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
The Sound of Silence – a politics beyond breakdown
The world faces huge threats that know no national boundaries. ALAN SIMPSON asks where is the radical thinking needed to meet these challenges
Residents walk through flood water in Retford in Nottinghamshire, after Storm Babet battered the UK, causing widespread flooding and high winds.
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’S HARD to focus on anything other than Gaza at the moment. Its incessant bombing won’t have had anyone celebrating Paul Simon’s 82nd birthday by singing “Hello darkness, my old friend...”
By margins that are difficult to comprehend, we are well beyond Israel’s credible limits of “legitimate self defence.”
The collective punishment of Palestinians — from the denial of food, water and electricity to the bombing of hospitals and the demand that one million people evacuate their homes — has filled all the news coverage that followed the Hamas’s atrocities.
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