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
‘Cold-blooded, premeditated murder’
Ian Sinclair talks to BILL BREEDEN, a retired Unitarian Universalist minister living in southern Indiana, and a longstanding opponent of the death penalty in the United States
Bill Breeden talks to the press after the execution of Corey Johnson
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
Now 75 years old, Bill Breeden has served as a spiritual adviser to people on death row since the 1990s. Ian Sinclair asks him about witnessing an execution, the impact the incoming Trump administration will have on the death penalty and the work done by the British organisation LifeLines.
Ian Sinclair: In 2021 you witnessed the execution of Corey Johnson, a prisoner at Terre Haute federal penitentiary in Indiana. Can you give Morning Star readers a sense of your experience?
Bill Breeden: Corey was set to be executed on January 14 2021, just six days before Trump was to exit the White House for the last time, or so we hoped.
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