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
Mexico’s diplomatic activism continues
DAVID RABY reports on President Lopez Obrador’s attempts to build bridges with his country’s northern neighbours
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
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
AS I commented recently in these pages (“Mexico’s welfare plan stuns the UN,” November 13), Mexico’s Amlo and his team are determined to punch above their weight in the international arena.
They continue to push the World Welfare Plan proposed on November 9: Mexican diplomats have engaged with UN delegations from over 100 countries and will shortly be presenting the plan in more detail to the general assembly.
Just over a week later Amlo was at it again, this time meeting with Joe Biden and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau in Washington on November 18 at the North American summit of the three members of the continental trade agreement.
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