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 truth behind the UN’s condemnation of Israel’s illegal settlements
If the US joining criticism of Israel's expansion into the West Bank at the UN sounds too good to be true, that is because it is — and Palestinians will not be tricked into celebrating this empty gesture, writes RAMZY BAROUD
Riyad Mansour (centre left), permanent observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, and Ambassadors from other Member States hold a press briefing on March 1 2023
[UN Photo/Loey Felipe]
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
RARELY does the Palestinian ambassador to the UN make an official remark expressing happiness over any UN proceeding concerning the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Yet the Palestinian ambassador Riyad Mansour is “very happy that there was a very strong united message from the security council against the illegal, unilateral measure” undertaken by the Israeli government.
The measure is a specific reference to a decision, on February 12, by the far-right government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to construct 10,000 new housing units in nine illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian West Bank.
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