SOLOMON HUGHES recommends Sunjeev Sahota’s recent novel set in a trade union election campaign for its fresh approach to what unites and divides workers, but wishes the union backdrop was truer to life
Ambitious outreach plans at the Marx Memorial Library
The Marx Memorial Library is a treasure trove of labour movement archives and tradition of working-class education, writes MEIRIAN JUMP
KNOWING YOUR HISTORY: (L to R) Cable Street battle memorial plaque; Placard at Paris demo reads ‘Bardella Ciao Ciao Ciao’ (Jordan Bardella the president of the extreme-Right National Rally) and is a pun on Bella Ciao/Goodbye Beautiful sung by the anti-fascist resistance movement in Italy in times of Mussolini and later adopted by antifascist everywhere: ‘O bella ciao, bella ciao, bella ciao ciao ciao / This is the flower of resistance / And those who died for liberty’
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Morning Star international editor ROGER McKENZIE says Trump’s ceaseless belligerence is a desperate effort to prevent the emergence of a multilateral world
Don’t dismiss Lebanon as a side theatre of this war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN — there are signs Israel has expansion in mind, and it has demonstrated its willingness to expel and kill whole populations
The media present Starmer as staying out of Trump’s war — but we’re already deeply involved in a conflict that sees the US and Israel kill civilians on a huge scale, argues IAN SINCLAIR
LINDA PENTZ GUNTER reports on this week’s conference unveiling the findings of the Gaza Tribunal established by Jeremy Corbyn
CHRISTOPHE IMMER of the Morning Star’s German sister paper Junge Welt reports on a Berlin conference on the politics of art and the legacy of Marxist critic Hans Hess
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