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
Peace negotiators must be protected
BOB NEWLAND shines a light on the case of Josu Urrutikoetxea, who helped bring about an end to Basque armed conflict but who now languishes in jail facing charges of ‘criminal conspiracy with terrorist intent’
IMPRISONED: Josu Urrutikoetxea
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
JOSU URRUTIKOETXEA was a key figure in the Basque movement Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (Eta) and played a major role in ending the armed conflict in the Basque Country and Spain.
He led peace negotiations on behalf of Eta from the 1980s. In 1989 he was arrested in the middle of a truce and spent 10 years in prison.
Urrutikoetxea led further negotiations from 2005 to 2007 in Geneva and from 2011 to 2013 in Oslo.
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