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
Rivers of destruction
New research using satellite images shows that the impact of tropical mining on rivers has increased over recent decades, write ROX MIDDLETON, LIAM SHAW and JOEL HELLEWELL
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
MINING for metals has occurred for thousands of years. The organisation often described as the oldest corporation in the world, Stora Kopparberg, was a copper mining company, chartered in Sweden in 1347.
Extracting raw material that can be processed and sold as a valuable commodity creates large profits — at the expense of environmental destruction.
Today, the scale of modern mining enabled by machines powered by fossil fuels is staggering.
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