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
Hiroshima remains a stark warning in an age of nuclear brinkmanship
As tensions rise in Ukraine and Gaza, KATE HUDSON argues that Western militarisation and Nato expansion bring us closer to nuclear catastrophe — we must heed the lessons of history
The complete destruction brought about by the atomic bomb on August 6 1945 at exactly 8.15 am. The building still somewhat standing is the Hiroshima Prefectural Industrial Promotion Hall, one of the very few structures that weren't completely obliterated
[Maarten Heerlien/Creative Commons]
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
IT IS 79 years since atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Those war crimes, perpetrated by the US, will never be forgotten; we honour the memory of all the lives tragically cut short, and we pay tribute to the Hibaksha — the survivors — and their work for a nuclear weapons-free world. In their name, we recommit today to achieving the global abolition of nuclear weapons.
And never has this work been more important. We cannot allow the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be repeated, yet we seem to be heading inexorably in that direction. There are two major conflicts ongoing which raise the risk of nuclear war or nuclear use.
First, in Ukraine, where the possibility of a conflict between Russia and Nato increases almost daily; more nuclear weapons are being stationed in Europe, with US nuclear weapons scheduled to return to Britain in the near future, and Russian nuclear weapons are now stationed in Belarus as a result.
Similar stories
For 80 years, survivors of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings have pleaded “never again,” for anyone. But are we listening, asks Linda Pentz Gunter
JEREMY CORBYN reports from Hiroshima where he represented CND at the 80th anniversary of the bombing of the city by the US
Europe is acquiescing in Trump’s manoeuvrings — where Europe takes over the US forever war in Ukraine while Washington gets ready for a future fight with China. And it’s working people who will be left paying the price, says DIANE ABBOTT MP