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
‘Armistice Weekend?’ They just made it up
SOLOMON HUGHES exposes the off-the-cuff improvisation of new 'rules' used by the political class and its supporters that are currently being deployed in support of Israel's bloody war on Gaza
Effigies of dead children are laid out in Trafalgar Square during demonstrations calling for a ceasefire, November 4 2023
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
UNABLE to win arguments, centrists like to rely on “the rules” instead — even if that means making up “the rules.”
Take the attempt to stop the End the Siege of Gaza march this Saturday. The leadership of the Labour and Conservative parties and much of the national media want to back the IDF’s war on Gaza, so they oppose the march.
But they are struggling to find persuasive arguments to get people to back a war which so clearly seems to kill so many more civilians — including children — than Hamas fighters.
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