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
Together we must bear witness for the victims of genocide
TONY CONWAY explains why the Communist Party will hold a series of events to mark ‘One Day,’ as part of its campaign to combat anti-semitism, Holocaust denial and historical revisionism
Suitcases belonging to victims of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp
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
ANTI-SEMITISM has been around for centuries. The Edict of Expulsion, a royal decree issued by Edward I on 18 July 1290 sought the expulsion of all Jews from England, by no later than November 1 of that same year.
This edict remained in place throughout the Middle Ages and was a culmination of over 200 years of anti-semitism.
Medieval England was particularly anti-Jewish, with many images and tropes which exist today arising from that period.
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