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
Clinging to the Anthropocene
Are the latest fashionable ideas about environmentalism going to help us correctly identify profit as the engine of ecological destruction – or are we simply going to revisit discredited Malthusian tropes, asks ZOLTAN ZIGEDY
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
“ANTHROPOCENE” is a 21st-century word — not that it never appeared before the current century. But its wide acceptance, its broad usage is a feature of the last two decades or so.
Like its late 20th-century counterpart, “globalisation,” its currency, its popularity in social policy circles, has far outstripped any common, agreed upon understanding of its meaning.
In a very broad sense, the word “Anthropocene” could refer to the era when the appearance of Homo sapiens made an impact upon the Earth.
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