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
A history of jingoism shows the importance of anti-war protest
KEITH FLETT sees some unpleasant echoes of the past in today’s drumbeats for war
A mob loots suspected German shops in east London, 1915
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
OFCOM has taken the decision to withdraw the licence of Russia Today to broadcast in Britain.
The regulator’s view is that it is a conduit for pro-Putin propaganda in respect of Ukraine, but it can be argued that the BBC functions at least partly as a pro-Nato broadcaster.
Between the two there is little space for those who oppose imperialist wars, whether launched and organised by East or West.
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