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
Ukraine conflict: Henry Kissinger warns against a new world war
In the midst of war fever in the US, the former secretary of state and infamously ruthless cold warrior has warned against attempts to split up Russia and allow the situation to slip into all-out global conflict, reports MARC VANDEPITTE
Directly involved in the 1973 coup in Chile, Vietnam, and many of the cold war's darkest moments, Henry Kissinger's warning is particularly significant, coming from inside the US war machine.
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
WHEN it comes to foreign policy, Henry Kissinger is one of the most important voices in the US.
For many years he was the national security adviser. He also served as secretary of state under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
In the early 1970s, he masterminded the rapprochement between the US and China to isolate and weaken the then-USSR.
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