by Tues- ■ Worker of March been informed that he Russia. I remember the British A British MP has written a day night but got one within 18 1938 showed, strikes would be wanted to work Theresa May has said it is and US boycotted the Olym- book about weapons inspector a few minutes of her speech of 1,500 aircraft work- overtime until 9.45pm on “highly likely” that Russia was pics in Russia because they David Kelly, who leaked that on Monday. ers were underway at the night in question. responsible for the poisoning of had invaded Afghanistan, Iraq had no weapons of mass Russia immediately denied two gigantic factories, The employers’ side the two fellow countrymen in only to see ourselves doing destruction and was found dead it and Ms May has not come described as “the work- of the Road Transport Salisbury, the evidence being exactly the same thing a few shortly afterwards. The book up with any concrete evidence ers’ reply to the threats Joint Conciliation Board that the poison was invented years later. contradicts the offi cial verdict that they are responsible. Until of the Government to had evaded answering a in the 1970/80s by Russia. The US has an unbeatable of suicide and Lord Hutton’s she does then Russia has to be introduce industrial con- claim for improvements, The fact that we could iden- record of assassinating people inquiry into this has been regarded as innocent. scription and widespread and for the honoring of tify it indicates that this poison in foreign countries — more locked away from the public Making false, unsubstanci- dilution at works engaged agreements, to the extent is available elsewhere. If some- than 80 worldwide. The vic- for 65 years. ated allegations does nothing on arms production.” The of walking out of meet- one is shot by a gun uniquely tims were mainly left-leaning The CIA also allegedly made for world peace. fi ght at both Short and ings. The trade union side made in the US it does not mean leaders. over 300 unsuccessful attempts WJ CASEY Harland in Belfast and was to try one last time, the White House is responsible. A London QC wrote a very to kill Cuba’s Fidel Castro. North Shields Hawkers, at Brooklands before “a quarter of a mil- Aerodrome in Surrey, was lion lorrymen will strike, against the introduction backed by railwaymen, of non-union labour in dockers and other men in ■ PUGILISM ■ LEGACY contravention of estab- works and factories where lished practice. blackleg lorries will be Never forget Hawking While in Lancashire, left untouched.” Another blow in boxing debate the case of a conductor, Meanwhile, under the dismissed for refusing headline “Markets March DAVE PULLER (M Star March the one tragedy attributable to In my fi rst letter I wrote of was ardent socialist to work overtime saw As One,” the Daily Worker 8) is categorically wrong to boxing, but I seem to recall two research by the US air force that STEPHEN HAWKING was representatives of Salford reports that workers at state that boxers do not “aim other deaths from similar causes showed that mild impacts can a socialist and CND sup- Corporation by Transport all the London markets: to cause brain damage.” around that time. cause serious movements and porter who opposed both and General Workers’ Smithfi eld, Covent Gar- Boxing defi nes the “target I could take Dave’s assurance bumping of the nerve bundle the Vietnam and Iraq wars, Union demand uncon- den, Billingsgate, and Spi- area” as the head and torso, of “regular checks before and that is our brain. supported the Palestinians ditional reinstatement talfi elds wholesale market and any concussion with the after” more seriously if those Yes, Dave, I’ve boxed too, — and no he was not anti- and full compensation were to combine for the head (even quite mild) can checks entailed MRI scans, though only at school and under semitic either — as well as for wages lost on pain of 40-hour week without loss cause temporary loss of con- the only way of visualising duress. defending the NHS and con- facing a strike of 1,500 bus of pay and 100 per cent sciousness. the brain damage involved — But now in my eighties, I demning austerity. conductors and drivers. trade unionism. Any of the contact sports before death of course. could still take Dave around a I wonder if that will be might lead to that sort of Our brain cases (skulls) have brain museum and point out the mentioned in any obituar- injury, but only in boxing is evolved over millennia to give broken brains of boxers, from ies in the mainstream press the aim to cause that situation; best possible protection to all others. Remember the beauty over the next few days? HAVE YOUR SAY the ultimate is the “knock-out” the “central processing unit” of Muhammed Ali and the “bro- RIP Stephen Hawking, blow. (brain) by cushioning it in cer- ken man” he became. scientist and socialist. Write (up to 300 words) to I also suggest that Dave is ebrospinal fl uid, as insurance ROGER FLETCHER PHIL BRAND 52 Beachy Rd, London E3 2NS ignoring evidence — he instances against the shocks of life. Chesham London SW17 or email [email protected] Why read the ?

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Racing Guide with Farringdon n UTTOEXETER, WOLVERAMPTON AND FONTWELL Hainan has the stamina to go the distance at Uttoxeter MIDLANDS NATIONAL: A race where veterans thrive, this horse has EXTREMELY FIT: shown that the four-mile track shouldn’t be an issue this afternoon Hainan

t is a case of after the Lord distances are right up his street cap hurdle at 3.00 and Wings of Mayor’s Ball, but the rac- this season. Smoke later on at 4.45. ing this afternoon is still some will say that he didn’t At Kempton Park there is I very interesting, with the really get home over the four some really competitive rac- big one being the Betfred miles of the Eider Chase at ing and none more so than Midlands National over a Newcastle, but i think he was the class two handicap hurdle stamina-sapping four miles beaten by a really good horse at 2.40. at Uttoxeter. that day and maybe could have i really like the look of the several grizzled old-timers gone for home further out. top weight Zubayr who is stead- have run in this contest in the He has been fairly lightly ily coming down the weights past with Milansbar having fin- raced this season and his han- and i also like the booking of ished second in the 2016 edi- dler has given him a nice break crack amateur Lorcan Williams tion, but i really fancy a huge since Newcastle which should who will take a very valuable run from the 14/1 shot Hainan serve him well when the major- seven pounds off his back. who has proved that extreme ity of his rivals will have been the danger could be the on the go for some time. Gary Moore-trained Gaarsten WEEKEND TIPS i wouldn’t put you off the who remains open to plenty of claims of the likes of Back to improvement. the thatch, who fell in that Over at Wolverhampton in Farringdon’s Doubles Eider when going well just past the evening, Abe Lincoln is in Saturday halfway, while the likes of old cracking form for the Jeremy HAINAN Alfie spinner and the in-form Noseda camp and he looks set Uttoxeter 3:35 (nap) lightweight the Artful Cobbler to complete the hat-trick in the are worth a second glance as opener at 5.45, but there are THELIGNY well. better value bets to be had later Uttoxeter 3:00 Also on the Uttoxeter card on including Caracas in the 3.45, Sunday the hugely progressive top while Rose Berry looks nicely in Big River HOUBLON DES OBEAUX weight is not to be for the 7.45 and the bonus is Carlisle 3:40 (nap) missed in the big three mile that young promising jockey chase series final. Lewis Edmunds is on board BUDARRI the Lucinda Russell-trained as well. Carlisle 2:05 charge looks a Grand National Finally, elsewhere, Mr Mud- horse of the future and despite dle is still lightly raced for an Houseman’s Choice having to carry a hefty weight 11-year-old and i think that Saturday burden of 11-12lbs this strap- trainer Gary Moore has found BIG ROBIN ping young horse looks up to the perfect opening for him in Fontwell 1:40 it and can give the pounds away the 2.15. to the likes of Another Venture Later on at the sussex track i Sunday and Behind time. wouldn’t put any of you off old FLY DU CHARMIL Also on the card have another boy Itoldyou who has to give 2lbs Ffos Las 3:50 look at the likes of Theligny in away to Matrow’s Lady in the the two-and-a-half-mile handi- staying handicap chase at 4.00. n MEN’S RUGBY LEAGUE Price: We need to cut down on penalties SUPER LEAGUE: Warrington coach says lack of discipline is costing his side as they gear up to face Catalans Dragons

by Our Sports Desk “We would like to be higher it’s a case of making sure we sitting at the foot of the lad- war and can reclaim second in the table than we are at the are able to execute that in the der so it’ll be a good test for us.” place with a fourth straight moment,” Price said. game this weekend.” the Dragons are without win over the Vikings. WARRiNGtON coach steve “i’m proud of the com- the Catalans got off the forward Jason Baitieri through Widnes captain Joe Mellor Price has ordered his under- mitment of our players but mark at the fifth attempt with suspension while Warrington said: “Wakefield just seem to performing players to cut out we’re still making it hard for an 18-16 win over Hull KR in have goal-kicking centre Bry- be getting better each year. the penalties as they look to ourselves with the amount of Perpignan last saturday but son Goodwin back to help offset “it’s going to be a tough con- halt their losing run against penalties we’re giving to the remain bottom of the table. the loss of Ryan Atkins with an test for us but we’re working fellow strugglers Catalans opposition. “i watched their game last abductor strain. hard this week and we want to Dragons today. “Once we sort that out and week and it was important in today’s other match, do the job against them.” the Wolves have lost four flip it on its head, i’m really for them, i’m sure, to get that Wakefield will be looking to Widnes are without Papua of their opening six matches confident we’ll be able to score first win of the season,” Price bounce back from their first New Guinea international under their new Australian a few more points and concede said. defeat of the season when they Wellington Albert because of boss and dropped into the bot- less tries. “they’ll take a lot of con- host Widnes. suspension while Wakefield tom four following Hull KR’s “We’ve focused on key areas fidence from that and we’re trinity have made their best coach Chris Chester recalls big win over Huddersfield yes- this week, replicating those expecting a tough game. start to a season in the top forward Pauli Pauli in place of FIXING HIS SIDE: Steve Price terday. pressure situations, and now they’re desperate for points flight since the second world Keegan Hirst. Morning Star morningstaronline.co.uk Saturday/Sunday morningstaronline 22 March 17-18 2018 sport @m_star_online

WATCHING ON: Riteesh Mitra (right) observes his Charlton side from the dugout

mishra believes that the “Then when you bear in men’s team were relegated diversity of the coaching staff mind the stereotypes that from the Premier League and will not improve in the women’s families from an Asian back- the women’s team were dis- Mishra: It takes game without first addressing ground come from — sport banded a month later in one the diversity of the players. “You isn’t the first thing that girls of a series of budget cuts. don’t have as many girls who are pushed to do. A new club was created play football as you do boys, so “The FA and everybody under the control of the Charl- straight away there’s a mas- involved in football have a ton Community Trust under sively reduced talent pool at duty to try and get as many, the management of ex-player people by a younger age. not just BAmE, but any type of Paul mortimer and now sit females at a young age to play top of the Premier League and football and then there’s your have recently applied to join crop that you have to try and the women’s Championship, develop throughout the years.” formerly known as the wSL 2, surprise when I An FA Cup clash between next season. Arsenal and Charlton will In terms of support from bring back many memories the men’s club, mishra believes for those in the women’s game there has been “a massive shift who remember when the two in the last 12-24 months. we clubs were neck and neck for are so much more professional tell them I’m the major titles a decade behind the scenes now. I would ago. like us to prove that on the As former pitch first of all, but then hope- Charlton man- fully our bid is strong enough ager Keith to do that as well. the head coach Boanas recalls, “I think we’ve been going “I have fond through a long rebuilding memories of period, but we have got a lot ASIF BURHAN spoke to the Charlton the club and of good players, a lot of them during our could play at a higher level.” manager ahead of their mouth-watering time Arsenal Last season, then Premier were at the League leaders Tottenham Hot- clash with Arsenal in the FA Cup this weekend pinnacle of spur travelled to Borehamwood the game to face Arsenal only to lose 10-0. omorrow, the through the lower leagues in you’ve got to have the qualifi- and we were mishra hopes for a better newly crowned Scotland and the University of cations and you’ve got to have on many occa- result but is realistic about League Cup winners Stirling to become the highest the experience to be even given sions the ones Charlton’s chances of making TArsenal take on the level Asian head coach in the a chance. that spoiled the the semi-finals. “I think you’ve only Premiership country today. “You don’t want to be given party. got to into every game having team remaining in the last eight “I don’t really have any Asian an opportunity because of a “we had many hope, but I think it is more of the FA Cup, a fact noteworthy role models because there token gesture either. I want close encoun- hope than expectation to be in itself but given added signifi- aren’t many who are quali- to build my credibility. I don’t ters over the years honest. cance by the man leading Charl- fied or in a high level of work. want to give people an oppor- including knocking “The only thing we can do ton Athletic into the tie. I think I’ve got a little bit of tunity or an excuse not to look them out of the FA Cup is go and do the football club “I swear, people, to this day, responsibility in the years to at me.” at the semi-final stage in proud, us as coaching staff don’t know who I am. They still come to be that role model for with the Football Associa- 2003. we faced them in and players, show that we can think I’m the club physio or a other coaches and other players tion having recently decided the final on two occasions compete with them tactically, club doctor. I do joke about it. It coming through.” to employ the rooney rule unfortunately losing 3-0 to if they outdo us physically and takes people by surprise when Currently enrolled on the before making future coaching a Julie Fleeting hat-trick in technically, I think that’s going I tell them I’m the head coach.” Uefa A licence, he aims one appointments, the questions 2004, then in 2007 losing to be expected. A former Nottingham For- day to become only the second remains where these ethnic 4-1 at the City Ground in “So we have no pressure on est academy player, riteesh British Asian to complete the minority candidates are sup- front of over 24,000 fans.” us whatsoever. we’ve just got mishra has worked his way Pro Licence. “The big thing is posed to come from. That same day, Charlton’s to try and enjoy the occasion.” morningstaronline.co.uk Morning Star morningstaronline Saturday/Sunday @m_star_online sport March 17-18 2018 23

■ MEN’S FOOTBALL SPORT ON TV Saturday ■ BASKETBALL: NBA, San Antonio Is the Europa League Wenger’s and Spurs v Minnesota Timberwolves — BT Sport 1 12.30am (Sun). ■ BOXING: Matt Askin v Stephen Sim- mons and Joe Joyce v Donnie Palmer Arsenal’s last chance of salvation? — Channel 5 10.30pm. ■ CYCLING: Milan-San Remo — Eurosport 1 1.30pm. HARRY CORTON was at Ashburton Grove to see ■ FOOTBALL: A-League, Wellington Phoenix v Newcastle Jets — BT Sport 1 the Gunners progress into the quarter-finals 6.30am, Sydney FC v Brisbane Roar — BT Sport 1 8.45am; FA Cup, Swansea N PAPER it was been the ones dreadfully out have looked very different v Tottenham — BT Sport 1 11.45am, a clash of two of form and exuding nerv- today. Manchester United v Brighton — BT once formida- ousness. A lot of “whataboutism,” Sport 1 7.30pm; Championship, Ful- Oble titans, now Those casting a close eye yes, and while football and ham v QPR — Sky Sports Main Event fallen on hard on the performances rather history gives not a shred of 12pm, Bolton v Aston Villa — Sky times and the atmosphere than simply the results will clout to “what could’ve been” Sports Main Event 5.15pm; Premier around Ashburton Grove not be totally convinced it is important not to get car- League, Liverpool v Watford — BT was livelier than it has been though. It could have been ried away with deceptively Sport 1 5pm; LaLiga, Real Betis v this season — as you would a very different story. flattering score lines. Espanyol — Sky Sports Main Event expect hosting a team that’s Cech’s penalty save Luckily for Arsenal, these 7.40pm. record of lifting the Euro- against Watford last Sunday jitters remain just that and ■ GOLF: PGA Tour, Arnold Palmer pean Cup seven times is bet- was vital in maintaining the despite the imperfections, Invitational — Sky Sports Golf 4.30pm tered only by Real Madrid. two-goal buffer established they have a Europa League & Sky Sports Main Event 10pm. In the end, Arsenal by his side. quarter-final against CSKA ■ MOTOR CYCLING: MotoGP Qatar: secured their third consecu- Had Troy Deeney have put Moscow to look forward to. FP3 — BT Sport 2 10am, MotoGP tive victory with a 3-1 win the ball away from 12 yards The relatively kind draw Qatar: Qualifying — BT Sport 2 1pm. over AC Milan on Thursday like he did in the reverse fix- will inevitably raise hopes ■ RUGBY LEAGUE: Super League, night. It’s a winning streak ture, it would have been a of lifting that elusive Euro- Catalan Dragons v Warrington Wolves that they haven’t produced tense remaining 30 minutes pean trophy and returning — Sky Sports Action 5.10pm. since October and will go for the hosts, especially with to the homely comforts of ■ RUGBY UNION: Super Rugby, High- some way to silencing their the likes of Koscielny, Hector the Champions League. landers v Crusaders — Sky Sports many critics. Bellerin and Nacho Monreal However, there is no doubt Main Event & Sky Sports Action Following a disastrous all absent. that the team, buoyed by 6.30am, Brumbies v Sharks — Sky week which took in three Ultimately Wenger has this series of wins, will Sports Main Event & Sky Sports defeats and Arsenal drop- been vindicated by that deci- look to prove their doubters Action 8.40am, Stormers v Blues ping out the sky like a lead sion to leave out key players wrong in the league where — Sky Sports Action 1pm; Lions v balloon, the seven days since for the visit of Watford. their chances of achieving Sunwolves — Sky Sports Main Event last Thursday’s trip to San The three mainstay an automatic European qual- & Sky Sports Action 3.10pm, Jaguares Siro has been the desired defenders all came back in ification place have largely v Reds — Sky Sports Action 9.35pm, equal and opposite reaction. for the Europa clash, as did been written off. Waratahs v Rebels — Sky Sports “Consistency,” said man- Jack Wilshere and Aaron Out of Wenger’s sides Action 5am (Sun); Six Nations, Italy ager Arsene Wenger, “is a Ramsey and all played a remaining eight games, v Scotland — ITV 12pm, England v Ire- sign of quality and it’s the big role in getting the 5-1 just three are against a top- land — ITV 2.25pm, Wales v France most important quality for aggregate win over the Ital- 10 team, two of which are — BBC One 4.30pm. me.” ian side, barring Koscielny Leicester City and Burnley — ■ WINTER PARALYMPICS: Winter Despite being valued by who limped off early on with both teams whom they have Paralympics, day nine — Channel 4 the Frenchman, it’s some- a knock. beaten this season. 12.15am (Sun). thing his side have evidently The large home crowd The Gunners will be hope- Sunday lacked this season, but with were given a little shock ful of closing the eight-point ■ BASKETBALL: NBA, New Orleans eight Premier League games after Milan got themselves gap separating them and Pelicans v Boston Celtics — BT Sport to play, the Gunners may firmly back in the tie with London rivals Chelsea in 1 10pm. have found their mojo again Rossoneri midfielder Hakan fifth but even that would not ■ CRICKET: ICC Cricket World Cup and at the critical time. Calhanoglu beating David be enough to secure a return Qualifier — Sky Sports Cricket 7.25am The Gunners have also Ospina from 25-yards out. to Europe’s main table. & Sky Sports Main Event 7.30am. lacked a cool head to steady If it weren’t for Danny Wel- Wenger and co know they ■ FOOTBALL: A-League, Melbourne the ship when they’re really beck’s dive and resultant have to go where they have Victory v Central Coast Mariners — BT up against it. Those nor- penalty, or rather the Swed- never ventured before. It’s Sport 2 6am; Championship, Derby mally charged with that ish official behind the goal’s clear — the only remedy for v Cardiff — Sky Sports Main Event role, Petr Cech and Laurent ineptitude, minutes later, their many woes is Europa 11.30am; Serie A, Sampdoria v Inter Koscielny, have themselves Arsenal’s predicament may League glory. Milan — BT Sport 1 11.30am, AC Milan v Chievo — BT Sport/ESPN 2pm, Napoli v Genoa — BT Sport 1 7.30pm; Ligue 1 Nice v Paris St Germain — BT Sport/ ■ MEN’S RUGBY UNION ESPN 12pm; FA Cup, Wigan v South- ampton — BBC One 1.15pm, Leicester v Chelsea — BBC One 4.05pm; Scot- tish Premiership, Motherwell v Celtic Best rejects Jones’s anti-Irish slurs ahead of tie — Sky Sports Main Event 2.15pm. ■ GOLF: PGA Tour, Arnold Palmer Invitational — Sky Sports Golf 4.30pm by Our Sports Desk Ireland’s class of 2018 can ink “A lot of players and people & Sky Sports Main Event 4.45pm; their names into national folk- have done those private Q&As LPGA, The Founders Cup — Sky Sports lore to stand alongside the grand and I’m sure he didn’t mean it Golf 10pm & Sky Sports Main Event RORY BEST will not use Eddie slam winners of 1948 and 2009 to be offensive towards Ireland 10.30pm. Jones’s “scummy Irish” com- today — and Best insisted that or Irish rugby. ■ MOTOR CYCLING: MotoGP: Grand ments as part of his team talk remains his side’s sole focus. “So if we start to get dis- Prix of Qatar — BT Sport 2 3.30pm. ahead of today’s grand slam The 111-cap hooker has tracted with a sideshow like ■ RUGBY UNION: Top 14, Castres v battle with England. remained that adamant Jones’s that and bits and pieces, it takes Brive — Sky Sports Action 11.25am; Ireland will chase just a barbs towards Ireland remain a us away from what is important Toulouse v Montpellier — Sky Sports third-ever Six Nations clean mere “sideshow,” with a third to us. Action — 3.45pm; Anglo-Welsh Cup sweep with victory over Eng- Six Nations title sewn up but “And what is important to us final, Bath v Exeter — BT Sport 1 land at Twickenham this week- the grand slam still on the line. is the 80 minutes of rugby in 2.30pm. end. Asked if he would use Jones’s front of us.” ■ TENNIS: WTA Tour, BNP Paribas England boss Jones has apolo- comments in his team talk, Ire- Ireland swept to the title Open at Indian Wells — BT Sport 2 gised twice this week after a land captain Best said: “No, no. with last weekend’s 28-8 win 6pm; ATP Tour, BNP Paribas Open video surfaced on Wednesday, Look it’s not something we’re over Scotland, but must now at Indian Wells — Sky Sports Main in which he used disgusting focusing on. end England’s unbeaten Twick- Event 8pm. slurs to criticise Joe Schmidt’s “It’ll be a massive game enham record under former ■ WINTER PARALYMPICS: Winter team and called Wales a “little tomorrow, we’re not worried Australia boss Jones in order Paralympics Closing Ceremony — FOCUSED: Ireland captain Rory Best shit place.” about those sorts of things. to claim the clean sweep. Channel 4 12.30am (Mon). Saturday/Sunday SPORT March 17-18 2018 INSIDE: Can Europa League success save Wenger? n MEN’S RUGBY UNION TONIGHT’S FOOTBALL Premier League Bournemouth West Brom Huddersfield Crystal Palace Stoke City Everton Liverpool Watford, 5.30pm UNDERESTIMATE US Championship Fulham QPR, 12.30pm Barnsley Millwall, 1pm Birmingham Hull Brentford Middlesbrough Bristol City Ipswich Leeds Sheffield Wednesday Norwich Reading AT YOUR OWN PERIL, Sheff United Nottingham Forest Sunderland Preston Wolves Burton Bolton Aston Villa, 5.30pm Derby Cardiff, 12pm* League One Blackpool Southend WARNS HARTLEY Charlton Fleetwood Gillingham Blackburn SIX NATIONS: England captain says they haven’t turned into a bad team despite consecutive losses under Jones MK Dons Bury Northampton Rotherham by Our Sports Desk Oldham Portsmouth Jones has won all 14 tests Oxford United Peterborough over which he has presided Plymouth Bristol Rovers at the home of england rugby Rochdale Wimbledon Dylan Hartley is urging and the ground has not been Scunthorpe Shrewsbury england to prove they remain stormed in the Six nations League Two a force on the global stage today since 2012. Lincoln Grimsby, 1pm despite successive defeats to “It’s a big game for both Notts County Mansfield, 1pm Scotland and France. teams — one team going Accrington Stanley FG Rovers Ireland visit twickenham for the Grand Slam and we Barnet Wycombe knowing they are one victory want to play well in front of Cambridge United Swindon away from securing the third our crowd of 82,000 people,” Carlisle Crawley Grand Slam in their history Jones said. Cheltenham Chesterfield a week after deposing eddie “this is a great opportunity Colchester Yeovil Jones’s men as Six nations to finish what has been a fan- Crewe Coventry champions. tastic Six nations. Ireland are Morecambe Exeter the embarrassment of a worthy champions of the com- Newport County Luton Town Port Vale Stevenage fifth-place finish is the fate that petition, but we are out there awaits england if they endure a to prove that we are still a very, FA Cup third loss and results elsewhere very good team. We will prove Swansea Tottenham, 12.15pm conspire against them, thereby that on Saturday.” Man United Brighton, 7.45pm registering their worst ever Overshadowing the build-up Wigan Southampton, 1.30pm* performance in the northern to the 133rd meeting between Leicester Chelsea, 4.30pm* hemisphere tournament since rivals has been the emergence Women’s FA Cup the expansion to six teams. of offensive comments made by Arsenal Charlton, 2pm* yet should they mute the St Jones in Japan last year. Durham Everton, 2pm* Patrick’s Day celebrations, they Footage in which england’s Liverpool Chelsea, 2pm* will replace Ireland in second head coach is seen referring Sunderland Man City, 2pm* place of the global rankings. to Ireland as the “scummy FA Trophy Hartley, restored as captain Irish” and Wales as a “little Brackley Wealdstone and hooker after missing the “two losses don’t mean we eral support. We’re excited and ment. We are pumped, we are shit country” during a talk on Bromley Gateshead 22-16 defeat in Paris with a tight are not a good team. It’s all part we want to finish the tourna- hungry, we’ll certainly go out leadership has caused a tempo- Scottish Premiership calf, refuses to view the slump of our journey and to end the ment on a good result. there and play.” rary storm, but Jones denies Aberdeen Dundee as terminal decline but con- tournament on a good result “We’ve obviously had a bit of While england are in dan- he has unwittingly supplied Hearts Partick Thistle cedes that supporters deserve for us will be reward for a lot learning over the last few weeks ger of unravelling, Wales coach today’s opponents with their Rangers Kilmarnock a rousing finish. of work that has gone into this but we are hungry, we are hun- Warren Gatland has cheekily team talk. Ross County Hamilton “Of course we are a good campaign. gry to go out and perform, we’re suggested they could be in the “Having been in a position Motherwell Celtic, 2.15pm* team. We are still a good team,” “the guys owe it to them- hungry to get a result. midst of a six-match losing ourselves of going for the Grand Scottish Champs the northampton front row selves first and foremost but “It’s all growth for the team, sequence given their looming Slam, I think the Grand Slam Brechin City Dumbarton said. also to our crowd and our gen- every setback, every disappoint- tour to South africa. is enough motivation,” he said. Dundee United Inverness CT Dunfermline Athletic Morton Livingston Falkirk Queen Of The South St Mirren n MEN’S RUGBY UNION Scottish League One Albion Rovers Arbroath Alloa Athletic Airdrieonians Barclay wary of Italy’s wounded gladiators Forfar Athletic Ayr United Stranraer Queen’s Park Raith Rovers East Fife, 4.10pm* by Our Sports Desk Olimpico in 2010 and 2012, said: “I can’t speak for their moti- highs and some not-so-good “I’ve had some good experi- vation, but obviously they will lows. Scottish League Two ences here and I’ve had some want to finish on a high.” “We’ll finish where we fin- Annan Athletic Clyde Berwick Rangers Stenhousemuir SkIPPer John Barclay has not-so-good experiences, but Scotland are also desperate ish, but we’d like to end with Cowdenbeath Elgin City warned Scotland to beware we’re not worrying too much for a win to ensure a campaign three out of five wins and go Edinburgh City Stirling Albion an Italian backlash as Conor about that. which began with much opti- out on a high. Montrose Peterhead O’Shea’s men look to avoid a “We know what the chal- mism does not close on a sour “We know there will be two Six nations whitewash today. lenge ahead is. Italy will be note. teams out there tomorrow look- All kickoffs 3pm unless noted the azzurri have suffered fiercely motivated after their Wins over France and eng- ing to finish the campaign on * denotes Sunday game a torturous campaign so far, campaign and finish on a high. land — the Scots’ first Cal- a high.” shipping 23 tries on their way “I’m sure they will be disap- cutta Cup triumph in a dec- to four painful drubbings. pointed with their campaign. ade — were the high points Published by the People’s Press MSTAR 2018-03-17 SAT 1.5 today’s campaign-closer they have shown glimpses of for Gregor townsend and his Printing Society Ltd, William Rust in rome offers Italy one last what they are capable of. side so far, but defeat to Italy House, 52 Beachy Road, Bow, 1 1 London E3 2NS. Telephone: (020) chance for redemption and “they are playing a slightly would smart even more than 8510-0815. Fax: (020) 8986- Barclay has put his men on red different brand of rugby and the heavy defeats suffered on 5694. Email: enquiries@peoples- alert for the blue tide heading have some fantastic players the road against Wales and press.com. Registered with Companies House as Morning Star their way. across the board. they have Ireland. (incorporating the Daily Worker) the Dark Blues captain, who good guys up front with power Barclay said: “We’ve been No N5559. Printed by trade union was part of the Scotland line- and sprinkling of stardust else- a little bit up and down. We labour at Trinity Mirror. PREPARED: John Barclay ups defeated twice at the Stadio where. started poorly, had some good Saturday/Sunday March 17-18 2018 9 770307 175466