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 three pillars of ‘rape culture’ – religion, patriarchy and capitalism
History shows that legal frameworks alone cannot end the scourge of sexual abuse and the struggle against women’s subjugation takes place against a broader context where male interests have been prioritised over generations, writes BHABANI SHANKAR NAYAK
OUTRAGE: Engineers and
engineering students
attend a protest against
the rape and killing of a
trainee doctor at a
government hospital, in
Kolkata, India
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 World Population Review’s Rape Statistics by Country (2024) highlights the widespread scope and severity of issues of rape and sexual violence against women, revealing the alarming frequency and nature of this global crisis.
According to the report, while Botswana holds the hopeless title of the “rape capital of the world,” the so-called two largest democracies are not far behind.
In the United States, the frequency of rape varies by state, but it averages out to one incident every one to two minutes. Similarly, the National Crime Records Bureau of India reports a disturbing rise in rape cases, with 31,000 cases recorded in 2022 alone.
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