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
Germany: a new right, a newer left, and the old war
We can only hope the charismatic leftist Sahra Wagenknecht’s new party can beat the AfD, as the increasingly out-of-touch ruling caste in government prepares Germany for huge, belligerent ‘war games,’ writes VICTOR GROSSMAN
A man holds a sign reading ‘Anti-fascism is handicraft’ during a protest against the AfD party and right-wing extremism in front of the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany, January 21, 2024
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
LOOKING down from my window onto Berlin’s broad Karl-Marx Allee boulevard a week ago Friday, I saw hundreds and hundreds of green tractors moving in two disciplined lines towards central Brandenburg Gate.
Similar lines all over Germany were angrily protesting against government measures, based on budgetary or ecological concerns, but which cut farm income, especially for struggling farmers.
Hostile placards on the tractors denounced government ministers; a few added makeshift gallows with their names. On Monday they converged for a giant national protest.
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