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
Let the left embrace a world in mutiny
The Marxist politician who led the Workers’ Party of Belgium (PTB) during its unprecedented rise from 2008 to 2021, PETER MERTENS, speaks to Ben Chacko about how the European left can regain its vision and its base in the working class
MARCHING FORWARDS: Crowds at the PTB stage on a national demonstration in Brussels against the cost-of-living crisis, December 16 2022
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
The word “mutiny” comes from a quote by Fiona Hill, a former staff member of the US National Security Council. For Hill, the fact that 127 countries did not support the sanctions against Russia was nothing less than a “mutiny.” That resonated with me.
I found that very symbolic because for the first time, more than a third of the world’s countries said that what is said in Washington is no longer law. If that’s mutiny, let’s embrace it, as a sobriquet, with a bit of a rebellious character.
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